Paul Sendziuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 696736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Sendziuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Sendziuk |
| SIGNATURE | SENDZIUK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9649-8453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
We Will Decide’
This article examines Cabinet's decision to establish the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (IRPC), a key facility within the larger ‘Pacific Solution' framework. Unsealed Cabinet papers reveal that by early 2002, the Howard government decided that greater processing capacity was necessary amid continuing asylum seeker flows. Given that context, the decision to establish an IRPC on Christmas Island was taken because of …
The power of suggestion
Women in history
I completely concur with what my colleagues have written here about the History staffing situation in Australian universities over the past few years.But while the overall situation is dire, some gains have been made, particularly by women in the profession.I therefore want to focus on the more progressive trend towards gender equality that has been apparent for more than two decades, as captured in the two surveys that Martin Crotty and I undert…
Changes in Australian and New Zealand University History Staffing Profiles, 2016 to 2022
This article considers developments in History staffing in Australian and New Zealand universities between 2016 and 2022. The COVID pandemic and the ongoing effects of the corporatised university have worn away at History student and staffing numbers, much exacerbated in Australia by the fee changes introduced by the Morrison government in 2020. There are positive developments, such as the near-disappearance of gender disadvantage for women and i…
Sons go wrong without fathers’
This article analyses the perceived problems and proposed solutions concerning absent Australian servicemen fathers during the Second World War, and places them within the broader context of contemporary ideas about masculinity. The absence of servicemen fathers led to concerns from all areas of society about the impact on their children, in particular sons. There were fears that being raised solely by women would lead to boys becoming lonely, ef…
The Best Way to Help Vietnam is to Make Revolution in Your Own Country
With its radical print culture and Maoist style of politics, Flinders University became an epicentre of student dissent during the “long 1960s.” This article employs oral history to understand how former Flinders students constructed their radical identities. In doing so, we challenge dismissive understandings of activism as a simplistic imitation of overseas protest or naive self-indulgence. Militant solidarity with struggles in Vietnam and Sout…
Don Dunstan
Following the death of South Australia's former long-serving premier, Don Dunstan, Gough Whitlam remarked: It is difficult to rekindle the brightness of the light which seemed to shine from Adelaid
Fragmented, parochial, and specialised’
This article reports the findings of a comprehensive survey of the History curriculum taught at 44 universities in Australia and New Zealand. It reveals the fields of History that were most commonly offered in 2016, as well as how many students took courses in particular fields. The results for Introductory and Upper level courses (which serve different purposes) are separated, and the results from each country, and ‘Group of Eight’ (Go8) and non…
The Numbers Game
This article reports on the numbers of academic historians employed in History groupings within Australian and New Zealand universities, and examines the results by country, sector, appointment type, seniority and gender. It examines the current data in historical context, building on the findings of previous surveys to indicate trends in History staffing. It shows that staff numbers are stable, but in relative decline. It examines the staff numb…
A History of South Australia
A History of South Australia investigates South Australia's history from before the arrival of the first European maritime explorers to the present day, and examines its distinctive origins as a 'free' settlement. In this compelling and nuanced history, Paul Sendziuk and Robert Foster consider the imprint of people on the land - and vice versa - and offer fresh insights into relations between Indigenous people and the European colonisers. They ch…
Cogs in the Machine
Mobilisation on the Australian ‘home front’ during the Second World War enabled some women to move temporarily into employment usually reserved for men, and to earn significantly higher wages than they were accustomed to, but the benefits of this have been often overstated. Focusing on South Australian women in the city and rural areas who took up the new working opportunities — in munitions factories and the Australian Women’s Land Army in parti…
Forgotten People and Places
Often overlooked in histories of displaced persons (DPs) who came to Australia after the Second World War are those who suffered Soviet rather than Nazi aggression, and who found salvation in DP camps outside of Europe. This article addresses this relative neglect by exploring the fate of Polish citizens who were deported to the Soviet Union during the war and spent up to eight years in DP camps in the Middle East, India and Africa before arrivin…
If we Build it, will they Come? Saving the History Tutorial and Rethinking Assessment
As teaching programs in university history departments strain under the pressure of increasing class sizes, diminished budgets and fewer staff, savings in time and money have been sought by reducing the number of tutorials offered to students. Charting the history of one university’s attempt to make cuts to the humanities tutorial program, this article critiques the arguments used to justify such measures, and mounts a defence of the tutorial sys…
Australian History Now
Contributors to Australian History Now were evidently asked to trace the conceptual and thematic evolution of the historical fields in which they have expertise, and to write about how the nature o
HIV and Hysteria
Shutting Down Sharleen , radio documentary. Producers, Eurydice Aroney and Tom Morton. Hindsight, ABC Radio National, 21 March 2010. Full audio and transcript available from: www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2010/2848373.htm
Urban Degeneration and Rural Revitalisation’
This article examines the social context and motivations behind the establishment of the South Australian Government's youth migration scheme of 1913-14. It investigates to what extent the concept of 'urban degeneration and rural revitalisation', as defined by Keith Williams, influenced the British and Australian proponents of the scheme. While the British proponents were clearly stimulated by anxiety about the degrading effects of poverty and th…
Moving Pictures
In the age of AIDS, film and video became one of the principal means for grief-stricken activists and artists to bear witness and make sense of the epidemic and the loss of their lovers and friends. This Moving Image Review comprises short texts that provide an overview of the films and videos that were produced and that have subsequently been appropriated and reworked by contemporary filmmakers for a variety of purposes. In re-viewing these work…
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. …
Bad blood
(2001). Bad blood: The contamination of Australia's blood supply and the emergence of gay activism in the age of AIDS. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Fresh Cuts: New Talents 2001, pp. 75-85
If we Build it, will they Come? Saving the History Tutorial and Rethinking Assessment
As teaching programs in university history departments strain under the pressure of increasing class sizes, diminished budgets and fewer staff, savings in time and money have been sought by reducing the number of tutorials offered to students. Charting the history of one university’s attempt to make cuts to the humanities tutorial program, this article critiques the arguments used to justify such measures, and mounts a defence of the tutorial sys…
Australian History Now
Contributors to Australian History Now were evidently asked to trace the conceptual and thematic evolution of the historical fields in which they have expertise, and to write about how the nature o
HIV and Hysteria
Shutting Down Sharleen , radio documentary. Producers, Eurydice Aroney and Tom Morton. Hindsight, ABC Radio National, 21 March 2010. Full audio and transcript available from: www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2010/2848373.htm
Urban Degeneration and Rural Revitalisation’
This article examines the social context and motivations behind the establishment of the South Australian Government's youth migration scheme of 1913-14. It investigates to what extent the concept of 'urban degeneration and rural revitalisation', as defined by Keith Williams, influenced the British and Australian proponents of the scheme. While the British proponents were clearly stimulated by anxiety about the degrading effects of poverty and th…
Moving Pictures
In the age of AIDS, film and video became one of the principal means for grief-stricken activists and artists to bear witness and make sense of the epidemic and the loss of their lovers and friends. This Moving Image Review comprises short texts that provide an overview of the films and videos that were produced and that have subsequently been appropriated and reworked by contemporary filmmakers for a variety of purposes. In re-viewing these work…
Bad blood
(2001). Bad blood: The contamination of Australia's blood supply and the emergence of gay activism in the age of AIDS. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 25, Fresh Cuts: New Talents 2001, pp. 75-85
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. …
HIV and Hysteria
Shutting Down Sharleen , radio documentary. Producers, Eurydice Aroney and Tom Morton. Hindsight, ABC Radio National, 21 March 2010. Full audio and transcript available from: www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/stories/2010/2848373.htm
Urban Degeneration and Rural Revitalisation’
This article examines the social context and motivations behind the establishment of the South Australian Government's youth migration scheme of 1913-14. It investigates to what extent the concept of 'urban degeneration and rural revitalisation', as defined by Keith Williams, influenced the British and Australian proponents of the scheme. While the British proponents were clearly stimulated by anxiety about the degrading effects of poverty and th…
Moving Pictures
In the age of AIDS, film and video became one of the principal means for grief-stricken activists and artists to bear witness and make sense of the epidemic and the loss of their lovers and friends. This Moving Image Review comprises short texts that provide an overview of the films and videos that were produced and that have subsequently been appropriated and reworked by contemporary filmmakers for a variety of purposes. In re-viewing these work…
Australian History Now
Contributors to Australian History Now were evidently asked to trace the conceptual and thematic evolution of the historical fields in which they have expertise, and to write about how the nature o
Forgotten People and Places
Often overlooked in histories of displaced persons (DPs) who came to Australia after the Second World War are those who suffered Soviet rather than Nazi aggression, and who found salvation in DP camps outside of Europe. This article addresses this relative neglect by exploring the fate of Polish citizens who were deported to the Soviet Union during the war and spent up to eight years in DP camps in the Middle East, India and Africa before arrivin…
If we Build it, will they Come? Saving the History Tutorial and Rethinking Assessment
As teaching programs in university history departments strain under the pressure of increasing class sizes, diminished budgets and fewer staff, savings in time and money have been sought by reducing the number of tutorials offered to students. Charting the history of one university’s attempt to make cuts to the humanities tutorial program, this article critiques the arguments used to justify such measures, and mounts a defence of the tutorial sys…
A History of South Australia
A History of South Australia investigates South Australia's history from before the arrival of the first European maritime explorers to the present day, and examines its distinctive origins as a 'free' settlement. In this compelling and nuanced history, Paul Sendziuk and Robert Foster consider the imprint of people on the land - and vice versa - and offer fresh insights into relations between Indigenous people and the European colonisers. They ch…
Cogs in the Machine
Mobilisation on the Australian ‘home front’ during the Second World War enabled some women to move temporarily into employment usually reserved for men, and to earn significantly higher wages than they were accustomed to, but the benefits of this have been often overstated. Focusing on South Australian women in the city and rural areas who took up the new working opportunities — in munitions factories and the Australian Women’s Land Army in parti…
Fragmented, parochial, and specialised’
This article reports the findings of a comprehensive survey of the History curriculum taught at 44 universities in Australia and New Zealand. It reveals the fields of History that were most commonly offered in 2016, as well as how many students took courses in particular fields. The results for Introductory and Upper level courses (which serve different purposes) are separated, and the results from each country, and ‘Group of Eight’ (Go8) and non…
The Numbers Game
This article reports on the numbers of academic historians employed in History groupings within Australian and New Zealand universities, and examines the results by country, sector, appointment type, seniority and gender. It examines the current data in historical context, building on the findings of previous surveys to indicate trends in History staffing. It shows that staff numbers are stable, but in relative decline. It examines the staff numb…
Don Dunstan
Following the death of South Australia's former long-serving premier, Don Dunstan, Gough Whitlam remarked: It is difficult to rekindle the brightness of the light which seemed to shine from Adelaid
The Best Way to Help Vietnam is to Make Revolution in Your Own Country
With its radical print culture and Maoist style of politics, Flinders University became an epicentre of student dissent during the “long 1960s.” This article employs oral history to understand how former Flinders students constructed their radical identities. In doing so, we challenge dismissive understandings of activism as a simplistic imitation of overseas protest or naive self-indulgence. Militant solidarity with struggles in Vietnam and Sout…
Women in history
I completely concur with what my colleagues have written here about the History staffing situation in Australian universities over the past few years.But while the overall situation is dire, some gains have been made, particularly by women in the profession.I therefore want to focus on the more progressive trend towards gender equality that has been apparent for more than two decades, as captured in the two surveys that Martin Crotty and I undert…
Changes in Australian and New Zealand University History Staffing Profiles, 2016 to 2022
This article considers developments in History staffing in Australian and New Zealand universities between 2016 and 2022. The COVID pandemic and the ongoing effects of the corporatised university have worn away at History student and staffing numbers, much exacerbated in Australia by the fee changes introduced by the Morrison government in 2020. There are positive developments, such as the near-disappearance of gender disadvantage for women and i…
Sons go wrong without fathers’
This article analyses the perceived problems and proposed solutions concerning absent Australian servicemen fathers during the Second World War, and places them within the broader context of contemporary ideas about masculinity. The absence of servicemen fathers led to concerns from all areas of society about the impact on their children, in particular sons. There were fears that being raised solely by women would lead to boys becoming lonely, ef…
The power of suggestion
We Will Decide’
This article examines Cabinet's decision to establish the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (IRPC), a key facility within the larger ‘Pacific Solution' framework. Unsealed Cabinet papers reveal that by early 2002, the Howard government decided that greater processing capacity was necessary amid continuing asylum seeker flows. Given that context, the decision to establish an IRPC on Christmas Island was taken because of …
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