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Sun and Shadow: Art of the Spinifex People Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Darren Jorgensen
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 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 0.844) 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 0.844) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Patrick Mullins
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Dan Tout
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Notes on Contributors Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Mark Piccini
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Magic, Manufacturing and Memorialising Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) 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 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Emily Potter, Brigid Magner
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)
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My People's Songs: How an Indigenous Family Survived Colonial Tasmania Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Timothy Rowse
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)
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Gumtree Skyscrapers and Takeaway Flat Whites: Anzac in the United States Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Yves Rees
ABSTRACT This article extends the transnational history of Anzac by shifting the focus from Britain to the United States. It tells a history of Anzac in the United States, focused on New York and California, that shows how both Anzac Day and the broader language and iconography of “Anzac” has been core to the production of Australian community and identity in the United States from the 1920s until
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Kalgoorlie’s Sex Trade and the Kalgoorlie Miner: 1896–1903 Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Belinda Beattie
ABSTRACT Kalgoorlie and the sex industry are synonymous. Around the time of Federation, significant attempts were made by the community to rid itself of prostitution. An important contributor to this endeavour was the local long-running daily newspaper, the Kalgoorlie Miner. To date, research has overlooked its significant role in building community and reinforcing hegemony. The Kalgoorlie Miner’s
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Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Sakshi
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)
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Aunty Heads West: The ABC in Western Australia Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Bridget Griffen-Foley
ABSTRACT This article investigates the evolution of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Western Australia between the 1920s and the 1960s, covering the introduction and spread of radio and then television. It considers the visits of ABC commissioners and management to Perth, the appointment of commissioners from Western Australia, the building of radio and television studios, the creation of
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Croatian-Australian Identity as Revealed through Soccer Club Support: A Case Study of Melbourne Croatia Soccer Club (Melbourne Knights) Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Kieran Edmond James
ABSTRACT Since the 1960s, Croatian soccer clubs have been an important feature of all major Australian cities, and a number of regional towns, with the most significant of these being Melbourne Croatia and Sydney Croatia, both of which played in Australia’s now defunct National Soccer League (NSL) (1977–2004). Effectively barred from the new A-League, from 2005 to 2006, these clubs experienced marginalisation
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Rhetoric of Redress: Australian Political Speeches and Settler Citizens' Historical Consciousness Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Matilda Keynes
ABSTRACT This article traces the convergence of state redress and the educational construction of citizenship from the 1990s onwards in Australia. It examines how successive settler political leaders used the education of a historical consciousness—settler citizens’ relation to past, present and future—as a core strategy to seek resolution to the problematic national past. The article examines key
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Notes on Contributors Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-06-05
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2023)
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Sedimentary Layers: Bob Hawke’s Beer World Record and Ocker Chic Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 C. J. Coventry
ABSTRACT Australia’s 23rd prime minister, Bob Hawke, is celebrated for a world record set at the University of Oxford in the 1950s for the fastest consumption of a yard of ale. The beer record is apocryphal, having five evidential flaws. However, the embellishment—or fabrication—of the record was crucial to the “larrikin-leader” dual image Hawke constructed over the course of the 1970s as he manoeuvred
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Repatriated from Home as Enemy Aliens: Forgotten Lived Experiences of Japanese-Australians during the Second World War Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Tets Kimura
ABSTRACT In contemporary Australian society, where nationhood has been built upon Western values, non-Caucasian people, including those with a Japanese background, have largely been treated as “others”. This attitude was particularly evident during the Second World War. When Japan joined the war in December 1941, some 97 per cent of civilians with a Japanese background living in Australia, including
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Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the International Arena Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Stephen Pascoe
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2023)
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The Victorian Spiritualists’ Union and the Surprising Survival of Spiritualism in Australia Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-05-20 Andrew Singleton
ABSTRACT The new religion of Spiritualism emerged in the mid-19th century. Through mediumship, Spiritualists contacted the dead, believing them to have “passed over” to another plane of existence. It spread from America to Great Britain before arriving in Australia in the 1850s. This article charts the history of the world’s oldest continuously running Spiritualist organisation, the Victorian Spiritualists’
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Difference within Identity: Recognition, Growth and the Circularity of Indigenous Knowledge Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Samuel Curkpatrick
ABSTRACT The concept of circular thinking is readily attributed to patterns of Indigenous knowledge, characterised as distinct from the supposed linearity of Western epistemology; to approach epistemology through this metaphor is to anticipate identity by difference and underscore the autonomy of knowledge within bounded cultural coordinates. In seeking a more nuanced appreciation of the interwoven
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Icons, Landmarks, Archives and Polls: Australian Studies Now Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Brigid Magner, Emily Potter
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2023)
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The Hoyleton Institute Stage Door Inscriptions and the Ghosts of Forgotten Travelling Performers Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 John A. Hayward
ABSTRACT This article provides an archaeologist’s reflection on some forgotten cultural and historical artefacts. Since the early 1920s, performing artists and variety acts who visited the Hoyleton Institute Hall in the Mid North of South Australia inscribed their names on the inside of the stage doors as a memento of their visit. Towards the end of the 20th century, the old railway town of Hoyleton
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Untangling Maralinga: Spatial and Temporal Complexities of Australia’s Atomic Anthropocene Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Lianda Burrows, Darren Holden, Elizabeth Tynan
ABSTRACT Reflecting on the atomic test sites in the South Australian desert, this article analyses the bisociation of cultural and historical spaces with geographical and geological formations. We expand Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopias to include complex intersections with natural environments. Given the close association of human intervention and landform, these atomic test sites are also
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Behrouz Boochani on Manus Island: Contesting Refugee Experience in the Global South Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Nicholas Birns, Keyvan Allahyari
ABSTRACT This article makes a case for reframing refugee literature through reading Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains, translated from Farsi by Omid Tofighian. Written in detention on Manus Island via text messages on WhatsApp, Boochani’s book has won wide acclaim in Australia and internationally, not only among literary critics, but as a work of popular appeal in writers’ festivals and
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A Readership of Convenience: Macro-National Cooperation within the Scandinavian-Australian Newspaper Norden, 1896–1940 Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-04-09 Mark Emmerson
ABSTRACT Between 1825 and 1930, almost three million Scandinavians left their homelands as part of a mass exodus from Northern Europe. While the majority established thriving communities in the United States, a small number settled across Australia and New Zealand. The Scandinavian-Australian newspaper Norden (1896–1940) was integral in connecting these most isolated immigrant communities to their
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Mature Heterosexuality: Catholic Women Religious' Celibacy in Australia's Liberation Decades Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Bronwyn Lee
ABSTRACT The celibacy of Catholic “women religious”, or nuns, presents a dilemma for familiar narratives about the 1960s and 1970s as Australia’s “liberation decades”. In this article, I analyse an important oral history archive, not previously considered for this purpose, to explain how women religious “made sense” of their sexuality in relation to the social and institutional transformations of this
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Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution: 1969–1979 Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Ana Stevenson
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 2, 2023)
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Class Acts: TV Larrikins and the Advent of the Ocker, 1957–1984 Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Lindsay Barrett, Peter Kirkpatrick
ABSTRACT Stephen Fry has described the typical American comic hero as a freewheeling “wisecracker” compared to the English type, who is apt to be an aspirational lower-middle-class failure. With Fry as a prompt, we consider humour and class in the evolution—or devolution—of that representative local hero, the larrikin, during Australian television’s first three decades. This was a period that saw a
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Notes on Contributors Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-03-01
Published in Journal of Australian Studies (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2023)
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Language Ideologies and Language Loss in 19th-Century Victoria: The Translations of William Thomas Journal of Australian Studies (IF 0.844) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Deborah Shuh Yi Tan
ABSTRACT The small amount of scripture translation into Aboriginal languages that occurred in 19th-century Victoria, Australia, stands in sharp contrast with the enthusiasm for translation in the Pacific Islands during the same period. By focusing on the work of William Thomas, the most prolific of the amateur translators, this article investigates why so little translation was completed. Thomas’s