Bulletin Bulletin i(A54363 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. Bulletin Newspaper; Bulletin Newspaper Company)
Born: Established: 1888 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
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1 y separately published work icon Bulletin Library Bulletin (publisher), Sydney : Bulletin , 8306902 series - publisher
1 y separately published work icon The Bulletin Short Story and Cartoon Book Sydney : Bulletin , 1975 Z258274 1975 anthology short story humour
2 4 y separately published work icon Time Means Tucker Duke Tritton , Sydney : Bulletin , 1959 Z129587 1959 single work autobiography travel
1 y separately published work icon Exit, an Empire John E. Webb , Sydney : Bulletin , 1957 Z1737713 1957 selected work poetry
2 11 y separately published work icon The Letters of Rachel Henning Rachel Biddulph Henning , Sydney : Bulletin , 1952 1952 selected work correspondence biography
1 2 y separately published work icon The Song-Maker and Other Verse Nora McAuliffe , Sydney : s.n. , 1937 Z557425 1937 selected work poetry
1 15 y separately published work icon Jungfrau Dymphna Cusack , Sydney : Bulletin , 1936 Z96921 1936 single work novel (taught in 1 units)
2 32 y separately published work icon All That Swagger Miles Franklin , Sydney : Bulletin , 1936 Z451516 1936 single work novel (taught in 2 units)
1 y separately published work icon Chunuma Mary Durack , Elizabeth Durack , Sydney : Bulletin , 1936 Z221210 1936 single work children's fiction children's
1 1 y separately published work icon All-About : The Story of a Black Community on Argyle Station, Kimberley Mary Durack , Elizabeth Durack , Sydney : Bulletin , 1935 Z530739 1935 single work novel Describes life at Argyle Station, the Aborigines who work there, their relationships, and the humorous events of daily life.
2 14 y separately published work icon Tiburon Kylie Tennant , Sydney : Bulletin , 1935 Z1276004 1935 single work novel
1 4 y separately published work icon Stories by 'Kodak' Kodak , Sydney : Endeavour Press , 1933 Z507885 1933 selected work short story humour
1 4 y separately published work icon The Australian Woman's Mirror AWM Sydney : Bulletin , 1924-1961 Z1105205 1924-1961 periodical (965 issues)
1 y separately published work icon Wild Cat Monthly 1923 Sydney : Bulletin , 1923-1961 Z1324436 1923 periodical

A financial magazine for investors, Wild Cat Monthly described its own beginning as a response to the 'many subscribers of The Bulletin, who desired to have the weekly data and comments of that paper's "Wild Cat Column" preserved for them in a handy form'. The original column first appeared in 1892, and the new format was primarily a series of reprints of financial articles and company reviews. These expanded over time to provide greater detail, but the content remained much the same. The magazine's annual index was simply a list of companies, thus providing an accessible source of financial information across the period. Each company had its directors and management identified, its capital and annual profitability revealed, and its financial position succinctly analysed. The stock market and broader economic trends were covered, with 'The Vestibule' column offering economic and financial news and commentary. Business biographies became a regular feature. A not-so-prescient column in October 1927, '1890 -- and Now... A Crash Quite Unlikely', traced the steps towards the Great Depression. In November 1929, the magazine stated its belief that 'Probably Australia will not suffer from the [Wall Street] crash. Indeed, it may be the gainer.' By 1931, when the Depression was firmly entrenched in Australia, the magazine's stance was firmly anti-Lang. It quoted Henry Ford on wages: '"The wages we pay", he says, "are based not on the cost of living but on the value of production". The Monthly has said a hundred times that this must be so.' It was antagonistic to the arbitration system, and carried hoteliers' advertisements opposing prohibition. Its longevity proved its self-estimation as 'a standard investment analysis reference among [its] many rivals in the financial Press'.

1 y separately published work icon Victor Daley Alfred George Stephens , Sydney : Bulletin , 1905 Z1393526 1905 single work biography criticism
1 3 y separately published work icon The Red Pagan Alfred George Stephens , Sydney : Bulletin , 1904 Z525278 1904 selected work criticism
1 4 y separately published work icon A Southern Garland Sydney : Bulletin , 1904 Z500339 1904 anthology selected work poetry
6 257 y separately published work icon Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins Tom Collins , Sydney : Bulletin , 1903 8613167 1897 single work novel (taught in 2 units)

Such is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins. Joseph Furphy's title gives an indication of the complexity of the narrative that will unravel before a persistent reader. In chapter one, the narrator, Tom Collins, joins a group of bullockies to camp for the night a few miles from Runnymede Station. Their conversations reveal many of the issues that arise throughout the rest of the novel: the ownership of, or control of access to, pasture; ideas of providence, fate and superstition; and a concern for federation that flows into descriptions of the coming Australian in later chapters. Each of the characters provides a portrait of bush types that Furphy uses to measure the qualities of squatters and others against popular ideas of the 'gentleman'. Furphy's choice of a narrative structure to create a 'loosely federated' series of yarns is itself a critique of popular narratives populated by stock characters who are driven by action that leads to predictable and uncomplicated conclusions. Tom Collins, the unreliable narrator, adds further complications by claiming to 'read men like signboards' while all the time being unknowingly contradicted by circumstances that become obvious to the reader.

In each subsequent chapter Tom Collins leads the reader through a series of experiences chosen from his diaries. In chapter two, Collins meets the boundary rider Rory O'Halloran and his daughter, Mary, a symbol of the coming Australian whose devotion to her father will have tragic consequences in chapter five. There are many links between chapters like this one that remain invisible to Collins, despite his attempts to understand the 'controlling alternatives' that affect our lives. In chapter three Tom loses his clothes crossing the Murray River and spends the night wandering naked until he is able to steal a pair of pants after diverting attention by setting fire to a haystack. In chapter four Collins helps an ailing Warrigal Alf by deceiving several boundary riders who have impounded Alf's bullocks. In chapter five, among other yarns of lost children, Thompson completes the tragic tale of Mary O'Halloran, connecting with the events of chapter two. Chapters six and seven take Tom Collins back to Runnymede Station where he attempts to avoid an unwelcome union with Maud Beaudesart. He also meets the disfigured boundary rider, Nosey Alf, whose life story Furphy has threaded throughout the narrative, signs not perceived by Tom Collins. When Collins returns to Runnymede at the end of the novel, Furphy ties up more loose narrative threads, but Tom Collins, the narrator, remains oblivious to the end.

In short, Such Is Life 'reflects the preoccupations of [the 1890s]: contemporary capitalism, ardent Australian nationalism, the difficulties of pioneering pastoralism, and speculation about a future Australian civilization. It was instantly seen as a major example of the "radical nationalism" of the time and praised for its realistic representation of life on the frontier in the 1880s. But it was forty years before many readers realized that the novel was also a subtle comment on fiction itself and that within it were hidden stories that revealed a world of "romance" within its "realist" representation of life. Such Is Life can be read as the first experimental novel in Australian literature and the first Australian literary expression of a twentieth-century sensibility of the provisionality of life and reality.' (Julian Croft, 'Joseph Furphy.' in Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 230.)

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