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'In 1965, 29 students from Sydney University set out on a road trip through northwestern NSW, to challenge the ingrained discrimination and racism that was a largely unacknowledged feature of NSW country towns. The trip was marked by confrontation, intense street debates, some physical violence and much courage from local Aborigines.' (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
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‘Creative Histories’ and the Australian Context
2022
single work
criticism
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 19 no. 2 2022; (p. 325-346) 'This article brings together a group of history practitioners who, prompted by their experiences of creative approaches to the theory and practice of history, are exploring how the term ‘Creative Histories’ might apply within the Australian context. While the term and practice of Creative Histories has gained international currency in recent years, little has been done to consider its development and relevance in Australia. Here we develop a working definition for the term which has been shaped in conversation with Creative Historians at the University of Bristol and a suite of interviews conducted with 10 Australian ‘creative historians’ who have worked or still work within the academy, as well as four Indigenous artists, academics and activists who each employ creativity in the ways they ‘practice the past’. Together, these influences indicate that questions of purpose, poetics and politics go to the heart of Creative Histories in Australia and that a fuller understanding of both Creative Histories and the creative histories of Aboriginal practitioners will make a useful contribution to conversations concerned with decolonising the discipline in Australia.' (Publication abstract) -
White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 57-75) 'This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the 'raw nerves' that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of 'indifference' that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of 'European life' in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the 'jangling' of 'raw nerves' and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day and pursued Aboriginal women by night manage their 'jangling nerves, if indeed they did jangle? How did they manage to be seen and known and have their secrets kept for them, as much as by them. How did this contradiction of segregation and sexual intimacy, if indeed it is a contradiction, work, My hope is that if we can understand how the white men (and those around them), regulated these jangling nerves, then we might be able to understand the relationship between indifference, public secrecy and the biopolitical forms that Australian whiteness took in the twentieth century, and specifically in the period of assimilation, extending from the 1930s to, roughly, the end of the 1960s.' (Author's introduction p. 57)
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The Freedom Ride
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Greats 2008; (p. 134-138) -
Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers - Clive Moore
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics and History , vol. 51 no. 1 2005; (p. 133-134)
— Review of Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers 2002 single work autobiography -
[Review Essay] Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2003; (p. 112-114)
— Review of Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers 2002 single work autobiography'Ann Curthoys, the Manning Clark Professor of History at The Australian National University, has already contributed so much to Australian studies through her excellent work on Indigenous and women’s history. Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers may be her best and most important legacy yet.' (Introduction)
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[Review Essay] Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Aboriginal Studies , no. 2 2003; (p. 112-114)
— Review of Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers 2002 single work autobiography'Ann Curthoys, the Manning Clark Professor of History at The Australian National University, has already contributed so much to Australian studies through her excellent work on Indigenous and women’s history. Freedom Ride: A freedom rider remembers may be her best and most important legacy yet.' (Introduction)
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Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers - Clive Moore
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics and History , vol. 51 no. 1 2005; (p. 133-134)
— Review of Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers 2002 single work autobiography -
Hunters of Australia
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 21 February no. 5212 2003; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Black Sheep : Journey to Borroloola 2002 single work prose ; In Denial : The Stolen Generations and the Right 2001 single work criticism ; Looking for Blackfellas' Point : An Australian History of Place 2002 single work non-fiction ; Freedom Ride : A Freedom Rider Remembers 2002 single work autobiography -
The Freedom Ride
2008
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Greats 2008; (p. 134-138) -
White Closets, Jangling Nerves and the Biopolitics of the Public Secret
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , June vol. 26 no. 2 2011; (p. 57-75) 'This essay attempts to outline the relationship between the 'raw nerves' that Denis Byrne describes in the epigraph above, and the cultivation of 'indifference' that Stanner identifies as being characteristic of 'European life' in Australia. Here I situate indifference as numbing the 'jangling' of 'raw nerves' and as cultivated, disseminated and feeding specific forms of public secrecy. How did the white men who enforces segregation by day and pursued Aboriginal women by night manage their 'jangling nerves, if indeed they did jangle? How did they manage to be seen and known and have their secrets kept for them, as much as by them. How did this contradiction of segregation and sexual intimacy, if indeed it is a contradiction, work, My hope is that if we can understand how the white men (and those around them), regulated these jangling nerves, then we might be able to understand the relationship between indifference, public secrecy and the biopolitical forms that Australian whiteness took in the twentieth century, and specifically in the period of assimilation, extending from the 1930s to, roughly, the end of the 1960s.' (Author's introduction p. 57)
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‘Creative Histories’ and the Australian Context
2022
single work
criticism
— Appears in: History Australia , vol. 19 no. 2 2022; (p. 325-346) 'This article brings together a group of history practitioners who, prompted by their experiences of creative approaches to the theory and practice of history, are exploring how the term ‘Creative Histories’ might apply within the Australian context. While the term and practice of Creative Histories has gained international currency in recent years, little has been done to consider its development and relevance in Australia. Here we develop a working definition for the term which has been shaped in conversation with Creative Historians at the University of Bristol and a suite of interviews conducted with 10 Australian ‘creative historians’ who have worked or still work within the academy, as well as four Indigenous artists, academics and activists who each employ creativity in the ways they ‘practice the past’. Together, these influences indicate that questions of purpose, poetics and politics go to the heart of Creative Histories in Australia and that a fuller understanding of both Creative Histories and the creative histories of Aboriginal practitioners will make a useful contribution to conversations concerned with decolonising the discipline in Australia.' (Publication abstract)
Awards
- 2003 Winner Stanner Award
- 2003 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
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Subjects:
- Far West NSW, New South Wales,
- 1965
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