Alexander Mitchell Lee
@alexmitchelllee
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Researcher at SDSC | Australian National University
Canberra, ACT
Joined October 2012
100 years ago Australia was swept up in a moral panic. The explosive claim that two white women were being held hostage by Yolŋu people in the NT caused national outrage - the fact there was no evidence made little impact. @JICHist @ANU_SDSC
https://t.co/1XRtFDf3Xm
tandfonline.com
The sinking of the SS Douglas Mawson in a cyclone in Northern Australia in March 1923 became the unlikely catalyst for a gendered and racialised moral panic that gripped Australia between June and ...
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🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 In ‘Australian public and institutional responses to Taiwan Strait crises’, Mark Harrison et al. provide vital insights into how Australians understand and are likely to respond to crises in the Taiwan Strait. 🔖 Read it now: https://t.co/zyJJSlXtM8
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Thrilled to announce that my research on SW Indian Ocean Security will be supported by Defence as part of the 2025 Strategic Policy Grants Program. The diversion of global shipping around the Cape of Good Hope represents opportunities and risks for 🇦🇺. https://t.co/zm5aJb5eKq
defence.gov.au
The Secretary of Defence has awarded 23 grants to 22 unique entities under Defence’s 2025 Strategic Policy Grants Program. After consideration in a highly competitive round, Defence will fund up to...
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🎓 PhD Complete! Proud to graduate today from @ANU_NSC. My research explores how the British Indian Ocean Territory was created in '65—shaping Cold War power dynamics & entrenching US hegemony. Thanks to my @ourANU team, @SueThom4, @Rory_Medcalf & @DavidBrewster6.
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Hot off the press - This is our first article as a new editorial team! - See JICH's latest article on the SS Douglas Mawson's "survivors" by Alexander Lee @alexmitchelllee
@andrekosvarnava @yiannicart @evansmithhist @JFGjerso
https://t.co/o9Rw82ty3C
tandfonline.com
The sinking of the SS Douglas Mawson in a cyclone in Northern Australia in March 1923 became the unlikely catalyst for a gendered and racialised moral panic that gripped Australia between June and ...
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Pleased to see my 2020 @LowyInstitute and 2024 @WarOnTheRocks papers on the Chagos sovereignty dispute permeating British parliamentary research to inform important bilateral 🇲🇺 /🇬🇧 treaty negotiations. https://t.co/7dIKmaKmrE
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For centuries Macassans visited Australia to trade with Indigenous people. Between the 1901-06 the Commonwealth reacted to this relationship, see my new open access article @AustHistAssoc @ANU_SDSC : https://t.co/CPrhFbWsku
tandfonline.com
The relationship between Macassan trepangers and Aboriginal people became a political issue for the Commonwealth of Australia between 1901 and 1906. The cultural interchange between these groups, a...
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Justin Ryan and James Robertson (@ProgressiveALab) join @MarijaTaflaga and @markgkenny on #DemocracySausage to discuss the rise of the independent, the pressure on the two-party system and how to get the best out of democracy. 🎧🔽
reporter.anu.edu.au
Justin Ryan and James Robertson join Democracy Sausage to discuss the rise of the independent, pressure on the two-party system and how to get the best out of democracy.
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Very pleased to announce my new "Defending Seabed Lines of Communication" papers with @LowyInstitute and the Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs - supported by @SeaPowerCentre. https://t.co/7a0S26YUNR
https://t.co/Pj9QLg2TWt A thread 🧵🌏
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I am glad to share that I have been chosen as a 2024-2025 Japanese Studies doctoral fellow by the @Japanfoundation. I cannot wait to visit Tokyo in September for the fieldwork for "Sea Power in the Indo-Pacific".
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📢Find out how the Fraser Government managed #humanrights and strategic interests in Australia's🇦🇺 relationship with South Korea🇰🇷. Kevin Robb's new publication available here (open access) 👇 https://t.co/7nKTT3qQCO
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
This study uses recently declassified documents to analyse the Fraser government's human rights policy towards South Korea. It demonstrates that when the Fraser government made its first human...
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Great to collaborate on Australia and France’s shared Antarctic histories! 🇦🇶
En enquêtant sur l'histoire de la défense navale dans les archives, @alexmitchelllee de l'université nationale australienne, a trouvé un lien insolite entre le pays et l'archipel Kerguelen. #Australie #Kerguelen #Défense #Géopolitique #Histoire @ANUmedia
https://t.co/oGJIq6D4g1
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My thoughts for the @LowyInstitute 2024 ASEAN-Australia Special Summit: “Tuning out the noise and bluster of the superpowers as they posture and compete for influence will allow Australia to focus on a relationship that is indispensable and unavoidable” https://t.co/RSgdjSsDDv
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As early as 1901 Australia was worried about hostile island bases in the Indian Ocean - going so far as requesting that London buy the Sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Islands from France. Check out my open access article 👇 https://t.co/3q6Z7iWgbf
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It's alive! Hardbound copies of my PhD thesis Defenders of the Homeland: How Croatian 1990s Veterans Kept the Dominant War Narrative Alive sent to Maynooth University. @MaynoothHist
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Australia confronts a world of trouble - my initial assessment of the looming three-front global security crisis, in tomorrow's @FinancialReview
afr.com
Even before Hamas struck, foreign-policy makers have had to get used to a pitiless procession of global shocks.
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Interested in #regenag and living or working around the Northern Rivers of NSW? Or in the region on 21 November? Then this workshop on the future of regenerative agriculture in Australia is for you! (RT's are also very welcome to get the word out!) https://t.co/ITXlXe9bSG
eventbrite.com
Join us at Namabunda Farm for a workshop on the potential future pathways for regenerative agriculture in Australia.
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There is a 1 year teaching contract (3 courses over the year) going at ANU for next year. It's open to pol sci feilds and being onshore in Aus would be an advantage
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There is no reason to believe that the Seabed Warfare trend currently taking place in Europe will not reach the Indian Ocean. My new Issue Brief explains👇 Thank you @orfonline for the visiting fellowship, and @AIinstitute for support. @Lisa_Singh
https://t.co/YcszeZ3toM
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