Mission Impossible: How Men Gave Birth to the Australian Nation—Nationalism, Gender and Other Seminal Acts

Studies in Australian Political Rhetoric

“…It is in the character and capacity of its manhood that the real strength and energy of resistance of a people must be found. (Australia, Parliament 1907: 7510) The masculine nature of the emergent Australian nation is a well-researched theme (Lake 1992).…”

‘What better excuse for a real adventure’: History, Memory and Tourism on the Kokoda Track

“…The appeal of the track to men may reflect the fact that war has historically served, not only a test of Australian nationhood but as a test of manhood. 32 The white, male Anzac digger embodies idealised Australian masculinity and this icon has become associated with a set of aspirational values linked to citizenship including mateship, courage and sacrifice. 33 Several historians have argued that women have been excluded from the Anzac Legend.…”

Personality, individuality, nationality: Feminist conceptions of citizenship 1902–1940

“…They formulated the idea of maternal citizenship -conceptualised, like soldier citizenship, as a two-way contract through which mothers would be paid for their service to the state: this was their citizen's right and would secure their right to independence. 19 It was within this conceptual framework that labour women lobbied for and won the Maternity Allowance, introduced to ease the 'citizen mother's hour of travail' by Labor Prime Minister Andrew Fisher in 1912. Labour women rejoiced in this 'first instalment of the mother's maternal right' and signalled their intention to pursue the next stage, motherhood endowment.…”