Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from June 2002

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from June 2002

Myths, men and history: the making of the Snowy mystique (1).
June 1, 2002... The Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme (1949-1974) was a massive experiment in social and environmental engineering. In its final form, it required the inundation of three small towns and of nearly 95,000 acres of privately-held, pastoral...

My dear Lord Jersey--My dear Sir George Dibbs.
June 1, 2002... For sixteen months between October 1891 and February 1893 Lord Jersey was Governor of New South Wales, and George Dibbs (Sir George from July 1892) was his Premier. It was a period of considerable political, industrial and economic turmoil in...

Pacific Islander involvement in the pastoral industry of the Gulf of Carpentaria (1).
June 1, 2002... Introduction: Queensland and the Pacific labour trade, 1863-1882 Much of the historiography of Pacific Islanders in Australia has concentrated on their role in the sugar industry, ignoring their early involvement in the pastoral industry....

The struggle for Anzac Day 1916-1930 and the role of the Brisbane Anzac Day Commemoration Committee.
June 1, 2002... Contrary to widespread opinion, Anzac Day did not happen `spontaneously', although this is apparently assumed by both secular-humanist historians and at least one evangelical historian. These scholars have ventured to write about the subject...

The Timor Gap, Wonosobo and the fate of Portuguese Timor.
June 1, 2002... There is little doubt that the meeting President Soeharto had with Prime Minister Gough Whitlam at Wonosobo near Yogyarkarta in September 1974 was crucial for his decision to authorize action to bring about the incorporation of Portuguese Timor...

Paul Brunton (ed.), Matthew Flinders: personal letters from an extraordinary life.
June 1, 2002... Sydney, 2002, Hordern House in association with the State Library of NSW; ISBN 1 875567 32 1; 262 pp; hardback, RRP $138.00. The bicentenary of Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia has inspired not only the re-enactment of his feat,...

Richard Johnson, The Search for the inland sea: John Oxley, explorer, 1783-1828.
June 1, 2002... Melbourne, 2001, Melbourne University Press; ISBN 0 522 84959 8; 305 pp; hardback, RRP $49.95. Centuries of exploration and `discovery' of new lands resulted in geographical exploration becoming an integral part of Western European...

Tim Bowden, Changi Photographer: George Aspinall's record of captivity. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... ABC Books, 144 pp., $32.95 paperback. This book, which was first published in 1984, has been revised and republished. It is not only an account of the captivity of one man by the Japanese but a pictorial collection of the photographs which...

John Doyle, Changi. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... ABC Books, 289 pp., $29.95 paperback. This is a book about memory, how memories haunt the present. It is a book about imprisonment, both physical and mental. It is a story in television script of six young men, ages 19 to 22, who are...

Michelle Nichols, Disastrous Decade: Flood and Fire in Windsor 1864-1874. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... Deerubbin Press, Berowra Heights, 2001. Victorian journalists warmed to catastrophe just like modern manipulators of the media: the 1867 Hawkesbury flood and the 1874 fire in Windsor's central business district aroused predictable...

Anne Gray (ed.), The Diaries of Donald Friend. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... National Library of Australia, 2001, $49.95 at National Library of Australia. Donald Friend's reputation as one of Australia's leading modern artists was already secured when he donated his diaries to the National Library of Australia in...

Ged Martin, Australia and New Zealand and Federation: 1883-1901. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, 2001. Approximately $30 (10stg [pounds sterling]) through King's College, London. In a centenary tribute from a British academic, Ged Martin argues that no attempt to account for the achievement of...

Earle Page, Earle Page: Prime Minister of Australia 1939. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... with a new introduction by Frank Moorhouse. Black Inc. Press, Melbourne, 2001, $19.95. Black Inc.'s Prime Minister series has relaunched some important memoirs into modern Australian historiography. Among these, this volume stands out....

Sarah Murgatroyd, The Dig Tree: The Story of Burke and Wills. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2002. This is another retelling of the Burke and Wills story. As is well known, the aim of Burke and Wills' expedition was to settle the urgent question of the `ghastly blank' which hung over two-thirds of the...

Nonja Peters, Milk and Honey--But No Gold: Postwar Migration to Western Australia 1945-1964. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... University of Western Australia, 2001, $54.95. Nonja Peters tells the story of those who left behind their country of birth to become part of Australia's mass migration scheme in the years following the second World War. Told from the...

D. A. Low, Sir Keith Hancock: The Legacies of an Historian. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... Melbourne University Press, 2001. Sir Keith Hancock was Australia's most distinguished scholar in the humanities and social sciences. Andrew Low has edited a collection of thirteen essays examining different areas of Hancock's diverse...

Tony Evans, C. Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... University of Western Australia, 2001. Charles Yelverton O'Connor is a legendary figure in early colonial civil engineering. The fame of his great works, particularly the Goldfields Pipeline Scheme, which brought water 650 kilometres to...

Marguerite Hancock, Colonial Consorts: The Wives of Victoria's Governors 1839-1900 (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... Melbourne University Press, 2001. Colonial Consorts is a study of the eleven wives of Victoria's ten governors before 1900. (Sir Henry Barkly was married twice.) The women prove to be a surprisingly dissimilar group, coming from various...

Lisanne Gibson, The Uses of Art: Constructing Australian Identities. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... University of Queensland Press, 2001. This volume provides the first overview of Australia's public arts--buildings, sculptures and installations for the community--from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It explores how...

John Clay, Maconochie's Experiment. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... John Murray Ltd, 2001. This book attempts to demonstrate how Alexander Maconochie, Governor of Norfolk Island from 1840, introduced methods of improving the lives of the prisoners on the island. Appalled by the brutality he found,...

Pat Jalland, Australian Ways of Death: A Social and Cultural History 1840-1918. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... Oxford University Press, 2002. Professor Pat Jalland, of the Australian National University, has written a book describing how Australians in the past came to terms with death within the constraints and cultural perspectives of their own...

The Usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson and his turbulent life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780-1841. (Book Notes).
June 1, 2002... by Dan Sprod, Blubber Head Press, Hobart, 2001. $98.00. The Usurper relates the story of Jorgen Jorgenson's strange and turbulent life. In Van Diemen's Land, he wrote A Shred of Autobiography in which he placed himself in the best possible...

Errata. (June 2001 Journal).
June 1, 2002... p. 3 line 32 `William de Vlamingh' should be `Willem de Vlamingh' p. 7 line 12 `Francis Walker' should be `Frank Walker' p. 8 lines 8, 10, 14 `Francis Walker' should be `Frank Walker' p. 10...

Addenda. (June 2001 Journal).
June 1, 2002... p. 137 Woman shown in library photo is Miss Lorna Blacket