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WEEK 2: What was the British government’s vision for the NSW colony? How
did the reality of the colony compare to this vision?
Reference:
Main Reference: Karskens, G. 2013, ‘The Early Colonial Presence, 1788-1822’, in A
Bashford and S Macintyre (eds), The Cambridge History of Australia, Cambridge
University Press, Melbourne, pp. 91-107.
WEEK 3: How did early colonial artists represent the Australian landscape in
their painting?
References: Gray, A. 2008. 'Art and the environment: New visions from old', in D.
Schreuder and S. Ward (eds), Australia’s Empire, Oxford University Press, Oxford, p.
103-114.
WEEK 4: According to Clare Wright, how did women contribute to the
democratic visions on the Ballarat goldfields?
References: Wright, C. 2008. ‘New Brooms They Say Sweep Clean’: Women’s Political
Activism on the Ballarat Goldfields, 1854’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 39, no 3,
2008, pp. 305-321.
WEEK 5: Why was Melbourne described as marvellous in the late 19th
century? (Graeme Davison)
References :Davison, G. (1978) ‘Marvellous Melbourne’, in Davison, G, The Rise and
Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, p. 229-57.
WEEK 6: In what ways could Australian women be part of World War I?
References: Haskins, V. 2017. 'The girl who wanted to go to war: female patriotism and
gender construction in Australia’s Great War', History Australia, volume 14, no 2, 169-
186.
WEEK 7: What were the (imagined) comforts of the suburban home in 1920s-
Australia?
References: Brown, N. 2000. 'Making Oneself Comfortable, or More Rooms Than
Persons', in P. Troy (ed.), A history of European housing in Australia, Cambridge
University Press, Melbourne, pp. 107-124.
WEEK 8: What was the vision of Australia advanced by Aboriginal rights
campaigners from the 1930s?
References: Perkins, R. (dir.) 2015. First Australians. SBS. Episode 6: A Fair Deal for a
Dark Race. Directed by B. Cole.
WEEK 9: Why did so many Australians from so many walks of life protest
again the Vietnam War?
References: Cochrane, P. 1990. 'At War at Home: Australian attitudes during the
Vietnam Years', in Pemberton, G. (ed) Vietnam Remembered, Weldon, Sydney, pp.164-
185.
WEEK 10: Why is Marcia Langton critical of the environmental movement’s
visions of the Australian wilderness?
References: Langton, M. 2012. ‘The Conceit of Wilderness Ideology’, Boyer
Lectures, Lecture 4, 9 December 2012, ABC Radio National. Podcast and transcript
available http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures/2012-boyer-
lectures-234/4409022
