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carolynholbrook.bsky.social @carolynholbrook.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
There are lessons from the achievement of the cigarette advertising ban in the 1970s that we need to apply to other corporate predators in the 2020s - gambling companies come immediately to mind. A forgotten episode in the history of tobacco control: academic.oup.com/jhmas/articl...
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A forgotten episode in the history of tobacco control: how Australia achieved a ban on television advertising of cigarettes
Abstract. While Australia is now renowned for world-leading anti-tobacco measures, including being the first jurisdiction to introduce plain packaging of c
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carolynholbrook.bsky.social @carolynholbrook.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Medicare was no sure thing in its early years. Thanks to Opposition bungling of health care policy in the 1980s, which I describe in this article, we recently celebrated 40 years of universal health insurance. The Early Years of Australian Medicare www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Early Years of Australian Medicare: Universal Health Insurance in the Balance
As evidenced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s repeated brandishing of his green-and-gold plastic card during the 2025 election campaign, Medicare is a beloved Australian institution. But this w...
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Mike Daube @mikedaube.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Good commentary. So many parallels with the long discredited tobacco industry arguments against ad bans; so many good reasons to expose similar gambling industry lobbying; and so shameful that the government has failed to implement the Murphy Committee recommendations on gambling advertising.
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carolynholbrook.bsky.social @carolynholbrook.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I enjoyed a wonderful visit to Manipal Academy of Higher Education in India last week to talk about my research on the cultural history of Medicare, and to explore research collaborations in #medicalhumanities.
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Read the latest by @carolynholbrook.bsky.social and Lyndon Megarrity: Federation or ‘Fetteration’? Secessionist sentiment in Queensland and Western Australia during the first decade of the Commonwealth. lnkd.in/gmZq6eRP Available open access in 22(1) #historyaustralia #openaccess
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carolynholbrook.bsky.social @carolynholbrook.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
My Conversation article about the broader implications of the Australian War Memorial's elusive eligibility rules for its Carlyon book prize. theconversation.com/the-australi...
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The Australian War Memorial’s prize controversy betrays the institution’s purpose: to tell the messy truth about war
Chris Masters’ book on Ben Roberts-Smith was chosen to win the Australian War Memorial’s Les Carlyon Prize for Military History. But the prize wasn’t awarded. Why?
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carolynholbrook.bsky.social @carolynholbrook.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New bio on the Australian Dictionary of Biography of Netta Burns, Labor's legendary social policy adviser adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bu...
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Biography - Netta Patricia Burns - Australian Dictionary of Biography
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carolynholbrook.bsky.social @carolynholbrook.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The best of both worlds? How Australia’s unique democracy evolved theconversation.com/the-best-of-...
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The best of both worlds? How Australia’s unique democracy evolved
Australia at federation was perhaps the most developed example of harnessing democracy and bureaucracy.
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Great to see the latest Journal of Contemporary History out (60/1) featuring not just our piece on tourism and R&R but also one by @carolynholbrook.bsky.social, @miamh.bsky.social & David Lowe on Australia and national security in the 1930s! journals.sagepub.com/toc/jcha/60/1
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Journal of Contemporary History - Volume 60, Number 1, Jan 01, 2025
Table of contents for Journal of Contemporary History, 60, 1, Jan 01, 2025
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