This PhD thesis seeks to examine the emergence of a new professional expertise (diplomatic, political, academic), within the context of Australian foreign policy history. The central question to be assessed is how did a new and expanding group of individuals (diplomatic, academic, political), come to be in a position to utilise their professional expertise and/or authority and how did they shape debates and/or influence policy choices?

Publications

Upcoming Book 2009-2010
Australia, the British Empire and the origins of Australian- Indonesian Relations 1945-46
In principle acceptance for publication (Charles Darwin University)

Note: All articles etc available on request.

Publications  2007- 2009

Howard & Downer — Flippant and Opportunist
Wednesday 14 March 2007 New Matilda

Time to Rethink ANZUS?
Australian Options Magazine , Winter 2007, Quarterly No 49

The Great State Schools Robbery
  Australian Rationalist, Journal of the Rationalist Society of Australia, (Issue 77, 2007)

Elections and the art of trust
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, Online Opinion – Australia 's E-Journal of social and political debate.

Inventing Britishness in the old world and new – Scotland and Australia
Journal of Politics and Culture, Issue 3 2007

Adam Henry writing as Norm Francis:
Question time: The Uncensored Hansard
31 May 2007, New Matilda
Question time: The Uncensored Hansard
18 June 2007, New Matilda
Question time: The Uncensored Hansard
20 June 2007, New Matilda
Question time: The Uncensored Hansard
15 Aug 2007, New Matilda
Question time: The Uncensored Hansard
18 September 2007, New Matilda

Social Change and the British Aristocracy
Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA Review) (Winter 2008)

Kangaroo cull: necessary evil and the greater good
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, Online Opinion – Australia 's E-Journal of social and political debate.

Engaging Jakarta: Excusing Violence
Arena Journal, Number 32, 2009

Democracy and the Individual - the unconscious association?
Australian Options Magazine, Autumn 2009 Quarterly No.56;
Democracy and the individual - the unconscious association?
Monday 25 May 2009, Online Opinion - Australia's E-journal of social and political debate.

Roger East and the Balibo Five: a long official silence
7 August 2009 Online Opinion - Australia's E-journal of social and political debate.

Publications 2001-2006

Australian Nationalism and the Lost lessons of the Boer War
(Issue 34, June 2001 ), Journal of The Australian War Memorial.

Reflections on the Death of an American
Sydney Morning Herald Online 2004

Australia's selective ethics on Timor
27 June 2006 Crickey

When is Hypocrisy good governance?
Dissent Magazine Number 2, Spring 2006

Indonesia: Appeasing Jakarta
New Matilda Wednesday 23 August 2006

Indonesia & Australia: Reactions to the Issue of West Papua
Vol. 46 No 4, October 2006 – December
Australian Fabians Newsletter & Website

West Papua – The Tangled Web of History
Australian Options Magazine, Spring 2006

Nationalism, Politics & War
Australian Rationalist, Journal of the Rationalist Society of Australia
Featured Cover Article (Issue 74, Winter 2006)

Truth, West Papua and Indonesia: 2 + 2 really can = 5
Thursday, 16 November 2006 Online Opinion – Australia 's E-Journal of social and political debate.

Surveillance: Who's Watching Whom
New Matilda Wednesday 13 December 2006

Keating: The Man who discovered Asia
Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA Review) (Vol.5, No. 2, 2006)

Other Publications 

A Logical and Ethical Critique of Merit: Lombok Treaty , 2006
Submission to the Committee Secretary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, House of Representatives.

Submission 136
Senate Committee on Men's Health, 2007

Omega Inter Pares http://omegainterpares.blogspot.com/
Friday, August 11, 2006 A Brief Statement of Aims

Friday, April 18, 2008
Teaching Lesson Plan: If Only I'd been taught Australian history this way at school..........Post-war Australia to the 1970s (the Vietnam War)

Friday, April 18, 2008
Teaching Lesson Plan: If Only I'd been taught Australian history this way at school [Part two]............ Australia and World War I (Aspects of the homefront - Conscription debate).

Friday, April 18, 2008
The Opening of the 42nd Parliament - Australian History 101 Welcome to Country

Friday, April 18, 2008
Learning to Love Brendan Nelson

April 19, 2008
For the Curious - The myths of representative democracy

Saturday, April 19, 2008
Teaching Lesson Plan: Imagine if they taught Australian history like this.....Australia between the Wars (The Depression)

Saturday, April 19, 2008
Teaching Lesson Plan: Imagine if we taught ethical thinking concepts to our secondary students......
Business Studies, Commerce, Civics & Citizenship, Studies of Society and Environment, Science

Associations & Memberships

Independent Scholars of Australia Association [ISAA]

Australian Historical Association [AHA]  

Australian Institute of International Affairs [AIIA]
Canberra Branch