Journal of Australian Studies articles from March 2007

Journal of Australian Studies archives from March 2007

Introduction.(Editorial)
March 1, 2007... The articles presented in JAS 91 were chosen because they stimulate a rethinking of Australian history, the interpretation of which so often legitimises the present by adopting a particular reading of the past. This interpretation creates an...

Perish the thought: populating white Australia and the role of child removal policies.(Essay)
March 1, 2007... '... we endeavour to make them self-reliant, God-fearing citizens and Empire builders.' (1) Dr Barnardo's Homes booklet, 1913 'The stockmen and servants of the future.' (2) J W Bleakley, Queensland Chief Protector of Aboriginals,...

Frontier conflict: ways of remembering contested landscapes.(Essay)
March 1, 2007... In June 2001, Sir William Deane, on his farewell tour of Australia before retiring as Governor-General of Australia, visited Warmun Aboriginal Community: a small community in the East Kimberley in the north-east of Western Australia. During...

Red-hunting in Sydney's Chinatown.(Essay)
March 1, 2007... During the course of the Cold War, the level of repression experienced by Chinese people in the West varied. In Australia, following the establishment of the People's Republic of China in October 1949, the Chinese were considered 'not just...

The 'sons of Tricky-Dicky' and the soft soaping of history.(Critical essay)(Decade overview)
March 1, 2007... 'No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky-Dicky Is gonna Mother Hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of hope' John Lennon, 'Gimme some truth', 1971 Sung in defiant rage at a time when numerous institutions of political...

Facing facts? History wars in Australian high schools.(Essay)
March 1, 2007... On 25 January 2006, on the eve of Australia Day--the day when the renegotiation of history in Australia is at its most symbolic and fraught--Prime Minister John Howard addressed the National Press Gallery. Halfway through his speech, Howard...

Howard's strength.
March 1, 2007... As the tenth anniversary of John Howard's prime ministership was celebrated, commentators uniformly remarked upon his authority as leader: 'he is seen by most Australians', ran one typical summary, 'as providing strong leadership in uncertain...

The British transoceanic steamship press in nineteenth-century India and Australia: an overview.
March 1, 2007... It is commonplace to speak of the present era as an information age in which a globalised media and worldwide communication networks play an unprecedented role in shaping events. However, as historian Robert Darnton has pointed out, 'such...

Dunnies and Australian culture: looking backward and forward to explicate community memory.(Essay)
March 1, 2007... In 2002, Dunnedoo, in New South Wales, by-passed the graceful imagery of the Aboriginal meaning of their home, 'Black Swan', to propose a giant 'dunny' as a tourist attraction for their town. (1) This study explores why Australians have a...

Forging heritage for the tourist gaze: Australian history and contemporary representations reviewed.(Essay)
March 1, 2007... In a theatre of its own design, history's drama unfolds; the historian is an impartial onlooker, simply repeating what happened... the historian does not order the facts, he conforms to them. Such history is a fabric of self-reinforcing...

Tourism in Cairns: image and product.(City overview)
March 1, 2007... Many a tourist-guide author has pondered the attractions of the Cairns region in colourful prose, seeking to entice the prospective visitor with images of an exotic and adventurous place that is also familiar and well developed enough to assure...

Rediscovering an Anzac souvenir from the Holy Land: the St James' church mosaic fragment.(Anzac Light Horse Brigade)
March 1, 2007... This article focuses on the acquisition of a small but noteworthy religious, cultural and military 'relic' souvenired from the Holy Land by the Anzac Light Horse Brigade during World War I and exhibited in the Australian Anglican Church of St...

The persistence of myth: Kit Denton and Breaker Morant.
March 1, 2007... Just before Anzac Day in 1968, the writer Kit Denton slipped into an Adelaide pub and spent a bit of time with some old soldiers who were getting together over a beer. One of them--an 'old and angry' veteran from the Boer War--told him a story,...

ANZAC: the sacred in the secular.(Essay)
March 1, 2007... The sacred is commonsensically defined as that which is held by many to be inviolable--sacrosanct through reverence for a particular imputed significance. But as suggested in a recent consideration of the subject (1), it remains an often-vague...

'Lady be beautiful': selling corsets in the 1920s.(Decade overview)(Essay)
March 1, 2007... Debates over women's fashions and identity in the 1920s are central to an understanding of modernity. The cultural focus on gender at this time was central to the understanding of social change and its implications. (1) Throwing off shackles of...

Women and male hegemony in Australian regional and country journalism.(Essay)
March 1, 2007... The treatment of women by the Australian news media has received increasing attention in Australia in the past two decades or so. (1) Many of these studies, as Romano and de Ponte indicate, reveal that women have been 'under-represented and...

Helen B Laurenson, Going Up, Going Down: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store.(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Helen B Laurenson, Going Up, Going Down: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store, Auckland University Press, 2005, pp 166. ISBN 10 186940341X Going Up, Going Down is a thoroughly researched, well-written, attractively presented book that...