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1 Hansard as Literary Reception : The Uses of Poetry In Australian Political Debate, 1901–1950 Julieanne Lamond , Fiannuala Morgan , Sarah-Jane Burton , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , vol. 48 no. 4 2024; (p. 482-496) 'Hansard—Australia’s record of parliamentary debate—might see man unlikely site for literary analysis. It is, however, a publisher of original poetry and its criticism a forum for the performance and citation of poetry, and a complex archive of literary reception in Australia since Federation. In this paper, we discuss our findings in relation to the uses of poetry in the Australian Hansard from1901 to 1950, focusing on how the work of two settler Australian poet-parliamentarians, J. K. McDougall and John Cash Neild, is put to use in parliamentary speeches as recorded in Hansard. Together, these examples indicate that poetry is not only deployed for a range of heightened rhetorical effects on the floor of parliament; it is also part of the fabric of routine political debate, put to a range of adversarial and racist purposes, and part of the wider history of literary publication and reception.' (Publication abstract) 
1 Reading Ecological Decline in Nineteenth-Century Bushfire Serials and Reporting Fiannuala Morgan , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 250 2023; (p. 23-31) 'In recent years, the scholarship of Bruce Pascoe (bolstered and supplemented by environmental historians such as Bill Gammage) has arguably shifted mainstream Australia's understanding of Indigenous culture from nomadic to agricultural, and the disaster of Black Summer has further moved settler Australia towards an appreciation of Indigenous cultural practices as an amelioration of ecological disaster and climate change (Pascoe 2018; Gammage and Pascoe 2021; Gammage 20U). At least part of the rhetorical power of this work is owed to its drawing directly on the settler archive that presents early historical accounts of land as 'verdant. open. pleasant and gentle', as 'gentleman's parks, thereby. demonstrating what pre-invasion land looked like under Indigenous custodianship. management, and care (Gammage and Pascoe 2021.25).' 

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1 An English Tale for an Emergent Nation : William Howitt's 'Black Thursday' and the Narrativisation of Bushfire Fiannuala Morgan , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Black Thursday and Other Lost Australian Bushfire Stories 2021;
1 y separately published work icon Aboriginal Writers and Popular Fiction : The Literature of Anita Heiss Fiannuala Morgan , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2021 24007297 2021 single work criticism

'Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction.

'A focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an author is both supplemented and complemented by her roles as an academic, activist and public intellectual. Heiss has discussed genre as a means of targeting audiences that may be less engaged with Indigenous affairs, and positions her novels as educative but not didactic.

'Her readership is constituted by committed readers of romance and chick lit as well as politically engaged readers that are attracted to Heiss' dual authorial persona; and, both groups bring radically distinct expectations to bear on these texts.

'Through analysis of online reviews and surveys conducted with users of the book reviewing website Goodreads, I complicate the understanding of genre as a cogent interpretative frame, and deploy this discussion to explore the social significance of Heiss' literature.' (Publication summary)
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