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Scholarship and reviews on Australian culture, society, politics, history, and literature. Published on behalf of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA).
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🚨New issue 49.3 out now!🚨
Featuring: a special section on Australian deserts guest edited by Andrea Gaynor and Gary Reger as well as articles on Aus-US public relations, environmental protest, and gender in Australian visual arts.
Stay tuned for feature posts!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjau20/c...
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School of Humanities & Languages #unsw is hiring TWO postdoctoral fellows in history! 2 years fixed term, open to different specialisations. Deadline is Nov 2

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Postdoctoral Fellow in History
Undertake independent research and contribute to UNSW’s vibrant History program as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in any area of historical study.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Last but not least, a thread of the book reviews published in 49.3.

Remember, if you would like your book reviewed, please contact our reviews editor @jonpiccini.bsky.social.

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September 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
And in the final paper of the deserts special section for 49.3, guest editor Reger explores Australian deserts as a setting for Australian science fiction.

#SciFi #deserts #OzStudies #AusLit #ecocriticism

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September 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
In the second article in the Australian desert special, @ruthamorgan.bsky.social examines Australia's response to the UNESCO agenda on research in "arid zones".

#deserts #CSIRO #UNESCO #science #OpenAccess #OzStudies #OzHist

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September 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In 49.3's desert special section, Morton explores the various meanings that have been inscribed across the desert by settler Australians, then changed by a new appreciation of Aboriginal art.

#OzStudies #OpenAccess #desert #Australia #AboriginalArt

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September 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Introducing the special section in 49.3 on "Humanities in the Australian Desert" guest edited by Andrea Gaynor and Gary Reger.

#OzDeserts #deserts #OzStudies #OpenAccess #humanities

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September 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
In the last of our general articles in 49.3, MacNeill et al draw upon a survey of 702 artists and arts workers to explore the impact of gender on their economic status as artists.

#OzArts #OzStudies #VisualArts #GenderGap #OpenAccess #CreativeIndustries

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September 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
49.3 cont'd...

Beattie examines the popularity and scepticism surrounding quacks visiting New England in the late 19th century revealing a familiar tension between profit and information in the media.

#OpenAccess #quackery #OzHist #OzStudies

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September 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Number 3 in 49.3 - in a time of international student debates, Song and Spencer take us back to the first Korean international student in the 1920s, illustrating the importance of student mobility for people-to-people #diplomacy.

#InternationalStudents #Korea #OpenAccess

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September 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Congratulations to the 2026 Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Seoul National University, Dr. Constantinos Yiallourides! More info on Dr Yiallourides' appointment to this prestigious position here:
inasa.org/blog/announc...
Announcing the 2026 Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Seoul National University
Dr. Constantinos Yiallourides has been appointed the 2026 Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Seoul National University’s Graduate School of International Studies. Constantinos is an intern…
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August 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Next up in 49.3, O'Brien examines patterns of environmental protest in Sydney over a decade, finding key differences in inner and outer urban/metro areas.

#environment #protest #GlobalCity #urban #Sydney #ProtestEventAnalysis #OzStudies

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August 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Let the 49.3 games begin!

First up, @kristindemetrious.bsky.social and Lowe examines the historical influence of US public relations on Australian practice and its ongoing legacies in Australian political communication.

#AusUSrelations #OpenAccess #auspol #PublicRelations

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August 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
🚨New issue 49.3 out now!🚨
Featuring: a special section on Australian deserts guest edited by Andrea Gaynor and Gary Reger as well as articles on Aus-US public relations, environmental protest, and gender in Australian visual arts.
Stay tuned for feature posts!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjau20/c...
August 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 John Barrett Award for Australian Studies, which goes to the best article in the Journal of Australian Studies each year!

@intlausstudies.bsky.social official announcement: inasa.org/blog/congrat...

Direct links to the winning articles 🧵...
Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the John Barrett Award
The International Australian Studies Association (InASA), alongside the editors of the Journal of Australian Studies, is delighted to announce the 2024 winners of the Barrett Award for Australian S…
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July 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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It was a pleasure to review this important work.
@drbenjaminjones.bsky.social reviews Williams & Hume's People Power: How Australian Referendums are Lost and Won

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June 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Short version: fabulous book by a great author beautifully published by an amazing press in Aotearoa. Also. Prisons are uncool. Labour is never wholly free. Colonialism sucks. 👇
@hannahforsyth.bsky.social reviews Davidson's Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand

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June 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
🧵Finally, time to shine a spotlight on our wonderful book review contributors to 49.2!

Remember, if you have a book you would like reviewed or if you would like to review a book, get in contact with our Reviews Editor @jonpiccini.bsky.social!

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June 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
In our last article from 49.2, Ricketson examines Rupert Murdoch as an elite paradox - he is hostile to "the Establishment" and elites yet he is one of them...

#OzStudies #Murdoch #elites #OpenAccess

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June 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
More excellent 49.2 content:
@phoebehayman.bsky.social examines political participation in teal independents' campaigns - are they outsiders challenging established power, or are they replicating elite dynamics?

#OzStudies #auspol #WomenInPolitics #teals

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June 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Next in 49.2, guest co-editor @chriswallace.bsky.social explores the role John Hewson played in constructing consent for neoliberalism - 🔥"a cautionary tale concerning upward mobility in the neoliberal era"🔥

#OzStudies #neoliberalism #elites #auspol #OpenAccess

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June 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Start your week right with more 49.2:

Melanie Nolan examines women historians' transnational approach to career-building as a strategy to break the glass ceiling of elite academia.

#OzStudies #OzHistory #FeministHistory #academia #gender #OpenAccess

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June 16, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Your 49.2 Friday read:
McCarthy examines the extent to which attitudes to the Great War among the Catholic elite were shaped by those of the Protestant elite and the effect of this in securing their own status.

#OzStudies #elites #GreatWar #WWI #CatholicHistory #OzHistory

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June 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Next in 49.2, guest editor @sybiln.bsky.social examines the impact of Menzies' narrative of self as a child of the Victorian Mallee on shaping public knowledge about the regions.

#OzStudies #Menzies #elites #RegionalHistory #Mallee

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June 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
First up in 49.2, ‪@drink-an-ocean.bsky.social‬ applies Connell's idea of "patriarchal dividends" colonial NSW to show how elites are a reconfiguration of patriarchal power in capitalist democracies.

#OzStudies #masculinity #SettlerColonialism #auspol

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June 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
🚨 New issue alert 🚨 49.2 out now!
Guest editors @chriswallace.bsky.social & @sybiln.bsky.social present the special issue "Insiders & Outsiders, Winners & Losers: Close-Ups of the Struggle for Power & Status in #Australia".
Stay tuned this week as we feature each article!
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June 9, 2025 at 4:52 AM