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The Allied Occupation Of Japan - An Australian View, Christine De Matos
The Allied Occupation Of Japan - An Australian View, Christine De Matos
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The Japanese Occupation is generally remembered as primarily an American affair and as a dichotomous relationship between Japan and the United States. However, it was an Allied Occupation, and, despite the persistence of selective historical memories, there was a distinct and at times contentious Allied presence, contribution, and experience. The Occupation provided a terrain on which the victor nations, believing their social, economic and political values vindicated by victory, competed to reshape the character of Japan's modernity. One Ally that participated in this process, and often acted as a dissenting voice, was Australia. Examining the involvement of additional participants in …
Re-Shaping Australian Intelligence, Sandy Gordon
Re-Shaping Australian Intelligence, Sandy Gordon
Faculty of Law - Papers (Archive)
security challenges and the information and communications technology (ICT) revolution have radically altered the environment in which Australian intelligence operates. Despite some changes at the margin, Australias intelligence community is still primarily configured to meet the kinds of challenges it dealt with in the Cold War.
A Review Of A. Dirk Moses (Ed.), Genocide And Settler Society: Frontier Violence And Stolen Indigenous Children In Australian History, Lorenzo Veracini
A Review Of A. Dirk Moses (Ed.), Genocide And Settler Society: Frontier Violence And Stolen Indigenous Children In Australian History, Lorenzo Veracini
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Genocide and Settler Society constitutes a successful exercise in deparochialization. Until now, discussions of genocides in an Australian context have centered on whether this category could be applied, accompanied by debated qualifications, to the experience of Indigenous people. On the contrary, Genocide and Settler Society ultimately and convincingly reverses this order. It is not a matter of testing the relevance of genocide studies to Australian history; rather, there is a need to explore the ways in which genocide studies at large can benefit from an appraisal of the Australian experience. In order to perform this intellectual recasting, Dirk Moses has …