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{"title":"Realism in Whitlam’s Foreign Policy","authors":"Changwei Chen","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2107692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2107692","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Internationalism and nationalism are the two of the most dominant approaches scholars use to analyse Whitlam’s foreign policy. Whitlam has been depicted as a leader pursuing a more independent Australian stance in international affairs in the era of “new nationalism” and an internationalist who led Australia’s close engagement with the United Nations, its agencies and multilateralism. Both internationalism and nationalism are characteristically seen as special forms of the doctrine of idealism. However, Whitlam’s foreign policy can be better understood as adhering closely to traditional realist theory. His handling of international affairs was not free of pragmatic political calculations: he promoted certain liberal ideals either when they did not matter or when Australia was irrelevant to the outcome. In this way, his foreign policy was liberalism in the abstract and realism in the hard reality.","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"465 - 481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72519515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Australian Studies in China: Some Observations","authors":"C. Mackerras","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2104338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2104338","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims briefly to explain and evaluate Australian studies in China over the past 60 years. It will take up how Australian studies began and grew in influence, and a couple of the organisations that helped it do so. It discusses, in particular, four Australian Studies Centres (ASCs) with which I have had some involvement. Through the lens of these centres, the article probes the nature of Australian studies in China, arguing there is a close connection between international and domestic politics and Australian studies in China. Australian studies grew and flourished in a context, and because of, good political relations between Australia and China. This article also considers some implications behind establishing such an extensive network of ASCs and speculates on their future in a context of the current poor relations between the two countries.","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"402 - 418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82356251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impossible Necessity of Translation","authors":"Wenche Ommundsen","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2098458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2098458","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"536 - 539"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78678608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Australia and China at 50: The New Wave Theatre and the Drama of Cultural Exchange","authors":"A. Pender","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2099951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2099951","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the opening up of relations between Australia and the People’s Republic of China. When he became prime minister in 1972, Gough Whitlam sent the first ambassador to China (Dr Stephen Fitzgerald), and in his term of office established support for artists’ exchanges from the Australia Council. The Australian Ballet visited China in 1980, the first major ballet company to tour since the Cultural Revolution. The touring of China by Australian theatre, opera and dance companies has flourished since then, particularly over the last decade, and Australian spoken-word drama has featured in the relationship between the two countries since 1983. Since the 1980s, the work of the New Wave dramatists has captured the interest of Chinese audiences over a sustained period beyond the years of the New Wave itself. The theatre has, in some respects, provided a respite from the rigours of realpolitik and most importantly a means of genuine interaction between ordinary Australians and Chinese citizens who make up the audiences. This article documents the take-up of the New Wave drama in China, and the legacy of the relationships created in this formative period of Australian theatre in its international context.","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"112 1","pages":"482 - 495"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80659392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking the Victim: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing","authors":"M. Piccini","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2098459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2098459","url":null,"abstract":"vitriol for questioning Israeli actions against Palestinians during a military escalation, which culminated in an investigation by the media watchdog. In closing her book, Abdel-Fattah warns that this censorious attitude is, much as it did during the Cold War, narrowing the scope of political discussion in contemporary Australia. Her argument, that “we are now... bearing the fruits of two decades of the serious erosion of democratic rights in the name of national security” (310), is a hard one to fault.","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"76 1","pages":"542 - 543"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86322024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Balls, Bubbles and Bosses: Australian Politics and Sex Scandal","authors":"Frank Bongiorno","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2094985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2094985","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sex scandal has been an aspect of Australian political culture since colonial times, yet it has rarely been explored as a subject in its own right. The eruption of scandal has a serendipitous, unpredictable aspect, but it also has the capacity to reveal underlying societal structures and values. Scandals can also effect political, social and cultural changes in their own right. While male sexual privilege remains easily discernible in the history of recent scandals, the forces making for exposure rather than concealment have strengthened as a result of broad social, political and media transformations since the late 1960s. The development of a more public intimacy and the redefinition of many previously “private” matters as the proper concern of politics have challenged flexibly applied conventions of concealment that in practice upheld heterosexual male domination of political life.","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"292 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77314632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Surveilling Minds and Bodies: Sexualities, Medicine and the Law","authors":"James Bennett, Chris Brickell","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2095728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2095728","url":null,"abstract":"The intersections between sexuality, medicine and the law have interested scholars for several decades now, and the medical profession and the state have played an important role in the regulation of sexuality since the 19th century. These intersections have attracted sustained attention in the last few years as media, parliamentarians, faith-based organisations and activists have debated marriage equality, religious “ freedom ” , gender diversity and conversion practices. This special issue of the Journal of Australian Studies pays close attention to the ways state power and the power of medicine have regu-lated sexuality and shaped its politics since the 1930s, in Australian and wider transna-tional contexts. The articles in this special issue do not, however, suggest an oppositional relationship between an active regulatory apparatus and passive recipients of centralised control. Instead, their authors address how sexual citizens have also contested and ulti-mately helped to shift dominant relations of power when they examine issues of identity, the state, medicalisation, and community and public media. Conversely, individuals and groups have constructed new identities within contexts that initially seem totalising. This special issue emerged from a niche multidisciplinary conference convened in 2018 at the University of Newcastle. The organisers framed the event as both an oppor-tunity for attendees to engage with a diverse suite of disciplinary perspectives and a com-munity-based conference that welcomed input from interested groups and organisations. One of the invited keynote speakers was Michelle Lancey, founder of the Newcastle chapter of PFLAG, an organisation dedicated to supporting families and friends of rainbow people. Michelle had for many years been deeply involved in the campaign for marriage equality, and she was formally recognised in 2018 for her advocacy. A panel discussion organised by the student-run University of Newcastle Queer Collective further broadened the conference ’ s conversation on queer lives and practices in non-metropolitan spaces. Michael Kirby, former Justice of the High Court of Australia, gave his unique perspective on marriage equality in a public lecture. This special issue follows on from the conference, showcasing a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds. Our contributors o ff er insights from history, journalism, historical sociology and gender studies. Their scholarship highlights a set of critical issues from","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"18 12 1","pages":"273 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76729530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AIDS, Love and the Law: From the Human Rights Act to Marriage Equality in New Zealand","authors":"Chris Brickell","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2090996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2090996","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The terrain of debate over lesbian and gay rights in New Zealand changed markedly between 1993 and 2013. This article compares parliamentary and public discussion of the 1993 amendments to the Human Rights Act, about which very little has been written, and the Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill of 2013, to track a range of ideological stances and discursive positions over a 20-year period. Those sceptical about lesbian and gay rights fashioned a changing set of discursive frames that spoke to HIV/AIDS and then the trope of “political correctness”: their arguments, which draw upon a range of international influences, fractured and became more complex as time went on. There has been a shift towards a politics of love since the start of the new millennium, and a rapidly increasing acceptance of the lives of gay and lesbian New Zealanders.","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"339 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75752216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“A Deed of the Darkest Violence”: Rape and the Emergence of Sadism in Australian Psychiatry, 1920–1950","authors":"J. Bourke","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2085767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2085767","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article uses the sadist murder in 1937 of Dorothy May Everett in Newcastle (NSW) to reflect on sexual violence and psychiatry in Australia between the 1920s and the 1950s. Everett’s murder incited debates about Australian masculinity, class, racial degeneration and sex crimes. It led to an unprecedented popular interest in the psychiatric diagnosis of “sadism”. What do these sadistic rape-murders reveal about everyday constructions of the sexual sadist in Australia? How did people gain knowledge of perversions? Did psychiatric classification systems make a difference? Ian Hacking’s concept of “making up” people is productive for reflecting on the spread of knowledge about psychiatric understandings of sexual violence.","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"106 1","pages":"278 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75671309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Backwards to Bourke: Bulldust about Gays in the Bush","authors":"M. Burge","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2022.2077405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2022.2077405","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In his 2006 thesis, “‘Staying Bush’ – A Study of Gay Men Living in Rural Areas”, author Edward Green described his subject as the “largely hidden and untold story of gay men living in rural areas”. That was a pivotal year for gay men living in the bush, with Australian television broadcasters platforming two of their stories. In the space of one 12-month period, this cohort went from “hidden and untold” to prime time. From as early as 1989, rural politician Bob Katter had been declaring that he would “walk to Bourke backwards if the poof population of North Queensland is any more than 0.001 per cent”. Analysing media and popular culture, this article explores the visibility and portrayal of rural gay men in Australia prior to and after 2006. In spite of Katter’s minuscule population estimates, the rural gay cohort continues to defy assumptions.","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"307 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80754704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}