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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

The Early Modern Colonial State in Asia: Private Agency and Family Networks in the English East India Company [PDF]

, 2015
This thesis studies the formation of the early modern colonial state in Asia. Through an exploration of the English East India Company, it examines the dynamics which shaped political authority, colonial governance and the performance of state power in ...
Veevers, David
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Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Garth Boomer Address 2017 : low SES contexts and English

, 2017
In this essay, I focus on the role of teacher-research in developing intellectual engagement in the context of low SES school communities and English. When the OECD after each round of PISA results declares that 'the socioeconomic background of students ...
Sawyer, Wayne (R8537)
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'Our English visitors' : some British women in Malta during the nineteenth century [PDF]

, 2011
Recent historiography has challenged an exclusively male reading of empire. In Malta, however, the presence of British women has been generally limited to the philanthropic activities of the wives or widows of visiting dignitaries. While acknowledging
Refalo, Michael
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‘The White Hordes From the West’: Race and Refuge in Australian Media Commentary About White Rhodesians During Zimbabwe's Decolonisation

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
wiley   +1 more source

The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
wiley   +1 more source

Rewriting history : postmodern and postcolonial negotiations in the fiction of J.G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie [PDF]

, 1995
This thesis is a study of the rewriting of history in the work of four novelists: J. G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie. I argue that their work occupies a particular position that is both within contemporary British fiction, yet ...
McLeod, J.M., McLeod, John Martin
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Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn, John D. Turner, Clive B. Walker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source