New Books Network
Australian and New Zealand Studies
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 …

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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 …
Australian and New Zealand Studies December 21, 2020

The Ways of the Bushwalker

On Foot in Australia

Melissa Harper

Hosted by Bede Haines
Today I talked to Melissa Harper about her book The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia (NewSouth, 2020). Australians have always loved to step out in nature, whether off-track or …
Indian Religions December 3, 2020

The Indian Diaspora

Hindus and Sikhs in Australia

Jayant B. Bapat, Purushottama Bilimoria and Philip Hughes

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Since the late 1990s, the Indian community in Australia has grown faster than any other immigrant community. The Indian Diaspora has made substantial contributions to the multi-ethnic and multi-religious diversity …
Law November 25, 2020

From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage

How Australia Got Compulsory Voting

Judith Brett

Hosted by Jane Richards
In this fascinating history of Australia’s electoral system, Judith Brett makes a timely case in favour of compulsory voting. Her analysis is entertaining and enlightening, and makes a significant contribution …
Australian and New Zealand Studies November 17, 2020

Distant Sisters

Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914

James Keating

Hosted by Bede Haines
In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for …
Popular Culture November 13, 2020

Graphic Indigeneity

Comics in the Americas and Australasia

Frederick Luis Aldama

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia (UP of Mississippi, 2020), Frederick Luis Aldama brings together comics scholars Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent …
Asian American Studies August 13, 2020

Possessing Polynesians

The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania

Maile Arvin

Hosted by Alex Golub
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and speculated that they were of Mediterranean or Aryan descent. In Possessing …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 23, 2020

God is Samoan

Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific

Matt Tomlinson

Hosted by Alex Golub
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific (University of …
Australian and New Zealand Studies June 16, 2020

The Hilton Bombing

Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga

Imre Salusinszky

Hosted by Matthew Thompson
"Every morning of my life in the past few years I would wake with the thought, I’m a murderer. I have no right to enjoy life.” Evan Pederick speaking to …