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Student Archival Essays
- Australia and the Interwar Internationalism Movement
- In her study of the League of Nations Union in Britain, Helen McCarthy argues that “the League of Nations inspired a rich and participatory culture of political unrest, popular education and civic ritual." Was the same true in Australia?
- Interwar Internationalism: Refugees
- A Broad Unity for Peace: An historical examination of the International Peace Campaign’s Australian Peace Congress, 16th – 19th September, 1937
- Interwar Feminism in Australia and the League of Nations
- What were the primary factors in the failure of the League of Nations Union in Australia to create what Helen McCarthy terms a ‘rich and participatory culture of political protest, popular education and civic ritual’?
- Analyze how the ‘Myth of Collective Security’ was cultivated and evolved in Britain, compared to Australia by the LNU
- The League in Nations: the Effects of Identity
- Paths to Peace: A comparison of the voluntary peace groups in Britain and Australia
- The League of Nations: Lessons and Legacy
Australia - Commonwealth
As a Commonwealth nation, Australia drew on ‘the credit and status of the British Empire’ and subsequently implemented similar international and domestic policies to those of Britain. Australia’s full membership in the League offered the nation an international status that it had not achieved until this point.[1] Although Australia developed its own strategies, the nation looked to Britain for support and acceptance with regard the implementation and establishment of foreign and defence policy.
[1] Andrew Carr, Winning the Peace: Australia’s Campaign to Change the Asia Pacific. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2015), 82.