Christopher Waters
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Waters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Waters |
| SIGNATURE | WATERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5574-4803 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Appalachian Numeracy and Literacy and Oral Health, an Ecological Study, Piaac and BRFSS
Health concerns, and oral health concerns in particular, are significant for the Appalachian region. However, dental visits and the mean overall general literacy/numeracy skills were not significantly different from the nation's, indicating that other factors are driving poor health outcomes within Appalachia from an ecological perspective
Increase in body mass index during the Covid-19 pandemic among people who smoke: An analysis of multi-site electronic health records
The effects of the COVID-19 period among people who smoke (compared by sex) are largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to compare body mass index (BMI) increase among men and women who smoked during the pandemic. We used a retrospective longitudinal, observational study design of secondary data. We used electronic health records from TriNetX network (n = 486,072) from April 13, 2020-May 5, 2022 among adults aged 18–64 who smoked and had a…
Epidemiology and Characteristics of People with Injury Due to Volatile Substance Use to Induce Euphoria
Background: Unhealthy substance use is a public health challenge. Much of the focus of interventions is upon narcotics, stimulants, hallucinogens, central nervous system depressants, and alcohol. However, inhalants are also commonly used in an unhealthy manner and are under-recognized. The purpose of this study is to describe incident emergency department visits for volatile substance use to induce euphoria (VSUIE) injuries in the U.S. Methods: D…
Anzus and the Early Cold War: Strategy and Diplomacy between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1945‐1956
ANZUS and the Early Cold War: Strategy and Diplomacy between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1945-1956
Slow or spectacular death: Reconsidering the legal history of blockade and submarines in World War I
In popular culture and imagination, World War I was a bloody, muddy, senseless, almost accidental conflict. International law seems far removed from the causes of the war or the way hostilities were conducted. This seeming irrelevance of international law in popular imagination is reflected in intellectual, literary, and scholarly accounts. However, during the centenary of the war, it is time to rethink the role law played in this first large-sca…
Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour. By Lynne Olson (Melbourne: Scribe, 2015), pp. xxi + 419. AU$27.99 (pb)
When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940
When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940. By Robin Prior (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), pp.xxi + 335. AU$55.00 (cloth), distributed in Australia by Footprint Books
The Last of Australian Imperial Dreams for the Southwest Pacific: Paul Hasluck, the Department of Territories and a Greater Melanesia in 1960
This paper is a study of the vision held at the beginning of the 1960s by Paul Hasluck, the minister for external territories, and his department of the path to decolonisation for Melanesia. Faced by the ongoing West New Guinea crisis, Hasluck and his officials proposed to keep the western part of New Guinea out of Indonesian hands by expanding Australia’s empire, step by step, to include most of Melanesia. This greater Melanesian empire would ev…
A Reply to Neville Meaney
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristopher WatersChristopher Waters is an associate professor in history at Deakin University
Journalists making contemporary Australian history
Review of Making Australia Great: Inside Our Longest Boom , George Megalogenis, presenter, Roadshow Entertainment, ABC TV, Screened 17, 24 and 31 March 2015
Expanding the Australian Empire: The Australian Council for the World Council of Churches, the Menzies Government and the New Hebrides in the late 1950s
In the late 1950s the Australian Council for the World Council of Churches (AC‐WCC) inspired primarily by the Presbyterian Church, undertook a concerted campaign to pressure the Australian government to assume a greater role in the affairs of the New Hebrides. The AC‐WCC wanted the Australian government to take over the United Kingdom's role in the administration of the Anglo‐French Condominium. It was motivated to undertake this campaign by the …
Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands
Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands." The Journal of Pacific History, 49(3), pp. 371–372
Nationalism, Britishness and Australian history: The Meaney thesis revisited
In 2001 Neville Meaney published a landmark article which questioned the place of nationalism in Australian historiography. He argued that up to the 1960s Britishness, not nationalism, was the hegemonic marker of identity for Australians, and warned that nationalist historians had fallen into the trap of writing their histories through nationalism’s own teleological imperative. This article revisits Meaney’s hegemonic claim for the role of Britis…
Manuscript XXVII: Australia and the South Pacific
Colonial governments in the 19th century and Australian federal governments in the 20th century had a long if intermittent interest in the New Hebrides and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate
Against the Tide’: Australian Government Attitudes to Decolonisation in the South Pacific, 1962–1972
This paper is an exploration of the attitudes and policies of key Australian ministers and officials towards decolonisation in the South Pacific through the 1960s and into the early 1970s. Until the late 1960s, Australian governments generally favoured a very slow pace of decolonisation for the region, feared that many territories would never make viable nation-states and actively considered the bringing together of some of the colonial territori…
Decolonisation in Melanesia: Introduction
Decolonisation in Melanesia'. It explores the case studies of Papua New
Australia and Appeasement: Imperial Foreign Policy and the Origins of World War II
On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Germany. He outlined how every effort had been made to maintain the peace by keeping the door open to a negotiated settlement. However, as these efforts had failed, the British Empire was now 'involved in a struggle which we must at all costs win, and which we believe in our hearts we will win'. Christ…
The Allied Bombing of German Cities during the Second World War from a Canadian Perspective
This paper addresses the history of the legality of the aerial bombardment of civilians, from the earliest attempts at legalization, through the inter-war period and into the actual bombing campaigns of the Second World War. We then chart the paucity of discussion of the legality of said bombing both during the war and throughout the Cold War, and finish with the occasional interruptions to the legal silence since 1992 in Canada and elsewhere
The Menzies Government and the Grand Alliance during 1939
This article is a study of the Australian government's exchanges with the Chamberlain government over the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a Grand Alliance between the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union during 1939. Robert Menzies and Stanley Bruce carefully weighed the arguments for and against before deciding to support the proposal for an Alliance. Yet there was considerable ambivalence about their support as evidenced by …
Understanding and Misunderstanding Nazi Germany: Four Australian visitors to Germany in 1938
n\t\t\t\t\tThis article examines the visits by four Australians, Bill Oats, Thomas White, Jessie Street and Robert Menzies, to Germany in the northern summer of 1938. It analyses their observations of Nazi Germany and Hitler’s actions over Czechoslovakia. Menzies was more positive about the Nazi system than the other three, but all four condemned its barbaric nature. On Czechoslovakia, Menzies, a key conservative federal minister, was the only on…
Books
There is no more imposing figure in the history of Australian anthropology than W.E.H. ('Bill') Stanner (1905-1981). While some of his contemporaries produced more ethnography, none matched his skill and eloquence in describing the life-worlds of Aboriginal people. While others of his age were just as closely involved in arguing for the defensibility of Aboriginal society, none did so with such convincing passion. With these two legacies in mind,…
Every Assistance & Protection: A History of the Australian Passport
Book review of Every Assistance & Protection: A History of the Australian Passport by Jane Doulman and David Lee
Is the Military Legally Encircled
Kosovanizing’ the Ombudsperson: Implications for Kosovo and Peacekeeping
In February 2006, the United Nations Interim Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) 'nationalized' the Kosovo ombudsperson's institution. This entailed making the ombudsperson a Kosovar and removing oversight of UNMIK from his/her jurisdiction. Based on legal and political analysis, and fresh survey results on the views of Kosovars themselves, this article considers the prospects of the ombudsperson as a human rights accountability mechanism. It also consider…
Australia's Empire
After decolonization: Australia and the emergence of the non‐aligned movement in Asia, 1954–55
This article is a study of the response of the Australian government under Robert Menzies to the emergence of the Afro‐Asian movement in the mid‐1950s, especially the element of the non‐aligned nations, which culminated in the Bandung meeting of April 1955. Non‐alignment and anti‐colonialism posed direct threats to the Menzies government's plans for the defence of Southeast Asia and its foreign policy for the region. The study of the Australian r…
Decolonisation in Melanesia: Introduction
Decolonisation in Melanesia'. It explores the case studies of Papua New
The Last of Australian Imperial Dreams for the Southwest Pacific: Paul Hasluck, the Department of Territories and a Greater Melanesia in 1960
This paper is a study of the vision held at the beginning of the 1960s by Paul Hasluck, the minister for external territories, and his department of the path to decolonisation for Melanesia. Faced by the ongoing West New Guinea crisis, Hasluck and his officials proposed to keep the western part of New Guinea out of Indonesian hands by expanding Australia’s empire, step by step, to include most of Melanesia. This greater Melanesian empire would ev…
Against the Tide’: Australian Government Attitudes to Decolonisation in the South Pacific, 1962–1972
This paper is an exploration of the attitudes and policies of key Australian ministers and officials towards decolonisation in the South Pacific through the 1960s and into the early 1970s. Until the late 1960s, Australian governments generally favoured a very slow pace of decolonisation for the region, feared that many territories would never make viable nation-states and actively considered the bringing together of some of the colonial territori…
Is the Military Legally Encircled
Kosovanizing’ the Ombudsperson: Implications for Kosovo and Peacekeeping
In February 2006, the United Nations Interim Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) 'nationalized' the Kosovo ombudsperson's institution. This entailed making the ombudsperson a Kosovar and removing oversight of UNMIK from his/her jurisdiction. Based on legal and political analysis, and fresh survey results on the views of Kosovars themselves, this article considers the prospects of the ombudsperson as a human rights accountability mechanism. It also consider…
Reconceptualizing Legal Education After War
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Australia, the security council and the Iranian crisis of 1946: Liberal internationalism in practice
In the early months of 1946 Dr H.V. Evatt made a concerted effort to shape the newly formed Security Council as a security tribunal. He wanted the Security Council to be governed by the principles of the United Nations Charter, to adopt regular procedures, to have an investigatory function and to make determinations on the facts of each case, not on the basis of power politics. Evatt attempted to implement his policy during the Iranian crisis des…
Australia, the security council and the Iranian crisis of 1946: Liberal internationalism in practice
In the early months of 1946 Dr H.V. Evatt made a concerted effort to shape the newly formed Security Council as a security tribunal. He wanted the Security Council to be governed by the principles of the United Nations Charter, to adopt regular procedures, to have an investigatory function and to make determinations on the facts of each case, not on the basis of power politics. Evatt attempted to implement his policy during the Iranian crisis des…
A failure of imagination: R.G. Casey and Australian plans for counter‐subversion in Asia, 1954‐1956
This article is a study of some aspects of the non‐military response of the Menzies government to the decolonisation of the European empires and the cold war in Asia. In the mid‐1950s R.G. Casey, the Minister for External Affairs, was given responsibility by the cabinet to develop a programme of Colombo Plan ‐ educational, cultural, propaganda, intelligence and political initiatives ‐ which the Menzies government hoped would influence the outcome…
After decolonization: Australia and the emergence of the non‐aligned movement in Asia, 1954–55
This article is a study of the response of the Australian government under Robert Menzies to the emergence of the Afro‐Asian movement in the mid‐1950s, especially the element of the non‐aligned nations, which culminated in the Bandung meeting of April 1955. Non‐alignment and anti‐colonialism posed direct threats to the Menzies government's plans for the defence of Southeast Asia and its foreign policy for the region. The study of the Australian r…
Australia, the British Empire and the Second World War
Books
A Sort of Conscience: The Wakefields. By Philip Temple. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002. Pp. 584. NZ$69.95 cloth. The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives. Edited by Brad Patterson. Wellington: Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 2002. Pp. xiv + 212. NZ$34.95 paper. Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History. Edited by Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles. Dunedin: University of Otago Press,…
Casey: Four Decades in the Making of Australian Foreign Policy
Richard Casey was involved in shaping Australian foreign policy for over four decades. Casey's attitudes, ideas, policies and actions towards the rest of the world are therefore an important part of a Liberal tradition in Australian foreign policy. To examine Casey's place in the Liberal tradition this article explores Casey's positions on the great international issues of two periods: the 1930s and the 1950s. The conclusion of the article is tha…
Comparing British and Canadian Perspectives on International Law
After signposting some of the developments towards a self-confident and self-consciously Canadian voice in international law, this article asks what the Canadian perspective on international law actually is. It suggests, through a comparison with the UK along three axes (government, courts and media portrayals of international law), that the Canadian international law reflex has been multilateralist/internationalist but that this description need…
Books
This book makes me wonder why Australian \nhistorians have so readily agreed to \na history that starts at 1788. Perhaps the \nFirst Fleet's entertaining publishing enterprises \nhave been too seductive. Whereas \nhistorians may doubt that it is possible \nto write history without archival word \nmiddens, archaeologists doubt that one \ncan write without material discoveries. \nSources and methodological expertise \nhave created a major chasm bet…
Reconceptualizing Legal Education After War
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Is the Military Legally Encircled
Kosovanizing’ the Ombudsperson: Implications for Kosovo and Peacekeeping
In February 2006, the United Nations Interim Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) 'nationalized' the Kosovo ombudsperson's institution. This entailed making the ombudsperson a Kosovar and removing oversight of UNMIK from his/her jurisdiction. Based on legal and political analysis, and fresh survey results on the views of Kosovars themselves, this article considers the prospects of the ombudsperson as a human rights accountability mechanism. It also consider…
Australia's Empire
Every Assistance & Protection: A History of the Australian Passport
Book review of Every Assistance & Protection: A History of the Australian Passport by Jane Doulman and David Lee
The Menzies Government and the Grand Alliance during 1939
This article is a study of the Australian government's exchanges with the Chamberlain government over the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a Grand Alliance between the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union during 1939. Robert Menzies and Stanley Bruce carefully weighed the arguments for and against before deciding to support the proposal for an Alliance. Yet there was considerable ambivalence about their support as evidenced by …
Understanding and Misunderstanding Nazi Germany: Four Australian visitors to Germany in 1938
n\t\t\t\t\tThis article examines the visits by four Australians, Bill Oats, Thomas White, Jessie Street and Robert Menzies, to Germany in the northern summer of 1938. It analyses their observations of Nazi Germany and Hitler’s actions over Czechoslovakia. Menzies was more positive about the Nazi system than the other three, but all four condemned its barbaric nature. On Czechoslovakia, Menzies, a key conservative federal minister, was the only on…
Books
There is no more imposing figure in the history of Australian anthropology than W.E.H. ('Bill') Stanner (1905-1981). While some of his contemporaries produced more ethnography, none matched his skill and eloquence in describing the life-worlds of Aboriginal people. While others of his age were just as closely involved in arguing for the defensibility of Aboriginal society, none did so with such convincing passion. With these two legacies in mind,…
Australia and Appeasement: Imperial Foreign Policy and the Origins of World War II
On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Germany. He outlined how every effort had been made to maintain the peace by keeping the door open to a negotiated settlement. However, as these efforts had failed, the British Empire was now 'involved in a struggle which we must at all costs win, and which we believe in our hearts we will win'. Christ…
The Allied Bombing of German Cities during the Second World War from a Canadian Perspective
This paper addresses the history of the legality of the aerial bombardment of civilians, from the earliest attempts at legalization, through the inter-war period and into the actual bombing campaigns of the Second World War. We then chart the paucity of discussion of the legality of said bombing both during the war and throughout the Cold War, and finish with the occasional interruptions to the legal silence since 1992 in Canada and elsewhere
Nationalism, Britishness and Australian history: The Meaney thesis revisited
In 2001 Neville Meaney published a landmark article which questioned the place of nationalism in Australian historiography. He argued that up to the 1960s Britishness, not nationalism, was the hegemonic marker of identity for Australians, and warned that nationalist historians had fallen into the trap of writing their histories through nationalism’s own teleological imperative. This article revisits Meaney’s hegemonic claim for the role of Britis…
Manuscript XXVII: Australia and the South Pacific
Colonial governments in the 19th century and Australian federal governments in the 20th century had a long if intermittent interest in the New Hebrides and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate
Against the Tide’: Australian Government Attitudes to Decolonisation in the South Pacific, 1962–1972
This paper is an exploration of the attitudes and policies of key Australian ministers and officials towards decolonisation in the South Pacific through the 1960s and into the early 1970s. Until the late 1960s, Australian governments generally favoured a very slow pace of decolonisation for the region, feared that many territories would never make viable nation-states and actively considered the bringing together of some of the colonial territori…
Decolonisation in Melanesia: Introduction
Decolonisation in Melanesia'. It explores the case studies of Papua New
Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands
Winding up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands." The Journal of Pacific History, 49(3), pp. 371–372
A Reply to Neville Meaney
Additional informationNotes on contributorsChristopher WatersChristopher Waters is an associate professor in history at Deakin University
Journalists making contemporary Australian history
Review of Making Australia Great: Inside Our Longest Boom , George Megalogenis, presenter, Roadshow Entertainment, ABC TV, Screened 17, 24 and 31 March 2015
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