50In 2026, the Journal of Australian Studies
publishes its 50th volume. To mark this occasion we propose a special issue for release in late 2026. For this volume, we would like to invite scholars to revisit its back issues - perhaps with nostalgia, perhaps with criticism, but always with the purpose of evaluating what Australian Studies has been, what it currently is, and what it can be.
We seek articles of that can do one or more of the following:
Select a particular article or special issue from the past to speak to from a contemporary perspective
Revisit one of your own articles published in
JAS
to critically revise, update - or perhaps redact past scholarship
Scholarly reflections of editorial experiences with the journal focused on characterising “Australian Studies” at the time
Critical personal reflections
Debates and disputes in Australian studies (on the pages and off of
JAS
)
A critical history of/commentary on
JAS
and its relationship to the field of Australian Studies more broadly
Critical reviews of key themes the journal has covered (or not covered) over its history
Critical reviews of the role of disciplines and disciplinarity within the interdisciplinary formation of Australian Studies
We also welcome other proposals and suggestions. Please note that we are open to a wide range of lengths and formats in this context, as appropriate to the form of your contribution, and we invite contributors to specify a nominal word count in their proposal, noting that this cannot exceed 8000 words (inclusive of footnotes).
We invite all contributors to provide a 300-500 word
abstract proposal for their article by 30 March 2026
. This is to allow us to identify and remedy any potential overlaps, and to identify peer reviewers in advance.
Outcomes and feedback on abstracts will be provided by 3 April
at the latest. Please submit your abstracts to:
journalofaustralianstudies@gmail.com
with the subject line:
Attn: JAS at 50 Special Issue.
Initial manuscripts are due in ScholarOne by 17 July 2026
; however, we welcome early submissions.
All manuscripts will be peer reviewed. In the spirit of collaboration, we ask that contributors to the special issue also assist with peer reviewing other contributions. After revisions based on the peer review are made, manuscripts will undergo an editorial review, after which they may be returned for further revisions. After this round of editorial revisions, the manuscripts will then be forwarded to our copyeditor by no later than 28 August. Final manuscripts (including peer review, revision, copyediting, and revisions after copyediting) are due by 9 October 2026.
If you have any questions, please email the Editors:
jess.carniel@unisq.edu.au
and
chris.hay@flinders.edu.au
Production timeline at a glance
Abstracts:
30 March 2026
Notification of acceptance:
3 April 2026
Initial manuscript submission:
17 July 2026
Peer review and revision process completed by:
28 August 2026
Final manuscripts (including peer review and copyediting)
: 9 October 2026
Publication:
December 2026
To celebrate our 50th volume, JAS invites you to contribute to a special issue on (the Journal of) Australian Studies at 50.
Please see the CFP below for details - and please circulate it far and wide!
@intlausstudies.bsky.social
#CFP #OzStudies #OzLit #OzHist #auspol #AustralianStudies
06.03.2026 02:16
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A squat man in a safari suit stands in a desert landscape. To his right is a Pacific Islander carrying a camera and equipment back. Behind him, various Pacific Islanders dance.
Megarrity reviews Quanchi's Thomas McMahon’s Search for Fame: Photographer, Journalist and Patriot (Sidharta Books and Print)
www.thenile.com.au/books/max-qu...
19.01.2026 22:25
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A cartoon image by Reg Mombassa depicting a long-haired bearded man standing in a flooded landscape, reading a book. He is surrounded by houses and icons of Australian culture, such as a Hill Hoist, cricket stumps, a football, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and the Opera House.
Margolis reviews Moore et al's Fringe to Famous: Cultural Production in Australia After the Creative Industries (Bloomsbury).
www.bloomsbury.com/au/fringe-to...
19.01.2026 22:25
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A black and white image of a middle aged Italian couple stand in front of a car and home. The book title reads: ‘I buy this piece of ground here’
An Italian market-gardener community in Adelaide, 1920s–1970s.
Henderson reviews Regan's “I Buy This Piece of Ground Here”: An Italian Market-Gardener Community in Adelaide, 1920s–1970s (ANU Press).
press.anu.edu.au/publications...
19.01.2026 22:25
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Tony Armstrong, an Indigenous man with a mustache and goatee wearing a yellow jacket decorated with cactus and rabbits, sits at a table. Before him is an empty plate and several cane toads apparently hopping about the table. He has speared one with his fork. Will he eat it??
We start our book reviews with...not a book review!
@sighmonger.bsky.social reviews the ABC's "Eat the Invaders", hosted by Tony Armstrong.
19.01.2026 22:25
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Last but not least, a thread of the book reviews published in 49.4.
If you have a book you would like us to review, please contact out reviews editors @jonpiccini.bsky.social and Nycole Prowse.
19.01.2026 22:25
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: Old Wine in New Bottles for Australian Readers: Captain Cook and Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey in Children’s Picture Books. Authors: Martin Kerby, Eseta Tualaulelei, Lisa Ryan, Margaret Baguley, and Alison Bedford (University of Southern Queensland). Abstract: This article explores a famous but controversial figure in the Australian imaginary, Captain James Cook, and his representation in children’s books over different periods. We examine three representative examples of children’s books that explore James Cook and his first voyage to the South Pacific: The Story of Captain Cook: An Adventure from History (Ladybird Books, 1958), Excuse Me, Captain Cook: Who Did Discover Australia? (Salmon, 1988) and Meet … Captain Cook (Murdie and Nixon, 2011). Each book was created by the respective authors and artists at different points in time, so we analyse the stories using Joseph Campbell’s three-stage metaphor of the “Hero’s Journey”, a canonical structure that he identified in mythological narratives or monomyths that resonate across cultures and epochs. Our analysis demonstrates that representations of Cook in children’s picture books are largely conservative, drawing the reader’s attention away from contentious alternative perspectives of his story.
In our final article for 49.4, Kerby, Tualaulelei, Ryan, Baguley and Bedford use Joseph Campbell's "hero's journey" to explore how Captain Cook has been portrayed in children's books from the 1950 to the 2010s.
#KidsLit #OzHistory #CaptainCook #OzStudies #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/pcxfbeuv
18.01.2026 22:44
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: George Turner's Down There in Darkness and the Future of Humanity. Author: Anne Maxwell (University of Melbourne). Abstract: This article proposes that Australian author George Turner's posthumous novel Down There in Darkness (1999) belongs to the category of science fiction novels recently labelled “critical dystopias” by Tom Moylan. I argue that Turner's novel can be situated in the context of the Anthropocene in its exploration of the disappearance of the human both to climate catastrophe and to our own technologies in storytelling inspired by events occurring during Turner's own lifetime. I then explore Turner's novel in the context of the “postcolonial turn” to show how it anticipates many aspects of the critical dystopian trajectories explored by Indigenous science fiction writers today.
The penultimate article of 49.4:
Maxwell examines George Turner's Down There In Darkness as a critical dystopia on the cusp of a postcolonial turn in science fiction.
#OzLit #SciFi #FirstNations #posthumanism #dystopia #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/3amcr3e8
15.01.2026 22:09
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: Subverting Social Order: Recovering the Intelligent Woman Farmer in John Naish’s That Men Should Fear (1963). Author: Elizabeth A. Smyth (James Cook University). Abstract: In a 1985 lecture, Australian literary scholar Bruce Bennett said that people associated with farming are commonly regarded as intellectually impoverished. John Naish’s farm novel That Men Should Fear (1963) subverts the literary social order that Bennett described by portraying a farmer who is characterised as highly educated. Naish’s first novel, The Cruel Field (1962), has appeared in recent georgic studies and ecocritical scholarship, and in analyses of the migrant experience and labour systems. In this article, I recover his second novel, That Men Should Fear, and argue that Naish’s characterisation of the farmer as university educated subverts the literary “scale of civilisation” noted by Bennett while enabling insights into a class division based on ownership of farmland. This article centres on Naish’s portrayal of a strong and independent woman farmer at a time when women felt sidelined in Australian literature and society. I argue that Naish’s That Men Should Fear reshapes the genre of the Australian farm novel by expanding traditional representations of women and class. It also enriches the farmer’s perspective offered in Naish’s The Cruel Field.
Next in 49.4:
Smyth argues that Naish's That Men Should Fear reshapes the genre of the farm novel through its portrayal of women and class.
#class #LitStudies #OzLit #OzStudies
tinyurl.com/2rbbcute
14.01.2026 23:01
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: “That Riddle of a River”: Currents of Colonial Ambivalence in Ernestine Hill's Water Into Gold. Author: Scott Robinson. Abstract: In this article, I conduct a close reading of Ernestine Hill's Water Into Gold (1937) to argue that it reveals Hill's ambivalence about colonial development in her account of the transition of White settler colonialism from an earlier period of mythologised pioneering to one of industrial development. I show how Hill's narration frames the elimination of Aboriginal people at the frontier as inevitable and deploys religious language to sanctify the domination of nature as well as the process of colonisation. This religious aspect of Hill's work has not received previous attention. The article tracks three key features of Hill's text, contributing to three bodies of work. I demonstrate how each of these features provokes Hill's ambivalence. First, I identify how the pioneering travellers in Hill's narrative are stalled by colonial settlement and industrial development. Second, I describe the ways Hill's text paradoxically figures Aboriginal people as disappearing while attesting to their indelible presence. Third, I analyse the way Christian language provides a foundational justification for the domination of nature and White colonial settlement. Connecting these three features, I demonstrate Hill's ambivalence at the loss of mythic origins and their sanctifying role in the colonial development she endorses.
More from 49.4:
Robinson's close reading of Ernestine Hill's Water Into Gold reveals the author's ambivalence about White settler colonial development.
#colonialism #EnvHistory #OpenAccess #OzStudies
tinyurl.com/yc22uefy
13.01.2026 22:46
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: Making an Entrance on a Man’s Stage: Pioneer Women Flautists in Australia. Authors: Karen Anne Lonsdale (University of Southern Queensland) and Ana Stevenson (University of Southern Queensland and University of the Free State). Abstract: Flute playing was primarily a male domain during the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. Whereas the piano and singing were traditionally considered acceptable musical pursuits for women, the flute was not thought to be an appropriate choice of instrument. As women were not included in orchestras, they formed their own. Despite facing strong opposition and public criticism, Australia’s trailblazing women flautists pursued music as both amateurs and professionals. Against a backdrop of changing trends in women’s work in 20th-century Australia, some women musicians first broke into the profession as replacements for men who were serving during World War II. This article uses newspapers to uncover women flautists’ entry into the classical music scene of the early 20th century, highlighting the achievements of five pioneering women: Constance Pether, June Lindsay, Florence Elkin, Linda Vogt and Audrey Walklate.
Next in 49.4:
Lonsdale and Stevenson highlight five pioneering women flautists breaking the glass ceiling of Australia's professional music scene.
#OzMusic #WomensHistory #flutes #OzStudies #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/3ypwd9xc
12.01.2026 22:25
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: Alan Renouf, Malcolm Booker and “The Departmentof Foreign Affairs in Crisis” in the Australian Policy Worldof the 1970s. Author: James Cotton (UNSW). Abstract: In the late 1970s, for the first time, veterans of Australian diplomacy published multiple books that disputed the fundamentals of the national diplomatic pattern, their projects impelled by what they saw as a “crisis” in foreign policy and its management under the Fraser government. The putative crisis was occasioned by a drastic withdrawal of funding from the foreign affairs and aid sectors, the concentration of foreign policy initiative in the hands of the prime minister, and the rise to prominence of a group of personal political advisers. Alan Renouf and Malcolm Booker both rejected the accustomed and unqualified reliance upon the United States as a security and diplomatic partner, appealing to current developments—notably the Vietnam withdrawal—to indicate waning US will and capability. For Booker, the emergence of Soviet strategic interest in the Indian Ocean region indicated that Australia would be forced to deal with regional powers on new terms; Renouf was more sanguine on the prospects for managing regional relations through a middle-power strategy. In the trajectory of their careers, both Renouf and Booker were victims of the “crisis” of the 1970s, though estranged by its bureaucratic consequences.
More from 49.4:
Cotton explores the "crisis" in Australian foreign affairs in the 1970s, providing insight into diplomatic and bureaucratic machinations.
#DFAT #ForeignPolicy #OzStudies
tinyurl.com/33h2xyke
11.01.2026 22:41
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: Beyond Professor Starlight’s Sporting and Stage Career: Race, Self-Representation and Caribbean Legacies in Australia. Authors: Gary Osmond (University of Queensland) and Jan Richardson (Griffith University). Abstract: Edward William Rollins (c. 1852–1939), ″Professor Starlight″, was a noteworthy boxer and entertainer in Australia for three decades from the 1880s. A dapper gentleman and consummate storyteller, he was celebrated by the sporting press well beyond his fighting days. Born in British Guiana, he offers a valuable opportunity to extend the historiography of African Caribbean migrants in Australia at a time of growing interest in British imperial dynamics, legacies of slavery and Black migrant histories. As the author of a published memoir and the subject of several interview-based newspaper articles, Rollins is a rare example of a Black public figure in Australia who left notable personal accounts. We triangulate these writings with press reporting and archival records to examine Rollins’s life, as well as to assess the carefully curated inclusions and omissions contained in his written accounts and interviews. We argue that the fact of his achievements and claims not always being exactly true was beside the point. Rollins was a raconteur and entertainer as much as he was a boxer and, as Mark McKenna has posited in relation to the historian Manning Clark, to “keep his audience entertained, it was sometimes necessary to be flexible with the facts”.
Next in 49.4:
Osmond and Richardson examine the life and career of 19th c boxer, raconteur, and entertainer Professor Starlight (Edward William Rollins).
#OzStudies #SportHistory #representation #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/msdfa2e4
11.12.2025 23:35
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Screenshot of a journal article. Title: “Spirits of Resistance”: A Politics of Feeling in Behrouz Boochani’s Prison Writing. Author: Rebecca Hill, RMIT. Abstract: This article engages with Behrouz Boochani’s prison writing, especially his autobiographical novel No Friend but the Mountains and his poetic manifesto, “A Letter from Manus Island”. Boochani wrote these works while he was incarcerated in Australian immigration detention on Manus, a tropical island in an archipelago in the far north of Papua New Guinea. His writing is widely acclaimed for its meticulous description and analysis of the ongoing atrocities of the Australian immigration detention regime. I argue that his work should also be read as a sustained thinking of collective practices of freedom. The practices of freedom that Boochani articulates emerge in the generation of “profound relations” of feeling between the people, animals, plants, oceans and winds of Manus. These relations of feeling resist the system of control, coercion and violence that undergird Manus Prison. For Boochani, the system of control at the prison is a microcosm of what he calls Manus Prison Theory. His thinking of freedom is a thinking with the feelings and forces of Manus, and his writing is traced with the places that he wrote in.
Introducing the papers in 49.4:
Hill examines the more-than human elements of Behrouz #Boochani's prison writing as an important part of his "practices of freedom".
#OzStudies #immigration #ManusIsland #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/2s3k5dke
10.12.2025 23:38
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Melbourne poet Pi.O performs in front of the Melbourne offices of Meanjin during the Save Meanjin protest, 11 September 2025. Behind him, a man in jeans holds up a sign that covers his face. The sign reads, "Purely on financial grounds".
🚨JAS 49.4 now available 🚨
JAS editors: "the intellectual mission of #Meanjin lives on beyond its pages, and we commit JAS to similarly challenging and extending the nation’s mental life."
Thank you to @beneltham.bsky.social for permission to use the cover image.
tinyurl.com/yphjfn38
#OzStudies
10.12.2025 01:03
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A colourful book cover titled, Staging a Revolution: When Betty Rocked the Pram. In the top left corner, the image is purple, depicting a man and woman dancing together. On the top right, the image is maroon, depicting a man standing on a stage, looking out, while on a lower part of the stage, a woman is taking a knee while holding an object. On the bottom left, the image is green, with one person standing behind another person wearing a costume. On the bottom right, the image is pink, depicting two women pointing both pointer fingers forward.
Delyse Ryan reviews Kenny's Staging a Revolution: When Betty Rocked the Pram
tinyurl.com/yvf7t5uj
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10.09.2025 01:24
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A pale yellow book cover, titled Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008. On the right hand side of the cover, a man in a suit is on the first few rungs of a ladder.
Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org
tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5
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10.09.2025 01:24
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Book cover titled Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy. Indigenous Australian art borders the book's title.
Urwin reviews Wright's Näku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy @textpublishing.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/47f8768u
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10.09.2025 01:24
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A black and white book cover, titled Mooring the Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories. Six men cross docks carrying their baggage.
Levidis reviews Dusinberre's Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories @universitypress.cambridge.org
tinyurl.com/ycxhb7ur
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10.09.2025 01:24
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Last but not least, a thread of the book reviews published in 49.3.
Remember, if you would like your book reviewed, please contact our reviews editor @jonpiccini.bsky.social.
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10.09.2025 01:24
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: Desert Depictions in Australian Science Fiction. Author: Gary Reger (Trinity College, US). Abstract: The great interior deserts of Australia provide the setting for two important genres of Australian literature: exploration narratives and science fiction (SF). Both borrow heavily from, but also revise and challenge, the tropes about deserts European settler colonists brought with them. More recent Indigenous SF, however, has pushed back against these settler-colonist tropes, and thus introduced new approaches to the rich field of Australian SF.
And in the final paper of the deserts special section for 49.3, guest editor Reger explores Australian deserts as a setting for Australian science fiction.
#SciFi #deserts #OzStudies #AusLit #ecocriticism
tinyurl.com/3yb5u3pv
08.09.2025 23:18
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: Entering the Arid Zone: Australian Development Diplomacy and UNESCO, 1945–1960. Author: Ruth A. Morgan (Australian National University). Abstract: This article examines the response of Australian governments to UNESCO’s agenda of conducting scientific research in “arid zones” to explore the role of the nation in the liberal internationalism of the postwar world order. UNESCO’s first director-general, Julian Huxley, and its first head of the Natural Sciences Section, Joseph Needham, both positioned science as critical to an internationalist agenda. Australian botanist Bertram Thomas Dickson and his contemporaries shared this belief in the necessary role of science in postwar reconstruction and the betterment of humanity. However, as Dickson’s hitherto unexamined correspondence with Canberra and UNESCO shows, national interests still mattered, as did empire, to the movement of scientific ideas during the first decades after the war. The interwar rise of applied science and its contributions to rural Australia, as historical geographer J. M. Powell argues, had “won” scientists like Dickson and the CSIR official support, which sustained their importance to postwar reconstruction and development efforts. Australia’s contribution to the UNESCO initiative therefore followed Canberra’s assessment of the strategic value of the organisation to its regional ambitions and development diplomacy.
In the second article in the Australian desert special, @ruthamorgan.bsky.social examines Australia's response to the UNESCO agenda on research in "arid zones".
#deserts #CSIRO #UNESCO #science #OpenAccess #OzStudies #OzHist
tinyurl.com/m4wcn734
07.09.2025 23:34
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: The Symbolic Australian Desert. Author: Steve Morton. Abstract: Arid Australia is lightly peopled, and so in past eras its representation in art and literature has often been based on fleeting visits. The paucity of personally lived experience has encouraged commentators to use it as a blank canvas for a contradictory range of imputed meanings, from emptiness to plenitude. The country is occasionally benign yet is mostly hot and dry: the resulting attitude of deficit is exemplified by Sidney Nolan’s “Desert and Drought” paintings of the 1950s. Yet a subsequent explosion of Aboriginal art, and of written accounts revealing the appetite of Aboriginal people for connection with Country, has helped swing the pendulum towards mystique, and settler Australians have begun to interpret the deserts sympathetically. Even so, settler Australians struggle to see this tough country as habitable. Western ideals have run up against a landscape unusually inimical to industrial and agricultural purposes, such that now the inland may best be interpreted as a symbol of the limits to human endeavour.
In 49.3's desert special section, Morton explores the various meanings that have been inscribed across the desert by settler Australians, then changed by a new appreciation of Aboriginal art.
#OzStudies #OpenAccess #desert #Australia #AboriginalArt
tinyurl.com/388x8xcn
04.09.2025 23:40
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: The Humanities in the Australian Desert: An Introduction to a Special Section of the Journal of Australian Studies. Authors: Andrea Gaynor (University of Western Australia) and Gary Reger (Trinity College, USA)
Introducing the special section in 49.3 on "Humanities in the Australian Desert" guest edited by Andrea Gaynor and Gary Reger.
#OzDeserts #deserts #OzStudies #OpenAccess #humanities
tinyurl.com/8t52xxz9
04.09.2025 04:44
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: The Impact of Gender on Incomes in the Visual Arts in Australia. Authors: Kate MacNeill, Jenny Lye, Edwina Bartlem (University of Melbourne), Grace McQuilten, Chloe Powell, Marnie Badham (RMIT). Abstract: The gendered discrepancy in income across the visual and craft arts is widely recognised. Female artists on average receive less for their sales of art than do male artists, and at auction in the resale market, work by female artists on average sells for less than that of male artists. These outcomes are compounded by lower earnings from waged employment in the visual arts and craft sector. This article draws on the results from a 2022 survey of the incomes and working conditions of 702 visual and craft artists and arts workers in Australia to explore how gender impacts the economic status of artists. The authors analyse the survey findings in conjunction with art-market outcomes for visual artists in Australia to assess the key moments in artists’ careers where their career progression is impacted by gender and how policymakers might respond to these challenges.
In the last of our general articles in 49.3, MacNeill et al draw upon a survey of 702 artists and arts workers to explore the impact of gender on their economic status as artists.
#OzArts #OzStudies #VisualArts #GenderGap #OpenAccess #CreativeIndustries
tinyurl.com/23c7sp37
02.09.2025 23:00
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: The Golden Chariot: Quacks, Quackery and New England Newspapers, 1889–1893. Author: Belinda Beattie, University of New England. Abstract: Quack advertising was widespread in pre-Federation newspapers including those in rural New England (northern New South Wales). Between 1891 and 1892, Madame and Dr Paul Duflot and their Golden Chariot visited the New England area and attracted large crowds. At the same time, the practice of medical science was striving to establish its credibility and set itself apart from alternative health providers. They did this by pejoratively labelling alternative medicine providers as “quacks”. This article contributes to the New England media-history and news-framing literature on quack reporting. It draws on the framing theories of Robert Entman and Paul D’Angelo, alongside Zygmunt Bauman’s concepts of the “stranger” and “strangerhood”. The analysis reveals a striking hypocrisy among local newspapers: while they prominently advertised the quacks and their cures—including the Duflots’ public appearances and private consultations—they simultaneously ran anti-quack news stories. Notably, the popularity of the Duflots suggests that New Englanders were not entirely won over by medical science. Instead, they prioritised personal autonomy, human agency and control over their healthcare decisions.
49.3 cont'd...
Beattie examines the popularity and scepticism surrounding quacks visiting New England in the late 19th century revealing a familiar tension between profit and information in the media.
#OpenAccess #quackery #OzHist #OzStudies
tinyurl.com/yda83dhp
01.09.2025 23:36
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01.09.2025 04:30
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Screenshot of journal article. Title: From Colonial Korea to White Australia: Hoyul Kim, Australia’sFirst Korean International Student, 1921–1925. Authors: Jay Song, ANU, and Louise Spencer, University of Melbourne. Abstract: This article uncovers the life of Hoyul Kim, the first Korean international student who lived in Australia from 1921 to 1925. It sheds light on the role of the Presbyterian Church in both colonial Korean and White Australian contexts. The article draws on archival research from the National Archives of Australia, the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, the Scotch College in Melbourne and the University of Melbourne to document Kim’s activities in Australia. The bilingual team uses both Korean- and English-language materials on Kim. We argue that, in spite of the colonial and racially motivated state barriers to international student mobility in the 1920s, Kim managed to travel to Australia and gain an overseas education. Kim’s story contributes to a little-known history of Korea–Australia relations that runs much deeper than formal state relations. Kim’s story illustrates that bilateral relations are shaped by people-to-people encounters that encompass shared values of religion and education via transnational migration.
Number 3 in 49.3 - in a time of international student debates, Song and Spencer take us back to the first Korean international student in the 1920s, illustrating the importance of student mobility for people-to-people #diplomacy.
#InternationalStudents #Korea #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/3je6ty9v
01.09.2025 04:29
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