Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2180771
Deborah Shuh Yi Tan
ABSTRACT The small amount of scripture translation into Aboriginal languages that occurred in 19th-century Victoria, Australia, stands in sharp contrast with the enthusiasm for translation in the Pacific Islands during the same period. By focusing on the work of William Thomas, the most prolific of the amateur translators, this article investigates why so little translation was completed. Thomas’s 1858 recommendation for English-only schools, and his discouragement of Aboriginal languages, seems to contradict his initial enthusiasm for translation and his lifelong interest in Aboriginal languages. In particular, I explore the possible influence of three language ideologies on Thomas’s thinking: the Protestant belief in the translatability of scripture, the Herderian connection between language and a people, and the Lockean ideology that certain languages or ways of speaking are obstacles to progress. Ultimately, the devastating decline in the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung population exerted the most influence on Thomas’s thinking, though it did not curtail his belief in their just claim to substantial and “sacred” reservations of land.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2175892
M. Goot
ABSTRACT Following the prime minister’s announcement, in May 2022, that Australians would be asked to decide whether to have an Indigenous Voice to Parliament inscribed in the Constitution, a large number of polls sought to measure the breadth and strength of support for a constitutionally enshrined Voice. Some also sought to measure the appeals that might make support for a Voice either more attractive or more vulnerable. This article shows that support for a constitutional amendment, while broad, was not strong: that while majorities were in favour of change—nationally and in most states—there was no majority strongly committed to change, and the majority in favour of constitutional change was declining. It shows that while most Labor voters and the Greens supported the change, Coalition supporters increasingly did not. And it shows which considerations appeared to resonate with respondents and which did not. In the course of documenting and analysing these findings, this article offers a critique of the polls: the wording and sequencing of some of the questions, some of the response options, and the questions not asked.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-12DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2175018
Z. Roberts
ABSTRACT This article explores the narratives of three Aboriginal women who also identity as Jewish. Despite their shared identities, the way they reflected on both their Aboriginality and Jewishness revealed that understandings of dual community identities are experienced in different, and sometimes conflicting, ways. Drawing on the notion of agency in the everyday, I approach the experiences of these women in terms of their navigation of identity and community. In doing so, I contribute to the growing body of literature surrounding lateral connections between minority communities in Australia.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-10DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2174664
Jordana Silverstein
meaningful insights from. Isolated examples, however, reveal audience members’ devotion to particular programs or personalities, even requesting dates with television stars. The fan mail received by satirical radio and television personalities Roy Slaven (John Doyle) and H. G. Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), for example, reveal a rich sense of community and audience involvement in the duo’s programs, commentary and humour. Like the record of complaints received by broadcasters, personalities and programs, the sheer volume of letter writing indicates Australians’ keen dedication to the form, and indeed a “proprietorial feeling” (86) listeners had for their local radio stations, if not for programs and personalities themselves. Complaints about unscripted banter on television reveal a preoccupation with morality and “good taste”, most famously in the case of Graham Kennedy’s 1975 “crow call”. These letters, Griffen-Foley argues, constitute the “voices of Australians... lonely, sad, angry, indignant and sometimes funny” as they “negotiated questions of cultural, power and value over a century” (96). A tantalising examination of ABC Television Viewers’ Committees from 1959 to 1965 reveals the operations of an early experiment in the ABC’s efforts at audience consultation. Its findings suggest the two-way interaction between broadcaster and audience was limited, however, amid a lack of interest in audience input on programming. The final chapter on matchmaking programs on radio and television explores a popular genre of entertainment from the 1930s to the 1980s, which paved the way for much reality television. Here, audience involvement in particular programs was more literal, especially on television, where participation by “ordinary” viewers in a show such as Perfect Match offered an inkling of celebrity. One wishes the book’s introduction and conclusion were slightly longer, and indeed the book itself had more stories to tell. As Griffen-Foley admits, its contents serve as an invitation for media historians to delve deeper into these areas, where unexamined files and private archives promise to reveal new findings on the operation of Australian media institutions and those Australians who consumed its programming over the last century.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.51174/ajdss.0302/wycq2631
Honae H. Cuffe
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Pub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2174665
S. Macwilliam
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Pub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2175413
Honae Cuffe
"Our Exceptional Friend: Australia’s Fatal Alliance with the United States." Journal of Australian Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
“我们特殊的朋友:澳大利亚与美国的致命联盟。”《澳大利亚研究杂志》，印前版，第1-2页
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2165133
S. Turnbull
ABSTRACT Within the long history of Australian crime fiction, Jane Harper’s The Dry marks a significant moment in the emergence of what has been characterised as “outback” or “rural” noir. With its focus on the small regional community of Kiewarra, Harper’s narrative addresses a number of issues that impact rural communities, including climate change, domestic abuse and gambling. Weaving together a story set in the past and a story set in the present, Harper offers a compelling portrait of the moral and social impact of these issues on rural communities in ways that challenge simplistic assumptions about the limitations of genre fiction to engender empathy. While some have argued that only literary fiction can evoke the kind of empathy that enhances our experiences of the world, this article suggests this is not the case and that The Dry is a powerful and moving portrayal speaking to the effects of environmental catastrophe and domestic abuse within a genre that may appeal to a broad and receptive audience.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-26DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2170771
Kyle E. Harvey
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Pub Date : 2023-01-24DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2167852
Gary Werskey, Natalie Wilson
ABSTRACT Discussions of Australian art in the run-up to Federation have long focused on the iconic works of Melbourne’s leading impressionist painters. However, it was the wood-engraved pictures of settler-colonial Australia’s illustrated press, especially in Sydney, that dominated its visual culture in the second half of the 19th century. Between 1885 and 1900, the influence of Sydney’s artist-illustrators reached new heights, thanks to the appearance of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia. This extravagantly illustrated publication was widely hailed as marking “the birth of art beneath the Southern Cross”. The artists of the Atlas succeeded not only in consolidating a settler-colonial iconography of Australia’s history, achievements and prospects but also in disseminating it through their later work for the Sydney Mail, the London Graphic and the Bulletin. Led by Julian Ashton, they transformed Sydney into the epicentre of Australian settler art, drawing Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton into their orbit by the 1890s. Following the illustrated press’s abandonment of wood engraving, these artists continued to influence Australia’s visual culture via other media up to and including the First World War. Revisiting Sydney’s golden age of illustration offers a new window onto the art most Australians saw.
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