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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)
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Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
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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...
New open access article by @alecadell.bsky.social
1975: Working Migrant Women
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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
New open access article by @alecadell.bsky.social
1975: Working Migrant Women
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1975: Working Migrant Women
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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
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...
@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social
@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social
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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
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.
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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
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...
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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
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
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
New book by Philipp Strobl
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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
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
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
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
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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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Read Dominique's statement via buff.ly/oPiYLzJ
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September 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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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Read Dominique's statement via buff.ly/oPiYLzJ
📷 TWH
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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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(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
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 😊)
mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzIy...
(I also had a small hand in the exhibition, and it features my daughter’s story 😊)
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