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

(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). Visual Representation and Memory of the First World War in Australasia. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 44, Visual Representation and Memory of the First World War in Australasia, pp. 407-409.

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 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 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

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

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

(2020). Dispossession and the Making of Jedda. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 44, Visual Representation and Memory of the First World War in Australasia, pp. 552-553.

(2020). Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 44, Visual Representation and Memory of the First World War in Australasia, pp. 553-555.

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 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

ABSTRACT 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 source of energy. Recent developments in Anthropocenic studies, however, suggest that the prevailing wisdom needs to change. Firstly, the environmental impact exerted by Indigenous Australians now

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

ABSTRACT Acts of resistance to racism in Australian sport are associated mainly with the 1990s and onwards, especially in Australian rules football. A century earlier, however, on the running tracks of Victoria and in the swimming baths at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, a Fijian athlete called Sala Bogi stood up to racism on several occasions. This article analyses the personal and legal trials of

ABSTRACT In the 1950s, the Australian Women’s Weekly represented the popular face of femininity, publishing features on the home, motherhood and romance. Among articles about raising children and cooking a family dinner, however, were regular discussions of Cold War politics. How, then, did a strong political awareness of global events fit in with 1950s ideals of femininity, when politics was still

ABSTRACT This article investigates how young Australians who consume both Japanese and Korean popular culture conceptualise their multicultural identities. Through semi-structured interviews with 14 fans, I chart how they first encountered Japanese and Korean popular culture texts within the Australian mediascape and how this discovery impacted their self-identities. I then analyse the interviews to

ABSTRACT Archival-poetics is an active, embodied reckoning with history and the violence of the colonial archive, particularly South Australia’s Aboriginal records. Family records at the heart of this work trigger questions about surveillance, representation and agency, bearing witness to the state’s archivisation processes and the revelation of what is both absent and present on the record. Emotion

The articles in this special themed section are derived from presentations delivered at a series of symposia exploring Indigenous research methodologies held at the University of Canberra in 2016–17, funded by the university’s Collaborative Indigenous Research Initiative. The research projects all employ interdisciplinary approaches to engage with contemporary issues at the intersection of Indigenous/First

ABSTRACT To contribute to ongoing efforts to move beyond colonial and anthropocentric modes of knowing, being and doing, this article reflects on experimental endeavours to meet a Mountain—Cullunghutti in New South Wales. We do this by reflecting on the theoretical approaches that informed our modes of engaging with, and attempts to represent, multispecies and multisensorial encounters with the Mountain

ABSTRACT For more than a decade, NTSCORP, the native title services provider for Aboriginal communities in NSW and ACT, has returned genealogical information to claimants in the form of ancestral family trees. The exceptionally popular program has seen more than 4,000 requests logged and completed. This article reviews some of the strengths and weaknesses of the program and how it has changed over

ABSTRACT This article explores the work of Lutheran missionary F. W. Albrecht, who in the decades following the Second World War instituted a privately funded school scheme to provide formal education to Aboriginal children in central Australia. The scheme that Albrecht devised targeted “half-caste” girls living at cattle stations located within the orbit of the Finke River Mission—historically significant

ABSTRACT In Australia, language and song are integral to maintaining Aboriginal knowledge systems. British colonisation and ensuing Australian government policies of assimilation have adversely impacted these knowledge systems, at least partially by functioning to dramatically diminish the vitality of many Aboriginal languages and song traditions. As a Noongar researcher motivated by community-oriented

Research that relates to Indigenous Australian history has changed considerably since Aboriginal history first emerged as a distinct field in the 1970s. Beginning as an interdisciplinary field, Aboriginal history has since been shaped by historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and linguists who have brought to light a diverse range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ historical experiences

ABSTRACT This article explores connections between history, emotion and Aboriginal song in the south of Western Australia. Songs performed in the Noongar language in the 19th and early 20th centuries provide insight into the emotional worlds of Western Australia’s past. Historical documentation reveals how Noongar sang to deal with rapid changes associated with colonisation, with song acting as a conduit

is principally designed to secure revenue and build bigger universities. This trend has led to unrestricted growth in universities, which can, in fact, act against the interests of academic research. Of particular concern is the increasing casualisation of employment, affecting both research and teaching. Educational change has often arisen alongside national or even transnational crises. Of course

ABSTRACT This article presents a case study exploring a form of Indigenous knowledge, arguing that the concept comprises a multiplicity of knowledges, locally constructed in forms of First Nations identities. This article is demonstrably different in its narrative approach because it is not just about the form of Indigenous knowledge I am presenting. I want to put forward a more radical form of knowledge

ABSTRACT Opposition to Australia's resettlement of refugees has received considerable focus in discursive research; however, limited attention has been paid to how such opposition is challenged through talk. Existing anti-racism studies indicate a tendency to construct perspectives in support of welcoming newcomers as arguments against hegemonic viewpoints: a phenomenon known as “duelling discourses”

ABSTRACT Between 1946 and 1974, the Australian Wool Board (AWB) increased its wool promotion in an attempt to maintain its leading role in Australia's economic development. Promotional activities of the AWB, and the screening of commercially produced newsreels and documentaries in cinemas, used fashion to foster a new value and understanding of wool. These marketing activities, mainly independent from

ABSTRACT The Australians who enlisted in the South African War were representatives of the bushman ideal popularised in the late 19th century, and were thus associated with the masculine model connected to this ideal. Most men were literal bushmen, rural labourers unemployed due to widespread drought in the decade preceding the conflict. However, this model of masculinity created difficulties for soldiers

ABSTRACT This article uses Australian newspapers from 1910 to 1939 to pose some preliminary ideas about imagining trans possibilities before the Second World War. Using trans-ing analysis and drawing on ideas of trans-historicity, the article focuses on the ways that the Australian press represented males caught dressing as women, and the ways that those individuals explained their gender performances

ABSTRACT Nyaparu (William) Gardiner’s drawings and paintings bring a lived perspective to histories of the 1946 pastoral workers’ strike in the Pilbara in Western Australia. This strike has been documented largely through the dramatic events of 1946 and through the subsequent struggles of strike leaders, including Clancy McKenna and Don McLeod, with the state government. Gardiner was born into the

ABSTRACT In 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released Bringing Them Home, documenting historical practices of forced Indigenous child removal in devastating detail. The report was released into a fractious political environment in which historicised understandings of race were being heatedly debated. Responses to the report played out through the media as conservatives sought

(2019). “Are We Internationally Minded?” Everyday Cultures of Australian Internationalism in the mid-20th Century. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 43, Everyday Cultures of Australian Internationalism in the Mid-20th Century, pp. 405-411.

ABSTRACT One night in 1865, some men at Melbourne’s Theatre Royal created a disturbance by noisily paying court to married women in the dress circle. A journalist present that night subsequently attacked these “men-poodles” in print. This article examines the models of masculinity that lay behind the different actions and responses of the participants that evening—the normative, domesticated masculinity

(2019). Notes on Contributors. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 43, Everyday Cultures of Australian Internationalism in the Mid-20th Century, pp. 546-547.

ABSTRACT This article explores media representations of a group of Australians in the period of the Cold War, when a key mode of engagement with Asia was in the form of military regional occupations and interactions. The story that the article analyses centres on overseas military postings in the 1950s and 1960s, during the Malayan Emergency and the Borneo Intervention, emphasising how these internationalised

(2019). The John Barrett Award for Australian Studies. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 43, Everyday Cultures of Australian Internationalism in the Mid-20th Century, pp. 403-404.

(2019). Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 43, Everyday Cultures of Australian Internationalism in the Mid-20th Century, pp. 541-542.

ABSTRACT This article examines education for internationalism during the interwar years, addressing curriculum initiatives in Australia with reference to reforms promoted by the League of Nations and progressive education networks. Two main questions are explored: First, how were the logics of interwar internationalism mobilised in educational debates in Australia? And second, how were such aspirations

(2019). Animals Count: How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 43, Everyday Cultures of Australian Internationalism in the Mid-20th Century, pp. 542-544.

(2019). The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 43, Everyday Cultures of Australian Internationalism in the Mid-20th Century, pp. 544-545.