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Elsie Levy was born in the Jewish East End of London, came to Sydney with her family when she was 14, and joined the Communist Party of Australia when she was a young woman. In this book, her son explores her diasporic Jewish identity, both English and Australian, and in the process journeys into Jewish cultural histories. We meet important cultural figures such as Leonard Woolf, Freud, Schnitzler, Veza Canetti and Ida Rubinstein. This journey leads...
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'Deeply researched with keen judgements, Traitors and Spies is a devastating indictment of Australia's security services and their political masters in the decades before the formation of ASIO.' - Professor David Horner, author of The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO 1949-1963
Dozens of Russian anarchists, socialists and communists arrived in Australia from 1905, fleeing repression in their homeland. Finding work in the Queensland cane...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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This is the remarkable story of Guiseppe Mercuri, Italian artist, writer, poet and communist. Guiseppe Mercuri dreamed of emigrating to Australia with his family in the 1950's. He was refused entry on account of his communist party membership and only now is able to enter the country of his dreams. His lifetime of creative achievement has been documented by Franco di Chiera, the nephew of Giuseppe Mercuri to provide a stimulating insight into his...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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This is a story of coal, communism, and the Australian prime minister who went to war against his own during the national miners' strike of 1949. Using rare archival footage and re-creations based on meticulous research, the dramatised documentary takes viewers into the corridors of power to show how Labor Party leader Ben Chifley took on and defeated the growing forces of communism in Australia. The film examines the complex issues that the conflict...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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In April 1945 San Francisco hosted a conference to design the United Nations Charter. Among the delegates who held the future of the world in their hands was Herbert Vere Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs. Known as "the Doc", Evatt was an idealist, an internationalist, a lawyer and politician. Already he had led Australia to develop a foreign policy independent of that pursued by Britain. His efforts greatly influenced the operations...
6) Allies
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Allies is a landmark documentary from 1983, made at the time of Bob Hawke’s unequivocal embrace of the American alliance. The film explores Australia-US relations during the Cold War: the setting up of ASIO to appease American agencies worried about Communist influence; the Petrov Affair and disunity in the Labor Party; and the determination of Sir Robert Menzies to follow the US into Vietnam. It’s the story also of the “covert wars” in South-East...
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