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Back to SearchMatthew Scobie and Anna Sturman, "The Economic Possibilities of Decolonisation" (Bridget Williams Books, 2024)
Episode 237
What do the economics of decolonisation mean for the future of Aotearoa? This question drives the work of Dr. Matthew Scobie and Dr. Anna Sturman as …
10 months, 1 week ago
Joanna Siekiera, "International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region" (Routledge, 2025)
Episode 153
International Law and Security in Indo-Pacific: Strategic Design for the Region (Routledge, 2025) edited by Dr. Joanna Siekiera uses an interdiscipli…
10 months, 1 week ago
Charlotte Macdonald, "Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire" (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)
Episode 235
The pivotal year of 1870 brought down the curtain on the redcoat garrison world at both the metropolitan and colonial ends of the empire . . . In few…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Aaron Smale, "Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone" (Bridget Williams, 2024)
Episode 234
"The Coast has been battered for years by decisions made by those who don’t live there and don’t have any connection to the place. It started early."…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Stephen D. Hopper, "Eucalyptus" (Reaktion, 2025)
Episode 233
Eucalypts, iconic to Australia, have shaped art, science and landscapes worldwide. With around nine hundred species, from towering giants to compact …
11 months, 1 week ago
Australia‘s National Indigenous Languages Survey
Episode 232
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Alexandra Grey speaks with Zoe Avery, a Worimi woman and a Research Officer at the Centre for…
1 year ago
Jessica Urwin, "Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia" (U of Washington Press, 2025)
Episode 231
Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentiet…
1 year, 1 month ago
Zachary Gorman, "The Menzies Watershed: Liberalism, Anti-Communism, Continuities 1943-1954" (Melbourne UP, 2023)
Episode 230
The eleven years that passed between the 1943 and the 1954 elections were arguably some of the most pivotal in Australian history.
This was a period …
1 year, 1 month ago
Michelle De Kretser, "Theory & Practice" (Catapult, 2025)
Episode 526
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Australia on unceded Gadigal land. She writes fiction but has also published a short book abou…
1 year, 2 months ago
Nicholas Thomas, "Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific" (Apollo, 2020)
Episode 115
In Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (Apollo, 2020), the distinguished anthropologist Nicholas Thomas tells the story of the peopling of the Pa…
1 year, 3 months ago