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  • “Treating the Dead with Honour? The Australian Graves Detachment and Australian Graves Services in France, 1919-1922”, at The Naval, Military and Air Force Club of South Australia, 4 May 2023.

  • “From Encounter Bay to Aukus : Has the Australian-French relationship ever stood a chance?”, at The Naval, Military and Air Force Club of South Australia, 15 April 2023.

  • “The Republican Dream and the Second Empire”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 30 September 2022.

  • “The return of the Monarchy 1814-1848”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 2 September 2022.

  • “Napoléon and the Premier Empire: Rise and Fall”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 19 August 2022.

  • “The French Presidential Election is on: Who is likely to win, and what does it mean for Australia?”, public talk at Flinders University at Victoria Square, 7 April 2022.

  • “A Revolution that changed the World: the impacts of “1789”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 10 December 2021.

  • “The causes of the French Revolution“, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 12 November 2021.

  • “Making Revolution: 1789 France”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 15 October 2021.

  • “The Bourbons and the monarchie absolue”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 2 July 2021.

  • “The House of Capet and the House of Valois: strengthening the kingdom and the monarchy”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 11 June 2021.

  • “The Merovingians and the Carolingians: the origins of France?”, public talk at Alliance Française d’Adélaïde, 21 May 2021.

  • “The Great Anzac Cooption: Myth, History and National Identity”, in conversation with Paul Daley (The Guardian) and Wayne Macauley (Simpson Returns), Adelaide Festival Writers’ Week, 4 March 2020.

  • Sub-keynote, the History Teachers’ Association of Australia national conference, Adelaide, 1 October 2019.

  • “Our Corner of the Somme”, in conversation with Professor Frank Bongiorno, Muse, Canberra, 24 April 2019.

  • “Our Corner of the Somme”, in conversation with Associate Professor Martin Crotty, Avid Reader, Brisbane, 18 April 2019.

  • “Our Corner of the Somme”, in conversation with Professor Alistair Thomson, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, 12 April 2019.

  • “Our Corner of the Somme”, State Library of South Australia, 5 April 2019.

  • “Was Second Villers-Bretonneux an Australian Victory?”, public lecture at the Adelaide Club, 7 June 2018. (invited)

  • Invited panel member for the French-Australian Chamber of Commerce’s Business Breakfast Debrief, “Macron 10+ months on”, Deloitte, 6 April 2018. (invited).

  • “Trench art and aerial warfare during the First World War”, South Australians in France Public conference, Adelaide, 23-24 February 2018.

  • “South Australia, France, and the First World War”, City of Unley’s Town Hall, 10 November 2017. (invited).

  • “A different perspective on the First World War: The French Experience” at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies Australia, Adelaide, September 2017. (invited).

  • Panellist for the French presidential election’s debrief organised by the French Australian Chamber of Commerce (Adelaide) at Ernst & Young on 10 May 2017. (invited).

  • Public lecture series “The Making of France - From Clovis to Louis XVI” at Alliance Française, Brisbane. Stretching over a millennium, the three conferences recounted turning points in French history and their lasting impacts on the country’s history, culture, arts and architecture. (invited).

  • Public lecture series “Perspectives on France in the World Wars” at Alliance Française, Brisbane. This cycle of three conferences delved into French history through a cultural and comparative approach, looking at arts, mentalities and representations of the First and Second World Wars and the way France experienced them compared to Australia. (invited).

  • “French perspective on Australian history” at Alliance Française, Brisbane, 12 June 2015. This event took place as part of a project launched by the Embassy of France to Australia. (invited).

  • “Same war, different collective memories: French and Australian remembrance of the First World War” at Alliance Française Canberra for the launch of French teaching kits. I was one of three guest speakers along with his Excellency Christophe Lecourtier, Ambassador of France to Australia and Joy Burch, ACT Minister for Education, 7 May 2015 (invited).

I regularly engage with the media through the Press, Radio and TV. According to Flinders Media, my research has significant social and cultural relevance to the public, and has generated over $3 million of ASR (advertising space rate) in the last three years, being discussed in hundreds of media items in Australia and overseas. These items can be found online and the list below only covers pieces that I have written or co-authored.

Here is a snapshot of media contributions that were recorded :

Australian History - SBS French - Podcast Series

I have been invited by SBS French to create podcasts on aspects of Australian History. This podcast series started in 2022 and is ongoing. It is popular, and episodes are available on SBS French, on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

 

Radio(a selection)

Interviews related to current affairs & geopolitics

Interviews related to the Australia-French relationship

  • 2 November 2021, ABC News

  • 17 September 2021, SBS French with Grégory Plesse

    Interviews related to Aboriginal history

  • 6 June 2022, SBS French (Mabo Day)

  • 7 October 2021, SBS French (“Terra Nullius”)


    Interviews related to Anzac commemorations

Interviews related to Our Corner of the Somme:

  • 15 April 2019, ABC Hobart, Morning Show (11 minutes)

  • 18 April 2019, ABC Brisbane, Morning Show (13 minutes)

  • 24 April 2019, SBS French (10 minutes)

  • 8 May, ABC Adelaide, Evening Show (20 minutes)


Interviews related to the public event South Australians in France:

  • 12 February 2018 SBS, French program.

  • 30 May 2017 ABC South East, Morning Show.

  • 24 April 2017 ABC Adelaide, Afternoons Show


Interview related to Y2K people’s relationship to history:

  • 20 March 2017 ABC Adelaide, Afternoons Show.


    Interview related to the French presidential Election:

  • 08 May 2017 News Talk, New Zealand.

Television

  • Channel 7 News, Adelaide. ‘South Australians are being called on to dig out any wartime mementos for an antique roadshow’; story aired Seven Weekend News on 18/2/18.

  • Also broadcast from Central GTS/BKN Port Lincoln, Central GTS/BKN Port Pirie and Southern Cross GTS/BKN Broken Hill. (Audience 115,000)

Academic Podcasts

I am available for consultancy and I have previously completed such assignments.

Feel free to contact me.

Acknowledgement of Country

I acknowledge the Kaurna People as the traditional owners and custodians of the land in which I am privileged to live and work. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples across what is now known as Australia.

I recognise the importance of continuing to educate myself about the ways in which these living cultures have developed over tens of thousands of years, and I express my sincere gratitude for being able to share a small part of this ongoing journey. As a historian, I support the Uluru Statement from the Heart and I remain impressed by its generosity.