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Dr Glenn Davies is a teacher, author, republican activist and historian.
In any spare time, which seems increasingly rare, he is an occasional science fiction writer and reviewer, and has been an Aurealis Award Short Story Judge. He believes strongly in the epithet ‘publish or perish’ – no matter how constant and demanding the teaching load, it is vital, as historians, to be writing.
Glenn was raised and educated in the north Queensland goldfield community of Charters Towers. He has taught political science at Illinois State University and history at Central Queensland University. Glenn has been studying the republican debate in Australia for over 20 years. He received his PhD in 2005 from University of New England on the history of Australian republicanism, and has written academic articles and national curriculum project units on Australian history. Since 1991 he has taught ancient and modern history in a number of state high schools around Queensland and has written five secondary school history textbooks. In 2001 he established his own education publishing imprint, Digital Spring Media. He is currently Head of Social Science, Craigslea State High School and a member of the Queensland History Teachers’ Association State Executive.
Glenn has been involved in politics since his student union days at James Cook University in the 1980s. Over the past twenty years he has held branch and state conference elected positions within the Queensland Teachers’ Union and the Australian Labor Party. In 2007, he was elected Queensland State Secretary, Australian Republican Movement and was re-elected in 2009. In 2010 he was elected Queensland State Convener, Australian Republican Movement and holds a seat on the ARM National Committee.
Glenn was the editor of the long-running Queensland ARM quarterly newsletter, Armlet, and the bi-montly national Republican Roundup. He now edits the monthly national Campaign Update. In 2009 he established the annual National Republican Short Story Competition. He is also the history editor and a regular columnist for Independent Australia and blogs monthly on republican issues.
Glenn lives in northern Brisbane with his beautiful wife and two gorgeous kids, a haughty cat, and a King Charles Cavalier who has recently agreed to renounce the monarchy and accept his republican family’s ways.
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Hello, Can you put me in touch via email or phone with Dr Glenn Davies? We are putting together a small panel discussion on the republic in association with a week of art events in Brisbane called “Art On James”, June 2 to 9. We would like to invite Dr Davies to speak at this panel discussion, scheduled for Sunday 5 June at 3 pm. It will be chaired by Phil Brown (Brisbane News) and be preceded by an artist talk by Alex Seton (whose exhibition at Jan Murphy Gallery at this time is concerned with ideas for an Australian republic).
My details are 0418 267 196 / 3206 1900 and the email above.
all best wishes
louise
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[...] There has been a great deal of coverage recently in the Leveson Inquiry on the manipulative behaviour of British newspapers. The use of popular media to affect public opinion is, of course, not a new thing. In 1899, the Boer army had surrounded British troops under the command of Colonel Baden-Powell in the town of Mafeking, South Africa and kept them trapped there for 217 days. In response, the British popular press had raised patriotic sentiment for the Siege of Mafeking to a fever pitch. The Relief of Mafeking on 18 May 1900 created a ‘spontaneous’ outburst of popular rejoicing, first in London and then throughout the British empire, that would be unrivaled until Armistice Day, 1918. However, the events that led to Mafeking Night say less about British support for imperialism than they do about the power of the press to tease the British public into a frenzy of anticipation and then to release the tension in a rush of carefully-directed enthusiasm, writes history editor Dr Glenn Davies. [...]
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[...] Now in its fourth year, the National Republican Short Story Competition is helping to build the emerging Australian republican fiction genre, says history editor Dr Glenn Davies. [...]
[...] of the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games protests. With protest in the air again, history editor Dr Glenn Davies looks at the long history of political protest in Brisbane. Indigenous protest in [...]
[...] In the last few years zombies have taken over post-apocalyptic fiction from their evil dead vampire cousins. This weekend the zombie apocalypse takes over the streets of Brisbane, writes Glenn Davies. [...]
[...] While the Australian Republican Movement was out and about in Tasmania throughout October and November talking to everyday Australians, Prince Charles and his wife skipped around a few states talking to almost no-one, writes Dr Glenn Davies. [...]
[...] being built on land that was once owned by a prominent republican convict, Thomas Muir, writes Dr Glenn Davies. [...]
[...] The 2010 Australian of the Year, Professor Patrick McGorry will deliver the 2010 National Republican Lecture in Canberra on 26 August 2010. “How long will it be until we have Republicans of the Year?” asks Glenn A. Davies. [...]
[...] Although the Sydney Opera House, one of the greatest buildings of the twentieth century, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973, in the eyes of its creator, the Danish architect Joern Utzon it was the very essence of the spirit of a republican Australia, resounding with the spirit of place, and of the very country in which we live, writes Glenn A. Davies. [...]
[...] There have certainly been many republican writers in Australia’s past but very few examples where republican settings or arguments have been explored in Australian fiction. It seems strange there is no tradition of republican speculative fiction in Australia, writes Glenn A. Davies. [...]
[...] John Boston Premium Lager was launched on the Australian market in October 2009. Named after the free settler and republican John Boston who brewed his first beer in Sydney in 1796 it makes an alternative to Crown Lager which became available to the Australian people in 1954 to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Now republicans have a beer to which they can toast the coming republic, writes Glenn A. Davies. [...]
[...] the past 20 years, Glenn Davies has been a Queensland state education teacher. During this time he has held such Queensland [...]
[...] With the anticipated birth of a royal heir in 2013, the the Queensland Government is going into forelock tugging hyper-drive especially Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie, says Dr Glenn Davies. [...]
[...] It was two years ago this week that that republicans all around Australia mourned the loss of Professor George Winterton at 61 after a long illness. He was a first-rank constitutional scholar and pioneer of the modern republican debate. Professor Winterton was a pathfinder who took up the republic issue long before it became mainstream, writes Glenn Davies. [...]
[...] celebrated her Golden Jubilee, while Republicans and Royalists fought in the streets of Sydney. Glenn Davies looks back at these turbulent times in Australia’s [...]
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[...] History Betrayed, the often baffling story of historical denial is investigated. History editor Dr Glenn Davies [...]
[...] Republic Clubs are forming at Universities across Australia, refuting claims young Australians are uninterested in an Australian Republic, writes Dr Glenn Davies. [...]
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[...] As previously reported military lawyer Jim Unkles was unsuccessful at securing a pardon for Breaker Morant, however all may not be lost for The Breaker, says Dr Glenn Davies. [...]
[...] It’s been twenty years since Paul Keating announced the establishment of the Republic Advisory Committee on 28 April 1993 and appointed Malcolm Turnbull as its chair. Turnbull is back campaigning again for an Australian republic and on 10 May 2013 will speak at an ARM dinner, writes history editor Dr Glenn Davies. [...]
[...] It’s been twenty years since Paul Keating announced the establishment of the Republic Advisory Committee on 28 April 1993 and appointed Malcolm Turnbull as its chair. Turnbull is back campaigning again for an Australian republic and on 10 May 2013 will speak at an ARM dinner, writes history editor Dr Glenn Davies. [...]
[...] Hawke was a great Australian ― and a great Australian republican. History editor Dr Glenn Davies provides a heartfelt IA tribute to a sprakling, many-faceted, Aussie [...]