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New Zealand history, Australian history, colonial history, transport history, political history, genocide studies
Australia

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Employment (7)

Curtin University: Perth, Western Australia, AU

2022-01-31 to present | Lecturer of History (School of Media, Creative Arts, and Social Inquiry)
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André Brett

University of Wollongong: Wollongong, NSW, AU

2020-09-12 to 2021-11-30 | Honorary fellow and tutor (School of Humanities and Social Inquiry)
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André Brett

Central Queensland University: Rockhampton, QLD, AU

2021-04 to 2021-11-06 | Unit co-ordinator, sessional lecturer, marker (School of Education and the Arts)
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André Brett

University of Wollongong: Wollongong, NSW, AU

2017-06-12 to 2020-09-11 | Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History (School of Humanities and Social Inquiry)
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André Brett

Mint Pictures: Sydney, New South Wales, AU

2017-03-06 to 2019-06-10 | Historian
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André Brett

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2011-02 to 2017-06-02 | Research fellow, tutor, and lecturer (School of Historical and Philosophical Studies)
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André Brett

Essential Media: Sydney, NSW, AU

2014-02 to 2014-05 | Researcher
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André Brett

Education and qualifications (2)

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2010-03-01 to 2014-08-08 | Doctor of Philosophy (School of Historical and Philosophical Studies)
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André Brett

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

2006 to 2010-03-17 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
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André Brett

Works (31)

"The History of This Colony Is One of Dismemberment”: Territorial Separation Movements and New Colonies in Australasia, 1820s–1900

Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives
2022 | Book chapter | Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Part of DOI: 10.3726/b18365
Contributors: André Brett
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André Brett

Not in Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Brian Easton (2020)

Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies
2022-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: André Brett
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'Matt Morris, Common Ground: Garden Histories of Aotearoa'

Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies
2022-09-21 | Journal article
Contributors: André Brett
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From British Australasia to Federation: No Linear Progression

Australia on the World Stage: History, Politics, and International Relations
2022-08-25 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9781003221197
Contributors: André Brett
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André Brett

Coping with Climate Extremes: Railways and Pastoralism During Australia's Federation Drought

Environment and History
2022-05 | Journal article
Contributors: André Brett; Simon Ville
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Can't Get There from Here: New Zealand Passenger Rail Since 1920

Otago University Press
2021-12 | Book
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André Brett

Trove, disability, and researching history: or, digital materialism for precarious times

History Australia
2021-10-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1449-0854
Part of ISSN: 1833-4881
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André Brett
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“The whistle blows, and we are whisked into a tunnel”: Railways and the Environment in Illawarra, 1850s–1915

Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies
2021-06-11 | Journal article
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André Brett
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Book review

History of Education Review
2020-12-01 | Journal article
Contributors: André Brett
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‘The exceptional circumstances under which we are working’: railways and water in Australasia, 1870s to 1914

History Australia
2020-07-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1449-0854
Part of ISSN: 1833-4881
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André Brett
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Claims, confusion, and status: Which city is New Zealand's oldest?

New Zealand Geographer
2020-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0028-8144
Part of ISSN: 1745-7939
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André Brett
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Paul Sendziuk and Robert Foster tell South Australia’s history anew

History Australia
2020-04-02 | Journal article
Contributors: André Brett
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Railways and Floods in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of History
2019-10 | Journal article
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André Brett

Railways and the Exploitation of Victoria's Forests, 1880s-1920s

Australian Economic History Review
2019-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0004-8992
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André Brett
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Colonial and Provincial Separation Movements in Australia and New Zealand, 1856–1865

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
2019-01-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0308-6534
Part of ISSN: 1743-9329
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André Brett
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Lahar Meets Locomotive: New Zealand’s Tangiwai Railway Disaster of Christmas Eve 1953

Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History
2018-12-17 | Journal article
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André Brett

Interrogating slavery in Māori history

History Australia
2018-10-02 | Journal article
Contributors: André Brett
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The Victorian College of Pharmacy: a case study of amalgamation failure and success in Australian higher education

History of Education
2018-09-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0046-760X
Part of ISSN: 1464-5130
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André Brett
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No End of a Lesson: Australia’s Unified National System of Higher Education

Melbourne University Publishing
2017-10-02 | Book
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André Brett

Australian Universities at a Crossroads: Insights from Their Leaders and Implications for the Future

Centre for the Study of Higher Education
2017-05 | Report
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André Brett

A Sudden Fancy for Tree-Planting? Forest Conservation and the Demise of New Zealand's Provinces

Environment and History
2017-02-01 | Journal article
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André Brett
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Australia and the Secretive Exploitation of the Chatham Islands to 1842

Journal of Australian Studies
2017-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: André Brett
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“Playing Sad Havoc with Our Forests”: Foresters Versus Sleeper Hewers in Late Colonial Victoria

2016-12 | Book chapter
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André Brett

Acknowledge No Frontier: The Creation and Demise of New Zealand's Provinces, 1853–1876

Otago University Press
2016-06-10 | Book
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André Brett

Life After Dawkins: The University of Melbourne in the Unified National System of Higher Education

Melbourne University Publishing
2016-04-16 | Book
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André Brett

Wooden Rails and Gold: Southland and the Demise of the Provinces

2016-03 | Book chapter
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André Brett

Did War Cause the Abolition of New Zealand’s Provincial System?

History Australia
2015-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1449-0854
Part of ISSN: 1833-4881
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André Brett

Dreaming on a railway track: public works and the demise of New Zealand's provinces

j transp hist
2015-06-01 | Journal article
Contributors: André Brett
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‘The miserable remnant of this ill-used people’: colonial genocide and the Moriori of New Zealand's Chatham Islands

Journal of Genocide Research
2015-04-03 | Journal article
Contributors: André Brett
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A Limited Express or Stopping All Stations? Railways and Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

The Journal of New Zealand Studies
2013-12-19 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2324-3740
Part of ISSN: 1173-6348
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André Brett

The Great Kiwi (Dis)Connect: The New Provinces Act of 1858 and its Consequences

Melbourne Historical Journal
2012-12-15 | Journal article
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André Brett