Melanie Oppenheimer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3601704 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Melanie Oppenheimer |
| PRENOMES | Melanie |
| SOBRENOME | Oppenheimer |
| ASSINATURA | OPPENHEIMER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Flinders University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4070-3515 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Marian Quartly, The Middling Sort
Voluntary organizations, the Red Cross and the features of humanitarian reconstruction in Western Europe after the World Wars
Peer-reviewed
The Shôken Fund and the evolution of the Red Cross movement
This article examines the creation of the Shôken Fund and its impact on the evolution of the Red Cross movement globally, with a focus on the first quarter of the twentieth century and post-First World War European reconstruction. The Shôken Fund was an initiation of the Japanese Red Cross Society in 1912 to support Red Cross activities in peacetime, administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross. It came into effect in 1920 and the…
Reflections on Twenty Years of Volunteering and Voluntary Action Scholarship
Peer-reviewed
In the Service of Others Her Life Was Spent’
This article takes the intersection of biography and humanitarianism to explore the life of Lady Helen Munro Ferguson who played a significant leadership role in women’s activism in Britain in the early twentieth century including the Red Cross in Scotland and Australia. The paper explores the problems of constructing a biographical narrative of a leading female humanitarian when there is no personal collection or memoir and limited sources. How …
Volunteering, the voluntary principle, and the moving frontier in a time of Covid – Reflections
I imagine every President of the Australian Historical Association (AHA) has a moment of panic when considering their Presidential Address, even those who might pretend otherwise. Like a good historian, I looked to the past, to see what some of my predecessors said.1 To respect the 'genre' of the Presidential Address, I will speak a little about the role of the AHA over the period of my tenure, and in doing so illustrate, to some degree, how the …
Saving 'Ireland's children
This article focuses on the Irish White Cross, a little-known voluntary organisation that through its Children's Relief Association provided support to children who had lost their ‘breadwinner’ during Ireland's struggle for independence. In 1921 American fundraisers drew up plans for relief in Ireland as humanitarian largesse spread in the aftermath of the First World War. This international context provides a framework for this article as it cha…
From the President
Growing the Volunteer Pool
There are ongoing management and societal challenges affecting volunteering participation. These place a premium on organizations identifying individuals that currently do not volunteer but have the willingness and capacity to do so, the “Potentials”. Supplementing the limited non-volunteer literature, we seek to quantify this potential volunteer pool using constructs aligned to the willingness, capability and availability dimensions from Meijs e…
The historian activist and the Gift to the Nation project
In 2014, as part of their centenary celebrations, the Australian Red Cross initiated a project in which it transferred archives to various national, state and territory institutions across Australia including the University of Melbourne Archives and the State Library of New South Wales. The transfer of this voluminous (but not complete) collection built on earlier transfers of archives to the State Library of South Australia and the Australian Wa…
Nurses of the League
In the aftermath of the First World War, governments and a range of international voluntary organisations including national Red Cross societies were engaged in the development of a range of public health policies. This article explores the little known yet innovative international public health nursing program developed by the League of Red Cross Societies. Established in London in 1920, the courses attracted hundreds of women from around the wo…
Contesting Australian History
Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake." Australian Historical Studies, 51(3), pp. 354–355
Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies
The League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS) – known as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since 1991 – has received little historical attention despite representing the world’s largest volunteer network and being an integral part of the Red Cross Movement. Formed in the aftermath of the First World War by the national Red Cross Societies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, the LRCS a…
Red Cross Movement
People Power
The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP), Gough Whitlam’s controversial programme of social welfare reform in the 1970s, was promoted as a national experiment in “people power.” But the outpouring of often highly critical evaluations during and immediately after its brief existence failed to take into account the experiences of the programme’s grassroots workers. This article focuses on the oral history component of a wider history of the AAP, and on…
The Australian Assistance Plan and the Canadian Connection
This article explores the origins of one such program, the Australian Assistance Plan (AAP), and its connections, similarities and differences to the Canada Assistance Plan. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history sources, it offers a comparative analysis of both national programs, then outlines how international social planning and community development ideas, especially from Canada, infused the AAP and its predecessor, the Geelong Experi…
Measuring Volunteerability and the Capacity to Volunteer among Non‐volunteers
As volunteering and its benefits gain global recognition, social policymakers can sustain and increase volunteering through social policy, legislation and other types of involvement. A key performance practice is to measure the rate of volunteering based on the percentage of the population that volunteer or the number of hours donated. The focus of this article, however, is on the capacity to volunteer by non‐volunteers as well as by volunteers. …
“Developing a community soul”
The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP) was an innovative yet largely forgotten social welfare program from the 1970s. A key platform of the Whitlam Labor government, which established a series of Regional Councils for Social Development across Australia, the AAP reframed citizens’ participation in their communities, stimulated voluntary organisations and volunteering and attempted to transform engagement among all levels of governments and the volu…
The Last Battle
When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start. Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes, fewer than half of the settlers remained on their properties. In this timely book, base…
The Next ‘New’ Idea
The iconic Australian voluntary organization, Meals on Wheels, has delivered meals to the elderly and those with disabilities for over 60 years and is currently facing considerable institutional change. These exogenous changes include a more regulatory environment, tighter funding restrictions and a move towards marketization and competition. These issues are affecting a traditional service delivery organization reliant on a predominantly older v…
Shaping the Legend
Established to assist the sick and wounded in war in August 1914, the Australian Red Cross became one of Australia's largest and most important voluntary organisations of the twentieth century. Both creations of World War I, the Anzac Legend and the Australian Red Cross appear at first glance to be the antithesis of each other. Yet the humanitarianism of the Australian Red Cross and the militarism of the Anzac Legend are inextricably linked and p…
I Intend to Get Justice
Soldier settlement was a key scheme in a suite of repatriation policies enacted in the aftermath of World War I. Across Australia thousands of returned men, including over 9,000 in New South Wales, took up the challenge and tried their luck on the land. Thousands failed. Through the voices of individual soldier settlers and using extensive and only recently released Department of Lands loan files, this article focuses on one aspect of the soldier…
The future for Meals on Wheels? Reviewing innovative approaches to meal provision for ageing populations
Winterton R, Warburton J, Oppenheimer M. The future for Meals on Wheels? Reviewing innovative approaches to meal provision for ageing populations The global phenomenon of population ageing is impacting on how community care is delivered, and a key component of health and social care services for the frail elderly is Meals on Wheels (MOW), a service that has traditionally encompassed delivering meals to older people in their homes. However, aspect…
The ‘imperial’ girl
This article examines the role played by ‘imperial girls’: daughters of vice-regal representatives, consuls and ambassadors despatched by British governments to represent its interests in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras. Little is known about children's responses to their imperial childhoods and they are rarely considered in transnational and imperial history. It is argued that imperial girls had a more influential and practical educa…
Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “reasons for concern”
Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [United Nations (1992) http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf . Accessed February 9, 2009] commits signatory nations to stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that “would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference (DAI) with the climate system.” In an effort to provide some insight into impacts of climate change that might be consi…
Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies
The League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS) – known as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since 1991 – has received little historical attention despite representing the world’s largest volunteer network and being an integral part of the Red Cross Movement. Formed in the aftermath of the First World War by the national Red Cross Societies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, the LRCS a…
Voluntary Work and Labour History
At a meeting of the Sydney Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History in early February 1997,1 presented a paper based on my doctoral thesis which revolved around aspects of voluntary work in Australia during World War II. This thesis focussed on voluntary work, or unpaid work, carried out by people within structured organisations in the public sphere. In the presentation,! argued that not only was this type of voluntary wor…
Measuring Volunteerability and the Capacity to Volunteer among Non‐volunteers
As volunteering and its benefits gain global recognition, social policymakers can sustain and increase volunteering through social policy, legislation and other types of involvement. A key performance practice is to measure the rate of volunteering based on the percentage of the population that volunteer or the number of hours donated. The focus of this article, however, is on the capacity to volunteer by non‐volunteers as well as by volunteers. …
The Next ‘New’ Idea
The iconic Australian voluntary organization, Meals on Wheels, has delivered meals to the elderly and those with disabilities for over 60 years and is currently facing considerable institutional change. These exogenous changes include a more regulatory environment, tighter funding restrictions and a move towards marketization and competition. These issues are affecting a traditional service delivery organization reliant on a predominantly older v…
The future for Meals on Wheels? Reviewing innovative approaches to meal provision for ageing populations
Winterton R, Warburton J, Oppenheimer M. The future for Meals on Wheels? Reviewing innovative approaches to meal provision for ageing populations The global phenomenon of population ageing is impacting on how community care is delivered, and a key component of health and social care services for the frail elderly is Meals on Wheels (MOW), a service that has traditionally encompassed delivering meals to older people in their homes. However, aspect…
Voluntary Action, Social Welfare and the Australian Assistance Plan in the 1970s
The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP), a little-remembered yet radical and imaginative program of social welfare reform, was introduced by the Whitlam government in 1973 and abolished three years later by the Coalition government of Malcolm Fraser. This article will chart the history of the short-lived AAP, its genesis and its demise, and argue that the AAP, while always controversial, helped to reinvigorate the voluntary sector in Australia and r…
The Labour Movement and Voluntary Action in the UK and Australia
Despite the increasing awareness of voluntary action in both countries in recent times, there has been little interest in exploring the historical relationship of voluntary action and labour. It is argued in this paper that the overall silence of the relationship between voluntary action and the labour movement has its origins in the emergence of a 'myth' of Labour hostility towards voluntary action. This 'myth' explains to some degree the invisi…
Gifts for France
Gifts for France
Books
Creating Australia: Changing Australian History. Edited by Wayne Hudson and Geoffrey Bolton. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997. Pp. xiii + 187. $24.95 paper. The Europeans in Australia: A History, volume 1, The Beginning. By Alan Atkinson. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1997. Pp. xviii + 429. $49.95 cloth. Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship. By John Chesterman and Brian Galligan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1…
Voluntary Work and Labour History
At a meeting of the Sydney Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History in early February 1997,1 presented a paper based on my doctoral thesis which revolved around aspects of voluntary work in Australia during World War II. This thesis focussed on voluntary work, or unpaid work, carried out by people within structured organisations in the public sphere. In the presentation,! argued that not only was this type of voluntary wor…
Control of Wartime Patriotic Funds in Australia
The proliferation of Australian texts on the home front has been a major feature of war historiography in recent years. Since the seminal studies of British writers Richard Titmuss and Arthur Marwick on the effects of war on society almost 40 years ago, there has been a succession of academic studies examining a range of issues from social, political and economic perspectives.1 In the Australian context, Michael McKernan's 'work on the home front…
We All Did Voluntary Work of Some Kind
This article introduces a special section on voluntary work and labour history which was timed to coincide with the United Nations International Year of the Volunteer (2001). Voluntary work has only recently been considered a relevant topic for labour history. Its past neglect reflects the widely held view that voluntary work is unproductive. Voluntary work challenges traditional labour history and directly confronts the changing nature of work i…
‘The best P.M. for the empire in war'?
This article examines the role and relationship of Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, wife of Australia's fifth Governor General, and the Australian Red Cross during a period of unprecedented social, economic and political upheaval in Australian history. It argues that Lady Helen brought with her to Australia special qualities and experiences which were to benefit the Red Cross, an organisation she established and ran during the Great War. The activities…
Retooling the Class Factory
Peer-reviewed
Teaching Labour History
The Price of War
industry, older university presses appear to be retreating from publishing Australian history altogether. The demise of Cambridge's Studies in Australian History Series is a case in point. Today, PhD theses (however topical or brilliant) seldom make that difficult transition to a monograph and even well established authors (what the industry calls the 'big names' of the profession) are invited to return their manuscript with a hefty publication s…
Controlling Civilian Volunteering
Uncontrolled and undirected people, in their patriotic exuberance, started to create a host of patriotic organizations. They all needed money and proceeded to try and get it from the public in a variety of ways. The public soon began to exhibit impatience and the Government realised that it had a problem which had to be solved." In a speech broadcast on Australian radio in January 1943, the Canadian High Commissioner to Australia, Tommy Davis, ar…
Voluntary Action and Welfare in Post-1945 Australia Preliminary Perspectives
Australian welfare history in the twentieth century has not focussed to any great extent on voluntary action. The relationship of voluntary action with the state, and its influences on social welfare have been sidelined by a pre-occupation with the role of governments, and from 1945, the rise of the welfare state. This article will argue that the voluntary sector, buoyed by its successes during World War II – a high point of civilian volunteer ac…
The Labour Movement and Voluntary Action in the UK and Australia
Despite the increasing awareness of voluntary action in both countries in recent times, there has been little interest in exploring the historical relationship of voluntary action and labour. It is argued in this paper that the overall silence of the relationship between voluntary action and the labour movement has its origins in the emergence of a 'myth' of Labour hostility towards voluntary action. This 'myth' explains to some degree the invisi…
Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced
Oceans of Love
Review(s) of: Oceans of Love: Narrelle, an Australian Nurse in World War I by Melanie Oppenheimer, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006. pp. 272. $29.95 paper. Review(s) of: Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefi elds of the Great War by Bruce Scates, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2006. pp. xxiv + 273. $39.95 paper
Voluntary Action, Social Welfare and the Australian Assistance Plan in the 1970s
The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP), a little-remembered yet radical and imaginative program of social welfare reform, was introduced by the Whitlam government in 1973 and abolished three years later by the Coalition government of Malcolm Fraser. This article will chart the history of the short-lived AAP, its genesis and its demise, and argue that the AAP, while always controversial, helped to reinvigorate the voluntary sector in Australia and r…
Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “reasons for concern”
Article 2 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [United Nations (1992) http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/conveng.pdf . Accessed February 9, 2009] commits signatory nations to stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that “would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference (DAI) with the climate system.” In an effort to provide some insight into impacts of climate change that might be consi…
The Fabric of Welfare
The Fabric of Welfare: Voluntary Organisations, Government and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840–2005, by Margaret Tennant, Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 2007, vi+274 pp., NZ$49.99 (paper), ISBN 9
The ‘imperial’ girl
This article examines the role played by ‘imperial girls’: daughters of vice-regal representatives, consuls and ambassadors despatched by British governments to represent its interests in the late Victorian and early Edwardian eras. Little is known about children's responses to their imperial childhoods and they are rarely considered in transnational and imperial history. It is argued that imperial girls had a more influential and practical educa…
The future for Meals on Wheels? Reviewing innovative approaches to meal provision for ageing populations
Winterton R, Warburton J, Oppenheimer M. The future for Meals on Wheels? Reviewing innovative approaches to meal provision for ageing populations The global phenomenon of population ageing is impacting on how community care is delivered, and a key component of health and social care services for the frail elderly is Meals on Wheels (MOW), a service that has traditionally encompassed delivering meals to older people in their homes. However, aspect…
The Next ‘New’ Idea
The iconic Australian voluntary organization, Meals on Wheels, has delivered meals to the elderly and those with disabilities for over 60 years and is currently facing considerable institutional change. These exogenous changes include a more regulatory environment, tighter funding restrictions and a move towards marketization and competition. These issues are affecting a traditional service delivery organization reliant on a predominantly older v…
Shaping the Legend
Established to assist the sick and wounded in war in August 1914, the Australian Red Cross became one of Australia's largest and most important voluntary organisations of the twentieth century. Both creations of World War I, the Anzac Legend and the Australian Red Cross appear at first glance to be the antithesis of each other. Yet the humanitarianism of the Australian Red Cross and the militarism of the Anzac Legend are inextricably linked and p…
I Intend to Get Justice
Soldier settlement was a key scheme in a suite of repatriation policies enacted in the aftermath of World War I. Across Australia thousands of returned men, including over 9,000 in New South Wales, took up the challenge and tried their luck on the land. Thousands failed. Through the voices of individual soldier settlers and using extensive and only recently released Department of Lands loan files, this article focuses on one aspect of the soldier…
“Developing a community soul”
The Australian Assistance Plan (AAP) was an innovative yet largely forgotten social welfare program from the 1970s. A key platform of the Whitlam Labor government, which established a series of Regional Councils for Social Development across Australia, the AAP reframed citizens’ participation in their communities, stimulated voluntary organisations and volunteering and attempted to transform engagement among all levels of governments and the volu…
The Last Battle
When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start. Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes, fewer than half of the settlers remained on their properties. In this timely book, base…
The Australian Assistance Plan and the Canadian Connection
This article explores the origins of one such program, the Australian Assistance Plan (AAP), and its connections, similarities and differences to the Canada Assistance Plan. Drawing on extensive archival and oral history sources, it offers a comparative analysis of both national programs, then outlines how international social planning and community development ideas, especially from Canada, infused the AAP and its predecessor, the Geelong Experi…
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