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Editor's note
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Women hold up half the sky, as Mao Zedong famously proclaimed, but too often their stories have been excluded from the writing of history. When it came to what was judged important, men mostly took the starring role. This week we have launched a new series, profiling under acknowledged women through the ages.
We have looked at the feminist revolutionary Théroigne de Méricourt, Australian photographer and intrepid traveller Elsie Masson, 17th century Dutch woman Petronella Oortman,
whose giant dolls house was a window into her hopes and dreams, and the Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya, who heroically committed to memory the poems of her persecuted friend, Anna Akhmatova.
Today, historian Antonia Finnane introduces us to the moving story of Hop Lin Jong, a Chinese immigrant in the early days of the White Australia policy whose life might have passed in obscurity if her daughter had not been murdered. Over the coming months we will introduce you to more of history’s “hidden women”, from activists to authors to artists.
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Suzy Freeman-Greene
Section Editor: Arts + Culture
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Top story
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The family of Hop Lin Jong (who is pictured on the far left) at the wedding of her daughter, Ruby (third from right) in 1924. Ruby was murdered by her husband the following year.
Antonia Finnane, University of Melbourne
Hop Lin Jong's arrival in Western Australia in 1901 was remarkable only because she was Chinese. Her life might have passed in obscurity if not for the murder of her daughter in 1925.
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Relationships with China, the Middle East, India and the Pacific will be ones to watch in 2019.
AAP/The Conversation
Susan Harris Rimmer, Griffith University
Australia's international relationships were tested in 2018. And the coming year may prove to be even more challenging.
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Arts + Culture
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Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia
A 2.5 metre dolls' house reveals the hopes and dreams of Petronella Oortman, a 17th-century Dutch woman.
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Science + Technology
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David Cowan, The University of Queensland
Norms that exist in the real world don't necessarily transfer easily to the digital realm. Is it time we developed a new social contract for online communications to prevent reply-status nightmares?
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Simon Chapple, Victoria University of Wellington
2019 marks the 250th anniversary of Captain James Cook's arrival in New Zealand and the beginning of European contact with Māori.
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Cities
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Jenny Donovan, La Trobe University
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Environment + Energy
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Cris Brack, Australian National University
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Education
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Dr Suzanne Hudson, Southern Cross University; Alexandra Lasczik, Southern Cross University; Sarah James, Southern Cross University
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Politics + Society
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Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, University of Melbourne
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