The French Australian Review – No 73 Australian Summer 2022-2023

ISSN 2981-894X (Online), ISSN 2203-5362 (Print)     JANE GILMOUR & ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword Vale Colin Nettelbeck Colin Nettelbeck was a co-founder of ISFAR and its journal Explorations (now The French Australian Review). He served in various roles (including president) in ISFAR from 1985 to 2000 and returned as president from 2011 to 2018. A […]

The French Australian Review – No 72 Australian Winter 2022

ISSN 2981-894X (Online), ISSN 2203-5362 (Print) Foreword   KERRY MULLAN, Preface   IVAN BARKO, Tribute to Colin Nettelbeck   ALEXIS BERGANTZ AND ELIZABETH RECHNIEWSKI, ISFAR@35: Australia and France in a Regional Global Context: Past Engagements and Future Research Directions The authors review the work of ISFAR, The French Australian Review and The ISFAR Research Committee […]

The French Australian Review – No 69 Australian Summer 2020-2021

JANE GILMOUR, ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword CAROLINE WINTER, Com-Memoration of the Great War: Tourists and remembrance on the Western Front Social memory changes in response to the characteristics and needs of each generation, thus it can often present a somewhat more favourable perspective on past events, compared with historical reality. In the lead up to the […]

The French Australian Review – No 68 Australian Winter 2020

ELAINE LEWIS, JANE GILMOUR, Foreword IRENE ROGERS, ‘A Gift for France’: the Australian Bluebird nurses of the Great War WINNER OF THE 2020 IVAN BARKO AWARD In July 1916, a group of twenty one Australian trained nurses known as the Bluebirds left Australia for the Western Front. They were under contract with The New South Wales […]

Explorations – No 34 Jun 2003

(issued February 2004) IVAN BARKO, Foreword MARIE AND JOHN RAMSLAND, Visitors with “an unusual charm”: French Celebrities at the Australia Hotel, 1891–1932 The authors, both of the University of Newcastle, explore the French associations of the now-defunct Hotel Australia in Castlereagh Street in Sydney, focusing on its foundation late in the nineteenth century and its […]