Liam Connell

@liamconnell.bsky.social

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Independent Scholar, Researcher & Policy Advisor. Australasian, he/him.

A black and white still of a young Sam Neill as a political dissident in a dystopian New Zealand, standing in a paddock and pointing a handgun off screen.
1903 text ‘Colorphobia’ arguing against the White Australia policy. The excerpt contemptuously dismisses the cliche that Australia can be swamped by migrants.
The 1939 cover of Time showing Hitler as man of the year. He sits at an organ, surrounded by the corpses of his victims. The caption reads ‘from the unholy organist, a hymn of hate.’
King Francis I de Valois of France, painted by Jean Clouet. Francis is in a rich doublet, covered in gold braid and wearing a heavy gold chain and fine fur hat.
The cover of a book called ‘The Coming War with Japan’, a popular nineteen nineties book that predicted that Japan would be the rival superpower to the USA by the 2000s.