Add to ORKGAustralia presents its Pacific War effort as a fight for liberation. This article challenges that view. The Allied forces were fighting to re-impose their own imperialist control, and this includes Australia. The war is best understood as part of a long term pattern of imperialist contention. The wartime intervention in East Timor, the battle to sustain control of Papua New Guinea, the restoration of Dutch rule in eastern Indonesia and Canberra’s determination to play a role in the occupation of Japan, all illustrate this theme
Australia, long seen as a remote outpost of the British Empire in the South Pacific and more recentl...
This book is a sibling of last year's production Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War. That book foc...
Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of Portuguese Timor was more than an authoritarian state violating a defen...
Australia presents its Pacific War effort as a fight for liberation. This article challenges that vi...
The Howard Government’s military intervention in East Timor in 1999 was an act of imperialism. It wa...
This article examines what motivated the dominions to make such a sustained and costly contribution ...
In late 1945, Australia eagerly put up its hand to join the American-led military occupation of war-...
The rise of the ‘Asian Century’ and the United States’ pivot toward the Asia-Pacific region will, th...
Since Federation in 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia has depended on the leading power within the...
For the last two years, Australia has commemorated, on the first Wednesday in September, the ‘Battle...
This article contributes to current historical debate surrounding Australia's post-war colonial deve...
This article explores imperial Australia and its Papuan colony from 1901 to World War II. Through ex...
West Papua, Australia’s near northern neighbour, has for nearly six decades experienced widespread h...
The Pacific War ended the presence of Japanese settlers in Papua and New Guinea. It was a tragedy, a...
Current scholarship on the Allied Occupation of Japan 1945–1952 remains captivated by the overarchin...
Australia, long seen as a remote outpost of the British Empire in the South Pacific and more recentl...
This book is a sibling of last year's production Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War. That book foc...
Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of Portuguese Timor was more than an authoritarian state violating a defen...
Australia presents its Pacific War effort as a fight for liberation. This article challenges that vi...
The Howard Government’s military intervention in East Timor in 1999 was an act of imperialism. It wa...
This article examines what motivated the dominions to make such a sustained and costly contribution ...
In late 1945, Australia eagerly put up its hand to join the American-led military occupation of war-...
The rise of the ‘Asian Century’ and the United States’ pivot toward the Asia-Pacific region will, th...
Since Federation in 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia has depended on the leading power within the...
For the last two years, Australia has commemorated, on the first Wednesday in September, the ‘Battle...
This article contributes to current historical debate surrounding Australia's post-war colonial deve...
This article explores imperial Australia and its Papuan colony from 1901 to World War II. Through ex...
West Papua, Australia’s near northern neighbour, has for nearly six decades experienced widespread h...
The Pacific War ended the presence of Japanese settlers in Papua and New Guinea. It was a tragedy, a...
Current scholarship on the Allied Occupation of Japan 1945–1952 remains captivated by the overarchin...
Australia, long seen as a remote outpost of the British Empire in the South Pacific and more recentl...
This book is a sibling of last year's production Australia 1942: In the Shadow of War. That book foc...
Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of Portuguese Timor was more than an authoritarian state violating a defen...