Explorations – No 55 Australian Summer 2013-2014

ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword IVAN BARKO, The Alliance Française of Sydney between the Two World Wars: A Study in Leadership In contrast to the Melbourne Alliance, no archives of the Sydney Alliance (either local, including Australian libraries, or at the Paris headquarters) have survived for the period under consideration. The author’s main source for this history […]

Explorations – No 50 Jun 2011

COLIN NETTELBECK, Foreword JEAN FORNASIERO, Strangers on the Shore: Musical Encounters in Terra Australis, 1802 This article documents the cultural encounter between members of the 1802 Baudin expedition and indigenous Australians through the medium of music. In their attentive observation of the importance of art in the Aborigines’ daily lives, the French explorers projected an […]