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Australian and New Zealand Studies
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 24, 2021

Too Much Money

How Wealth Disparities are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand

Max Rashbrooke

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today, someone in the wealthiest 1 per cent of adults – a club of some 40,000 people – has a net worth 68 times that of the average New Zealander …

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Interviews with scholars of Australia and New Zealand about their new books.

Native American Studies November 16, 2021

Progressive New World

How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform

Marilyn Lake

Hosted by John Cable
The paradox of Progressivism continues to fascinate more than one hundred years on. Democratic but elitist, emancipatory but coercive, advanced and assimilationist, Progressivism was defined by its contradictions. In Progressive …
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 16, 2021

Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha

Edited and Translated by Ross Calman

Tamihana Te Rauparaha

Hosted by Ed Amon
Te Rauparaha is most well known today as the composer of the haka ‘Ka mate’, made famous the world over by the All Blacks. A major figure in nineteenth-century history …
Australian and New Zealand Studies October 29, 2021

Currowan

A Story of Fire and a Community During Australia's Worst Summer

Bronwyn Adcock

Hosted by Bede Haines
The Currowan fire – ignited by a lightning strike in a remote forest and growing to engulf the New South Wales South Coast – was one of the most terrifying …
Australian and New Zealand Studies October 19, 2021

Upheaval

The Great Digital Disruption in Journalism and Its Aftermath

Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson

Hosted by Bede Haines
Matthew Ricketson joins to discuss how newsrooms, the engine rooms of reporting, have shrunk. A generation of journalists has borne witness to seismic changes in the media and this book …
Australian and New Zealand Studies October 13, 2021

A Queer Existence

The Lives of Young Gay Men in Aotearoa New Zealand

Mark Beehre

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today I talk to Mark Beehre about his new book, A Queer Existence, published by Massey University Press New Zealand 2021. A Queer Existence is a major documentary project that …
Australian and New Zealand Studies September 14, 2021

The History of a Riot

Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson

Jared Davidson

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today I talk to Jared Davidson, the author of The History of a Riot: Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson (Bridget Williams Books, 2021). In 1843, the …
Australian and New Zealand Studies September 13, 2021

Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church

Reassessing the Evidence

Virginia Miller

Hosted by Bede Haines
In Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence (Firenze UP, 2021), Dr Miller analyses empirical findings, methodologies and conclusions of the three main national inquiries (Irish, US, Australian) …
Geography September 8, 2021

Wetlands in a Dry Land

More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

Emily O'Gorman

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world's wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended …
Australian and New Zealand Studies September 6, 2021

Tongerlongeter

First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero

Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements

Hosted by Bede Haines
Nicholas, today's guest, explains Australia has no war hero more impressive than Tongerlongeter. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and ’30s, he and his allies …
Australian and New Zealand Studies August 25, 2021

Return to Uluru

A Killing, Hidden history, a Story that Toes to the Heart of the Nation

Mark McKenna

Hosted by Bede Haines
Today I talked to Mark McKenna about his new book Return to Uluru: A Killing, Hidden history, a Story that Toes to the Heart of the Nation (Black Inc, 2021). When McKenna set …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 20, 2021

A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific

A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen

Camilla Sørensen

Hosted by Andreas Forsby
In this episode, Camilla T.N. Sørensen joins Andreas Bøje Forsby from NIAS for a conversation about the Indo-Pacific region as seen from a Danish and broader European perspective. Camilla was …
General History August 12, 2021

Tautai

Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Taʻisi O.F. Nelson

Patricia O'Brien

Hosted by Holger Droessler
In Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017), O’Brien chronicles the life of a man described as the “archenemy” of New Zealand …
Language August 12, 2021

Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole

The Expression of Emotions

Maïa Ponsonnet

Hosted by Piers Kelly
In today’s global commerce and communication, linguistic diversity is in steady decline across the world as speakers of smaller languages adopt dominant forms. While this phenomenon, known as ‘language shift’ …
Irish Studies August 9, 2021

The Coffin Ship

Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine

Cian T. McMahon

Hosted by Aidan Beatty
Cian T. McMahon is an associate professor of history at University of Nevada-Las Vegas. His research focuses on the history and identity of the Irish Diaspora. In this interview, he …
Australian and New Zealand Studies August 6, 2021

The Writer's Diet

Helen Sword

Hosted by Bede Haines
Helen Sword, writing champion, brings us into the word gym. Or maybe kitchen. Either way, The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose (U Chicago Press, 2016) is a short, sharp introduction …
Australian and New Zealand Studies July 29, 2021

Creating God

The Birth and Growth of Major Religions

Robin Derricourt

Hosted by Bede Haines
What do we really know about how and where religions began, and how they spread?  Robin Derricourt considers the birth and growth of several major religions, using history and archaeology …
Australian and New Zealand Studies July 19, 2021

The Other Half of You

Michael Mohammed Ahmad

Hosted by Bede Haines
I only ever asked you for one thing,' my father said, a quiver in his voice. 'Just this one thing.' It was as though I had smashed the Ten Commandments.'Oh …
Anthropology July 19, 2021

Voyagers

The Settlement of the Pacific

Nicholas Thomas

Hosted by Alex Golub
In Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Apollo, 2020), the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas tells the story of the peopling of the Pacific. In clear, accessible language Thomas shows us that …
Gender Studies July 14, 2021

The Perfect Vagina

Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century

Lindy McDougall

Hosted by Jana Byars
Today on New Books in Gender Studies Jana Byars talks with Lindy McDougall, of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia about her new book, The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the …