Professor of Contemporary History interested in public uses of history aph.org.au blogs.deakin.edu.au/contempo…
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David Lowe retweeted
25 Jan 2024
What Australians think about Australia Day is changing. Support for the day is dropping, and in some cases the change is marked. Drawing data from CCH's History Survey - Jo Cruikshank, David Lowe and Andrew Singleton have some insights...
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23 Oct 2023
Looking forward to hearing from Carla Pascoe Leahy who will be discussing her book, Becoming a Mother, this Thursday evening at 7 pm. Please RSVP: Book Author February 2023 historycouncilvic.org.au/boo…
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6 Mar 2023
Glad to this collection re the Australian Embassy in Tokyo out, co-edited with Kate Darian Smith press.anu.edu.au/publication…
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David Lowe retweeted
6 Mar 2023
Our Seminar Series is back for 2023! We kick off on Wednesday at 11am (Melbourne time) with Assoc Prof Geoff Boucher. All the details in the link:
chrg.deakin.edu.au/2023/02/c…
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David Lowe retweeted
5 Mar 2023
@SigmundMarx and me on the value of history - How the push to end tobacco advertising in the 1970s could be used to curb gambling ads today theconversation.com/how-the-… via @ConversationEDU
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David Lowe retweeted
28 Nov 2022
Looking forward to this one - our first in-person event in three years!
28 Nov 2022
Join us for our end of year in-person event with Joy Damousi, Graeme Davison and Peter Gronn reflecting on the history of public education and democracy.
Free, bookings here: historycouncilvic.org.au/fri…
@ACU_IHSS @MonashHistory @MonashEducation @HTAVed #Schools150Years @DETVic
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David Lowe retweeted
22 Nov 2022
It was great to be at the launch of @DloweDavid and Eric Meadows' new edited collection - Rising Power and Changing People: The Australian High Commission in India at Deakin Downtown yesterday. Thanks to the @AIinstitute for sponsoring the launch.
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David Lowe retweeted
28 Oct 2022
.@annakent1 presenting on TPNG and ‘international’ education at the Remembering Australian Colonialism in PNG from Both Sides of the Coral Sea conference @Deakin
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13 Sep 2022
Happy to see chapter written with Tony Joel on Cold War as a region of memory out link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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David Lowe retweeted
13 Sep 2022
‘Rising Power and Changing People’ is an edited collection written by leading historians and expert commentators. It discusses the relationship between India and Australia seen from the perspective of the Australian High Commission in New Delhi.
Download doi.org/10.22459/RPCP.2022
ALT Text: Australian National University ANU Press – New release Graphic is the cover of 'Rising Power and Changing People: The Australian High Commission in India'
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David Lowe retweeted
8 Aug 2022
ANU Press Social Sciences Editorial Committee is delighted to be associated with these two titles. Congratulations to collection editors and authors @_As_Ruby @DloweDavid @Diana_Perche
8 Aug 2022
Coming Soon! Two compelling titles from our Social Sciences team! With original case studies of marketisation in social services in Australia, and expert analyses of the work of the Australian High Commission in India – these two are not to be missed!
press.anu.edu.au
ALT Text: Coming Soon Social Sciences Image is of two covers of ANU Press books including 'Designing Social Service Markets: Risk, Regulation and Rent-Seeking' and 'Rising Power and Changing People: The Australian High Commission in India'.
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David Lowe retweeted
5 Aug 2022
This is a poor decision. People in regions deserve the opportunity to study the humanities and social sciences. And this is a shocking betrayal by Federation University of Ballarat, a city with a rich heritage and central place in the nation's history.
abc.net.au/news/2022-08-05/f…
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David Lowe retweeted
4 Aug 2022
Join our HCV Friends for the next Book Author event with Graeme Davison, @C_PascoeLeahy and @DloweDavid in conversation with the ABC's @michrayner talking about 'Lessons from History'.
historycouncilvic.org.au/boo…
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David Lowe retweeted
1 Aug 2022
"Watching the first speeches by the various ‘teals’ was to realise the extent to which we have been short changed by a two-party system that, whatever it’s good points, has suppressed the voices of communities all around the country." tdunlop.substack.com/p/alban…
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David Lowe retweeted
1 Aug 2022
Lyndon Megarrity interviews @hereorclaire about her new book, Australian Economic History 📚
aph.org.au/2022/08/qa-with-c…
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David Lowe retweeted
17 Jul 2022
Good to see this getting coverage. If you’d like to be baffled, go and have a look at the composition of the boards/councils of our national cultural institutions - there’s very little relevant expertise for these institutions to draw upon there:
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David Lowe retweeted
11 Jul 2022
The wisest of historians.
11 Jul 2022
“All decent people are at heart conservatives, desiring to conserve human associations, loyalties, affections. What makes the working class revolutionary is that modern conditions are constantly passing a steamroller over these in the name of material progress.” — R. H. Tawney
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David Lowe retweeted
8 Jul 2022
📣 Event Alert! “Australia’s Dilemmas: Then and Now” 📣
@DloweDavid will look ahead w/ Geraldine Doogue, Greg Sheriden, and Mick Ryan at the political, cultural, and strategic decisions Australians will need to make to navigate the trials of the 21st century.
@UniMelb 20 July!
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David Lowe retweeted
22 Jun 2022
We are already getting prepped for our T2 Seminar Series...
On the 20th July you can join us for a paper by Dr Bernard Keo - (Un)Making the Malayan Nation: Peranakan Chinese Politics at the End of Empire, 1945-1957
chrg.deakin.edu.au/2022/06/c…
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David Lowe retweeted
30 Jun 2022
All here with @DloweDavid, @SigmundMarx & Lyndon Megarrity for the launch of Lessons From History.
@newsouthpub
#OZHA2022
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