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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 $49.95. Reviewed by Dr Philippa Mein Smith, University of…
Richard Brockett, University of Queensland I was drawn into the Country Party in my youth … In those days its principles, as expressed in its original policy booklet, coincided with the principles I had been brought up on. The infrastructure…
A Reply to Richard Ely’s review of Believing in Australia, by Hilary Carey Religious historians are, in my experience, an exceptionally polite and generous group. In fact, during my current term as editor of the Journal of Religious History, I…
The First Phase – February 1992 to March 1996 by Sean Brawley (1). History teaches us where we have been and teaches us to learn from our mistakes. History can also be selectively quoted to suit a particular agenda and…
Hilary Carey, Believing in Australia: A Cultural History of Religions, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1996, xviii + 270. A$ 27.95. Reviewed by Richard Ely, Department of History, University of Tasmania. Carey states that the basic intention of this ‘nonspecialist’ study…
Frank Bongiorno, The People’s Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition, 1875-1914. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996. 268 pp. Endnotes, bibliography, index. A$24.95 (paper), ISBN 0 522847382. Reviewed by Robert W. Cherny, [email protected], Department of History, San Francisco State University.…
D. W. A. Baker, Preacher, Politician, Patriot: A Life of John Dunmore Lang. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998. 222 pp. Short note on sources, index. A29.95 (paper), ISBN 05223 848222. Reviewed by Richard Ely, [email protected], School of History and Classics,…
By Paul Turnbull, Department of History and Politics, James Cook University of North Queensland, P.O. Q4811. I. Returning Ancestors. On 30 September 1991 the Senatus Academicus, the governing body of the university of Edinburgh, formally gave nearly 300 osteological specimens…
