A Holland
Biographic Data
| ID | 4864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Holland |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Holland |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLAND A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0517-351X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Zombie drugs: Dehumanising news frames and public stigma towards people who use drugs
Our study is the first to show that dehumanising 'zombie' framing frequently used in news reporting is associated with higher public stigma towards people who use drugs. News media is an important source of public education on drugs, so to avoid reinforcing stigma the use of dehumanising language and framing, such as 'zombie' metaphors, should be avoided. Organisations working to reduce stigma towards people who use drugs should encourage news ou…
Sacrificing Indigenous interests: Solving the ‘native question’ in Australia and Palestine on the eve of the Second World War
Encounters in place and history: The Anangu, Fred Rose and Shannyn Palmer at Angas Downs
“Symbolism, Separatism, and Perpetual Guilt”: Politicians Debating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, 1987–1990
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, Aboriginal Affairs was a volatile portfolio. Gough Whitlam signalled a reorientation of policy with self‐determination in 1973. However, in the succeeding decade, policy slipped back to self‐management and self‐sufficiency that were the default of the Coalition. The proposals for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission by Labor in the late 1980s brought self‐determination back into the equ…
A Failure. No One to Blame But Themselves”? The Media and the Abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
Promoting adaptative education for the Wongutha people: The influence of Anglo-American ideas for ‘Native Education’ in interwar Australia
The question of ‘native’ education became urgent in interwar Britain in the context of imperial expansion in Africa. Simultaneously, debates concerning black education were central to a global pan-African nationalist movement demanding black rights and liberation. In this context, education became a site of competing ideas regarding black accommodation and rights. Missionaries drew connections between educating ‘black Africa’ and ‘negro America’ …
A salvage exercise for Aboriginal rights’: Human rights and social justice in Indigenous political responses to the Mabo (No.2) decision
The Mabo (No.2) decision in 1992 has been described as a historical turning point for the nation. In popular memory, it is associated with Eddie Mabo, then Prime Minister Paul Keating, and Indigenous activist and public intellectual Noel Pearson, who played an important role in seeing Mabo (No.2) embodied in Native Title law. Inasmuch as it is understood within the long history of Indigenous demands for rights, it is generally seen as pivotal in …
The ‘Native Question’ in Australia Exploring the Anglo-Australian Humanitarian Response, 1904–1939
In the first thirty years of the twentieth century the ‘native question’ loomed large in the heart of the British Empire in the context of heightened imperialism in Africa. This reverberated in Australia in the context of the Commonwealth government gaining Dominionhood, making contributions to the League of Nations as an independent mandatory power, and becoming responsible for the administration of the tropical North. A local humanitarian netwo…
Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake
Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell. Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890
Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell’s carefully researched and crafted book Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890 makes an invaluable and timely contribution to the historiography of Aboriginal-settler relations and settler colonialism in Australia. One of the rewards of reading it was being reminded of the important foundational work Australian historians have done and are doing in this field…
Does the British flag mean nothing to us?’ British Democratic Traditions and Aboriginal Rights Claims in Interwar Australia
The connection between Aboriginal people and the British Crown is well established. Less understood is their appreciation of, and reliance on, British democratic traditions in their politics. Drawing on the archive of Aboriginal activist, William Cooper, this article explores the way he used the language and practices associated with British democracy to advance his political claims in interwar Australia. With Protestant Christianity, Britishness…
Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives
Teaching and learning Indigenous history in comparative and transnational frame: Lessons from the coalface
In first semester 2015, I taught second-year Indigenous Australian history as a comparative and transnational unit for the first time. My decision to do so related to pedagogical issues as well as developments in the field. I implemented structural changes to the way I taught the unit and refocused the content to reflect the transnational and comparative trend in the scholarship. Notwithstanding the benefits of my teaching innovations, it was the…
Aboriginal Affairs: Humanitarian Intervention Then and Now: Dis/Connections and Possibilities
Aboriginal affairs has always been a sore point in Australia. Ever since the first Governor attempted to put in place the Colonial Office's instructions to treat the inhabitants with “amity and kindness” the exercise has been fraught. There is a text‐book version of the changing policy landscape and rote school lessons on the gradual acquisition of Aboriginal rights and freedoms. These go some way to conveying the contested ground, political conf…
Country Women and the Colour Bar: Grassroots Activism and the Country Women's Association
Country Women and the Colour Bar: Grassroots Activism and the Country Women's Association. By Jennifer Jones (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2015), pp. v + 229. AU$39.95 (pb)
In the Eye of the Beholder: What Six Nineteenth-Century Women Tell Us about Indigenous Authority and Identity
In the Eye of the Beholder: What Six Nineteenth-Century Women Tell Us about Indigenous Authority and Identity." Australian Historical Studies, 47(2), pp. 330–331
Barry Morris. Protests, Land Rights and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s
This small compact book was, for me, a most welcome read, especially since there has been something of a downturn in Aboriginal history in the academy more recently. After a late start, it took off in the 1970s and 1980s as historians began a deeper excavation of the archive and, with new questions, recovered the Aboriginal story and placed it within the wider story of interaction and connection across the Australian frontier. As a result, the fi…
Something Like Slavery? Queensland's Aboriginal Child Workers, 1842–1945
Something Like Slavery? Queensland's Aboriginal Child Workers, 1842–1945 . By Shirleene Robinson. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008. Pp. 358. A$39.95 paper. When I was growing up I w
Compelling Evidence: Marriage, colonialism and the question of Indigenous rights
In 1986 the Australian Law Reform Commission found that Aboriginal spouses who married traditionally were compellable witnesses against each other in criminal trials, despite the privileging of spouses as non‐compellable within the common law. The basis of this was that they were not recognised as husbands and wives according to the laws of evidence. The Commission argued that failure to extend the common law rule of inter‐spousal non‐compellabil…
To Eliminate Colour Prejudice: The WCTU and Decolonisation in Australia
From the mid‐1930s to the mid‐1960s the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Australia played a key role in the articulation and development of human rights for Aborigines. They provided practical and political support and scaffolding while developing an important ideological base, and they formed alliances across class, gender, race, religious, and political lines to achieve their goal of racial equality. Their activism coincided with th…
Mary Bennett and the feminists: A response
Hybridity and its discontents: Politics, Science, Culture
Women as Australian Citizens: Underlying Histories
What does it mean to be a woman citizen in Australia today? Why have Australian women appeared so rarely in public political life, despite gaining the vote in 1901? Why has formal citizenship historically been analysed in primarily male terms? And how have women themselves established different practices of citizenship from those of men? Women as Australian Citizens addresses these questions. It examines the long histories of citizenship for Aust…
Wives and mothers like ourselves? Exploring white women's intervention in the politics of race, 1920s‐1940s
This paper takes the issue of the removal of Aboriginal children, and the broader white anxiety over the 'half-caste problem' which underpinned the policy, to explore white women reformers' intervention in the politics of race in the years 1920-40. In these years middle-class women's citizenship was based on maternalism and the defence of motherhood. At the same time the national feminist lobby, the Australian Federation of Women Voters, joined t…
The Covenant Makers: Islander Missionaries in the Pacific
Wives and mothers like ourselves? Exploring white women's intervention in the politics of race, 1920s‐1940s
This paper takes the issue of the removal of Aboriginal children, and the broader white anxiety over the 'half-caste problem' which underpinned the policy, to explore white women reformers' intervention in the politics of race in the years 1920-40. In these years middle-class women's citizenship was based on maternalism and the defence of motherhood. At the same time the national feminist lobby, the Australian Federation of Women Voters, joined t…
Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives
Something Like Slavery? Queensland's Aboriginal Child Workers, 1842–1945
Something Like Slavery? Queensland's Aboriginal Child Workers, 1842–1945 . By Shirleene Robinson. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008. Pp. 358. A$39.95 paper. When I was growing up I w
Feminism, Colonialism and Aboriginal Workers: An Anti-Slavery Crusade
An analysis of first-wave feminism's critique of the position of Aboriginal workers, especially their use of the rhetoric and symbolism of slavery, brings together the often disparate fields of labour history, feminist history and Aboriginal history and in so doing broadens our perspective of the complex politics concerning issues of race and gender. Concern about of Aboriginal labour was central to feminist debate about the need for reform of Go…
Compelling Evidence: Marriage, colonialism and the question of Indigenous rights
In 1986 the Australian Law Reform Commission found that Aboriginal spouses who married traditionally were compellable witnesses against each other in criminal trials, despite the privileging of spouses as non‐compellable within the common law. The basis of this was that they were not recognised as husbands and wives according to the laws of evidence. The Commission argued that failure to extend the common law rule of inter‐spousal non‐compellabil…
Feminism, Colonialism and Aboriginal Workers: An Anti-Slavery Crusade
An analysis of first-wave feminism's critique of the position of Aboriginal workers, especially their use of the rhetoric and symbolism of slavery, brings together the often disparate fields of labour history, feminist history and Aboriginal history and in so doing broadens our perspective of the complex politics concerning issues of race and gender. Concern about of Aboriginal labour was central to feminist debate about the need for reform of Go…
The Covenant Makers: Islander Missionaries in the Pacific
Wives and mothers like ourselves? Exploring white women's intervention in the politics of race, 1920s‐1940s
This paper takes the issue of the removal of Aboriginal children, and the broader white anxiety over the 'half-caste problem' which underpinned the policy, to explore white women reformers' intervention in the politics of race in the years 1920-40. In these years middle-class women's citizenship was based on maternalism and the defence of motherhood. At the same time the national feminist lobby, the Australian Federation of Women Voters, joined t…
Mary Bennett and the feminists: A response
Hybridity and its discontents: Politics, Science, Culture
Women as Australian Citizens: Underlying Histories
What does it mean to be a woman citizen in Australia today? Why have Australian women appeared so rarely in public political life, despite gaining the vote in 1901? Why has formal citizenship historically been analysed in primarily male terms? And how have women themselves established different practices of citizenship from those of men? Women as Australian Citizens addresses these questions. It examines the long histories of citizenship for Aust…
To Eliminate Colour Prejudice: The WCTU and Decolonisation in Australia
From the mid‐1930s to the mid‐1960s the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in Australia played a key role in the articulation and development of human rights for Aborigines. They provided practical and political support and scaffolding while developing an important ideological base, and they formed alliances across class, gender, race, religious, and political lines to achieve their goal of racial equality. Their activism coincided with th…
Something Like Slavery? Queensland's Aboriginal Child Workers, 1842–1945
Something Like Slavery? Queensland's Aboriginal Child Workers, 1842–1945 . By Shirleene Robinson. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008. Pp. 358. A$39.95 paper. When I was growing up I w
Compelling Evidence: Marriage, colonialism and the question of Indigenous rights
In 1986 the Australian Law Reform Commission found that Aboriginal spouses who married traditionally were compellable witnesses against each other in criminal trials, despite the privileging of spouses as non‐compellable within the common law. The basis of this was that they were not recognised as husbands and wives according to the laws of evidence. The Commission argued that failure to extend the common law rule of inter‐spousal non‐compellabil…
Country Women and the Colour Bar: Grassroots Activism and the Country Women's Association
Country Women and the Colour Bar: Grassroots Activism and the Country Women's Association. By Jennifer Jones (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2015), pp. v + 229. AU$39.95 (pb)
In the Eye of the Beholder: What Six Nineteenth-Century Women Tell Us about Indigenous Authority and Identity
In the Eye of the Beholder: What Six Nineteenth-Century Women Tell Us about Indigenous Authority and Identity." Australian Historical Studies, 47(2), pp. 330–331
Barry Morris. Protests, Land Rights and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s
This small compact book was, for me, a most welcome read, especially since there has been something of a downturn in Aboriginal history in the academy more recently. After a late start, it took off in the 1970s and 1980s as historians began a deeper excavation of the archive and, with new questions, recovered the Aboriginal story and placed it within the wider story of interaction and connection across the Australian frontier. As a result, the fi…
Aboriginal Affairs: Humanitarian Intervention Then and Now: Dis/Connections and Possibilities
Aboriginal affairs has always been a sore point in Australia. Ever since the first Governor attempted to put in place the Colonial Office's instructions to treat the inhabitants with “amity and kindness” the exercise has been fraught. There is a text‐book version of the changing policy landscape and rote school lessons on the gradual acquisition of Aboriginal rights and freedoms. These go some way to conveying the contested ground, political conf…
Teaching and learning Indigenous history in comparative and transnational frame: Lessons from the coalface
In first semester 2015, I taught second-year Indigenous Australian history as a comparative and transnational unit for the first time. My decision to do so related to pedagogical issues as well as developments in the field. I implemented structural changes to the way I taught the unit and refocused the content to reflect the transnational and comparative trend in the scholarship. Notwithstanding the benefits of my teaching innovations, it was the…
Does the British flag mean nothing to us?’ British Democratic Traditions and Aboriginal Rights Claims in Interwar Australia
The connection between Aboriginal people and the British Crown is well established. Less understood is their appreciation of, and reliance on, British democratic traditions in their politics. Drawing on the archive of Aboriginal activist, William Cooper, this article explores the way he used the language and practices associated with British democracy to advance his political claims in interwar Australia. With Protestant Christianity, Britishness…
Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives
Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake
Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell. Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890
Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell’s carefully researched and crafted book Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890 makes an invaluable and timely contribution to the historiography of Aboriginal-settler relations and settler colonialism in Australia. One of the rewards of reading it was being reminded of the important foundational work Australian historians have done and are doing in this field…
The ‘Native Question’ in Australia Exploring the Anglo-Australian Humanitarian Response, 1904–1939
In the first thirty years of the twentieth century the ‘native question’ loomed large in the heart of the British Empire in the context of heightened imperialism in Africa. This reverberated in Australia in the context of the Commonwealth government gaining Dominionhood, making contributions to the League of Nations as an independent mandatory power, and becoming responsible for the administration of the tropical North. A local humanitarian netwo…
Promoting adaptative education for the Wongutha people: The influence of Anglo-American ideas for ‘Native Education’ in interwar Australia
The question of ‘native’ education became urgent in interwar Britain in the context of imperial expansion in Africa. Simultaneously, debates concerning black education were central to a global pan-African nationalist movement demanding black rights and liberation. In this context, education became a site of competing ideas regarding black accommodation and rights. Missionaries drew connections between educating ‘black Africa’ and ‘negro America’ …
A salvage exercise for Aboriginal rights’: Human rights and social justice in Indigenous political responses to the Mabo (No.2) decision
The Mabo (No.2) decision in 1992 has been described as a historical turning point for the nation. In popular memory, it is associated with Eddie Mabo, then Prime Minister Paul Keating, and Indigenous activist and public intellectual Noel Pearson, who played an important role in seeing Mabo (No.2) embodied in Native Title law. Inasmuch as it is understood within the long history of Indigenous demands for rights, it is generally seen as pivotal in …
“Symbolism, Separatism, and Perpetual Guilt”: Politicians Debating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, 1987–1990
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, Aboriginal Affairs was a volatile portfolio. Gough Whitlam signalled a reorientation of policy with self‐determination in 1973. However, in the succeeding decade, policy slipped back to self‐management and self‐sufficiency that were the default of the Coalition. The proposals for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission by Labor in the late 1980s brought self‐determination back into the equ…
A Failure. No One to Blame But Themselves”? The Media and the Abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
Zombie drugs: Dehumanising news frames and public stigma towards people who use drugs
Our study is the first to show that dehumanising 'zombie' framing frequently used in news reporting is associated with higher public stigma towards people who use drugs. News media is an important source of public education on drugs, so to avoid reinforcing stigma the use of dehumanising language and framing, such as 'zombie' metaphors, should be avoided. Organisations working to reduce stigma towards people who use drugs should encourage news ou…
Sacrificing Indigenous interests: Solving the ‘native question’ in Australia and Palestine on the eve of the Second World War
Sociology (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · History (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Australian History and Society (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · History (9 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (9 works) · Colonialism (8 works)