New Issue: OHA Journal

Issue No. 47, 2025
The Power of Oral History—Risks, Rewards & Possibilities
(open access)

Editorial and Contents

• From the Editors,  Skye Krichauff and Carolyn Collins
• Contents list – all articles and reports

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• The Lost and Found Humanity of Giuseppe Di Porto: A Twice-Told Tale, Alessandro Portelli
• Exploring ‘Informed Consent’ In a Diverse Community: Possibilities and Challenges for Oral Historians,
  Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Hannah Marsden and Andrew Wilson
• ‘Little Clues’ That Complicate the Narrative – Listening for Family Stories in NLA’s Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Interviews, Jill Barnard
• Narratives of Resilience: Themes from an Oral History Collection of Abortion Providers in Aotearoa New Zealand, Margaret Pack
• Burrawan: A Chance to Learn from the Past, John Heath and Ashley Barnwell
• Oral History and Linguistics: Exploring Connections, Anisa Puri

Reports

• Filling the Space Gap: Building the National Library of Australia’s Women in the Space Industry Collection,
  Bronwyn Ryan and Louise Whelan
• Beyond Bourke Street: Podcasting the Trajectory of Melbourne Street Musicians Through the COVID-19 Pandemic, Daniel Bacchieri
• An Oral History Audio Series: From Concept to Production, Alexandra Pierce
• The Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project, Anisa Puri
• Future Campfires: Lighting Up Australia with Multivocal Stories, Christopher Cheng
• Making The Greatest Menace: An Insider Account of an Acclaimed Narrative Podcast about a Gay Prison,
  Siobhán McHugh
• Sheikh Fehmi and the ‘Delicate, Whimsical Stuff’ of Oral Histories, Mirela Cufurovic and Suleyman Sertkaya
• Aotearoa Unearthed: From Oral History to Podcasting, and Back Again, Rosemary Baird
• Garry Wakefield, Queer Life Stories, Rena R. Henderson

Reviews

• Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia’s AIDS Crisis (Geraldine Fela), Christopher Chevalier
• Comrade: Bill Andersen – A Communist, Working-Class Life (Cybèle Locke), Nicholas Herriot
• Unconventional Women: The Story of the Last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia (Sarah Gilbert),
  Laura Rademaker
• Remembering and Becoming: Oral History in Aotearoa New Zealand (Edited by Anna Green and Megan Hutching), Erin K. Burrell
• Dreaming the New Woman: An Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China ( Jennifer Bond),
  Jessica Huset Tilton
• The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies Project: Oral Histories for Truth-Telling (Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck), Mary Blight
• Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders ( Jordana Silverstein), Emma Dalton

Awards

Awards report including:

• Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History 2024
• Oral History Australia Book Award 2024
• Oral History Australia Media Awards 2024