Mickey Dewar Mickey Dewar i(A14745 works by) (a.k.a. Michelle Dewar)
Born: Established: 1 Jan 1956 Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 23 Apr 2017 Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Female
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1 [Review Essay] Call of the Outback Mickey Dewar , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Northern Territory Historical Studies , no. 28 2017; (p. 97)

'Call of the Outback is a biography of Australian writer Ernestine Hill by Dutch/Australian writer and translator Marianne Van Velzen. Her interest in Hill was piqued as a child coming across The Australian Loneliness as part of her father’s English book collection. Her family, immigrants to Australia in the post Second World War period, came to use Hill’s text as both an aid to learning the language and as a cipher to understanding the new country to which they had come.' (Introduction)

1 [Review Essay] A Handful of Sand: The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-Off Mickey Dewar , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 48 no. 2 2017; (p. 296-297)

'Charlie Ward’s A Handful of Sand is an epic historical work, meticulously researched and beautifully written, with at its heart the events that shaped the lives of the Gurindji in the lead-up and aftermath of the historic walk-off. Ward takes us through the events in close detail that surround the iconic moment in 1975 when an Australian Prime Minister passed a ‘handful of sand’ to a Gurindji elder.'  (Introduction)

1 [Review Essay] Battarbee and Namatjira Mickey Dewar , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Northern Territory Historical Studies , no. 27 2016; (p. 110-112)

'In his latest work Battarbee and Namatjira, New Zealand writer Martin Edmond juxtaposes the biographies of two painters, Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, as a way to explore their personal and professional relationships and to highlight the creative processes and personalities of both men. Edmond uses events in the lives of his protagonists to redefine their experiences of success and failure, creation and destruction. Their intertwined stories unfold with the inevitability of a classical Greek play – inexorable and tragic.'  (Introduction)

1 Borella's War : The Making of a Legend Mickey Dewar , 2016 single work biography
— Appears in: Northern Territory Historical Studies , no. 27 2016; (p. 47-64)

'On the battlefields of the First World War, Albert Borella suffered chronic dysentery, toothache and was seriously wounded a number of times. He would see training in Egypt and extensive military action in Gallipoli and on the Western Front. In 1918 he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour in the British Empire, for 'most conspicuous bravery in attack'. When the Northern Territory honours its Anzacs the name of Albert Chalmers-Borella is remembered with great pride as the 'only Northern Territorian to have received the Victoria  Cross'.'  (Publication abstract)

1 Darwin [Book Review] Mickey Dewar , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Historical Studies , no. 26 2015; (p. 93-94)

— Review of Darwin Tess Lea , 2014 single work prose
1 Cheon of the Never Never [Book Review] Mickey Dewar , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Historical Studies , no. 25 2014; (p. 172-174)

— Review of Cheon of the Never Never Kevin Wong Hoy , 2012 single work prose
1 [Untitled] Mickey Dewar , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics & History , vol. 60 no. 1 2014; (p. 132-133)

— Review of Where is Dr Leichhardt? The Greatest Mystery in Australian History Darrell Lewis , 2013 single work non-fiction
1 y separately published work icon In Search of the 'Never-Never' : Looking for Australia in Northern Territory Writing Mickey Dewar , Darwin : Northern Territory University Press , 1997 Z108271 1997 single work criticism 'The Northern Territory remains the region of romantic idealisation of the Australian outback tradition . In Search of the 'Never-Never' is an examination of the literary tradition which created the myth.' Source: Publishers blurb
1 Blowing Rusty Bugles : The War and Territory Writing Mickey Dewar , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Northern Perspective , Wet Season vol. 18 no. 2 1995; (p. 65-73)
1 Clarity of a Nineteenth Century Radical Mickey Dewar , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Perspective , Wet Season vol. 13 no. 2 1990; (p. 117-118)

— Review of The First Voice of Australian Feminism : Excerpts from Louisa Lawson's The Dawn 1888-1895 Louisa Lawson , 1990 selected work prose short story poetry
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