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My book 'Ikarians in South Australia' arrived in print on New Years Eve -
Many thanks to @anthempress.bsky.social for their support in publishing!
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Many thanks to @anthempress.bsky.social for their support in publishing!
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January 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM
My book 'Ikarians in South Australia' arrived in print on New Years Eve -
Many thanks to @anthempress.bsky.social for their support in publishing!
anthempress.com/books/ikaria...
Many thanks to @anthempress.bsky.social for their support in publishing!
anthempress.com/books/ikaria...
🚨 new article by Ruth Balint
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The Jewish Refugee Family and Concerns Over Intermarriage in Australia After 1945∗
Abstract. Intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews was conceptualized as a ‘problem’ by the Australian Jewish establishment after the Second World War. From
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December 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
🚨 new article by Ruth Balint
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My tribute to the late Sneja Gunew, published in the terrific new collection Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands, edited by @pastmigrations & Francesco Ricatti- open access & packed with innovative scholarship
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A Multicultural Nomad and Diasporic Intellectual: In Honour of Sneja Gunew
This chapter honours the work of Professor Sneja Gunew who died in January 2024. It pays particular attention to how her analyses of Australian multiculturalism remain pertinent to the pursuit of migr...
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December 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM
My tribute to the late Sneja Gunew, published in the terrific new collection Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands, edited by @pastmigrations & Francesco Ricatti- open access & packed with innovative scholarship
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
📢 new edited collection
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Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands
This open access book provides an assessment of Australian migration studies on Indigenous lands and identifies issues of colonialism. Free access!
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December 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM
📢 new edited collection
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📢 New book by Amanda Nettelbeck
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December 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
📢 New book by Amanda Nettelbeck
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James Watson reviews ‘Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia’ by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social, Andrew Saniga and David Beynon
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
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November 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
James Watson reviews ‘Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia’ by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social, Andrew Saniga and David Beynon
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
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New article by Vanessa Shia & Virginie Rey
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Diversity and collecting practices at the museum of Chinese Australian history in Melbourne
This paper examines the entanglement between collecting and community diversity at the Museum of Chinese Australian History (MCAH) in Melbourne. In Australia, culture-specific museums emerged in th...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
New article by Vanessa Shia & Virginie Rey
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This is in a new history of Aus, written by an academic.
There were Jewish quotas. There were interviews so that immigration officers could make sure that no Jews were included in the 170,000 DPs. "The Holocaust" was not yet a thing.
There were Jewish quotas. There were interviews so that immigration officers could make sure that no Jews were included in the 170,000 DPs. "The Holocaust" was not yet a thing.
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This is in a new history of Aus, written by an academic.
There were Jewish quotas. There were interviews so that immigration officers could make sure that no Jews were included in the 170,000 DPs. "The Holocaust" was not yet a thing.
There were Jewish quotas. There were interviews so that immigration officers could make sure that no Jews were included in the 170,000 DPs. "The Holocaust" was not yet a thing.
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"Persian forces readers to confront the uneasy coexistence of humanitarianism and hypocrisy in Australia’s post-war nation-building."
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
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Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
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Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"Persian forces readers to confront the uneasy coexistence of humanitarianism and hypocrisy in Australia’s post-war nation-building."
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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My contribution to the Whitlam discourse is that, in my research around leftist allegations against Croatians & ASIO, Jim Cairns could generously be termed naive and/or not someone who needed hard evidence in order to agree in principle to firebombing people's homes.
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
My contribution to the Whitlam discourse is that, in my research around leftist allegations against Croatians & ASIO, Jim Cairns could generously be termed naive and/or not someone who needed hard evidence in order to agree in principle to firebombing people's homes.
New blog post by Alexa Ridgeway
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Beyond Bonegilla: A Call to Remember Australia’s Former Migrant Camps | Australian Policy and History Network
Australia is well practiced in commemorating military history. Anzac Day and Remembrance Day both act as rituals of national memorialisation for the many Australians who have served in wars and peacekeeping missions, and the Australian War Memorial’s “places of pride” online national register provides a map of all the war memorials across Australia. Thousands of […]
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November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
New blog post by Alexa Ridgeway
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New blog post from me - ‘Who was Tie Cum Ah Chong?’ - in which I consider the curious early life of a young immigrant Chinese woman in Tasmania 120 years ago.
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#ChineseTasmanianStories #EverydayHeritage 🗃️
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#ChineseTasmanianStories #EverydayHeritage 🗃️
Who was Tie Cum Ah Chung?
If you have wandered past the library on the corner of Murray and Bathurst streets, Hobart, you might have noticed a billboard featuring arresting black-and-white portraits of a young Asian woman i…
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November 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
New blog post from me - ‘Who was Tie Cum Ah Chong?’ - in which I consider the curious early life of a young immigrant Chinese woman in Tasmania 120 years ago.
chineseaustralia.org/tie-cum-ah-c...
#ChineseTasmanianStories #EverydayHeritage 🗃️
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#ChineseTasmanianStories #EverydayHeritage 🗃️
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Fun fact: several years after his Provisional Government was deposed by the Bolsheviks in 1917, former Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky married Brisbane-born Nell Tritton and relocated briefly to peaceful, leafy Clayfield in Brisbane’s northern suburbs www.smh.com.au/world/alexan...
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Fun fact: several years after his Provisional Government was deposed by the Bolsheviks in 1917, former Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky married Brisbane-born Nell Tritton and relocated briefly to peaceful, leafy Clayfield in Brisbane’s northern suburbs www.smh.com.au/world/alexan...
New article by Ilona Fekete
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Hungary’s relationship with its diasporic heritage: do hyphenated identities disappear through repatriation?
The Hungarian National Library (or National Széchényi Library) and the National Archives of Hungary has been collecting ‘Hungarica’ materials abroad since the nineteenth century. The National Széch...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
New article by Ilona Fekete
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Sue Silberg, PHA (Vic and Tas), shares some research about the cosmopolitan life of Jewish traders, and later politicians, in the tropics. The Australian colonial project is clear here with discussion about the Polynesian Company, a poor colony's Dutch East India Company.
#history #traders
#history #traders
October 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Weida Chen shared some findings from his thesis about Greeks in NT, with particular concentration on military men.
#history #immigration #research
#history #immigration #research
October 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Weida Chen shared some findings from his thesis about Greeks in NT, with particular concentration on military men.
#history #immigration #research
#history #immigration #research
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Hot off the press & #OpenAccess, check out 'Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect' by Nathan Gardner Molina: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect
This article challenges benign depictions of the gradual and intentional liberalisation of the ‘White Australia policy’ during the Menzies government through an analysis of the quick series of amen...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Hot off the press & #OpenAccess, check out 'Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect' by Nathan Gardner Molina: doi.org/10.1080/0308...