Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Destroying Sodom in the South Pacific: How the terror of sodomy was invoked to end convict transportation to New South Wales c.1837.
Published 2013-01-01While the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 is a mainstream theme in Australian history, less is known about the end of convict transportation. Even less is known about the slander of endemic sodomy that was contained in ...Open AccessThesis -
Achieving Justice and Seeking Truth: The Evolution of International Criminal Tribunals
Published 2013-01-01This thesis examines the way in which international criminal tribunals have changed and evolved over time, using the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former ...Open AccessThesis -
Convict Geographies of Early Colonial Sydney
Published 2013-01-01The convict’s environmental, spatial and administrative knowledge of early colonial Sydney was far richer than is generally acknowledged. Not only were the convicts thinking and feeling individuals transported to a foreign ...Open AccessThesis -
A New Faith? Rights Agitation, National Aspirations and Self-Determination in the Soviet Periphery, 1965-1985
Published 2013-01-01This thesis investigates the intersection of human rights-talk, national aspirations and their respective origins on the peripheries of the Soviet Empire, 1965-1985. In particular, it challenges the so-called ‘Helsinki ...Open AccessThesis -
Maintaining the 'Australian Way of Life': President Johnson's 1966 visit and its implications for national culture.
Published 2013-01-01President Lyndon Johnson’s visit to Australia in October 1966 was the apogee of the Australian-American political alliance and coincided with the peak of Australian public support for the American war in Vietnam. It was ...Open AccessThesis