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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
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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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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
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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...
Photograph of Alexander and Nell Kerensky arriving at Brisbane airport. Image from the Australian Women's Weekly, 1 December 1945
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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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
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From Wog Boy to Son of a Donkey: how ‘wog humour’ made Australian comedy its own
In their new Netflix series, comedy duo Superwog take on daddy issues and the manosphere.
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November 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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Screening multicultural Australia • Ien Ang
How migrants have made their presence felt in an evolving TV landscape
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October 29, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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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
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
October 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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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
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New open access article by @alecadell.bsky.social
1975: Working Migrant Women
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1975: Working Migrant Women
The ethnic and class politics of working migrant women marked them at a distance from mainstream feminism and its mostly middle-class, libertarian, and Anglo-centric outlook during International Wo...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Check out Tanja Bueltmann's review of our recent volume on Forced Migration with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social in @imm-min-journal.bsky.social - doi.org/10.1080/0261...

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Forced migration: exiles and refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815-1949
Published in Immigrants & Minorities: Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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As it's October and the 'Halloween as an imported American thing' discourse has begun, I thought I'd mention that in Australia, the Scottish diaspora, especially in the first half of the 20th century, celebrated Halloween as a particular Scottish tradition, as attested to by many articles on Trove.
October 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Continued musings from my ongoing work on the community origins of multiculturalism and 1975 - bittersweet, to have something published in @meanjin.bsky.social - meanjin.com.au/essays/the-g...
The Greek Left, Whitlam and the Dismissal: a radical legacy
Whitlam meant a great deal to working-class migrant communities.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Does anyone have a good recommendation on a history of the White Australia Policy? The internet keeps telling me to read one that specifically ends at 1920 which is too early for my needs
September 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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New book by Philipp Strobl
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A History of Displaced Knowledge: Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia
"A History of Displaced Knowledge: Austrian Refugees from National Socialism in Australia" published on 07 Apr 2025 by Brill.
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September 21, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Migration Heritage Project
September 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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The 2025 Addi Rd Multicultural History Award was awarded to Dr Tim Briedis for his essay Red and Black: Stories of Anarchists Across Borders

The award was presented by Addison Road Community Organisation CEO Rosanna Barbero

Read the judges citation and Tim's statement via buff.ly/oPiYLzJ

📷 TWH
September 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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The judges awarded a commendation for the 2025 Addi Rd Multicultural History Award to Dominique Jones for her essay: Rethinking Histories of Australian Multiculturalism: Diasporic Tensions and the Macedonian Question during the Bicentenary

Read Dominique's statement via buff.ly/oPiYLzJ

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September 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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baibi.bsky.social
Lovely write-up about the new ‘Shared Connections: Cantonese Stories in Australia’ exhibition developed by Sophie Couchman for the Australian Consulate-General in Guangzhou!

(I also had a small hand in the exhibition, and it features my daughter’s story 😊)

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Exhibition Bridges Two Centuries of Cantonese-Australian Stories
Migration, memory, and cultural legacy
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September 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Maroubra’s migrant past remembered at special community event
A special event to honour the legacy and 75th anniversary of the opening of the former Bunnerong Migrant Hostel will be held on Monday 22 September 2025 at the Heffron Centre in Maroubra.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social

'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s'

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Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s by Evan Smith & Andrekos Varnava Abstract: In the 1950s and 1960s, changes in the international situation, such as decolonization in Asia, led some Australians to question the usefulness of keeping the ‘White Australia Policy’, the basis for the country’s immigration system since Federation in 1901. Some argued that Australia’s international reputation, especially with newly independent countries in Asia and Africa, could be harmed by the maintenance of this policy. Events such as the Sharpeville Massacre in apartheid South Africa in 1960 caused further introspection into Australia’s racialized system. However, as pushes to reform the policy grew, others used international events to resist reforms. Using speeches by politicians and documents produced by policymakers, this article will show how events, such as the Notting Hill riots in Britain, the Little Rock controversy in the United States, and the Sharpeville massacre, were used as warnings about Australia potentially introducing similar ‘racial problems’ if it allowed more non-white migration. This article argues that these concerns tapped into a transnational whiteness that shared anxieties about decolonization, civil rights and non-white immigration in the post-war period, bringing a racialized solidarity forged at the turn of the twentieth century into the Cold War era.
September 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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How migrant stories and contributions have shaped Australian TV since the 1950s
New research uncovers stories of resilience, entrepreneurship and thriving cultural creativity across seven decades of Australian TV history.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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baibi.bsky.social
Today I took custody of a box of historical materials that were purchased in a Launceston antique shop many years ago – I suspect they came out of the old Sun Hung Ack store. Among the treasures are a collection relating to the Tasmanian See Yip Club (which I knew existed but nothing more!)
A selection of historical documents relating to the Tasmanian Chinese See Yip Social Club, including blank membership cards, rule book and account book
September 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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The 2026 Australian Society for Asian Humanities (ASAH) Emerging Scholar Award

We invite entries from eligible applicants.

We are looking forward to receiving your entry.

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Emerging Scholar Award – Australian Society for Asian Humanities
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September 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Levidis reviews Dusinberre's Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories @universitypress.cambridge.org

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A black and white book cover, titled Mooring the Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories. Six men cross docks carrying their baggage.
September 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM