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PROF KATHERINE DARIAN-SMITH



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies
Position: PROFESSOR..
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Homepage: http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/people/dariansmith.html
Work: 8344 7232
Fax: 9347 7731
Room: 210
Level: 02
Building: 131/137 Barry St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Australian Studies and Australian History Australia, United Kingdom, Japan

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts Honours University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1983
Graduate Diploma in Education University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1990
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-May-1988

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Journal of Australian Studies (Editorial Advisory Board) Editorial Advisory Board 01-Jan-1995
Member Australian Historical Studies (Editorial Board) Editorial Board 01-Jan-2007
Member History Compass (Section Editor) Section Editor, Australia and the Pacific 01-Jul-2008
Member Australian Historical Association Member 01-Jan-2000
Member International Australian Studies Association (InASA) President (2002-2007), Vice-President (2008 - present) 01-Jan-1996

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) 30-Nov-2008

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts Excellence in Supervision 31-Dec-2006
Other (Award) Australian Society of Archivists 2008 Mander Jones Award for 'Seize the day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World' 30-Sep-2009
Other (Award) Australia-Japan Foundation Neil Currie Publishing Award (with Yasue Arimitsu, Doshisha University) 31-Dec-2007

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Developing Australian studies networks in Indonesia Chief Investigator AUST INDONESIA INSTIT Grants 20/03/2003
CHILDHOOD, TRADITION AND CHANGE: A NATIONAL STUDY OF THE HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES AND SIGNIFICANCE OF AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S PLAYLORE Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2006
"Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Designing Everyday Modernism for Australian Communities 1920-1970" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
Conciliation Narratives and the Historical Imagination in British Pacific Rim Settler Societies Chief Investigator TAS MUSEUM & ART GALLERY,
MUSEUM VIC,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2007
CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY IN AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TOWNS, AMENITY, MOBILITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2009
REVIEW OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES IN JAPAN Chief Investigator DEPT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS & TRADE Australia Japan Foundation Grants 12/02/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Memories from America: Australian War Brides and US Marines Remember the Pacific During the Second World War
    Year: 2009
    Event name: When the Soldiers Return
    Conference Publication: When the Soldiers Return: Refereed Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 12-25
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • New technologies of history-telling at the Shire of Remembrance, Melbourne
    Year: 2009
    Event name: 26th International SAHANZ Conference
    Conference Publication: Cultural Crossroads: Proceedings of the 26th International SAHANZ Conference
    Page numbers: 581-595
    Publisher: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2008

Books

  • Seize the day: Exhibitions, Australia and the world


    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Monash University ePress(Monash)
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  • Diamond Dog: Contemporary Australian Short Stories - Reflections on multicultural society
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers(Tokyo)
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Book Chapters

  • Seize the day: Exhibiting Australia


    Year: 2008
    Book: Seize the day: Exhibitions, Australia and the world
    Publisher: Monash University ePress(Monash)
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  • Contemporary Austalian Short Stories and National Belongings
    Year: 2008
    Book: Diamond Dog: Contemporary Australian Short Stories which Reflect Multicultural Society
    Publisher: Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers(Tokyo)
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  • Contemporary Australian short stories and national belongings.
    Year: 2008
    Book: Diamond Dog: Contemporary Australian Short Stories - Reflections on multicultural society
    Publisher: Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers(Tokyo)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2007

Books

Book Chapters

  • Introduction: Britishness Abroad


    Year: 2007
    Book: Britishness Abroad: Transnational movements and Imperial Cultures
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Images of Empire: Gender and Nationhood in Australia at the Time of Federation
    Year: 2007
    Book: Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • Review of M McKernan, 'The Strength of a Nation: Six Years of Australians Fighting for the Nation and Defending the Homefront


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Wartime: Official magazine of the Australian War Memorial
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 1-10
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  • Review of Nathalie Nguyen, 'Voyage of Hope: Vietnamese Australian Women's Narratives.'
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Oral History
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 113-4
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  • Review of R Landsdown (ed), 'Strangers in the South Seas'
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Book Review
    Volume: 291
    Issue: May
    Page numbers: 42-3
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A Civic Heart: Empowered Citizenship and Post-war Public Modernism
    Year: 2007
    Event name: XXIVth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (2007)
    Conference Publication: Panorama to Paradise: Scopic Regimes in Architectural and Urban History and Theory. Proceedings of the XXIVth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2007
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Adelaide)
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Australia, Antarctica, and the Pacific
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: World Almanac Education(Strongsville, OH)
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  • Snapshots of Australia Book 1: Introducing Australia
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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  • Snapshots of Australia Book 2: Australian People and Institutions
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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Book Chapters

  • Federation and War
    Year: 2006
    Book: Snapshots of a Nation Book 1: Introducing Australia
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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  • Gender and Sexuality
    Year: 2006
    Book: Snapshots of a Nation Book 2: Australian people and institutions
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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  • Gold and Economic Development
    Year: 2006
    Book: Snapshots of a Nation Book 1: Introducing Australia
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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  • Penal Settlements
    Year: 2006
    Book: Snapshots of a Nation Book 1: Introducing Australia
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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  • Popular Images and Understandings
    Year: 2006
    Book: Snapshots of a Nation Book 2: Australian people and institutions
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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  • Sea Exploration
    Year: 2006
    Book: Snapshots of a Nation Book 1: Introducing Australia
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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  • The Land: Part One: the Bush
    Year: 2006
    Book: Snapshots of a Nation Book 1: Introducing Australia
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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  • The Land: Part Two: The Outback
    Year: 2006
    Book: Snapshots of a Nation Book 1: Introducing Australia
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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Journal Articles

  • Contemporary Australian Literature: Crossing Cultures
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Subaru Monthly
    Volume: 6
    Issue: June 2006
    Page numbers: 224-253
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  • Pat Jalland: Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business
    Year: 2006
    Journal: American Historical Review
    Volume: 6
    Issue: June 2006
    Page numbers: 224-227
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Australia, Oceania, and Antarctica
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Hodder Wayland(London)
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  • Child's Play: Dorothy Howard and the Folklore of Australian Children
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Museum Victoria(Melbourne)
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Book Chapters

  • Children, Families and the Nation in 1950s Australia
    Year: 2005
    Book: Child's Play; Dorothy Howard and Children's Folklore in 1950s Australia
    Publisher: Museum Victoria(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Horse and Rider in Australian History by Nanette Mantle
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Historical Studies
    Volume: October 2005
    Issue: October 2005
    Page numbers: 363-364
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Tatoo, Nicholas Thomas, Anna Cole and Bronwen Douglas (eds)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Book Review
    Volume: 273
    Issue: August 2005
    Page numbers: 43-44
    Publisher: Australian Book Review(Richmond South)
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Major Reference Works

  • Australian Dictionary of Biography Supplement 1580-1980:'Agnes Mother Buntine'
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Australian Dictionary of Biography Supplement 1580-1980
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Rationing:The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Rationing
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • War: Domestic Mobilization:The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: War: Domestic Mobilization
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • War: Censorship and Propaganda:The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: War: Censorship and Propaganda
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • The Americans:The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: The Americans
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Exploring the British World: Identity-Cultural Production-Institution
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Stirring Australian Speeches
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Thinking Australian Studies, Teaching Across Cultures
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press(St Lucia)
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Book Chapters

  • Introduction
    Year: 2004
    Book: Exploring the British World
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Introduction
    Year: 2004
    Book: Exploring the British World
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Introduction
    Year: 2004
    Book: Stirring Australian Speeches: From Botany to Bali
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Part One Introduction
    Year: 2004
    Book: Stirring Australian Speeches: the definitive collection from Botany to Bali
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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    URL - open access http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/research/publications/stirring.html
  • Thinking Australian Studies at Lake Maninjau: The Indonesian Experience
    Year: 2004
    Book: Thinking Australian Studies: Teaching Across Cultures
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press(St Lucia)
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Journal Articles

  • Beefeaters, Bobbies and a New Varangian Guard? Negotiating Forms of "Britishness" in Suburban Australia
    Year: 2004
    Journal: History of Intellectual Culture
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-28
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  • Filming indigenous Australia: notes on using Australian films to explore historical and political contexts
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Otemon Journal of Australian Studies
    Volume: 30
    Issue: Dec 2004
    Page numbers: 264-270
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  • Heartlands
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Book Review
    Volume: 266
    Issue: November 2004
    Page numbers: 38-39
    Publisher: Australian Book Review(Richmond South)
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  • Looking at Both Sides
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Book Review
    Volume: 260
    Issue: April 2004
    Page numbers: 25-26
    Publisher: Australian Book Review(Richmond South)
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  • Public culture in contemporary Australia: language, history and truth
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Otemon Journal of Australian Studies
    Volume: 30
    Issue: Dec 2004
    Page numbers: 177-187
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Australian Studies in the tertiary sector
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Aus e-Study
    Volume: November
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: Australia Japan Foundation(Tokyo)
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  • Australian ways of death
    Year: 2003
    Journal: American Historical Review
    Volume: June
    Page numbers: 817-818
    Publisher: American Historical Association
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  • Beauty contest for British bulldogs? negotiating (trans)national identities in suburban Melbourne
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Cultural Studies Review
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 65-83
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  • Global reach of empire
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Australian Studies
    Volume: November
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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Reports

  • Report on Visiting Scholars Program and Jakarta workshop
    Year: 2003
    Customer: Australian-Indonesian InstituteDepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    Report No:: October 2003
    Publisher: The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Report on audit of Australian Studies in the Indonesian tertiary sector
    Year: 2003
    Customer: Australian-Indonesian Institute
    Report No:: October 2003
    Publisher: The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Report on introduction of communication networks
    Year: 2003
    Customer: Australian-Indonesian InstituteDepartment of Foreign Affairs and Trade
    Publisher: The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Australian Studies in Australia and Japan
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Aus e-Study
    Volume: October 2002
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 9-11
    Publisher: Australia Japan Foundation(Tokyo)
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  • Challenging Histories: Reflections on Australian History
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Historical Studies
    Volume: 22
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  • Introduction: Challenging Histories, Re-reading the Past
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Historical Studies
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 118
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Review of Prosthetic Gods by Robert Dixon
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Book Review
    Volume: February
    Page numbers: 38-39
    Publisher: Australian Book Review(Richmond South)
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  • Review of The Captive White Woman by Julie Carr and Lizard Island by Suzanne Falkiner and Alan Oldfield
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Historical Studies
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 119
    Page numbers: 116
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Up the Country: Histories and Communities
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Historical Studies
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 118
    Page numbers: 90-99
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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Major Reference Works

  • Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens:'Showgrounds'
    Year: 2002
    Reference Work Title: Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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  • Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens:Agricultural and Pastoral Societies
    Year: 2002
    Reference Work Title: Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Material culture and the 'signs' of captive white women
    Year: 2001
    Book: Body Trade: Captivity, Cannibalism and Colonialism in the Pacific
    Publisher: Pluto Press(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • 'Imagining' Australia Through Public Spectacles of Nation: From Federation to Sydney 2000
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Otemon Journal of Australian Studies
    Volume: 27
    Issue: December 2001
    Page numbers: 79-98
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  • Australia and Nationhood
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Historical Journal
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • Australia and Nationhood, reviews of H.Irving, To Constitute a Nation and J.Grey, A Military History of Australia,
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Historical Journal
    Volume: June
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 595-7
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  • From Queen of Agriculture to Miss Showgirl: Embodying Rurality in Twentieth-Century Australia
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Australian Studies
    Volume: 71
    Page numbers: 17-32
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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  • Identity Politics
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Overland
    Publisher: OL Society(Melbourne)
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  • Review of Voyages and Beaches: Pacific encounters, 1769-1840 and Exploration and Exchange: a South Seas anthology, 1680-1900
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Journal of Pacific History
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(Basingstoke)
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  • Review of J.Docker and G. Fischer (eds) Race, Colour, and Identity in Australia and New Zealand, and M.A. Bin-Salik (ed), Aboriginal Women by Degrees: Their stories of the journey towards academic achievement
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: 164
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  • The Australia Gallery
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Historical Studies
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 117
    Page numbers: 351 - 353
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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Major Reference Works

  • The Australian Centenary History of Defence, Vol IV, Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics:'Homefront Historiography'
    Year: 2001
    Reference Work Title: The Australian Centenary History of Defence, Vol IV, Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Melbourne)
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