Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society articles from November 2007

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society archives from November 2007

Regional politics in New South Wales.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... In 2006 a committee established by the former Premier of New South Wales, the Hon. Bob Carr, published a series of books to celebrate the sesquicentenary of responsible government in New South Wales. These volumes covered many aspects of legal...

Electioneering in New England 1856-1889 (1).(Report)
November 1, 2007... Elections sort out the winners from the losers; they are the edifice on which a democratic political system depends. But there is more to elections than voting; they are also rich in symbolic meaning and 'constituted a ritual process through...

The churches and sectarian politics in the Central West: from the 1860s to the 1970s.(Essay)
November 1, 2007... Introduction For most of the one hundred and ten year period ending in the 1970s, 'a sectarian strand' ran through colonial and Australian society. (1) Sectarianism involves suspicion and hostility, which permeates a significant...

The Italian influence on political change in the Murrumbidgee NSW 1941-2007.(Essay)
November 1, 2007... At the beginning of last century, the hero of Joseph Furphy's Such is Life roamed around a Riverina the extent of which no-one agreed on. These days, statisticians have agreed on the boundaries of the region as shown in the map. This article...

The Democratic Labor Party: its vote, candidates and campaigns in the Riverina region 1957-1971.(Essay)
November 1, 2007... Introduction The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) was formed during the period 1955-1957 as a break-away party from the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It formally came into being in NSW on 29 September 1956, but its roots were in Victoria from...

Sea-changers and shifting political loyalties in the Northern Rivers of NSW 1966-2007.(New South Wales)
November 1, 2007... Introduction In the early 1960s the people of the Northern Rivers' region--the vast area that stretched north from the Clarence River to the Queensland border and west to the New England Tableland--despaired for the future. Like other...

Saving our city: politicking and voting in Albury 1977-1978 and 1995-2003.(City overview)
November 1, 2007... Distress signals rallied the politicians, community leaders and residents of Albury to oppose political decisions that seemed to threaten the well-being and growth of the city three times in the last quarter century. Twice Albury's daily...

The Ferguson Memorial Lectures.
November 1, 2007... The eighth John Alexander Ferguson Memorial Lecture was delivered by Dr Warwick Cathro of the National Library of Australia on 29 August 2007. Many members of Sir John Ferguson's family were present. It had been at the initiative of the...

Transforming access to Australia's documentary history: The 2007 Ferguson Memorial Lecture.
November 1, 2007... Introduction: Sir John Ferguson Members of the Ferguson family; members of the Royal Australian Historical Society; ladies and gentlemen: it is a privilege for me to give this lecture in honour of Sir John Ferguson, who stands in the first...

Peter Cochrane, Colonial Ambition: foundations of Australian democracy.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Peter Cochrane, Colonial Ambition: foundations of Australian democracy, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2006, xv + 581 pages; ISBN 978 0 522 85331 5. In the first New South Wales Legislative Council election of 1843, a mob of 400 to...

Bart Ziino, A Distant Grief: Australians, war graves and the Great War.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Bart Ziino, A Distant Grief: Australians, war graves and the Great War, University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 2007, xi + 243 pages; ISBN 978 1 920694 89 0. Sixty thousand Australians died in the Great War of 1914-1918. Those soldiers...

Carol Baxter, An Irresistible Temptation: the true story of Jane New and a colonial scandal.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Carol Baxter, An Irresistible Temptation: the true story of Jane New and a colonial scandal, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2006, 432 pages; ISBN 9781741149241. Carol Baxter's work, An Irresistible Temptation: the true story of Jane New and a...

Suzanne D. Rutland, The Jews in Australia.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Suzanne D. Rutland, The Jews in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2005, 203 pages; ISBN 9780521612852. The latest book from Associate Professor Suzanne Rutland is a winner. It attests to her expert knowledge of the subject and...

Jurgen Tampke, The Germans in Australia.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Jurgen Tampke, The Germans in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2007, xi + 188 pages; ISBN 978-0-52161-243-2. Germans made up a major segment of the various waves of immigrants that reached Australia. Although the Germans...

Noeline Kyle, Writing Family History Made Very Easy: a beginner's guide.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Noeline Kyle, Writing Family History Made Very Easy: a beginner's guide, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2007, viii + 312 pages; ISBN 978 1 74175 062 1. Given the growing popularity of tracing genealogy in Australia in recent years it is surprising...

Bruce Kercher, Outsiders: tales from the Supreme Court of NSW 1824-1836.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Bruce Kercher, Outsiders: tales from the Supreme Court of NSW 1824-1836, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2006, viii + 189 pages; ISBN 1 74097 124 8 Distinguished legal historian Bruce Kercher has made a notable contribution to...

David Taylor, The States of a Nation: the politics and surveys of the Australian state borders.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... David Taylor, The States of a Nation: the politics and surveys of the Australian state borders, NSW Department of Lands, Bathurst, 2006, 352 pages; ISBN 0 646 45681 4 The story of Australia's borders documented in this volume is an account...

Michael Hogan (ed.), Labor Pains: early conference and executive reports of the Labor Party of NSW.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Michael Hogan (ed.), Labor Pains: early conference and executive reports of the Labor Party of NSW, Federation Press, Sydney, 2006, x + 525 pages; ISBN 978 186287 627 9 The adage 'everything old is new again' is amply borne out by this...

Robert Freestone, Designing Australia's Cities: culture, commerce and the City Beautiful 1900-1930.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Robert Freestone, Designing Australia's Cities: culture, commerce and the City Beautiful 1900-1930, University of NSW Press, Sydney, 2007, viii + 325 pages; ISBN 9780868408118 'City Beautiful' thinking surfaced in the United States in the...

Patrick Weller, Cabinet Government in Australia 1901-2006: practice, principles, performance.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Patrick Weller, Cabinet Government in Australia 1901-2006: practice, principles, performance, University of NSW Press, Sydney, 2007, vii + 324 pages; ISBN 978 0 86840 874 3 The nine members of Australia's first national cabinet included...

David Clune and Ken Turner (eds), Writing Party History: papers from a seminar held at Parliament House, Sydney, May 2006.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... David Clune and Ken Turner (eds), Writing Party History: papers from a seminar held at Parliament House, Sydney, May 2006, Parliament of NSW, Sydney, 2007, x + 147 pages; ISBN 9781920788094 The committee set up to commemorate the...

Michael Hogan, Lesley Muir and Hilary Golder (eds), The People's Choice: electoral politics in colonial NSW.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Michael Hogan, Lesley Muir and Hilary Golder (eds), The People's Choice: electoral politics in colonial NSW, Federation Press, Sydney, 2007, xiv + 465 pages; ISBN 978 0 90990 738 9. This latest in the wealth of new material on NSW political...