Abstract This article explores the changes in how Nepalese female students living in Brisbane, Australia, experience shifting expectations and perceptions of gender roles. It reviews a range of literature from migration studies, geography and humanities to investigate the interrelation between gender and migration, and the ways in which transforming gender relations among the Nepalese migrants in Australia might eventuate. Specifically, the article looks at how traditional gender roles are continued or discontinued by disclosing the lived experiences of a small cohort of Nepalese female students. A summary of qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations are used to highlight how their changing perspectives on traditional gender relations result from living in the changed socio-cultural settings of the host country, and the inherent challenges of implementing the changes in conventional interpretations of gender-based roles after returning to their home country.
{"title":"Shifting gender perceptions of female Nepalese students in Brisbane, Australia","authors":"N. Ghimire","doi":"10.1017/qre.2020.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.14","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the changes in how Nepalese female students living in Brisbane, Australia, experience shifting expectations and perceptions of gender roles. It reviews a range of literature from migration studies, geography and humanities to investigate the interrelation between gender and migration, and the ways in which transforming gender relations among the Nepalese migrants in Australia might eventuate. Specifically, the article looks at how traditional gender roles are continued or discontinued by disclosing the lived experiences of a small cohort of Nepalese female students. A summary of qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations are used to highlight how their changing perspectives on traditional gender relations result from living in the changed socio-cultural settings of the host country, and the inherent challenges of implementing the changes in conventional interpretations of gender-based roles after returning to their home country.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"166 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2020.14","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42456120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pat Hutchings , Michael Kingsford and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg (eds), The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management, 2nd ed., Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019, 465 pp., ISBN 978-0-367-17428, A$125 (also available as e-book).","authors":"M. J. Rowland","doi":"10.1017/qre.2020.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"202 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2020.17","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46505492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The Gold Coast is a multiply liminal space, often represented throughout mainstream media as a holidayworld in which to escape everyday life and structured work routines. Represented as a tourist destination and space for transitions – as a space in which to get lost or lose one’s self – Gold Coast locals are misrepresented as everyday tourists, criminals and dole bludgers, essentially wanderers floating around and through the city limits. Local literary fictions capture this sense of alienation among Gold Coast locals. Georgia Savage’s The House Tibet (1992), in particular, complicates local wandering, with the text representing her runaway protagonists not as living a leisurely existence but rather experiencing the idea of homemaking as a kind of labour necessitated by socioeconomic disadvantage. In this realist narrative, Savage’s depiction of adolescent homelessness advances under-represented views of the multifaceted city while dispelling tourist myths about the Gold Coast as a youthfully unburdened site. Meanwhile, the disenfranchised boys of Amy Barker’s Omega Park (2009) see themselves as aliens in their home city and wander as a means of distancing themselves from a place in which they are trapped. This interdisciplinary investigation of narratives of wandering on the Gold Coast reveals belonging as a dynamic process of placemaking and homemaking, and a privilege of post-colonial habitation and socioeconomic comfort.
{"title":"Lost in space: Gold Coast characters wandering home(less)","authors":"Kelly Palmer","doi":"10.1017/qre.2020.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.15","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Gold Coast is a multiply liminal space, often represented throughout mainstream media as a holidayworld in which to escape everyday life and structured work routines. Represented as a tourist destination and space for transitions – as a space in which to get lost or lose one’s self – Gold Coast locals are misrepresented as everyday tourists, criminals and dole bludgers, essentially wanderers floating around and through the city limits. Local literary fictions capture this sense of alienation among Gold Coast locals. Georgia Savage’s The House Tibet (1992), in particular, complicates local wandering, with the text representing her runaway protagonists not as living a leisurely existence but rather experiencing the idea of homemaking as a kind of labour necessitated by socioeconomic disadvantage. In this realist narrative, Savage’s depiction of adolescent homelessness advances under-represented views of the multifaceted city while dispelling tourist myths about the Gold Coast as a youthfully unburdened site. Meanwhile, the disenfranchised boys of Amy Barker’s Omega Park (2009) see themselves as aliens in their home city and wander as a means of distancing themselves from a place in which they are trapped. This interdisciplinary investigation of narratives of wandering on the Gold Coast reveals belonging as a dynamic process of placemaking and homemaking, and a privilege of post-colonial habitation and socioeconomic comfort.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"181 - 200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2020.15","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42498996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article provides a synopsis of the spread of epidemic influenza throughout Queensland in 1919–20.1 Statewide the story was, to a greater or lesser extent, the same – regardless of occupation or whether one was from the city or the bush, on the coast or in the far west, no one was immune; even being 300 kilometres from the nearest epicentre of the outbreak was no guarantee of safety. An examination of the state’s newspapers, particularly the Brisbane Courier, makes it evident that outbreaks of influenza erupted almost simultaneously throughout the state. Aided and abetted by Queensland’s network of railways and coastal shipping, together with the crowding of people at country shows, race meetings and celebrations of the formal conclusion of World War I, the disease was swiftly diffused throughout the state. This article hopes to give the reader a sense of how the sheer scale and urgency of the crisis at times overwhelmed authorities and communities.
{"title":"Commentary: ‘Just the tip of the iceberg’: Queensland’s experience of the influenza pandemic of 1918–20","authors":"P. Hodgson","doi":"10.1017/qre.2020.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.13","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article provides a synopsis of the spread of epidemic influenza throughout Queensland in 1919–20.1 Statewide the story was, to a greater or lesser extent, the same – regardless of occupation or whether one was from the city or the bush, on the coast or in the far west, no one was immune; even being 300 kilometres from the nearest epicentre of the outbreak was no guarantee of safety. An examination of the state’s newspapers, particularly the Brisbane Courier, makes it evident that outbreaks of influenza erupted almost simultaneously throughout the state. Aided and abetted by Queensland’s network of railways and coastal shipping, together with the crowding of people at country shows, race meetings and celebrations of the formal conclusion of World War I, the disease was swiftly diffused throughout the state. This article hopes to give the reader a sense of how the sheer scale and urgency of the crisis at times overwhelmed authorities and communities.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"154 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2020.13","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43609134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This article analyses the work of Richard Daintree as Agent-General for Emigration from the United Kingdom to Queensland when he held that role between 1872 and 1876. Daintree designed exhibitions in London to attract emigrants, placed advertisements in newspapers, wrote a guide to Queensland’s resources, liaised with shipping companies for passenger berths, lectured in the provinces to potential emigrants, and cooperated with emigration sub-agents provided by Queensland’s government for Scotland and Ireland. Daintree contended with two main problems during his period as Agent-General. One involved a serious case of fraud discovered in his London office, but he was not responsible for its occurrence. The other was that a change of Queensland premier from Arthur Hunter Palmer, with whom he had worked cordially, to Arthur Macalister, with whom he had fraught relations, adversely affected his work. Overall, however, the article shows that Daintree was successful in increasing net migration to Queensland during his incumbency as Agent-General.
{"title":"Selling Queensland: Richard Daintree as Agent-General for Emigration, 1872–76","authors":"K. Morgan","doi":"10.1017/qre.2020.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.12","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyses the work of Richard Daintree as Agent-General for Emigration from the United Kingdom to Queensland when he held that role between 1872 and 1876. Daintree designed exhibitions in London to attract emigrants, placed advertisements in newspapers, wrote a guide to Queensland’s resources, liaised with shipping companies for passenger berths, lectured in the provinces to potential emigrants, and cooperated with emigration sub-agents provided by Queensland’s government for Scotland and Ireland. Daintree contended with two main problems during his period as Agent-General. One involved a serious case of fraud discovered in his London office, but he was not responsible for its occurrence. The other was that a change of Queensland premier from Arthur Hunter Palmer, with whom he had worked cordially, to Arthur Macalister, with whom he had fraught relations, adversely affected his work. Overall, however, the article shows that Daintree was successful in increasing net migration to Queensland during his incumbency as Agent-General.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"137 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2020.12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47738275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In a diary-style format, Williamson describes the difficulties and challenges she faced when trying to access an abortion, such as the confusing information, costs of multiple medical appointments, delays and, eventually, the cost of her trip to Melbourne Echoing Williamson’s experience, writer Bri Lee imagines the struggles faced by a young woman who finds out she is pregnant four weeks into a two-month road trip around Australia, forced to seek an abortion in each city or town she visits Though the landmark 2018 Termination Bill demonstrates progress after decades of fighting, abortion is still technically a crime in New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia, and continues to be inaccessible and unaffordable for many across the country
{"title":"Louise Swinn , Choice Words: A Collection of Writing About Abortion, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2019, 379 pp., ISBN: 9 7817 6087 5220, A$29.99.","authors":"Blair Williams","doi":"10.1017/qre.2020.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.19","url":null,"abstract":"In a diary-style format, Williamson describes the difficulties and challenges she faced when trying to access an abortion, such as the confusing information, costs of multiple medical appointments, delays and, eventually, the cost of her trip to Melbourne Echoing Williamson’s experience, writer Bri Lee imagines the struggles faced by a young woman who finds out she is pregnant four weeks into a two-month road trip around Australia, forced to seek an abortion in each city or town she visits Though the landmark 2018 Termination Bill demonstrates progress after decades of fighting, abortion is still technically a crime in New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia, and continues to be inaccessible and unaffordable for many across the country","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"206 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2020.19","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46533771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I first encountered Walker’s work on resilience when I was a novice researcher in human geography, coming to terms with our failure to mitigate climate change in a timely enough way, and needing something other than mitigation or adaptation to think with. A little over a decade later, I approached Walker’s new book with some hesitation. I have grown worried that resilience places too much importance on strength or robustness, and is insufficiently attentive to what is valuable but intrinsically vulnerable – beings, relations, systems, that cannot be made resilient, but are nonetheless worthy of existence. I also loathe how the term can deflect attention away from the causes of ecological and social harm, busying us with the ever-intensifying task of coping with increasing onslaughts, instead of dismantling the structures causing them. Walker almost immediately won me over with the concluding sentence of his first chapter: ‘There are limits to humanity’s resilience’ (2019: 11). Walker is precise and critical in his use of the term, not over-stretching its usefulness. A resilient system isn’t one that ‘bounces back’ to a prior state, he argues, but one that learns and reorganises itself in response to disturbance, improving its overall adaptive capacity without changing its core functions. He reminds us that resilience is not always positive – some invasive species are frustratingly resilient to efforts to manage them, and some harmful systems are troublingly resilient to transformation. Walker’s book refreshes resilience, revisiting how we have come to understand it, clarifying its usefulness in thinking about socio-ecological systems. The book is organised in five parts. Part 1 comprises introductory matter and scene-setting. Part 2 describes resilience in natural systems, what it is and the history of its formulation in ecological research, addressing familiar ecological concerns like keystone species, interconnectedness, disturbance and diversity. This is perhaps Walker at his best – he is, after all, an ecologist, and his love of and fascination with the natural world are contagious. Part 3 considers resilience in human systems, beginning with more individual, psychological understandings of resilience before considering how resilience operates on the scale of communities. Part 4 attempts to synthesise Parts 2 and 3, and Walker grapples more explicitly with questions of inequality, inequity and the role of economic systems in ecological harm. Part 5 outlines ‘a way forward’. Throughout, the writing is engaging, accessible to a Book Reviews
{"title":"Brian Walker , Finding Resilience: Change and Uncertainty in Nature and Society, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2019, 157 pp., ISBN 9 7814 8631 0777, A$43.75.","authors":"N. Osborne","doi":"10.1017/qre.2020.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2020.20","url":null,"abstract":"I first encountered Walker’s work on resilience when I was a novice researcher in human geography, coming to terms with our failure to mitigate climate change in a timely enough way, and needing something other than mitigation or adaptation to think with. A little over a decade later, I approached Walker’s new book with some hesitation. I have grown worried that resilience places too much importance on strength or robustness, and is insufficiently attentive to what is valuable but intrinsically vulnerable – beings, relations, systems, that cannot be made resilient, but are nonetheless worthy of existence. I also loathe how the term can deflect attention away from the causes of ecological and social harm, busying us with the ever-intensifying task of coping with increasing onslaughts, instead of dismantling the structures causing them. Walker almost immediately won me over with the concluding sentence of his first chapter: ‘There are limits to humanity’s resilience’ (2019: 11). Walker is precise and critical in his use of the term, not over-stretching its usefulness. A resilient system isn’t one that ‘bounces back’ to a prior state, he argues, but one that learns and reorganises itself in response to disturbance, improving its overall adaptive capacity without changing its core functions. He reminds us that resilience is not always positive – some invasive species are frustratingly resilient to efforts to manage them, and some harmful systems are troublingly resilient to transformation. Walker’s book refreshes resilience, revisiting how we have come to understand it, clarifying its usefulness in thinking about socio-ecological systems. The book is organised in five parts. Part 1 comprises introductory matter and scene-setting. Part 2 describes resilience in natural systems, what it is and the history of its formulation in ecological research, addressing familiar ecological concerns like keystone species, interconnectedness, disturbance and diversity. This is perhaps Walker at his best – he is, after all, an ecologist, and his love of and fascination with the natural world are contagious. Part 3 considers resilience in human systems, beginning with more individual, psychological understandings of resilience before considering how resilience operates on the scale of communities. Part 4 attempts to synthesise Parts 2 and 3, and Walker grapples more explicitly with questions of inequality, inequity and the role of economic systems in ecological harm. Part 5 outlines ‘a way forward’. Throughout, the writing is engaging, accessible to a Book Reviews","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"208 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/qre.2020.20","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49435560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The thirtieth anniversary of the election of Wayne Goss’s Labor Party to government in Queensland was marked on 2 December 2019. Considered a landmark political event, the 1989 state election saw the once-dominant National Party dispatched from office after thirty-two years of conservative government in this state. The election of an energetic new premier kick-started a period of purposeful public administration reform and public accountability renewal that many have described since as ‘the birth of modern Queensland’. Yet the end of the divisive Bjelke-Petersen era, as Goss’s ascent was characterised, was for some an uneasy time of accelerated transformational change. From these varied perspectives, and through the recorded recollections of public figures and senior administrators of the time, this article looks back at a modern benchmark for ‘historic’ state elections in Queensland.
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