Fatherhood: an Australian history 1919-2019
Fatherhood: an Australian history 1919-2019
This first comprehensive history of Australian fatherhood aims to transform understandings across the past century, specifically men’s experience of fatherhood and how fathers from diverse backgrounds, including migrant and Indigenous dads, have negotiated their role in changing circumstances.
This project will extend global understanding of the (positive and negative) contributions fathers make to family well-being, and will impact understandings of and approaches to Australian family health, policy, education and resilience.
Click here for details of the book that is the major output of this project, Fathering: An Australian History (Melbourne University Publishing, 2025); and click here to watch a film of the book launch speeches by Hon Ged Kearney and Professor Michael Roper. Listen here to co-author Alistair Thomson speaking about the book and research project on ABC Radio National, 'Life Matters'
