Australian Policy and History
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What can the lessons of history teach us about the present? Australian Policy and History links historians with policy makers in pursuit of a better society.
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What is a union? Who do they include and exclude? Are unions relevant in the C21st?

All these questions and more are explored in No Power Greater: A History of Union Action in Australia by @liamj47.bsky.social, reviewed on APH by Prof John Howe

Read the review here: aph.org.au/2025/10/book...
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ICYMI - last month, celebrating 50 years of independence for Papua New Guinea, we published a suite of policy briefs proposing pathways forward for the next 50 years of Au-PNG relations - briefs on trade, tourism, heritage, education, sport, the environment!

Take a look aph.org.au/category/pol...
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ICYMI - Brad Underhill and Helen Gardner had a piece in @aunz.theconversation.com celebrating 50 years of PNG independence! "50 years without coups or dictators: how PNG built a durable democracy based on dignity and fairness".

Republished on APH here: aph.org.au/2025/09/50-y...

#PNG #independence
Papua New Guinea independence poster from 1975. Bill and Jan Gammage collection of Papua New Guinea posters, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, provided by Helen Gardner
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Today marks 50 years of Papua New Guinean independence!

In honour of the occasion, Brad Underhill, Keimelo Gimapau, and Helen Gardner published Debating the Nation: Speeches from the House of Assembly, 1972-1975.

On APH, Nick Ferns reviews the new collection!

aph.org.au/2025/09/book...
#PNG
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Meet the Revolutionaries and Ratbags who shaped the world as we know it!

Was hugely fun to co-host this new history podcast with Francis Leach looking at some of history's great rebels and revolutionaries, and to discuss what this history means for us today
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Today, we have two more briefs advocating for integrating Papua New Guinean knowledge and history into the Australian curriculum, so that young Australians can learn about our nearest neighbour:

aph.org.au/2025/09/embe...

aph.org.au/2025/09/enha...

#PNG #auspol #education
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Last week we published briefs on rebalancing PNG-AUS trade and revising labour mobility between the two countries:

aph.org.au/2025/09/reba...

aph.org.au/2025/09/embe...

aph.org.au/2025/09/stre...

#PNG #auspol #labour #trade
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ICYMI - September 2025 marks 50 years of independence in Papua New Guinea!

APH is pleased to publish policy briefs, written by attendees at a DFAT-sponsored workshop run by the Centre for Contemporary Histories this past June, on ways to develop the PNG-AUS relationship in the future.
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The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good
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** NEW REVIEW **

On the website, Peter Hobbins reviews Raina MacIntyre's Vaccine Nation

aph.org.au/2025/08/book...

#auspol #COVID19 #Vaccines #healthhistory
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ICYMI - @atomicmax.bsky.social on the ongoing obstruction that historians face in writing the history of British nuclear tests in Australia and the impact it had on Australian service personnel. Important context for Australia's planned nuclear military endeavours with allies!

#auspol #AUKUS
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This week marks 41 years since the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests began; a process that was marred by govt obstruction. Four decades on, Max Billington reveals the ongoing difficulties that researchers face when trying to uncover this history in the archives

aph.org.au/2025/07/ghos...
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This week marks 41 years since the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests began; a process that was marred by govt obstruction. Four decades on, Max Billington reveals the ongoing difficulties that researchers face when trying to uncover this history in the archives

aph.org.au/2025/07/ghos...
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ICYMI - Peter Hobbins on Australia's pandemic exceptionalism

#COVID #health #auspol

aph.org.au/2025/06/book...
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**NEW REVIEW**

On the website, @miamh.bsky.social reviews Albert Palazzo's 'Big Fix' for Australia's national security #natsec #auspol #militaryhistory

aph.org.au/2025/06/book...
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Lorinda Cramer's new article about clothing circularity suggest this economic process is not new. I urge you to make time for this short read from @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social. Lorinda always demonstrates why it is worth taking time to learn from the past.

#WorldEnvironmentDay #Fashion #History
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Do you have an oral history collection under your care? Then this project may be of interest to you.

For further information visit: www.precariousoralhistories.com

#history #oralhistory #collection #GLAM
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In honour of #WorldEnvironmentDay this week, historians Lorinda Cramer and Deborah Lee-Talbot are publishing a series of articles on circular economy, how it works in Australia (and why it hasn’t), proposing new avenues for Aus industries to improve uptake of the concept

#auspol #circulareconomy
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The State Library of NSW Fellowships are now accepting applications! There are nine Fellowships offering amazing pools of research funding -- get working on your projects! All the details are here: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards...
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Our Writing Fellows will be working with mentors from the Centre for Contemporary Histories to produce opinion pieces and policy briefing notes for Australian Policy and History.

Welcome all, and we look forward to seeing more of your work!