Journal of Australian Studies

My interest in Australian road movies is motivated primarily by the desire to work within recently emerging theories of anti-racist whiteness in Australia. My concern with Australian texts and contexts was fuelled by an assumption that Australian whiteness...

This essay, like Gaul, is divided into three parts, the first of which considers sheep and the pastoral industry as a land-use; the second is about the politics of wool; the third, about Arcady in Australia, a theme that helps to explain the first...

The small remote community of Borroloola in the southwest Gulf region of the Northern Territory, approximately 970 kilometres southeast of Darwin and 80 kilometres inland, is today home to Yanyuwa people. Yanyuwa people traditionally identify themselves...

Some of us are becoming accustomed to paying tribute to the 'Country' on which we find ourselves when speaking or giving a paper. This is not, I suggest, mere tokenism. Iplicitly if not explicitly it signals an epistemological or even ontological uneasiness,...

Rural mythology has historically provided an important focus for cultural explanations of Australian national identity. Since the early 1960s, however, rural myths-especially those represented through the Australian Legend-have been subjected to searching...

'Do not shoot ... I am a B-b-british object!' (David Malouf, Remembering Babylon) 'the detours and blockages of the stutter with its rejection of familiar endings' (Sandra Buckley, 'An Aesthetics of the Stutter') The first register on the sensory...

Sir Donald's supreme mastery of the game of cricket marked a stage in the growth of Australia's nationhood. The 19th century had been full of achievement, from the brave explorers to the innovative pastoralists, from the politicians who fashioned a...

Since first contact and invasion, Europeans have imagined Australia in two related ways: as terra nullius, and as terra incognita. While Indigenous Australians have always known the fictiveness of these two modes of imagining this country, it took...