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Australian and New Zealand Studies
Interviews with scholars of Australia and New Zealand about their new books.
March 1, 2026
Fleeced
Not everything about wool is warm and fuzzy. Wool, for millennia the cold climate textile fiber, has a long relationship to war, both in terms of supp…
February 25, 2026
Found in Translation
In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah talks to Dr. Laura Rademaker (Australian National University), the author of Found in …
February 19, 2026
Helen Garner Hacking Away at the Adverbs
In this RTB and Novel Dialogue episode from 2021, Helen Garner sits down with John and Elizabeth McMahon, a distinguished scholar of Australian liter…
December 22, 2025
The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation
What do the economics of decolonisation mean for the future of Aotearoa? This question drives the work of Dr. Matthew Scobie and Dr. Anna Sturman as t…
December 20, 2025
International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific
International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region (Routledge, 2025) edited by Dr. Joanna Siekiera uses an interdisciplin…
December 11, 2025
Garrison World
The pivotal year of 1870 brought down the curtain on the redcoat garrison world at both the metropolitan and colonial ends of the empire . . . In fewe…
December 9, 2025
Tairāwhiti
"The Coast has been battered for years by decisions made by those who don’t live there and don’t have any connection to the place. It started early." …
November 23, 2025
Eucalyptus
Eucalypts, iconic to Australia, have shaped art, science and landscapes worldwide. With around nine hundred species, from towering giants to compact m…
October 28, 2025
Australia‘s National Indigenous Languages Survey
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Alexandra Grey speaks with Zoe Avery, a Worimi woman and a Research Officer at the Centre for …
October 22, 2025
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Offering a fresh comparative lens, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions (U Alber…
September 9, 2025
Contaminated Country
Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth…
September 4, 2025
The Menzies Watershed
The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history. This was a period …
August 4, 2025
Theory & Practice
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Australia on unceded Gadigal land. She writes fiction but has also published a short book about…
July 20, 2025
Voyagers
In Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Apollo, 2020), the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas tells the story of the peopling of the Pac…
June 27, 2025
The Young Menzies
Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in Australian history. The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942 (Melbourne UP, 2022) explores…
June 23, 2025
Drink and Democracy
The nineteenth-century spread of democracy in Britain and its colonies coincided with an increase in alcohol consumption and in celebratory public din…
June 4, 2025
Is Beach Safety Signage Fit For Purpose?
We often take the meaning of signs for granted but that's far from the case in a linguistically and culturally diverse society. The instruction to "Sw…
May 16, 2025
Untied Kingdom
How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Professor Stuart War…
April 14, 2025
Back to Bangka
Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ‘Bud’, killed in the Second World War. Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allie…
April 5, 2025
Hard Work
On the podcast today I am joined by socio-cultural anthropologist, Tuomas Tammisto, who is an academy research fellow in Social Anthropology at Tamper…