The Godfather: Peter Corris on Peter Cook, historian and mate
Smells can powerfully evoke memories. I can’t smell night-blooming jasmine or pipe tobacco smoke without remembering places and people. Music …
Tag Archives: Australian history
BILL GARNER Born in a Tent: How Camping Makes Us Australian. Reviewed by Tracy Sorensen
History seen through a tent flap: this view of post-settlement Australia is ‘alive and itchy’. The act of camping strips …
MATT MURPHY Weight of Evidence. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
Forgery, drunkenness, prejudice, injustice – the notorious Newtown Ejectment Case of the 1850s provides a fascinating slice of colonial life. …
EVELYN CONLON Not the Same Sky. Reviewed by Candida Baker
Evelyn Conlon sidesteps the traps of historical fiction in this moving story of four young Irishwomen sent to Australia during …
Crime Scene: JUDITH RODRIGUEZ The Hanging of Minnie Thwaites. Reviewed by Paula Grunseit
The real-life hanging of a 19th-century baby-farmer inspired award-winning poet Judith Rodriguez to tell the story in a variety of …
HUMPHREY McQUEEN Social Sketches of Australia 1888–2001. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
McQueen’s sketches from Australia’s past provoke questions for the present. ‘History-making is not confined to prime ministers and generals, gold …
ROBERT DREWE Our Sunshine. Reviewed by Linda Funnell
Robert Drewe’s Ned Kelly gets under the skin. Nine years before Peter Carey published his Booker-winner The True History of …
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