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 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 61 Australian Summer 2016-2017
ELAINE LEWIS, Foreword JILL DONOHOO, NSW Premier William Holman and the ‘inexhaustible interest of French literature and affairs’ WINNER OF THE 2017 IVAN BARKO AWARD This is an exploration of the public and private aspects of William Holman’s francophilia and its significance in his life. Holman was premier of New South Wales between 1913 and […]