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Edward Willis, "WWII in East Timor: An Australian Army Site and Travel Guide" (2/2 Commando Association of Australia, 2024)
Sep 22, 2026
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan, "Unfree Workers: Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788–1860" (Springer Nature, 2022)
Aug 30, 2026
Taking The Scenic Route To High Quality Education For Indigenous Students
Aug 19, 2026
Elizabeth Tynan, "Nuclear Archipelago: Secrets, Power and the Biggest Atomic Blast in Australia" (NewSouth, 2026)
Aug 16, 2026
Asher Emanuel, "The Valley: Crime and Punishment in a New Zealand City" (Bridget Williams Books, 2026)
Aug 03, 2026
Thomas Richardson, "Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in South Africa, 1899–1902" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Aug 02, 2026
Tania Sengupta and Stuart King eds., "Reclaiming Colonial Architecture" (Routledge, 2024)
Jun 09, 2026
Geraldine Fela, "Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia's AIDS Crisis" (UNSW Press, 2024)
Jun 03, 2026
Many Cultures, One Hope: Cultural Competence in the Uniting Church with guest Reverend Seforosa Carroll
Jun 01, 2026
Cultural Competence Isn’t One-Size-Fits-All: Talking culturally responsive teaching with Dr Remy Low
May 31, 2026
“You Sound So Australian”: From Being Read to Rewriting the Room with guest Zindzi Okenyo
May 30, 2026
Sean Scalmer, "A Fair Day's Work: The Quest to Win Back Time" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
May 29, 2026
Mia Martin Hobbs, Carolyn Holbrook⁠, and Joan Beaumont, "Challenging Anzac: Stories That Don't Fit the Legend" (NewSouth, 2026)
Apr 25, 2026
Indigenous Employment and Cultural Safety: Building Real Pathways with guest Craig Seinor-Davies
Apr 23, 2026
The (Un)imagined Work of Linguistic Inclusion
Apr 21, 2026
Decolonising Colonial Collections: Repatriation and Cultural Competence in Museums with guest Marika Duczynski
Mar 26, 2026
Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw, "Fleeced: Unraveling the History of Wool and War" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mar 01, 2026
Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission
Feb 25, 2026
Helen Garner Hacking Away at the Adverbs: A Novel Dialogue Crossover Conversation
Feb 19, 2026
Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman, "The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation" (Bridget Williams Books, 2024)
Dec 22, 2025
Joanna Siekiera, "International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region" (Routledge, 2025)
Dec 20, 2025
Charlotte Macdonald, "Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire" (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)
Dec 11, 2025
Aaron Smale, "Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone" (Bridget Williams, 2024)
Dec 09, 2025
Stephen D. Hopper, "Eucalyptus" (Reaktion, 2025)
Nov 23, 2025
Australia‘s National Indigenous Languages Survey
Oct 28, 2025
Jessica Urwin, "Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia" (U of Washington Press, 2025)
Sep 09, 2025
Zachary Gorman, "The Menzies Watershed: Liberalism, Anti-Communism, Continuities 1943-1954" (Melbourne UP, 2023)
Sep 04, 2025
Michelle De Kretser, "Theory & Practice" (Catapult, 2025)
Aug 04, 2025
Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific" (Apollo, 2020)
Jul 20, 2025
Zachary Gorman, "The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
Jun 27, 2025
Matthew Allen, "Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)
Jun 23, 2025
Is Beach Safety Signage Fit For Purpose?
Jun 04, 2025
Stuart Ward, "Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 16, 2025
Georgina Banks, "Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth about a Wartime Massacre" (Viking Australia, 2023)
Apr 14, 2025
Tuomas Tammisto, "Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier" (Helsinki UP, 2024)
Apr 05, 2025
Philip Harling, "Managing Mobility: The British Imperial State and Global Migration, 1840-1860" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Mar 31, 2025
Teaching International Students in Australia
Mar 30, 2025
Tom Lynch, "Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Mar 28, 2025
David Oakeshott, "Schooling, Conflict and Peace in the Southwestern Pacific: Becoming Enemy Friends" (Bristol UP, 2024)
Mar 26, 2025
Royce Kurmelovs, "Slick: Australia's Toxic Relationship with Big Oil" (U Queensland Press, 2024)
Mar 23, 2025
Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell, "Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene" (Routledge, 2024)
Feb 28, 2025
David R. Saunders, "Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah amid the End of Empire, 1945–1965" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Feb 25, 2025
Yves Rees, "Travelling to Tomorrow: How Australia's Modern Women Pioneered Our Romance with the United States" (New South, 2024)
Feb 02, 2025
Angela Wanhalla et al., "Te Hau Kainga: The Maori Home Front during the Second World War" (Auckland UP, 2024)
Feb 02, 2025
Melissa Johnston, "Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 21, 2024
Creaky Voice in Australian English
Dec 17, 2024
Investing in Southeast Asia: Key insights for Australian Researchers
Dec 13, 2024
Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling
Nov 19, 2024
Sarah Ball, "Behavioural Public Policy in Australia: How an Idea Became Practice" (Routledge, 2022)
Oct 22, 2024
Jane Lydon, "Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?" (Routledge, 2021)
Oct 15, 2024
Gary Mucciaroni, "Answers to the Labour Question: Industrial Relations and the State in the Anglophone World, 1880–1945" (U Toronto Press, 2024)
Aug 24, 2024
Karen Patel, "Craft as a Creative Industry" (Routledge, 2024)
Aug 20, 2024
The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu
Aug 19, 2024
Mavis Kerinaiua and Laura Rademaker, "Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up" (NewSouth, 2023)
Aug 18, 2024
Ebony Nilsson, "Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 24, 2024
Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jul 14, 2024
Joanna Siekiera, "21st Century as the Pacific Century: Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition" (Warsaw UP, 2023)
Jun 18, 2024
Hannah Forsyth, "Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2024
John Blaxland and Clare Birgin, "Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber" (UNSW Press, 2023)
Jun 11, 2024
Lifestyle and Death with Christopher Mayes
Jun 10, 2024
Cian T. McMahon, "The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine" (NYU Press, 2021)
Jun 08, 2024
Martin Dusinberre, "Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
May 19, 2024
Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen, "Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
May 01, 2024
Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Apr 15, 2024
Kieran File, "How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Apr 05, 2024
Atakohu Middleton, "Kia Hiwa Rā!: Māori Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Huia Publishers, 2023)
Apr 01, 2024
Cristina Rocha, "Cool Christianity: Hillsong and the Fashioning of Cosmopolitan Identities" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Mar 24, 2024
Jacqueline Kennelly, "Burnt by Democracy: Youth, Inequality, and the Erosion of Civic Life" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
Mar 09, 2024
Angela Wanhalla, "Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Feb 25, 2024
What Can Australian Message Sticks Teach Us About Literacy?
Feb 21, 2024
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, "Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 16, 2024
Use of Bacteriophages as Natural Antimicrobials to Manage Bacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture in Vietnam and Australia
Feb 02, 2024
Marcia Stephenson, "Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World" (U Texas Press, 2023)
Jan 27, 2024
Brandon Presser, "The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific" (Icon Books, 2022)
Jan 10, 2024
James Keating, "Distant Sisters: Australasian Women and the International Struggle for the Vote, 1880-1914" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Dec 31, 2023
Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023
Stephanie Convery, "After the Count: The Death of Davey Browne" (Penguin Australia, 2020)
Nov 27, 2023
Wm. Matthew Kennedy, "The Imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the Project of Empire, 1867-1914" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Nov 06, 2023
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean" (Robinson, 2023)
Oct 02, 2023
Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert, "The Edwin Fox: How an Ordinary Sailing Ship Connected the World in the Age of Globalization, 1850-1914" (UNC Press, 2024)
Oct 02, 2023
Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)
Sep 28, 2023
Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 24, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Clive Moore, "Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s" (Australia National UP, 2017)
Sep 07, 2023
Alexandra Roginski, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 04, 2023
Tanya Evans, "Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship: A New Social History" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Aug 20, 2023
Chris Fleming, "On Drugs" (Giramondo Publishing, 2019)
Aug 14, 2023
Michael Roper, "Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Aug 09, 2023
Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
Aug 09, 2023
Simon Ville and David Merrett, "International Business in Australia before World Shaping a Multinational Economy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
May 31, 2023
Christina Gerhardt, "Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean" (U California Press, 2023)
May 23, 2023
Elizabeth Elbourne, "Empire, Kinship and Violence: Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler Colonialism, 1770-1842" (Cambridge UP., 2022)
Apr 21, 2023
Lachlan McNamee, "Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 12, 2023
Peter Meihana, "Privilege in Perpetuity: Exploding a Pākehā Myth" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
Apr 08, 2023
Max Kaiser, "Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Mar 21, 2023
Ronald L. Trosper, "Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
Mar 01, 2023
Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
Dec 22, 2022
Quito J. Swan, "Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World" (NYU Press, 2022)
Dec 20, 2022
Elaine Pearson, "Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast, "More Zeros and Ones: Digital Technology, Maintenance and Equity in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
Arcia Tecun et al., "Towards a Grammar of Race in Aotearoa New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
Oct 18, 2022
Ethics, Utopia and Materiality: Glimpses of Everyday Creativity and Hope in Indonesian Papua
Oct 13, 2022
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
Sep 28, 2022
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
Sep 21, 2022
Fiona Crawford and Lee McGowan, "Never Say Die: The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football" (NewSouth Books, 2019)
Sep 21, 2022
John Richens, "Tik Merauke: An Epidemic Like No Other" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
Sep 21, 2022
Mohamed Adhikari, "Destroying to Replace: Settler Genocides of Indigenous Peoples" (Hackett, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
Anna Clark, "Making Australian History" (Random House Australia, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
Alastair Paton, "Of Marsupials and Men" (Black Inc, 2022)
Aug 16, 2022
Lisa Uperesa, "Gridiron Capital: How American Football Became a Samoan Game" (Duke UP, 2022)
Aug 16, 2022
Jarrod Hore, "Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism" (U California Press, 2022)
Aug 10, 2022
Nicholas Ferns, "Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975: Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Aug 05, 2022
Eda Gunaydin, "Root and Branch: Essays on Inheritance" (NewSouth, 2022)
Jul 08, 2022
Mae Ngai, "The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes, Chinese Migration, and Global Politics" (W. W. Norton, 2022)
Jul 04, 2022
Douglas Booth, "Bondi Beach: Representations of an Iconic Australian" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Jun 21, 2022
Holger Droessler, "Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
Matthew Ricketson and Patrick Mullins, "Who Needs the ABC?: How Digital Disruption and Political Dysfunction Threaten the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Existence" (Scribe, 2022)
Jun 08, 2022
Jack Ashby, "Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
May 30, 2022
Liana MacDonald et al., "Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History" (Bridget Williams Books, 2022)
Apr 29, 2022
David Hunt, "Girt Nation: The Unauthorised History of Australia," Volume 3 (Black Inc., 2021)
Apr 26, 2022
Mikaela Nyman and Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen, "Sista, Stanap Strong!: A Vanuatu Women's Anthology" (Te Herenaa Waka UP, 2021)
Apr 21, 2022
East Timor Elections: José Ramos-Horta in Conversation with Amber Woortman
Apr 15, 2022
Sophie Chao, "In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua" (Duke UP, 2022)
Mar 29, 2022
Heather Goodall, "Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves and Resident Action, 1945–1980" (ANU Press, 2022)
Mar 25, 2022
Tom Greenwell and Chris Bonnor, "Waiting for Gonski: How Australia Failed Its Schools" (UNSW Press, 2022)
Mar 21, 2022
77* Polynesia, Sea of Islands: with Christina Thompson
Mar 17, 2022
Sophie Cooper, "Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, 1840-1922" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
Mar 14, 2022
Jacqueline Leckie, "Invisible: New Zealand's History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians" (Massey, 2021)
Mar 02, 2022
Bron Williams, "I Have Seen the Moon: Reflections on Nauru" (2017)
Jan 31, 2022
Luke Fitzmaurice and Maria Bargh, "Stepping Up: COVID-19 Checkpoints and Rangatiratanga (Huia Publishers, 2021)
Jan 19, 2022
Max Rashbrooke, "Too Much Money: How Wealth Disparities are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021
Tamihana Te Rauparaha, "Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha" (Auckland UP, 2021)
Nov 16, 2021
Marilyn Lake, "Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nov 16, 2021
Bronwyn Adcock, "Currowan: A Story of Fire and a Community During Australia's Worst Summer" (Black Inc., 2021)
Oct 29, 2021
Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson, "Upheaval: The Great Digital Disruption in Journalism and Its Aftermath" (NewSouth, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021
Mark Beehre, "A Queer Existence: The Lives of Young Gay Men in Aotearoa New Zealand" (Massey University, 2021)
Oct 13, 2021
Jared Davidson, "The History of a Riot: Class, Popular Protest and Violence in Early Colonial Nelson" (Bridget Williams Books, 2021)
Sep 14, 2021
Virginia Miller, "Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence" (Firenze UP, 2021)
Sep 13, 2021
Emily O'Gorman, "Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia's Murray-Darling Basin" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Sep 08, 2021
Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements, "Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero" (NewSouth, 2021)
Sep 06, 2021
A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific: A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen
Aug 20, 2021
Maïa Ponsonnet, "Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole: The Expression of Emotions" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 12, 2021
Patricia O’Brien, "Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Aug 12, 2021
Mark McKenna, "Return to Uluru: A Killing, Hidden history, a Story that Toes to the Heart of the Nation" (Black Inc, 2021)
Aug 09, 2021
Cian T. McMahon, "The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine" (NYU Press, 2021)
Aug 09, 2021
Helen Sword, "The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Aug 06, 2021
Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific" (Apollo, 2020)
Jul 19, 2021
Michael Mohammed Ahmad, "The Other Half of You" (Hachette, 2021)
Jul 19, 2021
Lindy McDougall, "The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century" (Indiana UP, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021
Nafiseh Ghafournia, "Faith in Freedom: Muslim Immigrant Women Experiences of Domestic Violence" (Melbourne UP, 2019)
Jul 09, 2021
Rowena Lennox, "Dingo Bold: The Life and Death of K'gari Dingoes" (Sydney UP, 2021)
Jun 29, 2021
Building Bridges Across the Seas: A Discussion of Australia-Indonesia Cooperation for the Preservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage
Jun 24, 2021
Mark Mordue, "Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave" (HarperCollins, 2020)
Jun 16, 2021
Laura Moran, "Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World: Refugee Youth and the Pursuit of Identity" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Jun 03, 2021
Geoff Lindsay and Wayne Hudson, "Australian Jurists and Christianity" (Federation Press, 2020)
Jun 01, 2021
Erin Stewart, "The Missing Among Us: Stories of Missing Persons and Those Left Behind" (NewSouth, 2020)
May 19, 2021
Opening Australia's Multilingual Archives to Rethink Australian Identity in the Asia-Pacific
May 13, 2021
Henry Reynolds, "Truth Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement" (NewSouth, 2021)
Apr 30, 2021
Virginia Miller and David Moxon, "Leaning into the Spirit: Ecumenical Perspectives on Discernment and Decision-making in the Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Apr 20, 2021
Kama Maclean, "British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire, 1901-1947" (NewSouth, 2020)
Apr 02, 2021
Stuart Rees, "Cruelty or Humanity: Challenges, Opportunities and Responsibilities" (Policy Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2021
Zach Sell, "Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital" (UNC Press, 2021)
Mar 29, 2021
Michael Mohammed Ahmad, "After Australia" (Affirm Press, 2021)
Mar 22, 2021
Working with Government in Timor-Leste: A Discussion with Jenny-Ann Toribio
Mar 18, 2021
Annika Smethurst, "On Secrets" (Hachette, 2020)
Mar 10, 2021
Sam van Zweden, "Eating with My Mouth Open" (NewSouth, 2021)
Feb 26, 2021
Emilia E. Skrzypek, "Revealing the Invisible Mine: Social Complexities of an Undeveloped Mining Project" (Berghahn, 2020)
Feb 03, 2021
Meredith Lake, "The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History" (NewSouth, 2020)
Jan 27, 2021
Katharine Massam, "A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia" (ANU Press, 2020)
Jan 11, 2021
Stuart Kells, "The Convent: A City Finds Its Heart" (Miegunyah Press, 2020)
Jan 05, 2021
Peter Hart, "The Gallipoli Evacuation" (Living History, 2020)
Dec 22, 2020
Melissa Harper, "The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Dec 21, 2020
P. Bilimoria and P. Hughes, "The Indian Diaspora: Hindus and Sikhs in Australia" (Manticore Press, 2019)
Dec 03, 2020
Judith Brett, "From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting" (Text Publishing, 2019)
Nov 25, 2020
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Nov 13, 2020
Maile Arvin, "Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania" (Duke UP, 2020)
Aug 13, 2020
Matt Tomlinson, "God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific" (U Hawai‘i Press, 2020)
Jun 23, 2020
Imre Salusinszky, "The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga" (Melbourne UP, 2019)
Jun 16, 2020
Arlie Loughnan, "Self, Others and the State: Relations of Criminal Responsibility" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jun 03, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Chelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter de Gruyter, 2019)
Apr 09, 2020
Jon Piccini, "Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Apr 03, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Nov 25, 2019
Trevor Thompson, "Playing for Australia: The First Socceroos, Asia, and World Football" (Fair Play, 2018)
Nov 07, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
Ann Elias, "Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity" (Duke UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
Maria Nugent, "Captain Cook Was Here" (Cambridge UP, 2009)
Oct 11, 2019
Don Kulick, "A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea" (Algonquin Books, 2019)
Oct 07, 2019
Andrew Wright Hurley, "Ludwig Leichhardt’s Ghosts: The Strange Career of a Traveling Myth" (Camden House, 2018)
Aug 09, 2019
Roy Hay, "Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the 19th Century" (Cambridge Scholars, 2019)
Jul 29, 2019
Christina Thompson, "Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia" (Harper, 2019)
Jul 25, 2019
Bonita Mersiades, "Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of the FIFA Way" (Powderhouse Press, 2018)
Jun 05, 2019
David Bissell, "Transit Life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities" (MIT Press, 2018)
May 20, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Seamus O’Hanlon, "City Life: The New Urban Australia" (NewSouth Publishing, 2018)
Dec 27, 2018
Annabel Cooper, "Filming the Colonial Past: The New Zealand Wars on Screen" (Otago UP, 2018)
Dec 14, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Julian Meyrick, Robert Phiddian and Tully Barnett, "What Matters?: Talking Value in Australian Culture" (Monash UP, 2018)
Dec 06, 2018
Sarah E. Holcombe, “Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia” (Stanford UP, 2018)
Sep 26, 2018
Amanda Walsh, “Globalisation, the State and Regional Australia” (Sydney UP, 2018)
Sep 19, 2018
Jeremy Martens, “Empire and Asian Migration: Sovereignty, Immigration Restriction and Protest in the British Settler Colonies, 1888–1907” (UWA Publishing, 2018)
Sep 14, 2018
Joy McCann, “Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean” (NewSouth Publishing, 2018)
Sep 07, 2018
Meredith Lake, “The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History” (NewSouth Publishing, 2018)
Aug 31, 2018
Francesca Merlan, “Dynamics of Difference in Australia: Indigenous Past and Present in a Settler Country” (UPenn Press, 2018)
Aug 24, 2018
Joëlle Gergis, “Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia” (Melbourne UP, 2018)
Jul 27, 2018
Chris Brickell, “Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand” (Auckland UP, 2017),
Jul 13, 2018
Michael Belgrave, “Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864–1885” (Auckland UP, 2017)
Jun 29, 2018
Helen Bones, “The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World” (Otago University Press, 2018)
Jun 14, 2018
Jenny Coleman, “Polly Plum: A Firm and Earnest Woman’s Advocate, Mary Ann Colclough, 1836–1885” (Otago UP, 2017)
May 25, 2018
Peter Hoar, “The World’s Din: Listening to Records, Radio and Films in New Zealand 1880–1940” (Otago University Press, 2018)
May 18, 2018
Mehal Krayem, “Heroes, Villains and the Muslim Exception: Muslim and Arab Men in Australian Crime Drama” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Apr 20, 2018
Timothy Neale, “Wild Articulations: Environmentalism and Indigeneity in Northern Australia” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Apr 02, 2018
Christina Twomey, “The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia” (NewSouth Books, 2018)
Mar 13, 2018
Ann-Marie Priest, “A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century” (UWA Publishing, 2018)
Mar 08, 2018
Interview with Australian Poets Leni Shilton and Renee Pettitt-Schipp
Feb 23, 2018
Clinton Walker, “Deadly Woman Blues: Black Women and Australian Music” (NewSouth Books, 2018)
Feb 16, 2018
Kristyn Harman, “Cleansing the Colony: Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemens Land”(Otago UP, 2017)
Feb 02, 2018
Alexandra Dellios, “Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Jan 19, 2018
Rodney Tiffen, “Disposable Leaders: Media and Leadership Coups from Menzies to Abbott” (NewSouth Publishing, 2017)
Dec 22, 2017
Malcom McKinnon, “The Broken Decade: Prosperity, Depression and Recovery in New Zealand, 1929-39” (Otago UP, 2016)
Dec 15, 2017
Mandy Sayer, “Australian Gypsies: Their Secret History” (NewSouth Publishing, 2017)
Dec 08, 2017
Paul Irish, “Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney” (NewSouth Publishing, 2017)
Dec 01, 2017
Jayne Persian, “Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (NewSouth Publishing, 2017)
Nov 24, 2017
Mary Tomsic, “Beyond the Silver Screen: A History of Women, Filmmaking and Film Culture in Australia, 1920-1990” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Nov 17, 2017
Stephanie Brookes, “Politics, Media and Campaign Language: Australia’s Identity Anxiety” (Anthem Press, 2017)
Nov 12, 2017
Claire Higgins, “Asylum by Boat: Origins of Australia’s Refugee Policy” (New South Press, 2017)
Nov 03, 2017
Mark Dapin, “Jewish Anzacs: Jews in the Australian Military” (New South Press, 2017)
Oct 27, 2017
Leigh Straw, “After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I” (UWA Publishing, 2017)
Oct 13, 2017
Rebecca Jones, “Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia” (Monash UP, 2017)
Oct 06, 2017
Jane McCabe, “Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial Families, Interrupted” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
Sep 29, 2017
Bradon Ellem, “The Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come (UWA Publishing, 2017)
Sep 22, 2017
Carwyn Jones, “New Treaty, New Tradition: Reconciling New Zealand and Maori Law” (U. British Columbia Press, 2016)
Sep 01, 2017
Jatinder Mann, “The Search for a New National Identity: The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s” (Peter Lang, 2016)
Jul 30, 2017
Nick Dyrenfurth, “A Powerful Influence on Australian Affairs: A New History of the AWU” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Jul 23, 2017
Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, “Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt” (UWA Publishing, 2017)
Jul 09, 2017
Lyn McCredden, “The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and Sacred” (Sydney UP, 2017)
Jun 25, 2017
Peter John Chen, “Animal Welfare in Australia: Politics and Policy” (Sydney UP, 2016)
Jun 11, 2017
Prudence Black, “Smile, Particularly in Bad Weather: The Era of the Australian Airline Hostess” (UWA Publishing, 2017)
May 28, 2017
Adam Lockyer, “Australia’s Defence Strategy: Evaluating Alternatives for a Contested Asia (Melbourne University Press, 2017)
May 14, 2017
Rebe Taylor, “Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
Apr 30, 2017
Tony Collins, “The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Mar 19, 2017
Liz Conor, “Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women (UWA Publishing, 2016)
Mar 16, 2017
Aileen Moreton-Robinson, “The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
Oct 22, 2015
Ellen Boucher, “Empire’s Children” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
May 01, 2015
Margaret D. Jacobs, “A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World” (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)
Mar 05, 2015
Charles Miranda, “Deception” (Allen and Urwin, 2012)
Feb 13, 2015
Jarrod Gilbert, “Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand” (Auckland UP, 2013)
Feb 06, 2014
Peter Westwick and Peter Neushul, “The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing” (Crown, 2013)
Dec 02, 2013
Greg de Moore, “Tom Wills: First Wild Man of Australian Sport” (Allen and Unwin, 2011)
Aug 17, 2012
Sally Ninham, “A Cohort of Pioneers: Australian Postgraduate Students and American Postgraduate Degrees, 1949-1964” (Conner Court Publishing, 2001)
Oct 25, 2011