My contribution to the Whitlam discourse is that, in my research around leftist allegations against Croatians & ASIO, Jim Cairns could generously be termed naive and/or not someone who needed hard evidence in order to agree in principle to firebombing people's homes.

New blog post by Alexa Ridgeway aph.org.au/2025/11/beyo...

New blog post from me - ‘Who was Tie Cum Ah Chong?’ - in which I consider the curious early life of a young immigrant Chinese woman in Tasmania 120 years ago. chineseaustralia.org/tie-cum-ah-c... #ChineseTasmanianStories #EverydayHeritage 🗃️

Fun fact: several years after his Provisional Government was deposed by the Bolsheviks in 1917, former Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky married Brisbane-born Nell Tritton and relocated briefly to peaceful, leafy Clayfield in Brisbane’s northern suburbs www.smh.com.au/world/alexan...

New article by Ilona Fekete www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sue Silberg, PHA (Vic and Tas), shares some research about the cosmopolitan life of Jewish traders, and later politicians, in the tropics. The Australian colonial project is clear here with discussion about the Polynesian Company, a poor colony's Dutch East India Company. #history #traders

Weida Chen shared some findings from his thesis about Greeks in NT, with particular concentration on military men. #history #immigration #research

Hot off the press & #OpenAccess, check out 'Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect' by Nathan Gardner Molina: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

New open access article by @alecadell.bsky.social 1975: Working Migrant Women share.google/LXGXDHgguQ7G...

Check out Tanja Bueltmann's review of our recent volume on Forced Migration with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social in @imm-min-journal.bsky.social - doi.org/10.1080/0261... @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @dgb-history.bsky.social

As it's October and the 'Halloween as an imported American thing' discourse has begun, I thought I'd mention that in Australia, the Scottish diaspora, especially in the first half of the 20th century, celebrated Halloween as a particular Scottish tradition, as attested to by many articles on Trove.

Continued musings from my ongoing work on the community origins of multiculturalism and 1975 - bittersweet, to have something published in @meanjin.bsky.social - meanjin.com.au/essays/the-g...

Does anyone have a good recommendation on a history of the White Australia Policy? The internet keeps telling me to read one that specifically ends at 1920 which is too early for my needs

New book by Philipp Strobl brill.com/display/titl...

The 2025 Addi Rd Multicultural History Award was awarded to Dr Tim Briedis for his essay Red and Black: Stories of Anarchists Across Borders The award was presented by Addison Road Community Organisation CEO Rosanna Barbero Read the judges citation and Tim's statement via buff.ly/oPiYLzJ 📷 TWH

The judges awarded a commendation for the 2025 Addi Rd Multicultural History Award to Dominique Jones for her essay: Rethinking Histories of Australian Multiculturalism: Diasporic Tensions and the Macedonian Question during the Bicentenary Read Dominique's statement via buff.ly/oPiYLzJ 📷 TWH

Lovely write-up about the new ‘Shared Connections: Cantonese Stories in Australia’ exhibition developed by Sophie Couchman for the Australian Consulate-General in Guangzhou! (I also had a small hand in the exhibition, and it features my daughter’s story 😊) mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzIy...

Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social 'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today I took custody of a box of historical materials that were purchased in a Launceston antique shop many years ago – I suspect they came out of the old Sun Hung Ack store. Among the treasures are a collection relating to the Tasmanian See Yip Club (which I knew existed but nothing more!)

The 2026 Australian Society for Asian Humanities (ASAH) Emerging Scholar Award We invite entries from eligible applicants. We are looking forward to receiving your entry. asah.sydney.edu.au/emerging-sch...

Levidis reviews Dusinberre's Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories @universitypress.cambridge.org tinyurl.com/ycxhb7ur 🧵2/5

The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is hosting a launch for Professor Jim Hammerton's latest book, Love Class and Empire: An English Family Saga in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press), in Melbourne, 6.30-8.30pm on Friday, 3 October, rsvp: www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/book-l...

#HistoryWeek2025 Come along for a history talk with #hcnswmember Museum of Chinese in Australia A number of stories have been told of those who came to Australia Hear one of those remarkable stories as told by Gordon Mar on 12th September at 6pm Book your spot via buff.ly/fypRbkz #waterstories

#HistoryWeek2025 Join Newcastle Museum and three University of Newcastle researchers for an evening of storytelling, history and cultural connection inspired by the current exhibition Heimat in the Hunter Enjoy a self-guided tour of the exhibition on Thursday 11 September Book via buff.ly/HOzvPBs

New from me, @sukhmanikhorana.bsky.social, Sue Turnbull and Kate Darian-Smith with some stories from our new book! @theconversation.com

Number 3 in 49.3 - in a time of international student debates, Song and Spencer take us back to the first Korean international student in the 1920s, illustrating the importance of student mobility for people-to-people #diplomacy. #InternationalStudents #Korea #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/3je6ty9v

Umm. Controlling migration has always been part of the Aus settlement along with White Aus.

"Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or Bob Katter about his Lebanese ancestry." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Max Quanchi reviews the exhibition 'Say Our Name: Australian South Sea Islanders. Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Oct 2024–July 2025' AHS exhibition reviews are open access for three months, so share the link doi.org/10.1080/1031...

📣 Vacancy for PhD position! 📣 I am looking for a qualitative PhD researcher (3 years, 30 hours/week) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement), starting preferably on 1 January 2026.

More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If you are interested in history making, Sino-Oz relations or Australia-Asia hist, check out 'Safeguarding Australian Hitstory,' Wing Kuang's new essay in Meanjin

I am thrilled to be shortlisted for this special award. Leslie Caplan was instrumental in lobbying the Hawke government re war crimes investigations in the 1980s.

Get your copy today: doi.org/10.22459/IBP... @historycouncilsa.bsky.social @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social @anuausi.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @amigrationhn.bsky.social

The AMHN has worked closely with the @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social and we are appalled at proposed cuts insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest: Join the Steering Committee of the Australian Migration History Network amigrationhn.wordpress.com/about/

New article by @pwgatrell.bsky.social Short Stories of Refugeedom: Encounters between Refugees, UNHCR, and the Australian Government, 1951–1975 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest: Join the Steering Committee of the Australian Migration History Network amigrationhn.wordpress.com/about/

Shortlisted for the AEEH book prize: A concise, timely and rigorous, book that makes excellent use of the  International Refugee Organization archives and demonstrates that fascists and fascisms are not phenomena of 'somewhere else', but historically intimately associated with Australia.

📣 Call for Papers: Rohingya Special Issue We're seeking abstracts for one of the first multidisciplinary explorations of Rohingya gendered experiences of displacement, statelessness & survival. ℹ️ ow.ly/sRgA50WlqyE @anu-asiapacific.bsky.social

I'm excited to share details about The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project! This project is identifying & creating a list of precarious oral history collections held in Victoria, Australia. Tell us about your collection via www.precariousoralhistories.com #oralhistory