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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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Tax Review and the Big Picture

by Roy Hay, Sports and Editorial Services Australia (SESA)

 

Contemplating current events, historians, I suspect, often feel ‘This is where I came in’. Having cut my teeth on David Lloyd George’s ‘People’s Budget’ in 1909, his land tax campaign in 1913, and the aborted attempt at reform of local government taxation in Read more »

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Mining History for the 2013 election

by Sarah Burnside

Sarah Burnside is a Perth-based freelance writer with experience in law and policy. She tweets at @saraheburnside

 

Questions around the mineral sector and the taxes it pays are not as prominent in this election campaign as they were in 2010, but they have not disappeared.

The Read more »

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AIH399 Making History

Use the National Curriculum to Secularise the State: Making a Case against Christian Religious Education in Australia’s Public Schools

AIH399 MAKING HISTORY DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

by Rachel Higham

 

Executive Summary

  • The new national curriculum should cover all religions rather than only focusing on the major religious factions that exist in Australia.
  • With education comes understanding, so hopefully the minority faiths in Australia will receive the attention, respect, and acceptance Read more »
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AIH399 Making History

Royalty over a Republic: Mounting a Historical Case for Australia remaining Loyal to the Crown

AIH399 MAKING HISTORY DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

by Hannah Simpson

 

Executive Summary

  • This article explores Australia’s history of debate regarding our constitutional monarchy by focusing on federation in 1901, followed by a change in powers between the head of state and the Australian government in 1986, and then a referendum in Read more »

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The Safe Haven Visa Policy: A Compassionate Intervention with Cruel Intentions

by Robert Carr, Researcher, Department of History and Politics, University of Wollongong

 

Executive summary

  • Historians committed to policy revision need to unpack popular assumptions surrounding the history of Australia’s refugee policy.
  • Further to my last contribution to Australian Policy and History, broadening the approach to histories on refugee policy Read more »

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Tax Review and the Big Picture Mining History for the 2013 election Use the National Curriculum to Secularise the State: Making a Case against Christian Religious Education in Australia’s Public Schools Royalty over a Republic: Mounting a Historical Case for Australia remaining Loyal to the Crown The Safe Haven Visa Policy: A Compassionate Intervention with Cruel Intentions