Maxwell N. Waugh

An Ungodly Generation is a fascinating history of the impact on the great educational debates of England, and in particular, Ireland in early Australia, and of how the educational decisions of Bourke and Gipps, formed by the Old World experience, resonated within the Australian context. This is a fine piece of research. -Tom Keneally, October, 2017. Most observers of the...

While voluntary cadet training was a feature of Australian and New Zealand schools during the mid-nineteenth century, a form of compulsory cadet training became the norm from 1910 through to the 1920s, in both government and non-government schools. In this respect, Australia was more British than the British, as there was no compulsory military training in the schools of Great...