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A timeline of mens' and womens' internees camps in South Sumatra

Author explores the role of national mythmaking behind the Snowy Mountains Scheme as an icon of technological, economic progress and multiculturalism in Australia.

This article examines Dutch soldiers’ amateur photographs from the Indonesian National Revolution and their use as evidence of extreme violence. It argues for broader study of photographic archives while considering how Indonesians may view their ancestors as victims, perpetrators or both, and raises ethical questions about the ownership and reproduction of such images.

On 13 February 1946, Australian troops, the vanguard of a 37,000-strong British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF), disembarked at the war-devastated Japanese port city of Kure, almost four years to the day (15 February 1942) after Singapore, the bastion of the British Empire in the Far East, surrendered to the Japanese Army. At its peak, there were some 12,000 Australians serving in BCOF.

The International Military Tribunals at Tokyo and Nuremberg were established immediately after the Second World War. Interpreting at the Nuremberg Trial has been described in numerous articles and books and is widely regarded as the origin of simultaneous interpreting. By contrast, historical and political science publications have rarely discussed interpreting at the Tokyo Tribunal, except to criticise its inadequate quality.

Drawing on interviews and trial records, this study first presents an overview of interpreting at the Tokyo Tribunal. It then examines in greater detail the interpretation of the cross-examination of Hideki Tojo, who was tried for his prominent wartime role as Minister of War and prime minister and was sentenced to death by the court.

This article examines how Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens made the documentary Indonesia Calling in Sydney in 1945–46. The film depicted the boycott by Indonesian seamen and Australian maritime unions of Dutch ships carrying troops and military supplies to Indonesia. It also explores the multinational support for the boycott, the film’s controversial production and its use in promoting the Indonesian struggle for independence.

An Indonesian historian living at the time of the social revolution explores its social and political background.