New Historical Express

Category: Parliament

Australian history, human rights, Legislation, Liberals, Parliament, Racial discrimination, The Australian, Tony Abbott, Uncategorized

Parliament’s current obsession with s18c
Brexit, British ‘race relations’, Conservatives, European Union, Home Office, Immigration, Margaret Thatcher, National Front, Parliament, Party manifestos, Right-wing populism, Theresa May, UKIP

Theresa May and UKIP: A repeat of Thatcher and the NF in ’79?
Anti-communism, Australian history, Australian Labor Party, Communist Party of Australia, Double dissolution elections, Elections, International communist movement, labour history, Parliament, Robert Menzies

1951 and the attempt to ban the Australian Communist Party: When Turnbull’s predecessor gambled on a double dissolution election
1968, Aboriginal activism, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Announcements, Anti-apartheid, Archives, ASIO, Australian history, Contemporary history, Criminal justice system, Criminology, Embassies and protest, Indigenous activism, Journal announcements, Journal articles, Law & order, Papers/Seminars, Parliament, Police violence, Policing history, Political violence, protest, Protest laws, Public Order Act, Public order issues, Whitlam Government

New article in Journal of Australian Studies: Policing Protest in the Australian Capital Territory
‘White Australia Policy’, academia, Announcements, Archives, Australian history, Australian Labor Party, British History, British Union of Fascists, Britishness, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Contemporary history, Empire, Fascism, Greater Britain, John Kerr, Malcolm Fraser, Media appearances, Monarchy, National Archives (UK), National Archives of Australia, Oswald Mosley, Parliament, Research, Right-wing extremism/radicalism, Right-wing populism, Settler colonialism, The Dismissal, UK Labour Party, Whitlam Government

Public engagement ftw!
Archives, Australian history, Australian Labor Party, British Commonwealth, British High Commission, Colonial Office, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Contemporary history, Decolonisation, Elections, Embassies and diplomatic staff, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Harold Wilson, Malcolm Fraser, National Archives (UK), Parliament, Research, The Dismissal, Whitlam Government

The road to ‘The Dismissal’ in 1975: The British perspective
Aboriginal activism, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Anti-racism, Australian history, Colonial/Postcolonial History, Contemporary history, Criminology, Embassies and protest, Law & order, Legislation, National Archives of Australia, Parliament, Police violence, Policing history, protest, Protest laws, Public order issues, Racial discrimination, Racist violence, Research, State violence, Whitlam Government

How the Aboriginal Tent Embassy challenged the government’s protest laws
Archives, Australian history, Australian Labor Party, Contemporary history, Embassies and protest, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Malcolm Fraser, National Archives (UK), Parliament, Research, Research suggestions, Tony Benn, Tories, UK Labour Party, Whitlam Government

UK High Commissioner Morrice James on the Whitlam Dismissal 1975