bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Can Hospital Discharge Diagnosis be used for Surveillance of Bacteremia? A Data Quality Study of a Danish Hospital Discharge Registry
Authors: Madsen Kreesten Meldgaard , Schønheyder Henrik Carl , Kristensen Brian , Nielsen Gunnar Lauge , Sørensen Henrik Toft
Published: August 2016

Objective:

To assess the data quality of septicemia and sepsis registration in a hospital discharge registry in the County of Northern Jutland, Denmark.

Design:

Comparison of data from the discharge registry of an 880-bed, public, urban hospital in the County of Northern Jutland with data from a computerized bac-teremia database at the regional department of clinical microbiology.

Setting:

Urban hospital with approximately 45,000 admissions per year.

Patients:

The study included 406 episodes of bac-teremia in the bacteremia database and 83 discharges with the diagnosis of septicemia registered in the hospital discharge registry between January 1, 1994, and December 31, 1994.

Interventions:

None.

Results:

Eighteen episodes were registered in both the hospital discharge registry and the bacteremia database. Using the bacteremia database as reference standard, the sensitivity for the diagnosis of septicemia in the hospital discharge registry was 4.4% (18/406; 95% confidence intervals [CI95, 2.4%-6.4%]). By review of hospital records, we estimated the positive predictive value of septicemia registration in the hospital discharge registry as 21.7% (18/83; CI95, 12.8%-30.5%). No blood culture had been obtained in 44.4% (36/81; CI95, 33.6%-55.3%) of the cases with a discharge diagnosis of septicemia. In 33.3% (27/81; CI95, 23.1%-43.6%), the discharge diagnosis of septicemia was given, although blood cultures were negative.

Conclusions:

The hospital discharge registry revealed numerous misclassifications, and the system was found not suited for surveillance of, or research in, bacteremia at present
Beyond the Brisbane Line
Authors: Dickman Vicki , Kavanagh Lawrie , Kennedy Judy
Published: August 2016

‘Beyond the Brisbane Line’ was the theme of the second Public Address of an annual series organised by the Queensland Studies Centre. Held in conjunction with the Centre's annual conference, the Public Address was presented in Toowoomba on 25 November 1994.
'The Goss Government: Promise and Performance of Labor in Queensland', Bron Stevens, J. Wanna (eds), 292 pages, MacMillan, South Melbourne, 1993. $29.95
Authors: Fleming Jenny
Published: August 2016

The Goss Government: Promise and Performance of Labor in Queensland, Bron Stevens, J. Wanna (eds), 292 pages, MacMillan, South Melbourne, 1993. $29.95
'Portraits of our Elders', Michael Aird, 72 pages, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 1993, $24.95
Authors: McDowall Joseph
Published: August 2016

Portraits of our Elders, Michael Aird, 72 pages, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 1993, $24.95
Queensland
Authors: Atkinson Sallyanne , Cilento Diane , Maranta Barry
Published: August 2016

‘Growing Up in Queensland and Queensland Growing Up’ was the theme of the first Public Address of an annual series organised by the Queensland Studies Centre to mark the anniversary of Separation Day (10 December 1859). Hosted by Griffith University on 8th December 1993, the inaugural Public Address also served to launch the Centre's first major conference, which was organised around the related theme of ‘Defining Queensland: Histories and Futures’.
Creating our Future — Some Concerns of an Environmentalist
Authors: Lewis George
Published: August 2016

Australia is often described as having the fastest human population growth in the western world at 1.4 per cent per annum (ABS 1993). Queensland's growth rate in comparison is 2.52 per cent while the Gold Coast is currently experiencing 6.1 per cent which is equivalent to a population doubling time of 11 years. While such rapid growth is lauded in the media and discussed in glowing terms by economists, engineers and entrepreneurs, there are many others who in recent years have queried the wisdom of such rapidly increasing growth. In 1992 a group calling themselves The Union of Concerned Scientists, ‘comprising 1575 scientists from 69 countries, including a majority of Nobel laureates’ (Caswell 1) issued a ‘Warning to Humanity’ regarding the accelerating damage threatening humanity's global support systems. According to this group, ‘no more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished’. They refer specifically to over-consumption, poverty and spiralling populations: all of which we have in south-east Queensland.
Order and Conflict
Authors: Law Prudence
Published: August 2016

This paper focuses on the power and control over Aboriginal lives from the mid 1940s to the 1960s during the period of administration of the Queensland Preservation and Protection Acts, 1939 to 1946, whose provisions — including control of wages, property and people's movements — are indicative of increasing systematic management of Aborigines.
War's End?… What Now?
Authors: Runcie-Pinney Estelle
Published: August 2016

‘War's End’ must of necessity be linked with war's beginning and the years between. The exodus from North Queensland to the south (mainly Brisbane) after the fall of Singapore, and the transition from a rural environment to city living, offers a unique insight into war's effect and aftermath from a woman's point of view. This exodus south, which swelled the ranks of women in a burgeoning industrial and martial clime, wrought enormous social upheavals never before experienced in living memory.
'Select Quite a Colony – South Sea Islanders in Central Queensland, 1867 to 1993'. Carol Gistitin, Brisbane: AEBIS Publishing, available from Quality Books, Rockhampton, 123pp, 1995, $15.95
Authors: Ganter Regina
Published: August 2016

Select Quite a Colony – South Sea Islanders in Central Queensland, 1867 to 1993. Carol Gistitin, Brisbane: AEBIS Publishing, available from Quality Books, Rockhampton, 123pp, 1995, $15.95
Literary Non-Fiction
Authors: Neilsen Philip
Published: August 2016

Accounts of the air war of 1939–45 still hold a fascination for many: any comprehensive second hand bookshop will have at least one shelf devoted to aviation or war memoirs. My own longstanding interest began with a childhood awareness of my father's involvement in the war. Born in Maryborough and educated at Brisbane State High, he had been a pilot, first in the RAAF, then the RAF. He had joined up on his eighteenth birthday in 1942, gained his wings in Australia, received advanced training in England on Blenheim bombers then Beaufighters, and volunteered for the Middle East. But even these scant details I only managed to interrogate from him in the past year or so. Fifty years after the war, he has just started to talk about it to me, though selectively. Most of his friends were killed, either shot down or in flying accidents. As well, the Beaufighter was notorious as one of the most difficult and dangerous planes to fly. One pilot in my father's unit sensibly asked to be transferred to a different kind of plane because he found he couldn't handle the twin-engined fighter; the response of the Commanding Officer was to have the pilot immediately classified LMF — Lack of Moral Fibre — a fate most aircrew considered worse than death. It is absurd incidents such as this — brave men condemned by inflexible superiors, and so many others killed in accidents, often in landing or taking off under extreme conditions of weather and weariness — that emerge in the accounts by survivors as an antidote to more idealised reconstructions of the air war.
'Every man's right'
Authors: Hollander Robyn
Published: August 2016

In 1990, the Queensland Government launched its now discredited Home Ownership Made Easy scheme. HOME provided financial assistance to ‘moderate’ income earners by offering fixed interest, low start loans, and was accompanied by HOME Shared and HOME Buy which targeted public housing tenants. While HOME differed from past programs in its detail, it can be seen as the most recent attempt by a State Labor Government to extend owner occupation in Queensland. Between 1915 and 1957, the Queensland Labor Party actively sought to promote home ownership through a range of programs including the Workers' Dwellings and Workers' Homes schemes. These programs were a reflection of a fundamental belief in home ownership as ‘every man's right’ and as an ‘essential’ element of the ‘Australian way of life’. Thus, Queensland Labor displayed none of the ambivalence which characterised Labor Party attitudes to home ownership elsewhere in Australia. Williams contends that the Australian Labor Party was trapped between its commitment to assisting the poor, its reluctance to play the role of landlord, and its support for home ownership. The Queensland Party experienced no such ideological quandary. While other Labor Governments tended to accept an obligation to provide public rental accommodation for those unable to buy homes of their own, Queensland Labor continued to display a distaste for ‘public landlordism’.
Hartley Grattan and Australia-U.S. Connections
Authors: Fitzgerald Ross
Published: August 2016

Fifteen years ago, on Christmas Day 1980, I wrote a list of four people whose biography, if I had the time and ability, I would like to write. They were as follows: Queensland premier and federal treasurer, E.G. (‘Red Ted’) Theodore; Australia's only Communist member of Parliament, Fred Paterson; New Zealand born Communist and author of the superb social realist novel Sugar Heaven, Jean Devanny; and that remarkable American observer of Australia, Clinton Hartley Grattan.
'By George: twenty years behind the typewriter'. George Negus, 282 pages, Sydney: ABC Books, 1994, $16.95
Authors: Lawe Davies Chris
Published: August 2016

By George: twenty years behind the typewriter. George Negus, 282 pages, Sydney: ABC Books, 1994, $16.95
'From Utopian Dreaming to Communal Reality: Co-operative Lifestyles in Australia'. Bill Metcalf (ed), 198 pages, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995, $29.95
Authors: Black Carmel
Published: August 2016

From Utopian Dreaming to Communal Reality: Co-operative Lifestyles in Australia. Bill Metcalf (ed), 198 pages, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995, $29.95
Hansonism, Right-Wing Populism and the Media
Authors: Crofts Stephen
Published: August 2016

This essay aims to explicate the conditions enabling Hansonism. Politically, it argues that the party's exploitation of cynicism about mainstream politics and deepening economic and social divisions have been enabled by the Howard government's zealous pursuit of neo-liberal politics, its dismantling of Labor's welfare safety net, its wedge politics, its cynical reneging on election promises, and its attacks on the fourth estate, not to mention his endorsement of Hanson's freedom of speech'. In terms of the media, the essay argues that Hansonism's protest vote is based on a ‘plague o’ both your houses'. The allied populist prejudices of several radio talkback hosts have drawn their strength from television's virtual displacement of political debate in its posture as voice of the people, its actual address to viewers as domestic, atomised consumers and the increasing populism of vernacular genres such as lifestyle programs and sitcoms. Examples include the most popular Australian film of the Howard-Hanson era, The Castle.
David Walker, 'Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia 1850–1939'. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999, 312 pp, $24.95
Authors: Hudson Wayne
Published: August 2016

David Walker, Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia 1850–1939. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1999, 312 pp, $24.95
Love, Lust, Life and Landscape
Authors: Muller Vivienne
Published: August 2016

Brisbane is the kind of city that if it did not exist would have to be invented — and indeed it has by many of its writers. Its history of settlement and its political conservatism of the slash, burn and bulldoze variety has urged writers like Sam Watson in his novel The Kadaitcha Sung to depict it as a place of punishment, violence, racism and red-necked parochialism. The same sense of oppression informs David Malouf's mixed nostalgic references to the city as a place of beauty and boredom, a city you can love and hate in Johnno. In similar vein, Jessica Anderson in Tirra Lirra by the River, Angelika Fremd in The Glass Inferno and Janette Turner Hospital in both short stories and novels, depict Brisbane as a place one needs to leave but also a place where epiphanies are possible, and where the past haunts the present with a ferocious insistence. For novelists Rosie Scott, Janette Turner Hospital and Venero Armanno, Brisbane is simultaneously Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Many writers depict Brisbane as a great place to grow up in but you wouldn't want to live there — unless you are Hugh Lunn. Brisbane has been, and arguably still is by some writers, seen both favourably and unfavourably as a provincial backwater, unsophisticated and straight — still a frontier town in the popular and literary imagination if not in reality, a place where it is likely that you will know somebody who knows somebody you know. This is pointed out repeatedly by John Birmingham, author of the whimsical He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, by way of a distinguishing feature of flat life in Brisbane in contrast to other (Southern) capitals. In Brisbane, Birmingham writes:

Everyone's stories intersect, crossing over and through each other like sticky strands of destiny and DNA. (Birmingham, 42)
'Colonial Queensland: Perspectives on a Frontier Society', Bill Thorpe, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1996, 287pp
Authors: Johnston W Ross
Published: August 2016

Colonial Queensland: Perspectives on a Frontier Society, Bill Thorpe, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1996, 287pp
'Not Without Dust and Heat: A Journey into Teaching and Learning', Maxwell Howell, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1996, 340pp
Authors: Marriott Paul
Published: August 2016

Not Without Dust and Heat: A Journey into Teaching and Learning, Maxwell Howell, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1996, 340pp
The Criminal Justice Commission
Authors: Lewis Colleen
Published: August 2016

Queensland's Fitzgerald Inquiry was expected to last six weeks. It ran for two years (1987–1989). The inquiry was established to look at suspected police misconduct. It ended up exposing vertical corruption and widespread abuse of power in the Police Force; a less than arms-length relationship between police and the National Party government which contributed to the lack of effective police accountability processes; other official misconduct by non-police public servants; and political dishonesty and corruption.
'The Way We Civilise', by Rosalind Kidd, University of Queensland Press, 1997, 389 pages
Authors: Baker David
Published: August 2016

The Way We Civilise, by Rosalind Kidd, University of Queensland Press, 1997, 389 pages
'Becoming Australia: The Woodford Forum'. Edited by Richard Nile and Michael Peterson St. Lucia: UQP, 1998. 190 pages
Authors: Felton Emma
Published: August 2016

Becoming Australia: The Woodford Forum. Edited by Richard Nile and Michael Peterson St. Lucia: UQP, 1998. 190 pages
Writing in Brisbane during the Second World War
Authors: Pinney Estelle Runcie , Munro Don , Vallis Val , Rowbotham David
Published: August 2016

What follows is an edited transcript of a panel session entitled ‘Reading and Writing the War’, which was held at the Warana Writers' Festival at the Old Customs House, Brisbane, in September 1995. The moderator was Patrick Buckridge (PB), then Director of the Queensland Studies Centre, and the panellists were Estelle Runcie Pinney (ERP), Don Munro (DM), Val Vallis (VV), and David Rowbotham (DR).
Troubled Homecomings
Authors: Ferres Kay
Published: August 2016

This paper has many beginnings. My interest in Rosa Praed's involvements with spiritualism and theosophy has taken me into the nineteenth century literatures and practices of spiritualism, to debates about the specification of human nature and human origins and to the recent literature on the administration and regulation of populations in the cities at the centre of Empire and the colonial periphery. But my thinking about Lemuria had been caught up with the ‘nowhere’ of Utopian discourse.
Constructing a Life on the Northern Frontier
Authors: McKay Belinda
Published: August 2016

Repeated ‘boom and bust’ phenomena have characterised the history of Queensland as a colony and state. In terms of infrastructure and cultural institutions, this has led to significant discontinuities: vital strategic centres of colonial power, such as Cooktown, now languish in relative obscurity and the role of their inhabitants as authors and agents of colonialism receives little attention. This study investigates the life of an early inhabitant of Cooktown, E.A.C. Olive, in the context of his location on Australia's northern frontier.
Rural Reading or Reading the Rural
Authors: Cryle Denis , Cosgrove Betty
Published: August 2016

This article derives from an ongoing project to map regional print culture in twentieth-century Queensland. An essentially qualitative methodology combined survey questionnaires with selected follow-up interviews. Conscious of the focus on metropolitan reading within existing Australia Council studies (1990, 1995), we were keen to explore issues of cultural consumption, distribution, exchange and community identity in a regional context. Subsequently, however, we interrogated the notion of regionality itself and identified a reading sub-group within the larger sample of fifty responses, living outside larger regional centres like Rockhampton and Townsville. The study documents and explores reading patterns of this rural group whose experiences can all too easily be subsumed within the broader ‘regional’ category. Lyons' and Taksa's valuable study of New South Wales, Australian Readers Remember, makes this assumption, admitting to ‘a definite bias in favour of Sydney at the expense of country districts’ while acknowledging that ‘cultural attitudes differ in rural environments’ (1992: 22–23).
Innovation in Queensland Firms
Authors: Weerawardena Jay
Published: August 2016

The challenges in the business environment are forcing Australian firms to be innovative in all their efforts to serve customers. Reflecting this need there have been several innovation policy statements both at Federal and State government level aimed at encouraging innovation in Australian industry. In particular, the innovation policy statement launched by the Queensland government in the year 2000 primarily intends building a Smart State through innovation. During the last few decades the Australian government policy on innovation has emphasized support for industry R&D. However industry stakeholders demand a more firm-focused policy of innovation. Government efforts in this direction have been hindered by a lack of a consistent body of knowledge on innovation at the firm level. In particular the Australian literature focusing on firm level antecedents of innovation is limited and fragmented. This study examines the role of learning capabilities in innovation and competitive advantage. Based on a survey of manufacturing firms in Queensland the study finds that both technological and non-technological innovations lead to competitive advantage. The findings contribute to the theory competitive advantage and firm level antecedents of innovation. Implications for firm level innovation strategies and behaviour are discussed. In addition, the findings have important implications for Queensland government's current initiatives to build a Smart State through innovation.
Conrad Martens as a Recorder of the Landscape
Authors: Steele J.G.
Published: August 2016

Conrad Martens' watercolours and pencil sketches constitute an unrivalled record of the landscape of south-east Queensland in the early 1850s. I can think of no other artist who so skilfully packaged and conveyed so much information, not only about what he saw on his travels but also about how he experienced it. In this article I will discuss Martens as a recorder of the landscape under three headings — artistic, scientific and historical, and to illustrate these attributes by referring to examples of his works. Many of his works display all of these attributes, but in discussing a given work I shall resist the temptation to stray from the threefold classification of artistic, scientific and historical.
Conrad Martens and the Squatting Families of the Darling Downs
Authors: Diamond Marion
Published: August 2016

Conrad Martens visited the Darling Downs during the summer of 1851–52, where a small group of squatting families played a crucial part in the success of his journey. In the short term, they provided him with hospitality as he moved from property to property; in the longer term, he hoped, they would become the main purchasers of his paintings. In this article I shall give a brief description of the Darling Downs pastoral elite, and look at the personal connections that existed between Martens and many of these people: connections that explain why Martens was received so hospitably during his travels, and why he had a reasonable expectation that they would patronize his work. In addition, though, there were also structural reasons relating to the changing economic and social climate of the early 1850s that help explain why these families subsequently bought his paintings.
Lyall Ford, 'Below These Mountains: The Adventures of John Henry Mills — Pioneer Photographer and Gold Miner'. Freshwater, Qld: Taipan Press, 2001'. 235 + xiv pp. $34.95
Authors: Roberts Beryl
Published: August 2016

Lyall Ford, Below These Mountains: The Adventures of John Henry Mills — Pioneer Photographer and Gold Miner. Freshwater, Qld: Taipan Press, 2001. 235 + xiv pp. $34.95
'Boobarran Ngummin'
Authors: Jerome Paddy
Published: August 2016

Opening address by Paddy Jerome, Jarowair elder and Bunya Mountains custodian, to the Bunya Symposium hosted by the Queensland Studies Centre and Global Arts Link for the On the Bunya Trail Project at the ECO Centre, Griffith University, 24 April 2002.
Bunya Pine Tree
Authors: Bacon Gary
Published: August 2016

'Bunya Pine Tree', by Gary Bacon. Reproduced with permission.
Can Brisbane Remain a Subtropical City?
Authors: Spearritt Peter
Published: August 2016

'As the seasons change, public and private gardens become a riot of colour. Winter shows the scarlet flags of poinsettia – Brisbane's emblem, which, if really a Mexican beauty, has made itself very much at home. The lavender glow of jacaranda and the gold of laburnum, the green umbrella of poinciana crowned with gleaming scarlet, the massed magnificence of magenta bougainvillea, the creamy blossoms and heavy tropical scent of frangipani filling the air with sweetness, the glare of cannas, the pink and white of bauhinia, the old-gold feathers of silky oak and the red and green of hibiscus – these are but a few of the array of colours.'

C. C. D. Brammall

Brisbane has been relentlessly cleared since the first British soldiers and convicts set up at Redcliffe and then moved to the site we know as Brisbane today. As in other Australian colonies the new settlers were keen to grow crops and to exploit the timber both as a building material and later as a rich source of export income. While early explorers and botanists recorded the richness of the vegetation most new settlers saw the landscape as a resource to be exploited, not a pristine environment to be treated with respect.
Retailing Tropical Plants in Queensland
Authors: Perrott Bruce
Published: August 2016

I am connected to a family nursery business that has been running for four generations. My links go back to the early 1890s when my great grandfather had a nursery at Upper Mt Gravatt. He then shifted to South Brisbane where he moved into floristry. The business, however, was destroyed in the flood of 1893. His daughter, my grandmother, married Tom Perrott who had started in a nursery business with a well known nurseryman in Brisbane called T. H. Woods. They established the shop in George Street. They were also in the florist business and, in 1919, they decided to buy a nursery at Herston, near Ballymore Park and the Royal Brisbane Hospital, which ran until 1963. In the meantime, they had bought another nursery at Enoggera in 1936 (which I now own), and ran the two nurseries simultaneously. At that time, the main part of the business was still floristry and they did quite well in the depression years. The nursery at Enoggera was a 20 acre dairy farm that had been purchased mainly for the purpose of growing flowers for the floral trade. We used to grow rows and rows of different annuals and creepers and anything we could plant to flower, including many camellias which are still there today. A team of women would arrive at 6 o'clock every morning to pick these flowers and prepare them for packaging and transporting to the floral room at Herston.
Paronella Park
Authors: Miles Jinx
Published: August 2016

Paronella Park, near Innisfail in far north Queensland, is a 1930s pleasure garden of around five hectares on the old route of the Bruce Highway between Townsville and Cairns. The focus of the garden is the Mena Creek waterfalls close to the road crossing of Mena Creek. The garden stretches from the road eastwards along the north bank of the creek. The park is set in the sugarcane fields surrounding the South Johnstone Mill but the tropical planting within the garden has developed to a degree where this landscape setting in uniform cane fields is hard to believe.
Binna Burra and O'Reilly's
Authors: Lennon Jane L.
Published: August 2016

The gardens of the two settlements in the Lamington National Park – Binna Burra and O'Reilly's – are cultural landscapes in a much loved area of the Scenic Rim of Queensland's border with NSW. The concept of cultural landscapes in the World Heritage and national contexts was introduced at the 2002 Australian Garden History Society conference in Hobart. This paper examines the evolution of two gardens within a national park – one evolving from a farm and one designed to accompany a rainforest holiday centre – and the acceptance of cultural values in natural areas.
Roma Street Parkland
Authors: Smith Laurie
Published: August 2016

The Roma Street Parkland, completed in 2001, has already established itself as a destination venue for locals and visitors to Brisbane. It is the largest inner-city subtropical landscape project in a city centre to be developed in recent years. The Queensland Government's brief for the development of 16 hectares of inner-city land several minutes walk from the centre of the city, required that the Roma Street Parkland provides a high-level visitor attraction with the emphasis on horticulture and the environment.
'The Mighty Byronian Olympus'
Authors: Taylor Cheryl
Published: August 2016

Archibald Meston (b. 1851) is remembered as the framer in Queensland of the 1897 Aboriginal Protection Act, legislation which he later helped to implement as Southern Protector. From 1870 until his death in 1924, he published hundreds of articles, stories, poems and letters in Queensland and New South Wales newspapers. While by no means distinguished as literature, this mass of material invites attention not only for its diverse discourses on Indigenous people, but also because it helped to shape the idea of Queensland held by residents and outsiders. The state's history, natural history and geography are Meston's most frequent subjects. This essay seeks to understand further the ideological significance of his journalistic construction of Queensland by examining the connections cultivated in his writings with the poetry of the Romantics, Byron and Shelley, and their American successors, Longfellow and Poe.
The Demise of Central Queensland's Small-scale Sapphire Miners
Authors: Teghe Daniel , McAllister Jim
Published: August 2016

In the capitalistic drive for economic and social ‘restructuring’ and an increase in economic ‘efficiency’, some of the industries supporting small-scale enterprises have been marginalised and labelled as ‘anachronistic’. Whilst studying the culture of the Queensland small-scale sapphire miner, we took the opportunity to observe and analyse a case of how this phenomenon and its consequences can develop in a specific community. Generally, we found that, when state policy supports and encourages larger enterprises to displace established small-scale enterprises in a particular industry, this can have dire consequences for small communities.
J. V. D'Cruz and William Steele, 'Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia: Politics, Neo/Post-colonialism, and Fact/Fiction', Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute, Monash University Press, 2003, ISBN 1 876924 09 8, 466 pp., $49.95
Authors: Ganter Regina
Published: August 2016

J. V. D'Cruz and William Steele, Australia's Ambivalence Towards Asia: Politics, Neo/Post-colonialism, and Fact/Fiction, Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute, Monash University Press, 2003, ISBN 1 876924 09 8, 466 pp., $49.95
Transformative Moments
Authors: McKay Belinda
Published: August 2016

Janette Turner Hospital is the author of eight novels, four collections of short stories, a novella published only in French, and a crime thriller under the pseudonym Alex Juniper. Her work has been published in 20 countries, and in 12 languages other than English. She is the recipient of a number of overseas literary awards, and both Griffith University (in 1996) and the University of Queensland (in 2003) have conferred honorary doctorates upon her. In 2003 she won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Fiction Book for her most recent novel, Due Preparations for the Plague, and the Patrick White Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement.
'The Man Has Gone — The Dream Lives On'
Authors: Griffin Grahame
Published: August 2016

Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo, New York, the Gold Coast — the Gold Coast? The Gold Coast may not rank as an international focal point for high fashion, but it can claim the distinction of hosting the world's first major hotel named after, or more accurately branded by, one of the big names of the international fashion industry — Versace.
Margaret Somerville, 'Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur', St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2004, ISBN 0702234508 Paperback, 256 pp., $24.95
Authors: Ferres Kay
Published: August 2016

Margaret Somerville, Wildflowering: The Life and Places of Kathleen McArthur, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2004, ISBN 0702234508 Paperback, 256 pp., $24.95
Doing Justice to Disadvantage
Authors: Peel Mark
Published: August 2016

I tend to approach cities from and through their margins because this is the path that makes most sense to me. I grew up on the urban fringe in Elizabeth, a ‘satellite town’ north of Adelaide. Founded along the lines of the British new towns, Elizabeth was named for a queen who, to her credit, always popped out for a visit whenever she was around. By 1960, Elizabeth had a car factory, 30, 000 British migrants and a path into the future that would come to haunt it as its factories were downsized and its public housing was turned first into welfare housing and then — in the picturesque language of new prejudices — into ‘housing of last resort’ for the people no one wanted.
Imagining the Hinterland
Authors: McKay Belinda
Published: August 2016

Southeast Queensland — the region encompassing Coolangatta and the McPherson Range to the south, Cooloola and the Blackall Range to the north, and the Great Dividing Range to the west — represents one of Queensland's most significant literary landscapes. For millennia, this area — defined by mountains and waterways — contained important gathering places for ceremonies and trade, and its inhabitants elaborated the meaning of the landscape in a rich complex of stories and other cultural practices such as the bunya festivals. Colonisation disrupted but did not obliterate these cultural associations, which remain alive in the oral traditions of local Aboriginal people and, in more recent times, have surfaced in the work of writers like Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Sam Watson.
Stephanie Bennett, 'The Gatton Murders: A True Story of Lust, Vengeance and Vile Retribution', Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 1405035749, $30.00
Authors: Richards Jonathan
Published: August 2016

Stephanie Bennett, The Gatton Murders: A True Story of Lust, Vengeance and Vile Retribution, Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 1405035749, $30.00
Fiona Doyle, 'Whispers of This Wik Woman', St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2004, ISBN 0702234613, $24.95
Authors: Tannoch-Bland Jennifer
Published: August 2016

Fiona Doyle, Whispers of This Wik Woman, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2004, ISBN 0702234613, $24.95
Joe Hajdu, 'Samurai in the Surf: The Arrival of the Japanese on the Gold Coast in the 1980s', Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, Canberra, 2005, ISBN: 1 74076 115 4, $34.95
Authors: Griffin Grahame
Published: August 2016

Joe Hajdu, Samurai in the Surf: The Arrival of the Japanese on the Gold Coast in the 1980s, Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, Canberra, 2005, ISBN: 1 74076 115 4, $34.95
100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Queensland 1905–2005
Authors: McCulloch John
Published: August 2016

The year 2005 is an important one for Queensland women for three reasons. It is the centenary of women getting the vote (25 January 1905). It is the 90th anniversary of women getting the right to stand for Parliament (23 November 1915). Finally, it is the 76th anniversary of the first woman being elected to the Queensland Parliament (11 May 1929).
Surprised, Pleased… and Maybe a Little Disappointed
Authors: Bligh Anna
Published: August 2016

A century ago, there was a very real concern that if women moved into what was then considered an entirely masculine sphere, it would somehow be very damaging to their femininity. The notion of women in Parliament — something that was yet to be achieved — was considered unbecoming.
Making Ends Meet
Authors: Scott Joanne
Published: August 2016

Reflecting on the process of writing history, Tom Griffiths argues that it is ‘the product of a fascinating struggle between imagination and evidence’. He adds that ‘it is our job to release reality, enable it to be seen, enable voices and silences to be heard’. Many Australian historians have expended considerable effort in seeking to understand the reality of the Great Depression of the 1930s, analysing its political, economic, social and cultural dimensions. There are still, however, ‘voices and silences to be heard’, including those of Brisbane women who suffered financial hardships in this period and who actively responded to those hardships by accessing government relief, generating income and reducing their and their families' expenditure. Attempting to retrieve and evaluate those responses suggests that the ‘voices’ are inevitably accompanied by ‘silences’ — that the pictorial, documentary and oral sources which offer valuable insights into Brisbane women's lives also prompt questions that cannot be answered from those sources. In addition to providing an overview of how Brisbane women ‘made ends meet’ during the Depression, this article emphasises the limits of historical knowledge. Those limits are especially apparent in my attempt to reconstruct — or imagine — the experiences of one of the hundreds of unemployed women who visited the Female Labour Exchange during the 1930s.
Jim Gasteen, 'Under the Mulga: A Bush Memoir', St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2005, ISBN 0 7022 3445 1, 352 pp., $32.95
Authors: Richards Jonathan
Published: August 2016

Jim Gasteen, Under the Mulga: A Bush Memoir, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2005, ISBN 0 7022 3445 1, 352 pp., $32.95
The Leisure Pursuits of Brisbane Children During the 1930s Depression
Authors: Leach Carolyn
Published: August 2016

Over the last 30 years, many books have appeared on different aspects of childhood in Australia. There has not, however, been an authoritative published history of childhood that is specific to the Depression years. Sue Fabian and Morag Loh's Children in Australia: An Outline History and Jan Kociumbas's Australian Childhood: A History include chapters that offer overviews of Australian childhood during the Depression, and Lynette Finch's special issue of Queensland Review, Young in a Warm Climate, is the only major study specific to children in Queensland. This paper makes a contribution to Queensland Depression historiography and the history of Queensland children by exploring how the children of Brisbane's working-class unemployed spent their leisure hours, and what effect — if any — the Depression exerted over the choices that were made. It will show mat there was neither uniformity of experience nor a sharp discontinuity between the Depression years and those that preceded and followed this decade.
'Brisbane will Never be the Same'
Authors: Brien Donna Lee
Published: August 2016

While food historians have begun to focus attention on world's fairs, Vaccaro's detailed study of food at the 1904 World Fair in St Louis (2004) is at the vanguard of publishing in this area. Similarly, although the intense interest in culinary matters that is now identified as ‘foodie’ culture was developing in Australia in the 1980s, little attention has concentrated on this aspect of Brisbane's World Expo '88 (also widely known simply as ‘Expo '88’), which was staged from April to October 1988 as part of the national Bicentennial celebrations. Expo '88 dominated local headlines and became a part of the national imagination during the bicentennial year but, although commentators at the time predicted that it would ‘doubtless be a focus of research for a long time to come’ (Day 1988: iv), other matters have since dominated reflection about this period of recent Australian history. Yet food was specified in the ‘Cultural and Entertainment’ category of one of the three exposition's official sub-themes of ‘Leisure: The Universal Pastime’, and did play a number of important roles in and at Expo '88. Moreover, Robinson has identified Expo '88 as one of the ‘plethora of social, economic, cultural and political determinants’ that explains the diversity of cuisines available in Brisbane today (2007: 71).
David Malouf, 'Typewriter Music', St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2007, 85 pp, ISBN 9 7807 0223 6310, $29.95. - David Malouf, 'Revolving Days', St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2008, 198 pp, ISBN 9 7807 0223 6358, $26.95
Authors: Buckridge Patrick
Published: August 2016

David Malouf, Typewriter Music, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2007, 85 pp, ISBN 9 7807 0223 6310, $29.95

David Malouf, Revolving Days, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2008, 198 pp, ISBN 9 7807 0223 6358, $26.95
Jonathan Richards, 'The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police', St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2008, 308 pp., $39.95
Authors: Ganter Regina
Published: August 2016

Jonathan Richards, The Secret War: A True History of Queensland's Native Police, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2008, 308 pp., $39.95
Lance Fallaw, ‘A Queensland House-Warming’
Authors: Buckridge Patrick
Published: August 2016

Lance Fallaw was born in Gateshead in the north of England in 1876. He graduated in Arts at the University of Durham, developing a deep love of English literature which he carried with him for the rest of his life as an itinerant literary journalist. In 1900, after working for a few years in Newcastle-on-Tyne, he took his leave of Britain forever, first going to South Africa, where he worked as a journalist, mainly in Durban, for about six years, thence to Rockhampton in 1906.
Bronwyn Lea, 'The Other Way Out'. Sydney: Giramondo, 2008, ISBN 978 1 920882 48 8, 96 pp, A$22.00
Authors: Neilsen Philip
Published: August 2016

Bronwyn Lea, The Other Way Out, Sydney: Giramondo, 2008, ISBN 978 1 920882 48 8, 96 pp, A$22.00
Ross Fitzgerald, Lyndon Megarrity and David Symons, 'Made in Queensland: A New History', St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009, ISBN 978 0 7022 3661 7, 380 pp., $59.95 (hb), $45.00 (pb)
Authors: Brennan Claire
Published: August 2016

Ross Fitzgerald, Lyndon Megarrity and David Symons, Made in Queensland: A New History, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009, ISBN 978 0 7022 3661 7, 380 pp., $59.95 (hb), $45.00 (pb)
Brisbane's Radical Russian Community, 1911-1918
Authors: Curtis Louise
Published: August 2016

On 23 and 24 March 1919, a period of civil unrest in Brisbane was sparked by the flying of the international workers' flag. These events are now referred to as the Red Flag March and Riots. The red flag - the flag of the trade unions - had become tinged with radicalism due to its association with the Russian Revolution. On 19 September, the government reacted to the use of the red flag by extending the May 1918 War Precautions Regulation 278, which prohibited the display of the Sinn Fein colours. This change prohibited the display of the red flag on the grounds that it was the flag of an enemy country. The Russians who were arrested for flying red flags at the Red Flag march were arrested under Regulation 27BB.
Vida Lahey
Authors: Cooke Glenn R.
Published: August 2016

Some ofthe guests at the opening of the Queensland Art Gallery's exhibition Vida Lahey: Colour and Modernism on 16 October 2010 expressed their consternation when Lahey's most famous work, Monday Morning, was not included. Despite it being one of the icons of the Gallery's collection, it remained on display in the permanent collection galleries - a choice that was quite deliberate. Monday Morning is a striking, large figurative work, which has been displayed since it was donated to the Gallery by the Queensland poet, Emily Coungeau, after the Queensland Art Society's (QAS) Annual Exhibition in 1912. It was a clear sign that the artist, then aged 30 years and who had been exhibiting with the Society since 1902, was an established presence on the Brisbane art scene.
Matthew Condon, 'Brisbane', Sydney: New South Press, 2010, ISBN 978 74223 028, 301 pp., $29.95
Authors: Buckridge Patrick
Published: August 2016

Matthew Condon, Brisbane, Sydney: New South Press, 2010, ISBN 978 74223 028, 301 pp., $29.95
Past and Present Collide
Authors: Besley Jo , Denoon Louise , McConnel Katie
Published: August 2016

On 23 January 2006, the US Navy's biggest military vessel, the nuclear powered USS Ronald Reagan, arrived in Brisbane for a five-day visit. With estimates that the 6,000 strong crew would pump around $5 million into the local economy, the media, businesses and politicians welcomed the visit as a fabulous opportunity for the city. The Brisbane Peace Convergence, a coalition of local peace groups, disagreed and attempted a water-borne protest. The police intercepted the flotilla of kayaks and rowboats before they even got close to the USS Ronald Reagan because the entire Brisbane River had been declared an exclusion zone. This action and other acts of public protest in response to the ship's rubbish washing up on the shores of Moreton Bay and the Sunshine Coast were given little press coverage.
Remembering the Brisbane Protests, 1965–72
Authors: Prentice James
Published: August 2016

Beyond just my bias as a participant, I see a need to place the understanding of the innovative and distinctive character of Brisbane protests of the late 1960s and early 1970s on solid analytical foundations. These protests remain excluded from satisfying historical debate: while acknowledged as the product of the Queensland legacy of illiberality (Lunn; Whitton; Fitzgerald 1985, 1986), their connections with broader national and international social movements are largely ignored. This essay provides important details but points to broader reflections as well in its analysis of the civil liberties movement (CLM). My discussion focuses on the period 1965–75 but places the Brisbane protests historically in the general moves for liberalisation in the aftermath of World War II.
Castor Oil and Opium
Authors: Finch Lynette
Published: August 2016

In January 1878, Mary Anne Fogg's evidence at the inquest of the death of her infant daughter, Louisa, was recorded as follows:

My name is Mary Anne Fogg. I am the mother of the deceased infant. The deceased seemed sickly for the last two days. Yesterday afternoon she got worse and took fits. I gave her two doses of castor oil at an interval of four hours. I also gave her two warm baths one in the afternoon and one in the evening … I thought she was getting better. This morning between two and three I laid her down gently beside me and fell asleep. I was completely worn out for want of sleep. Yesterday evening I gave the deceased a teaspoonful of honey. When I awoke I found the child was dead beside me.
Building the Queenslander
Authors: Symes Colin
Published: August 2016

The material practices of school, as they relate to the child, have not figured prominently in the repertoire of educational inquiry. They have been examined only in so far that their understanding might result in optimising the conditions of learning or provide systematic explanations as to why school processes are inadequate. Any idea that the practices themselves might encode and instantiate visions of childhood and pedagogy contingent on broader schemes of social planning and ideas of the public good, does not appear to have entered the purview of those writing about education. Under the impact of the nouvelle histoire of Philippe Ariès and Michel Foucault, this situation is being redressed and there is an evolving body of literature devoted to the genealogy of classroom practice, with a specific focus on its origins and underpinning logics. Of special significance to such practice is the venue in which it takes place, namely, the school, which is a specialised form of architecture, housing a range of furnishings and facilities designed to enhance the positions of teacher and child in such a way as to advance the cause of education.
Coding Desire
Authors: Smaal Yorick
Published: August 2016

Dropsy is a puff. It is not the first time he has done it. I can bring a witness who will swear that he got ten bob from a black fellow that stuffed him. I knew what he wanted when he went up the stairs so I followed him … there are plenty of others in Brisbane who do it besides us mob, so I am not the first.

— Conversation between Albert McNamara and Police Constable Lipp, Brisbane, 1905
Greg Weir
Authors: Moore Clive
Published: August 2016

How do political activists begin? What is their motivation? For quiet Greg Weir, just graduated as a trainee school teacher from Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education in 1976, it was being refused employment by the Queensland government because he was a spokesperson for a gay student support group. Minister for Education Val Bird said in Parliament that ‘student teachers who participated in homosexual and lesbian groups should not assume they would be employed by the Education Department on graduation’. With his future as a teacher destroyed, Greg became one of Queensland's best-known political activists. His cause was taken up by the Australian Union of Students and he became a catalyst in developing awareness of gay and lesbian issues all over Australia. Greg was then employed as a staff member in the office of Senator George Georges and later Senator Bryant Burns, and became a Labor Party activist, influential in the peace, anti-nuclear, education and civil liberties movements in the 1970s and 1980s. He also helped set up HIV/AIDS awareness groups in the 1980s, and went on to become one of the central organisers of the campaign for gay law reform in 1989–90, which culminated in the decriminalisation of male homosexuality in 1990. In 1991 Greg was involved in campaigns to include homosexuality as a category in new antidiscrimination legislation.