Sean Brawley
Biographic Data
| ID | 526902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Brawley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Brawley |
| SIGNATURE | BRAWLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3140-8247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
No Trace: Asio and the End of the White Australia Policy
This contribution to the special issue studies the history of the White Australia Policy through an exploration of the intersections between national security, immigration restriction and social reform. This is achieved through an examination of Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s surveillance of immigration reformers, their organisations and their advocacy for the end of race-based immigration restriction. Informed by the extant hist…
Fandom, Place Protection, and Urban Planning: Two Sporting Case Studies
This study explores the intersections between the study of sport and the study of the city through the extension of sport history to themes traditionally explored by geography—notably urban planning scholars. Its focus is two case studies related to urban planning decisions in early millennial Sydney, Australia. Through an examination of public submissions in response to building development applications made by two community-owned professional s…
Selling White Australia: The Asian visits fund and assimilation as a foundational concept in Australian Cold War public diplomacy
The ‘Asian Visits Fund’ was the Australian Government’s first Cold War people-to-people public diplomacy programme. Standing in the Fund’s way was Australia’s racially restrictive immigration programme. A central feature of the scheme, therefore, was to present a vision of a non-racial Australia through the new national ideology of Assimilation. The treatment of indigenous Australians was showcased as one way to highlight Assimilation and debunk …
Australia’s Asian Garrisons: Decolonisation and the Colonial Dynamics of Expatriate Military Communities in Cold War Asia
Focused on Australia’s Royal Australian Air Force and Army garrison communities in Malaysia from the late 1950s, this article probes the creation and management of a complex power dynamic between the hosts in a postcolonial nation and an expatriate community modelled along colonial lines. These overseas military communities comprised Australian service personnel, their family members and schoolteachers. Thousands of locally employed civilians wor…
Sport was the centre of my memories’: The performance of sport in Australia’s Asian garrisons
For better or worse, sport mirrors and mediates much of everyday life. Within both the military and colonial spheres, the physical attributes of sport are especially prized as tangible representations of social and cultural hierarchies. In turn, this further enhances the prestige and influence of sport within these two particular environments. Sport becomes particularly potent in instances where military forces undertake garrison duties in overse…
Why Weren’t We Taught? Exploring Frontier Conflict Through the Lens of Anzac
This article examines public understandings of two key strands of Australian history that sit at opposite ends of a spectrum of remembrance: frontier conflict and Anzac. The former, W. E. H. Stanner argued in 1968, was subsumed in a vacuum of silence, lost to popular consciousness in a wilful act of forgetting. Despite a wealth of subsequent scholarship documenting the violence and dispossession that characterised European colonisation, considera…
A Short Run: Australian Sports History on the 40th Anniversary of the Biennial Sporting Traditions Conference
The 40th anniversary of the biennial Sporting Traditions Conference provides a timely opportunity to examine the health of sports history in Australia. This paper identifies three methods through which we can take the temperature of the field and judge its wellbeing. Usually neglected, the first approach is to explore the teaching of sports history in Australia. The second is an analysis of the individuals who have presented to the 21 Sporting Tr…
Islanders and Missionaries
Losing the Blanket, Building a Fence: Australian Anxiety and the End of Military Colonialism in Malaysia
From 1955 to 1988, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) maintained a large airbase in Northern Malaysia. For the first 15 years of its existence, RAAF Butterworth had a modest and incomplete perimeter fence. With the end of British military colonialism in Malaysia and Singapore following the implementation of the ‘East of Suez’ policy, the Australians became preoccupied with their physical security and the role of the perimeter fence. By explori…
Days of Rage’ Downunder: Considering American Influences on ‘Home-Grown’ Terrorism and Asio's response in 1970s Australia
Between late 1969 and mid-1972 there were 176 premeditated and politically motivated attacks against a range of mostly government, military, judicial, diplomatic and commercial targets in Australia. Most were undertaken by radical left-wing actors. Such incidents and the organisations and individuals who carried them out can be examined through the lens of ‘home-grown’ terrorism. This article corrects the popular and historiographical amnesia ass…
Sydney Beaches: A History
Finding Home in White Australia: The O’Keefe Deportation Case of 1949
In 1949 the White Australia Policy was put on trial in the High Court of Australia in the matter O’Keefe v Calwell; popularly known as the ‘O’Keefe Deportation Case’. Drawn from archival research, this article examines the legal arguments that both sides brought to the court. The case raised a number of issues that went far beyond narrow legal and technical arguments. Under what circumstances could a foreign-born non-European individual call Aust…
Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s – 30s
This book examines Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region have been neglected by scholars of Australian and Asian sports history, and the broader field of Australia’s Asian context. Concentrating on the period of the 1920s and 1930s – when sporting relationships between Australia and a number of Asian nations emerged in a variety of s…
Vale: The Champion
Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War
This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas
The ‘Spirit of Berrington House’: The future of Indonesia in wartime Australia, 1943–1945
During the Pacific War prominent ‘neo-ethicals’ H.J. van Mook, Ch.O. van der Plas and F.D. Holleman established a civil service school in Melbourne, Australia, to train a new generation of Indies administrators who would realise their vision for a post-war Indonesia. Reflecting the ambitions of this post-war future, the school's students would be both Dutch and Indonesian. This study explores the neglected Bestuursschool at Berrington House as a …
Learning outcomes assessment and History: Teqsa, the After Standards Project and the QA/QI challenge in Australia
Higher education in Australia is currently in a state of flux, with the Federal Government’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency commencing operations in January 2012. The ‘After Standards Project’ has been working with Australian university history departments and the Australian Historical Association, educating and empowering the discipline to act as a united community and assert ownership of a standards process. This article provid…
A forum on assessment, accountability and the humanities: Introduction: Minding – and managing – the gap
Can You Imagine the Shire Without the Sharks!?’: Building the Community Capital of the Cronulla-Sutherland Rugby League Club – From 1967 to the Eve of Super League in 1996
The relationships between sporting clubs and their geographical communities are far from straightforward. Using the Australian National Rugby League team the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks as a case study, this article explores such relationships through the notion of ‘community capital’. Central to building such capital is the construction of ‘legends’ that connect the club to the community. Accordingly, an examination of the local media and publici…
Applying Standards to Tertiary-Level History: Policy, Challenges and the After Standards Project
This paper discusses the challenges of applying standards to the teaching of tertiary-level history. It gives a critical overview of the emerging standards process in Australia, re-emphasising the importance of disciplinary input in producing a workable and acceptable regulatory framework under the aegis of Australia’s recently-established Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). To this end, it argues for the importance of buildi…
Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words
Key decisions and events of the Pacific War are explored in this work by juxtaposing Allied and Japanese accounts, giving voice to both sides in this epic confrontation. Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words covers the period from July 1937 to September 1945, touching briefly on the post-war Allied occupation of Japan. Although it emphasizes American and Japanese accounts, it also includes perspectives from other nations. Material…
Your Shire, Your Sharks’: The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and Delocalization v. Glocalization in Australian Rugby League
Delocalization has become an enduring theme in sports historiography. In Australian rugby league much of the work on this theme has been associated with the so-called ‘Super League War’ and the disconnection of sporting teams from place and local identity. Not all clubs, however, suffered such a fate. The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are one such team that endured the travails of the 1990s and maintained a strong connection with their geographical …
SoTL and National Difference: Musings from three historians from three countries
What role does/should national difference play in our understanding of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) as a concept and a practice? Three historians from Australia, the UK and the USA muse on this important issue. Informed by their engagement with the literature and the field, they argue that national difference is an observable phenomenon within SoTL but that each national response has been shaped by the broader transnational/int…
The Internationalisation of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Formation of Historysotl
In November 2006 a group of historians met in Washington DC and formed HistorySOTL: the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History. This paper explores the antecedents to this event by first briefly defining and outlining the recent educational phenomena known as the ‘scholarship of teaching and learning’ (SOTL). With its discipline-based focus, SOTL encourages historians to do more to think about, share and imp…
Books
Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $US49.95 cloth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality. By Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 285. $41.95 paper. A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia. …
The White Peril: Foreign Relations and Asian Immigration to Australasia and North America, 1919-1978
Journal Article The White Peril: Foreign Relations and Asian Immigration to Australasia and North America, 1919–1978. By Sean Brawley. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995. viii, 387 pp. Paper, A$34.95, ISBN 0-86840-278-8.) Get access Elliott Robert Barkan Elliott Robert Barkan California State University, San Bernardino, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
Jim Crow Downunder? African American Encounters with White Australia, 1942–1945
Between 1941 and 1945, as the U.S. military machine sent millions of Americans—and American culture—around the world, several thousand African Americans spent time in Australia. Armed with little knowledge of Australian racial values and practices, black Americans encoutered a nation whose long-standing commitment to the principle of "White Australia" appeared to rest comfortably with the segregative policies commonly associated with the American…
Learning outcomes assessment and History: Teqsa, the After Standards Project and the QA/QI challenge in Australia
Higher education in Australia is currently in a state of flux, with the Federal Government’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency commencing operations in January 2012. The ‘After Standards Project’ has been working with Australian university history departments and the Australian Historical Association, educating and empowering the discipline to act as a united community and assert ownership of a standards process. This article provid…
SoTL and National Difference: Musings from three historians from three countries
What role does/should national difference play in our understanding of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) as a concept and a practice? Three historians from Australia, the UK and the USA muse on this important issue. Informed by their engagement with the literature and the field, they argue that national difference is an observable phenomenon within SoTL but that each national response has been shaped by the broader transnational/int…
Applying Standards to Tertiary-Level History: Policy, Challenges and the After Standards Project
This paper discusses the challenges of applying standards to the teaching of tertiary-level history. It gives a critical overview of the emerging standards process in Australia, re-emphasising the importance of disciplinary input in producing a workable and acceptable regulatory framework under the aegis of Australia’s recently-established Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). To this end, it argues for the importance of buildi…
Your Shire, Your Sharks’: The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and Delocalization v. Glocalization in Australian Rugby League
Delocalization has become an enduring theme in sports historiography. In Australian rugby league much of the work on this theme has been associated with the so-called ‘Super League War’ and the disconnection of sporting teams from place and local identity. Not all clubs, however, suffered such a fate. The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are one such team that endured the travails of the 1990s and maintained a strong connection with their geographical …
Australia’s Asian Garrisons: Decolonisation and the Colonial Dynamics of Expatriate Military Communities in Cold War Asia
Focused on Australia’s Royal Australian Air Force and Army garrison communities in Malaysia from the late 1950s, this article probes the creation and management of a complex power dynamic between the hosts in a postcolonial nation and an expatriate community modelled along colonial lines. These overseas military communities comprised Australian service personnel, their family members and schoolteachers. Thousands of locally employed civilians wor…
Sydney Beaches: A History
A forum on assessment, accountability and the humanities: Introduction: Minding – and managing – the gap
The Old and New Guards: A Factor in the Liberalisation of Australia's Restrictive Immigration Policy
Prior to the second world war, the White Australia policy had been secure as the foundation stone of Australia's immigration policy. In the post‐war period, however, the policy came under increased critical scrutiny. The result was the gradual liberalisation of Australia's restrictive immigration policy. There are many factors which can be held accountable for the dismantling of the White Australia policy. A certain factor was the rise of a new e…
The Old and New Guards: A Factor in the Liberalisation of Australia's Restrictive Immigration Policy
Prior to the second world war, the White Australia policy had been secure as the foundation stone of Australia's immigration policy. In the post‐war period, however, the policy came under increased critical scrutiny. The result was the gradual liberalisation of Australia's restrictive immigration policy. There are many factors which can be held accountable for the dismantling of the White Australia policy. A certain factor was the rise of a new e…
The Department of Immigration and Abolition of the “White Australia” Policy Reflected Through the Private Diaries of Sir Peter Heydon
The White Peril: Foreign Relations and Asian Immigration to Australasia and North America, 1919-1978
Journal Article The White Peril: Foreign Relations and Asian Immigration to Australasia and North America, 1919–1978. By Sean Brawley. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995. viii, 387 pp. Paper, A$34.95, ISBN 0-86840-278-8.) Get access Elliott Robert Barkan Elliott Robert Barkan California State University, San Bernardino, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History,…
The Spectre of White Australia
Between history and geography: Debates on Australia and Asia
Since the late nineteenth century, White Australia has agonizingly attempted to reconcile its regional geostrategic and economic interests with its European history, language, and society. Today, political and academic discourses on Australia's assumed regional future contrast the nation's overwhelming European past with its close proximity to Asia. The rapid transformation of much of Asia has resuscitated White Australia's traditional feelings o…
Surf Lifesaving Owes No Person a Living: A Third Sector Case Study
Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) is one of Australia's largest community service organisations. Since the 1980s, the volunteer ethos and character of this movement has been threatened by both internal and external forces that reflect broader historical changes in Australian society in the late twentieth century. This case study examines two issues that have been at the centre of this challenge the professionalisation of surf lifesaving competiti…
Jim Crow Downunder? African American Encounters with White Australia, 1942–1945
Between 1941 and 1945, as the U.S. military machine sent millions of Americans—and American culture—around the world, several thousand African Americans spent time in Australia. Armed with little knowledge of Australian racial values and practices, black Americans encoutered a nation whose long-standing commitment to the principle of "White Australia" appeared to rest comfortably with the segregative policies commonly associated with the American…
Books
Civil Rights: How Indigenous Australians Won Formal Equality. By John Chesterman. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2005. Pp. 357. $22.95 paper. Dance Hall and Picture Palace: Sydney's Romance with Modernity. By Jill Julius Matthews. Sydney: Currency Press, 2005. Pp. 342. $32.95 paper. Conciliation, Compulsion, Conversion: British Attitudes to Indigenous Peoples 1763–1814. By Merete Falck Borch. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004. Pp. 320. US$43 pap…
The Internationalisation of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Formation of Historysotl
In November 2006 a group of historians met in Washington DC and formed HistorySOTL: the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History. This paper explores the antecedents to this event by first briefly defining and outlining the recent educational phenomena known as the ‘scholarship of teaching and learning’ (SOTL). With its discipline-based focus, SOTL encourages historians to do more to think about, share and imp…
Books
Taking Assimilation to Heart Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887–1937. By Katherine Ellinghaus. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. 276. $US49.95 cloth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy and Carnality. By Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 285. $41.95 paper. A Higher Authority: Indigenous Transnationalism and Australia. …
Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words
Key decisions and events of the Pacific War are explored in this work by juxtaposing Allied and Japanese accounts, giving voice to both sides in this epic confrontation. Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words covers the period from July 1937 to September 1945, touching briefly on the post-war Allied occupation of Japan. Although it emphasizes American and Japanese accounts, it also includes perspectives from other nations. Material…
Your Shire, Your Sharks’: The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and Delocalization v. Glocalization in Australian Rugby League
Delocalization has become an enduring theme in sports historiography. In Australian rugby league much of the work on this theme has been associated with the so-called ‘Super League War’ and the disconnection of sporting teams from place and local identity. Not all clubs, however, suffered such a fate. The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks are one such team that endured the travails of the 1990s and maintained a strong connection with their geographical …
SoTL and National Difference: Musings from three historians from three countries
What role does/should national difference play in our understanding of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) as a concept and a practice? Three historians from Australia, the UK and the USA muse on this important issue. Informed by their engagement with the literature and the field, they argue that national difference is an observable phenomenon within SoTL but that each national response has been shaped by the broader transnational/int…
Applying Standards to Tertiary-Level History: Policy, Challenges and the After Standards Project
This paper discusses the challenges of applying standards to the teaching of tertiary-level history. It gives a critical overview of the emerging standards process in Australia, re-emphasising the importance of disciplinary input in producing a workable and acceptable regulatory framework under the aegis of Australia’s recently-established Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). To this end, it argues for the importance of buildi…
Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War
This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas
The ‘Spirit of Berrington House’: The future of Indonesia in wartime Australia, 1943–1945
During the Pacific War prominent ‘neo-ethicals’ H.J. van Mook, Ch.O. van der Plas and F.D. Holleman established a civil service school in Melbourne, Australia, to train a new generation of Indies administrators who would realise their vision for a post-war Indonesia. Reflecting the ambitions of this post-war future, the school's students would be both Dutch and Indonesian. This study explores the neglected Bestuursschool at Berrington House as a …
Learning outcomes assessment and History: Teqsa, the After Standards Project and the QA/QI challenge in Australia
Higher education in Australia is currently in a state of flux, with the Federal Government’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency commencing operations in January 2012. The ‘After Standards Project’ has been working with Australian university history departments and the Australian Historical Association, educating and empowering the discipline to act as a united community and assert ownership of a standards process. This article provid…
A forum on assessment, accountability and the humanities: Introduction: Minding – and managing – the gap
Can You Imagine the Shire Without the Sharks!?’: Building the Community Capital of the Cronulla-Sutherland Rugby League Club – From 1967 to the Eve of Super League in 1996
The relationships between sporting clubs and their geographical communities are far from straightforward. Using the Australian National Rugby League team the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks as a case study, this article explores such relationships through the notion of ‘community capital’. Central to building such capital is the construction of ‘legends’ that connect the club to the community. Accordingly, an examination of the local media and publici…
Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s – 30s
This book examines Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region during the interwar period. Until now, Australia’s sporting relationships with the Asian region have been neglected by scholars of Australian and Asian sports history, and the broader field of Australia’s Asian context. Concentrating on the period of the 1920s and 1930s – when sporting relationships between Australia and a number of Asian nations emerged in a variety of s…
Vale: The Champion
Finding Home in White Australia: The O’Keefe Deportation Case of 1949
In 1949 the White Australia Policy was put on trial in the High Court of Australia in the matter O’Keefe v Calwell; popularly known as the ‘O’Keefe Deportation Case’. Drawn from archival research, this article examines the legal arguments that both sides brought to the court. The case raised a number of issues that went far beyond narrow legal and technical arguments. Under what circumstances could a foreign-born non-European individual call Aust…
Sydney Beaches: A History
Days of Rage’ Downunder: Considering American Influences on ‘Home-Grown’ Terrorism and Asio's response in 1970s Australia
Between late 1969 and mid-1972 there were 176 premeditated and politically motivated attacks against a range of mostly government, military, judicial, diplomatic and commercial targets in Australia. Most were undertaken by radical left-wing actors. Such incidents and the organisations and individuals who carried them out can be examined through the lens of ‘home-grown’ terrorism. This article corrects the popular and historiographical amnesia ass…
Islanders and Missionaries
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Law (20 works) · History (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Australian History and Society (12 works) · History (12 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Politics (9 works)