Scholarships and Prizes Office: Recent submissions
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Blue Poles: A Window into the Diplomatic and Cultural History of the Whitlam Government
Published 2026-01-16In September 1973, when Gough Whitlam approved the purchase of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles for $1.3 million, he was trying to cement Australia’s status as a cosmopolitan society finally grown to international maturity ...Open AccessText -
Freedom as a Farce: or, Who Gets to be Free?
Published 2025-12-11This essay argues that “academic freedom” is a fantasy, one that inherently contradicts the ethical principles of safety, social harmony, and multiculturalism. Academic freedom—the right to “engage in intellectual inquiry”, ...Open AccessText -
From Sorcery to Scientific Revolution: A Brief History of Medicine and Science
Published 2025-11-10The history of medicine and science demonstrates the close relationship between these two fields. Scientific discoveries have allowed humans to understand the causal mechanisms of diseases and biological processes, and the ...Open AccessText -
Babel, Belonging, and Colonial Queensland (1840–1870): Language, Naming, and the Making of a Colonial Order
Published 2025-10-27This essay is a historical reconstruction rather than a literary interpretation. Between the 1840s and 1870, officials, missionaries, surveyors, and settlers in the colony that became Queensland assembled an Anglophone ...Open AccessText -
The Colonial Origins of Nazi Ideology: Genocidal Practices from Namibia to Germany
Published 2025-10-27This essay analyses the connections between German colonial violence and the Holocaust, arguing that the systematic dehumanisation of colonised peoples in Africa provided a conceptual and psychological foundation for Nazi ...Open AccessText