ABSTRACT The High Court's 1992 decision in Mabo v Queensland (No 2) is widely regarded as a seminal moment in Australia's legal and political history. The decision established a legal right to native title and placed Indigenous history and politics at the forefront of public debate. As this historiographical survey will demonstrate, the decision, and the public debate that followed it, also spurred

ABSTRACT The University of Tasmania’s Ross Female Factory Project, a research initiative of its College of Arts, Law and Education, aims to “re-animate” a Tasmanian convict tourist site affected by multiple historical silencings, the Ross Female Factory. This article considers the second author’s script, “The Caorthann Amulet and the Turkey”, which was developed to address these silencings by telling

(2021). Assembling Australia: Histories, Materials and Labours. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 289-291.

ABSTRACT This article takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding Aboriginal rock art artists, drawing together insights from the disciplines of archaeology and biography, as well as from Indigenous knowledge-holders, in order to explore the life and work of a relatively unknown rock painter from western Arnhem Land in Australia: Narlim (born c. 1909). His rock art at Warlkarr (Hawk Dreaming)

ABSTRACT This article investigates how Jewish women negotiated their familial, social and religious identifications in the more private realm of the home and domestic sphere in colonial Australia. The life of Rebecca Abraham (nee Crawcour), a Jewish woman, and the three white baby dresses she lovingly made for her children give a fascinating glimpse into the hidden world of the colonial Jewish mother

ABSTRACT In the late 19th century, urban progressive women in Australia started looking to the land as a critical function of wider calls for independence, autonomy and equal access to labour and the profits derived from one's own hands. This thoroughly modern and middle-class movement emerged as a product of the progressive “New Woman”, who was awakened to a sense of capacity and duty beyond the confines

ABSTRACT From 1864 to 1867, Australian novelist Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne) was resident manager of the Riverina sheep run Bundidjaree. During this time, he fenced the run but left penniless after droughts and falling prices broke him. These experiences formed the background to his 12-part serial, The Fencing of Wanderowna: A Tale of Squatting Life, published anonymously in the Australian

ABSTRACT This article explains how a modern advertising campaign for Mount Buffalo in the 1920s influenced subsequent nature tourism campaigns made by Victorian Railways and the Australian National Travel Association, which was established in 1929 and collapsed in 2001. The Buffalo campaign and those that followed are significant for their lasting impact on the social construction of Australian nature

ABSTRACT This article argues that the inclusion of Indigenous Australian arts within federal cultural policymaking transitioned during the 1960s and 1970s from a salvage paradigm of value towards policies articulating self-determined Indigenous representation and the potential for a “healthy nationalism”. The Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (1964), the Aboriginal Arts Board (1973) and their

ABSTRACT The passage of Australia’s Modern Slavery Act 2018 received bipartisan support and was heralded within both Houses of Parliament as a significant step towards addressing Australia’s complicity in modern slavery. Political discourse surrounding the legislation, however, exhibits a profound and disconcerting dehistoricisation, emphasising particularities of global supply chains and contemporary

ABSTRACT This article describes some of the ways in which Melbourne residents responded to the overnight installation of rough one-metre-cubed grey bollards in the city’s CBD following the 2017 vehicle attacks targeting pedestrians. We contend that the purpose of the bollards as protection from those wanting to harm “us” has resulted in the normalisation of the threat of terrorism, and its integration

(2021). The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 439-440.

(2021). Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: The Global Career of Showman Daguerreotypist J. W. Newland. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 440-441.

(2021). A Trip to the Dominions: The Scientific Event That Changed Australia. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 441-443.

(2021). What Now: Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 443-445.

(2021). The Colonial Kangaroo Hunt. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 445-446.

(2021). Into the Loneliness: The Unholy Alliance of Ernestine Hill and Daisy Bates. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 446-448.

(2021). Notes on Contributors. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 449-451.

ABSTRACT Western Australia has continued to be seen from without as both necessary and as supplemental: its distinctive place within the national economy, history and psyche has continued to drive a specific and contested set of relations with the state that provides a useful lens upon “Australia” and Australian studies in its larger sense. The status of Australian studies has fluctuated over the last

ABSTRACT Most Australians are unaware of the deep Pleistocene human history of their continent. Coining the phrase “archaeologies of austral” to refer to the deep time histories of a changing southern continent, this article challenges present assumptions about “Australia” and its identity. It considers archaeology’s contribution towards understanding Australian identity, as a form of translation incorporating

ABSTRACT Kim Scott’s novel Taboo (2017) centres on the Kukenarup massacre, which followed the fatal spearing of John Dunn in 1880 on the ancestral lands of the Wirlomin Noongar people. Taboo traces the dynamics of silence that run through the lives of Noongar and settler descendants in the wake of massacre. What the novel underscores is that while a massacre may be located at a particular site and

ABSTRACT Collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners in Australian writing has a long and fraught history, and appropriation remains a serious issue in the Australian publishing industry today. At the same time, however, positive instances of collaboration, particularly in contemporary writing, have shown its capacity to produce rich and nuanced cultural outcomes. This article

ABSTRACT The history of collecting in Western Australia demonstrates some unique as well as exemplary features that we suggest can illuminate aspects of collecting more broadly. This article seeks to contribute to scholarship on the history of collecting by arguing for the importance of understanding the ways in which the value of collections—to collectors, institutions and knowledge producers—has

ABSTRACT Charting a theme of exceptionalism, this article attempts to situate Australian studies within a west coast and Indian Ocean perspective. It looks in a westerly direction rather than the more prevalent Pacific-coast outlook of studies on Australia. Beginning by considering the journal Westerly, it follows networks of Australianists from The University of Western Australia mostly through the

ABSTRACT Academic debate about the obsolescence of national borders has strengthened over the last three decades, although the general population, the media and political commentators have been less keen to embrace such ideas. This article explores the concept of Australian Studies and recent debates about its demise, or otherwise, at Australian universities in the context of a globalising world in

(2021). Australian Universities: A History of Common Cause. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 281-282.

(2021). The Long Shadow: Australia’s Vietnam Veterans since the War. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 282-284.

(2021). Pride in Defence: The Australian Military & LGBTI Service since 1945. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 284-285.

(2021). Notes on Contributors. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 286-288.

(2021). Land, Sky, Identity and Myth: Making and Unmaking Australian Imaginaries. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 1-3.

ABSTRACT The underdog is a familiar figure in Australian popular culture. Yet Australian studies scholarship has tended to focus on the related, but somewhat broader, concept of egalitarianism. The figure of the underdog therefore remains a popular trope, rather than an object of serious study. This article seeks to critically engage with constructions of the underdog, arguing that this figure underpins

ABSTRACT When the first astronauts landed on the moon, they left unfading bootprints on its surface, testifying to our human violation of its aesthetic and symbolic autonomy. Starting from the premise that this lunar invasion has forever scarred the moon, making it a carrier of loss and an embodiment of grief, my article seeks to examine how Gail Jones, in her own fiction, aestheticizes the starry

ABSTRACT A recent spate of remakes of film titles dating from the Australian cinema revival in the 1970s suggests a renewed interest in this significant corpus. It has a deeper resonance insofar as the original films also represent landmarks in Australian Gothic aesthetics. In two of these productions, Storm Boy (2019) and Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), the renewal of the Gothic discourses and the

ABSTRACT Slow television has emerged as an intriguing cultural phenomenon over the last decade, but it has not yet been considered in an Australian context. Many slow TV productions around the world draw on elements of national identity and history to engage viewers. In this article, we examine the advent of slow TV in Australia, focusing on two recent slow TV programs that garnered a large Australian

ABSTRACT This article presents results of research using the diaries of Sidney Nolan, recently made available by the National Library of Australia. In particular, it focuses on two matters relating to Nolan’s lengthy friendship with Australian journalist and novelist George Johnston: clarifying the origin of Nolan’s Gallipoli series, which is strongly associated with a period in 1955 and 1956 that

ABSTRACT Philip Baxter arrived in Australia in January 1950 with a clear nation-building agenda: to bring Australia into the nuclear age. Over the next 25 years, he would lead the founding of institutions as diverse as the University of New South Wales, the Sydney Opera House and the Hi-Flux Australian Reactor, but he was ultimately frustrated in his aim of bringing nuclear power to Australia. Baxter

ABSTRACT In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a dozen small towns in rural South Australia began a unique social experiment: they imported an alcohol control model from Sweden designed to curb drunkenness, reform the pub and distribute profits for the benefit of the community. The innovative idea of local citizens owning and governing their hotel by committee, and doing away with the drive for

(2021). A Bookshop in Wartime. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 125-126.

(2021). Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 126-127.

(2021). Notes on Contributors. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 128-129.

ABSTRACT This article provides a personal and anecdotal reflection on the question of a future for Australian studies. It briefly recounts the history and signification of the interdisciplinary descriptor “Australian studies” and its political and social context from the late 1980s. In particular, it emphasises the importance of Indigenous and constitutional foundations to any new Australian studies

ABSTRACT When the first astronauts landed on the moon, they left unfading bootprints on its surface, testifying to our human violation of its aesthetic and symbolic autonomy. Starting from the premise that this lunar invasion has forever scarred the moon, making it a carrier of loss and an embodiment of grief, my article seeks to examine how Gail Jones, in her own fiction, aestheticizes the starry

(2020). Notes on Contributors. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 44, Visual Representation and Memory of the First World War in Australasia, pp. 556-557.

In March 2020, as the dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic became increasingly apparent, Prime Minister Scott Morrison rallied Australians for what would be “the toughest year of our lives” for many...

ABSTRACT The centenary of the First World War (2014–2019) expanded and reinvigorated the historiography of this conflict. In particular, the war’s cultural legacy generated an outpouring of publications between 2013 and 2020 that re-evaluated its traditional cultural representations and explored fresh avenues of inquiry through analysing contemporary interpretations of the conflict in films, books

ABSTRACT Making meaning from the First World War was not only the preserve of the poets, novelists and historians who helped shape Anglophone modern memory. In Australasian theatres, halls and cinemas in the 1920s and 1930s, the war formed a backdrop for drama, adventure, romance and comedy. “Tommies”, diggers, plucky nurses and courageous widows populated vaudeville and movies, helping Australians

ABSTRACT Historians have long sought to compare Australian and New Zealand Anzac commemoration, finding that Australian commemoration tends to be more nationalistic and celebratory, while New Zealand’s is more solemn and inclusive of Māori, women’s and pacifist perspectives. This article examines war commemoration in Australia and New Zealand during the centenary of the First World War through the

ABSTRACT This article explores the role of Māori Television’s Anzac Day broadcast in reconfiguring languages of memory in New Zealand public war commemoration. An analysis of television, film and documentary content since the launching of the Anzac broadcast in 2004 reveals how Māori experience of war in the 20th century has become a central figuration of remembrance: the structure of the 28th (Māori)

ABSTRACT While the inclusive focus of the First World War centenary has restored many marginalised stories to local and global narratives, most New Zealanders remain unaware of their nation’s official First World War art collection. The artworks produced for this collection were meant to act as both documentation of the New Zealand forces and as sites of commemoration for the nation’s sacrifice. They

ABSTRACT In mediating the vast distances between the theatres of the First World War and the home front, lantern slides and their projection apparatus, the magic lantern, have been substantially overlooked by scholars. Using a series of lantern lectures given across New Zealand in 1926 as a case study, in this article I explore the ways in which the medium functioned as both a carrier and shaper of

ABSTRACT During the First World War, many belligerent nations commissioned official art to celebrate and preserve their experience of the conflict. This article explores the creation of the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand official war paintings; in particular, by tracing the emergence, development and fate of each collection, the article examines the process of memory-making and the politics at

ABSTRACT This article considers the work of official war artist Will Dyson in the context of the Australian War Memorial’s 2017 online interactive exhibition, Art of Nation: Australia’s Official Art and Photography of the First World War. A digital realisation of Charles Bean’s original vision for the memorial, Art of Nation revealed how individuals who witnessed the First World War attempted to commemorate

In Dispossession and the Making of Jedda, Catherine Kevin offers a quietly compelling account of a paradox that defined settler colonialism in mid-20th century Australia: its fascination with Abori...

In Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist, Richard Allsop provides a welcome study of a remarkable, and remarkably polarising, intellectual figure in Australian public life. Placing ...

Current scholarship posits that Australia’s entry into the Anthropocene began not with the continent’s British invasion and colonisation but instead when coal was adopted as the colony’s primary so...

ABSTRACT When Gough Whitlam’s Labor government won re-election in 1974, Nora Opferkuch, a Coonabarabran farmer, wrote to the Attorney-General Lionel Murphy. After congratulating him on the party’s success, she warned him of the parlous state of political life in the Central New South Wales town. “No one dares speak Politics in Coonabarabran now,” she wrote. The town was in the grip of a fascist conspiracy

ABSTRACT The standard story of Australian national cultural development revolves around a fundamental conflict between the forces of empire loyalism or universalism on the one hand and Australian nationalism on the other. Yet this narrative structure neglects the complexities of the settler-colonial, as distinct from the colonial, situation. This article is premised on the proposition that the settler-colonial

ABSTRACT The institutionalisation of racism in healthcare has had a detrimental effect on the treatment and health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. Institutional racism describes the ways that race has been encoded into medical education, funding regimes, health policy and clinical settings. Proposals seeking to address this situation tend to ignore the historical formation

ABSTRACT For social movements engaged in protests, effective engagement with police can be particularly important in ensuring political success and overall safety. However, the way in which police are often determined to maintain control of public order in protest situations raises significant questions for protest movements about the limits and value of negotiation. Inherent contradictions remain

ABSTRACT This article explores how the mid-19th-century jury saw itself as dominating the Maitland Circuit Court in New South Wales: it interrupted judges in their summing up, questioned witnesses and decided on cases despite legal argument. In doing so, the jury formed part of a ritualised political culture of early democracy where formality combined with outspoken independence. Jury behaviour was