lou thtchr on Mythryl: “This is also the first thing I've published since the realisation…”

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This is also the first thing I've published since the realisation that I have to publish with my middle name, to avoid confusion with my name-twin, the other Louise Thatcher, who works at the CSIRO & writes a lot about some very cool sounding plant biology I do not understand

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Very happy to have published an article on one of my minor obsessions - the long(er) history of the very present practice of fining shipping companies as a way of enforcing state borders: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comShipping Companies as Border Guards: Financial Penalties and Outsourced Immigration ControlThis article describes an important but hidden tool through which Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act, and thus the White Australia policy, was enforced: the fines that were issued to captains,...

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