Pub Date : 2023-01-13DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2164603
J. Tate
ABSTRACT Recent free speech controversies in Australia have given rise to deep-seated disagreement between protagonists. These protagonists seek to advance rival and conflicting imperatives in such controversies that are centred, respectively, on the defence of “free speech” and the need to limit such speech for the sake of competing ideals. This article seeks to investigate these competing imperatives and their relative priority by focusing on four recent speech controversies in Australia centred upon ANZACs, Anzac Day, same-sex marriage and “eternal damnation”. The article seeks to distinguish the four speech controversies along a number of dimensions, and to determine in which circumstances, and on what grounds, it is possible to prioritise one of these imperatives relative to the other, with the result that conclusions might be reached as to whether free speech, or limits on speech, ought to prevail.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2159489
Melissa Miles, Geraldine Fela
ABSTRACT The photographs that fill the pages of the Australian illustrated magazines The Home and Decoration and Glass offer new insights into the connections between urban development and citizenship in 1930s Sydney. This article focuses on two sites in which urban citizenship was represented and contested in these magazines: symbolic images of white Australian construction workers as builders of the nation, and debates about the lived experience of urban citizenship associated with the rise in flat construction. The multivocal quality of these illustrated magazines provides a means of addressing the complex interconnections between the built environment and cultural conceptions of citizenship. Examining work in and for these illustrated magazines shows that citizenship was neither understood nor lived as a fixed status defined and conferred by the state, but a contested series of values, obligations and modes of social participation.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2161193
E. Potter, B. Magner
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2160002
Kate Warren
ABSTRACT This article analyses coverage of the visual arts in the Australian “barbershop” magazine Australasian Post. It traces the function and position of art history and the visual arts in the magazine, exploring how they were communicated to audiences by a publication that self-consciously negotiated a delicate balance between “highbrow” and “lowbrow” content and style. The article focuses on the contributions of the magazine’s most significant art critics, including Alan McCulloch in the mid-1940s and, in most detail, Arnold Shore in the early 1950s. It considers how the visual arts articles changed in style over this period and the multiple ways the magazine addressed its audiences. By analysing other features of the magazine, especially its letters from readers, I make clear that not only were audiences engaged with the arts content, but they also sought to influence its approach. In this way, Australasian Post provides a case study for how the arts have been presented to broad audiences and how art-historical knowledge can be communicated to increase audiences’ understanding and visual literacy. With recent sector research showing that the arts are still perceived as elitist for significant portions of Australian society, understanding accessible communication strategies is more important than ever.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2167576
Jon Piccini
Party days whom Davidson presents in a rather unflattering light, was a favourite. Curtin famously quoted from O’Dowd’s “Dawnward?” in the New Year’s message published in the Melbourne Herald late in 1941, an article that would be inflated into his famous appeal to America. He read Zora Cross and was a friend and correspondent of Mary Gilmore, who wrote verse in praise of Curtin when he was prime minister. It was not all high-minded. While Curtin told the press in 1941 that he had for 20 years maintained a Sunday night ritual of at least an hour of reading poetry, Davidson also records that he read westerns, detective thrillers, romance novels and other light fiction to relax. Davidson writes with verve and only rare and trivial factual slips. He has been meticulous in reconstructing Curtin’s reading—not only what he read, but what he did with it in his private and public life. He has also had to engage in some serious detective work and stylistic analysis in tying pseudonymous literary commentary to Curtin, even while uncertainties of identification remain in some instances. This most interesting and innovative study will be indispensable to anyone serious about understanding Curtin, and the milieux, culture and society that produced him.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2167304
Frank Bongiorno
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2023.2161196
E. Smith
{"title":"Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War","authors":"E. Smith","doi":"10.1080/14443058.2023.2161196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2023.2161196","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51817,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Australian Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"225 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81779380","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 : 2022-12-27DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2157036
M. Jolly
ABSTRACT Men’s magazines have formed a significant part of Australian illustrated magazine publishing since 1936. In this article, I broadly survey the field up until 1971, concentrating particularly on bikini and nude photography, which defined the category. I then focus on the period of the 1960s, when men’s magazines were most relevant to Australia’s rapidly changing sexual politics and its censorship debates. I reveal that, although they were by their nature visually repetitious, far from being a marginal or trivial category, they were deeply implicated in the development of broader Australian visual culture and its sexual politics, and fundamental to wider innovations in publishing, as well as the careers of several important Australian photographers.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2153378
Danielle Carney Flakelar, E. O’Gorman
ABSTRACT This article presents research from an ongoing collaborative project between two women—an Aboriginal woman and senior Wayilwan cultural knowledge holder, and an academic of European descent—that aims to closely and critically re-read Australian colonial and later historical sources for Wayilwan women’s knowledge of Country and community. In this article, we specifically focus on the journals of colonial explorers John Oxley, Charles Sturt and Thomas Mitchell, who travelled through Wayilwan Country in the early to mid-19th century. We begin by outlining our collaborative methodology, contextualising Wayilwan Country and introducing these journals. We then examine the journals in terms of four interlinked Wayilwan women’s knowledges: river knowledge, fire knowledge, grain and yam knowledge, and care of children and the elderly. In undertaking this research, we aim to contribute to decolonising methods and methodologies, address harmful disengagements with Aboriginal women’s practices, and respectfully carry forward Wayilwan women’s knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2022.2155685
P. Magagnoli
ABSTRACT Despite its reputation as a frivolous and licentious magazine, Pix (1938–1972) published a large number of documentary photo essays on work and the daily strife of the Australian labourer. More importantly, the popular magazine promoted a stern work ethic, presented as a sign of patriotism and moral virtue. Pix’s politics are hard to pin down insofar as the magazine never endorsed specific parties or social movements; instead, it adopted an apparently neutral stance in relation to political issues, giving equal coverage to the three mainstream parties of the time. If the national narrative of work that Pix glorified was, fundamentally, a bipartisan narrative, was Pix really apolitical and value-free? I say no: the locus of Pix’s politics has to be found in the way the magazine mobilised the discourse of the work ethic. By reducing work to a moral obligation, Pix tended to individualise and normalise waged work, concealing the unequal and coercive relations informing the social space of the factory. In so doing, the magazine conveyed and championed values such as independence and entrepreneurship that were central to the liberal ideology that found expression in Robert Menzies’s contemporary speeches.
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