Carolyn Holbrook
Biographic Data
| ID | 3680517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Holbrook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Holbrook |
| SIGNATURE | HOLBROOK C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3327-998X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medicare at 40
A forgotten episode in the history of tobacco control
While Australia is now renowned for world-leading anti-tobacco measures, including being the first jurisdiction to introduce plain packaging of cigarettes in 2012, it was not always at the forefront of tobacco control. This article traces the history of the process by which cigarette advertising on radio and television was banned in Australia in the mid-1970s, several years after similar legislative measures were introduced in comparable countrie…
The Early Years of Australian Medicare
The Early Years of Australian Medicare: Universal Health Insurance in the Balance
Federation or ‘Fetteration’? Secessionist sentiment in Queensland and Western Australia during the first decade of the Commonwealth
Historians examining the early years of the Australian political system that was established at Federation in 1901 have tended to consider it from the perspective of the Commonwealth government. More recently, historians have emphasised the experiences of those who were disadvantaged or excluded by the federal compact. In placing the new Commonwealth at its centre, the historiography has given less attention to the experience of the former coloni…
The Rise of National Security in the 1930s
This article traces the evolution of ‘national security’ from a rarely used phrase to a central concept within Australian political life. Where existing genealogies have located the origins of ‘national security’ in the United States, this article reveals that the principal genesis of ‘national security’ was in the international disarmament debates of the early 1930s. Taking Australia as a case study, we show how the concept was utilized to expre…
Chifley spells security’
The past as present in health promotion
Health promotion is conceived as a unifying concept for improving the health of populations. This means addressing the socio-cultural, economic and commercial causes of ill-health, which are necessarily informed by past policies and socio-cultural contexts. However, historical scholarship has rarely figured in health promotion practice or scholarship. This gap resides in the determinants of health, and notably in the analyses of tobacco control a…
Public Health in a Federation
Public health policy has been identified by scholars as a principal means by which the state has expanded its control over human populations. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, public health responses do not necessarily reinforce the authority and prestige of the state, even while governments employ strict measures such as lockdowns and border closures. This article examines arguments about the nation-making effects of public health measure…
Can historians influence public policy? Challenges and possibilities
This article examines the traditional divide between historical expertise and the world of policy making. It traces the origins of academic historians' reluctance to engage in present-day debates within the context of the development of the discipline, and claims that a quartet of pressing global issues – climate change, rising inequality, disenchantment with democratic governance and the Corona virus pandemic – present an opportunity for history…
Anzac, Empire and War
While Federation in 1901 failed to lodge in the popular imagination, Australians widely embraced the idea that their nation was born at Gallipoli during World War I. Despite its subsequent ubiquity, the form of nationalism that spawned the legend of martial birth was not the only kind that had currency during World War I. This article traces the ideal of Australian nationhood held by imperialist liberals, such as Alfred Deakin and members of the …
Federation and Australian Nationalism
Much has been written about the nature of Australian nationalism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While post‐Second World War historiography analysed the role of class in nationalist sentiment, more recent work has examined the racialised and martial aspects of Australian nationalism and imperialism. There has been less consideration of how the nature of turn‐of‐the‐century Australian nationalism affected the Federation t…
Screening Anzac
Historians have long sought to compare Australian and New Zealand Anzac commemoration, finding that Australian commemoration tends to be more nationalistic and celebratory, while New Zealand’s is more solemn and inclusive of Māori, women’s and pacifist perspectives. This article examines war commemoration in Australia and New Zealand during the centenary of the First World War through the medium of four Anzac-themed television productions: Austra…
Legacies in Anxious Times
Representing War
The centenary of the First World War (2014–2019) expanded and reinvigorated the historiography of this conflict. In particular, the war’s cultural legacy generated an outpouring of publications between 2013 and 2020 that re-evaluated its traditional cultural representations and explored fresh avenues of inquiry through analysing contemporary interpretations of the conflict in films, books and television series. In this way, the centenary afforded…
Agency, Change and the Social Imaginary
Visual Representation and Memory of the First World War in Australasia
In March 2020, as the dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic became increasingly apparent, Prime Minister Scott Morrison rallied Australians for what would be “the toughest year of our lives” for many
Redesigning collaborative governance for refugee settlement services
Processes of collaborative governance, also known as network structures or joined-up approaches, have been embraced increasingly by policy makers responding to complex and intractable problems. In 2015, a collaborative governance approach was applied in New South Wales to facilitate settlement of 12,000 additional refugees from Syria and Iraq, under the leadership of the Coordinator General for Refugee Resettlement, Peter Shergold. This article e…
Unorthodoxies
Not peer-reviewed
Forgotten Moments and Reclaimed Memories
New perspectives on Anzac
History, Myth and Memory
Mythologies of Nation-Building in Australia Today
Peer-reviewed
Policy Narratives in Historical Transition
Discontent about contemporary politics in Australia has been accompanied by a history in which the 1980s and 1990s are represented as a ‘golden era’ of policy reform. Yet as champions of the era now concede, its prescriptions are failing. This should encourage contemporary historians to debate the evidence of achievement and reasons for decline. This article takes two instances of the era's reform initiatives – in higher education and the provisi…
After the War
After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 278–279
What Sort of Nation?’
Australia's foundational moment was steeped in democratic and civic optimism. At the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia, there existed a widely‐held belief that this was ‘the peoples' federation’. The people who had ignited the federation process after it stalled in the hands of the politicians would naturally become the custodians and protectors of the Constitution they had endorsed at referendum. They would simultaneously safeguard …
What Sort of Nation?’
Australia's foundational moment was steeped in democratic and civic optimism. At the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia, there existed a widely‐held belief that this was ‘the peoples' federation’. The people who had ignited the federation process after it stalled in the hands of the politicians would naturally become the custodians and protectors of the Constitution they had endorsed at referendum. They would simultaneously safeguard …
Housing in a Federation
The Commonwealth's periodic attempts at housing and urban policy reform since the 1940s have been made in the face of a federal structure that allocates responsibility for such matters to the states. This paper explores the experience of federal governments since the 1940s, considering the various styles of political leadership, varying ways in which the problem has been framed, and differing policy settings that have been employed in resolving p…
The Rise of National Security in the 1930s
This article traces the evolution of ‘national security’ from a rarely used phrase to a central concept within Australian political life. Where existing genealogies have located the origins of ‘national security’ in the United States, this article reveals that the principal genesis of ‘national security’ was in the international disarmament debates of the early 1930s. Taking Australia as a case study, we show how the concept was utilized to expre…
Public Health in a Federation
Public health policy has been identified by scholars as a principal means by which the state has expanded its control over human populations. Yet, as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, public health responses do not necessarily reinforce the authority and prestige of the state, even while governments employ strict measures such as lockdowns and border closures. This article examines arguments about the nation-making effects of public health measure…
Redesigning collaborative governance for refugee settlement services
Processes of collaborative governance, also known as network structures or joined-up approaches, have been embraced increasingly by policy makers responding to complex and intractable problems. In 2015, a collaborative governance approach was applied in New South Wales to facilitate settlement of 12,000 additional refugees from Syria and Iraq, under the leadership of the Coordinator General for Refugee Resettlement, Peter Shergold. This article e…
The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins
The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins: Australian Government Administration in the Post-War Reconstruction Era." Australian Historical Studies, 48(2), pp. 320–321
Marxism for Beginner Nations
In 1965 Ken Inglis published a provocative article in Meanjin, in which he challenged historians to give greater consideration to World War I and, in particular, the work of its official historian, Charles Bean. Inglis suggested that his Marxist colleagues were uncomfortable with Great War history because the imperial loyalty of the diggers was contrary to their assumptions about the radicalism of the working class. There was, however, one elemen…
Legacies of War
Housing in a Federation
The Commonwealth's periodic attempts at housing and urban policy reform since the 1940s have been made in the face of a federal structure that allocates responsibility for such matters to the states. This paper explores the experience of federal governments since the 1940s, considering the various styles of political leadership, varying ways in which the problem has been framed, and differing policy settings that have been employed in resolving p…
Remembering with advantages
La memoria australiana de la Gran Guerra siempre se ha expresado de modo más efusivo en los ritos del día de Anzac: un acontecimiento que reconoce el aniversario de participación en la primera batalla en la Guerra de los australianos en Turquía, el 25 de abril de 1915. En las décadas tras los años 1914-1918, los efectos devastadores de la Guerra se apaciguaron en parte gracias al orgullo que los australianos sentían en la reputación de sus soldad…
In the Shadow of Anzac
Australia is by far the most enthusiastic and profligate commemorator of the centenary of the First World War; a phenomenon that is closely connected to the fact that the war produced Australia's premier national myth, the Anzac legend. The dominance of the nationalist interpretation in Australia has masked important aspects of the war, such as the experience of the working class. This article reviews Australian labour historiography of the First…
The Transformation of Labor Party Immigration Policy, 1901–1945
The Commonwealth Labor government’s introduction of a program of mass immigration after the Second World War was a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. The program itself and the experiences of those who settled in Australia have been studied closely by historians and social scientists. Less attention has been given to the fact that the postwar policy represented a transformation of Labor’s traditional attitude to immigration. Since its founda…
The Collaboration of Intellectuals and Politicians in the Postwar Reconstruction
The reconstruction that followed the Second World War is remembered as a golden period of Australian policy-making, during which the foundations of the modern nation-state were laid. Studies of the Labor governments led by John Curtin and Ben Chifley portray an unusually close and productive collaboration between political leaders and their policy advisers in the Department of Post-War Reconstruction. However, close examination of policy developm…
What Sort of Nation?’
Australia's foundational moment was steeped in democratic and civic optimism. At the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia, there existed a widely‐held belief that this was ‘the peoples' federation’. The people who had ignited the federation process after it stalled in the hands of the politicians would naturally become the custodians and protectors of the Constitution they had endorsed at referendum. They would simultaneously safeguard …
The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins
The Seven Dwarfs and the Age of the Mandarins: Australian Government Administration in the Post-War Reconstruction Era." Australian Historical Studies, 48(2), pp. 320–321
New perspectives on Anzac
History, Myth and Memory
Mythologies of Nation-Building in Australia Today
Peer-reviewed
Policy Narratives in Historical Transition
Discontent about contemporary politics in Australia has been accompanied by a history in which the 1980s and 1990s are represented as a ‘golden era’ of policy reform. Yet as champions of the era now concede, its prescriptions are failing. This should encourage contemporary historians to debate the evidence of achievement and reasons for decline. This article takes two instances of the era's reform initiatives – in higher education and the provisi…
After the War
After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War I." Australian Historical Studies, 49(2), pp. 278–279
Unorthodoxies
Not peer-reviewed
Forgotten Moments and Reclaimed Memories
Federation and Australian Nationalism
Much has been written about the nature of Australian nationalism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While post‐Second World War historiography analysed the role of class in nationalist sentiment, more recent work has examined the racialised and martial aspects of Australian nationalism and imperialism. There has been less consideration of how the nature of turn‐of‐the‐century Australian nationalism affected the Federation t…
Screening Anzac
Historians have long sought to compare Australian and New Zealand Anzac commemoration, finding that Australian commemoration tends to be more nationalistic and celebratory, while New Zealand’s is more solemn and inclusive of Māori, women’s and pacifist perspectives. This article examines war commemoration in Australia and New Zealand during the centenary of the First World War through the medium of four Anzac-themed television productions: Austra…
Legacies in Anxious Times
Representing War
The centenary of the First World War (2014–2019) expanded and reinvigorated the historiography of this conflict. In particular, the war’s cultural legacy generated an outpouring of publications between 2013 and 2020 that re-evaluated its traditional cultural representations and explored fresh avenues of inquiry through analysing contemporary interpretations of the conflict in films, books and television series. In this way, the centenary afforded…
Agency, Change and the Social Imaginary
Visual Representation and Memory of the First World War in Australasia
In March 2020, as the dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic became increasingly apparent, Prime Minister Scott Morrison rallied Australians for what would be “the toughest year of our lives” for many
Redesigning collaborative governance for refugee settlement services
Processes of collaborative governance, also known as network structures or joined-up approaches, have been embraced increasingly by policy makers responding to complex and intractable problems. In 2015, a collaborative governance approach was applied in New South Wales to facilitate settlement of 12,000 additional refugees from Syria and Iraq, under the leadership of the Coordinator General for Refugee Resettlement, Peter Shergold. This article e…
Can historians influence public policy? Challenges and possibilities
This article examines the traditional divide between historical expertise and the world of policy making. It traces the origins of academic historians' reluctance to engage in present-day debates within the context of the development of the discipline, and claims that a quartet of pressing global issues – climate change, rising inequality, disenchantment with democratic governance and the Corona virus pandemic – present an opportunity for history…
Anzac, Empire and War
While Federation in 1901 failed to lodge in the popular imagination, Australians widely embraced the idea that their nation was born at Gallipoli during World War I. Despite its subsequent ubiquity, the form of nationalism that spawned the legend of martial birth was not the only kind that had currency during World War I. This article traces the ideal of Australian nationhood held by imperialist liberals, such as Alfred Deakin and members of the …
Political science (24 works) · History (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · History (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Australian History and Society (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact (9 works) · Ancient history (6 works)