like theGriffith Review. I was surprised then to see how oftenArt in Australiawas featured in 1922. The journal, which was published from 1916 to 1942, had a chequered publication history.Wikipedia explainsthat it had four “series”: (1) No.1, 1916 – No.11, 1921; (2) New Series...
The group also applied this cultural assimilationist view to Australia’s First Nations (Indigenous) peoples, differentiating between those ‘who believe they have the right over our land’, on the one hand, and ‘those who support us … and who believe [our national holiday] is not Invasion...
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Of course, there’s the obvious proviso. Historical fiction is not history. However, I believe that good historical fiction does provide truths about the past that can inform our understanding of what happened. Historical fiction by First Nations writers ensures that this understanding extends beyond...
Richard Broome’s Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788 tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of our First Nations Peoples. The expanded fifth edition covers the Northern Territory Intervention, remote Australia’s mining boom, the Uluru Statement, and the resurgence of interest am...
Approximately 350 million people in the world, or roughly 6% of the world's population are indigenous. Significantly diverse, Native peoples live in at least 72 countries as nations within nations (Echo-Hawk 1997: 1_2). Indigenous peoples existed before colonists arrived in their homelands, and...
"The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis (sometimes called ""the Dismissal"") has been described as the greatest political crisis and constitutional crisis in Australia's history. It culminated on 11 November 1975 with the removal of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party...
"Through education you get an understanding of the culture and history of a people. In turn, this helps build bridges between people," he added. In June, the Colin Mackerras Chair in Australian Studies Program was established in Beijing to honour the professor's contribution to the educational...
debate for many years. ... Throughout the country's history, the national identity has not remained constant, and currently it is a debate to what Australian's true national identity is. ... This perception cannot be good for Australian's national identity as perceived by other nations. ....
Luckily, I have on hand a 55 page essay by Judith Wright, ‘Australian Poetry to 1920’, included inThe Literature of Australia, Geoffrey Dutton ed. (1964). She begins: “The history of Australian poetry from the First Settlement in 1788 to the end of the first world war is largely a ...