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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 [Review] Icing on the Damper : Life Story of a Family in the Outback
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'There is, in Australian writing, a distinguished tradition of the 'true life story'. At its best, this genre entices the reader into the world of the narrator to enjoy a good yam which also functions as a form of history. But there are pitfalls too - the most common, in Australian writing, being an unrelenting cheerfulness which razes the more complex emotions which one ardently hopes the author experienced in 'real life' . Events do not speak for themselves: concealing the psyche and eschewing the passions deprives the 'true life story' of much of its raison d'etre.' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon Queensland Review vol. 4 no. 2 October 1997 Z1095026 1997 periodical issue 'It is the policy of Queensland Review to dedicate all or part of certain issues to a single topic or event of particular interest and relevance to Queenslanders. This is the second such issue - the first was the special issue guest edited by Lynette Finch on Queensland childhoods. This issue incorporates papers delivered at a recent seminar on the criminal justice system in Queensland. Our guest editor for these papers is Dr Tim Prenzler, the Convenor of that seminar, whose special editorial begins on the next page. The remaining article in this issue, Doug Hunt's excellent overview of the development of the Queensland industrial relations system during the 1990's, has been separately refereed.' (Foreword)  1997 pg. 92-93
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