'To posit Queensland's modernism may seem like an oxymoron. Queensland is often the butt of the southern states’ jokes. North of its more cultured and intellectual sibling-states (or so popular perception would have it), Queensland is ‘backward’, naïve, behind the times, provincial. According to this mythology, Brisbane is a glorified country town, Queenslanders refuse daylight saving for the sake of their very sensitive cows and curtains, and there is very little ‘culture’ to mention.' (Editorial introduction)
Only literary material within AustLit's scope individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
- Queensland making a splash: Memorial pools and the body politics of reconstruction by Janina Gosseye and Alice Hampson
- Brisbane church architecture of the 1960s: Creating modern, climatic and regional responses to liturgical change by Lisa Marie Daunt
- Book Review : John Macarthur , Deborah van der Plaat , Janina Gosseye and Andrew Wilson (eds.), Hot Modernism: Queensland Architecture 1945–1975, by Kay Ferres
- Book Review : Nadia Buick and Madeleine King (eds), Remotely Fashionable: A Story of Subtropical Style, Brisbane: The Fashion Archives by Jessica White
- Book Review : Klaus Neumann , Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees by Andy Kaladelfos
- Book Review : John Blaxland , The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963–1975 by Mark Finnane
- Book Review : Rebecca Jennings , Unnamed Desires: A Sydney Lesbian History by Jordana Silverstein
- Book Review : Ivana Milojević , Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out by Olivera Simic
- Book Review : - Michael Meadows , The Living Rock: The Invention of Climbing in Eastern Australia by Penny Rossiter