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Journal of Australian Studies
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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).
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjau20
Delyse Ryan reviews Kenny's Staging a Revolution: When Betty Rocked the Pram

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🧵5/5
September 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org

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🧵4/5
September 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Urwin reviews Wright's Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy @textpublishing.bsky.social

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🧵3/5
September 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Levidis reviews Dusinberre's Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories @universitypress.cambridge.org

tinyurl.com/ycxhb7ur

🧵2/5
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
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!
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August 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Postgraduate highly commended: Rebecca Houlihan, “ʻComplete Strangers Can Get through Your Front Door’: The Carly Ryan Murder, Teen Girls and the Internet in 2000s Australia”, Journal of Australian Studies, 48:4 (2024), 466-81.

@rebihoulihan.bsky.social

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July 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Postgraduate category winner: Lurong Liu, “ʻFeelings are strong here’: A Proximate Reading of Solastalgia in The Last Pulse”, JAS, 48:1 (2024), 121-34.

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July 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Open category, highly commended: Melissa Bellanta and Lorinda Cramer, “A ‘Bacchanalian Mardi Gras’: The Melbourne Cup and the Popular Culture of Satirical Dress in 1970s Australia”, JAS, 48:3 (2024), 314-34.

‪@melissabellanta.bsky.social‬

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July 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Open category winner: Aaron Humphrey and Simon Walsh, “Lost Precursor to Autobiographical Comics, Kangarooland (ca. 1918–1919), Illuminates Transnational Creativity in Australia’s WWI Internment Camps,” JAS, 48:2 (2024), 209-29.

@aaronhumphrey.bsky.social

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July 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
And finally, Pierse reviews Tuley's Nolan's Africa.

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5/5
June 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
@drbenjaminjones.bsky.social reviews Williams & Hume's People Power: How Australian Referendums are Lost and Won

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4/
June 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
@hannahforsyth.bsky.social reviews Davidson's Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand

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3/
June 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Dowsett reviews Mathews' Race Mathews: A Life in Politics

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2/
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

tinyurl.com/4aacnp7a
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