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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Australian history"”.
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Transforming histories: the visual disclosure of contentious pasts
… The place of memory, forgetting, absence in Australian history, in particular in Indigenous and non Indigenous encounter are investigated. Place, object, story determined from original sources are materially reunited as an opportunity for public re-engagement with the past. This …
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One woman's nation : Pauline Hanson, femininity and right wing populism in Australia
… the most powerful right-wing populist party in Australian history, One Nation Party , was formed and led by Pauline Hanson. Populist parties, like Pauline Hanson's One Nation , have traditionally been a masculine domain yet Hanson masterfully gained support for her views by deploying the …
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The active chorus : the mass strike of 1917 in eastern Australia
… of 1917, arguably the biggest class conflict in Australian history. For over two months up to 100,000 workers confronted an enraged and belligerent combination of conservative state and federal governments, employers, the establishment press and a middle class which was organised against them on …
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The glittering thread : the 1954 Royal Tour of Australia
… event, it attempts to restore its place in history, to explain the nature of the enduring popular attachment to the British Royal Family, to examine the self-portrait that Australia presented to its Royal visitors in the post-war era and to investigate the political and cultural processes by …
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From Hope to Disillusion? A Literary and Cultural History of the Whitlam Period, 1966-1975
It is argued in this thesis that Australian history between 1966 and 1975 can usefully be termed 'the Whitlam period' because the 1972-1975 ALP government of E.G. Whitlam represented the culmination of a wider set of movements for progressive social change, activated primarily by post-1965 …
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Central West New South Wales 1891-1893 'A Regional History from Below'
… is widely viewed as one of the most momentous in Australian history. There are many studies which focus on the period, thematically or as broad historical narratives of the Australian colonies. There are none that explore how the events and themes were manifested in rural NSW, nor are there any …
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Central West New South Wales 1891-1893 'A Regional History from Below'
… is widely viewed as one of the most momentous in Australian history. There are many studies which focus on the period, thematically or as broad historical narratives of the Australian colonies. There are none that explore how the events and themes were manifested in rural NSW, nor are there any …
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An uneasy legacy: Vietnam veterans and Australian society
… their struggle to find a suitable place in Australian history. There is a methodological focus on oral history, based on a group of veterans in the North Queensland region. The study finds that there is neither a simple nor a single explanation, but rather a series of events, decisions and …
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Relocation Stories: experiences of Indigenous Footballers in the AFL
… from the perspectives of 10 Indigenous Australian AFL footballers, examining the social, cultural, organisational, and psychological challenges. Five participants were drafted to the AFL within 12 months, and five participants were drafted to the AFL prior to 2002. Participants were …
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Beyond a cup of tea: Trade relationships between colonial Australia and China, 1860-1880
… between 1860 and 1880. At the time, the Australian continent was emerging from the boom created by the 1850s gold rushes in the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. China had submitted to the debts incurred from the two Opium Wars and, through that, the creation of the Treaty Ports. …
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Beyond a cup of tea: Trade relationships between colonial Australia and China, 1860-1880
… between 1860 and 1880. At the time, the Australian continent was emerging from the boom created by the 1850s gold rushes in the colonies of Victoria and New South Wales. China had submitted to the debts incurred from the two Opium Wars and, through that, the creation of the Treaty Ports. …
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A struggle for recognition: the War Widows' Guild in Western Australia 1946-1975 ; and, Exegesis: Researching and writing an organisational history
This thesis comprises an organisational history of the War Widow' Guild Australia WA Inc., and an essay about the research and writing process I undertook to construct such a history. The history outlines the development, struggles and achievements of the War Widows’ Guild in Western Australia from …
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An allergy and Novelists of the past, historians of the present
… thesis is comprised of a creative extract: Local History and Case Histories and an exegesis: Novelists of the Past, Historians of the Present. The creative extract is part of a much longer project, called an allergy, a multi-generic self-reflexive historiographical metafictional novel which …
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National Mythology and Colonial Trauma in Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country
In 1991 the Australian government instigated a process of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous people. This process aimed at laying the foundations of a postcolonial nation through the establishment of the truth about the past, the acknowledgment of the injustices inflicted on the …
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Archiving Change: Film Versions and Cultural Heritage at the National Film and Sound Archive
… that the multiple versions of films held in the Australian National Film and Sound Archive are not simply practical or technical objects, but instead palimpsestic, process-laden records that hold the traces of a film's history and identity. The Australian National Film and Sound Archive's (NFSA) …
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Archiving Change: Film Versions and Cultural Heritage at the National Film and Sound Archive
… that the multiple versions of films held in the Australian National Film and Sound Archive are not simply practical or technical objects, but instead palimpsestic, process-laden records that hold the traces of a film's history and identity. The Australian National Film and Sound Archive's (NFSA) …
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An examination of media ethics and journalism pedagogy for news communicators: Theory and practice implications of a framing analysis of The Mercury (Tasmania)’s coverage of the Dunblane (March 1996) and Port Arthur (April 1996) mass shootings
… This thesis examines the worst mass shooting in Australian history, treating it as a case study to interrogate the elements of reporting that constitute the script. Using a news framing methodology, the thesis compares the coverage of two mass shootings (46 days apart) in one newspaper: The …
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The Australian museum library - its formation, function and scientific contribution, 1836–1917
This thesis examines how the Australian Museum Library both reflected and affected scientific activity and debate at the Australian Museum, Sydney, and beyond, between 1836 and 1917. The relationship between those practising science in the metropolis and those on the periphery, such as in colonial …
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Constructing the "perfect" voyage: Nicolas Baudin at Port Jackson, 1802.
… was a pivotal episode in the course of Baudin's Australian voyage. The commander had already fulfilled most of his instructions, though imperfectly, and only the north coast of New Holland remained unexamined. He and his men stayed at anchor in Port Jackson for over five months. When they set …
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Ten Pounds for Adults, Kids Travel Free: An essay on the effects of migration upon the children of the British migrants to Western Australia in the 1960s and 1970s ; and , The red pipe: a novella set in Port Hedland
… these assisted British immigrants were known by Australians as the ‘Ten Pound Poms’. Two decades on from the introduction of the scheme, immigration motives had shifted from the desperation born of immediate post-war austerity to the heightened expectations of the increasingly affluent Sixties …
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