Journal of Australian Studies articles from June 1997

Journal of Australian Studies archives from June 1997

The fatal sure. (social function of bereavement notices)(Fatal Shores)(Editorial)
June 1, 1997... Epitaphs tend to be `very spare', argue Griffin and Tobin, In the Midst of Life: Australian Responses to Death, they reveal as `little as is decently possible of the deceased' and are usually `restricted to name, age and death'.(1) Published...

Mainstreaming Australia.(Fatal Shores)(Editorial)
June 1, 1997... Leigh Dale .. the possessive form my people has until recently been familiarly used in anthropological circles, but the phrase in effect signifies `my experience'.(1) Modern representations of national identity in...

"Don't cry for me, Diamantina": an alternative reading of Pauline Hanson.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... If being chosen as the target of a satire by the comedians of the Seven network's Full Frontal is any indication, Pauline Hanson is now one of the highest-profile politicians in Australia. Her meteoric rise to prominence cannot be questioned:...

Tacking into the wind: immigration and multicultural policy in the 1990s.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... The election of the liberal-national coalition government in March 1996 promised a radical restructuring of many of the practices and institutions created under thirteen years of labor rule. The ship of state was to be turned around and sailed...

"Her Excellency": Lady Franklin, female convicts and the problem of authority in Van Diemen's Land.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... Early in 1843 Lady Franklin, wife of the lieutenant governor of Van Diemen's Land, wrote a somewhat regretful letter to her sister, Mary Simpkinson. Sir John Franklin had just received the dispatch from the secretary of state for the colonies,...

Freedom in a bonded society: the administrative mind and the "lower classes" in colonial New South Wales.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... In 1820 the superintendent of a convict road party gave evidence to the commission of inquiry into the colony of New South Wales. He said the road party had 14 men who were all prisoners for life but expected conditional pardons for their work...

The last days of Moreton Bay: power, sexuality and the misrule of law.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... The Moreton Bay penal settlement (1824-1842), like other state-controlled sites in early colonial Australia, had a number of critical functions. To begin with, it was a place of exile, punishment and onerous toll for convicts who had fallen...

Decorative bodies: the significance of convicts' tattoos.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... The convicts transported to Australia were probably the best documented working-class citizens of the nineteenth-century British empire. From indictment to eventual freedom, a convict's progress was meticulously recorded. Of all the material...

Double visions and the desire for recognition on foreign shores.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... On 28 February 1872, Margaret Tripp wrote home to her mother in Victoria from her Uncle's house in Beaminster,Dorset, England: My dearest Mother, It is indeed delightful to be writing to you from this house where am enjoying...

Pretty as a picture: Australia and the imperial picturesque.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... Today the word `picturesque' has become a useful way of saying `pretty' without sounding trite. To describe something as picturesque suggests a greater and more refined degree of evaluation. The term can be traced to the eighteenth century,...

By reef and palm: sexual politics and South Seas tales.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... At the end of the nineteenth century one of Australia's most popular writers was George Lewis `Louis' Becke. Some hailed him as the `Rudyard Kipling of the Pacific'. Although these days Becke is little known, during the course of his writing...

Protecting colonial interests: Aborigines and criminal justice.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... The establishment of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody during the late 1980s publicised the high ran of arrest and imprisonment to which Aboriginal people are currently subjected in Australia. In this paper I show that...

"Not the slightest shred of evidence": a reply to Philip Clarke's "Response to 'Secret Women's Business.'" (response to article in Journal of Australian Studies, no. 50/51, 1996, p. 141)(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... That is a problem that I have within myself, in that, had there not been a question to do with this Hindmarsh Island business of does secret sacred women's business exist say before the 1990s, then I could quite easily accept contemporary...

Unravelling digger yarn-spinning in World War I.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... The yarn is often portrayed as a unique aspect of Australian vernacular culture. It features heavily in the folklore of the pioneering past, told by and about such mythic characters as swaggies, shearers, bullockies and all sorts of other...

Gallipoli, Kokoda and the making of national identity.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... Before dawn on 25 April 1992 people were gathering at Bomana Cemetery outside Port Moresby.(1) They walked from the formal front gates up the gentle slope to the hill, cenotaph and rotunda at the far end of the cemetery. A swinging tilly lamp...

Nudes in the sand and perverts in the dunes.(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... The trouble is that the nudists have no shame. They still think that they are in the Garden of Eden and have never heard of original sin. When my brother was six years old... he came out of the bath with no clothes on. My father gave him such...

Chameleons in the surf. (Australian beach culture)(Fatal Shores)
June 1, 1997... Long before they became tourist magnets Sydney's beaches and others elsewhere in Australia produced a distinctive beach culture. Whereas many Europeans and Americans visit their beaches for no more than short summer holidays, at every possible...

Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines Under the British Crown.
June 1, 1997... Contested Ground, edited by Ann McGrath, is a fine achievement by a group of scholars, most with distinguished reputations, some moving towards that level of excellence. This is, as McGrath says, `the first colony by colony, state by state...

The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia.
June 1, 1997... The subtitle of Simon Ryan's comprehensive study of exploration journals neatly captures the totalising perspective of the discourse it investigates. `How Explorers Saw Australia' suggests a stability in the terms `explorer', `saw' and...

Environmental Change in Australia Since 1788.
June 1, 1997... Area studies have contributed significantly to the breaking down of traditional disciplinary barriers. As a geographer, through my ten years' exposure to Australian studies, I have gained much from reading and listening to non-geographers'...

Colonial Queensland: Perspectives in a Frontier Society.
June 1, 1997... We have all heard about the artist who could engrave the Lord's Prayer on a shilling, and now Bill Thorpe has tackled a scarcely less challenging task. In the space of no more than 15,000 words, excluding end-notes, he gives us a tightly...

Unwanted Aliens: Japanese Internment in Australia.
June 1, 1997... Since the 1970s, there have been at least three books, and a television documentary-series, about the mass 'break-out' by Japanese prisoners-of-war from a military camp at Cowra, NSW during 1944. This dramatic event, which resulted in the...

Australia in Asia: Comparing Cultures.
June 1, 1997... Comparing Cultures is an important book. It is important for a range of reasons: for its elusive subject matter -- culture, perceptions and identity; for its grasp of the region's big issues, such as human rights and the media; and for its...

The New Agenda for Global Security: Cooperating for Peace and Beyond.
June 1, 1997... This set of essays apprises Gareth Evans' 1993 'Blue Book,' which built upon UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Galli's document on preventative diplomacy, peacekeeping and peacemaking. Evans was only indirectly recommending guidelines for...

The Footy Club: Inside the Brisbane Bears.
June 1, 1997... When the Brisbane bears football club was defeated by Carlton in the first week of finals in 1995, a dream run of epic proportion concluded. Had Ross Fitzgerald been even closer to the gods he may have orchestrated the real life score more...