Queensland Review
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<p class="western">Published in association with Griffith University, <em>Queensland Review</em> is a multi-disciplinary journal of Australian Studies which focuses on the history, literature, culture, society, politics and environment of the state of Queensland. Queensland’s relations with the Asia-Pacific region are a particular focus of the journal, as are international comparative studies. The journal is interested in research that examines the regional and global contexts of Queensland studies. In addition to scholarly articles, <em>Queensland Review</em> publishes commentaries, interviews, and book reviews.</p> <p class="western"><strong>Please note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that issues of this journal may contain images, voices and names of deceased people.</strong></p> <p class="western"><strong><a href="https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/about">Read More</a></strong></p>Equinox Publishing Ltd.enQueensland Review1321-8166‘A whisperer for all Italians’
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/27102
<p>While considerable research has been undertaken on internment experiences during the World War II in Australia, little has focused on the thousands of ‘enemy aliens’, especially Italian-born women and Australian-born women of Italian descent, whose family members were interned. This article explores the ways in which the lives of three Queensland Italian women were impacted by the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations 1939 (Cth). One of these three women was ultimately interned as a result of being perceived as a threat to national security. The experiences of each, documented in official records, highlight concerns about their treatment under the Regulations. How did the Regulations<span class="CharOverride-5"> </span>restrict the civil rights of Italian women and how did they respond? Examination of these three women’s particular circumstances shows that they each suffered hardship and isolation when loved ones were interned, yet two actively sought to improve their situation by appealing to the authorities. Their stories reflect the ‘war hysteria’ and suspicion, as well as isolation, discrimination and victimisation, that form a largely unacknowledged history of the wartime experience of ‘enemy alien’ women.</p>
ArticlesinternmentItalian migrantsNational Security (Aliens Control) Regulations 1939war hysteriawomen’s historyWorld War IIHistoryWomen's HistoryHistoryMaria Glaros
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2023-11-272023-11-27456910.1558/qre.27102Italy and Queensland
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/26744
<p>The Introduction to this special issue explains the rationale for its publication. It is intended to further the exploration of both sides of the Queensland–Italy connection, extending the already considerable body of work on Italians in Queensland and contributing to the heretofore less-examined field of Queenslanders’ experiences of Italy. In particular, the influences exerted on Queenslanders by Italian culture and history, and the many ‘views from Queensland’ of Italy and Italians, warrant further attention. The contributions to this issue therefore fall into two categories: those concerned with Italians in Queensland, which relate to migrants and their descendants; and those concerned with movement in the opposite direction, but mainly for purposes other than migration, such as study and work, personal exploration, and acculturation. They include an interview, a memoir, a creative non-fiction piece and two book reviews, alongside five research articles.</p>
EditorialacculturationItalian cultureItalian migrantsNorth QueenslandQueensland–Italy connectionsugar industryItalian migration into QueenslandAustralians in ItalyItalians in QueenslandMigration studiesClaire KennedyCatherine Dewhirst
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2023-11-272023-11-271910.1558/qre.26744Journeying into Australian literature
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/26535
<p>In this memoir, Antonella Riem reflects on her long career in Australian literary studies in Italy and internationally, and the scholars who have inspired her. She then outlines the principles of the partnership model of literary studies that she has developed over many years, and how she applies her approach to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’ and David Malouf’s <em><span class="CharOverride-6">An Imaginary Life</span></em>.</p>
MemoirDavid Maloufethnophilology'An Imaginary Life'Italy‘Kubla Khan’partnership studiesSamuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor ColeridgeDavid MaloufAustralian literary studiesLiterary StudiesPartnership dialogic studiesAntonella Riem
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2023-11-272023-11-2712613710.1558/qre.26535Judy Watson
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/26498
<p>Artist Judy Watson, a member of the Waanyi people of north-west Queensland, has spent several periods in Italy, including on a residency in Tuscany in 1992, and when selected to present her work in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1997 and as a speaker at the <em><span class="CharOverride-5">aabaakwad</span> </em>gathering of First Nations artists at the Biennale in 2022. In the interview, Watson reflects on her connection to culture and Country and speaks of the works inspired by her stays in Italy. She also comments on changes over time in the Venice Biennale, as well as the interest in Indigenous Australian artists in Italy.</p>
InterviewAboriginalitycontemporary artFirst Nations artistsIndigenous Australian artJudy WatsonVenice BiennaleWaanyi peopleArtracismFirst Nations artistsart biennalesVenice BiennaleAustralian pavilionBiographyArt HistoryClaire KennedyJudy Watson
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2023-11-272023-11-2710111710.1558/qre.26498Griffith and Dante
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/26528
<p>Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (1845–1920) is distinguished as the first Australian translator of Italy’s ‘Supreme Poet’, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). This article considers how Griffith’s entanglement with Dante casts light on the Queensland–Italian connection. First, it sketches the concept of entangled history and entanglement, an evolving transcultural historiographic approach. Second, it canvasses how entangled history can assist in appraising implications of Griffith’s recently contested legacy as Premier of Queensland. Third, it outlines points of convergence between Griffith and Dante, beginning with Griffith’s translation of Dante’s <em><span class="CharOverride-6">Divine Comedy</span></em>. Fourth, it extends this lens on convergence to Griffith’s and Dante’s common dimensions that include Griffith’s Italophilia, and the experience of divisive, factional and fractious politics. Fifth, it narrows to consider the limited justice of <em><span class="CharOverride-6">contrapasso </span></em>in Dante’s treatment of crime and punishment. Finally, it traverses codified justice that features in Griffith’s entanglement with Dante and the Italian Penal Code – Griffith translated Dante when drafting Queensland’s ground-breaking Criminal Code and when referencing the Italian Penal Code as a source therein. This article proposes that Griffith’s translational project was not simply a vehicle for sharpening his Italian or pursuing fame or status per se, but was a lifelong creative pursuit that offered imaginative, intellectual applications resonating with his public service values. Whatever impelled Griffith’s translations, his appreciation of Dante clearly instances Queensland–Italian interconnectedness.</p>
ArticlesDante AlighieriSir Samuel Walker Griffithentangled historyQueensland–Italian entangled historyQueensland Criminal Codecontrapassotranscultural historiographyDante AlighieriSamuel Walker GriffithtranslationLegal HistoryCriminal JusticeSamuel GriffithDanteDante StudiesTranslation StudiesLegal HistoryKaren Schultz
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2023-11-272023-11-278510010.1558/qre.26528Antonella Riem Natale, Sue Ballyn, Stefano Mercanti and Caterina Colomba (eds), 'I’m Listening Like the Orange Tree: In Memory of Laurie Hergenhan'
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/26488
<p class="Review-title-heading">Antonella Riem Natale, Sue Ballyn, Stefano Mercanti and Caterina Colomba (eds), <em><span class="CharOverride-1">I’m Listening Like the Orange Tree: In Memory of Laurie Hergenhan</span></em></p> <p class="Review-sub-title"><span class="CharOverride-2">Udine: </span><span class="CharOverride-2">Forum, 2021, 203pp, €17.10, ISBN978-88-3283-277-8</span></p>
Reviewsbook reviewI’m Listening Like the Orange TreeAntonella Riem NataleSue BallynStefano MercantiCaterina ColombaLiterary StudiesLiteratureLiterary StudiesKay Ferres
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2023-11-272023-11-2714014210.1558/qre.26488A ‘civil minority’
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/26427
<p>The figure of Costante Danesi (1884–1969) stands out as an unrelenting defender of the rights of Italian migrants in Queensland’s history between the two world wars. Although his activism as an anti-fascist is documented in archival records and mainstream and Italian-migrant newspapers of the time, his role has received little more than cursory attention by scholars to date. This has led not only to confusion about his politics but also neglect of an opportunity for a deeper appreciation of the intercultural dimensions of resilience during the interwar years. Arriving in Australia in 1921, Danesi was not alone in speaking up to defend Italian migrants’ contributions to society or in aiding their wellbeing, and his activism in protecting their rights aligned with the principles of democracy. Yet an examination of those struggles reveals how the experiences of Italian sugarcane workers in North Queensland exposed overt and covert racism alongside Australia’s democratic ideals of the time. Drawing from the works of Joan Beaumont and Arjun Appadurai, this discussion repositions an Italian-born British subject as significant not only within the history of Queensland but also, more generally, in the demonstration of a minority community’s resilience over this tumultuous era.</p>
ArticlesBritish preferenceCostante DanesiGreat DepressionItalian migrantssugar industryWeil’s diseaseWorld War IIHistoryMigration StudiesActivismInterwar yearsracismBiographyHistoryAustralian Historyindustrial relations historyImmigration StudiesActivismminority group historyCatherine Dewhirst
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2023-11-272023-11-27254410.1558/qre.26427Family photograph of past lives and future portents
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<p>Capturing an important day in the life of a community, a photograph from the author’s family collection records a group that has gathered to welcome the Italian aviator Francesco De Pinedo to Innisfail in 1925. De Pinedo’s record-breaking 55,000-kilometre flight from Rome to Tokyo via Australia and back was an extraordinary feat, and a demonstration of Italian technological advancement and participation in the drive towards global connectivity of those times. He had been feted by the public and dignitaries, including the Prime Minister, at each stage of his journey around Australia. But the photograph reveals much more. De Pinedo’s visit was particularly welcome where Italians were denigrated and viewed with suspicion. At the time, there was unrest about the impact of ‘foreign’ – specifically Italian – immigration in North Queensland, to provide labour for its sugar industry. The men in the photograph were among the leaders of the North Queensland Italian communities, and three of them had been invited as witnesses before the Ferry Royal Commission just months earlier. The Commission was set up to investigate attitudes towards the increasing numbers of Italians, and those views were to result in widespread internment of North Queensland Italians during World War II. All but two of the Italian leaders photographed were interned. This article situates the personal histories and contributions of these individuals within their historical circumstances.</p>
ArticlesFerry Royal CommissionFrancesco di PinedoimmigrationItalian internment in AustraliaItalian migrantsNorth Queenslandsugar industryHistoryMigration StudiesHistoryAustralian HistoryImmigration StudiesIlma Martinuzzi O'Brien
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2023-11-272023-11-27102410.1558/qre.26412The experience of syphilis in early Queensland as recorded through hospital records
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/23682
<p>The story of colonial expansion has often been entwined with the social and health impact of syphilis. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of syphilis (in its primary, secondary and tertiary forms) on hospital admissions and individual patients in Queensland in the pre-antibiotic era. This article centres on available hospital patient records for the years 1880–1920, stored at the Queensland State Archives. From these records, 220 cases of syphilis were retrieved, the majority diagnosed as primary-stage infections. Overall, it was found that the number of deaths from syphilis in its tertiary form was not significant compared with other causes of death in that period. The perception of colonial syphilis as highly prevalent and a serious threat to the population is not supported by our review of hospital records, which suggests that its reputation in relation to its social implications exceeded the evidence of its prevalence.</p>
Research Articlehospital recordspatient recordsQueenslandsexually transmitted infections (STI)syphilistreatment of diseaseMedical historypublic health historyColonial Historymedical histroryMary StewartJoseph DebattistaOwain Williams Lisa Fitzgerald
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2023-05-112023-05-11536610.1558/qre.23682Restorative justice as diversion for adult offenders in Queensland, 1990–2021
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/23950
<p>This article provides a summary history and critique of the Queensland experience of restorative justice for adult offenders, with a focus on policy development and program implementation. It aims to identify key lessons to improve policy and implementation that may be transferrable to similar jurisdictions. Public source material was analysed to identify significant moments of change, including the launch of programs, the political rhetoric and commentary, as well as key activity data (e.g. referral rates). Results identified a significant lack of program uptake, with limited referral rates hindering the utilisation of restorative justice as an effective diversionary mechanism for adult offending in Queensland. In terms of both diversion and prevention, the study was restricted by a lack of data, indicating a significant practice and research gap, hence the need for enhanced research, increased application and greater transparency. Combined with a review of the literature, the results suggest the need for a greater focus on the welfare needs of victims and offenders to improve client and program outcomes, and reduce reoffending.</p>
Research Articleadult offendingcrime preventiondiversionoutcomesQueenslandrestorative justiceLawLawStephanie PriceTim PrenzlerNadine McKillopSusan Rayment-McHugh
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2023-05-112023-05-1110711910.1558/qre.2395039 Juliet Street, Mackay
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/25840
<p>My earliest memories are of 39 Juliet Street, Mackay. The house was built in the 1920s, my parents bought it in 1949 and it was sold after my father’s death in 1998. I have positioned the house within the environment and architecture of North Queensland, and particularly the town of Mackay. Changes are illustrated and dated through the inclusion of some family photographs, which double as a pictorial history of a Queensland family between the 1950s and 1970s. We all think of ourselves as part of families, but when one house contains a family over decades, it too is part of the upbringing. The essay begins with a discussion of North Queensland houses – ‘Queenslanders’, as they were known – and the weather conditions that influenced their architecture. This is followed by a description of the house and its immediate neighbourhood, the uses made of the upstairs and the downstairs areas, and 1960s renovations. My parents are described, along with our means of transport, the Protestant–Catholic divide of the 1950s and 1960s, and my upbringing and that of my brother and sister. The article also discusses holidays, schooling and discovering the world beyond Mackay.</p>
MemoirNorth QueenslandMackayautobiographyQueenslander housesfamily historyHistoryHistoryArchitectureClive Moore
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2023-05-112023-05-116710610.1558/qre.25840Working for the Saints
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/26006
<p class="abstract">This article presents some of the main dynamics of the social reproduction of an Italian community through an ethnographic study of the Feast of the Three Saints in Silkwood, North Queensland. It has been celebrated annually there since being imported from the Sicilian village of St Alfio in 1950. As a celebration of Italian sociality and the Italian way of life, the Feast offers a particular opportunity to study the relationship between popular religion, food production and consumption, the senses, memory and materiality. From this perspective, I argue that the Feast as ‘lived religion’ should be understood not only as an expression of Catholic devotion, but also in terms of the construction of a ‘<em><span class="CharOverride-4">domus</span></em>’, defined as a social unit and a community based on shared values and practices enacted and continually renewed by the preparation of food and the sensorial aspects of commensality. In the ‘sacred street theatre’ of the Feast, it is by means of these food practices that a community comes into being by sharing knowledge, memories and feelings.</p> <p class="quote-top">[A religious feast in Sicily] is, above all, an existential explosion. (Sciascia 1965: 30)<span class="Endnote-reference _idGenCharOverride-1">1</span></p> <p class="quote-top">This completely irreligious way of understanding and professing a religion … has its roots in a profound materialism, a total rejection of all that entails mystery, invisible revelation, metaphysics. (Sciascia 1965: 21)</p>
ArticlesCatholic devotioncommensalityItalian diaspora Feast of the Three Saintsfood and memorylived religionNorth QueenslandAnthropology of foodPopular religionAnthropologyFranca Tamisari
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2023-11-272023-11-27708410.1558/qre.26006Steve Capelin, 'Paradiso: A Novel'
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/25972
<p>Steve Capelin, <em>Paradiso: A Novel</em></p> <p>Brisbane: AndAlso Books, 2021, 345 pp., A$30, ISBN: 9 780648 905110</p>
Reviewsbook reviewParadiso: A NovelSteve CapelinLiteratureLiteratureRichard Newsome
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2023-11-272023-11-2713813910.1558/qre.25972Editorial
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21923
EditorialEditorialn/an/aKay FerresBelinda McKay
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2014-06-012014-06-011310.1017/qre.2014.1Going Forward to the Past
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21924
<p>The imminent death of the study of past literature in Australian universities has been pronounced many times since the 1980s. It seems to have been taking several decades to die, but its time may finally be upon us. When I first joined Griffith Humanities in 1981, the then Head of School, David Saunders, told me that though he might wish it otherwise, the literature of the past would always be studied in universities — if only because there was so much of it and because, like Everest, it was simply ‘there’. I now think he may have been wrong.</p>
ArticlesPast literatureAustralian universitiesliterary studieshumanitiesLiterary StudiesHigher EducationLiterary StudiesHigher EducationPatrick Buckridge
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2014-06-012014-06-0141610.1017/qre.2014.2Patrick Buckridge — A Tribute
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21925
<p>Patrick Buckridge is that rare person — even in the academic world: a true scholar with a deep, sometimes eccentric, passion for ideas. He belongs contentedly to Brisbane while engaging intellectually with the vast world of scholarship in history, language and literature. He has retained his interest in his first love, Renaissance literature, but understands that literature is also here and now, in the society around him. So his studies have extended to Australian writers, Queensland literary history, the history of the book, the history of literary criticism and the nature of readership for literary work. As his May 2013 public lecture demonstrated, he believes in the continued importance of attentive reading as a source of intellectual understanding.</p>
ArticlesPatrick Buckridgeliterary workintellectual understandingBiographyBiographySusan Lever
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2014-06-012014-06-01172010.1017/qre.2014.3The Brickworks of Ipswich, Queensland
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21926
<p>Patrick Buckridge was my teacher when I was an undergraduate student at Griffith University. One year, curator Susan Ostling asked him whether any students were interested in local history research. I volunteered, and Patrick agreed to assess the historical report that I produced. My task was to research and compile, as comprehensively as I could in the time available, a history of the ceramics industry in Ipswich.</p>
ArticlesBrickworks of Ipswichceramics industryPatrick BuckridgeHistoryHistoryJonathan Richards
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2014-06-012014-06-01212210.1017/qre.2014.4'A Peacock's Plume Among a Pile of Geese Feathers'
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21927
<p>Rosa Praed has been claimed as ‘the first Australian-born novelist to achieve a significant international reputation.’ Almost certainly, she was the first Australian-born novelist to be published in the United States, although she was in England by the time her first novel appeared in America in 1883. Of Praed’s forty-seven published works, twenty-five appeared in American editions in the three decades from 1883 to 1915, including twenty-four of her thirty-eight novels in more than forty separate editions. In the years either side of the century’s turn, she was among the best known Australian writers in America, alongside Louis Becke and Rolf Boldrewood.</p>
ArticlesRosa PraedAustralian writers in America1883-1915LiteratureLiteratureDavid Carter
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2014-06-012014-06-01233810.1017/qre.2014.5Literary Adaptation and Market Value
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<p>In <em>The world republic of letters</em>, Pascale Casanova suggests that an intimate relation between politics and literature is a feature of postcolonial nations because the relative lack of literary capital on the margins prevents the autonomy that is available to writers in the great national literary spaces such as France, England and the United States. The pressing imperatives of post-colonial responsibility certainly pose a particular challenge for contemporary Australian novelists aspiring not just to local distinction, but also access to international markets and a wider reputation in the world republic of letters. In Australia, the writer’s aspiration to a wider market share and greater cultural capital has often been construed as a forlorn search for a reliable readership. An established following provides a foundation for the development of a consistent artistic oeuvre, which is in turn able to support the critical topoi of canonisation: promise, originality, development and genius.</p>
ArticlesRoger McDonaldliterature markettopoi of canonisationrepublic of lettersLiteratureLiteratureChristopher Lee
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2014-06-012014-06-01394810.1017/qre.2014.6'What's in a Name?'
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21929
<p>‘What’s in a name?’ asks the title of one of Ellerton Gay’s short stories. The pseudonym, which was evidently an open secret in her lifetime, has subsequently obscured ‘Ellerton Gay’ and her creator, Emma Watts Grimes, from the view of literary historians: Patrick Buckridge and I, for example, overlooked her in our historical survey of literature in Queensland, <em>By the book</em> (2007). Until very recently, the AustLit Database listed her as male, with no further biographical details, and — despite its recent facsimile republication of her novel, <em>Drifting under the Southern Cross</em> (1890) — the British Library fails to make the link between Ellerton Gay and Emma Watts Grimes in its catalogue entry. The reissue of this novel, justifiably ‘much admired’ in its own time, suggests that its elusive author is worth a reappraisal. Since Ellerton Gay’s <em>oeuvre</em> draws extensively on the lived experience of Emma Watts Grimes and her extended family, this article provides a biographical sketch before discussing the fictional works.</p>
ArticlesEllerton GayEmma Watts Grimes'Drifting under the Southern Cross'pseudonymLiteratureBiographyLiteratureBiographyBelinda McKay
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2014-06-012014-06-01496110.1017/qre.2014.7The Lyceum Club and the Making of the Modern Woman
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21930
<p>In 1934, the editor of the <em>Courier-Mail</em>’s women’s page, Winifred Moore, reflected on the growth and importance of women’s clubs in Queensland in the early decades of the twentieth century. Moore herself had been involved in community organisations since she took up her career in journalism during World War I. She was a foundation member of the National Parks Association, a member of the Press Association, the Queensland Women’s Electoral league (QWEL) and the Lyceum Club. Many of her contemporaries shared what she called ‘the club habit’, a habit that had enabled women to ‘find their tongues in public assemblies’ in the decades after they achieved the vote (<em>Courier-Mail</em>, 8 February 1934, 16). </p>
ArticlesThe Lyceum Clubcommunity organisations'the club habit'Irene Longmanelectoral successHistoryPoliticsHistoryPoliticsKay Ferres
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2014-06-012014-06-01627110.1017/qre.2014.8Shadowing Vida Lahey
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21931
<p>In bumper-to-bumper traffic along the Pacific Motorway at dusk, I edge south past the Logan Road exit towards the Gold Coast. Vehicles moving easily north have already put their headlights on. Flying foxes are massing against the darkening sky. These native megabats will find their way to food using their sharp eyes and sense of smell. As I watch, I am reminded of the microbats of another hemisphere. Those blind bats had prompted Thomas Nagel’s famous paper, ‘What is it like to be a bat?’</p>
ArticlesNarrative theoryVida Laheybiographical methodLiteratureBiographyLiteratureBiographySue Lovell
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2014-06-012014-06-01728310.1017/qre.2014.9Place, Ecology and Environmental Writing in the Queensland Novels of Arthur Upfield
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21932
<p>In the 29 novels by Arthur Upfield in which he is the protagonist, Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) is often referred to as a product of Queensland. We are reminded repeatedly of his origins, first in North Queensland (where he was born and raised on a mission) and then Brisbane (where he was educated, and where he and his wife live in the suburb of Banyo – though this city location is never described). But my main purpose here is to explore Upfield’s representation of ‘place’, specifically in the three Queensland-focused Bony novels, and the related, recurrent discourses and tropes commonly associated with environmental writing and eco-criticism: wilderness, toxicity, pastoral, dwelling and particularly environmental crisis, eruption and catastrophe.</p>
ArticlesArthur Upfieldrepresentation of 'place'environmental writingeco-criticismLiteratureLiteraturePhilip Neilsen
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2014-06-012014-06-01849210.1017/qre.2014.10Keeping a Good Idea Alive
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21933
<p>As many musicians would attest, small ensemble collaboration provides very special rewards. Chamber music performance has rarely been a viable full-time career aspiration, but this has not deterred many Australians from devoting huge amounts of energy to its survival. However, as a flexible medium with interchangeable personnel and diverse performance contexts, it is difficult to find a ‘through line’ that links these disparate activities over time. As an amalgam of disparate entities, chamber music is rarely accorded the same recognition as larger ensembles such as orchestras, choirs, bands and theatrical-operatic companies.</p>
ArticlesChamber musicBrisbane1950s-1960ssocio-economic landscapeMusic StudiesHistoryMusic StudiesHistoryPeter Roennfeldt
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2014-06-012014-06-019310810.1017/qre.2014.11Dennis Altman, 'The end of the homosexual?', Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2013, ISBN 9 7807 0224 9815, 272 pp., RRP A$29.95
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<p>Dennis Altman, <em>The end of the homosexual?,</em> Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2013, ISBN 9 7807 0224 9815, 272 pp., RRP A$29.95</p>
ReviewsBook reviewn/an/aScott McKinnon
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2014-06-012014-06-0110911010.1017/qre.2014.12Francesca Rendle-Short, 'Bite your tongue', Melbourne: Spinifex, 2011, ISBN 9 7818 7675 6963, 246 pp., RRP $29.95
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<p>Francesca Rendle-Short, <em>Bite your tongue</em>, Melbourne: Spinifex, 2011, ISBN 9 7818 7675 6963, 246 pp., RRP $29.95</p>
ReviewsBook reviewn/an/aJessica Gildersleeve
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2014-06-012014-06-0111011210.1017/qre.2014.13Ilma Martinuzzi O’Brien (edited and annotated), 'The internment diaries of Mario Sardi', Alphington, Vic.: Lucerne Press, 2013, ISBN 9 7806 4690 7512
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<p>Ilma Martinuzzi O’Brien (edited and annotated),<em> The internment diaries of Mario Sardi</em>, Alphington, Vic.: Lucerne Press, 2013, ISBN 9 7806 4690 7512</p>
ReviewsBook reviewn/an/aCatherine Dewhirst
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2014-06-012014-06-0111211410.1017/qre.2014.14Exhibition: 'Live!' Queensland band culture exhibition, State Library of Queensland, May–November 2013
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<p><em>Live!</em> Queensland band culture exhibition, State Library of Queensland, May–November 2013</p>
ReviewsExhibition reviewn/an/aBrydie-Leigh Bartleet
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2014-06-012014-06-0111511610.1017/qre.2014.16Selling Queensland
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<p>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.</p>
ArticlesEmigration from the United Kingdom to Queensland1872-1876Richard DaintreeAgent-General for EmigrationHistoryPoliticsHistoryPoliticsKenneth Morgan
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2020-12-012020-12-0113715310.1017/qre.2020.12Smoke signalling resistance
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/QRE/article/view/21608
<p>This essay reconstructs defensive/offensive mechanisms of Aboriginal communication networks and presents historical examples of their application as a means of resistance during Australia’s frontier wars. The principal focus is on smoke-signalling systems, especially in Queensland.</p>
ArticlesAboriginalcommunication networksfrontier warssmoke signallingHistoryHistoryRay Kerkhove
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2021-06-012021-06-0112410.1017/qre.2021.3