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2005...
vol.
12
no.
1
2005
of
Queensland Review
est. 1994
Queensland Review
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'This issue of Queensland Review coincides with the death of Queensland's longest serving and most controversial Premier, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen. For many Queenslanders, this event provided an opportunity to reflect on the 'Joh era', and to consider how Queensland has changed since it came to an end in 1987. As Sandy McCutcheon's Australia Talks Back program on the legacy of Sir Joh demonstrated, the former Premier continues to divide Queenslanders. 1 The post-mortem reflections on Sir Joh have, however, brought into sharp relief a change in perceptions of the state of Queensland from within as well as without. The dismissive characterisation of Queensland as Australia's 'cultural desert' has been replaced by a new interest in the state's distinctive history and its future directions. The work published here exemplifies· the way in which research into Queensland's local and regional specificities and histories now engages robustly with broader national and international debates.' (Editorial)
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* Contents derived from the 2005 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Listening to Noddy,
single work
autobiography
(p. 5-9)
'As a young journalist at the Courier-Mail newspaper, my mother once met the famous British children's writer Enid Blyton, who stopped in Brisbane briefly. There was a press conference in a hangar out at the airport. Many important people were there — the Australian publisher, someone from the British High Commission, someone from the Prime Minister's Office, along with reporters from Sydney and Melbourne — and my mother, my beautiful young mother, in a panama hat with gloves and white glasses, excited to be there, to be amongst it.' (Extract)
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'It's All Migloo Crap to Me' : Indentity Politics in Contemporary Indigenous Writing in Queensland,
single work
criticism
(p. 37-46)'This article provides a brief literary history of Indigenous writing in Queensland. The literature covered here is informed by the experiences of the personal, the familial and the communal, and enlarges the meanings of both the literary and the political because Indigenous writing is part of, not separate from, the daily lives and struggles of its authors. Related to this is the question of the sacred, and Indigenous relationships to the land are an abiding preoccupation of the writing explored here. Literature, as well as the way it is read, is intimately related to Indigenous efforts to achieve cultural autonomy and calls for recognition of difference and shared humanity and agency. It thereby becomes a tool of recognition, acknowledgment and transformation, producing new kinds of knowledges and new kinds of readers.' (Extract)
- Hitting Home : Nick Earls' Brisbane and the Creation of the Celebrity Author, single work criticism (p. 47-58)
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Imagining the Hinterland : Literary Representations of Southeast Queensland Beyond the Brisbane Line,
single work
criticism
(p. 59-73)'Southeast Queensland - the region encompassing Coolangatta and the McPherson Range to the south, Cooloola and the Blackall Range to the north, and the Great Dividing Range to the west - represents one of Queensland's most significant literary landscapes. For millennia, this area - defined by mountains and waterways - contained important gathering places for ceremonies and trade, and its inhabitants elaborated the meaning of the landscape in a rich complex of stories and other cultural practices such as the bunya festivals. Colonisation disrupted but did not obliterate these cultural associations, which remain alive in the oral traditions of local Aboriginal people and, in more recent times, have surfaced in the work of writers like Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Sam Watson.' (Introduction)
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The Queensland Electoral System and Indigenous Representation,
single work
criticism
(p. 75-90)'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represent more than 3 per cent of the Queensland population, but only one Aboriginal person has so far been elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly. (Mr Eric Deeral was the National Party member for Cook from 1974 to 1977.) This fact suggests that the Indigenous population and minorities in general do not have much influence on government in Queensland. Questions therefore arise as to why and what can be done to address this deficiency.' (Extract)
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[Review] Whispers of This Wik Woman,
single work
review
— Review of Whispers of This Wik Woman 2004 single work life story ;(p. 106-107)'In 2003 Fiona Doyle won the national David Unaipon Award for an unpublished manuscript by an Indigenous writer. This book is the result, and it is easy to appreciate why the judges decided that this was a tale the public needed to hear, not least because it adds an oddly shaped piece to the vast jigsaw that is Australian native title. In the process it does much more, drawing the reader into the whispered history of 'this Wik woman' (the author's grandmother) and her people.' (Introduction)
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