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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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AIH399 Making History

Investing in Australia’s Future: Making a Historical Case for why Our Foreign Policy Ownership Policy needs Reforming

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by Anita Carracher

 

Executive Summary

  • This article argues that it is in Australia’s national interests to significantly lower the Foreign Investment Review Board’s current threshold of $244 million for private foreign ownership purchases.
  • It is also in Australia’s interests to have a national register Read more »
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Use the National Curriculum to Secularise the State: Making a Case against Christian Religious Education in Australia’s Public Schools

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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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Historians to the Fore, Or How to Inform a Much-needed Debate about Australia’s Response to Refugees

by Klaus Neumann, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology

 

  • During the 2010 federal election campaign, the Australian Labor Party and the Coalition issued statements on asylum seeker policy that were pandering to the anxieties of a minority of Australians.
  • The statements about asylum seekers that have been issued by Read more »
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WA: The Vulnerable State

by Peter McMahon, School of Sustainability, Murdoch University

 

Last year Australia experienced the extremes of weather with killer bushfires in Victoria and destructive floods in Queensland. The Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods reminded us yet again that nature at her worst is far beyond the efforts of humankind to control. Read more »

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Australia’s Turn at a Recurrent Mistake: History Tells Us that Foreign Occupation only Consolidates Opposition in Afghanistan

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by Darcy Mildenhall

Executive summary

  • Afghani history over the last two centuries has shown a tragic lack of agency meaning the Afghani people have been unable to control their own political destiny.
  • The presence of foreign forces in their country only serves to unite what Read more »
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Investing in Australia’s Future: Making a Historical Case for why Our Foreign Policy Ownership Policy needs Reforming Use the National Curriculum to Secularise the State: Making a Case against Christian Religious Education in Australia’s Public Schools Historians to the Fore, Or How to Inform a Much-needed Debate about Australia’s Response to Refugees WA: The Vulnerable State Australia’s Turn at a Recurrent Mistake: History Tells Us that Foreign Occupation only Consolidates Opposition in Afghanistan