New Books Network

Australian and New Zealand Studies April 29, 2022

Fragments from a Contested Past

Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History

Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa, and Keziah Wallis

Hosted by Ed Amon

‘What a nation or society chooses to remember and forget speaks to its contemporary priorities and sense of identity. Understanding how that process works enables us to better imagine a …

Australian and New Zealand Studies April 26, 2022

Girt Nation

The Unauthorised History of Australia (Volume 3)

David Hunt

Hosted by Bede Haines

The saga of Australia continues with... Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 3 (Black Inc., 2021). David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's …

Literature April 21, 2022

Sista, Stanap Strong!

A Vanuatu Women's Anthology

Mikaela Nyman, Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, and Nicole Colmar

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021) is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women—and the first of its kind …

Nordic Asia Podcast April 15, 2022

Timor-Leste Elections

José Ramos-Horta in Conversation with Amber Woortman

José Ramos-Horta

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast

Jose Ramos-Horta topped the first round of polling in the 2022 Timor-Leste presidential elections, securing 46.56 per cent of the popular vote on 19 March. Here he speaks to Amber …

Anthropology March 29, 2022

In the Shadow of the Palms

More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua

Sophie Chao

Hosted by Alex Golub

This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). Her new book examines the lives of Marind …

Geography March 25, 2022

Georges River Blues

Swamps, Mangroves and Resident Action, 1945–1980

Heather Goodall

Hosted by Stentor Danielson

Today I talked toHeather Goodall about her book Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves, and Resident Action, 1945-1980 (ANU Press, 2022).The lower Georges River, on Dharawal and Dharug lands, was a place …

Education March 21, 2022

Waiting for Gonski

How Australia Failed Its Schools

Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor

Hosted by Alice Garner

Anyone interested in how education policy is made and unmade, in school funding models, their historical and contemporary development and their effects on equity, will find this book fascinating. The …

Recall This Book March 17, 2022

Polynesia, Sea of Islands

A Discussion with Christina Thompson

Christina Thompson

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz

John and Elizabeth talk cultural renewal with Christina Thompson in this rebroadcast of a 2019 Recall this Book conversation. Her Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia both relates the history …

Catholic Studies March 14, 2022

Forging Identities in the Irish World

Melbourne and Chicago, 1840-1922

Sophie Cooper

Hosted by Allison Isidore

Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, 1840-1922 (Edinburgh UP, 2022,) explores the shifting influences of religious demography, educational provision, and club culture to shed new light on …

Australian and New Zealand Studies March 2, 2022

Invisible

New Zealand's History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians

Jacqueline Leckie

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi

Despite our mythology of benign race relations, Aotearoa New Zealand has a long history of underlying prejudice and racism. The experiences of Indian migrants and their descendants, either historically or …

Literature January 31, 2022

I Have Seen the Moon

Reflections on Nauru

Bron Williams

Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Today I talked to Bron Williams about her book I Have Seen the Moon: Reflections on Nauru (2017).Mary Anne Radmacher wrote, "I am not the same having seen the moon shine on …

Australian and New Zealand Studies January 19, 2022

Stepping Up

COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga

Luke Fitzmaurice and Maria Bargh

Hosted by Ed Amon

Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga (Huia Publishers, 2021) discusses the roadside checkpoints that were set up by Māori to protect communities during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Case …

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 …

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) …