The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in 1965 presided over a landmark case concerning the inclusion of Indigenous workers in the Cattle Industry (Northern Territory) Award 1951. The success of the ...

This article examines the treatment of disabled return soldiers and war widows in a model suburb, Matraville, after World War 1. It challenges previous interpretations of the experiences returned soldiers and widows of soldiers.

Indigenous people's knowledge of their environments, often called Traditional Environmental Knowledge [TEK], is widely invoked today in many arenas of environmental analysis and natural resource management as a potential ...

Local patriotism emerged in Australia in the suburbs from the mid nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, influenced by progressivism, it was a populist reaction by emerging suburbs and municipalities to state power ...

In the lead up to the 1949 Federal Election, a barrage of anti-Labor publicity campaigns was maintained by a range of groups and organisations. One of these campaigns was the Australian Way series of press advertisements. ...

So the public conjecture over Australian history is far from over ¿ as these debates among historians, politicians and public commentators remind us. The question is, does any of this resonate beyond the limited public ...

This article explores unregulated circulation of people from South Asia to Australia and argues that these movements constitute both an integral and a destabilizing element in the conceptualization of the nation state and ...