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A conversation with Geoffrey Blainey.(Interview)
GEOFFREY BLAINEY is considered by many to be Australia's greatest historian. Few quarrel with the view of him as the finest literary stylist (and one of the most prolific writers) among historians.
In 1984 Blainey raised doubts, during a speech to a district Rotary conference in Warmambool, about the increasing pace of Asian immigration to Australia. This created such a furore that Blainey eventually felt obliged to resign as Professor of History at Melbourne University. An important document in the campaign against him was an open letter signed by twenty-four of his colleagues and sent to many newspapers. It is worth reprinting as a period sampling from the ...
- A shortish homage to Geoffrey Blainey.(A Shorter History of Australia, A Short...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Devine, Frank September 1, 2006 700+ words
BETWEEN 1994 AND 2005, and the ages of sixty-four and seventy-five, Geoffrey Blainey published three outstanding literary works, A Shorter History of Australia, A Short History of the World and A Short History...
- Britannica laureate says nuclear threat overstated. (Geoffrey Blainey)
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 17, 1988 700+ words
...an exaggerated but still legitimate nuclear threat, a Britannica Award honoree suggested today. Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey told a news conference that public attitudes have been distorted by beliefs about nuclear war that have been accepted...
- Nonwhite Immigration Changes Australia's Face; Asians Lead Newcomers 20 Years...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Keith B. Richburg June 23, 1987 700+ words
...Brian Loader. "But immigration tends to be challenged during periods of high unemployment." Melbourne University historian Geoffrey Blainey said until 1970 Australia's immigration program was in some ways one of the most successful ever...
- Is the uncivil war over?(Ryan)(Australian history)(Column)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Ryan, Peter October 1, 2006 700+ words
...rampant in the 1980s, when Geoffrey Blainey thought it prudent to vacate his Chair of History at Melbourne University. This had been a sordid academic...had been Stuart Macintyre of Melbourne University, a scholar of great intelligence...
- A brief introduction.(Ryan)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Ryan, Peter November 1, 2003 700+ words
...Sydney, Professor Geoffrey Blainey delivered the annual...asked to introduce Geoffrey Blainey to so distinguished...was introduced by Melbourne University's Professor of...correspondence. Geoffrey Blainey, like Bertrand...
- An Historian's Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom.(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History Crook, Paul September 1, 2007 700+ words
...Fay Anderson (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005), pp xi...s chair of history at Melbourne University in 1936, despite a lack...Serle, Greg Dening and Geoffrey Blainey: "By the end of the 1960s...
- The History Wars.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Social History Munro, Doug March 22, 2007 700+ words
...edition. By Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2004. x plus 300 pp. $Aust 29.95). The...profession under sustained attack. Some historians, such as Geoffrey Blainey and the late Manning Clark, were able to operate in a...
- The trans-Tasman tie: Colin James comments on the straightforward and...
- Newspaper article from: New Zealand International Review James, Colin March 1, 2009 700+ words
...Saunders's Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Melbourne University. Professor Saunders's price for this privilege was...some important differences. To read Manning Clark, or Geoffrey Blainey, or Russel Ward, or Richard White, or John Rickard...
Source: HighBeam Research, A conversation with Geoffrey Blainey.(Interview)