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A Trip to the Dominions - The Scientific Event That Changed Australia by Lynette Russell (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Studies
On the eve of the Great War, in 1914 the Australian Federal Government sponsored the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to?travel to Australia for their annual conference. Over 150 scientists were fully funded by the Australian Commonwealth government and they travelled on three s ...Show more
Australia As the Antipodal Utopia - European Imaginations from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century by Daniel Hempel
Category: No Category | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, the continent provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. Australia as the Antipodal Utopia evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visio ...Show more
Dispossession, Memory and the Making of Jedda (1955) in Ngunnawal Country by Catherine Kevin
Category: No Category | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
In 1955 'Jedda' was released in Australian cinemas and the international film world, starring Indigenous actors Rosalie Kunoth and Robert Tudawali. That year Eric Bell watched the film in the Liberty Cinema in Yass. Twelve years later he was dismayed to read a newly erected plaque in the main street of ...Show more
From Roadside to Recovery The Story of the Victorian State Accident Commision by Peter Bragge & Russell Gruen
Category: No Category | Series: Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser.
In 1969 car crashes killed over 1000 Victorians, making Victoria's roads some of the world's most deadly. By 2016, the fatality rate had been cut by 85% and Victorians are now taking seriously the goal of eliminating death on the roads altogether.This extraordinary achievement is the product of sustaine ...Show more
Gerald Murnane - Another World in This One by Anthony Uhlmann (Editor)
Category: No Category | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Anot ...Show more
Patrick White's Theatre - Australian Modernism on Stage,1960-2018 by Denise Varney
Category: No Category | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
The Life of Such Is Life - A Cultural History of an Australian Classic by Roger Osborne
Category: No Category | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy's Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?From Furphy's handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controv ...Show more
Where is Dr Leichhardt?: The Greatest Mystery in Australian History by Darrell Lewis
Category: History | Series: Australian studies
The vast deserts of Outback Australia hold many secrets, but there is one great mystery which stands out among all others the mystery of the lost Leichhardt expedition. In April 1848 Ludwig Leichhardt and six other men set out westward from the Queensland frontier, heading for Swan River settlement in W ...Show more
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