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
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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 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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