Australia
David Potts
On Great Depression narratives emphasising the worst moments of the worst off.
Month: April 2018
Economics
Selwyn Cornish on Ted Theodore
On 1930s Australian Treasurer Ted Theodore’s qualities.
James Ford Cairns (1914 – 2003)
Jim Cairns as a Leader
Jim Cairns’s biographer Paul Ormonde talks of Cairns as a leader.
James Ford Cairns (1914 – 2003)
A Foolish Passionate Man
Biographer Paul Ormonde reflects on the title for his book on Jim Cairns – the inspirational leader of Australia’s anti-Vietnam war movement. Cairns, a controversial figure, rose to the position of Treasurer and Deputy Prime […]
Politics
Red Ted by Ross Fitzgerald
E. G. Theodore, one of Australia’s most enterprising and unusual political figures, was Treasurer and Premier of Queensland and later Federal Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia in the Scullin Labor government. Here Ross […]
Barry Jones
Barry Jones In Search of Lost Time – A Film Story
Barry Jones In Search of Lost Time – A Film Story uses the lens of film itself to focus on childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, training Barry’s camera eye on the shaping forces of his character and the key turning points of his life. […]
History
The Oral History Reader by Alistair Thomson and Robert Perks
The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, ‘classic’ articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most […]