Publications. 

Associate Professor Cassandra Atherton and Professor Paul Hetherington recently wrote an article titled ‘Belated recognition of Australian prose poetry’ for The Australian Book Review. 

Professor Peter Edwards has written a number of pieces for The Strategist, including: 

• From the bookshelf: ‘Secret: The making of Australia’s security state’. 
• Australia and the Vietnam War: 50 years on.

 

In The Media.

In an interview entitled ‘Who Was Justice Robert Hope?’, Peter Edwards discussed his book, Law, politics and intelligence, and its implications for the intelligence agencies today, by Geraldine Doogue on the ABC Radio National program Saturday Extra on 18 April. 

 

Events. 

Book Launch. 

Monday November 2 , 19.00 – 20.30.

Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington have recently co-written a prose poetry book titled Fugitive Letters. Join them for the launch on Monday 2nd November here. 

 

Journal Launch.

Wednesday 11 November from 4pm (Perth time).

Dr. Tiffany Shellam has co-edited a journal titled ‘Collecting Natural History in Western Australia’, Studies in Western Australian History, Volume 35, with Professor Alistair Paterson and Professor Andrea Witcomb.

Scholarship Opportunity. 

The Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University is seeking individuals who are passionate about modern history, creative writing and other cognate disciplines, and are interested in participating in a fully funded and supported Higher Degree by Research. You can find more information here.  

 

Australian Policy and History Update. 

In APH’s latest book review, André Brett takes a look back to the 2017 election that first brought Jacinda Ardern power and reviews Jack Vowles and Jennifer Curtin’s A populist exception? The 2017 New Zealand general election.