Journal of Australian Studies

Can anyone truly claim that politics and poetry are absolutely separate, that a poem is not also political? This article argues that the work of Les Murray demonstrates a political will as sharp as Plato's. Once Murray imbues poetry with the power...

Reading mytho-poetic beasts into the landscape The subaltern in planning refers to non-western or non-dominant approaches to planning. Planning is defined as a geographic construction and upholding of a community's cultural and physical development....

2003 marks the eightieth anniversary of Kraft's Vegemite. For most supermarket products, this would constitute a commendable achievement, a show of impressive endurance in an otherwise unpredictable consumer climate. Octogenarian feats aside, it is...

Is Australian dance unremarked upon because it is unremarkable? (2) the opposite of the Cringe is not the Strut, but a relaxed erectness of carriage. (3) Dance, and particularly professional dance, has received little attention in Australian...

The passage of the South Australia Act in 1834 with only minor amendments is one of the intriguing aspects of the foundation of South Australia. Why did the British government agree to the passage of such an unworkable Act? J M Main suggests that it...

The Golden Grove Development, situated approximately twenty kilometres north east of the Adelaide CBD, is South Australia's, and perhaps Australia's, first largescale fully planned residential development. Initiated in the early 1970s as a state government...

Just why the environment, the natural world, the landscape or even the flora and fauna peculiar to this continent should feature so prominently among the subjects of Australian poetry--almost as if to write poetry as an Australian is to venerate nature...

A politics of authenticity or hybridity? This article is in two parts. In the first part I use two case studies to illustrate the identity politics in which Aboriginal Tasmanians are routinely immersed. In these cases, several authoritative discourses--primarily...

In all class struggles, treachery to the workers pays the traitor well. (1) On 7 November 1890, William Campbell of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) in Melbourne wrote to the British labour activist John Burns: 'There is hardly a day elapses...

On 16 July 1984, a Royal Commission was formally established under Justice James McClelland to investigate the effects of British nuclear weapons tests on the Australian environment and population. As a consequence, Australian and British official...

What is it to dwell? To physically or imaginatively inhabit? To contemplate, to ponder? The idea of dwelling might imply firmness or fixity, something settled. It may call for spaces that are occluded, private, and in stasis, but it can also suggest...