Dmytro Ostapenko
Biographic Data
| ID | 692289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dmytro Ostapenko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dmytro |
| FAMILY NAME | Ostapenko |
| SIGNATURE | OSTAPENKO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7283-4002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Historical drought resilience in Australian wheat farming (1920–1955): Exposure and adaptation
Climatic variability exerts persistent pressure on farming systems, particularly in regions where production relies heavily on rainfall. In Australia's semi-arid wheat belt, these pressures have historically manifested as severe drought seasons, yet micro-scale evidence of how farmers adapted over time remains limited. Using the Pressure-and-Release framework, this study analyses the long-term historical patterns of exposure and adaptive capacity…
‘Australian sailors wanted’: Labour supply and Australian shipping, c. 1870–c. 1914
In the pre‐1914 era Australia did not develop an ocean‐going merchant navy. The problem is well recognised in previous studies that assumed that it was high Australian wages that made the operational cost of deep‐sea vessels uncompetitive on a global scale. This article reconstructs historical shifts in the Australian market for a seagoing workforce and demonstrates there was low recruitment of Australian labour. Drawing on new sources and inspir…
Communists They May Have Been: Australian Maritime Unionists and the National Shipping Line, c. 1950-90
Australian maritime unions of the Cold War period are renowned for their militancy and rhetorical commitment to communist ideas. In contrast, concentrating on the policies and actions of the Seamen’s Union of Australia (SUA) and the Waterside Workers’ Federation (WWF) towards the Australian National Line (ANL), this article reveals their political and industrial pragmatism in advancing a national shipping agenda. It demonstrates that union suppor…
Generating New Production Knowledge: Competitive Agricultural Events in the British Australian Colony of Victoria, c.1840–1890
Dmytro Ostapenko, Generating New Production Knowledge: Competitive Agricultural Events in the British Australian Colony of Victoria, c.1840–1890, Agricultural History, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Fall 2018), pp. 491-511
Second to None in the International Fight’: Australian Seafarers Internationalism and Maritime Unions Against Apartheid
The participation of trade unions in the anti-apartheid movement is a subject which arguably merits more attention. This article brings into focus a group of unionists whose activism against apartheid was in the forefront of key initiatives. Drawing on new research the argument recounts the role of Australian seafarers on the international stage, particularly its association with the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and shows how knowledg…
Forging Regional Connections: The Cold War Internationalism of Asia-Pacific Dockworkers
This article focuses on the actions of the three leading Pacific dockworkers unions the USCanadian International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union, the Australian Waterside Workers Federation and the Japan Dockworkers Union in forming a broad regional coalition of organised waterfront labour in the post-World War II decades. At that time, the Cold War hostilities organisationally divided the global trade union movement into pro-Western and pro-…
Pursuing Trade Union Internationalism: Australia's Waterside Workers and the International Transport Workers Federation, c. 1950-70
© 2016 Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. When the Australian Waterside Workers Federation (WWF) decided in 1971 to join the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) it overturned decades of antipathy to the ITF. We ask why union officials held this view and why the union now changed its mind at this particular moment. We argue that while union power was strong in the immediate post-war decades, the WWF was able to pursue…
Nature's Line: George Goyder, Surveyor, Environmentalist, Visionary
‘Does Farming Pay in V ictoria?’ Profit Potential of the Farming Industry in Mid‐Nineteenth‐Century V ictoria
The conventional view of the fortunes of E uropean newcomers who cropped land in mid‐nineteenth‐century V ictoria is confined to a description of their difficulties. This article critically assesses the scope for profit‐making in the local farming sector in the late 1830s to early 1870s. The microeconomic environment in which early colonial farmers operated is reconstructed in this article with the use of modern M ichael P orter's five forces of …
Golden Horizons: Expansion of the Wheat-Growing Industry in the Colony of Victoria in the 1850s
The wheat-farming industry developed rapidly in the British Australian colony of Victoria between the late 1840s and early 1860s. Contrary to prevailing academic views, this paper demonstrates that the 1851 gold discoveries set up favorable economic conditions for commercial domestic crop growing, including wheat production. The spread of wheat farming was especially rapid in the hinterland Central Victorian goldfields region. The undeveloped sys…
Forging Regional Connections: The Cold War Internationalism of Asia-Pacific Dockworkers
This article focuses on the actions of the three leading Pacific dockworkers unions the USCanadian International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union, the Australian Waterside Workers Federation and the Japan Dockworkers Union in forming a broad regional coalition of organised waterfront labour in the post-World War II decades. At that time, the Cold War hostilities organisationally divided the global trade union movement into pro-Western and pro-…
Golden Horizons: Expansion of the Wheat-Growing Industry in the Colony of Victoria in the 1850s
The wheat-farming industry developed rapidly in the British Australian colony of Victoria between the late 1840s and early 1860s. Contrary to prevailing academic views, this paper demonstrates that the 1851 gold discoveries set up favorable economic conditions for commercial domestic crop growing, including wheat production. The spread of wheat farming was especially rapid in the hinterland Central Victorian goldfields region. The undeveloped sys…
‘Does Farming Pay in V ictoria?’ Profit Potential of the Farming Industry in Mid‐Nineteenth‐Century V ictoria
The conventional view of the fortunes of E uropean newcomers who cropped land in mid‐nineteenth‐century V ictoria is confined to a description of their difficulties. This article critically assesses the scope for profit‐making in the local farming sector in the late 1830s to early 1870s. The microeconomic environment in which early colonial farmers operated is reconstructed in this article with the use of modern M ichael P orter's five forces of …
Nature's Line: George Goyder, Surveyor, Environmentalist, Visionary
Forging Regional Connections: The Cold War Internationalism of Asia-Pacific Dockworkers
This article focuses on the actions of the three leading Pacific dockworkers unions the USCanadian International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union, the Australian Waterside Workers Federation and the Japan Dockworkers Union in forming a broad regional coalition of organised waterfront labour in the post-World War II decades. At that time, the Cold War hostilities organisationally divided the global trade union movement into pro-Western and pro-…
Pursuing Trade Union Internationalism: Australia's Waterside Workers and the International Transport Workers Federation, c. 1950-70
© 2016 Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. When the Australian Waterside Workers Federation (WWF) decided in 1971 to join the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) it overturned decades of antipathy to the ITF. We ask why union officials held this view and why the union now changed its mind at this particular moment. We argue that while union power was strong in the immediate post-war decades, the WWF was able to pursue…
Second to None in the International Fight’: Australian Seafarers Internationalism and Maritime Unions Against Apartheid
The participation of trade unions in the anti-apartheid movement is a subject which arguably merits more attention. This article brings into focus a group of unionists whose activism against apartheid was in the forefront of key initiatives. Drawing on new research the argument recounts the role of Australian seafarers on the international stage, particularly its association with the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and shows how knowledg…
Generating New Production Knowledge: Competitive Agricultural Events in the British Australian Colony of Victoria, c.1840–1890
Dmytro Ostapenko, Generating New Production Knowledge: Competitive Agricultural Events in the British Australian Colony of Victoria, c.1840–1890, Agricultural History, Vol. 92, No. 4 (Fall 2018), pp. 491-511
Communists They May Have Been: Australian Maritime Unionists and the National Shipping Line, c. 1950-90
Australian maritime unions of the Cold War period are renowned for their militancy and rhetorical commitment to communist ideas. In contrast, concentrating on the policies and actions of the Seamen’s Union of Australia (SUA) and the Waterside Workers’ Federation (WWF) towards the Australian National Line (ANL), this article reveals their political and industrial pragmatism in advancing a national shipping agenda. It demonstrates that union suppor…
‘Australian sailors wanted’: Labour supply and Australian shipping, c. 1870–c. 1914
In the pre‐1914 era Australia did not develop an ocean‐going merchant navy. The problem is well recognised in previous studies that assumed that it was high Australian wages that made the operational cost of deep‐sea vessels uncompetitive on a global scale. This article reconstructs historical shifts in the Australian market for a seagoing workforce and demonstrates there was low recruitment of Australian labour. Drawing on new sources and inspir…
Historical drought resilience in Australian wheat farming (1920–1955): Exposure and adaptation
Climatic variability exerts persistent pressure on farming systems, particularly in regions where production relies heavily on rainfall. In Australia's semi-arid wheat belt, these pressures have historically manifested as severe drought seasons, yet micro-scale evidence of how farmers adapted over time remains limited. Using the Pressure-and-Release framework, this study analyses the long-term historical patterns of exposure and adaptive capacity…
Economics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Australian History and Society (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Agricultural economics (3 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Business (3 works)