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Recounts a visit from Sydney to Gooagalong Station on the Lachlan River by Dick Morrison and his friend Tom Flood. Dick's uncle owns the property and it is Dick's cousin Ned whom the boys have come to visit. The book details aspects of station life including riding horses, shooting kangaroos, encountering bushrangers and searching for gold. It also includes reference to Aboriginal life and customs which, invariably, are judged by the boys as inferior.
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Contains 32-page catalogue advertising publisher's other works.
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Users are warned that this work contains terminology that reflects attitudes or language used at the time of publication that are considered inappropriate today.
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Re-Reading Representations of Indigenality in Australian Children's Literature : A History
St Lucia
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AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource
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2009
Z1445073
2006
single work
criticism
Australian children's literature has a history of excluding Indigenous child readers and positioning non-Indigenous readers as the subject. Rather then portray such literature, particularly before the 1950s, as simply racist or stereotypical, it argues that it is important for teachers, of all students, to help readers understand how nationalist or white Australian myths were constructed on Indigenous land and knowledges. (Author's Abstract). This article includes discussion of English works depicting Australian life and themes.
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God's One Country : The Description of Asians by Australian Children's Authors
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 62-73) 'This paper will examine some of the representations made of Asian characters in Australian children's literature, with particular reference to the image of Chinese, who are the Asian people most frequently alluded before World War I and who have continued to be present in more recent writing' (62). -
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1896
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 25 January vol. 52 no. 1355 1896; (p. 28)
— Review of His First Kangaroo : An Australian Story for Boys 1896 single work children's fiction
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New Publications
1896
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 25 January vol. 52 no. 1355 1896; (p. 28)
— Review of His First Kangaroo : An Australian Story for Boys 1896 single work children's fiction -
God's One Country : The Description of Asians by Australian Children's Authors
1997
single work
criticism
— Appears in: La Trobe Library Journal , Spring no. 60 1997; (p. 62-73) 'This paper will examine some of the representations made of Asian characters in Australian children's literature, with particular reference to the image of Chinese, who are the Asian people most frequently alluded before World War I and who have continued to be present in more recent writing' (62). -
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Re-Reading Representations of Indigenality in Australian Children's Literature : A History
St Lucia
:
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource
,
2009
Z1445073
2006
single work
criticism
Australian children's literature has a history of excluding Indigenous child readers and positioning non-Indigenous readers as the subject. Rather then portray such literature, particularly before the 1950s, as simply racist or stereotypical, it argues that it is important for teachers, of all students, to help readers understand how nationalist or white Australian myths were constructed on Indigenous land and knowledges. (Author's Abstract). This article includes discussion of English works depicting Australian life and themes.
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