‘The White Australia Nettle’: women’s internationalism, peace, and the White Australia Policy in the interwar years

Laing, Kate

doi:10.1080/14490854.2017.1319736

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“…This moment in the spotlight was short‐lived, but the international networks and inclinations developed during these years persisted. Australian feminism remained global in outlook and practice, and leading figures such Bessie Rischbieth, Ruby Rich, Linda Littlejohn, and Jessie Street were inveterate travellers, regulars at international conferences and lecture podiums (Laing, ; Lake, ; Paddle, ; Paisley, ; Rees, ; Woollacott, ). As women in the public eye, they also modelled mobility for those at home.…”

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Reading Australian modernity: Unsettled settlers and cultures of mobility

Rees

2017

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What did Australian modernity look like? Over the last two decades, Australia's entrenched reputation for ‘cultural belatedness’ has been displaced by the study of ‘colonial modernity’. No longer beholden to the idea that a singular modernity was disseminated from core to periphery, scholars now speak of many localised modernities that arose across colonial and provincial sites. According to this new ‘multiple modernities’ paradigm, Australia was home to its own home‐grown incarnation of modern life. But what was distinctively ‘Australian’ about Australian modernity? Although widely discussed in recent historiography, scholars have yet to delineate its distinguishing features. This article posits mobility as a central component of the Australian modern. Drawing upon new scholarship in settler colonial studies and transnational history, it argues that early twentieth‐century Australia was home to intense cultures of both domestic and global mobility that were entangled with the geographies and anxieties of the settler colonial project. It shows how the nation's ‘unsettled settlers’ also became its chief agents of modernity, and in doing so draws together several strands in recent historiography. Although mobility also signified modernity beyond Australia, it was within this settler colonial nation tyrannised by distance that the modern appetite for motion reached especial heights.

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Reading Australian modernity: Unsettled settlers and cultures of mobility

Rees

2017

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The British (and International?) Music Society: Australian Identity and Musical Internationalism in Interwar Sydney

KIRBY

2024

Twentieth-Century Music

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In the aftermath of the First World War, Henri Verbrugghen founded the first Australian branch of the British Music Society. The BMS – a product of post-First World War cultural renewal – was established in London to ‘champion the cause of British composers at home and abroad’. In Sydney, these aspirations extended to promoting music from Australia, and through affiliation with the International Society for Contemporary Music, music of the rest of the world. This article explores the activities of the Sydney BMS, situating these within contemporary discourses of nationalism and internationalism in the construction of interwar Australian cultural identity. It argues that the sometimes conflicting aims of the society reflect a wider political and social ambivalence about Australia's place in the international landscape. While its primary goal was to champion local composers, this was held in uneasy balance with a desire to promote British music ‘proper’.

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‘The White Australia Nettle’: women’s internationalism, peace, and the White Australia Policy in the interwar years

Cited by 3 publications

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Reading Australian modernity: Unsettled settlers and cultures of mobility

Reading Australian modernity: Unsettled settlers and cultures of mobility

The British (and International?) Music Society: Australian Identity and Musical Internationalism in Interwar Sydney

Sisters in Peace: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Australia, 1915–2015

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