Australian Journal of Politics and History

Papers
(The TQCC of Australian Journal of Politics and History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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South Australia January to June 20227
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Karl Lueger and the Reichspost: Construction of a Cult of Personality6
Fear and Greed: Australian Public Opinion Towards China's Rise*4
‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History. By BainAttwood (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2023), pp. xiv + 288. 59.99 NZD (hb)4
Northern Territory July to December 20243
Has Politics Become More Professional? Career and Legislative Professionalisation in the Australian Parliament Since 19503
The Ex‐Services Human Rights Association of Australia, the Vietnam War, and the Remaking of the Anzac Tradition3
No Bullshit!: Balibo 1976 and Bob Hawke's Diplomatic Masterclass3
The War Game: Australia's War Leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq. By DavidHorner (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022), pp. x + 464. ISBN 978 1 76106 595 8. AU$38.37 (pb).2
Review of Telling Tennant's Story. The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence by DeanAshenden.2
Democratising Collective Memory Through Forensic Exhumations in Spain2
History, Social Science, and Public Policy: Reflections on Hugh Stretton's Thought2
“Never Look Back, Always Look Forward”: The Early Life of Nancy Power2
Living Under Aboriginal Exemption: Negotiating State Governments' Policies and Practices2
Northern Territory January to June 20211
Trivialization and Public Opinion: Slogans, Substance, and Styles of Thought in the Age of Complexity. By Oldrich Bubak and Henry Jacek (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), pp. xvii +271. £59.99 (hb).1
People Power: How Australian Referendums Are Lost and Won. By GeorgeWilliams and DavidHume (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2024), pp. 368. $49.99 (pb)1
South Australia July to December 20221
Private Ryan and the Lost Peace: A Defiant Soldier and the Struggle Against the Great War. By Douglas Newton (Haberfield, NSW: Longueville Media, 2021), pp. 404. AU$44.95 (hb).1
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Telling the Truth About Empire? A Word on Methodology1
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Local and Contextual: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women1
Aboriginal Self‐determination, Land Rights, and Recognition in the Whitlam Era: Laying Groundwork for Power Sharing and Representation1
South Australia January to June 20211
Decolonising Politics and International Relations Classrooms: Reflections from the “Field”1
Can Law Manufacture a Party System? The Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Experience with Party‐Strengthening Legislation1
Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies 1949–1966. By Martyn Lyons (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2021), pp. vi + 266. AU$39.99 (pb).1
Sport, Identity, and Self‐Determination: Aboriginal Rugby League in Brisbane after the Second World War1
Testing the Bonds: Franco‐Russian Alliance and the First Sino‐Japanese War1
Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia and Papua New Guinea: The Transition to Self‐Government, 1970–1972. Edited by Bruce Hunt and Stephen Henningham (Canberra: UNSW 1
Is Spain Different? The Tamed Memory of the Spanish Civil War and the Limits of Spain's National Self‐Image (2008–10)1
Queensland January to June 20211
“Politics Are Quite Beneath the Concern of the Average Billjim”: Politics and the First World War Anzacs, 1914–19181
All Containment and No Engagement: Australia's Contemporary Policy towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea1
Controlling Australian Immigration: Holocaust Survivors in the Post‐War Years1
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre. By KateAuty. La Trobe University Press, 2023. AU$34.99(pb).1
“Government by Inspection”: Australian Rule in the “Forgotten West” of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1960–731
“I Was Known to be a G**k Lover”: Histories of Asian–Australian War Bride Marriages During the Vietnam War1
Australia‐China relations: analysing and responding to the challenge†1
Commonwealth of Australia July to December 20230
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Political Tribalism in Kuwait: The Shift of Badū from the Regime's Political Ally to Political Opposition0
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II. By Mark Baker (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Publishing, 2021), pp. xii + 223. AU0
South Australia July to December 20210
Men and Women of Australia: Administering Whitlam's Re‐Imagined Subject0
Whitlam's Economic (Inter)Nationalism0
New South Wales July to December 20210
Indigenous Military Inclusion: A Settler Colonial Critique of the Regional Force Surveillance Units0
Queensland January to June 20220
Western Australia July to December 20240
Northern Territory January to June 20240
Representative Assemblies in Early Modern European State‐Building: Evidence from Four Experiences0
Queensland Exceptionalism and the Construction of “Southern Folk Devils” in Twentieth Century Public Rhetoric0
Stolen Motherhood: Aboriginal Mothers and Child Removal in the Stolen Generations Era. By Anne Maree Payne (London: Lexington Books, 2021), pp. ix + 197. £73 (hb).0
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Decolonising Australia's International Relations? A Critical Introduction0
Robert Philp and the Politics of Development. By LyndonMegarrity. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing Ltd, 2022. pp. xv + 335, AU $49.95 (pb).0
Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election. Edited by AnikaGauja, MarianSawer, and JillSheppard. Canberra: ANU Press, 2023. pp. xxv + 432. Open access or $69.95 (pb)0
New South Wales January to June 20230
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The Post‐War Australian Objective in Papua‐New Guinea: Liberal Ambition or Colonial Control?0
The Sinews of War: McCarthyism Crosses the Atlantic0
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Northern Territory July to December 20210
Comrades!: Lives of Australian Communists. Edited by Bob Boughton, Danny Blackman, Mike Donaldson, Carmel Shute, and Beverly Symons (Sydney: SEARCH Foundation and the Australian Society for the Study 0
Honiara: Village‐City of Solomon Islands. By CliveMoore (Canberra, Australia: ANU Press, 2022), pp. xxx‐548. AU$99 (pb) and free download.0
The Art of Opposition. Edited by ScottPrasser and DavidClune. Brisbane: Connor Court Publishing, 2024, pp. 487. $69.95 (HB)0
Northern Territory January to June 20230
Battle of the Banks. How Ad Men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley's Boldest Plan. By BobCrawshaw (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2025), pp. xi +220. $49.950
Using Numerical Anomalies to Test for Fraud in Colonial New South Wales Elections0
“Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: The Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during the Vietnam War0
“Distinctly Australian Interests”: Australian Strategy and the Vietnam War0
New South Wales July to December 20230
“It's Time for Action and Not Excuses”: Advisors and Leaders in Phuoc Tuy, 1968–19730
The Iraq War and Democratic Governance: Britain and Australia go to War. By Judith Betts and Mark Phythian (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), pp. xv + 236. €74,99 (hb).0
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Editorial Note0
An Examination of the Policy Content of Scott Morrison's and Anthony Albanese's 2022 Federal Election Campaign Materials0
Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918–20 moment. Edited by RomainFathi, MargaretHutchison, AndrekosVarnava, and Michael J. K.Walsh (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. ix + 212.0
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20220
Queensland January to June 20230
The New Politics of Inflation and Economic Disruption: Unlearned Lessons from the 1980s and 1990s in Australia0
The Debate Over the Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians: National Unity and Memories of the 1967 Referendum0
State Sovereignty and Private Military and Security Companies in Australia0
Organised Interests and the Courts: Non‐Party Access to the High Court of Australia Between 2012 and 20170
Australia's Pacific Mindset: Historical Foundations0
A Polanyian Perspective on the Conflict Between Neoliberal Economics and Countrymindedness in Australian Drought and Water Policy0
Queensland January to June 20240
Endorsing Annexation? The Whitlam Government's De Jure Recognition of the Soviet Baltic States0
Victoria January to June 20230
Tasmania July to December 20230
Commonwealth of Australia July to December 20210
Mean Streak. By Rick Morton, ISBN 978 1 6580 7 (Harper Collins, 2024), 498 pp. $36.00 (paperback)0
Victoria July to December 20230
Helpem Fren: Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. By MichaelWesley. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2023, pp. x, 310. ISBN 9780522879056 (paperback) ($400
Australia's National Security Neoconservatives0
The Australian History Industry. Edited by PaulAshton and PaulaHamilton. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2021. pp.viii + 361. $49.95. ISBN: 9781922669605.0
Victoria July to December 20210
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Book Review:The Transnational Voices of Australia's Migrant and Minority Press. By CatherineDewhirst & RichardScully (eds.) (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2020) andVoices of Cha0
Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government0
A Symbol of Imperial Unity? The Australian Colonies and the 1897 Imperial Conference0
Exposure to Campaign and Partisan Voting: The Moderating Roles of Voters' Political Predispositions0
Commonwealth of Australia July to December 20240
Whatever Happened to the Australian Role in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership?0
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 20210
Australian Capital Territory July to December 20230
Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the Revolution. Edited by MichelleArrow. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2023. Pp. ix + 318. $34.99 (Pb) $14.99 (ePub and PDF)0
Exemption: A Gendered History0
Broken Spear: The Untold Story of Black Tom Birch, The Man who Sparked Australia's Bloodiest War. By RobertCox (Mile End SA: Wakefield Press, 2021), pp. xxi + 299. AU$39.95 (pb).0
Unlearning the Discipline: Decolonising International Relations Through Pedagogy and Praxis0
Australian Capital Territory July to December 20210
East Timor, Rene Girard and Neocolonial Violence: Scapegoating as Australian Policy. By SusanConnelly. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.0
Married to a ‘British Subject’0
From Georges Sorel to Peter Costello: Peter Coleman and the Making of Australian Liberal Conservatism0
Striking Ore: the Rise and Fall of Union Power in the Pilbara. By AlexisVassiley (Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2025), pp. 288. $39.95 (paperback). ISBN 9781923192218.0
The Politics of Gender Equality. By Carol Johnson. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. pp. 332. €49.99 (HB). Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64816-80
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Exemptions from Compulsory Income Management: A Short “History of the Present”0
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Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 20210
Canberra, We Have a Problem: Interpreting Shifting American Grand Strategy Preferences in an Era of Sino–US Rivalry0
IanGermani, Dying for France: Experiencing the Soldier's Death, 1500–2000 (Montréal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2023)0
Ontological (In)Security and Neoliberal Governmentality: Explaining Australia's China Emergency0
Australian Capital Territory0
Correction to “Yubbi Yarning Circle Model: Collective Narratives and Cultural Expression in the Journey of Trauma”0
Ecological Crises and Ecopolitics Research in Australia0
Save our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War. By Carolyn Collins (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2021), pp. xxix + 337, 16 b&w photographs. AU$34.95 (0
The Genesis of a Policy: Defining and Defending Australia's National Interest in the Asia‐Pacific, 1921–57. By Honae Cuffe (Acton, ACT: ANU Press, 2021), pp. x + 249, 2 colour im0
Australian Capital Territory January to June 20230
Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the Making of Australian Politics. By Sean Scalmer (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2020), pp. xiv + 349. AU$39.95 (hb).0
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 20220
Civil‐Military Bargaining in Early NATO Institution Building: The Long Shadow of Institutional Beginnings0
Revisiting the HMAS Swan Scandal and Histories of Sexual Harassment in the Australian Defence Force0
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning. By StuartMacintyre (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022), pp. xiv + 498, 49 b&w photographs, AU$49.99 (hb).0
Victoria January to June 20210
The Long Shadow of the Red Army Faction: How Old Explanatory Models Define Today's Terrorism Debate in Germany0
Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal Socialism. By SheltonStromquist (London & New York: Verso Press, 2023), pp. xii + 867. $US80(hb)0
“No Colonial Baggage”: Imagining a Decolonised Australia‐Africa Relations0
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Northern Territory July to December 20230
Australia in the International Sphere 1901–1914: An Emerging Foreign Policy Capacity?0
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A New Perspective on Motivations Behind Chinese Overseas Investment: A Case Study on the Darwin Port Deal0
Conserving the Councillor: A Case for Widespread Local Officeholding0
Dreams and Schemers: A Political History of Australia. By FrankBongiorno. Collingwood, La Trobe University Press, 2022, 480 pp, $39.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781760640095.0
Tasmania July to December 20210
“I Let Him Have It”: Sex, Anti‐Americanism, and Criminal Justice in Wartime Brisbane, 1942–440
The Spirit of the Service: Dash, Discipline, and Flying Accidents in the Royal Australian Air Force, 1921–480
European History in the Shadows of Crisis0
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The Kerguelen Archipelago and Australian Security Anxieties0
Exemption and Nyungar Letters in the West Australian Archives0
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 20220
Western Australia July to December 20230
A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War: Journals and Papers of J. A. Pease, 1st Lord Gainford, 1911–1915. Edited by CameronHazlehurst and ChristineWoodland(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023) pp. xxi0
East Timor in Australia–Indonesia Relations, 1974–830
From Welfarist Support for Vulnerable Groups to a Social Justice Perspective: The Australian Council of Social Service and the Construction of Poverty, 1956–750
The Trials of Portnoy: How Penguin Brought Down Australia's Censorship System. By Patrick Mullins (Melbourne and London: Scribe, 2020), pp. 336. AU$35.00 (pb).0
Australian Political Science in the 1960s: Establishing the Discipline of Politics at Flinders University0
“A Man's Lot”: Marriage, Military Service, and the First World War0
History Wars. The Peter Ryan‐Manning Clark Controversy. By DougMunro (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021), ajph12903vi +193 pp., colour and b/w illustrations. e‐book† and 0
Shaping Norms: Australia, G.J.L. Coles, and the Evolution of the UN Refugee Agency's Repatriation Culture0
Policy Advice and Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea0
The Gypsy Economist: The Life and Times of Colin Clark. By AlexMillmow (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. xx + 396, 9 b&w photographs, €93,59 (hb).0
“The Pause That Refreshes”: American Servicemen on R&R in Australia, 1967–19710
South Australia January to June 20240
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk: The Founding Father of Czechoslovak People's Democracy0
Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008. By HannahForsyth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. xii + 294. $A146.32 (0
Tasmania January to June 20230
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 20230
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Australian Foreign Policy Stability and Instability: Imperial Friendships and Crises from the Great Depression to the Fall of Singapore0
Australia and Japan's Return to International Society: Negotiating Allies and the Afro‐Asian Bloc, 1952–560
Without “Bipartisanship” Have Referendums to Change the Australian Constitution Ever Succeeded? An Unnoticed Success, Several Near‐Misses, and the Struggle to Explain Why Referendums Fail0
India's Response to China's Geoeconomic Rise: Hedging With a Multipronged Engagement0
New South Wales July to December 20240
The Consultancy Conundrum: The Hollowing out of the Public Sector. LachlanGuselli and AndrewJaspan (editors) (Monash University Publishing, 2023), pp. 91. ISBN: 9781922979322 (paperback), $0
Queensland0
Double Disillusion: Legal and Political Aspects of the 1974 Double Dissolution0
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. By DavidGraeber and DavidWengrow (London: Allen Lane, 2021), pp. xii + 692. 9 b&w images. AU$65.00 (hb).0
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20240
Tasmania January to June 20220
Militarised Peace and Bilateral Relations in the Indian Ocean: Australia's Relations with Sri Lanka, 1972–19890
“Sworn to No Master”: the Intellectual Traditions of Liberty of Conscience in Colonial NSW to 18560
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The Coup Capital of the Democratic World? Voters and Prime Ministerial Change in Australia0
Performing Aboriginal Rights in 1951: From Australia's Top End to Southeast0
A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars. By RobertManne, Melbourne: La Trobe University Press in Conjunction with Black Inc. 2024. pp. x + 486. $A45.00 (HB)0
Histories of Fascism and Anti‐Fascism in Australia. Edited by EvanSmith, JaynePersian and Vashti JaneFox (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. xiii + 266. Pb A$59.99, e‐book A$48.59.0
Conzinc Riotinto of Australia — Foreign Ownership and Control0
Political Performance and Political Trust in Australia0
Queensland July to December 20210
Remembering Social Movements: Activism and Memory. Edited by Stefan Berger, Sean Scalmer, and Christian Wicke (London and New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. xii + 321. £34.99 (pb).0
A Team of Five Million?: The 2020 “Covid‐19” New Zealand General Election. Edited by JenniferCurtin, LaraGreaves, and JackVowles (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024), pp. xx + 300. Print $70.00. 0
New South Wales January to June 20210
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Commonwealth of Australia July to December 20220
Road to Ruin: The Howard Government, the Concept of Aboriginal Welfare Dependency and the Fall of the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) Scheme0
Tasmanian Politics January to June 20240
Secret and Special: The Untold Story of Z Special Unit in the Second World War. By Will Davies(Sydney: Vintage Books Australia, 2021), pp. xi +378. AU$34.99 (pb).0
Australian Capital Territory January to June 20220
Why Do Women Remain Under‐Represented in International Affairs? The Case of Australia0
New South Wales January to June 20220
Violence, the Subject, and the Beyond: Achille Mbembe and Violence in International Relations Theory0
Settler Colonial Strategic Culture: Australia, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere0
Victoria July to December 20240
History and Memory Between Europe and Australia: New Perspectives0
Labor People: The Stories of Six True Believers. By Chris Bowen (Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Publishing, 2021), pp. x + 245. AU$29.95 (pb).0
Victoria January to June 20240
Australian Capital Territory January to June 20240
Tasmanian Politics June to December 20240
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The Humanitarians: Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919–1975. By JoyDamousi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. pp. xiii + 347. $141.95 (HB)0
Vladimir Petrov: A Reappraisal0
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Pathway to Power: Shifts in Electoral Support for the Australian Labor Party Between the 1966 and 1969 Federal Elections0
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Western Australia January to June 20240
The Consul: An Insider Account from Australia's Diplomatic Frontline. By IanKemish. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2022. AU$32.99 pb. ISBN: 9780702263491.0
Review Essay: Recent Histories of Water in Australia0
Rio Tinto And Bougainville – A Fatal Connection. A Mine, A War, And An Uncertain Future0
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20210
Uncomfortable Echoes: Blackfishing First Nations Trauma During COVID‐190
The Challenge of Triangulation: The Impact of China on the Australia‐US Alliance0
Letterboxes and Loudspeakers: Compulsory Voting and the Transformation of Grassroots Electioneering in Australia, 1910–510
South Australia January to June 20230
Disability Policy and the Whitlam Government0
Empire and Indigeneity: Histories and Legacies. By Richard  Price (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. xii + 358. AU$73.99 (pb).0
Palestinian Political Prisoners: Hunger Strikes and the Battle for Dignity0
Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia's Lost Generation. By RossMcMullin. Melbourne: Scribe, 2023, pp. 626. $49.99 (paperback)0
“The Old Colonial Power Can Stand Proxy”: The Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia and the Politics of the 1980s0
Aftermaths: Colonialism, Violence and Memory in Australia, New Zealand and The Pacific. Edited by AngelaWanhalla, LyndallRyan and CamilleNurka (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2023).0
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Australia: The Politics of Degraded Democracy. By WilliamMaley, North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2024. pp. v + 268. $49.950
A Book of Doors. By Anne Richards (Toombul, Qld: AndAlso Books, 2020), pp. 236, 72 b&w images. AU$25 (pb).0
Western AustraliaJuly to December 20210
Transformation of the Historical Narratives of the Second World War and the Decommunisation of Memory Policy in Ukraine0
Gaslighting Australia: The Instrumental Power of Australia's Mining and Energy Industries0
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 20230
White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia. By Sheila Fitzpatrick (Carlton, Vic.: La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc., 2021), pp. xiii + 368, 4 tables0
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“Actual Political Affiliations Are of Secondary Importance”: Communism and Women's Entangled Loyalties in the Australian Anti‐Nuclear Movement, 1945–650
The Burqa Ban, Islamophobia, and the Effects of Racial “Othering” in Australian Political Discourses0
Australia's Refugee Resettlement Agreement with the United States: The Diplomacy and Uncertainty of a “Very Big Deal”0
No Surrender from down under: The Australian Anti‐Irish Home Rule Movement, 1911–140
“We, to Them, Are Their Heroes”: Narratives of Rescue in White Australian Veterans' Memories of the Vietnamese0
Toxic Parliaments and What Can Be Done about Them. By MarianSawer and MariaMaley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 135pp. Open access or Eur 49.99 (hb).0
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