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New Australian Policy and History (APH) website Policy Brief In Australian Policy and History’s latest policy brief, PhD students Honae Cuffe and Anna Kent write about the use of Australian ‘soft power’ in the Asia Pacific. The brief contains excellent advice for the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Communications and the Arts about how Australian broadcasting services can Read more …
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In this week’s post, Jatinder Mann offers some personal reflections on his journey to secure an ongoing position in academia. Read it here.
The Honest History website has had new material added: review by Ben Wilkie of Bain Attwood’s The Good Country; appreciation by John Shield of Don Charlwood’s 1965 classic, All the Green Year; Phil Cashen on the second conscription referendum, 1917, in Gippsland; the new Australian Journeyproject at the National Museum of Australia (hosted by Bruce Scates and Susan Read more …
New material at includes an English translation by John Moses of a German review of Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers, a review by Derek Abbott of Roland Perry’s book on Generals Monash and Chauvel, a review by Amanda Laugesen of a book about Australian aphorisms, a posthumously republished article by Geoffrey Bolton on the Max Gluckman Affair Read more …
Karen Schamberger is a curator at the National Museum of Australia. She is currently expanding her horizons through her work as part of the exhibition team developing a new long-term environmental history gallery. She recently completed her PhD: ‘Identity, belonging and cultural diversity in Australian museums’ and previously worked as a research assistant at Deakin Read more …
Professor John Maynard talks about what inspired his love of history, who he writes for and the future of academia. He has some fantastic advice for ECRs, reminding them to read widely, work hard and with passion, and to never be afraid to listen and take advice. Read it here.
Congratulations to Jeannine Baker, who has been awarded the biennial Ferguson Prize for the best article published in Labour History on an interwar theme/topic, for ‘Australian Women Journalists and the “Pretence of Equality”’, Labour History, no. 108, May 2015.
Claire Higgins completed her DPhil in History in January 2014 at the University of Oxford. She is now now a Senior Research Associate at the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW. Read about her experience as an emerging historian here.
‘My Marvellous Melbourne’ is a new podcast produced by staff and students affiliated with the Melbourne History Workshop in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, under the direction of Professor Andrew May. Segments combine stories, interviews and personal reflections on the social history of the city and suburbs, as well as new Read more …