Christina Twomey is Professor of History at Monash University, Melbourne. She is the author of three books, A History of Australia (co-authored with Mark Peel, 2nd Edition, 2017), Australia’s Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War Two (2007) and Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare (2002). Christina has also published widely on the cultural history of war, with a focus on issues of imprisonment, captivity, witnessing, the photography of atrocity, gender and memory.