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Program: 06 | Shooting the Past | The Glide
An arresting photograph has Clare Wright duck-diving into the history of surfing in Australia. This series was originally released in 2019 Catch all of the Season 1 and Season 2 episodes on the Shooting the Past website
Program: 05 | Shooting the Past | Roughy Justice
A fishy looking photograph throws Clare Wright into the deep end of the battle between industry and sustainability. Guests: Julie Fourter, commercial fisher and photographer Dr Anna Clark, historian, The Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney Dr. John R.
Program: 04 | Shooting the Past | Alien Nation
Clare Wright explores the story behind a studio portrait of an Edwardian family, and raises some tricky questions about citizenship, the Australian constitution and the subtle art of belonging.
Program: 03 | Shooting the Past | All Tragic to the Moon
Clare Wright unravels the dramatic story within a family photograph that takes us to the searing heart of an Australian summer tragedy: bushfire. Guests: Anne Kilner, granddaughter of Millie Rankin Tom Griffiths AO, W K Hancock Professor of History in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University Associate Professor Kevin Tolhurst, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences at the University of Melbourne.
Program: 02 | Shooting the Past | Camp Sovereignty
A photograph of two men — one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous — holding hands, leads Clare Wright to investigate the history of First Nations resistance in Australia. Guests: Robbie Thorpe, Indigenous activist Kim Kruger, Lecturer & Researcher, Moondani Balluk Academic Centre, Victoria University Dr Richard Broome, Emeritus Professor of history, La Trobe University This series was originally released in 2019 Catch all of the Season 1 and Season 2 episodes on the Shooting the Past website
Australia's gun laws need reform: tightening the "genuine reason" requirement
Recent Australia Institute research showing that perhaps 200,000 people in NSW have gun licences that they don’t need highlights a key aspect of Australia’s gun laws that has not been well implemented. To own a gun here, you need a genuine reason to. Post-Bondi, Australia’s gun laws are in the spotlight and understanding their details and history will be important if they are to be strengthened effectively.
Newcastle Uni shows how university governance is rotten in regional universities too
OPINION Photo: AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi There is a rot at the top of our universities. The higher education system in Australia is broken. That much is clear from the recent Senate inquiry into the quality of governance at Australian higher education providers, and from the evidence given to date at the NSW Parliamentary inquiry into the NSW university sector. As a regional university, we so often escape the scrutiny applied to our metropolitan or more prestigious cousins like UTS and ANU.
The Ruin of Magic
My family is not one of ancestral portraits in frames. Whoever it was who’d known the Devon meadows has long been silent. No dusty chests of old velvet and ribbon-tied letters in any attic for me. I am a descendant, evidently, but of people who have dissolved away, uneventfully. Amnesia is the turbine of Australian contentment. And exiles’ nostalgia is part of that. Far away, we point a telescope back to the old land but look through the wrong end. We forget the real place, gather renditions.
Australian universities face a governance crisis - and their communities are already building solutions
Concerns about unaccountable governance, limited transparency, high executive pay, and poor outcomes for staff wellbeing and student safety have put the Australian university sector under unprecedented . Historian Hannah Forsyth argued that the solution is to “better connect universities to community, with more democratic internal decision-making systems”. The question is: how? The answer is already emerging from within universities themselves.
Yunupiŋu played the long game on native title – and has finally won
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‘You do what you must do, and you do it well’
A lifelong mantra first heard when the author was six, courtesy of Bob Dylan, serves to calm the pursuit of perfectionism Life is sad, life is a bust All you can do is do what you must You do what you must do, and you do it well — Bob Dylan, “Buckets of Rain” Bob Dylan had overturned the folk applecart and gone electric – as the movie-going world now knows via a scraggly haired Timothée Chalamet in the historically dubious but nostalgically faithful A Complete Unknown – a decade before he...
10 essential books to read on Australia Day - our expert picks
A barbecue, a protest … or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an essential Australia Day read. Here are the works they consider crucial to understanding our culture and history. Why Warriors Lie Down and Die: Djambatj Mala – Richard Trudgen When asked to nominate a book I consider essential to understanding Australian history, a few come to mind.
Bark diplomacy • Inside Story
Clare Wight’s latest book, Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions, is the third volume of her history of Australian democracy. The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, which came first, centred on the women and men who made and followed the Eureka flag, and You Daughters of Freedom was an account of the Australian suffragists, their victories at home and their impact internationally, symbolised by the Women’s Banner.
Best Australian books of the 21st century: as chosen by 50 experts Original
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Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers. But like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Maria Tumarkin – didn’t get a guernsey. That’s where we come in.
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How does background knowledge affect second language reading? An eye movement study
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. Supporting Information Filename Description ijal12601-sup-0001-SuppMat.docx47.2 KB Supporting Information REFERENCES (1980). Native and non-native speaker performance on cloze tests. Language Learning, 30, 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-1770.1980.tb00151.x (2009).
From Eureka to suffrage to now: a Voice that was 169 years in the making
“The envy of the world.” That’s how one American journalist described Australia at the turn of the 20th century. What was the object of global desire, the precious jewel that this very new nation at the bottom of the planet possessed and that the rest of the international community coveted? Was it sporting prowess? Military valour? Sparkling beaches or a bounty of mineral resources? It was democracy.
From Eureka to suffrage to now: a Voice that was 169 years in the making
“The envy of the world.” That’s how one American journalist described Australia at the turn of the 20th century. What was the object of global desire, the precious jewel that this very new nation at the bottom of the planet possessed and that the rest of the international community coveted? Was it sporting prowess? Military valour? Sparkling beaches or a bounty of mineral resources? It was democracy.
From Eureka to suffrage to now: a Voice that was 169 years in the making Original
“The envy of the world.” That’s how one American journalist described Australia at the turn of the 20th century. What was the object of global desire, the precious jewel that this very new nation at the bottom of the planet possessed and that the rest of the international community coveted? Was it sporting prowess? Military valour? Sparkling beaches or a bounty of mineral resources? It was democracy.
The Ruins of Science - a story of misdirected medical power - ABC listen
This story starts with a mysterious photograph; a picture of an unfamiliar looking medical object. But with further sleuthing, what this piece of paraphernalia reveals from the past is a story riddled with confusion, prejudice, and misdirected medical power. Acclaimed historian and award-winning author Clare Wright uncovers the history of gay 'aversion therapy' of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Australia. Thanks to team from ABC Radio National's Shooting The Past series.
Friday essay: 60 years old, the Yirrkala Bark Petitions are one of our founding documents - so why don't we know more about them?
Wed Aug 16 Written by Clare Wright, Professor of History, La Trobe University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of deceased people. It would be interesting to learn who thought up this gimmick. On August 16 1963, Cecil Lambert, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Territories, scribbled these words next to a news clipping of a day-old article in the Canberra Times. “Aboriginal Petition on Bark” read the headline.
Friday essay: 60 years old, the Yirrkala Bark Petitions are one of our founding documents - so why don't we know more about them?
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Friday essay: 60 years old, the Yirrkala Bark Petitions are one of our founding documents – so why don't we know more about them? Original
It would be interesting to learn who thought up this gimmick. On August 16 1963, Cecil Lambert, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Territories, scribbled these words next to a news clipping of a day-old article in the Canberra Times. “Aboriginal Petition on Bark” read the headline. “Novel Plea by Tribal Group”.
The power to take up space: unveiling Zelda D'Aprano
A few days ago at Trades Hall Council on Lyon Street, Melbourne, the late feminist Zelda D’Aprano was immortalised in bronze statue created by artist Jennifer Mann. Zelda’s most famous act was chaining herself to the doors of the Commonwealth building in 1969 to call for equal pay for women. That was but one act, among many. Zelda’s statue didn’t pop up by accident.
Archive Fever on Apple Podcasts
31 episodes Archive Fever is a new Australian history podcast featuring intimate conversations with writers, artists, curators, fellow historians and other victims of the research bug. Each episode, co-hosts Clare Wright and Yves Rees talk to archive addicts about what kind of archives they use, how often they use them, when they got their first hit. Join us as we ask: what madness is this?
'It's inevitable that somebody walking is going to get hit' say residents (photos)
The closure on Monday of a section of the old A3055 (Undercliff Drive) at the Niton end of St Lawrence, which was informally adopted as a footpath six years ago due to no pedestrian provision on the new section of road, is putting walkers, people in wheelchairs, cyclists and horse riders at risk, say residents.
Contacts Book: Wright & Wright Architects reveal their favourite collaborators
Susanna Heron London Clare Wright: I met Susanna through her sister Kate Heron, a professor at Westminster University, when I was an external examiner there. Susanna is a site-specific artist whose work I had been interested in, so I was pleased we hit it off and hoped that we’d be able to collaborate one day. The opportunity arose at St John’s College, Oxford, where we added a new study centre to a grade-I-listed Baroque ensemble.
Sydney Writers' Festival - Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Great Oratory and Speechifying
From the soapbox to the stage, carefully crafted speeches have inspired and persuaded minds throughout the ages. As we lose faith in our leaders and the institutions of civil society cede their moral authority, we gather a group of stirring orators to recreate their favourite moments of speechifying – from the worlds of politics and theatre, cinema and the law – to remind us of the power of words and the thrill of great oration.
Podcast: Sydney Writers' Festival – A Lie Agreed Upon
“Am I Australian? Am I Canadian? Am I Jamaican? I’m all of them. And they exist inside me. And all I had to do was be responsible to that person that was inside me. So in a way, it kind of gave me that grounding…I found myself. And it had nothing to do with a country. It had to do with my own spirit and the ancestors with me.” – Sienna Brown In the right hands, a story set in the past can shed new light on the present, set the imagination loose and make for a page-turning read.
A Wave of Female Candidates Powered by Historic Swell
I’m going to call it: 2022 is shaping up to be one of the most interesting federal elections since 1903. We know what’s going on in our national life as this dreadful pandemic year draws to a close, but what was so special about 1903? History buffs will recall that the Commonwealth Franchise Act was passed in 1902, a year after Australia became the world’s newest nation. That Act made Australia the world’s most democratic nation.
From Global Leaders to Fossil Fools
It’s official. Australia has been deemed the world’s worst performer at COP26. The Climate Action Network (CAN), an association of more than 1500 civil society organisations in over 130 countries dedicated to fostering sustainable action to avert the climate crisis, voted Australia the ‘colossal fossil’ of this year’s COP, dubbing our leaders ‘fossil fools’ and citing a series of ‘epic fails’ in our nation’s bogus policy to reach net zero. No podium finishes. No Academy Awards acceptance speeches.
The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
Edith Cowan's remarkable leadership in overcoming obstacles to women's public participation was forged through personal tragedy. Born Edith Dircksey Brown on the remote station of Glengary in Western Australia in 1861 to parents, Kenneth and Eliza, who were both from original settler families in the district and were well-connected, pious and conservative, she led a happy, uninhibited early childhood.
Friday essay: masters of the future or heirs of the past? Mining, history and Indigenous ownership
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people. In May 2020, the international mining giant Rio Tinto made a calculated and informed decision to drill 382 blast holes in an area of its Brockman 4 mining lease that encompassed the ancient rock shelter formations at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
Comorbidity profile of adult survivors at twenty years following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation
Numerous chronic medical conditions and complications can arise following allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) that may have a negative impact on survival and quality of life. Objective The purpose of the present study was to review the comorbidities of a single‐center cohort of allogeneic HCT recipients that survived twenty years post‐allogeneic transplantation.
We have enough electorates named after dead white men. It's time we chose a woman instead
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. What’s in a name? A rose might very well smell as sweet if it was called a turnip, but clearly there is more cultural cache invested in nomenclature than Shakespeare would have us believe. Why else would our forefathers have been so intent on reserving the lion’s share of geographic names in Australia for men if there was not real value in the symbolic real estate?
We have enough electorates named after dead white men. It's time we chose a woman instead
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. What’s in a name? A rose might very well smell as sweet if it was called a turnip, but clearly there is more cultural cache invested in nomenclature than Shakespeare would have us believe. Why else would our forefathers have been so intent on reserving the lion’s share of geographic names in Australia for men if there was not real value in the symbolic real estate?
Past Tense. History: What is it good for?
Reading: Past Tense. History: What is it good for? Share: With Professor Clare Wright at the helm, we hear from Megan Davis, Tony Birch, Lucy Treloar, Chris Flynn and James Dunk responding to the NSW History Week theme, History: What is it good for? Watch the event with us in real-time on YouTube or Facebook live.
Friday essay: a response to the Cronulla riots, ten years on
In mid-December 2005, politicians of all persuasions branded the violent clashes that had just occurred on Sydney’s southern suburbs as “un-Australian”. Whether the term was being applied to the racist white thugs who attacked Lebanese beach-goers or to the Chardonnay sippers who defended the “new Australians” right to be there was sometimes not clear.
How The Dark Gets In
My family and I lost a dear friend this week. We mourned her passing with prayers and candles. She had been tall, straight and true, a constant companion, and this week my husband and I made the heart-breaking decision to cut her down. Our magnificent white cedar tree is now but a pile of logs and a startlingly large mound of sawdust. Though technically the tree was not a casualty of Covid-19, in a way she was collateral damage of the pandemic.
Friday essay: masters of the future or heirs of the past? Mining, history and Indigenous ownership
Fri Jan 29 Written by Clare Wright, Professor of History, La Trobe University Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images and names of deceased people. In May 2020, the international mining giant Rio Tinto made a calculated and informed decision to drill 382 blast holes in an area of its Brockman 4 mining lease that encompassed the ancient rock shelter formations at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.
Memory Bank
The Collective Isolation Project We're calling on all Victorians to join us as we inaugurate the Memory Bank to archive what everyday life in Victoria is actually like now, during this time of collective isolation. Daily life is different for each of us during this period of restrictions and physical isolation, and we're intensely curious about what this moment looks like for you. Tell us, what do you care about right now? What's capturing your attention?
Sydney Writers' Festival - Suffragettes, Referenda and Sausages: The History of Democracy in Australia
The ABC’s Annabel Crabb talks with celebrated historian Judith Brett and Stella Prize–winning author and historian Clare Wright about Australia’s democratic history and how compulsory voting affects our politics. They touch on our trailblazing history of suffrage and voting rights for white women, and the shameful delay in attendant rights for Indigenous people.
#Auspol | Neighbourhood Books
Neighbourhood Books is a new independent bookstore and meeting place in Westgarth Village, Nortchote.
Sydney Writers' Festival - The Full Catastrophe
ABC Radio’s Sarah Macdonald and Rebecca Huntley host a very special Sydney Writers’ Festival edition of Giant Dwarf’s The Full Catastrophe: a live show about when life was so bad, it was funny. Sarah and Rebecca welcome guests Clare Wright, James Jeffrey, Kumi Taguchi and Sally Rugg as they come together in front of a live audience to share a painful and hilarious incident in their lives. Presented with Giant Dwarf. Supported by the University of Sydney.
The female surfer who stood on the shoulders of a giant, and became a legend overnight
Posted March 05, 2019 11:30:00 If you ask Pam Burridge what she sees when she looks at this black-and-white photo, she'll give you a distinctly technical description: "I see her riding a board eight-foot-six long and really difficult to ride." The fact that the photo was taken in 1911, and the surfer is a young woman, doesn't faze Burridge, a surfing world champion.
The marvellous Miss Matters
In the decade from 1902, the world looked to the newly federated nation of Australia for inspiration. Campaigners including Vida Goldstein and Muriel Matters had helped win the right to vote for white women in 1902. Historian Clare Wright has drawn out the stories of several of the most remarkable women of the time who then became internationally influential. Adelaide-born Muriel Matters then became the first woman to speak in the British House of Commons.
This 'penis lie detector' helped doctors conduct gay aversion therapy
Posted February 01, 2019 06:00:00 This black-and-white photograph of a medical container fitted with a long plastic tube might appear, at first glance, innocuous. But it's a penile plethysmograph: a device used to measure changes in penis volume in response to erotic prompts. Dubbed a "penis lie detector", it was used by a Sydney-based psychiatrist who conducted gay aversion therapy sessions in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Maggie MacKellar reviews 'You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world' by Clare Wright
When Clare Wright’s new history, You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians who won the vote and inspired the world, landed in my mailbox, I opened it with some trepidation. It was big, a fact I now realise I should have expected but nevertheless a somewhat disheartening one – arriving as it did at the beginning of our lambing season on the farm.
The Suffragist Movement's Battle Is Still To Be Won
As well as taking a progressive stand on social issues, Phelps vowed to represent all those who were disgusted by the internal brawling and destructive power plays of Australia’s elected officials. One commentator rejoiced that people who were “tired of the spineless and incompetent politicians who are intent on destroying the joint” were finally getting their moment in the sun. “Hear us roar,” the journalist cheered, channelling a mutinous Helen Reddy.
More than a century on, the battle fought by Australia's suffragists is yet to be won
When Kerryn Phelps claimed her historic by-election win on the weekend, she called the triumph a “a victory for democracy”, signalling “a return of decency, integrity and humanity to the Australian government”. As well as taking a progressive stand on social issues, Phelps vowed to represent all those who were disgusted by the internal brawling and destructive power plays of Australia’s elected officials.
Clare Wright at Gleebooks (NSW)
Join Clare Wright in conversation with Caroline Overington about her new book, You Daughers of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World. For the ten years from 1902, when Australia’s suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration.
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