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Benjamin Boyd
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Benjamin Boyd
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Empire of Straw
This is the story of Ben Boyd, who founded the Royal Bank of Australia in the 1840's and used its funds to finance his own huge pastoral, shipping and whaling empire and send it into bankruptcy unknown to shareholders in England and Scotland.
Horsemen of the First Frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's Legacy
An economic and social history of early New South Wales, told through the life stories of pioneer 19th century horsemen. Traces the origin and development of the horse in Australia and a special tribute to Australia's internationally acclaimed thoroughbred expert C. Bruce Lowe.
Labour Lines and Colonial Power
Today, increases of so-called ‘low-skilled’ and temporary labour migrations of Pacific Islanders to Australia occur alongside calls for Indigenous people to ‘orbit’ from remote communities in search of employment opportunities. These trends reflect the persistent neoliberalism within contemporary Australia, as well as the effects of structural dynamics within the global agriculture and resource extractive industries. They also unfold within the context of long and troubled histories of Australian colonialism, and of complexes of race, labour and mobility that reverberate through that history and into the present. The contemporary labour of Pacific Islanders in the horticultural indus...
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