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 65 Australian Summer 2018-2019
ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword ELIZABETH RECHNIEWSKI, Voyage of the Pilgrims WINNER OF THE 2018 IVAN BARKO AWARD In June 1902, a small group of prospective settlers set out from Sydney for the New Hebrides. They were accompanied by A. B. Paterson–‘Banjo’ Paterson–who had been hired by the Sydney Morning Herald to report on their progress and […]
The French Australian Review – No 64 Australian Winter 2018
JANE GILMOUR, Foreword BARRY McGOWAN, Convicts and Communards: French-Australian Relations in the South Pacific, 1800–1900 An examination of the impact on French-Australian relations of the decision by the French government to establish a penal colony in New Caledonia. The article documents Australian reactions to the colony drawing on press reports and official documents. The transportation […]
The French Australian Review – No 59 Australian Summer 2015
(SPECIAL WORLD WAR I ISSUE) STUART MACINTYRE, Foreword COLIN NETTELBECK, Introduction LEAH RICHES, ‘De l’ombre à la lumière’ – Remembering Fromelles through a Century of Private Grief and Public Politics This article examines the way the memory of the battle of Fromelles has been sustained in private and public spheres. It identifies three distinct phases […]