Up the country: Histories and communities

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 118, 2002, Pages 90-99

  Darian Smith, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 34047226290     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314610208596182     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. John Van Tiggelen, 'Staging a Recovery', in The Best Australian Essays 2001, ed. Peter Craven (Melbourne: Black Inc. 2001), 339
2. See for instance, 'Lopping the Branches: Bank Branch Closure and Rural Australian Communities', in Land of Discontent: The Dynamics of Change in Rural and Regional Australia, eds Bill Pritchard and Phil McManus (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000), 140-68
3. Donald Home, Looking for Leadership: Australia in the Howard Years (Ringwood: Viking, 2001), 161-74
4. See B. Badcock, 'Forgotten Places, Excluded Citizens and the Rise of One Nation', Urban Policy and Research 16, no. 3 (1998): 241-6
5. See recent examples in Pritchard and McManus, eds. Land of Discontent, Ian Gray and Geoffrey Lawrence, A Future for Regional Australia: Escaping Global Misfortune (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
6. Stewart Lockie and Lisa Bourke, eds, Rurality Bites: The Social and Environmental Transformation of Rural Australia (Sydney: Pluto Press, 2001)
7. See, for instance, Peter Read, Returning to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
8. and, for a development of Read's argument in terms of place and possession, see his Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2000). For case studies of attachment to Australian country towns and place see Paul Sinclair, The Murray: A River and its People (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001)
9. Meredith Fletcher, Digging Up People for Coal: A History of Yalloum (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002) and Meredith Fletcher's article in this volume
10. See Heather Goodall, Telling "Country" Stories: Memory, Modernity and Narratives in Rural Australia', History Workshop Journal 47 (Spring 1999): 161-92
11. Heather Goodall, '"Fixing" the Past: Modernity, Tradition and Memory in Rural Australia', UTS Review 6, no. 1 (May 2000): 20-40
12. For an overview of heritage tourism see Jim Davidson and Peter Spearritt, Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia Since 1870 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), 253-83
13. John Rickard and Peter Spearritt, eds, Packaging the Past? Public Histories, special issue of Australian Historical Studies (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1991)
14. Home, Looking for Leadership, 168
15. Chris Healy, "Race Portraits" and Vernacular Possibilities: Heritage and Culture', in Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs, eds Tony Bennett and David Carter (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 279
16. Maureen Rogers and Yolande Collins, 'Introduction', in The Future of Australia's Country Towns, eds M.E Rogers and Y.M.J. Collins (Maryborough: Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities, LaTrobe University, APG, 2001). This collection of papers arose from the First National Conference on the Future of Country Towns, held in June 2000
17. As were stories of hardship and failure of the soldier settlement schemes, especially those following World War I. See Stephen Garton, The Cost of War: Australians Return (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996), 118-42
18. Vray Wamplew, ed., Australians: Historical Statistics (Sydney: Fairfax, Syme & Weldon, 1987), statistics for growth in gross and net rural production, 84-5; s
19. See Rob Linn, Battling the Land: 200 Years of Rural Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999), 153-65
20. Nicholas Brown, Governing Prosperity: Social Change and Social Analysis in Australia in the 1950s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 147
21. For a discussion on rural femininity in postwar Australia, see Kate Darian-Smith and Sara Wills, 'From Queen of Agriculture to Miss Showgirl: Embodying Rurality in Twentieth Century Australia', Journal of Australian Studies, no. 71 (2001): 17-32
22. See, for example, the comments reported in Linn, Battling the Land, 158
23. See Brown, Governing Prosperity, 149-51
24. see Darian-Smith and Wills, 'Miss Showgirl' for a detailed discussion of representations of young rural women
25. see John Murphy, Imagining the Fifties: Private Sentiment and Political Culture in Menzies' Australia (Sydney: Pluto Press, 2000) for discussion on femininity and masculinity in postwar Australia
26. For a broad discussion of the implications of this approach for government see Brian Howe and Ray Cleary, 'Community Building: Policy Issues and Strategies for the Victorian Government', unpublished paper, January 2001
27. See, for instance, Margaret Alston, Women on the Land: The Hidden Heart of Rural Australia (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995)
28. Peter Kenyon and Alan Black, eds., Small Town Renewal: Change the Future of Your Community (Canberra, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, No 01/043, June 2001), 19
29. Graeme Davison, The Use and Abuse of Australian History (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2000), 197-220. Davison identifies five broad, and often overlapping, 'styles' of history writing: pioneer history, patriarchal history, professional history, preservationist history and community history
30. See Healy, '"Race Portraits'" for an extended discussion on what vernacular heritage might mean