The Struggle For Australia S Past

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The Great Power Struggle For Australia 1900 1945

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Author : Andrew Taylor Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-12-03

The Great Power Struggle For Australia 1900 1945 written by Andrew Taylor Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-03 with categories.

With the approach of the Second World War, Australia's economic struggles with the Great Powers declined, and were replaced with military struggles with the Axis Powers. Australian secondary industry had been seen by the British Board of Trade as a direct threat to British exports to Australia. It was now seen by the ascendant British Admiralty, War, Air and Supply Departments as a positive asset to the defence of the British Empire. This provided a window of opportunity to consolidate Australian secondary industry and to expose it to the latest technologies.However, the production of munitions in Australia was disrupted by the Australian Armed Services attempting to take control of the organisation of industry for war. After nine months of confusion, the Department of Munitions was formed with the power to direct all industry without the interference of the Armed Services. Production of established munitions moved ahead with great speed, but the design of fighter aircraft and armoured fighting vehicles floundered because the Air Force and the Army were unable to define competently the weapons that they wanted in these areas. Eventually, Australian designed weapons did emerge in these areas, which were better than Japanese equivalents, but they were not always up to the standards set by the USA and Britain. One exception was the Thunderbolt Tank which turned out to be the most powerful Western Allied tank until the last weeks of the War in Europe.By early 1942, Australian industry had produced enough equipment and munitions to arm a force of eight divisions. These forces had better weapons than the Japanese, and in most cases, were more numerous than for Japanese divisions. The size of force that the Japanese calculated they would need to overcome the Australian divisions, was larger than the Japanese could supply without weakening the Chinese front, and was too large for Japanese shipping to transport without crippling Japanese industry through lack of imported materials. This was the real reason why the Japanese chose not to invade Australia. The situation in the air was no better for the Japanese because the Australian designed and manufactured Boomerang fighter aircraft was capable of matching the Japanese Zero fighter, when operating within the Australian East coast radar network. This was made up of radars designed and made in Australia. The US Navy victory at Midway, allowed secure communications to be established to Papua/New Guinea. This enabled the transfer of Australian military power from continental Australia. This saw the beginning of brutal jungle warfare between Japanese and Australian forces. But the Australians adapted more comprehensively. Australian science and industry started to make a completely new suite of equipments and munitions so that they could withstand the deleterious jungle conditions. This also included food and clothing, and medical supplies. In contrast, Japanese equipment, munitions, food and clothing suffered great loss from jungle organisms. The Australian advantages eventually allowed them to sweep the Japanese forces aside, with very low casualties, while inflicting heavy loss on the Japanese. Australian battlefield dominance was never acknowledged by General MacArthur, who insisted in describing their successes as Allied victories, while describing American successes as US victories. In fact, MacArthur's victories until well into 1944, were nearly all achieved by the very experienced Australians.MacArthur's dependence on the Australians went even further than this. Australia supplied enormous quantities of materials and equipments to the US forces in the South West Pacific. Most of the food consumed by the one million Americans in the South West Pacific came from Australia. President Truman pointed out that Australia supplied, per head of population, as much support as the much larger USA. No other Allied country came close to this level of support.

Six Australian Battlefields

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Author : Albert Jaime Grassby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988

Six Australian Battlefields written by Albert Jaime Grassby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Aboriginal Australians categories.

Generations of Australians have been taught that no wars have ever been fought on Australian soil. Yet as many as 20,000 black Australians died fighting a war of resistance that lasted for more than a century. Six Australian Battlefields presents an alternative view of history. Through detailed accounts of four great clashes, it confronts the reader with the realities of life on the Australian frontier. And through a retelling of the stories of Vinegar Hill and Eureka it reminds the reader of the central place of resistance in our past.

Menzies And The Great World Struggle

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Author : David Lowe
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 1999

Menzies And The Great World Struggle written by David Lowe and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Australia categories.

Lowe (history, Deakin U.) finds prime minister Robert Menzies to be the towering figure of the age as he explores the Cold War from Australia's perspective. He pivots on the three themes of the threat of a third world war and the imperatives of Australia's rapid economic development.

The March Of Patriots

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Author : Paul Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2011-04-01

The March Of Patriots written by Paul Kelly and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Political Science categories.

Unveiling the inside story of how Paul Keating and John Howard changed Australia, this record presents these two personalities as conviction politicians, tribal warriors, and national interest patriots. Divided by belief, temperament, and party, they were united by generation, city, and the challenge to make Australia into a successful nation for the globalized age. The making of policy and the uses of power are explored, capturing the authentic nature of Australian politics as distinct from the polemics advanced by both sides. Focusing on how these prime ministers altered the nation's direction, this study also depicts how they redefined their parties and struggled over Australia's new economic, social, cultural, and foreign policy agendas. A sequel to the author’s bestselling The End of Certainty, this survey is based on more than 100 interviews with the two key players as well as other politicians, advisers, and public servants.

The Convict Valley

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Author : Mark Dunn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

The Convict Valley written by Mark Dunn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Aboriginal Australians categories.

The story of the second British penal settlement in Australia, where a notoriously brutal convict regime became the template for penal stations in other states. Mark Dunn explores relations between the white settlers and the local Aboriginal landholders, and uncovers a long forgotten massacre. In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present-day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginal people and convicts in the second penal settlement in Australia. The fertile valley of the Hunter River was the first area outside the Sydney basin explored by the British, and it became one of the largest penal settlements. Today manicured lawns and prosperous vineyards hide the struggle, violence and toil of the thousands of convicts who laid its foundations. The Convict Valley uncovers this rich colonial past, as well as the story of the original Aboriginal landholders. While there were friendships and alliances in the early years, in the later scramble for land in the 1820s - as the Valley was opened to free settlers - tensions rose and bloodshed ensued. With fascinating stories about convicts, white settlers and the Aboriginal inhabitants that have long been forgotten, The Convict Valley is a new Australian history classic.

Australianama

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Author : Samia Khatun
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-15

Australianama written by Samia Khatun and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-15 with History categories.

Charts the history of South Asian diaspora, weaving together stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire.

Black Armada

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Author : Rupert Lockwood
language : en
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
Release Date : 2013

Black Armada written by Rupert Lockwood and has been published by Equinox Publishing (Indonesia) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.

So incisive is Rupert Lockwood's account of Australian assistance to the Indonesian rebellion against the Dutch that Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Commander, Southeast Asia Command and the leader of the Anglo-Dutch intervention in Java in 1945, was moved to write to Lockwood, "I have read all you have written with great interest and it explains a lot that happened to us in South East Asia Command Headquarters." Rupert Lockwood, correspondent for such diverse newspapers as the Melbourne "Herald" and "Tribune," a journalist in Moscow, radical publicist and veteran of the Petrov inquiry, witnessed many of the events he so vividly describes. He recalls the campaign to release Indonesian political prisoners detained by the Dutch in Australian POW camps and examines the boycotts and mutinies in Australia that crippled Dutch attempts to reoccupy their former colony. He reveals deep-going anti-colonial attitudes not often suspected in White Australia, discusses the impact of the union boycotts on the armed forces and war supplies of the only foreign regime to which Australia has ever played host, and brings to light Australian ambitions for an independent influence in Asia. More than forty contemporary cartoons and photographs and previously unpublished stills from the Australian film Indonesia Calling unite with the text to produce an exciting and moving account of a critical period in Australia's foreign relations.

The Struggle For Aboriginal Rights

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Author : Bain Attwood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-22

The Struggle For Aboriginal Rights written by Bain Attwood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-22 with History categories.

The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights is the first book of its kind. Not only does it tell the history of the political struggle for Aboriginal rights in all parts of Australia; it does so almost entirely through a selection of historical documents created by the Aboriginal campaigners themselves, many of which have never been published. It presents Aboriginal perspectives of their dispossession and their long and continuing fight to overcome this. In charting the story of Aboriginal political activity from its beginnings on Flinders Island in the 1830s to the fight over native title today, this book aims to help Australians better understand both the continuities and the changes in Aboriginal politics over the last 150 years: in the leadership of the Aboriginal political struggle, the objectives of these campaigners for rights for Aborigines, their aspirations, the sources of their programmes for change, their methods of protest, and the outcomes of their protest. Through the words of Aboriginal activists, across 150 years, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights charts the relationship between political involvement and Aboriginal identity.

Protests Land Rights And Riots

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Author : Barry Morris
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2015

Protests Land Rights And Riots written by Barry Morris and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Business & Economics categories.

"Morris deploys the incisive tools of anthropology to deconstruct the way neoliberal policies of the 1980s began to reverse the political gains Australian Aborigines had made in the 1970s...This work is of crucial relevance for thinking beyond the present neoliberal impasse." - Gillian Cowlishaw, Sydney University "Morris reveals the lie underpinning so much recent cant but more sets the situation of Aborigines in the context of larger global forces. This is a much overdue work that should contribute to new understanding and which breaks out of some of the enduring categories that continue to inhibit critical thought." - Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen "Morris is not afraid to study systemic interrelationships; how history brings together structure and events in ways that might be unique but not random." - Andrew Lattas, University of Bergen The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were provoked as a consequence of social fragmentation, unparalleled unemployment, and other major economic and political changes. The ensuing riots, protests, and law-and-order campaigns in New South Wales captured the tense relations that existed between indigenous people, the police, and the criminal justice system. In Protests, Land Rights, and Riots, Barry Morris shows how neoliberal policies in Australia targeted those who were least integrated socially and culturally, and who enjoyed fewer legitimate economic opportunities. Amidst intense political debate, struggle, and conflict, new forces were unleashed as a post-settler colonial state grappled with its past. Morris provides a social analysis of the ensuing effects of neoliberal policy and the way indigenous rights were subsequently undermined by this emerging new political orthodoxy in the 1990s. Barry Morris is the author of Domesticating Resistance, Race Matters and Expert Knowledge. He is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Newcastle.

The Battle Within

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Author : Christina Twomey
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth
Release Date : 2018-02-01

The Battle Within written by Christina Twomey and has been published by NewSouth this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with HISTORY categories.