Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Terre Vraiment Étrange: French Travel Writing in Australia between the Gold Rush and Federation
Published 2012-11-01Despite the rich heritage of the French in Australia, its corresponding field of scholarship is limited. This thesis will explore the travel writings of ten French men and women who visited Australia between the Gold Rush ...Open AccessThesis -
Exposing Indecency: Censorship and Sydney's Alternative Press 1963-1973
Published 2012-11-01The ‘alternative press’ arose in the Sixties as a medium of protest that gave voice to the concerns of the emergent youth revolt. This thesis uses these magazines as a lens through which to analyse how censorship was ...Open AccessThesis -
To maintain order amongst a disreputable people: The case of Captain Armstrong, colonial governance and scandal at the antipodes, 1878-1887
Published 2012-11-01On 4 April 1882, the New South Wales government steamer Thetis arrived at Lord Howe Island bearing J. Bowie Wilson, recently appointed commissioner of an inquiry into the conduct of the Island’s resident magistrate, Captain ...Open AccessThesis -
‘We want to do what they did’: History at St Clair
Published 2012-11-01In 1999 the Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation acquired the site of the former St Clair Mission where their forebears lived. They will recreate to turn it into a cultural centre that will sustain and strengthen their ...Open AccessThesis -
REHABILITATING “A FEW DISAFFECTED CHARACTERS”: IRELAND’S MEN OF ’98 FROM A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Published 2012-11-01The Irish Rebellion of 1798 has generated a fraught legacy. Its history has been variously skewed by elitist and partisan accounts which overshadow more balanced scholarship. These works have proved crucial in the proliferation ...Open AccessThesis