Explorations – No 29 Dec 2000

(issued March 2001) PATRICIA CLANCY, JACQUES DE SAINT-FERJEUX, COLIN THORNTON-SMITH, Foreword EDITORIAL COMMITTEE, Biographies of incoming Associate Editors, Ivan Barko and Edward Duyker IVAN BARKO, French Perceptions of Australian Federation This essay (which takes up almost the whole of Explorations no 29) analyses French reactions to the proclamation of Australian Federation at the beginning of […]

Explorations – No 26F Jul 1999

(French language edition) PATRICIA CLANCY, JACQUES DE SAINT-FERJEUX, COLIN THORNTON-SMITH, Avant-propos IVAN BARKO, La Fondation et les débuts de l’Alliance française de Sydney A second special number of Explorations to commemorate the centenary of the foundation of the Alliance française of Sydney. Issue 26F consists mainly of a modified version, in French, of Ivan Barko’s […]

Explorations – No 26 Jun 1999

PATRICIA CLANCY, JACQUES DE SAINT-FERJEUX, COLIN THORNTON-SMITH, Foreword IVAN BARKO, The Foundation and Early History of the Alliance française of Sydney This history of the beginnings of the Alliance française of Sydney occupies the whole of no 26 of Explorations. The creation of the Sydney Alliance took place in two stages: a borrowing library sponsored […]

Explorations – No 19 Dec 1995

(issued December 1997) WALLACE KIRSOP, Foreword COLIN NETTELBECK, Looking Ahead: an 1898 French View of Australian Federation In a short introduction the author recalls the accidental discovery in the late 1980s of some of the pre-war archives of the Melbourne French Consulate and describes a specific 1898 document, namely a report sent by Georges Biard […]