The French Australian Review – No 63 Australian Summer 2017-2018
ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword THIERRY VINCENT, An Exploration of the Fate of the Australian and Tasmanian Ethnographic Collections brought back by the Baudin Expedition, following the 1804 French Scientific Voyage to Australia [Australian and Tasmanian objects deposited at the Château de Malmaison] Explorer Nicolas Baudin was entrusted with assembling a collection of plants and animals for […]
The French Australian Review – No 57 Australian Summer 2014–2015
IVAN BARKO, Foreword COLIN NETTELBECK, French-Australian Relations – Towards an Historical Perspective 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 […]
Explorations – No 51 Dec 2011
IVAN BARKO, Foreward PETER RICKWOOD, CHARLES ABELA & IVAN BARKO, A 1788 French Sighting of Evidence for Volcanism in the Sydney Basin – Columnar Sandstone at La Perouse A discussion of the identification by the French explorers of columnar sandstone at Botany Bay and the recent discovery of samples of this sandstone on the shipwreck […]
Explorations – No 40 Jun 2006
(issued June 2008) WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword COLIN NETTELBECK, What is This Thing Called France? In his valedictory lecture delivered on his retirement in 2005 from the A.R. Chisholm Chair of French at the University of Melbourne, Colin Nettelbeck reflects on various aspects of French culture, history and geography and how they have determined France’s destiny […]
Explorations – No 39 Dec 2005
(issued June 2006) IVAN BARKO, Foreword KENNETH R. DUTTON, A Colonial Entrepreneur: François Girard (1792?-1859) Kenneth Dutton’s substantial paper is devoted to the life of François Girard, an early French settler and successful businessman in New South Wales. His activities centered on Sydney and the Northern Rivers. As was the case with so many of […]
Explorations – No 31 Dec 2001
(issued April 2002) WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword WALLACE KIRSOP, Colette Reddin 1920-2000. Obituary MARGARET SANKEY, The Baudin Expedition in Port Jackson, 1902 Cultural Encounters and Enlightenment Politics The article is adapted from a paper given at the 2001 conference at the University of Western Australia on the ‘Cultural Encounters in the Indian Pacific Region 1200-1800. The […]