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Monarchy in Peril

Emeritus Professor Robert Aldrich / Associate Professor Cindy McCreery

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Is the monarchy in peril? Join Emeritus Professor Robert Aldrich, and Associate Professor Cindy McCreery - both from the University of Sydney - on this 8-episode podcast series about monarchy. With the help of expert guests, the series will examine challenges faced by monarchies in modern history – such as revolution, assassination, and scandal – and why some monarchies have survived, and others have disappeared. The series is from the University of Sydney, School of Humanities and is produc ...
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Making Sense of History

University of Sydney School of Humanities

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Making Sense of History asks how the present connects to the past. In each episode, Nick Eckstein and a guest turn back the clock, tracing current themes and events to their historical source.
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John Smith 'Blues Preacher'

John Smith - Jazz Blues Preacher

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Dr John Smith is the founder of Concern Australia and the founding President of God’s Squad Christian Motorcycle Club of 35 years. He is an author, a social anthropologist, a business speaker, a teacher and lecturer, a biker, a defender of the poor and marginalised, a lover of blues music, a gifted evangelist, an elder of the radical discipleship movement, and a prominent social commentator. He is as much at home talking to business leaders, academics, church leaders, politicians and the med ...
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Republicanism has long been one of the major challenges to monarchy, and the majority of countries in the world are now republics. Yet monarchies endure. King Charles III reigns over the United Kingdom and also over fourteen realms in the Commonwealth of Nations, from Canada to New Zealand, and from the Bahamas to the Solomon Islands. Many former r…
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The wave of anticolonialism and nationalism that swept the world after the Second World War brought about the independence of many former colonies. The old imperial monarchs lost their crowns, but what form of government would prevail in the newly emancipated states? Few of them, it turned out, restored pre-colonial monarchies, but that did not mea…
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There were numerous emperors, kings and other hereditary rulers of nations in pre-colonial Africa, though European conquerors with racist perspectives common in the age of empire often demeaned them as only ‘chiefs’ of ‘tribes’. Many of the African rulers lost their political power under European overlordship, though their dynasties retained much c…
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Since many royal families were related to each other by marriage, wars turned relatives into enemies. Such was the case in the First World War, when the British King George V went to war with his German cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II. Most of the other European sovereigns as well were bound up in the belligerency of the Great War, facing the difficult ta…
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Colonial expansion gave European (and some other) monarchs vast new domains – Queen Victoria, Empress of India, ruled over a fifth of humankind. But colonial monarchs often displaced indigenous ones. The leaders to whom colonial invaders were led were frequently emperors, kings, sultans and other hereditary rulers. Some were killed in warfare while…
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Many monarchs and other royals have met violent deaths – on the battlefield, by execution after revolution or their coup, and by assassinations at the hands of terrorists or madmen. Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette were sent to the guillotine in 1793, and the Romanov royal family was massacred by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Others have managed to escape …
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Monarchy is one of the oldest and most widespread forms of government in the history of the world. Even today, more than forty countries have a monarch as the head of state. Love them or loathe them, monarchs are some of the most important figures in history. However, monarchs and their dynasties have faced many challenges through the centuries. Th…
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Scandals of various sorts have punctuated the history of royal dynasties, caused by family feuds, dubious financial arrangements, and frequently by sexual affairs and marriages considered incompatible with royal tradition and dignity. Such scandals attract much public attention, but also raise questions about individual figures and the monarchies o…
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Join Emeritus Professor Robert Aldrich, and Associate Professor Cindy McCreery - both from the University of Sydney - on this 8-episode podcast series about monarchy. With the help of expert guests, the series will examine challenges faced by monarchies in modern history – such as revolution, assassination, and scandal – and why some monarchies hav…
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In Part 2 of “Speaking from the Heart”, Nick Eckstein and Mark McKenna continue their discussion of the history behind Indigenous Australians’ call for a Voice to Parliament. What are the human consequences of White Australia’s failure to listen to its First Peoples? What is the Great Australian Silence? Can it be broken once and for all? Will Whit…
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In this first part of a two part show, Nick Eckstein talks to Emeritus Professor Mark McKenna about Australia's upcoming referendum on an Indigenous Voice. How has the Australian Constitution silenced Australia’s First Peoples? What is the Uluru Statement from the Heart? Why does Australia need an Indigenous Voice to the Federal Parliament? This tw…
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“ … a culture fit for purpose, a culture that enables our academic and professional colleagues to conduct and support research, teaching, and broader service to society.” Julia Horne interviews Tim Soutphommasane about why universities should have durable culture strategies. Recorded 2022.By Professsor Julia Horne Dr Matthew Thomas
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“Cultural competence requires being aware of one's own cultural values and worldview and their implications for making respectful, reflective, and reasoned choices, including the capacity to imagine and collaborate across cultural boundaries.” Julia Horne interviews Jennifer Barrett about ‘cultural competence’ and why universities should embrace th…
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Ngyini ngalawangun mari budjari Gadinurada … We meet together on the very beautiful Gadi Country. Julia Horne interviews Lisa Jackson-Pulver about the University of Sydney’s One Sydney, Many People and why universities should have strong Indigenous strategies.By Professsor Julia Horne Dr Matthew Thomas
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This recording was made back in 2002 in the public bar of a city centre pub in Swansea, South Wales, UK at a gathering hosted by Zac's Place. It was a very diverse audience of around 150 people - bikers, musicians, artists, believers, seekers and cynics among them... for a few moments the pool table, pinball machine and the bar fell silent... You c…
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Some of the best and worst of life happens on the road. Here in a 'grab it while it's there opportunity,' like so much of life on the road, God's Squad's John Smith reflects on life and faith. Based on Jesus' words to his mates recorded in Mark's Gospel Chapter 6, the challenge remains to be radically different and not just offer a 'tick box' faith…
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