French-Australian Relations – Towards an Historical Perspective

Author: COLIN NETTELBECK
The French Australian Review No 57 (Australian Summer 2014–2015): 3-27
https://doi.org/10.62586/OMMH1925

The author argues the need for the construction of a full-scale historical overview of French-Australian relations. In analysing a broad range of the achievements of French-Australian studies as a field of scholarship, it sketches out some of the areas where work still needs to be undertaken, and proposes some general structures to guide the development of the synthesis.

Keywords: French voyages of discovery in the Pacific, French presence in Australia, migration, relationship through trade, diplomacy, Alliance Française, academic study, arts and culture