Emigration to Australia in the 1870s was a journey into the unknown. What lay ahead and the social and political contexts that confronted immigrants were just part of the uncertainty. George and Elise Fewtrell were two such immigrants. From separate lands Shropshire and Schleswig-Holstein they brought to colonial Queensland different ......
'Stephen Matthews’s initiative in establishing Ginninderra Press has made a significant contribution to contemporary Australian literature providing welcome opportunities for both emerging and established writers. Matthews’s dedication and passion are the lifeblood of this unique independent publishing house which had its ......
In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as at crisis level of delinquency and dysfunction. Biddle asks how emergent art responds to national emergency, from the creation ......
Canberra residents have little reason to know Charles Daley’s name or be aware of the details of his life in Victoria as a teacher botanist writer and historian. But they might be more familiar with the name of his eldest son Charles Studdy (C.S.) Daley whose close connection with the story of Canberra for over fifty years is the ......
One route to wealth during the 1850s and '60s gold rushes was uncovering a nugget or glittering seam. A much more certain alternative was owning inns on roads to the goldfields. Irish Gold tells the story of two enterprising Irish settlers Jeremiah Lehane and Miles Murphy who adopted the second course and with their families led action-packed ......
Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge ......
Biography of a Book traces the life of an iconic Australian literary work in the lead-up to, and for a century after, its initial publication: Henry Lawson's 1896 collection While the Billy Boils. Paul Eggert follows Lawson's gradual development of a pared-back bush realism in the early 1890s, as he struggled to forge ......
Narrating the Holocaust in Australian War Crimes Trials
In the spring of 1942, Nazi forces occupying the Ukraine launched a wave of executions targeting the region's remaining Jewish communities. These mass shootings were open, public, and intimate. Although the victims themselves could never testify against their killers, many eyewitnesses could and did identify the perpetrators. Among these ......
The Combat History of U.S. Army Tank Battalions in the Pacific in World War II
Although the history of armor in World War II has captured the attention of countless authors, no one has yet chronicled the extensive use of tanks in the Pacific, until now.
