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Home Front Ww2: Myths And Realties, Rowan Cahill
Home Front Ww2: Myths And Realties, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
This is a revised version of the author's 2014 Brisbane Labour History Association Alex McDonald lecture. In this paper the author takes apart the right-wing accounts, particularly by Hal Colebatch ('Australia's Secret War, 2013), that demonise the Australian trade union leadership and the Communist Party of Australia for 'treasonous' industrial disputation during World War II.
Sunshine And Shadows, Rowan Cahill
Sunshine And Shadows, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
This is a memoir of the author's childhood in Australia, during the Cold War, with the focus on the politics and culture of his environment, the city's suburban and conservative North Shore.