France-Australia by air
Author: WILLIAM A. LAND The French Australian Review No 64 (Australian Winter 2018): 60-82. https://doi.org/10.62586/KRXX2394 This article documents the role of French aircraft and pilots in Australian aviation history. Reference is made to a small number of key figures who were active in the air forces of both countries. An appendix lists the aircraft of […]
French Awareness of Australia: The Role of Albert Métin (1871–1918)
Author: COLIN NETTELBECK The French Australian Review No 64 (Australian Winter 2018): 27-59. https://doi.org/10.62586/TVDX5296 Drawing on two articles which appeared in Le Petit Parisien in July and September 1918, the author presents a case for the importance of Albert Métin’s role in raising awareness of Australia in France and of the potential for France to establish closer […]
Convicts and Communards: French-Australian Relations in the South Pacific, 1800–1900
Author: BARRY MCGOWAN The French Australian Review No 64 (Australian Winter 2018): 3-26. https://doi.org/10.62586/KQBF8369 An examination of the impact on French-Australian relations of the decision by the French government to establish a penal colony in New Caledonia. The article documents Australian reactions to the colony drawing on press reports and official documents. The transportation of […]
The Referendum in New Caledonia: What is at Stake?
Author: DENISE FISHER The French Australian Review No 65 (Australian Summer 2018-2019): 62-74. https://doi.org/10.62586/EUPX3582 Denise Fisher writes a detailed description of events in New Caledonia during the week of the referendum and her incisive comments demonstrate its complexity, as well as its importance to Australia. Keywords: New Caledonia 2018 independence referendum, 1988 Matignon/Oudinot Accords, Noumea […]
The 2018 New Caledonian referendum in Historical Perspective
Author: ROBERT ALDRICH The French Australian Review No 65 (Australian Summer 2018-2019): 48-61. https://doi.org/10.62586/HPDM3496 This article provides us with a sweeping history of both the colonial legacy in New Caledonia and the various ‘ideologies that have underlain campaigns for change in status’, thus supplying the reader with a perspective from which to view present and […]
Convict Suffering and Salvation in New Caledonia and Australia: the Life and Writing of French Bagnard-Poet, Julien de Sanary
Author: BRIONY NEILSON The French Australian Review No 65 (Australian Summer 2018-2019): 23-47. https://doi.org/10.62586/IMTV8942 This article offers a contextualised analysis of the published writing of the French convict-poet Julien de Sanary. Transported from France to the penal colony in New Caledonia in 1881, Sanary spent almost forty years of his life incarcerated in the archipelago […]
Voyage of the Pilgrims
Author: ELIZABETH RECHNIEWSKI The French Australian Review No 65 (Australian Summer 2018-2019): 3-22. WINNER OF THE 2018 IVAN BARKO AWARD https://doi.org/10.62586/SREB4656 In June 1902, a small group of prospective settlers set out from Sydney for the New Hebrides. They were accompanied by A. B. Paterson–‘Banjo’ Paterson–who had been hired by the Sydney Morning Herald to […]
Meryl Tankard’s French connection: Régis Lansac
Author: MAGGIE TONKIN The French Australian Review No 66 (Australian Winter 2019): 26-48. https://doi.org/10.62586/MYEK7829 Australian choreographer Meryl Tankard’s work is suffused with French cultural references, due in part to her ballet training but more significantly to her partnership with French photographer and visual artist, Régis Lansac. Together they have created works in which movement and […]
Revisiting the French Campaign in the Dardanelles, 1915
Author: MICHAEL TYQUIN The French Australian Review No 66 (Australian Winter 2019): 3-25. https://doi.org/10.62586/ZDNZ9107 The article begins with a brief discussion of the commemoration and memory of Gallipoli in France, before proceeding to the reasons behind sending a French force there in 1915. Then follows an analysis of this campaign with a focus of the […]
French Migrant Writing in Australia: Australianness in Two Female Memoirs from the 2000s
Author: NATALIE EDWARDS and CHRISTOPHER HOGARTH The French Australian Review No 67 (Australian Summer 2019-2020): 46-63. https://doi.org/10.62586/WKXM3649 This article reads the work of Catherine Rey and Marie-Paule Leroux as examples of French-Australian migrant literature. It compares the way these two writers, both of whom moved to Australia from France in mid-life, portray their migration in […]