North on Cusack
By Rowan Cahill When Yarn Spinners was initially published in 2001 by University of Queensland Press, it was lengthily titled Yarn Spinners. A Story in Letters: Dymphna Cusack, Florence James,
Radical History: Thinking, Writing and Engagement
By Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill Kicking away the props In recent years, in various places and on our blog “Radical Sydney/Radical History”, we have written about radical history.
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James Walter on The Eighties: The Decade that Transformed Australia by Frank Bongiorno
Book Review: Frank Bongiorno, The Eighties: The Decade that Transformed Australia (Black Inc., Melbourne, 2015), xiii and 370 pp. ISBN 9781863957762. Hb.$45.00. By James Walter Frank Bongiorno’s history of
Bobbie Oliver on Australia’s Secret War by Hal Colebatch
Book Review: Hal Colebatch, Australia’s Secret War: How unionists sabotaged our troops in World War II (Quadrant Books, Sydney, 2013), 340pp, $44.95 hard back. By Bobbie Oliver I have always
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Heather Goodall on The Pearl Frontier by Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers
Book Review: Julia Martinez and Adrian Vickers, The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network (University of Hawa‘ai Press: Honolulu, 2015), 240pp, $50 Cloth. By
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