Category: Hansard
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British attitudes towards the ‘White Australia Policy’ in the inter-war period
I am currently writing a research article on the British Union of Fascists’ view of Australia and how it fit into the fascist view of empire in the inter-war period. As Paul Stocker has recently written, the fascist view of empire was predominantly an extension of already existing conservative attitudes towards the empire, but was…
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Local legal history: A microcosm of the South Australian government’s ‘law & order’ agenda under Rann
While I was a criminal justice researcher in the public sector, I got really interested in sentencing laws in Australia and their history. This might form part of a broader paper about the pursuit of a ‘law and order’ agenda in South Australia under the 2002-2011 Rann government. As Don Weatherburn wrote in his book…
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Piecing together the death of Ian Macleod: The responses in West Germany and Britain
Early in the morning of June 25, 1972, the West German police raided a supposed ‘safehouse’ of the Red Army Fraction (RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, in Stuttgart. There had been supposed telephone communications between the flat in question and a group of Swiss anarchists who had allegedly been in contact with Andreas…
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July 3, 1981: The beginning of Britain’s summer on fire
On Friday July 3, 1981 (less than three months after the Brixton riots of April the same year), riots broke out in Toxteth, an inner-city part of Liverpool. Lasting over the weekend, these riots coincided with unrest occurring in Southall in London where large scale fighting broke out between local Asian youth and the police. Over…
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New post at The Conversation: ‘Student Protests Won’t Be The Last’
The Conversation has just published this piece by myself on yesterday’s demonstrations across Australia against the Liberals’ cuts to higher education and the introduction of higher fees, arguing that the Liberals have been fearful of student radicalism since the late 1960s. Incidentally, I am giving a paper tomorrow at Flinders University on the same topic.…
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Having fun with Hansard
I was searching the online UK Hansard database this afternoon, looking to see whether anyone had mentioned the television show The Young Ones in parliamentary debates. While this search was unsuccessful, I found some other interesting examples of popular culture infiltrating the hallowed walls of Parliament. I tweeted a lot of these today, but thought I’d compile…
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