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Beautiful shells and their connection to the Reef Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Chrissy Grant
Shells are beautiful! They are really ingenious in the way that they are made and the animals they house. The shells grow with the animal, from tiny little shells to a great big shell. An animal wasn’t born that big, so the large shells have been there for years.
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Caring for colour: Multispecies aesthetics at the Great Barrier Reef Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Killian Quigley
The Great Barrier Reef has been bleaching yet again. If the Anthropocene had a colour table, bleached coral would hold an especially recognizable place within it. By some lights, chromatic behaviour — and chromatic disaster — are best apprehended as secondary qualities, as spectacles that offer to point the discerning observer beyond the tokens of human sense and toward an object’s (or ecosystem’s)
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Coralations: Back to the breath Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Irus Braverman
You and me Knew life itself is Breathing, (Out, in, out, in, out …) Breathing – Kate Bush, ‘Breathing, on Never for Ever (1980)
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Aquariums and human–animal relations at the Great Barrier Reef Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Ann Elias
In the early twentieth century, great delight in the unique tropical beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, coupled with an opportunistic spirit for commercial development, inspired the commission of eye-catching posters and advertisements by Australian tourist organisations. The aim of this article is to discuss a pictorial device that developed alongside the rise of modern tourist advertising images of
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Basket case! Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Carden C. Wallace
Queensland has some 400 public museums and art galleries.1 Large or small, these are all dedicated to caring for their part of what is often called the ‘distributed national collection’ and to permanently documenting a segment of our history — social, natural or otherwise.2 Each of us who steps inside such an institution to help in this effort is liable to become lost to this world for the rest of
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Great Barrier Reef World Heritage: Nature in danger Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Celmara Pocock
The Great Barrier Reef is inscribed on the World Heritage List for its natural values, including an abundance of marine life and extraordinary aesthetic qualities. These and the enormous scale of the Reef make it unique and a place of ‘Outstanding Universal Value’. In the twentieth century, protection of the Great Barrier Reef shifted from limiting mechanical and physical impacts on coral reefs to
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Sounds of silence Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Diane Tarte
It was the early 1980s on a warm summer’s evening on North West Island, located in the Capricornia Bunker Group towards the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. I had some time to myself and was wandering along the beach at sunset. Looking up, I realised there were thousands and thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of birds — wedge-tailed shearwaters, in fact — circling the island as they returned
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Coal versus coral: Australian climate change politics sees the Great Barrier Reef in court Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Claire Konkes, Cynthia Nixon, Libby Lester, Kathleen Williams
The likelihood that climate change may destroy the Great Barrier Reef has been a central motif in Australia’s climate change politics for more than a decade as political ideologies and corporate and environmental activism draw or refute connections between the coal industry and climate change. The media fuel this debate because in this contest, as ever, the news media always do more than simply report
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Urannah: The isolated home of rare species Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Peter McCallum
Photographer Jeff Tan dropped into the Mackay Environment Centre back in 2015. He had been on an expedition to Urannah Creek, where he had the chance to photograph some delightful landscapes. Jeff showed me one of his photos, evocatively named ‘Urannah_landscapes_24’, which was taken as the sun set over the river. The deep shadows created an eerie, dark scene but, even in the dying light, the colours
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Women of the Great Barrier Reef: Stories of gender and conservation Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, Deb Anderson, Anne M. Leitch
In the late 1970s, Carden Wallace was at the beginning of her lifelong exploration of the Great Barrier Reef — and indeed, reefs all over the world. For Wallace, who is now Emeritus Principal Scientist at Queensland Museum, the beginning of her Reef career coincided with the emergence of both feminist and environmental movements that meant her personal and professional lives would be entwined with
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The Daintree Blockade: Making (radio) waves Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Bill Wilkie
Radio log 11/8/84 D5 crossing creek under Timbertop’s tree … continues to fill the creek crossing … If he continues to fill it high enough the D10 should go through. Looks like a moonscape where the dozers are working.
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Drawing a line in the sand: Bioengineering as conservation in the face of extinction debt Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Josh Wodak
What conservation could possibly become commensurate with the rates of human-induced biophysical change unfolding at the advent to the Sixth Extinction Event? Any such conservation would require time-critical interventions into both ecosystems and evolution itself, for these interventions would also require domains of risk and ethics that shatter normative understandings of conservation. Yet a line
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‘Tourist fiction’: Cassowaries in Mission Beach Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Leonard Andy
My name is Leonard Andy and I’m a Djiru Traditional Owner of the Mission Beach area. Where I live today and where my Ancestors have lived is not the same place. Today the Mission Beach area has become a tourism destination and it has changed the people, our culture. Presently, there are twelve Traditional Owners living in the area, off these twelve, five are still at school.
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Epilogue: A reflection on the role of tourism within vulnerable biodiverse reef and rainforest regions – a case-study from Mission Beach and the Cassowary Coast Queensland Review Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Iain McCalman
It is heartening to see that so many of the scholarly and personal contributions of our special issue should have addressed the complex collisions between culture and nature manifested today within Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforest World Heritage Areas.
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Between pride and despair: Stories of Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests Queensland Review Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Iain McCalman,Kerrie Foxwell-Norton
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Smoke signalling resistance: Aboriginal use of long-distance communication during Australia’s frontier wars Queensland Review Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Ray Kerkhove
This essay reconstructs defensive/offensive mechanisms of Aboriginal communication networks and presents historical examples of their application as a means of resistance during Australia’s frontier wars. The principal focus is on smoke-signalling systems, especially in Queensland.
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Divided loyalties: St Joseph’s Nudgee College, the Great War and Anzac Day, 1915–39 Queensland Review Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley
St Joseph’s Nudgee College is an Irish Christian Brothers boys’ boarding school in Brisbane. It was established in 1891 to provide the children of Irish Catholics living in regional and remote Queensland and northern New South Wales with access to an education that would act as a vehicle for socio-economic advancement. The first decades of the college’s existence were nevertheless defined by two competing
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Frank Wesley: The Queensland years Queensland Review Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Geraldine Wheeler
A little-known piece of Queensland’s art history is that the Indian artist Frank Wesley lived and worked in Queensland for nearly thirty years. From Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Wesley completed his art studies in India, Japan and the United States. He won the competition to design the urn that would hold the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi and had paintings exhibited in the Vatican Museum in Rome in 1950. His
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Commentary: The grateful state: The 2020 Queensland election Queensland Review Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Paul D. Williams
This article explores the totemic 2020 Queensland state election, at which a two-term government plagued by a deteriorating economy and widely criticised travel restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic was returned with an increased majority. The article posits three arguments: that COVID-19 created a new ‘lens’ through which electors evaluated public policy and that allowed voters to frame public health
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Richard J. Martin , The Gulf Country: The Story of People and Place in Outback Queensland, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2019. 208 pp., ISBN: 9 7817 6063 1659, A$29.99. Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Jennifer Mairi Macdonald
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Brian Walker , Finding Resilience: Change and Uncertainty in Nature and Society, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019, 157 pp., ISBN 9 7814 8631 0777, A$43.75. Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Natalie Osborne
I first encountered Walker’s work on resilience when I was a novice researcher in human geography, coming to terms with our failure to mitigate climate change in a timely enough way, and needing something other than mitigation or adaptation to think with. A little over a decade later, I approached Walker’s new book with some hesitation. I have grown worried that resilience places too much importance
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Louise Swinn , Choice Words: A Collection of Writing About Abortion, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2019, 379 pp., ISBN: 9 7817 6087 5220, A$29.99. Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Blair Williams
In a diary-style format, Williamson describes the difficulties and challenges she faced when trying to access an abortion, such as the confusing information, costs of multiple medical appointments, delays and, eventually, the cost of her trip to Melbourne Echoing Williamson’s experience, writer Bri Lee imagines the struggles faced by a young woman who finds out she is pregnant four weeks into a two-month
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Sharing the waterways: Shark-proof swimming, penal detention and the early history of St Helena Island, Moreton Bay Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Cathy Keys
Abstract This research examines the role that fear of sharks has played in the history of St Helena Island Moreton Bay, Queensland through analysis of historical records, newspapers, photographs and literature. The article begins with Aboriginal histories of St Helena Island, colonial settlement of the region and the building of a quarantine station. An exploration of the ways in which settlers’ fear
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Selling Queensland: Richard Daintree as Agent-General for Emigration, 1872–76 Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Kenneth Morgan
Abstract This article analyses the work of Richard Daintree as Agent-General for Emigration from the United Kingdom to Queensland when he held that role between 1872 and 1876. Daintree designed exhibitions in London to attract emigrants, placed advertisements in newspapers, wrote a guide to Queensland’s resources, liaised with shipping companies for passenger berths, lectured in the provinces to potential
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Commentary: ‘Just the tip of the iceberg’: Queensland’s experience of the influenza pandemic of 1918–20 Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Patrick Hodgson
Abstract This article provides a synopsis of the spread of epidemic influenza throughout Queensland in 1919–20.1 Statewide the story was, to a greater or lesser extent, the same – regardless of occupation or whether one was from the city or the bush, on the coast or in the far west, no one was immune; even being 300 kilometres from the nearest epicentre of the outbreak was no guarantee of safety. An
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Shifting gender perceptions of female Nepalese students in Brisbane, Australia Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Narayan Ghimire
Abstract This article explores the changes in how Nepalese female students living in Brisbane, Australia, experience shifting expectations and perceptions of gender roles. It reviews a range of literature from migration studies, geography and humanities to investigate the interrelation between gender and migration, and the ways in which transforming gender relations among the Nepalese migrants in Australia
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The Kyogle line: 12 Edmondstone Street, hospitality and memories of home Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Suzie Gibson
AbstractThe spaces of our childhood maintain a particularly enduring hold when they cease to exist or are so reconstructed that the previous version is effectively obliterated. Recollections of an early home that no longer exists provide the framework for David Malouf’s celebrated 12 Edmondstone Street. In this article, I juxtapose Malouf’s experiences with recollections of my own family home in Kyogle
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Promoting high culture: The evolution of the Brisbane Musical Union, 1872–98 Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Kenneth Morgan
AbstractThis article analyses the musical work of the Brisbane Musical Union (BMU) between its founding in 1872 and the consolidation of its position by 1898. During this period, the BMU benefited from the dedicated leadership of its main conductor, R. T. Jefferies, who drew upon his high standing as a violinist, ensemble player and conductor in Brisbane to present regular choral concerts, mainly comprising
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Commentary: ‘It was “year one”’ - Insiders’ reflections on Wayne Goss and the 1989 Queensland election Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Chris Salisbury
The thirtieth anniversary of the election of Wayne Goss’s Labor Party to government in Queensland was marked on 2 December 2019. Considered a landmark political event, the 1989 state election saw the once-dominant National Party dispatched from office after thirty-two years of conservative government in this state. The election of an energetic new premier kick-started a period of purposeful public
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Raising guardrails: The role of the political commentator in a post-expert age Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Paul D. Williams
Political commentary is a key component of news coverage in any liberal democracy. Yet theorising the role played by political commentators in a rapidly transforming media sphere – further destabilised by voters’ increasing mistrust of expertise and of political and media institutions – is rare in the social science literature. This article adopts a mixed methodological approach to argue that political
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The Longman by-election of 2018: An ordinary result with extraordinary consequences Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-06-01 John Mickel, John Wanna
This article sets out to explain how the relatively unremarkable 2018 by-election result in which a sitting Labor candidate held her seat with a mediocre swing towards her resulted in the panicked removal of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull from office and his immediate resignation from the parliament. The combined Queensland state Coalition party, the Liberal National Party, convinced itself that it
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Australian settler bush huts and Indigenous bark-strippers: Origins and influences Queensland Review Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Ray Kerkhove, Cathy Keys
This article considers the history of the Australian bush hut and its common building material: bark sheeting. It compares this with traditional Aboriginal bark sheeting and cladding, and considers the role of Aboriginal ‘bark strippers’ and Aboriginal builders in establishing salient features of the bush hut. The main focus is the Queensland region up to the 1870s.
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Introduction: The work of Thea Astley Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Susan Sheridan
I am honoured and delighted to have been invited, along with Associate Professor Jessica Gildersleeve, to edit this special issue of Queensland Review on the work of Thea Astley. I owe Jessica heartfelt thanks for her hard work and easy collegiality. Fifteen years since Astley’s death, the appearance of this collection of essays marks the development of a growing body of biographical and critical studies
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Topographies of reception: Thea Astley Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Leigh Dale
AbstractThis article is an intervention in debates about the reputation of Australian writers, with specific reference to the career of Thea Astley (and, as a ‘benchmark’, Randolph Stow). It argues that the terrain in which reputations are made and books are valued is complex and uneven, particularly when viewed from regional perspectives. The aim is to shift the focus in ‘reception’ from single fields
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Kerry-Anne Walsh, Hoodwinked: How Pauline Hanson Fooled a Nation, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2018, 304 pp., ISBN 9 7817 6011 2288, A$29.99. - Bligh Grant, Tod Moore and Tony Lynch (eds), The Rise of Right-Populism: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and Australian Politics, Singapore: Springer, 2019, 241 pp., ISBN 9 7898 1132 6691, €34.99. Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Richard Gehrmann
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Thea Astley, Selected Poems, edited by Cheryl Taylor, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2017, 167 pp., ISBN 9 7807 0225 9791, A$24.95. Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Ariella Van Luyn
writingwas throughher short story collectionHunting theWildPineapple (1979), and as I closed the book I wondered why she had focused on the grotesque and extreme elementsof thenorth,andonthestrange livesof failinganddisappointedpeople.But the characters burrowed intomypsyche, as did the themes and ideasAstleywas exploring, and I recognised uncomfortably familiar shapes and echoes of a not-too-distant
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‘To my brother’: Gay love and sex in Thea Astley’s novels and stories Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Cheryl Taylor
Beginning as early as A Descant for Gossips (1960), gay men and gay love come and go in Thea Astley's prose oeuvre. The responses that these characters and this topic invite shift with point of view and under the impact of varied themes. Astley's treatment refuses to be contained, either by traditional Catholic doctrines about sex or by Australia's delay in decriminalising homosexual acts. Driven by
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Thea Astley’s modernism of the ‘Deep North’, or on (un)kindness Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Jessica Gildersleeve
Although she is often perceived as a writer of the local, the rural or the regional, Thea Astley herself notes writing by American modernists as her primary literary influence, and emphasises the ethical value of transnational reading and writing. Similarly, she draws parallels between writing of the American ‘Deep South’ and her own writing of the ‘Deep North’, with a particular focus on the struggles
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Reading the ‘Gold Coast Symphony’ in Thea Astley’s The Acolyte Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Alison Bartlett
Thea Astley is a figure who is strongly associated with music, both in her life interests and in her writing rhythms and allusions; this article investigates the uses of music in her 1972 novel The Acolyte . Drawing on a recent genre of critical musicology that understands music to be a social practice, The Acolyte is read in relation to mid-twentieth-century cultural debates around the development
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The death of Australian literature in Thea Astley’s Drylands Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Meg Brayshaw
This article reads Thea Astley’s final novel in the context of rhetoric about the death of Australian literature that has been a mainstay of our national culture almost since its inception. In the early 2000s, a new round of obituarists argued that the global publishing industry, critical trends and changing educational pedagogies were eroding Australia’s literary identity. Drylands, published in 1999
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Double trouble: The teacher/satirist duality in Thea Astley’s critical writings Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Kate Cantrell, Lesley Hawkes
Over a fifty-year period, from 1944 to 1994, Thea Astley published a number of critical writings, including essays, newspaper articles and reviews, and short reflections and meditations on her craft. Despite a renewed interest in Astley’s work, however, most critical interrogations of her oeuvre focus on her novels, and more recently her poetry. As a result, Astley’s critical writing has not been afforded
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Script of Louis XI – ADDENDUM Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-08-20 Pat Hanna,Richard Fotheringham
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Commentary: Gold Coast 2018 — the innovative and inclusive Games Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Michael Powell
The Gold Coast Organising Committee (GOLDOC) for the 2018 Commonwealth Games and the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) were determined that the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games would demonstrate that a new model of an affordable multi-sports event on a global scale was achievable. Not only would these Games largely utilise existing stadia across South-East Queensland; they would also truly reflect
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Melissa Fagan, What Will Be Worn: A McWhirters Story, Brisbane: Transit Lounge, 2018, 296 pp., ISBN 9 7819 2576 0095, A$29.99. Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Jessica White
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Reflecting on the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games: Interview with Mark Peters, former Chief Executive of the Gold Coast Organising Committee Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Michael Powell
Mark Peters: Yes, we always knew there were going to be challenges because of the regional city reality. Key businesses and many of the necessary skills sets were located in Australia and some overseas, not on the Gold Coast or in South-East Queensland; however, it provided a great opportunity for local businesses to partner with larger companies to up-skill and diversify similarly with the local workforce
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Crown Lands Commissioners – Moreton Bay and Darling Downs, 1842–56 Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Margaret Shield
AbstractCommissioners of Crown Lands were the first government officials appointed to the newly declared pastoral districts surrounding Moreton Bay after it was opened to free settlement in 1842. These officers had a significant impact on the formation of regional communities, the administration of justice and the treatment of the Indigenous people but their primary responsibility was the implementation
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Nadia Jamal, Headstrong Daughters, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2018, 26 1 240 pp., ISBN 9 7817 6029 3314, A$29.99. Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Amira Aftab
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Redcoats in the 1840s Moreton Bay and New Zealand frontier wars Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Rod Pratt, Jeff Hopkins-Weise
This article examines the significant place of the 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot as part of the shared history of Australia and New Zealand through the 1840s and 1850s, including its role in frontier conflict with Aboriginal peoples in Queensland and Māori peoples in New Zealand. This preliminary comparison explores the role and experiences of detachments of the British Army’s 99th Regiment on
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Diversifying the early history of the prefabricated colonial house in Moreton Bay Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Cathy Keys
The history of prefabrication in settler Australia is incomplete. The use of prefabricated and transportable buildings in existing Australian architectural histories focuses on colonial importation from Britain, Asia, America and New Zealand. This article, however, argues for a more diverse and local history of prefabrication — one that considers Indigenous people’s use of prefabrication and draws
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Commentary: The Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct – a special type of Games legacy? Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Ned Pankhurst
A key concern for all cities and governments hosting major, facility-intensive sporting events is, ‘What happens after the party?’ This question has both a practical and a societal context, and it spawns the inevitable additional inquiries: Will we get a return on our investment? Will the infrastructure have ongoing use?Will the changes that the investment brings to the city be the ones we intended
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Investigating death in Moreton Bay: Coronial inquests and magisterial inquiries Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Lee Butterworth
English common law was applied in the New South Wales penal colony when it was founded by Governor Arthur Phillip in 1788. Phillip’s second commission granted him sole authority to appoint coroners and justices of the peace within the colony. The first paid city coroner was appointed in 1810 and only five coroners served the expanding territory of New South Wales by 1821. To relieve the burden on coroners
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Exhibition: Tony Albert, Visible, Queensland Art Gallery, 2 June to 7 October 2018 Queensland Review Pub Date : 2019-06-01 Bianca Beetson
I cannot help but be overwhelmed by a sense of pride and awe for the exceptional list of Tony Albert’s achievements. I have known Tony personally throughout his career as a graduate from the Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art degree at the Queensland College of Art. As the youngest artist to have a survey show in a state institution in Australia, Visible is clearly one of his most significant