Frank Bongiorno
Biographic Data
| ID | 3840783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Bongiorno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank |
| FAMILY NAME | Bongiorno |
| SIGNATURE | BONGIORNO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8504-8155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
History and the Australian Right
Resisting the Anti-Welfare State Backlash: The Australian Council of Social Service’s Social Welfare Advocacy, 1975-83
The National Library of Australia’s (NLA) Trove database – and here I am more particularly concerned with its newspaper holdings – is widely and correctly regarded as an outstanding resource for the nation, as well as a means of making vast amounts of Australian material available globally. It is a boon to academic and professional researchers who would once have had to spend weeks and months in research tasks that might now take hours or minutes…
Imogen Richards, Gearóid Brinn and Callum Jones, Global Heating and the Australian Far Right
Public humanities of the future: Museums, archives, universities and beyond
Not peer-reviewed
What is history for? Australian Historical Association Presidential Address 2024
Nemesis and Australian political culture
HISTORY OFF THE PAGE REVIEW Nemesis, Mark Willacy, reporter and interviewer, Morag Ramsay, executive producer, Caitlin Shea, series producer and script writer, Kyle Taylor, producer and director, 3 × c.95 minutes and 1 × 28 minutes, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2024
Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia
Peer-reviewed
From the President
I write these words on the day following the announcement that Australians will vote on 14 October 2023 to decide whether to add a section to their Constitution providing for a First Nations Voice to Parliament.By the time you read it, we will know the result of that poll.That passage of time points to one of the dilemmas we face as historians: the big issues and problems of the contemporary world have great urgency about them.Yet we are also a d…
Australia: A New Political Geography
Some of the most eloquent advocates of Australian Federation in the 1890s imagined that there was nothing more natural than "a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation", as the first prime minister, Edmund Barton, put it. The reality was more complicated, as the difficult process of achieving Federation revealed. Differences between colonies, and then states, really mattered. There was a gulf between north and south, east and west that…
The Cambridge History of Socialism
This volume describes the various movements and parties, across all six continents, that wanted social change through state transformation. It begins with a reconstruction of social democracy's trajectories from the 1870s until the present. The evolution of socialism on different continents is illustrated through a number of national case studies. Experiments at a subnational level (for example, municipal socialism) are also explored, as are the …
Balls, Bubbles and Bosses: Australian Politics and Sex Scandal
New Histories and the Return of Crisis: Labour History at 60
Tiberius with a Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon
Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist
Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist." Australian Historical Studies, 51(2), pp. 229–230
Assessing the Accord and Labour's Role in Neoliberalism
Re-Creation, Fragmentation and Resilience: A Brief History of Canada since 1945
Don’t wait to be told’: The golden age of the Australian advertising agency
‘Don’t wait to be told’: the golden age of the Australian advertising agency." History Australia, 15(1), pp. 184–185
Introduction - New Histories of Sexuality
Some years ago, I tuned in to commercial talkback radio for want of anything else while driving through northern New South Wales. It was a Sydney program syndicated on a local station. Amid the sho
Workers of the World: 15 Th Biennial Labour History Conference, 23–25 September 2017, Emmanuel College, University of Queensland
Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross
Transnational Radicalism and the Connected Lives of Tom Mann and Robert Samuel Ross. By Neville Kirk (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017), pp.viii + 293. £80 (cloth)
Making Change Happen: Black and White Activists talk to Kevin Cook about Aboriginal, Union and Liberation Politics
Making Change Happen: Black and White Activists talk to Kevin Cook about Aboriginal, Union and Liberation Politics . By Kevin Cook and Heather Goodall (Canberra: Australian National University E Press, 2013), pp.viii + 437, AU$40.00 (pb)
Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939–45: Queer identities in Australia in the Second World War
Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939–45: queer identities in Australia in the Second World War." Social History, 41(2), pp. 223–224
‘The Men Who Made Australia Federated Long Ago’: Australian Frontiers and Borderlands
Alfred Deakin, a leading federalist and later Australian prime minister three times, ended an 1898 speech delivered in the Victorian town of Bendigo advocating federation of the Australian colonies, by quoting a local poet, William Gay.
 The Men Who Made Australia Federated Long Agoâ
Such a Great Space of Water between Us’: Anzac Day in Britain, 1916–39
The historiography of early Anzac Day in Britain has focused on the spectacular marches of troops through London streets while neglecting the more personal forms of Anzac observance. This article explores the early history of Anzac Day graveside pilgrimage in Britain as an example of how the Empire's bereaved sought to cope with their grief in the immediate postwar years. The later decline of the pilgrimage movement was the result of the growing …
From Carr to Keneally: Labor in Office in NSW 1995–2011
From Carr to Keneally: Labor in Office in NSW 1995–2011." Australian Journal of Political Science, 48(2), pp. 246–247
Assessing the Accord and Labour's Role in Neoliberalism
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad: Towards a History of Australia’s National Day
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Whose War Was It Anyway? Some Australian Historians and the Great War
This article will examine a neglected ‘front’ in Australia's ‘History Wars’: the debate over the Australian response to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914. Since the 1980s, several historians have contributed to a body of literature which insists that Australia's vital interests were at stake in the confrontation between Britain and Germany in the Great War, and that Australia participated in order to protect these interests. In short, these h…
H.V. Evatt, Australia and Ireland’s departure from the Commonwealth: A reassessment
On 7 September 1948 the newly appointed Taoiseach, John A. Costello, the leader of a coalition government in which his party Fine Gael was the senior partner, announced in Ottawa that he intended to repeal Eire’s External Relations Act, and thus sever its final tenuous link with the crown. The External Relations Act ‘empowered the Executive Council of the Irish Free State to authorise the use of the king’s signature on the letters of credence to …
Politics at the centre: The selection and removal of party leaders in the Anglo parliamentary democracies
Australian Labour History: Contexts, Trends and Influences
From their inception, the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and its Bulletin (later Labour History) represented a claim to recognition for labour history within Australian academia. At the same time, they expressed the fellowship of the activist and scholar. This article will suggest that labour history has been shaped by the evolving professional imperatives associated with university-based research, publication and teaching of …
Howard's End: The 2007 Australian Election
The Australian federal election of 24 November 2007 saw the defeat of the Howard Liberal-National Party coalition government after almost 12 years in office and brought to power a Labor government, the first since 1996, under the leadership of Kevin Rudd. John Howard, Australia's second longest-serving prime minister, became only the second prime minister to lose his own seat at an election. This article summarizes the election result and places …
Love and friendship: Ethical socialism in britain and australia∗
The restoration of a British context to Australian historical writing has been a significant trend of recent years, but it has so far had little impact on Australian labour history, and even less on the history of radical political thought and organisation. This paper analyses one strand of Australian radical thought—ethical socialism—and seeks to illuminate the manner in which British radical ideas have been received and adapted in the antipodes…
Class, Populism and Labour Politics in Victoria, 1890-1914
In 1895, a gentle, serious-minded artisan who made his living working with tin and copper won the Carlton South by-election as a Labor candidate for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. His name was John Barrett. Two years later, his undistinguished career in colonial politics ended, when he lost his seat in the 1897 general election. He wrote to his colleague H. B. Higgins after the 1897 election
Freedom's on the Wallaby
One of the more fortunate consequences of the centenary of the Australian Labor Party in 1991 was the 'Freedom's on the Wallaby' exhibition, which was on show at the National Library of Australia, Canberra from October 8, 1991 until January 31, 1992. The exhibition contained material from the Library's own collections, as well as from other libraries around the country. There were books, pamphlets, newspapers, letters, minutes of meetings, poster…
Trust the Women
Class, Populism and Labour Politics in Victoria, 1890-1914
In 1895, a gentle, serious-minded artisan who made his living working with tin and copper won the Carlton South by-election as a Labor candidate for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. His name was John Barrett. Two years later, his undistinguished career in colonial politics ended, when he lost his seat in the 1897 general election. He wrote to his colleague H. B. Higgins after the 1897 election
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
The People's Party. Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition, 1875-1914
A lively account of the Victorian Labor Party's attempts to find common ground between the competing demands of inner-city workers and farmers, Catholics and Protestants, trade unionists and disaffected liberals, teetotallers and boozers, socialists and feminists
Bernard O'Dowd's Socialism
This article explores the emergence and development of the poet Bernard O'Dowd as a radical intellectual in the years before World War I. It is a case study of the relationship between Australian intellectuals and the labour movement during its formative period, focusing on the themes of democracy, class, race and gender. O'Dowd's radicalism incorporated various strands of liberal, radical and socialist ideas without necessarily reconciling them.…
Heritage Report: The Pumphouse: Peoples History Museum, Manchester
Manchester was the 'shock city7 of the British Industrial Revolution, seen by many then and since as the 'home of the modern',1 and it will come as no surprise to readers of Labour History that the city and its surrounds enjoy a rich industrial heritage which has a prominent place in the city's quest to attract tourists. Disused canals, once central to the city's cotton industry, are now enjoyed by tourists and diners on pleasure boats, while der…
Commonwealthmen and Republicans: Dr. H.V. Evatt, the Monarchy and India
H.V. Evatt's foreign policy has attracted considerable historical attention, but his response as Australian External Affairs Minister to Commonwealth constitutional issues remains neglected. Evatt sought to retain India in the Commonwealth in 1948–49, but he insisted that India ought to recognise the king's prerogatives in its constitutional arrangements. He had developed his defence of the monarchy and its place in the empire in his writings of …
Books
The Country of Lost Children: An. Australian Anxiety. By Peter Pierce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 211. $24.95 paper. life over Death: Tasmanians and Tuberculosis. By Michael Roe. Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Hobart, 1999. Pp. 234. $22.00 paper. The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia. By Joy Damousi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x + 212. $29.95 paper…
Books
Australian Feminism: A Companion. Edited by Barbara Caine, Moira Gatens, Emma Grahame, Jan Larbalestier, Sophie Watson and Elizabeth Webby. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxix + 607. $87.50 cloth. The Imaginary Australian: Anglo‐Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present By Miriam Dixson. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 216. $27.95 paper. Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism. By Marilyn Lake.…
Working Life & Federation, 1890-1914
If the place of the labour movement and the Australian Labor Party in the celebrations to mark the Centenary of Federation is marked by a degree of ambiguity, it should perhaps come as no surprise: so was the attitude of the late nineteenth-century labour movement to Federation itself. Labour, after all, had only one representative Victoria's W.A. Trenwith at the Federal Convention that drafted the Commonwealth
Love and friendship: Ethical socialism in britain and australia∗
The restoration of a British context to Australian historical writing has been a significant trend of recent years, but it has so far had little impact on Australian labour history, and even less on the history of radical political thought and organisation. This paper analyses one strand of Australian radical thought—ethical socialism—and seeks to illuminate the manner in which British radical ideas have been received and adapted in the antipodes…
Books
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000. By Anna Haebich. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Pp. 726. $35.00 paper. My Dark Brother. The Story of the Wins, a Russian‐Aboriginal Family. By Elena Govor. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 385. $34.95 cloth. Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. By Peter Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 248. $29.95 …
H.V. Evatt, Australia and Ireland’s departure from the Commonwealth: A reassessment
On 7 September 1948 the newly appointed Taoiseach, John A. Costello, the leader of a coalition government in which his party Fine Gael was the senior partner, announced in Ottawa that he intended to repeal Eire’s External Relations Act, and thus sever its final tenuous link with the crown. The External Relations Act ‘empowered the Executive Council of the Irish Free State to authorise the use of the king’s signature on the letters of credence to …
John Wren: A Life Reconsidered
The Price of Nostalgia: Menzies, the "Liberal" Tradition and Australian Foreign Policy
This article surveys some of the key contributions to the secondary literature on Australia's foreign and defence policy during Robert Gordon Menzies' two prime ministerships (1939–41, 1949–66), and seeks to identify Menzies' place in a “Liberal” and Liberal Party tradition through a reading of this work. Via a study of Menzies' imperialism, British race patriotism, nationalism, and attitudes towards Asia and the United States of America, it argu…
British to the bootstraps?’: H.V. Evatt, J.B. Chifley and Australian policy on Indian membership of the Commonwealth, 1947–49
Australian policy-makers gave considerable attention to the question of India's relationship to the British Commonwealth in the years following the Second World War. Australia's Minister for External Affairs, H.V. Evatt, was eager to retain India in the Commonwealth, but insisted that the Indians, who were committed to a republican constitution, be required to give some recognition to the royal prerogative. While Evatt's notion of dominion status…
Rediscovering the British World
The British Empire shaped the world we know today. Placing the colonies of settlement at the center of British Imperial History, this book rejects nostalgia to explore the complexities and lasting impacts of the British diaspora overseas. Rediscovering the British World is one part of an ongoing attempt to approach British Imperial history from a different viewpoint, placing the colonies of settlement at the centre. Editors Phillip Buckner and Do…
The Devil and Kaiser Bill: Victor Kroemer and the World Crisis of 1914–15
The apocalyptic writings of Victor Eugene Kroemer (1883–1930) provide us with an insight into millenarian responses to the outbreak of the Great War, a subject that has been little noticed in research on Australian religious history. This article, however, will also show that a study of Kroemer's occult beliefs can illuminate larger themes in the Australian cultural response to the war. Kroemer's interpretation of the war as an essentially spirit…
K.S. Inglis prize winner citation
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…
Australia's History: Themes and Debates Edited by Martyn Lyons and Penny Russell
Whose War Was It Anyway? Some Australian Historians and the Great War
This article will examine a neglected ‘front’ in Australia's ‘History Wars’: the debate over the Australian response to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914. Since the 1980s, several historians have contributed to a body of literature which insists that Australia's vital interests were at stake in the confrontation between Britain and Germany in the Great War, and that Australia participated in order to protect these interests. In short, these h…
Howard's End: The 2007 Australian Election
The Australian federal election of 24 November 2007 saw the defeat of the Howard Liberal-National Party coalition government after almost 12 years in office and brought to power a Labor government, the first since 1996, under the leadership of Kevin Rudd. John Howard, Australia's second longest-serving prime minister, became only the second prime minister to lose his own seat at an election. This article summarizes the election result and places …
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Whose War Was It Anyway? Some Australian Historians and the Great War
Authors’ Introduction The article is an attempt to assess a body of historical and polemical writing on Australia's entry into the First World War. It also offers, from page 70 through to page 74, an alternative to the kind of understanding of Australian participation in the war with which we take issue elsewhere in the article. The piece was inspired by our engagement with the important writing of John Moses, who was for some years a valued coll…
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