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‘A Great First Cause in Colonisation’: Early Radio, ‘Transceiver-Listening’, Gender and Settlement in Australia Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Andrew Wright Hurley
Historical acoustemology allows us to contemplate practices and meanings of non-Indigenous listening in Central Australia and determine how they aligned with processes of settlement. In the 1930s, ...
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Editorial Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Fiona Paisley, Tim Rowse
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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A History of Crime in Australia: Australian Underworlds Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Caroline Ingram
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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Glorious in Spring, Exhilarating in Winter: Advertising Mount Buffalo in Walkabout Magazine, 1934–1939 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Josh Woodward
This article examines advertisements for Mount Buffalo National Park, published in the Australian National Travel Association (ANTA)’s Walkabout magazine in the mid- to late 1930s. Situating these ...
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British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Andrew J. May
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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The Fin de Siècle Imagination in Australia, 1890–1914 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Christopher Lee
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jim Davidson
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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Strolling Players of Empire: Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Richard Waterhouse
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Darren O’Brien
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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Taking to the Field: A History of Australian Women in Science Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Claire Hooker
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Marinus La Rooij
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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Feared and Revered: Feminine Power through the Ages, National Museum of Australia, Canberra Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Emily Gallagher, Michelle Staff
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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Being Counted: Family Planning and Aboriginal Population, 1967–75 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Laura Rademaker
When the results of the 1966 census came out shortly after the 1967 referendum, they revealed something new: Australia’s Aboriginal population was growing, rapidly. This article examines white fear...
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Keeping Time: General Motors-Holden’s Gold Watch Reward Scheme, 1949–2017 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Carolyn Collins
In 1949, desperate to recruit and hold on to workers, General Motors-Holden (GMH) introduced a ‘gold watch scheme’ to reward employees who gave ‘faithful’ service over twenty-five years. The scheme...
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Mis/Understanding Jens Lyng: Revisiting the Racialised Studies of an Early Twentieth-Century Historian Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Mark Emmerson
The works of Danish-Australian historian Jens Sørensen Lyng (1868–1941) provide a problematic foundation for Australian migration studies. His 1927 magnum opus, Non-Britishers in Australia: Influen...
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Uninhabited Islands in the Bay of Bengal, Penang, Singapore and Botany Bay: What Did Terra Nullius Mean in British Colonial Thinking? Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Gareth Knapman
Enlightenment colonial actors never used the term ‘terra nullius’, they used the phrase ‘uninhabited land or island’. In the 1780s, uninhabited did not mean nobody lived there, but rather signified...
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Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 JAYNE PERSIAN
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2023)
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Asbestos in Australia: From Boom to Dust Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Henry Reese
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2023)
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Native Colonials: Violet Mace’s Australian Aboriginal-Inspired Pottery Designs Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Peter Hughes
In the first half of the twentieth century, many Australian artists, such as the Tasmanian ceramicist Violet Mace (1883–1968), sought to find a distinctly Australian visual expression. Although Mod...
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The Artist-Collector: Eugene von Guérard and the Berlin Ethnological Museum Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 V. Ruth Pullin, Thomas A. Darragh
The nineteenth-century landscape painter Eugene von Guérard was an avid collector. A series of letters held by the Ethnological Museum Berlin, translated by the authors from ‘old’ German into Engli...
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Old Dead Trees and Young Trees Green: The Cambridge Legal History of Australia Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Richard P. Boast
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2023)
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Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the Revolution Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Marian Quartly
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2023)
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No Country for Old Men: Australian Art History’s Difficulty with Aboriginal Art Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Charles Green
The subject of this article is the absence of Aboriginal art during the period that established the idea of a distinctively Australian modern art. It is intended as a contribution to the historiogr...
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‘Not all Placards and Protests’: Disrupt, Persist, Invent: Australians in an Ever-Changing World, National Archives of Australia, 8 December 2022–12 June 2023 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Paul Ogborne
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2023)
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Maritime Men of the Asia-Pacific: True-Blue Internationals Navigating Labour Rights, 1906–2006 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 MICHAEL QUINLAN
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2023)
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Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 KY GENTRY
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2023)
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Clifton Pugh’s ‘Aboriginal’ Epiphany and the Transformation of his Landscape Art (1954–65) Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Debbie Robinson
This article focuses on two episodes in the Australian modernist artist Clifton Pugh's (1924–1990) artistic career – his journey across the Nullarbor Plain in 1954 and 1956, and his travels to the ...
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The Berndts’ Mid-Century Arnhem Land Bark Painting Exhibition: Its Legacies Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Catherine Speck
This article investigates the first exhibition of Aboriginal art to be shown in a state art gallery, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, in 1957. The curators were anthropologists Ronald and Cath...
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Australian Art and its Aboriginal Histories Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Caroline Jordan, Helen McDonald, Sarah Scott
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2023)
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Richard Browne’s Portraits of Aboriginal Australians: Analysing the Evidence Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Alisa Bunbury
Richard Browne (c. 1776–1824) was the most prolific artist working in Sydney in the 1810s and early 1820s to depict Aboriginal people, known for producing sets of Awabakal, Worimi and other individ...
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Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DAVID CHRISTIAN
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2023)
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Australia’s Presidents? Herbert Hoover and Lyndon B. Johnson Remembered Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Dean J. Kotlowski
Among US presidents, Herbert Hoover and Lyndon Johnson had the strongest ties to Australia. Hoover spent over a year in Australia as a mining engineer before launching a career in international bus...
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Digital History Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Mike Jones, Alana Piper
Digital history started to flourish in Australia and New Zealand in the 2000s and early 2010s. But some of this momentum has since been lost due to ageing technologies, a lack of supporting infrast...
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The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Heidi Norman
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Immigrant Networks, Museo Italiano, Carlton 16 November 2022–10 February 2023 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Flavia Marcello
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Criminal Law – Then, Now, Tomorrow, Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law, Brisbane, 2 January 2023 to 31 December 2024 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Bridget Andresen
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 55, No. 1, 2024)
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Navigating the Customs House, Then and Now: A Synthesis of British Colonial Collecting in Australia, 1788–1823 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Daniel Simpson
Amid growing public and academic interest in the identification and return of Aboriginal objects acquired by Britain from Australia after 1788, enquiries into the disputed origins of the British Mu...
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Art as a Source for the History of War: James McBey’s Long Patrol Images and Emotional Responses to the Sinai Campaign Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Janet Butler
Visual sources, capturing aspects of life silenced or left untold in textual accounts, have the potential to offer new, historical understandings of the individual experience of war. During World W...
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Authenticity and the National Vision: A Reconsideration of the Role of the Reeds in the Art of the Angry Penguins Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Traudi Allen
In 1981, Australia was urged by Richard Haese in Rebels and Precursors to take note of the authentic national vision in the art of the Angry Penguins – Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Arthur Boyd and ...
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Editorial Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Fiona Paisley, Tim Rowse
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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Political Lives: Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 James Curran
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A Biographical History of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Katherine Roscoe
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c.1830–1922 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Darragh Gannon
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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‘There not being any place to keep her’: Incarcerating Women in Nineteenth-Century Western Australia Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Caroline Ingram
With the rate of women’s imprisonment still increasing in Australia, an understanding of the history of women’s incarceration is significant. This article explores the anomalous status of female pr...
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Truth Telling, Historiographical Agonism, and the Colonial Past in Germany and Australia Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Matthew P. Fitzpatrick
Via an examination of the current state of German attempts to come to terms with the country’s genocidal Nazi past, this article underscores the utility of an approach to historical scholarship and...
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Australian Universities: A History of Common Cause Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Raewyn Connell
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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The Red Cross Movement: Myths, Practices and Turning Points Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Judith Godden
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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Caroline’s Dilemma. A Colonial Inheritance Saga Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Barbara Brookes
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-24 John Blaxland
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Maria Nugent
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Sean Scalmer
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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Australia’s Great Depression: How a Nation Shattered by the Great War Survived the Worst Economic Crisis It Has Ever Faced Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Michelle McKeough
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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MUP: A Centenary History Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Robin Derricourt
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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S.W. Griffith: A Suitable Case for Indictment? Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Mark Finnane, Jonathan Richards
In his 2021 book ‘Truth-Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement’, Henry Reynolds called for an inquiry into the historical record of Samuel Walker Griffith, Federation ‘father’ and first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. Reynolds’ iconoclasm targeted a historical figure whose name is memorialised in a Riverina town, a Canberra suburb and a Queensland university. Reynolds charged
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On the Historical Breadth of Australian National Security Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 James Mortensen
This article details the use of the phrase ‘national security’ in political and public discourse around the time of Australia’s Federation (1881–1921). It finds that while it was not present in pol...
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Meehan’s Mapping of the Derwent River in Van Diemen’s Land, 1803–04 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Imogen Wegman
In 1804, the Irish convict-turned-surveyor James Meehan drafted a map (Monmouth 0) of the area around Britain’s new settlement in the colony of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania, Australia). This map des...
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‘The Nation’s Health Is the Nation’s Wealth’: Portia Geach (1873–1959) and the Good Health Movement in Interwar Australia Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Thea Gardiner
In the interwar period, the Australian artist and activist Portia Geach was a leading advocate of the ‘good health movement’ in Australia. Geach produced a public campaign promoting nutritious eati...
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The Coral Sea Cultural Interaction Sphere: Connections across the Coral Sea: A Story of Movement, Queensland Museum, 18 August 2022–9 July 2023 Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Clive Moore
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 3, 2023)
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The ‘Sunshine Song’: The Biography of an Australian Imperial Force (AIF) Soldiers’ Chorus Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Daniel Reynaud, Aleta King
The deep links between music and war demonstrate the centrality of music in wartime. However, most soldier compositions are ephemeral, lost because of their topicality and limited circulation. This...
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Picturing Political Community: From Subjects to Citizens Australian Historical Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Jane Lydon
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 54, No. 2, 2023)