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Nicole Townsend is a PhD candidate in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at ¹úÃñ²ÊƱ Canberra. Her thesis examines Australian involvement in the Mediterranean theatre during the Second World War, and seeks to challenge the prevailing presumption that the Mediterranean was a ‘sideshow’ theatre, particularly for Australia, for whom the Pacific War was apparently paramount. Her multi-faceted approach, which explores the diplomatic, political, military and economic significance of the Mediterranean theatre from an Australian perspective, seeks to bring together the Australian experience in this theatre, within a single study, and to include the experiences of all three services.