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A Question of Leadership. By Michael Gordon. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993, xiii + 240. $14.95. Reviewed by Richard Davis, History Department, University of Tasmania. This book, published in February 1993, immediately before the Federal election, has apparently…
Stefan Petrow, Sanatorium of the South? Public health and politics in Hobart and Launceston, 1875-1914, Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1995. Anne Killalea, The Great Scourge: the Tasmanian infantile paralysis epidemic, 1937-1938,Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1995. Reviewed by Philippa…
Home: Articles: Peter Limb © Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History An Australian Historian at the Dawn of Apartheid: Fred Alexander in South Africa, 1949-50 Peter Limb University of Western Australia This article examines a little-known aspect of…
Ros Pesman. Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996. xviii + 271 pp. AUS$39.95 ISBN 0 19 553639 8 Oxford Book of Travel Writing. Ed. Ros Pesman, David Walker, and Richard White. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996.…
Mel Keenan The following study sets out to sketch the profile of the average ribbon transportee to Tasmania by investigating those convicts who advised the Tasmanian authorities that they had been transported for offences relating to “ribbonism”. The University of…
Home: Articles: Monica Keneley © Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History The Impact of Agricultural Intensification on the Pastoral Economy of the Western District of Victoria, 1890-1930. Monica Keneley School of Economics, Deakin University, P.O. Box 423, Warrnambool…
By David Greason ** ‘The Party system of Government can play little part, if any, in the struggle for real democracy. In principle, it is the antithesis of democracy.’ Eric D. Butler, The Money Power versus Democracy, 1940. ‘A recent…
An Australian Democrat: The Life, Work, and Consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark. Edited by Marcus Haward and James Warden. Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania. 282 pp. Price: $A30.00 post-free in Australia, $A35.00 if posted elsewhere. Orders to:…
After its election in 1984, the New Zealand Labour Government of David Lange inspired the ALP Left, bitterly resentful of the Hawke Labor government’s abandonment of the party’s anti-nuclear policies, by its refusal to accept potentially nuclear American warships. Later…
The French Consul’s Wife: Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in gold-rush Australia, introduced and translated by Patricia Clancy and Jeanne Allen, Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Press, 1998. ISBN 0522847757 RRP $49.95. Reviewed by Dr Philippa Mein Smith, University of…
