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Anxious nation: Australia and the rise of Asia 1850-1939 [Book Review]
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Review(s) of: Anxious nation: Australia and the rise of Asia 1850-1939, by David Walker, Publisher: University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, 1999.read more
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Environmental history in Australasia
Elizabeth Robin,Thomas Griffiths +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the privileging of science (especially agricultural science) in environmental policy has given a distinctive quality to the practice of environmental history in Australasia, and that the common, imported settler experience of these two countries has increasingly found itself exposed to the long-term influences of very different physical environments and Indigenous inheritances.
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Arabic and Muslim People in Sydney's Daily Newspapers, Before and After September 11
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Another Mars–Venus divide? Why Australia said ‘yes’ and Canada said ‘non’ to involvement in the 2003 Iraq War
TL;DR: The authors argue that in both countries the Iraq decision followed the dominant views within the ruling party as well as the dominant strategic culture among the elites, while in Australia its impact was mostly neutral.
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Reconsidering Orientalism/Occidentalism: representations of a Japanese martial art in Melbourne
TL;DR: In this paper, a small Melbourne community of non-Japanese practitioners of a Japanese martial art (kendō) focused on their understanding of their practice, of their community, and of Japan and Japanese culture.
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The Declining Theoretical and Practical Utility of ‘Bandwagoning’: American Hegemony in the Age of Terror:
TL;DR: The authors argue that bandwagoning, both as a theory and as a rationale for policy-making, is inadequate and need to look at more contingent and specific factors if we want to understand the behaviour of America's allies and rivals.
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Environmental history in Australasia
Elizabeth Robin,Thomas Griffiths +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that the privileging of science (especially agricultural science) in environmental policy has given a distinctive quality to the practice of environmental history in Australasia, and that the common, imported settler experience of these two countries has increasingly found itself exposed to the long-term influences of very different physical environments and Indigenous inheritances.
Journal ArticleDOI
Arabic and Muslim People in Sydney's Daily Newspapers, Before and After September 11
TL;DR: This paper examined two years of articles/texts located around the concepts of "Arab" and "Muslim" within Sydney's two major daily newspapers and found that a consistency of view can be found in three peak issues -the Palestine/Israel conflict, Lebanese rape trials and the arrival of asylum seekers -and that this view is an antipodean development of a Western way of seeing the Orient defined by Edward Said as "orientalism".
Journal ArticleDOI
Another Mars–Venus divide? Why Australia said ‘yes’ and Canada said ‘non’ to involvement in the 2003 Iraq War
TL;DR: The authors argue that in both countries the Iraq decision followed the dominant views within the ruling party as well as the dominant strategic culture among the elites, while in Australia its impact was mostly neutral.
Dissertation
Reconsidering Orientalism/Occidentalism: representations of a Japanese martial art in Melbourne
TL;DR: In this paper, a small Melbourne community of non-Japanese practitioners of a Japanese martial art (kendō) focused on their understanding of their practice, of their community, and of Japan and Japanese culture.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Declining Theoretical and Practical Utility of ‘Bandwagoning’: American Hegemony in the Age of Terror:
TL;DR: The authors argue that bandwagoning, both as a theory and as a rationale for policy-making, is inadequate and need to look at more contingent and specific factors if we want to understand the behaviour of America's allies and rivals.