New Books Network
Australian and New Zealand Studies
SSEAC Stories June 24, 2021

Building Bridges Across the Seas

A Discussion of Australia-Indonesia Cooperation for the Preservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage

Natali Pearson

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic state, its waters home to hundreds, if not thousands, of shipwrecks. As maritime neighbours with both a common boundary and a shared history, protecting …

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Australian and New Zealand Studies June 16, 2021

Boy On Fire

The Young Nick Cave

Mark Mordue

Hosted by Matthew Thompson
Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave (HarperCollins, 2020) is the first volume of a long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A beautiful, profound and …
Anthropology June 3, 2021

Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World

Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity

Laura Moran

Hosted by Fulya Pinar
Children and youth are front and center in the context of global mass migration and the social discord around questions of multicultural inclusion that it often ignites. Imprecise portrayals of …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 1, 2021

Australian Jurists and Christianity

Geoff Lindsay and Wayne Hudson

Hosted by Bede Haines
Professor Wayne Hudson knows a lot - a whole lot - about religion and society. In Australian Jurists and Christianity (The Federation Press, 2021) Wayne, as co-editor, assembles a collection of …
Australian and New Zealand Studies May 19, 2021

The Missing Among Us

Stories of Missing Persons and Those Left Behind

Erin Stewart

Hosted by Bede Haines
'To be missing, you must be missed'.  Erin Stewart's 2021 book examines missing for just about every point of view.  In Australia 38,000 people are reported missing each year and …
SSEAC Stories May 13, 2021

Opening Australia's Multilingual Archives to Rethink Australian Identity in the Asia-Pacific

An interview with Adrian Vickers

Adrian Vickers

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Australia has always been multilingual. Yet English language sources have dominated political and popular discourses over the last few centuries, overshadowing the significant contribution made by other languages and cultures …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 30, 2021

Truth Telling

History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

Henry Reynolds

Hosted by Bede Haines
What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 20, 2021

Leaning into the Spirit

Ecumenical Perspectives on Discernment and Decision-making in the Church

Virginia Miller and David Moxon

Hosted by Bede Haines
Religions, indeed those of the same religion, getting along? Maybe. Dr Virginia Miller edits and contributes to an essay collection on how this thorny issue can be approached - and we've …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 13, 2021

Cruelty Or Humanity

Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities

Stuart Rees

Hosted by Bede Haines
Stuart Rees's Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities (Policy Press, a Bristol University Press imprint, 2020) exposes politicians' fascination with cruelty in their deliberations about policies. Through empirical analysis, human stories and …
Australian and New Zealand Studies April 2, 2021

British India, White Australia

Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire, 1901-1947

Kama Maclean

Hosted by Bede Haines
Commonwealth, curry and cricket: now that explains India and Australia! Not really, and not according to today's guest. Kama Maclean discusses her book British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and …
World Affairs March 29, 2021

Trouble of the World

Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital

Zach Sell

Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed the expansion of slavery and white settlement and dispossession of Indigenous lands west of the Mississippi River, the abolition of slavery in …
Australian and New Zealand Studies March 22, 2021

After Australia

Michael Mohammed Ahmad

Hosted by Bede Haines
After Australia (Affirm Press with the Sweatshop Literacy Movement 2021). No, Australia has not ended - it's a book edited by Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and …
SSEAC Stories March 18, 2021

Working with Government in Timor-Leste

Research Partnerships in Southeast Asia Series

Jenny-Ann Toribio

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID-19, it has become clear that …
Australian and New Zealand Studies March 10, 2021

On Secrets

Annika Smethurst

Hosted by Bede Haines
On June 4, Federal Police raided the home of Walkley award-winning journalist Annika Smethurst, changing her life forever. The police claimed they were investigating the publication of classified information, her …
Australian and New Zealand Studies February 26, 2021

Eating with My Mouth Open

Sam van Zweden

Hosted by Bede Haines
Wow! Food, family, memory, insight, body, mind - worth the effort this one. Eating with My Mouth Open (NewSouth, 2021) is food writing like you’ve never seen before: honest, brave, and …
Anthropology February 3, 2021

Revealing the Invisible Mine

Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project

Emilia E. Skrzypek

Hosted by Alex Golub
Located amid tropical rainforest in the heart of Papua New Guinea, the Frieda River area is home to one of the biggest undeveloped gold and copper deposits in the Pacific …
Australian and New Zealand Studies January 27, 2021

The Bible in Australia

A Cultural History

Meredith Lake

Hosted by Bede Haines
The bible and Australian society! Meredith Lake's published a new 2020 edition of The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History (NewSouth Books, 2020). It's history and sociology and reflections on religion's role on the 'Great …
Australian and New Zealand Studies January 11, 2021

A Bridge Between

Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia

Katherine Massam

Hosted by Bede Haines
Katharine Massam's A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia (ANU Press, 2020) is the first book detailing the Benedictine women who worked at New Norcia, examining their life in the …
Australian and New Zealand Studies January 5, 2021

The Convent

A City Finds Its Heart

Stuart Kells

Hosted by Bede Haines
Nuns, inmates, community vs corporation, Australia, oasis in a metropolis. The Abbotsford Convent left to languish for years after the last of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd had gone. In its …
Military History December 22, 2020

The Gallipoli Evacuation

Peter Hart

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
One of the most well-told episodes of the First World War, the 1915 Gallipoli expedition, also has its own long-ignored aspects - specifically, the story of how the Allied force …