Australian Journal of Politics and History

Papers
(The TQCC of Australian Journal of Politics and History is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Karl Lueger and the Reichspost: Construction of a Cult of Personality12
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20254
Northern Territory July to December 20244
Australian Capital Territory January to June 20254
‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History. By BainAttwood (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2023), pp. xiv + 288. 59.99 NZD (hb)3
Has Politics Become More Professional? Career and Legislative Professionalisation in the Australian Parliament Since 19503
No Bullshit!: Balibo 1976 and Bob Hawke's Diplomatic Masterclass3
Australia and Vietnam: The 50‐Year Legacy Introduction3
South Australia January to June 20222
“Never Look Back, Always Look Forward”: The Early Life of Nancy Power2
People Power: How Australian Referendums Are Lost and Won. By GeorgeWilliams and DavidHume (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2024), pp. 368. $49.99 (pb)2
Aboriginal Self‐determination, Land Rights, and Recognition in the Whitlam Era: Laying Groundwork for Power Sharing and Representation2
Is Spain Different? The Tamed Memory of the Spanish Civil War and the Limits of Spain's National Self‐Image (2008–10)2
“Politics Are Quite Beneath the Concern of the Average Billjim”: Politics and the First World War Anzacs, 1914–19182
The War Game: Australia's War Leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq. By DavidHorner (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022), pp. x + 464. ISBN 978 1 76106 595 8. AU$38.37 (pb).2
Living Under Aboriginal Exemption: Negotiating State Governments' Policies and Practices2
South Australia July to December 20222
Can Law Manufacture a Party System? The Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands Experience with Party‐Strengthening Legislation2
Local and Contextual: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women2
Queensland: July–December 20252
Democratising Collective Memory Through Forensic Exhumations in Spain2
Review of Telling Tennant's Story. The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence by DeanAshenden.2
Seeking a ‘Standard of Living at Least as High’: The Context and Motivations of Australian Policies on Nauruan Migration and Resettlement, 1950 to 19642
Tasmania January to June 20252
Decolonising Politics and International Relations Classrooms: Reflections from the “Field”2
A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars. By RobertManne, Melbourne: La Trobe University Press in Conjunction with Black Inc. 2024. pp. x + 486. $A45.00 (HB)1
A New Perspective on Motivations Behind Chinese Overseas Investment: A Case Study on the Darwin Port Deal1
Queensland January to June 20251
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20221
Policy Advice and Decolonisation in Papua New Guinea1
Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy. Edited by SarahMurray and LachlanUmbers. London: Anthem Press, 2025, pp. x + 218. £80 (HB); £25 (eBook).1
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy January to June 20231
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“Government by Inspection”: Australian Rule in the “Forgotten West” of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, 1960–731
All Containment and No Engagement: Australia's Contemporary Policy towards the Democratic People's Republic of Korea1
Uncomfortable Echoes: Blackfishing First Nations Trauma During COVID‐191
Palestinian Political Prisoners: Hunger Strikes and the Battle for Dignity1
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20241
“It's Time for Action and Not Excuses”: Advisors and Leaders in Phuoc Tuy, 1968–19731
Whatever Happened to the Australian Role in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership?1
Telling the Truth About Empire? A Word on Methodology1
Edges of Empire: The Politics of Immigration in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1980–2020. By Francis L.Collins, AlanGamlen, and NeilVallelly, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2025. ix + 331 pp. 1
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From Welfarist Support for Vulnerable Groups to a Social Justice Perspective: The Australian Council of Social Service and the Construction of Poverty, 1956–751
Testing the Bonds: Franco‐Russian Alliance and the First Sino‐Japanese War1
Sport, Identity, and Self‐Determination: Aboriginal Rugby League in Brisbane after the Second World War1
A Polanyian Perspective on the Conflict Between Neoliberal Economics and Countrymindedness in Australian Drought and Water Policy1
New South Wales: July–December 20251
Western Australia July to December 20241
Men and Women of Australia: Administering Whitlam's Re‐Imagined Subject1
Striking Ore: the Rise and Fall of Union Power in the Pilbara. By AlexisVassiley (Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2025), pp. 288. $39.95 (paperback). ISBN 9781923192218.1
Pathway to Power: Shifts in Electoral Support for the Australian Labor Party Between the 1966 and 1969 Federal Elections1
Mean Streak. By Rick Morton, ISBN 978 1 6580 7 (Harper Collins, 2024), 498 pp. $36.00 (paperback)1
Landslide: The 2025 Australian Federal Election By MarianSawer, JillSheppard, and JohnWarhurst (eds.), Canberra: ANU Press, 2026. xxiii + 470 pp. $79.95 ( paperback 1
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“I Was Known to be a G**k Lover”: Histories of Asian–Australian War Bride Marriages During the Vietnam War1
Controlling Australian Immigration: Holocaust Survivors in the Post‐War Years1
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forrest River Massacre. By KateAuty. La Trobe University Press, 2023. AU$34.99(pb).1
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Short Stories of Refugeedom: Encounters between Refugees, UNHCR, and the Australian Government, 1951–19751
Ecological Crises and Ecopolitics Research in Australia0
Challenging Anzac: Stories That Don't Fit the Legend By Mia MartinHobbs, CarolynHolbrook and JoanBeaumont, Sydney: NewSouth , 2026. ix + 342 pp. $A390
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The Good Sea: The Journey of the Tasi Diak and the Politics of Refugee Protection in Australia By VannessaHearman, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press,0
A Team of Five Million?: The 2020 “Covid‐19” New Zealand General Election. Edited by JenniferCurtin, LaraGreaves, and JackVowles (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024), pp. xx + 300. Print $70.00. 0
An Ordeal of Peoplehood: Indigenous Australians and the Debates over Sovereignty, Treaty, and Voice0
Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis0
Australian Capital Territory January to June 20240
The Consultancy Conundrum: The Hollowing out of the Public Sector. LachlanGuselli and AndrewJaspan (editors) (Monash University Publishing, 2023), pp. 91. ISBN: 9781922979322 (paperback), $0
The Road to Oligarchic Peace: Comparing the Antebellum United States and Ukraine0
Tasmania January to June 20220
Dreams and Schemers: A Political History of Australia. By FrankBongiorno. Collingwood, La Trobe University Press, 2022, 480 pp, $39.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781760640095.0
Conserving the Councillor: A Case for Widespread Local Officeholding0
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Exemptions from Compulsory Income Management: A Short “History of the Present”0
The Politics of Gender Equality. By Carol Johnson. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. pp. 332. €49.99 (HB). Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64816-80
Tasmania January to June 20230
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 20220
The Party: The Communist Party of Australia from Heyday to Reckoning. By StuartMacintyre (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2022), pp. xiv + 498, 49 b&w photographs, AU$49.99 (hb).0
“Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: The Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during the Vietnam War0
The Curious Diplomat. A Memoir from the Frontlines of Diplomacy. By LachlanStrahan (Clayton: Monash University Publishing, 2025), pp. xi + 596. $39.99 (PB).0
“Actual Political Affiliations Are of Secondary Importance”: Communism and Women's Entangled Loyalties in the Australian Anti‐Nuclear Movement, 1945–650
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New South Wales January to June 20240
Disability Policy and the Whitlam Government0
Honiara: Village‐City of Solomon Islands. By CliveMoore (Canberra, Australia: ANU Press, 2022), pp. xxx‐548. AU$99 (pb) and free download.0
Northern Territory July to December 20230
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“Distinctly Australian Interests”: Australian Strategy and the Vietnam War0
The Australian History Industry. Edited by PaulAshton and PaulaHamilton. North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2021. pp.viii + 361. $49.95. ISBN: 9781922669605.0
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Australian Newspapers in the Television Age, 1956–2006. By RodTiffen (London: Anthem Press, 2025), pp. 160. £80 (HB); £25 (eBook). 9781839994913.0
Exemption and Nyungar Letters in the West Australian Archives0
Decolonising Australia's International Relations? A Critical Introduction0
Militarised Peace and Bilateral Relations in the Indian Ocean: Australia's Relations with Sri Lanka, 1972–19890
When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights0
Victoria January to June 20240
Western Australia January to June 20250
Australian Political Science in the 1960s: Establishing the Discipline of Politics at Flinders University0
Performing Aboriginal Rights in 1951: From Australia's Top End to Southeast0
Australia's Pacific Mindset: Historical Foundations0
Commonwealth of Australia January to June 20230
IanGermani, Dying for France: Experiencing the Soldier's Death, 1500–2000 (Montréal: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 2023)0
“The Pause That Refreshes”: American Servicemen on R&R in Australia, 1967–19710
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage0
Australia in the International Sphere 1901–1914: An Emerging Foreign Policy Capacity?0
The Role of Family Networks in Holocaust Rescue, 1933–1941: The Case of Australia0
Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the Revolution. Edited by MichelleArrow. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2023. Pp. ix + 318. $34.99 (Pb) $14.99 (ePub and PDF)0
Book Review:The Transnational Voices of Australia's Migrant and Minority Press. By CatherineDewhirst & RichardScully (eds.) (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2020) andVoices of Cha0
Battle of the Banks. How Ad Men, Barristers and Bankers Ended Ben Chifley's Boldest Plan. By BobCrawshaw (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2025), pp. xi +220. $49.950
“I Let Him Have It”: Sex, Anti‐Americanism, and Criminal Justice in Wartime Brisbane, 1942–440
Northern Territory Political Chronicles: July–December 20250
A Symbol of Imperial Unity? The Australian Colonies and the 1897 Imperial Conference0
Seachange Migration, Outer Metropolitan Suburbanisation, and Marginality: The Electoral Politics of the Central Coast of New South Wales, 1949–20010
Military History Supremo: Essays in Honour of David Horner AM FASSA . Edited by JoanBeaumont and GarthPratten (Canberra: ANU0
East Timor in Australia–Indonesia Relations, 1974–830
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Australian Foreign Policy Stability and Instability: Imperial Friendships and Crises from the Great Depression to the Fall of Singapore0
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The ‘Dog That Didn't Bark’—The Royal Commissions That Do Not Get Appointed: Royal Commissions and Non‐Decision Making0
New South Wales July to December 20220
Spiritual Manifest Destiny: B.A. Santamaria's Political Theology0
Tasmanian Politics June to December 20240
Victoria July to December 20240
Queensland January to June 20240
“No Colonial Baggage”: Imagining a Decolonised Australia‐Africa Relations0
Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism During the Vietnam War. By EffieKarageorgos, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2026. 312 pp. $49.99 (paperback). ISBN: 9780
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New South Wales January to June 20230
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Representative Assemblies in Early Modern European State‐Building: Evidence from Four Experiences0
Northern Territory January to June 20230
The Art of Opposition. Edited by ScottPrasser and DavidClune. Brisbane: Connor Court Publishing, 2024, pp. 487. $69.95 (HB)0
Exemption: A Gendered History0
Indigenous Military Inclusion: A Settler Colonial Critique of the Regional Force Surveillance Units0
Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection0
The New Politics of Inflation and Economic Disruption: Unlearned Lessons from the 1980s and 1990s in Australia0
New South Wales January to June 20220
From “Modern Midas Mineral” to “Satanic Substance”: Uranium, Unions, and the Atomic Age0
Australian Capital Territory January to June 20230
A Different Kind of Power: A Memoir. By JacindaArdern (Melbourne: Penguin Random House, 2025), pp. 352. $55.0
Queensland January to June 20230
Northern Territory January to June 20250
Australian Capital Territory January to June 20220
From Georges Sorel to Peter Costello: Peter Coleman and the Making of Australian Liberal Conservatism0
The Kerguelen Archipelago and Australian Security Anxieties0
Australia and Japan's Return to International Society: Negotiating Allies and the Afro‐Asian Bloc, 1952–560
An Examination of the Policy Content of Scott Morrison's and Anthony Albanese's 2022 Federal Election Campaign Materials0
Tasmania July to December 20230
The Fraser Paradox: Reconciling Expansive Multicultural Programs with Neoliberal Health Policies0
South Australia: July–December 20250
Rights or Resources? The Australian Mining Industry Council's Campaign against Aboriginal Land Rights and the (Dis)Illusion of Equality, 1975–19830
Unlearning the Discipline: Decolonising International Relations Through Pedagogy and Praxis0
Boots in Bowral: The Military Occupation of Bowral and Its Effects on Australian Defence Policy0
The Long Shadow of the Red Army Faction: How Old Explanatory Models Define Today's Terrorism Debate in Germany0
The Continuation of Women's Policy Directions from Whitlam to Fraser0
Letterboxes and Loudspeakers: Compulsory Voting and the Transformation of Grassroots Electioneering in Australia, 1910–510
Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia0
Miss(ed) Representation? Gender, Policy Content, and Legislative Success in Australian Private Members' Bills0
New South Wales July to December 20230
Nationalism at Bay: The Chinese Nationalist Policy towards Hong Kong, 1946–19490
Western Australia January to June 20240
Critical Archival Encounters and the Evolving Historiography of the Dismissal of the Whitlam Government0
Queensland January to June 20220
The Spirit of the Service: Dash, Discipline, and Flying Accidents in the Royal Australian Air Force, 1921–480
Victoria January to June 20220
The Royal Commission Into the Monetary and Banking Systems in Australia, 1935–19370
Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens. By JennyMacklin and JoelDeane (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2025), pp. 276. $36.99 (paperback).0
Bloody Howard! Gender, Leadership, and the Decline of the Liberal Party of Australia as the “Party for Women”0
Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 20230
The Last Tour: Paul and Eslanda Robeson's Visit to Australia and New Zealand. By AnnCurthoys (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing, 2025), pp. xii + 386. $39.90
Foreign Relations and the Diaspora During the Cold War: Australian–Hungarian Relations in the 1960s and 1980s0
Western Australia July to December 20230
Political Tribalism in Kuwait: The Shift of Badū from the Regime's Political Ally to Political Opposition0
The Politics of Truth: The Howard Government, HREOC , and Bringing Them Home 0
Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke Government. By FrankBongiorno, CarolynHolbrook, and JoshuaBlack (eds.), Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2026. xix + 332 pp. RRP $39.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐76‐1170
The Gypsy Economist: The Life and Times of Colin Clark. By AlexMillmow (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. xx + 396, 9 b&w photographs, €93,59 (hb).0
Double Disillusion: Legal and Political Aspects of the 1974 Double Dissolution0
History and Memory Between Europe and Australia: New Perspectives0
Re‐Imagining Australia's Ocean Life and Territories in the Fraser Years, 1975–19830
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Review Essay: Recent Histories of Water in Australia0
Commonwealth of Australia July to December 20220
Northern Territory January to June 20240
Correction to “ Yubbi Yarning Circle Model : Collective Narratives and Cultural Expression in the 0
Australia, Britain, and Alternatives to European Integration, 1960–730
State Sovereignty and Private Military and Security Companies in Australia0
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. By DavidGraeber and DavidWengrow (London: Allen Lane, 2021), pp. xii + 692. 9 b&w images. AU$65.00 (hb).0
Victoria July to December 20230
Religious Liberty and the Rights of White and Aboriginal Subjects in Colonial New South Wales: The Case of John Dunmore Lang0
“We, to Them, Are Their Heroes”: Narratives of Rescue in White Australian Veterans' Memories of the Vietnamese0
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Ikarians in South Australia, 1900–1945: Emigration, Settlement, Community Building, and Integration. By YianniCartledge, Sydney: Anthem Press, 2026. xx + 167 pp. $160 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐83‐9995670
Robert Philp and the Politics of Development. By LyndonMegarrity. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing Ltd, 2022. pp. xv + 335, AU $49.95 (pb).0
European History in the Shadows of Crisis0
Settler Colonial Strategic Culture: Australia, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere0
Conzinc Riotinto of Australia — Foreign Ownership and Control0
An Evolving Record: A Centennial History of the Economic Society of Australia By AlexMillmow, North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2025. v + 199 pp. $49.95 ( pape0
South Australia January to June 20250
Australian Capital Territory0
Violence, the Subject, and the Beyond: Achille Mbembe and Violence in International Relations Theory0
Watershed: The 2022 Australian Federal Election. Edited by AnikaGauja, MarianSawer, and JillSheppard. Canberra: ANU Press, 2023. pp. xxv + 432. Open access or $69.95 (pb)0
Exposure to Campaign and Partisan Voting: The Moderating Roles of Voters' Political Predispositions0
Whitlam's Economic (Inter)Nationalism0
Malcolm Fraser and Jimmy Carter: Trilateralism and Personal Diplomacy0
Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal Socialism. By SheltonStromquist (London & New York: Verso Press, 2023), pp. xii + 867. $US80(hb)0
Practising Politics in a Disorderly Democracy0
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Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia's Lost Generation. By RossMcMullin. Melbourne: Scribe, 2023, pp. 626. $49.99 (paperback)0
“Realignment”, “Dealignment”, or “Deviation”? Classifying the 2022 Australian Federal Election0
Fraser Government and Public Inquiries0
The Coup Capital of the Democratic World? Voters and Prime Ministerial Change in Australia0
History Wars. The Peter Ryan‐Manning Clark Controversy. By DougMunro (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021), ajph12903vi +193 pp., colour and b/w illustrations. e‐book† and 0
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(De)stigmatized Propaganda: A Skinnerian Analysis of Definitional Genealogy and Conceptual Shifts0
“The Old Colonial Power Can Stand Proxy”: The Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia and the Politics of the 1980s0
What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century0
Revisiting the Anti‐Zionism of Sir Isaac Isaacs, Australia's First Native‐Born Governor‐General—and a Jew0
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A Her‐Storical Biography and Finding Family History Through the Archives0
Endorsing Annexation? The Whitlam Government's De Jure Recognition of the Soviet Baltic States0
Histories of Fascism and Anti‐Fascism in Australia. Edited by EvanSmith, JaynePersian and Vashti JaneFox (London and New York: Routledge, 2023), pp. xiii + 266. Pb A$59.99, e‐book A$48.59.0
Without “Bipartisanship” Have Referendums to Change the Australian Constitution Ever Succeeded? An Unnoticed Success, Several Near‐Misses, and the Struggle to Explain Why Referendums Fail0
Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918–20 moment. Edited by RomainFathi, MargaretHutchison, AndrekosVarnava, and Michael J. K.Walsh (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. ix + 212.0
Race Mathews: A Life in Politics by Iola Mathews and A Long March by Kim Carr, Melbourne, Australia: Monash University Publishing. 2024. $39.99 and $49.990
Helpem Fren: Australia and the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands. By MichaelWesley. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2023, pp. x, 310. ISBN 9780522879056 (paperback) ($400
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Queensland0
New South Wales January to June 20250
COVID ‐19, Institutional Trust, and Citizens' Willingness to Trade Freedoms for Security in the Asia‐Pacific Region0
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk: The Founding Father of Czechoslovak People's Democracy0
Transformation of the Historical Narratives of the Second World War and the Decommunisation of Memory Policy in Ukraine0
Revisiting the HMAS Swan Scandal and Histories of Sexual Harassment in the Australian Defence Force0
No Surrender from down under: The Australian Anti‐Irish Home Rule Movement, 1911–140
Toxic Parliaments and What Can Be Done about Them. By MarianSawer and MariaMaley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), 135pp. Open access or Eur 49.99 (hb).0
Another Form of Aboriginal Exemption — Employment as Protection Against Removal0
Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding0
Civil‐Military Bargaining in Early NATO Institution Building: The Long Shadow of Institutional Beginnings0
Vladimir Petrov: A Reappraisal0
East Timor, Rene Girard and Neocolonial Violence: Scapegoating as Australian Policy. By SusanConnelly. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.0
Rural Bias, Electoral Malapportionment, and Regional‐Urban Social Cleavages in Victoria0
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Broken Heart: A True History of the Voice Referendum. By ShireenMorris (La Trobe University Press, in conjunction with Black Inc., 2024), 254 pp. $36.99 (paperback). ISBN 97817606452050
Australia: A History. By TonyAbbott (Harper Collins, 2025), pp. 1–418. $49.99 (HB) ISBN 978 1 4607 6829 7.The Shortest History of Australia. By MarkMcKenna (Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Books Pt0
Tasmanian Politics January to June 20240
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Broken Spear: The Untold Story of Black Tom Birch, The Man who Sparked Australia's Bloodiest War. By RobertCox (Mile End SA: Wakefield Press, 2021), pp. xxi + 299. AU$39.95 (pb).0
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