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Australian Policy & History works to link historians with policy-makers, the media and the Australian public. We aim to inform public debate and promote better public policy-making through an understanding of history. See what we do and who we are.

On this site you can find a wide variety of papers which provide historical perspectives on current events and issues. Click on the links below to:

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Calling all PhD students!

The Inaugural Alfred Deakin Research Institute Essay Challenge, 2014 has begun:

‘Interrogating the Im/morality of Refugee Policy and the Politics of Refugee Resettlement in Regional Australia.’

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APH / CAL Internships

Australian Policy and History (APH) is pleased to announce the recipients of nine Australian Policy and History/Copyright Agency Limited Internships. These internships, part of APH’s career development programme, are designed to help ten early-career historians to enhance their writing skills and publication record through the development of individual research projects. Members of the Australian Policy & History Network are mentoring these as they develop a research project that links historical inquiry and practice with current affairs.

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Religious Freedom in the Playground: Public Policy and the Wearing of Religious Attire in Australian Schools

by David Furse-Roberts PhD Candidate, School of History and Philosophy, The University of New South Wales (UNSW)

 

Executive summary

  • Addressing the ever topical issue of religious freedom, this paper examines public policy pertaining to the wearing of religious apparel/symbols within the context of Australian schools. In so doing, this Read more »

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Inaugural Australian Policy & History Workshop

Inaugural Australian Policy and History Workshop

On 18 April 2011, the APH Network held its first workshop in order to assess the progress of the website, and enable discussion about its possible future uses in pedagogy, research and policymaking. International guests Professor Alan Booth (University of Nottingham, UK) and partner Jeanne Booth delivered an engaging presentation on the History Passion Project, Read more »

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Australia’s Relations with India: Some of the History

by Eric Meadows, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University

The consequences of Australia’s restrictive immigration policy, the so-called ‘White Australia’ policy, in place until the mid-1960s, after which it was progressively dismantled, are still hard to shake. The legacy of this profoundly misguided policy bedevils Australia’s image, in Asia in particular, to this Read more »

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AIH399 Making History

Veil of Secrecy, Vortex of Shame: Australia must Confront the very Real Issue of Sex Trafficking

AIH399 MAKING HISTORY DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

by Sarah Barrand

 

Executive Summary

  • This article uses the Queensland Labour Trade as a historical reference point for reflecting on the way in which human sex trafficking operates comparatively today.
  • Through various laws and legislations made throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries regarding Read more »
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The Inaugural Policy and History Workshop: Part 2

THE AUSTRALIAN POLICY AND HISTORY (APH) NETWORK by Sarah Clarke, Intern, Alfred Deakin Research Institute (ADRI)

PART II: THE FUTURE

THE INAUGURAL POLICY AND HISTORY WORKSHOP The inaugural ‘Policy and History Workshop’ was held in April 2011, a year after the launch of the APH website. The aim was to assess the progress Read more »

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Religious Freedom in the Playground: Public Policy and the Wearing of Religious Attire in Australian Schools Inaugural Australian Policy and History Workshop Australia’s Relations with India: Some of the History Veil of Secrecy, Vortex of Shame: Australia must Confront the very Real Issue of Sex Trafficking The Inaugural Policy and History Workshop: Part 2