- I am an historian of Australia in the two world wars, Australia in the Great Depression, Australian defence and forei... moreI am an historian of Australia in the two world wars, Australia in the Great Depression, Australian defence and foreign policy, the history of prisoners of war and the memory and heritage of war. I am Professor Emerita at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University, and Honorary Professor at Deakin University, Victoria.edit
Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War was the joint winner of the 2014 winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award (Australian History), the 2014 NSW Premier's Prize (Australian History), the 2014 Queensland Literary Award for... more
Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War was the joint winner of the 2014 winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award (Australian History), the 2014 NSW Premier's Prize (Australian History), the 2014 Queensland Literary Award for History, and the Australian Society of Authors' 2015 Asher Award; and shortlisted for the 2014 WA Premier's Prize (non-fiction) and the 2014 Council for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Prize for a Book.
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In the three decades from the beginning of World War II Australia emerged on the world stage as an independent actor in foreign affairs. The key institution overseeing the development of Australia's international status and foreign policy... more
In the three decades from the beginning of World War II Australia emerged on the world stage as an independent actor in foreign affairs. The key institution overseeing the development of Australia's international status and foreign policy during that period was the Department of External Affairs.
This stimulating collection of essays explores the history of this government department as it grew from being a small amateur bureaucratic player to become a professional global network.
This book sheds new light on the major figures in Australian international history, H. V. 'Doc' Evatt, Percy Spender, Richard Casey, Garfield Barwick and Paul Hasluck—and their relationships with their senior bureaucratic advisers. The experiences of Australian diplomats, as they joined the Department of External Affairs as junior recruits and worked overseas, are also examined.
Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats tells the story of the people, the events and the ideas that shaped Australian foreign policy and gave Australia its identity in the eyes of the rest of the world.
This stimulating collection of essays explores the history of this government department as it grew from being a small amateur bureaucratic player to become a professional global network.
This book sheds new light on the major figures in Australian international history, H. V. 'Doc' Evatt, Percy Spender, Richard Casey, Garfield Barwick and Paul Hasluck—and their relationships with their senior bureaucratic advisers. The experiences of Australian diplomats, as they joined the Department of External Affairs as junior recruits and worked overseas, are also examined.
Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats tells the story of the people, the events and the ideas that shaped Australian foreign policy and gave Australia its identity in the eyes of the rest of the world.
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Analysis of the treatment of Australian prisoners of war on the island of Ambon in 1942, where only 30% survived. Traces their three-and-a-half years of disease, starvation, unrelenting work and executions through interviews and... more
Analysis of the treatment of Australian prisoners of war on the island of Ambon in 1942, where only 30% survived. Traces their three-and-a-half years of disease, starvation, unrelenting work and executions through interviews and documentary material. The film ‘Blood Oath' was based on their story.
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Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application. The contributors to... more
Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application.
The contributors to the volume – historians, practitioners of foreign relations and political commentators, many of whom were taught by Meaney at the University of Sydney over the years – focus especially on the interaction between geopolitics, culture and ideology in shaping Australian and American approaches to the world.
Individual chapters examine a number of major themes informing Neville Meaney's work, including the sources and nature of Australia's British identity; the hapless, if dedicated, efforts of Australian politicians, public servants and intellectuals to reconcile this intense cultural identity with Australia's strategic anxieties in the Asia-Pacific region; and the sense of trauma created when the myth of ‘Britishness’ collapsed under the weight of new historical circumstances in the 1960s. They survey relations between Australia and the United States in the years after World War Two. Finally, they assess the US perceptions of itself as an ‘exceptional’ nation with a mission to spread democracy and liberty to the wider world and the way in which this self-perception has influenced its behaviour in international affairs.
The contributors to the volume – historians, practitioners of foreign relations and political commentators, many of whom were taught by Meaney at the University of Sydney over the years – focus especially on the interaction between geopolitics, culture and ideology in shaping Australian and American approaches to the world.
Individual chapters examine a number of major themes informing Neville Meaney's work, including the sources and nature of Australia's British identity; the hapless, if dedicated, efforts of Australian politicians, public servants and intellectuals to reconcile this intense cultural identity with Australia's strategic anxieties in the Asia-Pacific region; and the sense of trauma created when the myth of ‘Britishness’ collapsed under the weight of new historical circumstances in the 1960s. They survey relations between Australia and the United States in the years after World War Two. Finally, they assess the US perceptions of itself as an ‘exceptional’ nation with a mission to spread democracy and liberty to the wider world and the way in which this self-perception has influenced its behaviour in international affairs.
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Over the twentieth century 35,000 Australians suffered as prisoners of war in conflicts ranging from World War I to Korea. What was the reality of their captivity? Beyond Surrender presents for the first time the diversity of the... more
Over the twentieth century 35,000 Australians suffered as prisoners of war in conflicts ranging from World War I to Korea. What was the reality of their captivity? Beyond Surrender presents for the first time the diversity of the Australian 'behind-the-wire' experience, dissecting fact from fiction and myth from reality.
Beyond Surrender examines the impact that different types of camps, commandants and locations had on surrender, survival, prison life and the prospects of escape. It considers the attitudes of Australian governments to those who had surrendered, the work of relief agencies and the agony of families waiting at home for their husbands, brothers and fathers to be freed.
Covering several conflicts and diverse sites of captivity, Beyond Surrender showcases new research from Kate Ariotti, Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant, Jeffrey Grey, Karl James, Jennifer Lawless, Peter Monteath, Melanie Oppenheimer, Aaron Pegram, Lucy Robertson, Seumas Spark and Christina Twomey.
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1. Remembering and rethinking captivity
by Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant and Aaron Pegram
2. Bold bids for freedom: escape and Australian prisoners in Germany, 1916-18
by Aaron Pegram
3. Starvation, cruelty and neglect? Captivity in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-18
by Jennifer Lawless
4. 'At present everything is making us most anxious': families of Australian prisoners in Turkey
by Kate Ariotti
5. 'Our number one priority': the Australian Red Cross and prisoners of war in the world wars
by Melanie Oppenheimer
6. 'I hope you are not too ashamed of me': prisoners in the siege of Tobruk, 1941
by Karl James
7. Beyond the Colditz myth: Australian experiences of German captivity in World War II
by Peter Monteath
8. Australian prisoners of war of Italy in World War II: public and private histories
by Seumas Spark
9. Changi: military discipline in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, 1942-45
by Lucy Robertson
10. Officers and men: rank and survival on the Thai-Burma railway
by Joan Beaumont
11. Hellships, prisoner transport, and unrestricted submarine warfare in World War II
by Lachlan Grant
12. Breaking barriers: the diversity of prisoner-of-war camps in Japan and Australian contacts with Japanese civilians
by Lachlan Grant
13. Remembering captivity in the Korean War
by Jeffrey Grey, Jon MacKay and Ron Guthrie
14. Compensating prisoners of war of Japan in post-war Australia
by Christina Twomey
Beyond Surrender examines the impact that different types of camps, commandants and locations had on surrender, survival, prison life and the prospects of escape. It considers the attitudes of Australian governments to those who had surrendered, the work of relief agencies and the agony of families waiting at home for their husbands, brothers and fathers to be freed.
Covering several conflicts and diverse sites of captivity, Beyond Surrender showcases new research from Kate Ariotti, Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant, Jeffrey Grey, Karl James, Jennifer Lawless, Peter Monteath, Melanie Oppenheimer, Aaron Pegram, Lucy Robertson, Seumas Spark and Christina Twomey.
Contents:
1. Remembering and rethinking captivity
by Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant and Aaron Pegram
2. Bold bids for freedom: escape and Australian prisoners in Germany, 1916-18
by Aaron Pegram
3. Starvation, cruelty and neglect? Captivity in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-18
by Jennifer Lawless
4. 'At present everything is making us most anxious': families of Australian prisoners in Turkey
by Kate Ariotti
5. 'Our number one priority': the Australian Red Cross and prisoners of war in the world wars
by Melanie Oppenheimer
6. 'I hope you are not too ashamed of me': prisoners in the siege of Tobruk, 1941
by Karl James
7. Beyond the Colditz myth: Australian experiences of German captivity in World War II
by Peter Monteath
8. Australian prisoners of war of Italy in World War II: public and private histories
by Seumas Spark
9. Changi: military discipline in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, 1942-45
by Lucy Robertson
10. Officers and men: rank and survival on the Thai-Burma railway
by Joan Beaumont
11. Hellships, prisoner transport, and unrestricted submarine warfare in World War II
by Lachlan Grant
12. Breaking barriers: the diversity of prisoner-of-war camps in Japan and Australian contacts with Japanese civilians
by Lachlan Grant
13. Remembering captivity in the Korean War
by Jeffrey Grey, Jon MacKay and Ron Guthrie
14. Compensating prisoners of war of Japan in post-war Australia
by Christina Twomey
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Defence of the nation is one of the fundamental obligations of government. For much of the first century of the Commonwealth of Australia that obligation has been tested – in two world wars, and in a series of other military engagements.... more
Defence of the nation is one of the fundamental obligations of government. For much of the first century of the Commonwealth of Australia that obligation has been tested – in two world wars, and in a series of other military engagements. The military reputation that has grown out of these defining moments in Australian history has been a significant factor in moulding Australians' views of themselves, yet service matters have not often attracted any great degree of public interest. "The Australian Centenary History of Defence" explains the complexities of an essential strand of the Commonwealth's first century – the successes and the failures, the progress and the setbacks, in peace and war. This book is intended for general readers of military defence history titles, especially works in this series. Also military defence historians and students.
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The Second World War was a dominant experience in Australian history. For the first time the country faced the threat of invasion. The economy and society were mobilised to an unprecedented degree, with 550 000 men and women, or one in... more
The Second World War was a dominant experience in Australian history. For the first time the country faced the threat of invasion. The economy and society were mobilised to an unprecedented degree, with 550 000 men and women, or one in twelve of a population of over 7 million, serving in the armed forces overseas. Social patterns and family life were disrupted. Politically, the war gave a new legitimacy to the Australian Labor Party which had been confined to the wilderness of the Opposition at the Federal level for most of the inter-war years. The powers of the Federal government increased and a new momentum for social reform was generated at the popular and governmental level. In the international sphere, the war fundamentally shook Australian confidence in the power on which it had relied for generations, Great Britain. It generated a sense of independence in Australian foreign policy and initiated a new, if halting and problematic, realignment towards the United States.
This book considers the range of Australia's experience of this conflict, drawing together the many aspects of the war and distilling the current state of historical scholarship.
This book considers the range of Australia's experience of this conflict, drawing together the many aspects of the war and distilling the current state of historical scholarship.
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Australia and New Zealand are linked by the memory of World War I. Their military forces, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac), fought together ; and their shared experience at Gallipoli in 1915 generated the “Anzac legend”, a... more
Australia and New Zealand are linked by the memory of World War I. Their military forces, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac), fought together ; and their shared experience at Gallipoli in 1915 generated the “Anzac legend”, a narrative which has dominated their national memories of war. However, while New Zealand adopted conscription in 1916, the Australian electorate rejected this policy option. The Australian Imperial Force remained a volunteer force. This may help explain why the Anzac legend has been more dominant in the Australian political culture than in New Zealand.
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The global interest in the memory of war in recent decades has brought challenges in managing and conserving extra-territorial war heritage: that is, sites of memory that have a greater significance for people outside the sovereign... more
The global interest in the memory of war in recent decades has brought challenges in managing and conserving extra-territorial war heritage: that is, sites of memory that have a greater significance for people outside the sovereign territory in which the sites physically reside. This article considers this issue in relation to the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, a site of central importance in the Australian national memory of war. The successful conservation of the Track throws new light on the practice of heritage diplomacy. Working mostly outside the more commonly explored arena of global heritage governance, the Australian and New Guinean governments employed bilateral diplomacy to manage domestic stakeholder expectations, and thereby identified a convergence of interests and mutual gain by linking heritage protection with local development needs. They have also encouraged the construction of a narrative of the events of World War II that in some respects might be described as shared. Thus, heritage diplomacy is underpinned by a transnational consensus about the heritage’s significance, at least at the government level, which arguably divests the Kokoda Track of its exclusively “extra-territorial” quality.
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Shortly after the First World War ended, Australian authorities erected memorials in France and Belgium in memory of the Australian Imperial Force. Decades later, during the so-called ‘second generation of memory’, Australians again... more
Shortly after the First World War ended, Australian authorities erected memorials in France and Belgium in memory of the Australian Imperial Force. Decades later, during the so-called ‘second generation of memory’, Australians again engaged in planting memorials on sites of memory on the Western Front. This article compares the two periods of memorial building, contrasting the sites that were chosen for commemoration and examining what these suggest about the difference between past and contemporary modes of remembering the First World War. It highlights the growing importance, in extraterritorial commemoration, of memorial diplomacy and the development of a shared memory between Australians and the communities which host their memorials.
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Australia's commemorations of the First World War have thus far been massive at both the government and local levels, reflecting and affirming the dominance of the memory of war and the ANZAC 'legend' in the national political culture.... more
Australia's commemorations of the First World War have thus far been massive at both the government and local levels, reflecting and affirming the dominance of the memory of war and the ANZAC 'legend' in the national political culture. The commemorations in 2014-15 triggered some debate about the commodification of the memory of war and the possibility of commemoration fatigue, but the centenary of the key commemorative event, the landing at Gallipoli on 25 April, attracted large crowds and blanket media attention. Whether Australians of culturally diverse backgrounds engaged with these centenary commemorations, and how strongly they identify with the ANZAC legend as the dominant narrative of Australian nationalism, however, remains unclear.
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This symposium examines how the centenary of the First World War has been marked in five countries: Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. Given their distinctive national historical experiences and... more
This symposium examines how the centenary of the First World War has been
marked in five countries: Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and
the United States. Given their distinctive national historical experiences and
political cultures, the metanarratives of the war in these countries differ; as does
the relationship between the state and sub-state actors in memory making.
However, in each case the commemorations of the war have been shaped by a
negotiation between the state and other agents of memory at the sub-state level.
National memory has also been consciously projected into international relations,
through carefully orchestrated anniversary ceremonies and performative memorial
diplomacy. But, despite these transnational commemorative practices, the
centenary of the war remains predominantly framed within local and national
imaginings
marked in five countries: Australia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and
the United States. Given their distinctive national historical experiences and
political cultures, the metanarratives of the war in these countries differ; as does
the relationship between the state and sub-state actors in memory making.
However, in each case the commemorations of the war have been shaped by a
negotiation between the state and other agents of memory at the sub-state level.
National memory has also been consciously projected into international relations,
through carefully orchestrated anniversary ceremonies and performative memorial
diplomacy. But, despite these transnational commemorative practices, the
centenary of the war remains predominantly framed within local and national
imaginings
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This article surveys Australian citizenship: its distinctive characteristics in the first half of the twentieth century, and how these were changed by the experience of the two world wars. It argues that Australian citizenship, at the... more
This article surveys Australian citizenship: its distinctive characteristics in the first half of the twentieth century, and how these were changed by the experience of the two world wars. It argues that Australian citizenship, at the time of Federation, was racially exclusive, imperial, masculine and deeply anchored in the traditional view of the military obligation of the individual to the state. The world wars, especially the war of 1939-45, encouraged some adjustment to these ideas, particularly in terms of the imperial link, women's status and the social rights of Australians. However, these conflicts were fought within a context of imperial loyalty and the intensity of their demands reinforced military service in defence of the nation as the primary civic virtue. The centrality of Anzac to Australian nationalism also perpetuated a gendered dimension to Australian citizenship. The world wars therefore, for all their dramatic impact on the lives of Australian families and the national political culture, did not force a major reconceptualisation of Australian citizenship.
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This article considers why those Australian women who were active in the pro-war voluntary organisations of World War I have been marginalised in the historiography of the war, despite their high level of activism. The reasons for this... more
This article considers why those Australian women who were active in the pro-war voluntary organisations of World War I have been marginalised in the historiography of the war, despite their high level of activism. The reasons for this neglect may be found in the general discounting of the value of voluntary work, in the adoption by feminist historians of masculinist definitions of the war effort, and, more particularly, in the ideological premises of historians who, in contrast to patriotic women of 1914-18, have seen 'patriotic feminism' as retrogressive, and militarism as incompatible with feminism.
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In this article Joan Beaumont considers how the survivors of Gull Force, captured on Ambon in February 1942 and subjected to extremely harsh captivity by the Japanese in the ensuing three-and-a-half years, adjusted to civilian life on... more
In this article Joan Beaumont considers how the survivors of Gull Force, captured on Ambon in February 1942 and subjected to extremely harsh captivity by the Japanese in the ensuing three-and-a-half years, adjusted to civilian life on their return to Australia. The physical and emotional legacy of captivity was, for many ex-prisoners of war, a lasting one, affecting their rehabilitation to professional life and their personal relationships. Nonetheless, in retrospect their captivity remains for the majority of survivors interviewed a positive experience.
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Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper.A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly... more
Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth Century Australia. By Pat Jalland. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006. Pp. 409. $39.95 paper.A Different Sort of War: Australians in Korea, 1950–53. By Richard Trembath. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2005. Pp. 266. $34.95 paper.New Zealand and the Vietnam War: Politics and Diplomacy. By Roberto Rabel. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2005. Pp. xi + 443. NZ$49.99
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In 1942-43 a force of possibly 200,000 to 300,000 people, working under the supervision of the Imperial Japanese Army, constructed a railway from Kanchanaburi in western Thailand to Thanbyuzayat on the Andaman Sea coast of Burma (now... more
In 1942-43 a force of possibly 200,000 to 300,000 people, working under the supervision of the Imperial Japanese Army, constructed a railway from Kanchanaburi in western Thailand to Thanbyuzayat on the Andaman Sea coast of Burma (now Myanmar). The purpose of this railway was to provide a supply link between the Gulf of Thailand and Burma, which the Japanese had occupied in early 1942. The sea route via the Straits of Malacca had become unreliable after the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and a new, more secure, overland route was needed to maintain the Jap�anese armies in Burma as they planned to invade India. The Thai-Burma railway was completed in a little over a year, a remark� able achievement given that it stretched some 415 kilometres over remote and rugged mountains on the Thai-Burmese border, in a region which became disease� infested and inaccessible during the monsoon season. However, the loss of life was enormous. Possibly 100,000 Asian labourers (r�musha) and around 12,000...
BERNARD S. BACHRACH. The Anatomy of a Little War: A Diplomatic and Military History of the Gundovald Affair, 568-586. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 283. $49.85 (us). Reviewed by Paul FouracreP. M. HOLT. Early Mamluk Diplomacy,... more
BERNARD S. BACHRACH. The Anatomy of a Little War: A Diplomatic and Military History of the Gundovald Affair, 568-586. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995. Pp. xx, 283. $49.85 (us). Reviewed by Paul FouracreP. M. HOLT. Early Mamluk Diplomacy, 1260–1290: Treaties of Baybars and Qalāwūn with Christian Rulers. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. Pp. viii, 161. $64.75 (us). Reviewed by Peter W.
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Although Britain declared war on the Dominions' behalf, Australia had its own war aims. The most important of these was the survival of the British Empire, which the vast majority of Australians believed was key to the country's... more
Although Britain declared war on the Dominions' behalf, Australia had its own war aims. The most important of these was the survival of the British Empire, which the vast majority of Australians believed was key to the country's cultural identity and physical security. Beyond this, Prime Minister W.M. Hughes, who dominated Australian foreign policy, had several goals surrounding German and Japanese power and Australian immigration policy. Ultimately, because Australia had no independent diplomatic service and refused to present a public face of imperial disunity, it was not entirely successful in achieving these war aims.
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The Pacific War is an umbrella term that refers collectively to a disparate set of wars, however, this book presents a strong case for considering this assemblage of conflicts as a collective, singular war.
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Defence of the nation is one of the fundamental obligations of government. For much of the first century of the Commonwealth of Australia that obligation has been tested - in two world wars, and in a series of other military engagements.... more
Defence of the nation is one of the fundamental obligations of government. For much of the first century of the Commonwealth of Australia that obligation has been tested - in two world wars, and in a series of other military engagements. The military reputation that has grown out of these defining moments in Australian history has been a significant factor in moulding Australians' views of themselves, yet service matters have not often attracted any great degree of pulic interest. "The Australian Centenary History of Defence" explains the complexities of an essential strand of the Commonwealth's first century - the successes and the failures, the progress and the setbacks, in peace and war. This book is intended for general readers of military defence history titles, especially works in this series. Also military defence historians and students.
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It is time to acknowledge that World War I was about more than fighting and killing. Keynote address from HTAV's 2014 Annual Conference.
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L’Australie et la Nouvelle-Zelande sont liees par la memoire de la Premiere Guerre mondiale. Leurs forces militaires, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac), ont combattu ensemble, et leur experience commune a Gallipoli, en 1915, a... more
L’Australie et la Nouvelle-Zelande sont liees par la memoire de la Premiere Guerre mondiale. Leurs forces militaires, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac), ont combattu ensemble, et leur experience commune a Gallipoli, en 1915, a donne naissance a la « legende de l’Anzac », un recit qui a domine leurs memoires nationales de guerre. Cependant, tandis que la Nouvelle-Zelande a adopte la conscription en 1916, l’electorat australien a rejete cette option politique. L’Australian Imperial Force (AIF) est restee une force de volontaires. Cela peut expliquer la raison pour laquelle la legende de l’Anzac a occupe une place plus importante dans la culture politique australienne que dans celle de la Nouvelle-Zelande.
The memory of the 102,000 Australians who died in wars over the past century plays a central role in Australia’s national political culture.1 This is something of a paradox. Throughout the twentieth century Australians rejected military... more
The memory of the 102,000 Australians who died in wars over the past century plays a central role in Australia’s national political culture.1 This is something of a paradox. Throughout the twentieth century Australians rejected military conscription as a mandated obligation of citizenship except for limited purposes of home defence. Australia has had no tradition of maintaining a large army in peacetime, creating its first recognizably professional army only in 1947. Since then the permanent army has always been small, never exceeding 33,000 troops, while in 2010 the permanent personnel of the combined Australian army, navy and air force totalled only 57,600.2 Despite this, a mythologized narrative about Australian soldiers and the distinctive characteristics they supposedly display in battle has progressively assumed a central place in the construction of national identity. It continues to inform national political discourse to this day.
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The Thai-Burma railway, built under Japanese command by Allied prisoners of war and Asian labourers in 1942-43, can lay claim to being a cultural route, even though nearly three quarters of its physical infrastructure has been demolished.... more
The Thai-Burma railway, built under Japanese command by Allied prisoners of war and Asian labourers in 1942-43, can lay claim to being a cultural route, even though nearly three quarters of its physical infrastructure has been demolished. Not only are its archaeological remains evident in the landscape but over the years its memory has progressively transcended national boundaries. Its heritage has also been shaped not only by the Thais, on whose territory much of its remains reside, but also by cross-cultural links and interventions by other national groups with their own wartime memories. Yet, much of this heritage remains fragile and as the generation who experience World War II ages and dies, the future of the railway as a cultural route will be contingent on the emergence of new shared memories across its multinational stakeholders with an interest in its commemoration and heritage.
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... Beau-mont; Tim Dunlop, Peter Edwards, Elizabeth Hewitt, Monika Loving, Tony Reid, Andrea Shimmen; Benjamin and Tristan Lowe; and ... as multilateral diplomacy in the United Nations and postwar planning, the entrenched Secretary of... more
... Beau-mont; Tim Dunlop, Peter Edwards, Elizabeth Hewitt, Monika Loving, Tony Reid, Andrea Shimmen; Benjamin and Tristan Lowe; and ... as multilateral diplomacy in the United Nations and postwar planning, the entrenched Secretary of Defence, Sir Frederick Shedden, was a ...
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... Michael R. Waters with Mark Long, William Dickens, Sam Sweitz, Anne Lee Presley, Ian Buvit, Michelle Raisor, Bryan Mason, Hilary Standish and Norbert Dannhaeuser, College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2004; pp. xv + 268;... more
... Michael R. Waters with Mark Long, William Dickens, Sam Sweitz, Anne Lee Presley, Ian Buvit, Michelle Raisor, Bryan Mason, Hilary Standish and Norbert Dannhaeuser, College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2004; pp. xv + 268; ISBN 1 58544 318 2 ...
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... This should have put DFAT on amber alert as well as signalling to Keating, revelling in his success in Seattle, that he should avoid saying anything which might provoke the Malaysian leader. To again quote WH Auden, but slightly... more
... This should have put DFAT on amber alert as well as signalling to Keating, revelling in his success in Seattle, that he should avoid saying anything which might provoke the Malaysian leader. To again quote WH Auden, but slightly adapted: ...
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... the role of the Malay Regiment in Battle of Pasir Panjang Hill on 14 February 1942, Reflections at Bukit Chandu, was dedicated on ... had not done enough to preserve Changi, 49 [49] Age 10 October 2003, View all notes. the Australian... more
... the role of the Malay Regiment in Battle of Pasir Panjang Hill on 14 February 1942, Reflections at Bukit Chandu, was dedicated on ... had not done enough to preserve Changi, 49 [49] Age 10 October 2003, View all notes. the Australian High Commissioner, Gary Quinlan, publicly ...
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... and Ambassador / David Lowe -- 5 Cold War liberals : Richard Casey and the Department of External Affairs, 1951-60 / Christopher Waters -- 6 A radical Tory: Sir Garfield Barwick, 1961-64 / Garry Woodard -- 7 Paul Hasluck : the... more
... and Ambassador / David Lowe -- 5 Cold War liberals : Richard Casey and the Department of External Affairs, 1951-60 / Christopher Waters -- 6 A radical Tory: Sir Garfield Barwick, 1961-64 / Garry Woodard -- 7 Paul Hasluck : the diplomat as Minsiter / Joan Beaumont -- 8 The ...