A Century of International Labour Organising for Maritime Safety and Economic Justice. This project aims to undertake an innovative history of Australian maritime unionists and their contribution to developing international standards for the world's seafarers. It will assess how important their international work has been, how the role of Australian unionists developed at the International Labour Organisation and in the International Transport Workers Federation. It will trace the relationships ....A Century of International Labour Organising for Maritime Safety and Economic Justice. This project aims to undertake an innovative history of Australian maritime unionists and their contribution to developing international standards for the world's seafarers. It will assess how important their international work has been, how the role of Australian unionists developed at the International Labour Organisation and in the International Transport Workers Federation. It will trace the relationships forged with other unions in the Asia-Pacific region. The outcome of the study aims to provide a new understanding of the role of Australian unionists as international and regional players for maritime labour standards, and to demonstrate the value of historical research for insights to inform training and future strategies.Read moreRead less
A history of Australia's 1998 waterfront dispute. The project will produce an innovative account of Australia's Easter 1998 waterfront dispute, within the context of a wider body of research on diverse but related social perspectives. The aim is to not only enhance understanding of the event, but to employ the event to enhance understanding of social relations. The project is based on the hypothesis that the social memory is more complex, multi-layered and contextual than public accounts suggest ....A history of Australia's 1998 waterfront dispute. The project will produce an innovative account of Australia's Easter 1998 waterfront dispute, within the context of a wider body of research on diverse but related social perspectives. The aim is to not only enhance understanding of the event, but to employ the event to enhance understanding of social relations. The project is based on the hypothesis that the social memory is more complex, multi-layered and contextual than public accounts suggest. By incorporating the study of multiple perspectives, the aim is to disclose a different and more insightful memory of both the event and the society in which it occurred.Read moreRead less
Vines, Wine and Identity: The Hunter Valley NSW and Changing Australian Taste. Australia is a leader in global wine trade and tourism, and Australian drinkers are shifting from beer to wine. Yet little is known about the regional communities that make wine, how wine production has shaped their identity, and how producers have changed national culture by creating a taste for their wines. This project explores these themes through a historical sociological study of Australia's oldest wine region, ....Vines, Wine and Identity: The Hunter Valley NSW and Changing Australian Taste. Australia is a leader in global wine trade and tourism, and Australian drinkers are shifting from beer to wine. Yet little is known about the regional communities that make wine, how wine production has shaped their identity, and how producers have changed national culture by creating a taste for their wines. This project explores these themes through a historical sociological study of Australia's oldest wine region, the Hunter Valley New South Wales. It traces intra- and transnational networks of people, knowledge and wine. This aims to in turn reveal elements of the power nexus in wine production, trade and consumption to provide critical new insights into Australia's change to a wine making and wine drinking country.Read moreRead less
Remembering Sydney’s Post-War Greek Neighbourhoods, 1949-1972. The project aims to revise our understanding of how migrants integrated into post-war Australia by examining everyday life histories as mediated through individual and social memory. Taking a cluster of Sydney’s post-war Greek neighbourhoods as its case studies, it will document how Greek migrants formed friendships and enmities, exchanged information and rumours, and, more generally, got on with the process of settlement. It will co ....Remembering Sydney’s Post-War Greek Neighbourhoods, 1949-1972. The project aims to revise our understanding of how migrants integrated into post-war Australia by examining everyday life histories as mediated through individual and social memory. Taking a cluster of Sydney’s post-war Greek neighbourhoods as its case studies, it will document how Greek migrants formed friendships and enmities, exchanged information and rumours, and, more generally, got on with the process of settlement. It will construct a corpus of oral histories and primary materials, archived in the State Library of NSW, that will reveal to researchers, members of the public and community stakeholders how Sydney’s Greeks contributed to the city’s social and cultural remaking, and how they, in turn, were remade socially and culturally.Read moreRead less
Completing the Gallipoli story: Researching Turkish Archives for a More Comprehensive History. Both Australia and Turkey see the Gallipoli Campaign as a defining event. Australian perceptions of the Campaign are based on C.E.W. Bean's Official History and a number of popular publications. Yet, despite the vast collection of material held in Turkish archives, existing accounts give scant attention to Turkish operations leaving the story incomplete. This project will rectify that imbalance by loca ....Completing the Gallipoli story: Researching Turkish Archives for a More Comprehensive History. Both Australia and Turkey see the Gallipoli Campaign as a defining event. Australian perceptions of the Campaign are based on C.E.W. Bean's Official History and a number of popular publications. Yet, despite the vast collection of material held in Turkish archives, existing accounts give scant attention to Turkish operations leaving the story incomplete. This project will rectify that imbalance by locating and translating key documents-battlefield reports and signals, War Ministry communications, records of prisoner interrogations, aircraft logs and diaries. The result will be a comprehensive history that will contribute to the deepening relationship between Australia and Turkey as we approach the centenary of the Campaign. Read moreRead less
The archaeology and history of quarantine. This project investigates the stories of people, place and passage inscribed in the landscape at Sydney's Quarantine Station. Immigration connects people and places to the wider world, and this project investigates the international connections that bind the experience and history of quarantine and diverse immigration sites across the globe.
Australian generations: life histories, generational change and Australian memory. As the nation faces dramatic social and environmental change, understanding diverse experiences and memories of Australia's past becomes increasingly important. This project will strengthen Australia's social and economic fabric by explaining the experience, memory and significance of the past for different Australian generations. Sixty national radio programs will make the research widely accessible. Future resea ....Australian generations: life histories, generational change and Australian memory. As the nation faces dramatic social and environmental change, understanding diverse experiences and memories of Australia's past becomes increasingly important. This project will strengthen Australia's social and economic fabric by explaining the experience, memory and significance of the past for different Australian generations. Sixty national radio programs will make the research widely accessible. Future researchers and educators will benefit from unprecedented online access to an immensely rich national oral history collection. The National Library, ABC, university partnership will ensure that professional innovation in radio history, oral history and digital archiving is cascaded to cultural institutions in Australia and abroad.Read moreRead less
The Dictionary of Sydney. Sydney is a global metropolis with a complex identity and continuously changing form. The Dictionary of Sydney will leverage the contributions of hundreds of researchers to re-present the history of the city using scholarly text, digital multimedia and the Internet. The Dictionary will deliver primary sources, analysis and synthesis to diverse audiences, building on the information delivery expertise of the project partners. The Dictionary will form an invaluable resour ....The Dictionary of Sydney. Sydney is a global metropolis with a complex identity and continuously changing form. The Dictionary of Sydney will leverage the contributions of hundreds of researchers to re-present the history of the city using scholarly text, digital multimedia and the Internet. The Dictionary will deliver primary sources, analysis and synthesis to diverse audiences, building on the information delivery expertise of the project partners. The Dictionary will form an invaluable resource informing urban, heritage and planning policy; providing resources for education and cultural tourism; advancing the application of digital technology in the humanities; and internationally showcasing Australian scholarship.Read moreRead less
Empowering Australia: Collecting and Interpreting the Material Culture of Australian Technology in New South Wales, 1880-1972. In Australian social history, the industrial museum occupies an important but largely forgotten place. Today, Sydney's exciting Powerhouse Museum is increasingly conscious of its legacy and lineage, dating from its creation as the Technological and Sanitary Museum of 1880. Nevertheless, much of the material culture of manufacture and innovation that lies in its collect ....Empowering Australia: Collecting and Interpreting the Material Culture of Australian Technology in New South Wales, 1880-1972. In Australian social history, the industrial museum occupies an important but largely forgotten place. Today, Sydney's exciting Powerhouse Museum is increasingly conscious of its legacy and lineage, dating from its creation as the Technological and Sanitary Museum of 1880. Nevertheless, much of the material culture of manufacture and innovation that lies in its collections remains uninterpreted and inaccessible to historians and the public. This project seeks to 'recover' the past of the Museum, and its role in Sydney's heritage of research, design and the applied arts; and to demonstrate the dynamic relevance of historical research to the Museum's present and forward plannning.Read moreRead less
Networking Tranby: Indigenous student experiences of enrolment and beyond. This project aims to explore the experiences of the students of Tranby Aboriginal College during and after their enrolment. Tranby is a post-secondary college which has pioneered innovative subjects and cooperative learning environments in its inner-city campus as well as in communities across Australia. It been Aboriginal-controlled since 1980. Although its staff and courses are well known, the experiences of its student ....Networking Tranby: Indigenous student experiences of enrolment and beyond. This project aims to explore the experiences of the students of Tranby Aboriginal College during and after their enrolment. Tranby is a post-secondary college which has pioneered innovative subjects and cooperative learning environments in its inner-city campus as well as in communities across Australia. It been Aboriginal-controlled since 1980. Although its staff and courses are well known, the experiences of its students are not. This project aims to use social media and the Tranby archives to record new oral histories to allow analysis of Tranby students' social, political and educational experiences and evaluation of their contribution to Indigenous self-determination and leadership, as well as integration into interdisciplinary collaborative research.Read moreRead less