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Pssst … I Wannabe White
Authors: Holt Lillian
Published: August 2016

Congratulations to the organisers of the ‘Unmasking Whiteness’ conference for their courage in putting on the first ever conference dealing specifically with Whiteness in Australia. It does indeed take courage given that whiteness is, I have found, a disturbing and perturbing topic, not only to white people but also, I believe, to people of colour.

I'd therefore like to preface my paper by stating that I am speaking about my experience only, my life only, my interpretation only. I speak only for myself. I definitely am not speaking on behalf of others, especially other Aboriginal people. I state this up front, for just as whites who question their whiteness are often considered traitors to their race, I have found the same reaction when I have said to certain Aboriginal people who misunderstand my point and my pain: ‘I'd really like to be white, for a change’. Such a statement has been seen as a betrayal and a violation of Aboriginality when in fact it is a cry from the heart which has been ravaged by racism.

Thus should anybody, black or white, be offended by my remarks, I take no responsibility for your interpretation, only for my intention, which is to share rather than to offend. I would also like to say that my paper is not an academic one, for which I make no apologies.
Poems
Authors: Bell Phillip
Published: August 2016

Black Heart

My heart is black as Cherbourg although my skin is fair, my Goorie blood predominant though European shared.

My heart is black as Cherbourg where both my parents raised, State wards for their protection, deculturised, enslaved.

Grandmothers were traditional, born of sacred land; Dalungbara, Jugera the heritage I claim.

Grandfathers anonymous, one English one a Dane, black women, sex, come children, disowned to disguise shame.

My heart is black as Cherbourg, until the day I die, where my ashes will be scattered this place my mother lies.
Pseudo-Hyphens and Barbaric/Binaries
Authors: Nicoll Fiona
Published: August 2016

[T]he point being made is not that the discourse of enrichment places Anglo-Celtic culture in a more important position than other migrant cultures. If this was the case, it would simply be reflecting reality. More importantly, this discourse assigns to migrant cultures a different mode of existence to Anglo-Celtic culture. While Anglo-Celtic culture merely and unquestionably exists, migrant cultures exist for the latter. (Ghassan Hage)

A few months ago I was having dinner with the family of a friend. This family came from India to Australia in the 1960s and has divided its time between both countries ever since. The parents and children are all intellectuals of one kind or another: teachers, journalists and academics. The discussion turned to Hansonism. Why, I wanted to know, hadn't the journalist published an opinion in the Australian press about Hanson? Because, it was patiently explained to me, non-Anglo-Celtic Australians are only allowed to tell one kind of story in the mainstream media: that of the opportunities that they and their family have enjoyed since coming to this country. Political critique is reserved for the opinion columns presided over by those Anglo-Celtic warhorses such as Frank Devine and Padrick McGuiness. Now I knew this. So why did I ask in the first place? And why did I feign surprise when the answer was pointed out to me? This paper is, in part, an attempt to understand this Anglo-Celtic reflex.
Jackie Huggins. 'Sister Girl: The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins'. St. Lucia: UQP, 1998. 152 pages
Authors: Moreton-Robinson Aileen
Published: August 2016

Jackie Huggins. Sister Girl: The Writings of Aboriginal Activist and Historian Jackie Huggins. St. Lucia: UQP, 1998. 152 pages
Rosamond Siemon, Jonathan Richards, Griffith University, 'The Mayne Inheritance', St. Lucia: UQP, 1997. 214 pages
Authors: Felton Emma
Published: August 2016

Rosamond Siemon, Jonathan Richards, Griffith University, The Mayne Inheritance, St. Lucia: UQP, 1997. 214 pages
Betty Cosgrove, 'Shoalwater Bay: Settlers in a Queensland Wilderness', Central Queensland University Press, 1996, 108 pages - Ray Blackwood, 'The Whitsunday Islands: An Historical Dictionary', Central Queensland University Press, 1997, 283 pages
Authors: Richards Jonathan
Published: August 2016

Betty Cosgrove, Shoalwater Bay: Settlers in a Queensland Wilderness, Central Queensland University Press, 1996, 108 pages - Ray Blackwood, The Whitsunday Islands: An Historical Dictionary, Central Queensland University Press, 1997, 283 pages
George Speight's Coup in Fiji and White-Collar Crime in Queensland
Authors: Van Fossen Anthony
Published: August 2016

The dangerous uncertainties and complications of George Speight's coup in Fiji have been partly formed by his association with white-collar crime in Queensland. Speight's involvement in at least one fraudulent financial scheme in Brisbane helped to shape the events leading up to his seizure of parliament and kidnapping of the elected government of Fiji on 19 May 2000. This parody of a coup, led by Speight (a failed businessman with no military experience) and a small contingent of ascetic SAS-styled soldiers, soon to be joined by a gaggle of rustics and Suva's lumpenproletariat, was a spectacle of the unexpected. Speight's adventurism today imposes immense costs on the people of Fiji. His financial schemes when he was living in Brisbane left a number of victims in Queensland.
What Happens if There is a Dispute over Queensland Food Exports?
Authors: Williams Stephen
Published: August 2016

In Queensland, disputes between traders both domestic and international can be settled by a range of different mechanisms, from simple informal mediation (with a referee) to more formal arbitration (using a referee or a panel of referees, and set rules of procedure) and ultimately to full legal actions in court, the choice of court depending on the amounts involved. Parties to a dispute can use commercial organizations to help them resolve disputes (e.g. the Australian Commercial Dispute Centres in each State), or they can approach the Queenland Law Society or the Queensland Bar Association, which provide lists of experienced practitioners available to resolve disputes out of court. This is a much quicker and cheaper alternative to a court action, but where parties still cannot agree, the dispute must be finally resolved in court. Even then, the parties can still settle before the court makes a binding determination.
'Kastom', Syncretism and Self-Determination
Authors: Mullins Steve
Published: August 2016

Late in 1997 the Anglican Church in Torres Strait, for more than eighty years the bastion of Torres Strait Christianity, split, and in the following year the new Church of Torres Strait came into being, its congregations aligned with the traditional Anglican communion. What follows is an attempt to unravel the complex political, communal and doctrinal issues that caused the split, considering them in the light of an ongoing assertion of indigenous self-determination which can be traced back to the colonial era. The article also briefly traces the emergence since the early 1980s of a potentially liberating syncretic theology in the Torres Strait Anglican tradition which may hold within it the possibility of a reconciliation between bipotaim and pastaim, darkness and light, and tries to assess the implications of the split for this nascent theology.
'The One Jarring Note'
Authors: McKay Belinda
Published: August 2016

The literary production of women in Queensland from Separation to World War II records and reflects on various aspects of colonial life and Australian nationhood in a period when white women's participation in public life and letters was steadily increasing. Unease with the colonial experience underpins many of the key themes of this body of work: the difficulty of finding a literary voice in a new land, a conflicted sense ofplace, the linking of masculinity with violence, and the promotion of racial purity. This chapter will explore how white women writers – for there were no published Indigenous women writers in this era – responded to the conditions of living and writing in Queensland prior to the social and cultural changes initiated by World War II.
Travellers Under the Southern Cross
Authors: Danaher P.A.
Published: August 2016

I am writing this paper on 26 January 2001 in the Queensland regional city Rockhampton. This is a public holiday for most Australians, Australia Day in the year of the centenary of Federation for many Australians, and Invasion Day for some Australians. This complex variety of attitudes to a single date encapsulates some of the themes to be explored in this paper.
John Mackenzie-Smith, 'Moreton Bay Scots, 1841–59' (Brisbane: Church Archivists Press, 2000)
Authors: Buckridge Patrick
Published: August 2016

John Mackenzie-Smith, Moreton Bay Scots, 1841–59 (Brisbane: Church Archivists Press, 2000)
Clive Moore, 'Sunshine and Rainbows: The Development of Gay and Lesbian Culture in Queensland' (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001). 244 + xiv pp
Authors: McKay Belinda
Published: August 2016

Clive Moore, Sunshine and Rainbows: The Development of Gay and Lesbian Culture in Queensland (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001). 244 + xiv pp
The Influence of Role Models on Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions
Authors: Kennedy Jessica , Drennan Judy , Renfrow Patty , Watson Bernadette
Published: August 2016

The Smart State initiative requires both improved education and training, particularly in technical fields, plus entrepreneurship to commercialise new ideas. In this study, we propose an entrepreneurial intentions model as a guide to examine the educational choices and entrepreneurial intentions of first-year University students, focusing on the effect of role models. A survey of over 1000 first-year University students revealed that the most enterprising students were choosing to study in the disciplines of information technology and business, economics and law, or selecting dual degree programs that include business. The role models most often identified for their choice of field of study were parents, followed by teachers and peers, with females identifying more role models than males. For entrepreneurship, students' role models were parents and peers, followed by famous persons and teachers. Males and females identified similar numbers of role models, but males found starting a business more desirable and more feasible, and reported higher entrepreneurial intention. The implications of these findings for Smart State policy are discussed.
An Audit Tool for Intellectual Property Management
Authors: Steffens Paul , Waterhouse Michael , Shulman Art , Wollin Andrew
Published: August 2016

Smart State is a Queensland Government initiative that recognises the central role of knowledge-based economic growth. In this context, the management of intellectual property (IP) within Queensland and Australian government research and development agencies has changed dramatically over recent years. Increasing expectations have been placed on utilising public sector IP to both underpin economic development and augment taxes by generating new revenues. Public sector research and development (R&D) management has come under greater scrutiny to commercialise and/or corporatise their activities. In a study of IP management issues in the Queensland Public Sector we developed a framework to facilitate a holistic audit of IP management in government agencies. In this paper we describe this framework as it pertains to one large public sector Agriculture R&D Agency, the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (QDPI). The four overlapping domains of the framework are: IP Generation; IP Rights; IP Uptake; and Corporate IP Support. The audit within QDPI, conducted in 2000 near the outset of Smart State, highlighted some well developed IP management practices within QDPI's traditional areas of focus of innovation (IP Generation) and IP ownership and licensing (IP Rights). However, further management practice developments are required to improve the domains of IP Uptake and Corporate IP Support.
EBusiness Impacts on the Peanut Industry in Queensland
Authors: Bryceson Kim
Published: August 2016

From a business perspective, the Dot.Com debacle of the late 1990s and early 2000s reinforced the need for good business planning and strategising, a clear requirement to be flexible and capable of almost constant change, a need to focus on creating added value and sustainable competitive advantage through the use of innovative ideas, strategies and tools – and finally, it focused attention on learning to harness the opportunities and minimise the problems associated with doing business in an electronic age. The case study outlined in this paper looks at the “What”, “Why” and “How” of doing business electronically in a traditional Queensland-based agri-industry – the Peanut Industry. The investigation found that the use of internet-enabled business practices between members of the industry value chain is increasing rapidly and is gaining respect as a means of improving efficiencies and productivity. It also found that if an entity in the value chain begins to do business electronically, other companies in that chain will need to follow suit or risk being substituted. In the longer term, it is likely that the drive for electronically enabled business practices will come from the larger food processing organisations, not only on the premise of improved internal efficiencies, but also because of increasingly tough food safety and quality assurance requirements that are prompting the need for real time quality information and decision support for product tracking back to source. Finally, conclusions are drawn for Smart State initiatives and for ‘smart’ practices in agri-business.
Can Regional Communities Successfully Participate in the Smart State?
Authors: Summers Jane , Lawley Meredith
Published: August 2016

This paper presents a case study of the initial planning and implementation of an emerging e-model, community portals, in a regional Queensland community, focusing on the adoption of this model by the two key stakeholder groups of businesses and consumers. Our study was undertaken in two stages: an initial exploratory stage utilising depth interviews with businesses and focus groups of consumers to identify key reasons for participation, followed by a survey of all businesses and households in the region. Two key implications for successful planning and implementation of regional community portals include the need to focus on not only the establishment and start up phase of the portal but also on the longer term growth and development of the portal and secondly, the importance of considering and addressing the needs of all stakeholder groups at initial planning and implementation phases, rather than focussing on one stakeholder group. Overall the results question the viability of regional community portals if they are to be self-funding, hence necessitating a commercial focus.
Managing Strategic Challenges in Community Sector Organisations
Authors: Paulsen Neil
Published: August 2016

Like those in other sectors, managers in community-based organisations face an uncertain and challenging future. Research and writing about the community sector (non-government, not-for-profit, or third sector) has canvassed a wide range of issues. A selective review of the recent literature reveals the breadth of research interest in the challenges facing community sector managers. While some reflection on the implications for managers of current economic and social policy contexts is crucial for this sector, research effort needs to be focused on understanding how third sector managers construe their current strategic challenges and the strategies they use to address them. A small sample of managers working in a regional area in South East Queensland was asked to identify current strategic concerns related to the future viability of their organisations. The key issues raised by managers are compared with the issues raised in the research literature. Results to date indicate that managers' concerns are reflected in the research literature, but that managers are also concerned about the current trends in social policy towards collaboration, amalgamation, and partnership. Implications of these findings for managers operating in this sector are discussed.
Catherine Potter, Sarah Moles, Libby Connors and Pam Postle, eds. 'Conversations on the Condamine: An Oral History from the Murray Darling Basin'. Annandale NSW: Envirobook, 2002. 128 + vii pp. $19.95
Authors: FitzSimons Trish
Published: August 2016

Catherine Potter, Sarah Moles, Libby Connors and Pam Postle, eds. Conversations on the Condamine: An Oral History from the Murray Darling Basin. Annandale NSW: Envirobook, 2002. 128 + vii pp. $19.95
Introduction
Authors: Cooke Glenn R. , Ewington Julie , Seear Lynne
Published: August 2016

Conrad Martens was the only major colonial artist to work for a considerable period of time in Queensland - he spent over four months in the south-east region of the future state between November 1851 and March 1852. During this journey Martens completed over ninety drawings which form a valuable topographical record of Queensland only ten years after free settlement. Many sketches are dated and titled, and provide an accurate account of the land in the days preceding outdoor photography; some buildings depicted in the works are still standing and it is possible to compare views of the areas then and now, which demonstrate the effects of land clearing and cultivation. Upon his return to Sydney, Martens completed around seventy commissions for watercolours, working from sketches completed in the field.
An Introduction to the Life of Conrad Martens
Authors: Ellis Elizabeth
Published: August 2016

The story of Conrad Martens begins in London in the early nineteenth century, when on 21 March 1801, a third son and fourth and youngest child was born to a merchant of German origins, J. Christopher Heinrich Martens, and his English wife, Rebecca née Turner. The family lived above their premises in the crowded old trading quarter of the city in a street called Crutched Friars, near the present day site of Fenchurch Street Station. ‘Having no taste for mercantile pursuits’, as Conrad Martens put it many years later, all three Martens boys became artists, despite the family's European traditions as merchants going back to the fifteenth century. Influenced by his older brothers, Conrad, at the age of sixteen, became a pupil of the well-known English landscape painter and teacher Anthony Van Dyke Copley Fielding.
What Fate Awaits?
Authors: French Maurice
Published: August 2016

At the time of Conrad Martens' painting tour of the Darling Downs in 1851–52, the Aborigines of the area were in a state of numb transition — still conscious of the dreaming before the white man, yet fearful of the time to come. In a decade of European intrusion, they had been psychologically traumatized, culturally belittled, sexually exploited, and drastically reduced in number. In the decades to come, they would become fringe dwellers, figures of fun and charity and yet, withal, demonstrating a remarkable resilience and adaptability. The few Aborigines in Martens' sketches and ‘house portraits’ from the early 1850s reflect the trauma and the uncertainty of that era.
Genesis of a Capital
Authors: Hogan Janet
Published: August 2016

As the schooner Toroa carried its only passenger, Conrad Martens, up the Brisbane River on 7 November 1851, he would have seen many places subsequently depicted in his art works, including the then recently erected large residences Newstead and Bulimba (both extant). Approaching the main settlement further upstream, the ship passed New Farm and North Brisbane on the right, and Bulimba and Kangaroo Point on the left, before finally berthing at South Brisbane. The most prominent landmark in Brisbane was a derelict windmill (extant) on a hill at North Brisbane overlooking the settlement. Martens' illustrations show us, through the artist's eye, Brisbane's appearance in late 1851. This, combined with other documentary evidence, enables us to paint our own mental picture of Brisbane at the time.
Aileen Moreton-Robinson. 'Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism', St Lucia: UQP, 2000. 234 + xxv pp. $22.00
Authors: Nolan Marguerite
Published: August 2016

Aileen Moreton-Robinson. Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism, St Lucia: UQP, 2000. 234 + xxv pp. $22.00
Ray Whitrod. 'Before I Sleep: Memoirs of a Modern Police Commissioner'. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001. 227 + vii pp. $30.00
Authors: Fleming Jenny
Published: August 2016

Ray Whitrod. Before I Sleep: Memoirs of a Modern Police Commissioner. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2001. 227 + vii pp. $30.00
'This Noble Tree'
Authors: Blake Thom
Published: August 2016

The bunya pine was given its scientific name Araucaria bidwillii in 1843 by Sir William Hooker, the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Hooker named the tree after John Came Bidwill, a colleague who had been in Australia and who provided Hooker with a detailed description of the tree and specimens of a young plant and samples of a branch and nut. Controversy has surrounded the ‘discovery’ and naming of the bunya, not the least that Andrew Petrie was the first to identify the tree and it was tentatively called Pinus petrieana. This controversy is discussed briefly elsewhere in this journal by John Huth. The purpose of this paper is to examine Bidwill's role in identifying the bunya and whether Hooker was justified in his decision to honour Bidwill in the nomenclature.
Representing the Bunya Pine
Authors: Cooke Glenn
Published: August 2016

The most popular painting in the Queensland Art Gallery Collection is R. Godfrey Rivers' Under the Jacaranda 1903. The blaze of the tree's mauve so dominates the canvas that the figures of Rivers and his fiancée taking tea under its shade appear quite secondary. It is, in essence, a portrait of the tree. The scale of this painting is quite exceptional but during the twentieth century the striking colour of the jacaranda inspired a number of artists, Charles Lancaster in particular. The striking cone-shaped canopy of the bunya pine is as commanding in its formality as the jacaranda is in its colour, yet where are the equivalent paintings of this tree? They are scarce indeed.
Remembering Reserves
Authors: Thorpe Bill
Published: August 2016

Eight kilometres south-east of Ipswich, along the banks of Deebing Creek, lies the site of a former Aboriginal mission reserve which, from 1892 to 1915, accommodated Aboriginal people from across Queensland, displaced from their lands by encroaching white settlement and government intervention. Some came from faraway places – Normanton, Burketown, Cooktown, Townsville, Barcaldine, St George, Alpha, Mitchell, Cunnamulla, Roma, and even New South Wales. Others were from regions adjacent to the mission such as Logan, Beaudesert and Boonah and from nearby Ipswich, Purga and Deebing Creek itself.
Assimilating Nature
Authors: Haebich Anna
Published: August 2016

The bunya pine has a special meaning for Queenslanders, being endemic to the Bunya Mountains and Blackall Ranges in the South-East corner of the state, with a small stand in North Queensland. The bunya holds particular significance for local Indigenous peoples. They are bound to the tree through custodial rights and obligations and systems of traditional environmental knowledge that incorporate ‘classification …empirical observations of the local environment… [and] self-management that governs resource use’, built up through generations of interaction with the bunya forests. Indigenous groups celebrated their spiritual links to the bunya pine in large seasonal gatherings where they feasted on its edible nuts and performed ceremonies, adjudicated disputes and traded goods. The bunya's majestic height, striking unique silhouette, dark green foliage, unique botanical features and Indigenous associations held a fascination for colonial artists, natural scientists, entrepreneurs and gardeners. Over the years they assumed custodianship of the bunya pine, assimilating it into Western scientific, economic, legal, horticultural, environmental and symbolic systems, which replaced Indigenous custodial rights, obligations and knowledge. The spectacular bunya gatherings were mythologised in colonial writings as mystical, primeval ceremonies and barbaric rituals. Despite ‘fierce and actively hostile tribal resistance’ to colonisation of their lands, Indigenous groups were progressively driven out of the bunya forests. Empty landscapes left by the retreating forests – victims of timber felling and land clearing – came to symbolise the vanishing ceremonies and dwindling Aboriginal populations of South-East Queensland. While surviving Indigenous groups were swept into centralised reserves and settlements from the late nineteenth century, so too the bunya trees were cordoned off in 1908, for their own protection, in Queensland's second national park at the Bunya Mountains, where they stood ‘like the spirits of the departed original Queenslanders, mourning over the days which are forever gone’.
Harry Oakman (1906–2002)
Authors: McKinnon Ross , Bunzli Malcolm , Steward Ray
Published: August 2016

On 16 June 2002 a remarkable Australian, Harry Oakman, died. The author of thirteen books on tropical and subtropical gardening, he remains the most widely read gardener in Queensland and probably Australia. He was one of the early public horticulturalists, parks department manager, landscaper, planner with probably more public open space and recreation areas designed by him in the cities of Newcastle, Brisbane and Canberra than any other parks administrator.
Ellis Rowan
Authors: McKay Judith
Published: August 2016

Ellis Rowan was Australia's most celebrated flower painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An emancipated woman far ahead of her time, she turned what her fellow Australian artists deemed a ‘genteel’ female pastime of flower painting into an adventurous and profitable career which took her all over the world. In a career spanning fifty years and ending with her death in 1922, she produced the phenomenal number of more than 3000 paintings, and succeeded in placing many of these in public collections. Rowan exhibited her work as far afield as London and New York and achieved acclaim at intercolonial and international exhibitions of art and industry (with the award of ten gold, fifteen silver and four bronze medals). Also a skilled writer and publicist, she recounted her travels in the popular press and in a book entitled A Flower-Hunter in Queensland and New Zealand, published in 1898. This paper focuses on the artist's work in Queensland, a favourite hunting ground, and on her association with the tropics which was an essential part of her mystique.
The Evolution of the ‘Queenslander’ Garden
Authors: Wilson Maurice C.
Published: August 2016

The Queenslander garden is instantly recognisable both by those blessed with a Queensland birthright and by those who are newly arrived or perhaps making a brief visit to the state while on holiday. Since the proclamation of the State of Queensland in 1859 the Queensland domestic garden has undergone various and numerous changes. There have been changes in size, design and preferred plant species. There have been changes in the householder's perception, use and management of the garden. Importantly there has also been change in what constitutes the Queenslander house.
Palazzo Versace and Couran Cove
Authors: Green Kate
Published: August 2016

There are 450 accommodation facilities on the Gold Coast, including hotels, caravan parks, apartments, villas and resorts. This paper will focus on two distinctly different resorts – each has a distinct image and consequently the difference in the garden styles is vast. Palazzo Versace at Main Beach, on the northern end of the Gold Coast mainland tourist strip is the epitome of style. Palazzo Versace has been described as ‘a place of Renaissance splendour, elegance and ease – in a breathtaking location’. By contrast the eco-tourism resort of Couran Cove Island Resort, stretching from the ocean front to the Broadwater, is a gentle and relaxing kind of place, a haven from the energetic and glamorous, busy Gold Coast.
Barbara Webster, 'Marooned: Rockhampton's Great Flood of 1918', Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management, 2003. 134 + vii pp. $29.95
Authors: Cryle Denis
Published: August 2016

Barbara Webster, Marooned: Rockhampton's Great Flood of 1918, Brisbane: Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management, 2003. 134 + vii pp. $29.95
'The Colossus of the North'
Authors: Saunders Malcolm
Published: August 2016

Australians — not least of all historians and political scientists — have long wondered whether Queensland was any different from the other colonies/states. Some of the ways in which it differs from most of its southern sisters — such as its geographical size and decentralised population — have always been obvious. No less well known has been its pursuit of agrarian policies. For much of the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, governments of all political persuasions in Queensland preferred to develop primary rather than secondary industries, and consequently favoured rural rather than urban areas. An integral part of agrarianism was its emphasis on closer settlement — that is, breaking the pastoralists' (or squatters') hold over vast areas of land and making smaller and suitable plots of land available to men of limited means, people most often referred to almost romantically as ‘yeoman farmers’. Governments envisaged a colony or state whose economy was based less on huge industries concentrated in a few hands and situated in the cities than on a class of small-scale agriculturalists whose produce would not only feed the population but also be a principal source of wealth.
Mary Mayne
Authors: Turner Bernadette
Published: August 2016

Mary Mayne was the mother of Mary Emelia and James Mayne, two of the most significant benefactors to The University of Queensland, and the impulse for their philanthropy can partly be traced directly to her. She was an extremely successful businesswoman in colonial Brisbane, yet her business achievements have been overlooked by assumptions that the family's wealth came only from the foundations laid by her husband, Patrick — even though it was her fortune, as well as his, which funded her children's final bequests to the university. By the time of Patrick's death in August 1865, Mary was experienced in business, which was unusual for married women during this era. Her experience and skills enabled her to take over the administration of his estate and, despite his debts, to preserve most of his property holdings. At the same time, she amassed her own fortune. Although she faced a number of hurdles, her success proves that widows with skills and assets were able to operate as effectively as men in the commercial world, and undermines simplistic assumptions about the impact of gender discriminatory barriers in colonial society.
James Devaney and the Brisbane Resistance to Modernism
Authors: Hatherell William
Published: August 2016

This grainy old photograph from The Courier-Mail of 2 April 1971, under the headline ‘The Three Ancients’, shows three grey-haired men — James Devaney (identified as being 80 years old), Frank Francis (75), and Robert S. Byrnes (71) — standing around a middle-aged woman who sits at a Victorian-style desk in front of a photograph of the Queen. The caption explains this puzzling image. As an April Fool's Day gesture, the self-styled ‘three ancients’, all former presidents of the Queensland Branch of the Federation of Australian Writers (FAW(Q)), are singing a song called ‘Three Ex-P's’ (to the tune of ‘Three Blind Mice’) to the current president, Maureen Freer. The three men, we are assured, ‘have made a large contribution to the cultural activities of Queensland’.
John Singe, 'My Island Home: A Torres Strait Memoir', St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2003, ISBN 0 7022 3305 6, 211 pp., $30
Authors: Neuenfeldt Karl
Published: August 2016

John Singe, My Island Home: A Torres Strait Memoir, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2003, ISBN 0 7022 3305 6, 211 pp., $30
Cities and Museums
Authors: Ferres Kay
Published: August 2016

In September 2004, the Museum of Brisbane, Museums Australia and the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University hosted a symposium, ‘Cities and Museums’, at the university's Southbank campus. This event initiated a conversation among museum professionals and academics from across Australia. Nick Winterbotham, from Leeds City Museum, and Morag Macpherson, from Glasgow's Open Museum, and were keynote speakers. Their papers provided perspectives on museum policy and practice in the United Kingdom and Europe, and demonstrated how museums can contribute to urban and cultural regeneration. Those papers are available on the Museum of Brisbane website (www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/MoB). The Cities and Musuems section in this issue of Queensland Review brings together papers that explore the relationship of cities and museums across global, national and local Brisbane contexts, and from diverse disciplinary perspectives. The disciplines represented in this selection of papers from the symposium include social history, urban studies, literary fiction, and heritage and cultural policy.
The Queensland Electoral System and Indigenous Representation
Authors: Smejkalová Tereza
Published: August 2016

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represent more than 3 per cent of the Queensland population, but only one Aboriginal person has so far been elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly. (Mr Eric Deeral was the National Party member for Cook from 1974 to 1977.) This fact suggests that the Indigenous population and minorities in general do not have much influence on government in Queensland. Questions therefore arise as to why and what can be done to address this deficiency.
Promise and Performance
Authors: Scott Joanne , Laurie Ross
Published: August 2016

In a thumbnail sketch of Queensland's first female parliamentarian, Irene Longman, in 1931, the Clerk of Parliament Charles Bernays commented on the novelty of a woman in Queensland's Legislative Assembly. ‘The innovation,’ he averred, ‘takes long to convert itself into a common-place. The public are slow to acquire a habit.’ Bernays' comment was apposite. Although the Elections Act of 1915 enabled non-Indigenous women as well as men to stand as candidates for Queensland's Lower House, no woman took up this opportunity until Longman's successful bid for the seat of Bulimba in 1929. In the 31 Queensland elections held from 1918 to 2004, women were, until very recently, a tiny minority when compared to the thousands of examples of male candidates for the same period.
Taking the International Spotlight
Authors: Saunders Kay
Published: August 2016

In 2001 I was invited to give a public lecture at the Centre for the Study of the History of the Twentieth Century, a scholarly research institute within the University of Paris. The invitation was extended by Professor Stephane Dufoix, who writes on the internment of enemy aliens in World War II, one of my academic specialisations. However, I was not asked to speak about this area of expertise. Indeed, it turned out to be a ‘Don't mention the war’ event. Rather, Professor Dufoix and his colleagues were fascinated by Pauline Hanson and were interested in an Australian perspective on the rise of extreme right-wing populism and the Down Under equivalent of the French les laissés-pour-compte (‘those left behind’) or les paumés (‘the losers’).
'Adventure, Heterodoxy and Knavery'
Authors: Wear Rae
Published: August 2016

I have drawn the title for this paper, which celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the abolition of plural voting in Queensland, from S.R. Davis, who described the electoral experience of the Australian states as:

A mixture of three things — adventure, heterodoxy and knavery. Between them, the States have fathered a crop of electoral devices, confounded their textbook behaviour, and at times and in places used them with a skill which even a fun-fair poker machine proprietor could admire.
The Many Faces of Political Eve
Authors: Ustinoff Julie
Published: August 2016

‘Forget Policy — I've Got Great Legs!’ That newspaper headline was one of the most interesting if not anomalous banners to appear during the 1998 federal election campaign. It was run in the Daily Telegraph as the header to an article about Pauline Hanson, who was busy campaigning for the Queensland seat of Blair in the state elections. As one might expect from the headline, the story dismissed any consideration of Hanson's political agenda in favour of blatant and highly sexualised comment about her very feminine physical attributes. Whilst this sort of media attention openly negated Hanson as a serious political force, it was indicative of the way the media had come to portray her since she arrived on the political scene two years earlier. Moreover, it was symptomatic of the media's widespread concern with portraying female politicians of all parties in accordance with worn-out assumptions and clichés, which rarely — if ever — were applied to their male counterparts.
A Century of Women's Suffrage in Queensland
Authors: Sheldon Joan
Published: August 2016

We women of the twenty-first century owe the early women seekers of female franchise a considerable debt. Without their intellectual and sometimes physical bravery, we would not have the range of privileges we now take for granted as our right.
Queensland Women in the National Parliament
Authors: Sullivan Kathy
Published: August 2016

In some ways I feel like I don't quite fit today's celebration of the centenary of suffrage for Queensland women in Parliament. So far we've been hearing much about the state Parliament and very little about federal Parliament, I must somehow or other balance that up.
Conflicting Visions
Authors: Heckenberg Kerry
Published: August 2016

Research for this paper was prompted by the appearance of a group of nine small landscape paintings of the Darling Downs area of Queensland, displayed in the Seeing the Collection exhibition at the University Art Museum (UAM), University of Queensland from 10 July 2004 until 23 January 2005. Relatively new to the collection (they were purchased in 2002), they are charming, small works, and are of interest principally because they are late-colonial depictions of an area that was of great significance in the history of Queensland.
Confronting Racism's Boundary
Authors: Preston Noel
Published: August 2016

The Brisbane of my childhood was monocultural and ethnocentric, a very white affair. Like most Queenslanders of my generation, I had virtually nothing to do with Aborigines and was given little reason to understand their culture or to see the history of the European conquest of this country from their point of view. I certainly had no knowledge of the relationship between Aborigines and police, poisoned as it was by decades of policing which intimidated, imprisoned and eliminated Aboriginal ‘troublemakers’. Nor did I know of the confiscation of children of mixed descent from their Aboriginal mothers. Similarly, I was ignorant of how Queensland's paternalistic protectionist policies had compulsorily detained tens of thousands of Aborigines on ‘missions’ scattered throughout Queensland, an injustice compounded by the practice of quarantining their miserable wages into a ‘welfare fund’ which was used in ways that suited the government bureaucrats of the day.
Katherine Lyall-Watson (ed.), 'Mending Matters: An Anthology of Reflections and Flights of Fantasy Prompted by One Hundred Years of Women's Suffrage', Brisbane: State Library of Queensland, 2005, ISBN 0 9758 0301 8, 95 pp., $18.95
Authors: Bailey Janis
Published: August 2016

Katherine Lyall-Watson (ed.), Mending Matters: An Anthology of Reflections and Flights of Fantasy Prompted by One Hundred Years of Women's Suffrage, Brisbane: State Library of Queensland in conjunction with Queensland Writers' Centre, 2005, ISBN 0 9758 0301 8, 95 pp., $18.95
The Search for Kalboori Youngi
Authors: Cooke Glenn R.
Published: August 2016

The publication in 1995 of Joan Kerr's Heritage: The National Women's Art Book renewed public interest in the work of three Aboriginal women from the Boulia area of North Western Queensland: Kalboori Youngi, Nora Nathan and Linda Craigie. These women produced small-scale sculptural groups carved from two types of soft, local stone: mullenduddy, a sort of compressed clay; and kopi, a white talc-like material.
Robert Baird of China Camp
Authors: Richards Jonathan
Published: August 2016

Many places in North Queensland have colourful and interesting histories. Stories about the individuals associated with certain places have become part of the regional mythology; however, as errors and misconceptions creep into family tales and journalists' accounts, the mistakes are sometimes woven into broader historical accounts. This article, based on material gathered over a decade, sets out to correct some myths about the recorded history of China Camp, Bloomfield and the life of Robert Baird.
Jaya Savige, 'Latecomers', St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2005, ISBN 0 7022 3519 9, 112 pp., $22.95. - Winner of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, 2006 and the Kenneth Slessor Prize For Poetry 2006
Authors: Neilsen Philip
Published: August 2016

Jaya Savige, Latecomers, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2005, ISBN 0 7022 3519 9, 112 pp., $22.95. - Winner of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, 2006 and the Kenneth Slessor Prize For Poetry 2006
J.J. Hilder and the Languages of Art
Authors: Heckenberg Kerry
Published: August 2016

Writing in a book published in 1918 in honour of Jesse Jewhurst Hilder (1881–1916), shortly after the artist's tragic early death from tuberculosis, Bertram Stevens declared:

Australia may well be proud of Jesse Hilder, for he is entirely her own by birth and training. His art was intuitive; what instruction he received, and the inspiration he got from other men's work, helped him but little towards self-development. His water-colours show the strong individual note of the true romantic artist; they are not like anything done previously in Australia or elsewhere.
A Woman's Work is Never Done?
Authors: Scott Joanne
Published: August 2016

The woman who demands assistance from her husband in her home is failing in her part of the marriage bargain, and the husband who gives it is losing his prestige as head of the house.

— Letter from ‘Mother’ of New Farm, Courier-Mail, 6 February 1939, p 14

The letter from ‘Mother’ in the Brisbane suburb of New Farm endorsed the assumed and actual centrality of unpaid work within the home for most white women in Queensland — especially for wives — in the interwar years. It accepted a division of labour in which men were defined primarily as breadwinners; by contrast, and despite female participation in the formal economy, the major role for women was that of wife and mother. This allocation of responsibilities was a fundamental component of the gender segregation which characterised work and the Queensland economy in this period.
Narrating Colonial Queensland
Authors: McKay Belinda
Published: August 2016

In 1949, Clive Turnbull remarked that Australian Life (1892), a collection of short stories by Francis Adams, ‘is a book that deserves to be resurrected’. While two of the radical English writer's novels have been republished over the last three decades, Australian Life — which Turnbull regarded as ‘perhaps the most noteworthy’ of Adams' works of fiction — has not been resurrected either in print or online, and is accessible only in rare book libraries. Republication here in Queensland Review of the original version of Adams' short story ‘The Red Snake’, which appeared first in the Boomerang in 1888 and was later revised for Australian Life, may help to renew interest in Francis Adams' carefully crafted but disturbing narratives of life in the Australian colonies in the 1880s.
'The Red Snake'
Authors: Adams Francis
Published: August 2016

There are two published versions of ‘The Red Snake’ by Francis Adams. The first appeared in The Christmas Boomerang, 24 December 1888: 17–18; the second in Francis Adams, Australian Life (London: Chapman and Hall, 1892, 3–24). The present edition is based on the Christmas Boomerang version. Revisions made by Adams for Australian Life have been incorporated where they correct errors or improve the literary qualities of the work, but not where their purpose is merely to remove Queensland references for an English audience. The accidentals (spelling and punctuation) of the first edition have been adopted here, rather than Queensland Review house style.
William Hatherell, 'The Third Metropolis: Imagining Brisbane Through Art and Literature, 1940–1970'. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2007, ISBN 9 7807 0223 5436, viii + 312 pp., $45.00
Authors: Ryan Simon
Published: August 2016

William Hatherell, The Third Metropolis: Imagining Brisbane Through Art and Literature, 1940–1970. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2007, ISBN 9 7807 0223 5436, viii + 312 pp., $45.00
Helen Taylor
Authors: Thomis Malcolm
Published: August 2016

Helen Taylor made a unique contribution to the democratisation of history in Queensland. She gave us, in Abraham Lincoln's immortal words, History ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’. In so doing, she loosened the stultifying stranglehold of both schools and universities — history's traditional domain. Since history appeared on the school curriculum, generations of children have undergone the arid and depressing experience of being adjudged ‘not good at history’ because of an inability to memorise a string of meaningless dates. The successful ones who went on to study the subject at university encountered a program that was academic and elitist in both content and purpose. Thought by many to be a worthy successor to the Classics for the training of fine minds, it was for a long time concerned almost exclusively with the activities of governments, the machinery of power in the domestic context and its external manifestations overseas, foreign policy and imperialism. Helen Taylor's notion of history was something very different.
A Queensland Reader
Authors: Evans Raymond
Published: August 2016

An old friend, Jim Cleary, working on the monumental Bibliography of Australian Literature at the University of Queensland, recently rang to tell me about the elusive modernist poet Anna Wickham. ‘Wickham’ is the pen-name of Edith Alice Mary Harper, ‘one of the most significant feminist poets of modernism’, who published between the 1910s and the 1930s. The author of over one thousand poems, covering a remarkable diversity of forms, Wickham was described in the memoir of American publisher Louis Untermeyer as ‘a remarkable gypsy of a woman’. During her tempestuous life, she mixed with members of the London Chelsea and Bloomsbury sets, plunged into the literary and artistic circles of the Parisian demi-monde, had a brief sexual relationship with pioneer American modernist poet H.D. (Hilda Dolittle), was sexually spurned by lesbian heiress and literary patron Natalie Clifford Barney, and became closely aligned with D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda von Richthofen, as well as Dylan Thomas and Caitlin MacNamara, falling out with the latter couple after throwing a drunken ‘Thomas and fellow writer Lawrence Durrell out of the house’. She was also close friends with the erratic novelist Malcolm Lowry, whetted the appetites of Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, and helped to mentor the young Stephen Spender. Somewhat like T.S. Eliot's wife Vivien Haigh-Wood, she was incarcerated at one point in a mental institution by her husband, solicitor Patrick Hepburn, And, like Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. she died by her own hand, hanging herself in her decaying home on Parliament Hill, London, following the freezing winter of 1947.