The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Thesis "Parliamentary attitudes to defence and the Australian Armed Forces from 1933 to 1939". Examines the attitudes of the United Australia Party, the New South Wales or Lang Labour Party, the Country Party and the Labour Party. Also the lack of preparedness for war after drastic cuts to personnel and equipment following 1914-1918 war and then the 1930's Great Depression. Also looks at rearmament, disarmament and the League of Nations. BA (Hons), University of New England, 1972.
Thesis "A very temperate reaction : a study of the first nine months of the Second World War in Australia with particular emphasis on enlistment in the Second AIF (Australian Imperial Force). Looks at
Thesis "The Australian Council of Churches : some social and political attitudes 1960-1968". Examines the growth of the council and the social and political implications. This is discussed in relation
Thesis "Post Evatt Australian Labor Party attitudes to the United States Alliance (1961 to 1972)". Discusses attitudes within the ALP to the American alliance. Examines the foreign policy making proce
Thesis "Australian attitudes towards asia". Examines the premise that Australian post war foreign policy was the result of continuity of traditional attitudes and not the outcome of radical changes in
Thesis "Desertion without execution : decisions that saved Australian Imperial Force deserters from the firing squad in World War One". Examines the desertion of members of the AIF from the Western Fr
Thesis "Australian patriotism and the Sudan Contingent of 1885". Analysis based on parliamentary debates of NSW in 1885, traces the factors of patriotism in the preparation of the Sudan Contingent. BA