Category: Australian history
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Media Bits on history of fascism and anti-fascism in australia
Over the holiday break, our book, Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia, was published. Last week there were two bits of media coverage relating to the book. The first was an article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Peter Hartcher on the history of Australian fascism, including a few quotes from me. The second…
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New article on alien registration in inter-war australia
This is just a quick announcement that my article ‘The Bureaucratic Limits of a National Security Agenda: The Winding Road of Alien Registration in Interwar Australia’ has been published in Australian Historical Studies journal. You can download it here. If you don’t have access, please get in touch!
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New book on history of fascism and anti-fascism in Australia is now ready for pre-order
This is just a quick announcement that the book that I have co-edited with Jayne Persian and Vashti Jane Fox, Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia, is now available for pre-order. The book is part of Routledge’s Fascism and the Far Right series and will be out in December 2022. If you order at…
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CFP: Australian workers and anti-colonialism in the 20th century
Here is a call for papers that I am involved with. “Imperialism and its agents must be destroyed”: Australian Workers and Anti-Colonialism in the twentieth century 3-4 February, 2022 Online symposium (via Zoom) Keynotes: Professor Ann Curthoys (Sydney) & Professor John Maynard (Newcastle) The Australian working-class movement has a mixed history of internationalism and solidarity,…
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Australian authorities and the far right threat: A historical perspective
This was originally posted over at my Patreon here. In the aftermath of the far right storming of the US Capitol on 6 January and the Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Michael McCormarck, drawing a comparison between this and the Black Lives Matter rallies across the world last year, there have been renewed questions about how…
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Two new opinion pieces on the history of fascism and anti-fascism
A quick post to let people know that I have had two opinion pieces published this week on the history of fascism and anti-fascism in Britain and Australia. Firstly, the Times Higher Education website published a piece on the pre-history of ‘no platform’ and the protests against far right speakers on university campuses in the…
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Guest post at Verso blog on the ‘long 1968’ in Australia
I am excited to let you all know that the Verso Books blog published a piece by Jon Piccini and I on the old left, new left and the ‘long 1968’ in Australia. It is based on the introduction to our new book (co-edited with Matthew Worley), The Far Left in Australia since 1945, which will…
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The cover is ready!
Very excited to unveil the cover of our forthcoming edited volume, The Far Left in Australia since 1945. It will be published by Routledge as part of their Studies in Radical History and Politics series in February next year. A paperback version should be available for the Australian and New Zealand market at the time as…
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