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Anti-communism in the Liberal Party from Menzies to Turnbull
- Evan Smith
- 01 September 2017
12 Comments
Earlier this year, Turnbull made a speech in London where he called for the Liberal Party to return to its ideological base as laid out by Sir Robert Menzies. Turnbull suggested that the Liberal Party under Menzies was the socially conservative party that many on the LNP's right wish it to be, but it seems that what the Liberals have taken from the Menzies era is a revival of anti-communist rhetoric.
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PODCAST

ChatterSquare Extra: Reading history in the age of Trump
- Podcast
- 28 February 2017
In this episode, we chat with Dr Evan Smith, from the School of History and International Relations at Flinders University, Adelaide. We go over some of the historical analogies being made about the Trump administration, why people are drawn to them, and the pitfalls of reaching into the past to make sense of the present.
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AUSTRALIA

How the working class became white
- Evan Smith
- 27 October 2016
19 Comments
While the White Australia Policy attempted to prevent non-white workers from living and working in Australia, people from across the globe continued to do both, although often at the margins of white Australian society. The Australian Labor Party and the trade unions were complicit in maintaining this racial divide. In Australia today, a new wave of migrants is working in convenience stores, driving taxis or cleaning buildings. They are part of the Australian working class, but are often not considered such.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Ten films that got us thinking in 2015
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 December 2015
2 Comments
From the drama-filled mind of a pre-teen girl to the homes of former Indonesian death-squad members; from a day in the life of a transgender sex-worker to a grim and sublime new rendition of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays; from one actor's immense ego to another's fading relevance to an allegedly doomed writer's captivating self-effacement, Eureka Street's resident film buff Tim Kroenert revisits the characters and themes of some of the best and most conversation-worthy films of 2015.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Economists and other prophets
- Brian Matthews
- 12 August 2009
3 Comments
Economists are often, sometimes spectacularly, wrong. But like all prophets, they are unabashed by and unpunished for abject failures. They pop up from each new set of ruins, surprised yet unrepentant, princes of a plethora of evanescent predictions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Morag Fraser, Brett Evans, Juliette Hughes, Gordon Lewis
- 08 July 2006
Reviews of the films The Quiet American; Tadpole; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Lovely & Amazing and The Fellowship of the Ring (extended version DVD).
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Language so lovely
- Chris Wallace-Crabbe
- 18 June 2006
Chris Wallace-Crabbe on After Shakespeare: An Anthology and The Oxford Book of Aphorisms, both edited by John Gross.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Colourful ties
- Jenny Zimmer
- 15 June 2006
Jenny Zimmer looks at Patrick McCaughey’s The Bright Shapes and the True Names.
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Keywords: Evan Smith