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Back to SearchKatharine Massam, "A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia" (ANU Press, 2020)
Episode 48
Katharine Massam's A Bridge Between: Spanish Benedictine Missionary Women in Australia (ANU Press, 2020) is the first book detailing the Benedictine …
5 years, 9 months ago
Stuart Kells, "The Convent: A City Finds Its Heart" (Miegunyah Press, 2020)
Episode 48
Nuns, inmates, community vs corporation, Australia, oasis in a metropolis.
The Abbotsford Convent left to languish for years after the last of the Sis…
5 years, 9 months ago
Peter Hart, "The Gallipoli Evacuation" (Living History, 2020)
Episode 90
One of the most well-told episodes of the First World War, the 1915 Gallipoli expedition, also has its own long-ignored aspects - specifically, the s…
5 years, 10 months ago
Melissa Harper, "The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Episode 47
Today I talked to Melissa Harper about her book The Ways of the Bushwalker: On Foot in Australia (University of Washington Press, 2020). Australians …
5 years, 10 months ago
P. Bilimoria and P. Hughes, "The Indian Diaspora: Hindus and Sikhs in Australia" (Manticore Press, 2019)
Episode 82
Since the late 1990s, the Indian community in Australia has grown faster than any other immigrant community. The Indian Diaspora has made substantial…
5 years, 10 months ago
Judith Brett, "From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting" (Text Publishing, 2019)
Episode 111
In this fascinating history of Australia’s electoral system, Judith Brett makes a timely case in favour of compulsory voting. Her analysis is enterta…
5 years, 11 months ago
Frederick Luis Aldama, "Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
Episode 78
In Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia (UP of Mississippi, 2020), Frederick Luis Aldama brings together comics scholars Joshu…
5 years, 11 months ago
Maile Arvin, "Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai‘i and Oceania" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 77
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans saw Polynesians as almost racially white, and specula…
6 years, 2 months ago
Matt Tomlinson, "God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and Theology in the Pacific" (U Hawai‘i Press, 2020)
Episode 67
Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God.
In God is Samoan: Dialogues Between Culture and …
6 years, 4 months ago
Imre Salusinszky, "The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga" (Melbourne UP, 2019)
Episode 45
"Every morning of my life in the past few years I would wake with the thought, I’m a murderer. I have no right to enjoy life.” Evan Pederick speaking…
6 years, 4 months ago