Pub Date : 2023-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2255943
Frank Bongiorno
Some of the most eloquent advocates of Australian Federation in the 1890s imagined that there was nothing more natural than “a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation”, as the first prime minister, Edmund Barton, put it. The reality was more complicated, as the difficult process of achieving Federation revealed. Differences between colonies, and then states, really mattered. There was a gulf between north and south, east and west that was economic, political, physical and psychological. Above all, the settler ideal of a White Australia ignored Indigenous belonging and was made meaningful only through exclusion of Asian and Pacific peoples. This lecture explores recent transformation of the nation imagined by Barton into something that would likely have dismayed him and fellow Federation founders. The pandemic reminded Australians that soft state borders could quickly turn hard, that differences between states still mattered, and that state and territory government was embedded in everyday life in ways Australians had overlooked or underestimated. Meanwhile, Indigenous sovereignty offered a different kind of challenge to conventional understandings of settler sovereignty and national space. Australians, settler and Indigenous, have received a crash course in a new political geography inhabited by First Nations peoples, each increasingly recognised by name and Country, and each with culture, language and stories it proudly calls its own.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2257721
Inge Kral, Darren Jorgensen
James Wigley has been historicised by Australian art scholars as a social realist, but the focus of his work through the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s differed from others who were a part of this art movement. During this time, he returned again and again to join the “strike mob” who had walked off pastoral stations in the Pilbara in 1946 and become independent by mining and purchasing their own pastoral properties. The organiser of the strikers, Don McLeod, invited Wigley to help the strikers with building boats to gather pearl shell, and later to run a printing press at the school in the new settlement of Strelley, on one of their pastoral leases. During his time with the strikes, Wigley drew and painted; he would send work to Melbourne and return there to exhibit work about the Pilbara and the people who lived there. He also illustrated the schoolbooks he was printing for the Strelley Literature Centre in the late 1970s. This article argues that this significant body of work places Wigley alongside other Australian artists who spent substantial time in remote Aboriginal communities, and whose experiences shaped their art.
詹姆斯·威格利(James Wigley)被澳大利亚艺术学者视为社会现实主义者，但他在20世纪50年代末、60年代和70年代的作品重点与其他参与这一艺术运动的人不同。在此期间，他一次又一次地回到皮尔巴拉，加入“罢工暴徒”，他们在1946年离开了牧区车站，通过采矿和购买自己的牧区财产而独立。罢工的组织者唐·麦克劳德(Don McLeod)邀请威格利帮助罢工者建造船只收集珍珠壳，后来又在斯特雷利(Strelley)新定居点的学校里经营一家印刷机，这是他们的一份牧地租约。在罢工期间，威格利画画;他会把作品送到墨尔本，然后回到那里展出关于皮尔巴拉和那里的人们的作品。上世纪70年代末，他还为斯特雷利文学中心(Strelley Literature Centre)印刷的教科书配了插图。这篇文章认为，这一重要的工作机构将威格利与其他澳大利亚艺术家放在一起，他们在偏远的土著社区度过了大量的时间，他们的经历塑造了他们的艺术。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-10DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2253818
Lucy Neave
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2252144
Lesley Hawkes
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Pub Date : 2023-08-30DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2250800
Lori A. Cramer
From the late 19th century, when the Melbourne manufacturer and department store Foy & Gibson began to produce mail order catalogues for country customers, it recognised the potential to sell clothing made of Australian wool. This article explores how Foy & Gibson in fl uenced consumer attitudes towards the natural fi bre by encouraging them to feel wool as a next-to-the-skin experience. By focusing on underwear and swimsuits in the catalogues across the fi rst three decades of the 20th century, it o ff ers a historical counterpoint to promotional activities that continue into the present urging consumers to understand the bene fi ts of wearing wool.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-21DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2248153
J. Gerrard
ABSTRACT This article charts how a disdain for progressivism in schooling was central to the development of conservative interests across the 1970s and 1980s. It does so by examining the Australian Council for Educational Standards (ACES) Review (1973–1987). This under-examined newsletter offers important insight into the cultivation of cultural conservatism, having links with the influential Australian conservative think tank the Centre for Independent Studies and the literary journal Quadrant, as well as comparable international outlets. First, this article identifies the diverse conservative interests and actors—including prominent conservative Australian figures—who set an agenda to intervene into educational practice via the newsletter. Second, I demonstrate how ACES Review writers depict progressivism as dangerous social engineering in contrast to their defence of traditional disciplines and educational standards. Third, I examine how ACES Review writers position themselves as speaking on the outside of power, as providing a voice of dissent against progressivism in government bureaucracies, and taking a leading role in conservative challenges to union leadership.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2242598
Alexis Bergantz
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Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2240344
Jordana Silverstein
ABSTRACT This article uses a microhistory—a family history, a form of autoethnography—to think through the role of migration archives, and family histories of migration, within the settler colony. By exploring my grandparents’ naturalisation applications, who came to this country as Jewish Holocaust survivors and stateless refugees, I consider what we can learn from bureaucratic archives, and how we can approach the problem of how to use these archives to write histories. Centring ambivalence, uncertainty and openness, this article ponders the devastating ruins of knowledge that we are left with in the long aftermath of the Holocaust, and the ways that those of us from migrant families are implicated in ongoing genocide in Australia. Trying to ethically think alongside the work of Aboriginal scholars, and using frameworks offered by other Jewish scholars, I take seriously the question of how we can work through questions of statelessness, naturalisation, citizenship and belonging in the settler colony, as we write our histories.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2238480
Qixiu Tian
{"title":"Happy Together: Bridging the Australia–China Divide","authors":"Qixiu Tian","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2023.2238480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2023.2238480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77592276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2236639
Jai Cooper
ABSTRACT Some scholars have drawn associations between Australian environmentalism and racism. Others have argued that natural resource management policies go beyond the science in justifying policies that have their real foundation in Australian nationalism. Yet applying semiotic analyses to focus upon such associations can risk obscuring efforts to actively loosen the nature–culture binary. Australia has a unique history of three decades of national environmental youth training programs such as Green Corps and Green Army. This environmental workfare engages a diverse range of actors: from university-qualified scientists to unemployed urban and rural youth. If any workplace culture is likely to generate a naïve environmentalist eco-nationalism, then the pseudo-military setting of national environmental workfare programs would be worthy of close examination. Based upon data collected from participants in Australian environmental workfare programs, this article explores how young workers display critical reflexivity, engaging creatively and ironically, embracing the more obscure Others. While attempting to generate cultural capital, particularly in the field of environmental science, they actively spurn naïve environmentalism. From the midst of the Australian bush, young people are answering Haraway’s call to “make kin in the Chthulucene”.
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