The Australian Journal of Politics and History articles from March 1 2009

The Australian Journal of Politics and History archives from March 1 2009

"The ordinary discharge of my duty": Field Marshal Sir John Monash and the Ozanne controversy.
March 1, 2009... The ferocity with which the conscription debates in 1916-17 were fought is a well-documented part of Australian history, and ninety years later, it would appear difficult to contribute anything new to our understanding of the time. (1) However,...

Treasonous conduct: assessing the wartime activities, post-war trials and tribulations of Australian collaborators in the Second World War.
March 1, 2009... Treason is considered one of the most outrageous crimes that an individual could commit against his or her country. Many examples exist after the Second World War where individuals were tried and severely punished for the activities they took...

A mace to swat two blow-flies: interpreting the Fitzpatrick and Browne privilege case.
March 1, 2009... Despite its singular character, the Fitzpatrick and Browne privilege case of 1955 remains poorly understood and remembered. Though the Commonwealth parliament imprisoned two citizens of a democracy on a vote of members of the House of...

Konfrontasi and Australia's aid to Indonesia during the 1960s.
March 1, 2009... Introduction Recent studies have explored the diplomatic and security aspects of the "confrontation" (konfrontasi) which occurred in 1963-65 between Indonesia and Malaysia--the latter supported by a coalition of the UK, Australia and New...

Uncounted votes: informal voting in the house of representatives as a marker of political exclusion in Australia.
March 1, 2009... Changes made by the Coalition Government in 2006 to voter enrolment procedures for national elections in Australia attracted criticism for their tendency to politically exclude certain social groups, particularly young people, prisoners and the...

A reconsideration of the political significance of shared responsibility agreements.
March 1, 2009... Shared Responsibility Agreements In 2005 the Commonwealth introduced Shared Responsibility Agreements (SRAs) as a policy instrument to route additional funding to selected indigenous communities. The policy aimed to directly engage...

John Howard's "nation" and citizenship test: multiculturalism, citizenship, and identity.
March 1, 2009... Multiculturalism, as it has been practised in Australia, is one of three models of "nation" that have been articulated at a political level in this country. All articulations of "nation" are inherently political, and inherently contestable....

Australia's Empire.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Australia's Empire. Edited by Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward, The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series, Editor-in-Chief, Win. Roger Louis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. xiv + 419, $99.95. You don't even...

Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Australia's Birthstain: The Startling Legacy of the Convict Era. By Babette Smith (Allen and Unwin: Sydney, 2008), pp. 400, index, maps & illustrations. A$49.95 (pb). Using chapter headings as provocative as "Something to hide", "Amnesia,...

Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station. By Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, 2008), pp. 312. Three maps, twelve illustrations. AU$24.95 (pb). Convicts continue to be a source of fascination for many...

Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia Since 1826.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Land of Vision and Mirage: Western Australia Since 1826. By Geoffrey Bolton, (Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2008), pp. xvi + 270. A$34.95. There have been a number of good books published lately which focus on the history...

The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police. By Jonathan Richards (St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press, 2008), A$39.95 (pb). Jonathan Richards' book is an account of the Queensland Native Police from its origins...

Enid Lyons: Leading Lady to a Nation.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Enid Lyons: Leading Lady to a Nation. By Anne Henderson (North Melbourne: Pluto Press, 2008), ISBN: 978-0-9802924-9-7, A$29.95. Small details rather than the big picture make this a fascinating book. Its subject is Enid Lyons, wife of Prime...

J.V. Barry: A Life.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... J.V. Barry: A Life. By Mark Finnane (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007), pp. v11 + 322), A$49.95. John Vincent Barry rose from his Irish Catholic background to become one of Australia's most brilliant legal scholars and...

Roma the First: A Biography of Dame Roma Mitchell.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Roma the First: A Biography of Dame Roma Mitchell. By Susan Magarey and Kerrie Round (Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press, 2007). pp.465; $39.95 (pb). As a biographical subject Roma Mitchell is far from easy. To the modern biographer her life...

The Godfather: The Life of Brian Burke.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Godfather: The Life of Brian Burke. By Quentin Beresford (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2008), pp. xvii + 294, photos. A$35.00. Even by the standards of Australia's colourful state-level politicians, former Western Australian premier Brian...

Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004-2007.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004-2007. Edited by Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008), pp. ix + 303, A$44.95 (pb). Australians do not change government frequently, so analysis...

Indigenous Peoples: Self-Determination, Knowledge, Indigeneity.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Indigenous Peoples: Self-Determination, Knowledge, Indigeneity. Edited by Henry Minde (Delft, the Netherlands: Eburon, 2008), pp. 375, A$79.99 (pb). The recent UN adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the...

The Queen's Other Realms: The Crown and Its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Queen's Other Realms: The Crown and Its Legacy in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. By Peter Boyce (Sydney: The Federation Press, 2008), pp. xii + 292, A$59.95 One of the greatest political and constitutional developments over the...

Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice. By Julian Burnside (Melbourne: Scribe, 2007), $32.95 (pb). Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia. By Linda Briskman, Susie Latham, and Chris Goddard (Melbourne:...

Literary and Social Diasporas: An Italian Australian Perspective.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Literary and Social Diasporas: An Italian Australian Perspective. Edited by Gaetano Rando and Gerry Turcotte (Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2007), 236 pages. AUS$54.51 (pb). This is a collection of numerous articles related to papers...

Tell It As It Is: Autobiography of Rt Hon Sir Peter Kenilorea KBE PC Solomon Islands' First Prime Minister.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Tell It As It Is: Autobiography of Rt Hon Sir Peter Kenilorea KBE PC Solomon Islands' First Prime Minister. By Peter Kenilorea. Edited by Clive Moore (Taipei, Taiwan: Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, 2008), pp. xxxvi + 516. Eight maps, 136...

Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings. By Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz (Prahran, Victoria: Hardie Grant Books, 2008), pp. 159. 18.99 [pounds sterling] (hb). Based on an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London during...

The Victorians and Germany.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Victorians and Germany. By John R. Davis (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007); Pp. 419, SFR 108. John Davis has accomplished a difficult task in reviewing the ways Germany influenced Britain throughout the nineteenth century. His organising...

Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe. By Robert Gildea, Olivier Wieviorka and Anette Warring (Berg: Oxford and New York, 2006), pp. x + 244 ISBN 978-1-84520-181-4, GB 17.99 [pounds sterling]. Back in the 1980s,...

Burning Books.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Burning Books. By Matthew Fishburn (Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp.xix + 219, colour plates and black and white illustrations. AU $59.95 hardcover. In Heinrich Heine's early verse drama Almansor (written...

Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. By Marcy Norton (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2008), AU$73.00 (hb). Many books have recently appeared discussing the history of a...

The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. By Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier and Patrick Reedy (London and New York: Zed Books 2007), pp xiv +338. $US32.00/PUK16.99. This is a work of scholarship which lifts the spirits....

Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality. By Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2008 (published in the UK and USA by Cambridge University Press)), A$36.95...

Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Raphael Lemkin and the Struggle for the Genocide Convention. By John Cooper, (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), pp 344. US$74.95 (hb). John Cooper, a retired legal practitioner and author of books on Jewish food, doctors...

Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History. Edited by A. Dirk Moses (New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008), US$95.00 (hb). This collection of essays, the second from editor Dirk Moses in the...

A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present. By Bruce Haddock (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008), pp. xii + 330. US$26.95 In the brief introduction to this book, Bruce Haddock discusses the object and scope of "political...

The Trouble with Theory: The Educational Costs of Postmodernism.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Trouble with Theory: The Educational Costs of Postmodernism. By Gavin Kitching (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2008), pp. 220, A$29.95 (pb). This is a book by a man with a mission. Kitching wants to root postmodernist "theory" out...

Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification. Edited by Ronald Cole-Turner (Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, 2008), pp.viii+237; A$44.95 (pb) available in Australia from Footprint Books. ...

The Allure of Machinic Life--Cybernetics. Artificial Life, and the New AI.(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Allure of Machinic Life--Cybernetics. Artificial Life, and the New AI. By Harvey Johnston (Cambridge, Mass., and London: The MIT Press, 2008), pp. 494 + illustrations, A$86.00 (hb) available in Australia from Footprint Books. This...

Rejoinder.(From the Hustings to Harbour Views: Electoral Institutions in New South Wales, 1856-2006 )
March 1, 2009... Rodney Smith's review of my From the Hustings to Harbour Views: Electoral Institutions in New South Wales, 1856-2006 which appears in AJPH 54 (3) contains a large number of factual errors. Some reflect upon other academics and the publisher and...

Vale.(death of John Halliday and Bernard Crick)(Obituary)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... We regret the passing of one of our long-standing and valued reviewers and occasional contributor to the journal. John (R.J.) Halliday was an authority on John Stuart Mill and an acute commentator on nineteenth century political thought, with...