History Australia, Volume 19, Issue 4 (2022)

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Editorial

Editorial
From the editors
Benjamin Mountford, Ellen Warne, Kate Fullagar & Jessica Lake
Pages: 633-636
Published online: 17 Nov 2022
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Presidential Address

Article
Volunteering, the voluntary principle, and the moving frontier in a time of Covid – Reflections
Presidential Address, AHA Conference, Deakin University, Monday 27 June 2022
Melanie Oppenheimer
Pages: 637-648
Published online: 12 Oct 2022
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Research Articles

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‘Poor, Vicious and Unmarried’: Penal Reform and the First Savings Bank in New South Wales
Garritt Van Dyk
Pages: 649-667
Published online: 06 Jun 2022
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‘In a State of War’: Governor James Stirling, Extrajudicial Violence and the Conquest of Western Australia’s Avon Valley, 1830–1840
Jeremy Martens
Pages: 668-686
Published online: 27 May 2022
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Morton’s memento? Reading Indigenous counter-networks in the ‘post’-colonial museum
Paige Gleeson
Pages: 687-709
Published online: 08 Aug 2022
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Displacing history, shifting paradigms: erasing Aboriginal antiquity from Australian anthropology
Amy Way
Pages: 710-730
Published online: 12 May 2022
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Arts on show: Australia’s first national pavilions at international expositions in 1908 and 1937
Catherine De Lorenzo & Eileen Chanin
Pages: 731-752
Published online: 18 May 2022
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What diggers drank: the AIF and its refreshments 1914–18
Daniel Reynaud & Emanuela Reynaud
Pages: 753-770
Published online: 25 May 2022
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Dreams of a united Left? The SDA’s role in the rise (and fall) of a radical New Left in Queensland
Paul Bleakley
Pages: 771-788
Published online: 25 Apr 2022
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‘The beginning of feminism’: the RCAE Study Centre and feminism in Albury-Wodonga in the 1970s and 1980s
Portia Dilena
Pages: 789-806
Published online: 19 May 2022
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History off the Page Reviews

Review Article
Up Close: Conversations with Modern Veterans
Adam Shand, presenter, 6 × 23–33 mins, Australian War Memorial with LiSTNR, 2022
Mia Martin Hobbs
Pages: 807-808
Published online: 08 Nov 2022
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Burning,
Burning, Eva Orner, director, Amazon Studios, Dirty Films, and Propagate Content, 2021
Andrea Rawluk
Pages: 809-810
Published online: 08 Nov 2022
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Karen Fox Dissects the Australian Honours System
Honouring a Nation: A History of Australia’s Honours System, by Karen Fox, Canberra, ANU Press, 2022, 296 pp., $AU55.00 (pbk, Download for Free), ISBN (Print) 9781760465001, (Online) 9781760465018. Publisher’s Website:
David Carment
Pages: 811-812
Published online: 18 Aug 2022
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Jason M. Gibson on Strehlow’s Shadow
Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection, by Jason M. Gibson, Albany, State University of New York, 2021 (pbk), 318 pp., $AU34.99 (pbk), ISBN 9781438478548. Publisher’s website: https://sunypress.edu/
Tim Rowse
Pages: 813-815
Published online: 22 Aug 2022
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Mae Ngai investigates Chinese exclusion across the Anglo-American world
The Chinese Question, The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, by Mae Ngai, New York, New York, W.W. Norton and Company, 2021, 440 pp., $AU38.47 (hbk), ISBN 978-0-393-63416-7. Publisher's website
Julia T. Martínez
Pages: 816-817
Published online: 04 Oct 2022
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Parallel lives: Iain McCalman crafts an intimate history of Delia Akeley, a monkey and twentieth-century imperialism
Delia Akeley & the Monkey: A Human–Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy and Nature, by Iain McCalman, Perth, Upswell Publishing, 2022, 240 pp., $AU29.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780645076363, Publisher’s website:
Alecia Simmonds
Pages: 818-819
Published online: 04 Oct 2022
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Robert Reynolds, Shirleene Robinson and Paul Sendziuk shine a light on the world of volunteers during the HIV/AIDS crisis
In the Eye of the Storm: Volunteers and Australia’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis, by Robert Reynolds, Shirleene Robinson and Paul Sendziuk, Sydney: NewSouth, 2021, 266 pp., $AU39.99, ISBN 978-1-7422-3674-2. Publisher’s website:
James Bennett
Pages: 820-821
Published online: 10 Oct 2022
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André Brett traces the history of New Zealand railways from 1920 to the present
New Zealand Passenger Rail Since 1920, by André Brett with maps by Sam van der Weerden, Dunedin, Otago University Press, 2021, 368 pp., $NZ65.00 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-9900-4809-8, Publisher’s website:
Tom Brooking
Pages: 822-823
Published online: 12 Nov 2022
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Honae Cuffe explores the origins of Australian foreign policy
The Genesis of a Policy: Defining and Defending Australia's National Interest in the Asia-Pacific, 1921-57, by Honae Cuffe, Canberra, ANU Press, 2021, 249 pp., free to download, ISBN 9781760464691 (online). Publisher's website:
Nicholas Ferns
Pages: 824-825
Published online: 21 Oct 2022
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Carolyn Collins gives Save Our Sons the substantial history they deserve
Save Our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War, by Carolyn Collins, Melbourne, Monash University Publishing, 2021, 360 pp. $AU34.95 (pbk), ISBN 9781925835960, Publisher’s website:
Zora Simic
Pages: 826-827
Published online: 01 Nov 2022
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Lisa Ford on martial law and the king’s peace
The King’s Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire, by Lisa Ford, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2022, 336 pp., $US35.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780674249073. Publisher’s website:
Coel Kirkby
Pages: 828-829
Published online: 19 Oct 2022
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Mark McKenna explores frontier violence and truth-telling in the ‘spiritual centre’ of the nation
Return to Uluru, by Mark McKenna, Melbourne, Black Inc., 2021, 256 pp., $AU34.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781760642556. Publisher’s website:
Shannyn Palmer
Pages: 830-831
Published online: 07 Nov 2022
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Jaynie Anderson, Max Vodola and Shane Carmody lead two volumes on a Baroque Archbishop who shaped Melbourne’s colonial life
The Invention of Melbourne: A Baroque Archbishop and a Gothic Architect, edited by Jaynie Anderson, Max Vodola and Shane Carmody, Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press, 2019, 328 pp., $AU54.99, ISBN 9780522875638. Publisher’s website: and The Architecture of Devotion: James Goold and His Legacies in Colonial Melbourne, edited by Jaynie Anderson, Max Vodola and Shane Carmody, Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press, 2021, 328 pp., $AU54.99, ISBN 9780522878165. Publisher’s website:
James Lesh
Pages: 832-834
Published online: 16 Nov 2022
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Bain Attwood details the life of a Yorta Yorta activist
William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life Story, by Bain Attwood, Carlton, The Miegunyah Press, 2021, 296 pp., $AU34.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780522877939. Publisher’s website: .
Julie Andrews
Pages: 835-837
Published online: 21 Nov 2022
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