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{"title":"Queerstralia: resistance, resilience, and the gaps that remain","authors":"Hannah McCann","doi":"10.1080/14490854.2023.2201596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2023.2201596","url":null,"abstract":"Queerstralia is a three-part documentary series that sets out to provide an expansive account of Australia’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and other queer (LGBTQIAþ) histories. As the documentary makes clear early on, such a task is both daunting and far from straightforward. Not only have LGBTQIAþ stories been kept to the marginalia of history, the question of whether we ought to view the past through the lens of contemporary identity categories is also highly contested. Furthermore, there is incredible diversity within LGBTQIAþ communities, even though the acronym is frequently used in the popular imagination to refer to community in the singular. Queerstralia addresses these issues head-on, with what host comedian Zo€e Coombs Marr describes as ‘the big messy puzzle that is queer identity’. Queerstralia represents the multi-stranded nature of Australian queer histories by deploying a looping narrative approach as metaphor. This feels like an annoying comedic distraction in the first episode but comes together across the series to make a more serious political point. Rather than following a neat chronological trajectory, the three episodes are organised thematically, looking at ‘The Law’, ‘Gender and Identity’ and ‘Community and Belonging’. After some exposition, the series begins with Peter de Waal searching meticulously through old court records from the 1860s to find examples of ‘sodomy’ and ‘buggery’. The series ends on a hopeful note about how queer people were galvanised by the AIDS crisis. In this way, though the presentation of history is non-linear and implicitly critical of an oversimplified ‘progress narrative’, the tone is optimistic and emphasises resilience and resistance over persecution. The documentary involves interviews with a brilliant array of Australian thinkers and activists from across the LGBTQIAþ spectrum and provides some marvellous archival stories and footage of queer lives and events in our history. It is unusual and exciting to see Australian queer history centred, given the typical North Americanand Euro-centrism of many other narratives of queer life. The series includes incredible","PeriodicalId":35194,"journal":{"name":"History Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46095674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tracker Nat Warano’s art of ngijinkirri, the Tennant Creek Brio and Warumungu history","authors":"Joseph Yugi Williams, Levi McLean, D. Jorgensen","doi":"10.1080/14490854.2023.2197013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2023.2197013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s the Warumungu carver Nat Warano, better known as Tracker Nat, produced drawings and painted carvings as gifts and for exchange in the town of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. His art practice was a part of his role as a leader of the Warumungu community, as he played a role in moving the community from a reserve outside the township to Warrabri to the south. His gifting of carvings was part of a history and tradition of ngijinkirri among Warumungu people, in which gifts brought the recipient into a state of obligation to the giver. Ngijinkirri put teachers and politicians into this state of obligation, as Nat gifted painted carvings to them. Since the rediscovery of Nat, and of the history and style of his art, his carvings have been identified in both public and private collections. Since beginning the research on Nat, the authors of this article have attributed drawings and painted carvings in public collections and passing through commercial auctions, and it is anticipated that there are many more yet to be identified.","PeriodicalId":35194,"journal":{"name":"History Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42226083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A history of ‘domestic violence’ in Australian politics","authors":"James Mortensen","doi":"10.1080/14490854.2023.2186183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2023.2186183","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the introduction, evolution and demise of the phrase ‘domestic violence’ to describe issues of terrorism, insurrection and violent civil disobedience within Australian political discourse. It seeks to interrogate the circumstances whereby the political usage of ‘domestic violence’ changed in Australia. The study relies on Hansard, as well as secondary sources, to examine how and in what context political leaders used the phrase in discussions of relevant events and legislation. It finds that a shift in language usage between political unrest and familial violence occurred within the space of a year. However, despite this comparatively narrow timeframe, there was little to no overlap within political speech. The article illuminates how close the two usages of ‘domestic violence’ came to colliding and the circumstances under which the former fell from use. It also argues that the limited adoption of the earlier denotation of the phrase in Australian politics likely owes to the differing domestic contexts of the US and Australia, as well as a lack of appropriate supporting legislation to give it legal force.","PeriodicalId":35194,"journal":{"name":"History Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41420742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phillip Deery on Australia’s secret Cold War, and its victims","authors":"Jon Piccini","doi":"10.1080/14490854.2023.2186184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2023.2186184","url":null,"abstract":"In August 2020, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) broke with its normally secretive protocols and launched a Twitter account. Using hashtags like #ASIOhistory and #tradecraftTuesday, the organisation now shares images, objects and stories going back to its foundation in the early Cold War. In so doing, it seeks to show that ‘while technology’s [sic] evolved since the 1950s, our mission to protect Australia... from #terrorism and #espionage hasn’t’. Contrary to the Get Smart schtick they present on social media, Phillip Deery’s impressive new volume Spies and Sparrows reveals an organisation whose original mission – to counter espionage and ‘subversive’ activities in Australia – was dramatically overstepped throughout its first three decades. He spotlights the toll it took, on agents and those they targeted. Deery is an eminent historian of the Cold War – and particularly of its shadowy underworld. Spies and Sparrows follows a formula utilised in his 2014 volume, Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York, whereby biographical studies of often-overlooked individuals serve to tell a larger story. That earlier volume focused on the ‘red scare’ of the late 1940s and 1950s in America, fermented by Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee. While not a spy agency, McCarthy’s powers were wide, and the damage he did to a range of people believed to be harbouring treasonous thoughts was significant. Careers were ended, reputations shattered and lives lost. Australia’s McCarthyite reverberations were reflected in a failed bid to ban the Communist Party, and the establishment (by a Labor government) of ASIO in 1949. Intercepted Soviet cables – codenamed Verona – revealed that Australia was a ‘security risk’ to the Western alliance, and the spy agency – modelled on Britain’s MI6 – was meant to reassure the United States of Canberra’s reliability. ASIO’s key responsibility at its inception was the identification of a spy ring led by Communist Party of Australia member Wally Clayton, which Deery classes as more ‘an informal grouping of about ten contacts’ than the close-knit cabal of spy-thrillers (6). The meat of Deery’s book details how ASIO ‘made little meaningful distinction between the handful of... covert communists who engaged in espionage activity and the thousands of CPA members and fellow travellers who... sided with the underprivileged and the dispossessed; and who were neither aware of espionage nor would have sanctioned it’ (7).","PeriodicalId":35194,"journal":{"name":"History Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43086697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The ‘greatest threat’ to Australian and global security? A history of the Howard government’s evolving perception of nuclear proliferation, 1996–2007","authors":"Michael Clarke","doi":"10.1080/14490854.2023.2182647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2023.2182647","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract For many observers Australia’s approach to the threat of nuclear proliferation under the government of Prime Minister John Howard (1996–2007) was simply the product of its steadfast alignment of Australian foreign policy with that of the United States in the post-9/11 context. The Howard government’s enthusiastic support for the 2003 US-led ‘coalition of the willing’ invasion of Iraq on the basis of Baghdad’s alleged possession of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD) is taken as the most egregious example of this tendency. Yet this assumption ignores that the potential threat of nuclear proliferation had been an abiding concern for the government since it had entered office. This paper argues that there was an enduring dynamic in Australian foreign and strategic policy of perceiving a direct link between the fate of the prevailing international system and that of Australia’s own national security. To this end, the Howard government’s perception of the threat of nuclear proliferation was sensitive to trends at the global level, most particularly the strategic posture and preferences of its alliance partner, the United States. The paper demonstrates, however, that this weakened the Howard government’s ability to maintain fidelity with what had become Australia’s traditional activist diplomacy within the non-proliferation regime.","PeriodicalId":35194,"journal":{"name":"History Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48803408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Five lessons from teaching family history to older students online","authors":"I. Wegman","doi":"10.1080/14490854.2023.2171268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2023.2171268","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As universities move more and more teaching online, educators have mixed reactions. This article puts forward five lessons learned over seven years of online teaching in a diploma-level university history course. Many students in the course have low digital literacy, but they can overcome difficulties with their online study when given the opportunity and appropriate support. University management does not always recognise the extra time required to develop pedagogically sound and inspiring online lessons. Nonetheless, this space can be made to work for history educators and, moreover, it can provide a valuable and necessary opportunity for students who might otherwise feel alienated in an increasingly digital world.","PeriodicalId":35194,"journal":{"name":"History Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47638913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Heather Goodall reveals Anglo-Celtic environmental activism in Sydney’s suburbs","authors":"J. McIntyre","doi":"10.1080/14490854.2022.2153229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2022.2153229","url":null,"abstract":"Heather Goodall is a key figure in Australian histories of the interaction between people and the land. Her capacity for interpreting a broad range of finely grained sources to understand places where these interactions occur is powerfully evident in Georges River Blues . The book is focused on competing ‘ Anglo and Irish ’ or ‘ Anglo-Celtic ’ desires to establish and sustain homes and workplaces amid institutional and environmental change. Conflicts or ‘ blues ’ in the southern Sydney district of Georges River arose over differing views of the need for, and modes of, environmental protection of the estuary. Goodall ’ s objective is to understand what motivated these conflicts involving resident groups with markedly different income levels trying to reverse damage to the river and its bushland, and the concomitant fate of mangrove swamps that dominated the riverscape. Georges River Blues follows on from Goodall ’ s earlier work on relationships between non-Anglo-Saxon communities and this river district, including the influential Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal People on Sydney ’ s Georges River (NewSouth, 2009), co-authored with Allison Cadzow. The land and waters in Georges River Blues are (human) properties and community spaces as well as (non-human) ecologies sliced and diced through jurisdictional authority such as land laws, and municipal and state governance. This land and waters bear the weight of residential community building along with nationalistic ambitions for modernity and progress. The upper estuary of Georges River is a district unsuitable for settler colonial agriculture. Instead, the area was used as leisure grounds offering an escape from urbanism before World War II. After the war, the region bore the brunt of the clearing of residents from Sydney ’ s inner-city slums and the construction of factories and elite waterfront housing development. These changes brought the problems of, for example, pollution from domestic sewerage and industrial outflow. Mangrove swamps expanded","PeriodicalId":35194,"journal":{"name":"History Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48470419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tim Reeves plots the course of a watershed crime and its aftermath","authors":"C. Kevin","doi":"10.1080/14490854.2022.2163370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2022.2163370","url":null,"abstract":"2022 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Dr George Ian Ogilvie Duncan, known as Ian. He moved to Adelaide for a position in the Adelaide University Law School six weeks before his body was retrieved from the muddy waters of the River Torrens. The riverbank, which runs behind the university, was host to Beat Number One at the time of Duncan’s death. Tim Reeves is the foremost expert on Duncan’s murder, which is significant to histories of queer life and law reform. What began as an honours thesis became the basis of a powerful oratorio commissioned for the 2022 Adelaide Festival – Watershed – and this book – The Death of Dr Duncan. The oratorio’s title signals the extraordinary impact of Duncan’s murder, which ultimately led to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in South Australia, the first Australian state to make this move and the first jurisdiction in the English-speaking world to eliminate a distinction in criminal law between homosexuals and heterosexuals, including the age of consent. That Duncan’s death should be so firmly linked to this law reform makes it especially striking that no one has been made criminally accountable for causing it. However, Reeves makes clear that at least three of those responsible have been, at times, familiar names to police, the Adelaide queer community and readers of major SA newspapers. But they remain free. In the absence of sufficient evidence for convictions, Reeves’ book is a testament to painstaking work with every lead, published and unpublished accounts, and interviews with those who helped tease out the events leading up to and reverberating from Duncan’s death. On the night of 10 May 1972, members of the SA Police Force’s vice-squad left the King’s Head Hotel on King William Road and headed to Beat Number One to rough up its visitors, throwing three men into the river. One victim, Roger James, broke his ankle but managed to get out of the river and escape further violence. James became the key witness in the case of the drowning of their next victim, Duncan, whose body was discovered the following day. Reeves argues that the social status of academics and the involvement of Duncan’s new colleagues in promoting investigations were crucial in influencing community attitudes and, in turn, legal history. As Reeves pointed out in a recorded conversation with David Marr (Adelaide Writer’s Festival Podcast, Episode 22), if Duncan had been a welder from the northern suburbs, fewer people would have cared.","PeriodicalId":35194,"journal":{"name":"History Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43614173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peter Charles Gibson on Chinese furniture makers as active agents in Australian history","authors":"Mei-fen Kuo","doi":"10.1080/14490854.2022.2163369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2022.2163369","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35194,"journal":{"name":"History Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41563203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Kate Fullagar, J. Lake, Benjamin Mountford, E. Warne","doi":"10.1080/14490854.2022.2159767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2022.2159767","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35194,"journal":{"name":"History Australia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42591059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}