Humanities and Social Sciences

Politics and International Relations Program

Staff Directory

Aron Paul lectures in Australian politics and political history and has a background of active involvement in political parties and advocacy groups.

Teaching in 2008

• POL1AUP Australian Politics: Government and Society
• POL1RAP Representation and Participation in Australian Politics
• POL2CAP Contemporary Australian Politics and Public Policy

Publications

His published work includes a number of commissioned histories, most recently ‘The Third Team: A history of the Australian Democrats after Thirty Years’ (2007). He is currently completing a book on Australia’s relationship with British royalty. He has authored three major environmental histories for local governments in regional Victoria. His forthcoming chapter bringing together the environmental sphere with political history is ‘Transforming the Periphery into the Metropolis: The Artifice and Spectacle of Imperial Melbourne’, in Philip Mingay and Martin Moll (eds), Empire, Borderlands, and Border Cultures: Global Perspectives on Antiquity to Postmodernity (2008), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.

List of recent publications

Graduate Supervision

• Australian political history, cyberactivism, minor party politics and history, imperial federation, monarchy, transnational identities, Sarawak.

Research

His current research interests include minor-party politics and citizen participation; cyberactivism and civil society; the history of the imperial federation movement and Alfred Deakin; and urban heritage and social history.

Research undertaken

Grants and Awards

List of grants and awards