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A radical, illustrated weekly, founded by William Lane and Alfred Walker, The Boomerang published stories, poetry, social and sporting notes and cartoons. Henry Lawson and A. G. Stephens were both staff members - Lawson writing a column called 'Country Crumbs'. Lawson's retrenchment from The Boomerang is the subject of his poem 'The Shame of Going Back'; the demise of the publication may have inspired the poem 'The Cambaroora Star'. (Oxford Companion to Australian Literature).
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Contents indexed selectively.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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James George Drake, The Boomerang and Queensland Politics
2016
single work
essay
— Appears in: Fryer Folios , February vol. 10 no. 1 2016; (p. 12-15) -
Alien Intoxications : The Aggressions of a Brisbane Opium Smoker
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 81-96) -
Britishness and Australian Popular Fiction : From the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Sold by the Millions : Australia's Bestsellers 2012; (p. 46-66) 'The analysis offered here is [...], a panoptic perspective of the tangled skeins of literary imagination and imitation, gender and genre requirements, editorial control, market considerations and the sheer economics of the international book trade that knotted Australian popular literature into the cultural and economic fabric of the British empire.' (47) -
'Our Excellent Little Library' An Account of the Cosme Library
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Collections, Characters & Communities : The Shaping of Libraries in Australia and New Zealand 2010; (p. 143-157) -
Sir Wong Hung Foo's Tale
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"In Kingsbury, Sir Wong Hung Foo is a man disconsolate",
2008
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Kingsbury Tales 2008;
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Joe Swallow of the Boomerang
1967
single work
essay
— Appears in: The Realist , Spring no. 27 1967; (p. 23-25) -
Untitled
1890
single work
column
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 19 December 1890; (p. 3) Article informing readers that Lukin has purchased the 'comic paper', Boomerang. -
The 'English' Ideology : Literary Criticism in England and Australia
1985
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Thesis Eleven , vol. 12 no. 1985; (p. 110-129) -
'Our Excellent Little Library' An Account of the Cosme Library
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Collections, Characters & Communities : The Shaping of Libraries in Australia and New Zealand 2010; (p. 143-157) -
Local Items
1887
single work
column
— Appears in: The Cairns Post , 7 December 1887; (p. 2) Received the first two issues of The Boomerang, published in Brisbane, a weekly illustrated journal, framed on freelance principles. The journal impresses favourably and should become popular.
PeriodicalNewspaper Details
Frequency:
Weekly
Range:
No. 1 (Saturday, 19 November 1887) - no. 230 (Saturday, 9 April 1892)
Has serialised
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White or Yellow? : A Story of the Race War of A.D.1908,
single work
novel
'Heroic Australian whites fight the Chinese, whose immigration has produced the dystopia'. Source: 'Australian Utopian Literature : An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography, 1667-1999'.
- Elsie Nowell A Bush Girl, single work short story
- The Last of the Bushrangers, single work short story
- The Doom of Derrimut : An Episode in the Racial Struggle, single work short story
- His Colonial Experience, single work novella
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