Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Carolyn Holbrook Review of Liam Byrne, Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin : The Making of the Modern Labor Party, 1876–1921
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'Liam Byrne’s biography of James Scullin and John Curtin was launched online in July 2020 by the ACTU1 Secretary Sally McManus and former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan. It was an exciting time to launch a book about the labour movement and its fledgling parliamentary wing. Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveller listed pandemics among the catastrophes that had upended the status quo of gross inequality over the course of history. Could COVID-19 be such a catastrophe? McManus, together with former ACTU secretary Greg Combet and other labour leaders, had worked cooperatively with the Coalition Government and business in responding to the pandemic. Optimistic progressives were wondering if the unfolding crisis might provide an opportunity for fundamental reform, such as John Curtin and Ben Chifley had seized for the period after the Second World War. Stuart Macintyre’s account of the postwar reconstruction, Australia’s Boldest Experiment, was on the reading list of Labor parliamentarians.' 

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    y separately published work icon Australian Journal of Biography and History Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery no. 6 2022 24621842 2022 periodical issue

    'This special issue of Australian Journal of Biography and History, ‘Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery’, uses biographical approaches to explore how British slavery shaped the Australian colonies. It is the first stand-alone journal issue to feature an emerging body of historical work tracing the movement of people, investment and ideas from the Caribbean to Australia. Seven refereed articles and a roundtable discussion show how investment, imperial aspiration and migration turned towards Britain's ‘Second Empire’ in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.' (Description Introduction)

    2022
    pg. 219-222
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