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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... vol. 20 no. 1 June 2013 of Queensland Review est. 1994 Queensland Review
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'This issue marks the twentieth anniversary of Queensland Review. It therefore seems appropriate to spend a few moments looking back over our two decades of continuous existence — something of a rarity among Australian scholarly journals. We do this not in a spirit of nostalgia (well, perhaps a little of that!), still less in a spirit of self-congratulation, but in a spirit of sober stocktaking and realistic appraisal.' [Source : Editorial introduction]

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2013 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Raphael Cilento in Medicine and Politics: Visions and Contradictions, Mark Finnane , single work biography
'At the end of his working life as a medical bureaucrat, Raphael Cilento twice tried his hand at Australian federal politics. After an initial joust at a Senate seat, he was encouraged by the fledgling Australian Democratic Union to try the House of Representatives. His choice of electorate was heroic. The seat of McPherson (Qld) was held by Arthur Fadden, one time prime minister and perennial member for this Darling Downs electorate. Standing as an ‘Independent Democrat’, Cilento targeted the Italian community in Stanthorpe, a district where he picked up half the vote in his otherwise unsuccessful campaign. His candidature attracted some notice. Brisbane’s Truth described Sir Raphael as ‘the most distinguished Queenslander to ever enter the Federal political arena’. This might seem a little hyperbolic, but seen in the larger context of Cilento’s national and international work, it was a defensible proposition. Seen literally, it is slightly less defensible since Cilento was not Queensland born. Rather, he came to adopt Queensland — and to seek to advance its standing as an example of successful white settlement of the tropics.' [Source : Queensland Review vol. 20, no. 1, p. 4]
(p. 4-14)
Staking a Claim : Eight Mt Isa Novels, Cheryl M. Taylor , single work criticism
'Mt Isa's story is an Australian foundation epic. Only heroic struggle could have dug the mine and built the city a thousand kilometres from the nearest deepwater port, in a scorched red landscape sparsely dotted with spinifex and eucalypts. In Mines in the spinifex (1970), Geoffrey Blainey celebrates the fortitude of the prospectors and entrepreneurs who overcame these obstacles to found what he calls ‘the greatest Australian mine of the [twentieth] century’ (1970: 64).' (Publication abstract)
(p. 96-109)
Remaking an ‘Old Tradition's Magic’ : The Irish Strain in Early Queensland Writing, Belinda McKay , Patrick Buckridge , single work criticism

'The themes of cultural dislocation and the struggle to feel ‘at home’ in a new land figure prominently in Australian literature, and considerable critical attention has been devoted to the distinctive articulations of these preoccupations by well-known writers of Irish birth or descent, such as Victor Daley, Bernard O'Dowd and John O'Brien. Queensland's Irish writers, however, have been largely forgotten or overlooked — both individually and as a group.' (Publication summary)

(p. 110-125)
Book Review : The World Last Night, Patrick Buckridge , single work review
— Review of The World Last Night M. T. C. Cronin , 2012 selected work poetry ;
(p. 126-129)
Review : Larrikins : A History, Melissa Bellanta , single work review
— Review of Larrikins : A History Melissa Bellanta , 2012 single work criticism ;
(p. 130)

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