I am an historian who has published extensively on the labour and social history of Australian industrial and mining towns. My 2002 monograph, 'Steel Town: The making and breaking of Port Kembla' won the 2003 New South Wales' preimer's prize for reg
...MoreI am an historian who has published extensively on the labour and social history of Australian industrial and mining towns. My 2002 monograph, 'Steel Town: The making and breaking of Port Kembla' won the 2003 New South Wales' preimer's prize for regional and community history. In 2003 I published a co-edited textbook, 'Australia to 1901' (with Martin Crotty). My current research project looking at a sample of six Australian mining and industrial towns in funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. In 2008 I was appointed Professor and Head of School, Humanities, Communications and Social Science at the Gippsland campus at Monash University.
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Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
