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	Geoffrey Blainey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Professor Geoffrey Blainey AO (born 11 March 1930), is recognised as one of Australia's most controversial, and yet still popular, historians.
		Blainey was raised in a series of Victorian country towns before attending Wesley College and the University of Melbourne.
		Geoffrey Blainey was Chairman of the Australia Council for four years and Chairman of the Australia-China Council from its inception in 1979 until June 1984.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geoffrey_Blainey (865 words)

	Celebrity Speakers - The Christine Maher Group
		Geoffrey Blainey is equally well-known for his penetrating and often provocative statements as a social commentator which have made headlines and stirred national debate.
		A social and economic historian, Geoffrey Blainey is the author of thirty published books including The Tyranny of Distance (a history of the effect of isolation on Australia), A Short History of the World (2000), The Causes of War, and A Shorter History of Australia.
		Geoffrey Blainey was chairman of the Australia Council for four years and chairman of the Australia-China Council for five years.
	www.celebrityspeakers.com.au /speaker_bio.asp?Speaker_Index_Text=27 (397 words)

	VDARE.com: 03/13/04 - Taboos Decay in Australia, by R. J. Stove
		Blainey suffered from Australia’s elites—and his recent, unexpected rehabilitation—permits an accurate cameo of how opinions are changing in my country.
		On that night, Geoffrey Blainey took the stage at a Rotary Club in the unremarkable town of Warrnambool—a pleasant enough metropolis (boasting 28,500 people) in southwestern Victoria—to speak the unspeakable.
		Blainey’s fortunes have turned around, and he has begun to be taken seriously again—after some 20 years of abuse.
	www.vdare.com /misc/stove_blainey.htm (1489 words)

	Geoffrey Blainey's Short History of the World
		A colleague whom Blainey once called "gloomy but compassionate", Clark was as identified with the liberal left as Blainey is with the radical right.
		Blainey was also linked to the HR Nicholls Society, seen as the New Right spokesman on immigration and sparked the so-called Blainey debate on Asian migration levels.
		Blainey himself is more sceptical of just what influence he has had.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~waldrenm/blainey.html (1713 words)

	What is at stake in Australia's "History Wars" Part 4: From "White Australia" to Geoffrey Blainey
		Blainey sought to highlight what he saw as a dramatic shift in immigration policy that had led to “Asians” becoming a “favoured majority”.
		In 1985, Blainey delivered a lecture in which he denounced the “vocal, richly subsidised multicultural lobby” and spoke of the need for Australia to be “one nation” rather than “a nation of many nations”.
		Blainey reminded his readers that: “The first principle of our official Migrant Entry Handbook asserts: ‘It is fundamental to national sovereignty that the Australian government alone should determine who will be admitted to Australia’”—an assertion that Howard was to make the theme for the Liberal’s 2001 election campaign.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jul2004/hiw4-j15.shtml (2312 words)

	Gerard Henderson's SMH Column - # Month Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In The Australians (2000), Ross Terrill claimed that "the personal treatment of Geoffrey Blainey by some of his fellow intellectuals in the 1980s remains the unfaced Dreyfus case of recent Australian history".
		There Blainey had invented "the fl armband view of history" label to cover historians who had focused almost exclusively on Australia's failures as a nation rather than on its successes.
		Geoffrey Blainey became a public figure following his March 1984 address to Warrnambool Rotary where he declared that "the pace of Asian immigration to Australia is now well ahead of public opinion".
	www.thesydneyinstitute.com.au /181201.htm (1121 words)

	Back Pages: Geoffrey Blainey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Blainey’s initial incendiary comments on immigration which actually were hardly incendiary at all originated as an improvised conclusion to his speech, written at the breakfast table before he set off for Warrnambool.
		Blainey's comments drew criticism from representatives of immigrant and ethnic communities.
		Geoffrey Blainey deserves to be remembered for much more than his unfortunate role in Australia's History Wars.
	backpagesblog.com /weblog/archives/000048.html (781 words)

	A Shorter History of Australia - Geoffrey Blainey
		Geoffrey Blainey’s Shorter History is a beautifully written and informative introduction to the broader vision of this nation’s achievements.
		In introducing the events that have shaped Australia’s identity, Blainey gets into the heart of Australia’s past exploring issues that are at the very core of understanding our nationhood.
		The fight over wartime conscription was partly an extension of the fight between capital and labour in the workplace where the wage-earners’ standard of living was falling.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /books/1863304606.html (522 words)

	Eureka Street - Articles
		Blainey suggests in his introduction that Lawson's stories tend to be more descriptive than narrative: 'atmosphere was everything'.
		Blainey's Lawson is a scribe, not a prophet.
		Blainey tends to minimise Lawson's prejudices, especially his racism, but he does acknowledge their existence.
	www.eurekastreet.com.au /articles/0204mcgirr.html (913 words)

	www.NeglectedBooks.com: Featured Title: A Very Short History of the World, by Geoffrey Blainey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If so, then Blainey manages to route his train through some of the most fascinating scenery to be found in the landscape of world history.
		Blainey manages to squeeze millenia into a few pages by deliberately slighting political developments in favor of technical, economic, and geographic factors.
		Another refreshing aspect of Blainey's approach is the attention he pays to the environment and the changes in man's relationship to it.
	www.neglectedbooks.com /blainey.html (1549 words)

	Historian on His Own - Rafe Champion - Quadrant Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This outburst of generally misdirected spleen and the rejoinder from Blainey and associates is the "fuss" of the title of The Fuss That Never Ended.
		Blainey has yet to decide how to deal with his long-term respect for empire in a twenty-first century in which it is no longer relevant".
		The organisers of the Melbourne conference on the work of Geoffrey Blainey are to be congratulated to the extent that their purpose was reconciliation and enlightenment.
	www.quadrant.org.au /php/article_view.php?article_id=866 (2490 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Short History of the World: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Blainey discusses the various journeys humans have taken over the last four million years, the cultural contact that has resulted, and the factors that might have delayed or speeded up contact.
		Blainey also discusses the distances traveled by Islam, Christianity, and secular capitalism and the manner in which cultures located on different continents were and are influenced by such forces.
		Blainey probably has the anachronistic thinking, fatal in historians, that what the British were able to do in the nineteenth century, the Romans must have been able to do as well.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1566635071 (1755 words)

	Works about Geoffrey Blainey
		Geoffrey Blainey was one of the recipients of the 1988 Encyclopaedia Britannica Awards.
		Essays in the study and uses of history: Geoffrey Blainey and Asian immigration, A. Markus and M.C. Ricklefs(eds), George Allen and Unwin, Sydney, N.S.W., 1985, pp.119-142.
		Geoffrey Blainey and Asian Immigration, A. Markus and M. Ricklefs (eds), George Allen and Unwin, Sydney, N.S.W., 1985, pp.36-48.
	www.lib.monash.edu /non-cms/blainey/Part2.html (10540 words)

	Works by Geoffrey Blainey
		Geoffrey Blainey was Vice Chairman of the Committee which submitted the report.
		Geoffrey Blainey was Chairman of the Australia-China Council from its inception in 1979 until June 1984.
		Geoffrey Blainey, Geoff Allen and Simon Crean respond to a series of questions from Year 12 students about the effects of technology.
	www.lib.monash.edu /non-cms/blainey/Part1.html (10307 words)

	Australian Parliamentary Library - Research Paper 5 1997-98
		In 1993, Professor Geoffrey Blainey was the first to refer to the 'fl armband view of history' as one which represented the 'swing of the pendulum from a position that had been too favourable to an opposite extreme that is decidedly jaundiced' and 'gloomy'.
		Although Geoffrey Blainey may have invented the phrase 'fl armband history', he was not the first to apply the fl armband image in the context of Australian history-this was done by Aboriginal Australians.
		Blainey's article is especially significant, given the previously similarity between the rhetoric of John Howard and Blainey's 1993 Latham lecture.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/rp/1997-98/98rp05.htm (7783 words)

	Blainey, Geoffrey Norman - Bright Sparcs Published Sources
		Blainey, Geoffrey, The rise and decline of the West Coast, Government Printer, Hobart, 1956.
		Blainey, Geoffrey, A history of Camberwell, Jacaranda Press in association with the Camberwell City Council, Brisbane, 1964, 104 pp.
		Blainey, Geoffrey, The Rise of Broken Hill, Macmillan of Australia, Melbourne, 1968, 184 pp.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/bib/P003376p.htm (653 words)

	Book review by JD
		Blainey showed, by careful analysis, that rates of death from warfare among the Aborigines were actually comparable to, and very likely exceeded, the levels current in the belligerent nations of WW2.
		Blainey makes this look easy, which of course it is not, requiring some background information on concurrent events in Britain, France and Spain, as well as on the state of development of political thought in the late 18th century.
		Blainey’s argument in that book, repeated more briefly here, is that the main determinants of Australian history were, first, its distance from the colonizing nation, Britain, and second, the immense distances within Australia herself, relative to her population.
	www.olimu.com /Journalism/Texts/Reviews/ShortHistoryOfTheWorld.htm (2818 words)

	The Fuss that Never Ended
		It is time to reassess the work of Geoffrey Blainey, and consider his role in Australian history, politics and public life.
		He was one of the first to write about the expansive social history of this land before 1788; he questioned whether Botany Bay was founded primarily as a convict colony; he argued that the Eureka uprising had economic rather than political causes; and he identified sport as a neglected key to the Australian character.
		Geoffrey Bolton is Pro-Chancellor of Murdoch University and an adjunct professor at Curtin University of Technology.
	www.mup.unimelb.edu.au /catalogue/0-522-85034-0.html (1428 words)

	Ovations - Geoffrey Blainey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's best–known commentators and historians.
		Many will remember his televised history of Australia The Blainey View, which was shown in ten episodes on ABC television.
		In New York in 1988, Geoffrey Blainey – along with the famous economist J K Galbraith – was awarded the celebrated Britannica Prize "for excellence in the dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of mankind".
	www.ovations.com.au /bios/GeoffreyBlainey.shtml (233 words)

	The University of Melbourne 150th Anniversary
		Blainey studied History at Melbourne under R M Crawford and worked as a freelance historian, pioneering the field of business history with The Peaks of Lyell; Gold and Paper: a History of the National Bank of Australasia; and Mines in the Spinifex.
		Blainey's most popular works belong to this period.
		Geoffrey Blainey has continued to write and broadcast in retirement, publishing A Shorter History of Australia in 1994 and delivering the Boyer Lectures, This Land Is All Horizons Australian Fears and Visions, in 2001.
	www.unimelb.edu.au /150/150people/blainey.htm (283 words)

	A Short History of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Geoffrey Blainey's SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD provides a panoramic analysis of the world's people during the last four million years; from before the human race moved out of Africa to explore other continents to modern times.
		Getting this lengthy history into a single volume and making it accessible to ordinary readers is no mean fete: Blainey's title provides plenty of intriguing insights into not just historical facts, but the sentiments and perceptions of those who lived the times.
		Blainey's facts are incorrect, but his geographical accuracy is misguided.
	flawebworks.com /webhostingbooks/isbn1566635071.html (815 words)

	Full_Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Australia's distinguished historian Professor Geoffrey Blainey makes the past come alive as he touches on the trivial and the grand: on changes in diet and daily work and sport, on changing attitudes to the night sky, as well as on profound discoveries and mighty empires.
		In 'A Very Short History of the World', Geoffrey Blainey takes his masterly account of the grand adventure of human history, and abridges it to make an accessible and affordable work of history that is a must for every Australian bookshelf.
		Professor Blainey taught at the University of Melbourne for many years and chaired the Australia Council from 1977 to 1981.
	www.dymocks.com.au /ContentDynamic/Full_Details.asp?ISBN=0670042021 (353 words)

	Amazon.com: A Short History of the World: Books: Geoffrey Blainey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Blainey, who published A Shorter History of Australia in 1994, now extends his efforts to the world.
		But Blainey has an uncanny adroitness in anticipating criticism, and the result is a broad-brush narrative that flows smoothly and often profoundly.
		What Blainey gives us instead is a gradually evolving look at the way life was lived: the crops, the farming techniques, the inventions, the technology, the philosophies and religions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566635071?v=glance (2715 words)

	Penguin Books Australia - What's New (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's most significant and popular historians.
		Professor Blainey held chairs in economic history and then in plain history at the University of Melbourne for many years, and for some of those years he chaired the Australia Council.
		He was a delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention and has served on many Commonwealth government agencies, including the Australian War Memorial, the Literature Board, the Australian Heritage Commission, the Australia-China Council, and the National Council for the Centenary of Federation.
	penguin.com.au /authors/author-author-profile.cfm?AuthorId=0000000163 (177 words)

	Quadrant Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		IT SEEMED at first sight to be a great privilege to be asked to introduce Geoffrey Blainey to so distinguished an audience, but it may be no more than an exercise in superfluity.
		Geoffrey Blainey, like Bertrand Russell, is a man of idiosyncrasy - I hasten to add, of a very different kind.
		Conversation flowed easily between the great armchairs, and I noticed that Geoffrey was rolling his own fag, with little wisps of Log Cabin brand fine cut falling like forest leaf litter round his feet on the gold carpet.
	www.quadrant.org.au /php/archive_details_list.php?article_id=428 (1059 words)

	Amazon.com: The Causes of War: Books: Geoffrey Blainey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Blainey provides a great deal of evidence for the claims he makes and gives the arguments of the notions he disputes.
		I found Blainey to be precisely on the mark in his analysis.
		Blainey even puts up a good argument for it, but in the end, he explains why that is folly.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0029035910?v=glance (1219 words)

	Professor Geoffrey Blainey and his social history of Australia :: ABC Tasmania
		Professor Geoffrey Blainey is recognised as one of Australia's most significant and popular historians.
		Annie suggested many historians often overlook the everyday, Professor Blainey thoroughly agreed, "Work has been done on various facets of social history but I think most historians are not interested in everyday life," he said.
		Ned Kelly committed many of his robberies in the light of the full moon, as did the raids by the police on the Eureka Stockade and even Burke and Wills used the full moon to find their way in many explorations of the outback.
	www.abc.net.au /tasmania/stories/s963456.htm (377 words)

	Whither our beloved game? - theage.com.au
		Ironically, the football of 50 years ago was suited both for the stars and for schoolboys; but the clock cannot easily be turned back.
		Historian Geoffrey Blainey is the author of A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football.
		This article is based on an extract from the inaugural Bob Rose Lecture, delivered by Professor Blainey in the Long Room at the MCG yesterday as part of the Age Melbourne Writers' Festival.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/08/28/1062050603215.html (852 words)

	ABC Shop - Very Short History of the World Geoffrey Blainey
		A Very Short History of the World traces the story of the world's people during the last four million years, beginning before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle other continents.
		It is a story of the inhabited world being pulled apart, and then coming together again in more recent centuries.
		Geoffrey Blainey has abridged his account of the grand adventure of human history to create an even more accessible version of his absorbing work Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's most significant and popular historians.
	shop.abc.net.au /browse/product.asp?productid=237650 (170 words)

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