New Zealand federation commissioners in Australia: One past, two historiographies

Australian Historical Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 122, 2003, Pages 305-325

  Smith, Philippa Mein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 7644241338     PISSN: 1031461X     EISSN: 19405049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10314610308596257     Document Type: Article

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2. Keith Sinclair, A Destiny Apart: New Zealand's Search for National Identity (Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, 1986), 118
3. also Keith Sinclair, 'Why New Zealanders are Not Australians: New Zealand and the Australian Federal Movement, 1881-1901', in Tasman Relations: New Zealand and Australia, 1788-1988, ed. Keith Sinclair (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1987), chapter 5
4. See, for example, Stuart Macintyre, 'Australia and the Empire', and James Belich, 'Colonization and History in New Zealand' in Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 5, Historiography, ed. Robin W. Winks (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), chapters 9 and 10
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6. Ann Curthoys, 'Does Australian History Have a Future?'. Challenging Histories: Reflections on Australian History, Australian Historical Studies 118 (2002): 140-52
7. Donald Denoon, 'Open and Closed Histories', Australian Historical Studies 95 (October 1990): 175-88
8. Ian Tyrrell, 'Conference Commentary: New Comparisons, International Worlds: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives', Australian Feminist Studies 16, no. 36 (November 2001): 355-61
9. Charles Tilly, 'Social Movements and (All Sorts of) Other Political Interactions-Local, National, and International-including Identities', Theory and Society 27, no. 4 (August 1998): 478
10. Tara Brabazon, Tracking the Jack: A Retracing of the Antipodes (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000) is a cultural studies text which sees Australia and New Zealand as a combined Antipodean space, yet does not deal with them as interactive spaces
11. Bain Attwood and Fiona Magowan, eds. Telling Stories: Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand (Wellington & Sydney: Bridget Williams Books/Allen & Unwin, 2001) again contains articles on Australia and New Zealand separately
12. while James Bennett, 'Redeeming the Imagination: A Trans-national History of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, 1890-1944' (PhD thesis. University of Melbourne, 1997), began to tackle issues of defence, labour and race
13. Philippa Mein Smith, Peter Hempenstall and Shaun Goldfinch, 'Anzac Neighbours: 100 Years of Multiple Ties Between New Zealand and Australia', University of Canterbury research project in History and Political Science, funded by the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand
14. Greg Dening, 'Performing on the Beaches of the Mind: An Essay', History and Theory 41, no. 1 (February 2002): 7
15. It is necessary to problematise such men-only evidence. See Catherine Hall, White, Male and Middle-Class: Explorations in Feminism and History (New York: Routledge, 1992)
16. AJHR, 190 L A-4, 471, 473
17. Ian F. Grant," The Other Side of the Ditch: A Cartoon Century in the New Zealand-Australia Relationship (Wellington: NZ Cartoon Archive/Tandem Press, 2001)
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19. John Hirst, The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian Commonwealth (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2000), especially chapter 1. A.W. Martin, ed. Essays in Australian Federation (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969), focused on political processes rather than the business arguments suggested by Hirst, however, as did McMinn who concluded that the federal movement was a campaign run by politicians. W.G. McMinn, Nationalism and Federalism in Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994), 183
20. Helen Irving, To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
21. Helen Irving, ed. The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999). This is the most comprehensive source. As Irving states in the preface, 'Australia is a union of separate and semi-autonomous regional parts', v
22. Irving, To Constitute a Nation
23. Geoffrey Bolton and Duncan Waterson, 'Queensland', in Centenary Companion to Australian Federation, ed. Irving; Raymond Evans, Clive Moore, Kay Saunders and Bryan Jamison, 1901 Our Future's Past: Documenting Australia's Federation (Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 1997)
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25. Adrian Chan, 'Notes: New Zealand, the Australian Commonwealth and "Plain Nonsense", NZJH 3, no. 2 (October 1969): 190-5, esp. 193
26. See references in note 4 above
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28. See also Stuan Macintyre, 'The Nation-building Project in the Antipodes', in States of Mind: Australia and New Zealand 1901-2001, eds Arthur Grimes, Lydia Wevers and Ginny Sullivan (Wellington: Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 2002), 7-8
29. Philippa Mein Smith, 'New Zealand' in Centenary Companion to Australian Federation ed. Irving, 400-5. First presented as 'New Zealand and Blemishes in a White Australia', New Zealand Historical Association conference paper. University of Waikato, 1997
30. Bennett, 'Maori as Honorary Members of the White Tribe', 37-8; problematically, Bennett does not define the concept in his paper's title or identify its source
31. James Belich, Paradise Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders From the 1880s to the Year 2000 (Auckland: Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 2001), 46-7
32. Warwick Anderson, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), 1, 5
33. See for example T.A. Coghlan, A Statistical Account of the Seven Colonies of Australasia, 1901-1902 (Sydney: Government Printer, 1902)
34. Official Report of the National Australasian Convention Debates, Sydney 1891, 64-5, Australian Federation Database
35. Record of the Proceedings and Debates of the Australasian Federation Conference, 1890, Sir John Hall, 176
36. and Patricia Grimshaw, 'Indigenous Men, White Mothers and 'Founding Fathers': Australia and New Zealand, 1901', in States of Mind: Australia and New Zealand 1901-2001, eds Grimes, Wevers and Sullivan, 17
37. Report of the National Australasian Convention Debates, 1891, 66
38. See also John Chesterman and Brian Galligan, Citizens without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 67-8
39. Sinclair, 'Why New Zealanders are Not Australians', 102; Irving, To Constitute a Nation, 113
40. Mein Smith, 'New Zealand', 403; Grimshaw, 'Indigenous Men, White Mothers and "Founding Fathers'"; Bennett, 'Maori as Honorary Members of the White Tribe'
41. PatridaGrimshaw, 'A White Woman's Sufrrage', in A Woman's Constitution? ed. Helen Irving (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1996), 84-5
42. See also Grimshaw, 'Federation as a Turning Point in Australlian History', Australian Historical Studies 118 (2002): 25-41
43. Edmund Bohan, To Be a Hero: A Biography of Sir George Grey (Auckland: HarperCollins, 1998), 313, citing NZPD 69, 609-14
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45. See Audrey Oldfield, Woman Suffrage in Australia: A Gift or a Struggle? (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
46. and Patricia Grimshaw, Women's Suffrage in New Zealand, second edition (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1987)
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48. Report of the National Australasian Convention Debates, 1891, Russell, 64
49. Russell McGregor, Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997)
50. Anna Haebich, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000)
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52. As quoted by Irving in Centenary Companion to Australian Federation, 20
53. Denoon, 'Re-Membering Australasia'
54. Leone Huntsman, Sand in our Souls (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001)
55. Grant, Other Side of the Ditch, 20
56. AJHR. 1901, A-4, Sydney, 20 March 1901, McMillan to Pitt, 496 qu. 323
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58. Stuart Ward, 'Sentiment and Self-interest: The Imperial Ideal in Anglo-Australian Commercial Culture', Australian Historical Studies 166 (April 2001): 91-108
59. and Stuart Ward, Australia and the British Embrace: The Demise of the Imperial Ideal (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 8-9
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62. AJHR, 1901, A-4, McMillan to Pitt, 496 qu. 323. On the secessionist movement's use of New Zealand to argue its case
63. J.C. Bannon, 'Bonhomie, Tenacity, Vindictiveness: The Force of Charles Cameron Kingston', in Makers of Miracles: The Cast of the Federation Story, eds David Headon
64. Sinclair, 'Why New Zealanders Are Not Australians', 102
65. W.R. Russell in Dictionary of NZ Biography, vol. 2 (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books/Department of Internal Affairs, 1993), 436-7
66. Ann Parsonson, 'The Fate of Maori Land Rights in Early Colonial New Zealand: the limits of the Treaty of Waitangi and the doctrine of Aboriginal title', in Law, History, Colonialism: The Reach of Empire, eds Diane Kirkby and Catharine Coleborne (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001), 185
67. Report of the National Australasian Convention Debates, 1891, 67
68. Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Australasian Federation Conference, 1890, 128-9
69. William Pember Reeves, State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1902), vol. 1, 151
70. Luke Trainor, British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
71. Madntyre, 'Australia and the Empire', 168z
72. Belich, Paradise Reformed
73. See also Philippa Mein Smith, 'New Zealand Milk for "Building Britons", in Medicine and Colonial Identity, eds Mary Sutphen and Bridie Andrews (London & New York: Routledge, 2003). First presented as 'Good New Zealand Milk', Medidne and the Colonies conference paper, Oxford, July 1996
74. AJHR, 1901, A-4, 540 qu. 1149-50
75. Fairburn, Ideal Society
76. Burdon, KingDick, chapter 16
77. Belich, Paradise Reforged, 30-1, 52; Mein Smith, Hempenstall and Goldfinch, 'Anzac Neighbours' project. University of Canterbury