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The End of White Australia: How a Nation Quietly Rewrote Itself
By the time Egon Erwin Kisch arrived in Melbourne in 1934, fascism was ascendant in Europe. The Czech-born Jewish journalist had come to...
The Making of a Citizen
By the end of the 1940s, Australians were at a crossroads. Since Federation nearly half a century earlier, they had lived awkwardly between...
The Radical Commonwealth: How Early Australia Was Both Progressive and Exclusionary
In 1901, Australia entered nationhood carrying a set of contradictions that would shape it for decades. In its very first year, the new...
The City We Demolished
Once central to daily life, Melbourne’s Eastern Market was demolished in 1960 after decades of neglect. The City We Demolished explores how...
How We Learned to Demolish Our Cities
In the post-war drive to modernise, Australian cities dismantled the civic fabric that once anchored daily life. Markets, streetscapes, and...
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The Man Who Held Tobruk
Sir Leslie Morshead and the Rats of Tobruk
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