Australian Historical Studies, Volume 55, Issue 2 (2024)

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Wan Solwara: Australia and Papua New Guinea

EDITORIAL

Editorial
Wan Solwara: New Histories of Australia and Papua New Guinea
Helen Gardner, Jonathan Ritchie, Brad Underhill & Keimelo Gima
Pages: 223-232
Published online: 24 May 2024
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ARTICLES

Article
‘The Moat of Oblivion’: Australia and the Forgetting of Papua New Guinea
Helen Gardner, Jonathan Ritchie & Brad Underhill
Pages: 233-254
Published online: 24 May 2024
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COMMENTARY

Comment
My Reflections on Papua New Guinea’s Independence of 16 September 1975
Keimelo Gima
Pages: 255-273
Published online: 24 May 2024
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‘We Come Here and Play Music Like Hell’: The Royal Papuan Constabulary Band’s 1945 Australian ‘Victory Loan’ Tour
Michael Webb & Steven Gagau
Pages: 274-296
Published online: 24 May 2024
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COMMENTARY

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Highlands Labour Scheme and Colonisation in the Maril Constituency of Chimbu Sub-District: The Story of Kaul Ole (Komtee)
Joycelyn Pipike-Kama
Pages: 297-309
Published online: 24 May 2024
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‘Time Is Against Us’: Anti-Communism, Decolonisation, and Papua New Guinean Independence
Jon Piccini
Pages: 310-329
Published online: 30 Oct 2023
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Domestic, Expatriate, International, Overseas? Australian Government's Categorisation of Students from the Territory of Papua and New Guinea
Anna Kent
Pages: 330-344
Published online: 24 May 2024
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COMMENTARY

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Growing up in the Papua New Guinea Defence Force: 1976–1988
Lahui Ako
Pages: 345-353
Published online: 24 May 2024
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The Seventh State and the Barnes Dance: Deciding the Future for the Territory of Papua and New Guinea
Brad Underhill & Helen Gardner
Pages: 354-374
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Never (Again) the Twain Shall Meet? Some Reflections on Australian and Papua New Guinean Shared Histories
Dario Di Rosa
Pages: 375-391
Published online: 24 May 2024
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EXHIBITION REVIEW

Exhibition
Ellis Rowan: Colonialism and Nature Painting, Cairns Art Gallery, 9 September 2023–18 February 2024
Stephen Naylor
Pages: 392-396
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Grit & Gold: Tales from a Sporting Nation, National Library of Australia, 23 June 2023–28 January 2024
Bernard Whimpress
Pages: 397-398
Published online: 24 May 2024
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BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review
Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm
By Alan Atkinson. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2022. Pp. 512. A$39.99 paper.
Susan Broomhall
Pages: 399-400
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law
By Alecia Simmonds. Melbourne: Black Inc Books, imprint La Trobe University Press, 2023. Pp. 448. A$45.00 paper.
Katrina Schlunke
Pages: 400-401
Published online: 24 May 2024
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The Humanitarians: Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919–1975
By Joy Damousi. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 347. $129.00 cloth.
Ann Beaglehole
Pages: 401-403
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Failed Ambitions: Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities
By Lee-Ann Monk and David Henderson, with Christine Bigby, Richard Broome and Katie Holmes. Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2023. Pp. 357. A$39.99 paper.
Stephen Garton
Pages: 403-404
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Reaching Through Time: Finding My Family’s Stories
By Shauna Bostock. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2023. Pp. 352. A$34.99 paper.
Victoria Haskins
Pages: 404-405
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Australian Women’s Justice: Settler Colonisation and the Queensland Vote
By Deborah Jordan. London and New York: Routledge, 2024. Pp. 332. A$56.79 e-Book; A$218.40 hardback.
Marian Quartly
Pages: 405-406
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation
By Ross McMullin. Melbourne: Scribe, 2023. Pp. 640. A$49.99 paper.
Joan Beaumont
Pages: 406-407
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Sites of International Memory
Edited by Glenda Sluga, Kate Darian-Smith, and Madeleine Herren. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. Pp. 368. US$64.95 cloth.
Marilyn Lake
Pages: 407-409
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Abortion Care is Health Care
By Barbara Baird. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2023. Pp. 320. A$40 paper.
Felicity Goodyear-Smith
Page: 409
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Revealing Secrets: An Unofficial History of Australian Signals Intelligence and the Advent of Cyber
By John Blaxland and Clare Birgin. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2023. Pp. 451. A$49.99 paper.
David McKnight
Pages: 409-410
Published online: 24 May 2024
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Writing Australian History On-Screen: Television and Film Period Dramas “Down Under”
Edited by Jo Parnell and Julie Anne Taddeo. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023. Pp. 216. US$95.00 paper.
Anthony Lambert
Pages: 411-412
Published online: 24 May 2024
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