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How labour built neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project by Jon Piccini

“…Review(s) of: 'How labour built neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project', by Elizabeth Humphrys, Brill, 2019, 268…”
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“People Treated Me with Equality”: Indigenous Australians Visiting the Soviet Bloc during the Cold War by Piccini, Jon

“…This paper discusses the entwining of Australian communists, trade unions and indigenous activists: a much-studied topic. However, I approach it from a…”
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Travel, politics and the limits of liminality during Australia's sixties by Piccini, Jon

“…In 1968, Brisbane student activist Brian Laver travelled behind the 'Iron Curtain.' A leading member of the University of Queensland student activist group…”
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‘Thinking in Papua New Guinean Terms’: the Sensitive Files Case of 1972 and Australia’s Migrated Archive by Piccini, Jon

“…Abstract Australia’s unsuccessful attempt to remove ‘sensitive’ files from the Territory of Papua and New Guinea (PNG) in 1972 adds new insights into emerging…”
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'Time Is Against Us': Anti-Communism, Decolonisation, and Papua New Guinean Independence by Piccini, Jon

“…This article traces the importance of anti-communist organisations to the development of early Papua New Guinean political elites. Focusing on Oala Oala-Rarua…”
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On the genocide concept by Piccini, Jon

“…A. Dirk Moses’ The Problems of Genocide builds on his decades of work in the field of genocide research. This review article looks at the impact the book has…”
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The Ex‐Services Human Rights Association of Australia, the Vietnam War, and the Remaking of the Anzac Tradition by Piccini, Jon

“…The Ex‐Services Human Rights Association of Australia (ESHRAA) emerged in 1966, supporting conscientious objectors to national service and opposing the Vietnam…”
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Lucky Country or Shrinking Nation ? Australian Studies Past, Present and Future by Johnston, Anna, Piccini, Jon

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'Women are a colonised sex': Elizabeth Reid, Human Rights and International Women's Year 1975 by Piccini, Jon

“…This article situates Australian Elizabeth Reid's contribution to International Women's Year (IWY) (1975) within ongoing historiographical discussions on…”
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Over Sexed, Over Paid and Over Here  ...  Again? Americans on R&R in Vietnam-Era Sydney by Dixon, Chris, Piccini, Jon

“…Between 1967 and 1971, 280,000 US military personnel visited Sydney on 'Rest and Recreation' (R&R) leave from the conflict in Vietnam. During the period in…”
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"More than an abstract principle": reimagining rights in the Communist Party of Australia, 1956-1971 by Piccini, Jon

“…The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) increasingly adopted ideas of universal rights throughout the 1960s. Responding to changes in the Soviet Union and the…”
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(Re)Thinking 1968 and its Legacy in Australia by Smith, Evan, Piccini, Jon

“…Did Australia have a 1968? This might at first seem a fairly counterintuitive question. None dispute the year’s significance: a new Prime Minister took the…”
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Post-pandemic positions: new perspectives on international education and public diplomacy in Australia by Piccini, Jon, Lowe, David, Darian-Smith, Kate, Oppenheimer, Melanie

“…PurposeIn an era of internationalism, higher education and vocational training have been core to Australia’s nation-building, regional co-operation and public…”
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"Light from the East": travel to China and Australian activism in the "long Sixties" by Piccini, Jon

“…Throughout the "long Sixties" a diverse array of Australian activists traveled beyond what was popularly known as the "bamboo curtain" into the People's…”
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Travel, Politics and the Limits of Liminality During Australia’s Sixties by Jon Piccini

“…Victor Turner describes the individual experience of travel as ‘liminal’. Opening new vistas of possibility, it upturns ordinary social conventions and codes,…”
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Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop: By Lachlan McNamee. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 256. US$35.00 paper by Piccini, Jon

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Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop by Piccini, Jon

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Dreams and Schemers: A Political History of Australia . By Frank Bongiorno . Collingwood, La Trobe University Press, 2022, 480pp, $39.99 (Paperback), ISBN : 9781760640095. Dreams and Schemers: A Political History of Australia . By Frank Bongiorno . Collingwood, La Trobe University Press, 2022, 480pp, $39.99 (Paperback), ISBN : 9781760640095 by Piccini, Jon

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Dreams and Schemers: A Political History of Australia. By FrankBongiorno. Collingwood, La Trobe University Press, 2022, 480 pp, $39.99 (Paperback), ISBN : 9781760640095 by Piccini, Jon

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Emperors in Lilliput: Clem Christesen of Meanjin and Stephen-Murray Smith of Overland by Piccini, Jon

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