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“Complete Strangers Can Get through Your Front Door”: The Carly Ryan Murder, Teen Girls and the Internet in 2000s Australia Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Rebecca Houlihan
On 21 February 2007, 15-year-old Carly Ryan’s body was found in the waters at Port Elliot in South Australia. A highly public investigation and trial followed, during which it was revealed that 48-...
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Flag within a Flag: Understanding the Ongoing Cultural Significance of the Union Jack in the Australian Flag Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Tracey Mee
In Australia, social scientists have long understood the importance of national symbols and the role they play in both the construction and maintenance of the nation, but in-depth analysis of the n...
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Correction Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-12
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“A Spy Thriller Outdoes Fiction”: Popular Culture and the 1954 Petrov Affair Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Melanie Brand
Scholars are increasingly aware of the ways in which popular culture, particularly spy fiction and film, mediates public understanding of the clandestine world of espionage and intelligence. This a...
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“Painting the Woods into Existence”: Australian Fiction on the Value of the Arts Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Alex Cothren, Tully Barnett
This article analyses two works of contemporary Australian fiction—Wayne Macauley’s Caravan Story and Julie Koh’s “Inquiry Regarding the Recent Goings-On in the Woods”—and places their depictions o...
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Unforgetting: The Yarri and Jacky Jacky Memorial at Gundagai Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Lisa Slater
There is a sculpture in the main street of Gundagai (NSW, Australia) that honours two Wiradjuri men, Yarri and Jacky Jacky, local heroes in the Great Flood of 1852. Unveiled in 2017, the bronze scu...
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Practices of Belonging through the Past and the Present Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Emily Potter, Brigid Magner
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Congratulations to the 2023 Winners of the John Barrett Award Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Anna Johnston
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“Who Needs a Marvel Superhero When You’ve Got Molly Johnson?”: Country and Maternal Agency in Leah Purcell’s Adaptations of “The Drover’s Wife” Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Xiang Li
This article explores Goa-Gunggari-Wakka Wakka Murri artist Leah Purcell’s recent multigenre project, “The Legend of Molly Johnson”. Beginning as an adaptation of Henry Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife”...
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The Myth of Heterosexuality: Queer Australian Artists, Art Historians and Gallerists in London, 1930–1961 Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Rex Butler, A. D. S. Donaldson
The 1961 Recent Australian Painting exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London is an important and much-discussed moment in Australian art history. It is when the idea of Australian art as “is...
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Misapprehensions of a Caustic Eye: A. D. Hope and the Failure of Angry Penguins as a Modernist Literary Movement Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Wayne Bradshaw
This article reconsiders A. D. Hope’s cutting appraisal of the group of young poets and artists from the University of Adelaide who have come to be known colloquially as “the Angry Penguins”. Setti...
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High School Sports Houses as Identity Primers: Constructing Queensland and Australian Identities Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Amy Clarke, Kate Kirby
Sport plays an important role in the conception of Australian national identity. Much of the scholarly work on this topic has concentrated on professional, high-profile sports and athletes. In this...
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Notes on Contributors Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-07-03
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2024)
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The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770–1870 Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Porscha Fermanis
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Australian Women’s Justice: Settler Colonisation and the Queensland Vote Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Zoe Smith
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Helen Gardner
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Lost Precursor to Autobiographical Comics, Kangarooland (ca. 1918–1919), Illuminates Transnational Creativity in Australia’s WWI Internment Camps Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Aaron Humphrey, Simon Walsh
Autobiographical graphic novels have become crucial texts for understanding displacement and transnational identities. This article discusses a long-lost early example of the genre, The Voyage and ...
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Transcultural Perspectives in Journalist Memoirs of Growing Up with Non-Anglo Migrant Parents Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Mary Besemeres
This article focuses on memoirs by three Australian journalists, each of whom was born to European parents from a non-native-English-speaking background: Elisabeth Wynhausen’s Manly Girls (1989), T...
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After the Words are Done: Publishing, Paratext and the Ethics of Reading Recent Australian Trauma Memoir Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Kylie Cardell
This article discusses two recent essays published by the memoirists Amani Haydar (The Mother Wound) and Lucia Crowley-Osborne (I Choose Elena; My Body Keeps Your Secrets) during 2020–2022. By conc...
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Reading No Friend but the Mountains: From National to Transnational Contexts of Recognition Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Phoebe King
In 2018, Behrouz Boochani’s testimonial memoir No Friend but the Mountains confronted Australian readers with their complicity in the nation’s carceral border-industrial complex. In the five years ...
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“On Their Own Terms”: Agency, Advocacy and Representation in Refugee Webcomics Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Shannon Sandford
In Australia, refugees remain on the margins of the public imaginary as subjects of aversion, erasure and suspicion. The unknowability of the foreign Other carries sharp political dimensions borne ...
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Boundaries and Borders in Australian Life Writing Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Natalie Edwards, Christopher Hogarth, Shannon Sandford, Kylie Cardell, Kate Douglas
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Biography, History and Democracy: Contemporary Writing about Australian Lives Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Anne Pender
Biography is one of the most potent arts of democracy because it links the individual to the body politic and to history. It stands in parallel with independent long-form journalism. Whereas indepe...
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Sun and Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Darren Jorgensen
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2024)
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A “Bacchanalian Mardi Gras”: The Melbourne Cup and the Popular Culture of Satirical Dress in 1970s Australia Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Melissa Bellanta, Lorinda Cramer
In the 1970s, a shift took place in the dress practices of attendees at the Melbourne Cup, marking out the period from the conservative formality of the decade before. Evident in the public areas o...
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Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Patrick Mullins
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2024)
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Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Dan Tout
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2024)
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Notes on Contributors Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-16
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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Environmental and Colonial Histories: Art, Memoir and Gardens in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Robyn Dunlop
This article is concerned with a pressing question of the 21st century: how do we negotiate places with complex colonial pasts? In the Mid North of South Australia, rugged mountain ranges rise up f...
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Popular Modernism, Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Australian New Wave: The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) and Gallipoli (1981) Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Grace Brooks, Laurent Shervington, Simon Aplin
Dominant narratives of the Australian New Wave tend to frame the efflorescence of national filmmaking in the 1970s through the lens of Gough Whitlam’s brand of cultural nationalism. The narrative u...
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Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Mark Piccini
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2024)
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Magic, Manufacturing and Memorialising Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Emily Potter, Brigid Magner
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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Dreaming of an Indigenised Australia Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Dan Tout
This article offers a critical engagement with Billy Griffiths’s award-winning book Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia as a departure point towards uncovering and examining a signific...
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Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Deborah Lee-Talbot
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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The Idea of Australia: A Search for the Soul of the Nation Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Dan Tout
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Alexandra Dellios
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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“Feelings are strong here”: A Proximate Reading of Solastalgia in The Last Pulse Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Lurong Liu
In Anson Cameron’s The Last Pulse, the monkeywrenching protagonist blasts a dam in Queensland, rides on the resulting flood southwards and spreads his solastalgia around, an affect Glenn Albrecht d...
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Losing the Power to Say “I”: Problems of Perspective in the Fiction of Daniel Davis Wood Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Peter D. Mathews
Across the four novels Daniel Davis Wood has published to date, it is possible to delineate an evolving ethics of literary voice. His initial step in Blood and Bone is to subvert the third-person o...
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Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Maggie Nolan
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024)
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From Spiritualists to Flat Whites Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Brigid Magner, Emily Potter
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Magic of Captain Cook Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Max Brierty, Stephen Muecke
Lately the two of us have been on the hunt for whitefella dreamings, although they are not hard to find. They are not the kind of Dreaming that Aboriginal people hold for Country, but something els...
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“The More Horrible the Thing was, the More They Laughed”: Laughter, Solidarity and Refugees’ Negotiation of Trauma During Resettlement in Postwar Queensland Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Jessica Stroja
The role of laughter and its relevance within refugee studies and trauma recovery in European diasporas in Australia is understudied. The post–Second World War refugee crisis led to the largest mas...
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Tiwi Textiles: Design, Making, Process Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Diana Young
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Everyday Food Practices: Commercialisation and Consumption in the Periphery of the Global North Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Camille Freeman
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ: Australia’s “Mission Girl” Annie Lock Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Kathryn Wells
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Surgeon-Journalist: Thomas Revel Johnson, Australian Sports Press Pioneer Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Caron Eastgate Dann
Thomas Revel Johnson was a pioneering Australian sports journalist in the mid-19th century who also conducted a professional career as a surgeon. This article aims to examine Johnson’s achievements...
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Memorialisation, Reconciliation and Truth-Speaking: The Role of Explorer and Massacre Memorials in Settler-Colonial Australia Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Vanessa Whittington
Memorialisation in settler-colonial nations such as Australia is intensely political. It creates public symbols of people and events those in authority consider important and worthy of remembrance....
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Australia: A New Political Geography? Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Frank Bongiorno
Some of the most eloquent advocates of Australian Federation in the 1890s imagined that there was nothing more natural than “a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation”, as the first pri...
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James Wigley and the Strelley Mob: Social Realist Painting in an Aboriginal Community Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Inge Kral, Darren Jorgensen
James Wigley has been historicised by Australian art scholars as a social realist, but the focus of his work through the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s differed from others who were a part of this art...
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Transnationalism and the Literary Reception of Australian Women Writers’ Fiction in the US, 2010–2020: Three Case Studies Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Lucy Neave
The following article examines how Australian literary fiction by women is received in the United States. In particular, it considers how books are positioned by publishers, reviewers and authors a...
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Notes on Contributors Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-05
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)
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Lohrey Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Lesley Hawkes
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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In “the Finest Australian Wool”: Foy & Gibson’s Healthy, Comfortable, Wool-Clad Bodies, 1900–1939 Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Lorinda Cramer
From the late 19th century, when the Melbourne manufacturer and department store Foy & Gibson began to produce mail order catalogues for country customers, it recognised the potential to sell cloth...
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Against “Progressivism”: Schooling and the Cohering of Conservative Interests in Australia, 1970s–1980s Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Jessica Gerrard
This article charts how a disdain for progressivism in schooling was central to the development of conservative interests across the 1970s and 1980s. It does so by examining the Australian Council ...
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Meaningful Rituals: A Linguistic Analysis of Acknowledgements of Country Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Shoshana Dreyfus, Anne F. J. Hellwig
ABSTRACT This article presents a linguistic analysis of Australian Acknowledgements of Country, an ancient Indigenous practice now increasingly prevalent in Australian public life. Acknowledgements of Country are typically spoken at the beginning of events by either Indigenous or non-Indigenous people. While celebrated as a practice that gives voice and primacy to Country, Indigenous peoples and their
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The Fin de Siècle Imagination in Australia, 1890-1914 Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Alexis Bergantz
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Files, Families and the Nation: An Archival History, Perhaps Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Jordana Silverstein
ABSTRACT This article uses a microhistory—a family history, a form of autoethnography—to think through the role of migration archives, and family histories of migration, within the settler colony. By exploring my grandparents’ naturalisation applications, who came to this country as Jewish Holocaust survivors and stateless refugees, I consider what we can learn from bureaucratic archives, and how we
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“I Guess You Could Call It Plant Racism”: Making Kin in Australian Environmental Workfare Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Jai Cooper
ABSTRACT Some scholars have drawn associations between Australian environmentalism and racism. Others have argued that natural resource management policies go beyond the science in justifying policies that have their real foundation in Australian nationalism. Yet applying semiotic analyses to focus upon such associations can risk obscuring efforts to actively loosen the nature–culture binary. Australia
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Congratulations to the 2022 Winners of the John Barrett Award Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Anna Johnston
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)
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Spectral Histories and Material Legacies Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Emily Potter, Brigid Magner
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)