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tion and the privatization of State assets have bitten deepiy into a nationalconsensus that had existed between 1901 and 1984. Unemployment, especiallyamongst the youth and the unskilled is endemic and immovable,commodity prices are low vis-â-vis manufactured imports, and Australians,with a median income of c. $ US22,500 compared with Turkey's$US3,007 maintain their high, if falling, Standard of living through thesavings and investments of foreigners. Expenditure per head on educationand state services generally is falling as the "dovvnsizing" of the nationstate to meet the demands and ideology of global corporate capital proceedapace. Inflation, hovvever, at around 1.8% per annum in 1997 comparedto the astronomical rate of c.80% in Turkey in 1998, is minuscule.Although the corruption amongst politicians, erime groups, state offıcialsand businessmen as privatization accelerates has not, unlike the Turkishexperience, been a signifıcant phenomenon, the moral debauchery and aerosion of social responsibility has proceeded at a rapid clip in Australia.Both countries, then, are experiencing similar, if somevvhat culturally andhistorically di verse, responses to international economic forces 10 .There are further differences. Turkey's birthrate at 4% per vvoman,although slowing, is considerably higher than Australia's at 1.8% perwoman, her population is considerably younger and Turkey is a countryof both high internal and external migration levels. Australia, by contrast,is a nation whose population is 24% foreignborn, of many diverse nationalities(although stili basically Anglo-Celtic in origin) and vvith a risingAsian presence. By 2025 7% of ali Australians vvill be Asian-born plus agrovving minority of Australian-born Asians". These factors have, incombination vvith a revival of rural and vvorking-class populism in northernAustralia and in the depressed areas of regional and outer-suburbanAustralia, produced atavistic and bitter responses vvithin a social democraticprocess stili vvith strength but leaking political convictions exceptamongst corporate elites and professional politicians. At the September1998 Federal elections, vvhile it only returned one Senatör and failed toachieve a presence in the House of Representatives, the inchoate, racist,anticosmopolitan and "red-neck" One Nation Party polled 10% ofthe entire national vote in a country vvhere, since 1924, voting has beencompulsory. Turkish social scientists and commentators, too, have increasinglynoted the divergence betvveen city and countryside, betvveenthe poor and the affluent, the educated elite and the disaffected and alienatedAnatolian masses that, in part, has spavvned a revival of religiousfundamentalism' 2 .10. İbid.11. Yearbook of Australia, no.80, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Canberra, 1998.12. See: Redmond, John, The Next Mediterranean Enlargement of the European Community.Turkey, Cyprus and Malta, Aldershot, 1993.692