Australian Policy and History

by Marilyn Lake, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University

New publication What’s Wrong with Anzac? The Militarisation of Australian History, Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds with Mark McKenna and Joy Damousi, UNSW Press, 2010.

In recent years Australia has been bombarded with military history across all media: books, radio and TV Read more »

AIH399 MAKING HISTORY DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

by Sarah Clarke

Executive Summary

• In response to the findings of a 2006 NT State Inquiry into child sex abuse, and its report entitled Ampe Akelyernemane Meke Mekarle Little Children are Sacred (LCAS), the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) was launched in June 2007.
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AIH399 MAKING HISTORY DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

by Beth Malouf

Executive Summary

• This article argues that, to date, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has been largely unsuccessful in achieving its goals of bringing awareness to and usurping the power of the ‘1%’ of the world who they believe to be Read more »
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by David Lowe, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University

Why don’t politicians listen to historians? Perhaps the key word in this question is ‘listen’. We know that politicians do, indeed, draw on historians’ works. A well-known Australian example is of historian Don Watson penning some of the more memorable of former Prime Read more »

by Nathan Wise, School of Humanities, University of New England (UNE)

Now that the Federal election is over, and despite the uncertainty that a hung parliament presents, the outcome for the National Curriculum will be unchanged as both major parties support its implementation. Nonetheless, the Australian National Curriculum in History still poses a Read more »