Oxford History of Australia Vol 5: The Middle Way 1942 - 1988. Geoffrey Bolton. 1993.

‘The Middle Way’ cover the sweep of Australian history from the Fall of Singapore in 1942 to the Bicentennial celebrations of 1988. It tells the story of a middle-sized nation poised in the Southwest Pacific where the ambitions of three superpowers met: those of Britain, Japan and the United States. When kind of national identity developed under those pressures? During those years Anglo-Celtic dominance gave way to a mixed community of European and Asian Migrants in pursuit of the migrant dream of modest prosperity and fair opportunities. Governments seeking to satisfy these aims grappled with a changing world economy.