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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 …
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