Journal of Australian Studies

The dismissal of the Whitlam Government on 11 November 1975 has retained a prominent place in the Australian political and commemorative calendar. The occasion has been opportune for much-hyped revelations about the crisis itself and for discussions about the past and future of Australian democracy. But anniversaries of the Dismissal can tell us more about Australia's political culture than we have so far recognised. Drawing on press coverage, published literature, personal and official archives and the much remarked-upon Palace Letters, this article examines the public storytelling and commemoration of the Dismissal from 1976 onward. I argue that anniversaries disclose as much about Australia's changing political culture as they do about the history of the constitutional crisis itself. The stories that Australians tell each other on 11 November reflect the changing personalities, ideologies, social and intellectual trends, and political priorities of public life. By revisiting the histories of protest, publishing and performance that occur each year on 11 November, this article illuminates the shifting politics of memory in Australian society and brings new meaning to the "millions of words" written and spoken about the Dismissal.

Joshua Black

“Rekindling the Rage”? Anniversaries of the Dismissal and the Politics of Commemoration

“重燃怒火”？解雇周年纪念与纪念政治

Scott Denis McCarthy

The Catholic Elite and the Issue of Loyalty During the Great War in Australia

澳大利亚一战期间的忠诚问题：天主教精英的角色

Michelle Arrow

The Shrinking Nation—Response

《缩小的国家——回应》

In Anson Cameron’s The Last Pulse, the monkeywrenching protagonist blasts a dam in Queensland, rides on the resulting flood southwards and spreads his solastalgia around, an affect Glenn Albrecht defines as homesickness at home induced by local ecological loss. From water disputes overseas to those between the eastern Australian states, from the character’s drought-stricken home town in South Australia to the Murray–Darling Basin, the novel allows readers to experience solastalgia as a multiscalar affect capable of mobilising environmental activism, as well as mooring in and playing with the “arts of flow” informed by Indigenous water ethics. The scale and distance-conscious method of “proximate reading” can be applied to read the dynamic of the affect in such an expanded and sentient water ecology; in this way, it can provide crucial insights into how readers’ environmental feelings and thinking are constantly reconfigured alongside shifting borders within and beyond the watershed in the novel.

Lurong Liu

“Feelings are strong here”: A Proximate Reading of Solastalgia in <i>The Last Pulse</i>

“这里的情感强烈”：《最后的脉搏》中乡痛的近距阅读

Alexandra Dellios

Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders <b>Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders</b> , by Jordana Silverstein, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2023, 320 pp., $34.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781922633873

残酷的关怀：边境儿童的历史

Kate Darian-Smith

Max Brierty

Abbreviation	J. Aust. Stud.
Journal Impact	0.57
Quartiles(Global)	HISTORY(Q1)

ISSN	0314-769X, 1444-3058, 1835-6419
h-index	22

Publication Information	Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1977，Proportion of original research papers: ，Self Citation Rate:， Gold OA Rate:

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“Rekindling the Rage”? Anniversaries of the Dismissal and the Politics of Commemoration

The Catholic Elite and the Issue of Loyalty During the Great War in Australia

The Shrinking Nation—Response

“Feelings are strong here”: A Proximate Reading of Solastalgia in The Last Pulse

Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders , by Jordana Silverstein, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2023, 320 pp., $34.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781922633873

“Rekindling the Rage”? Anniversaries of the Dismissal and the Politics of Commemoration

The Catholic Elite and the Issue of Loyalty During the Great War in Australia

The Shrinking Nation—Response

The Shrinking Nation—Response

The Shrinking Nation—Response