Mark Finnane Mark Finnane i(A70418 works by)
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1 S.W. Griffith : A Suitable Case for Indictment? Mark Finnane , 2023 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 54 no. 3 2023; (p. 387-404)

'In his 2021 book ‘Truth-Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement’, Henry Reynolds called for an inquiry into the historical record of Samuel Walker Griffith, Federation ‘father’ and first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. Reynolds’ iconoclasm targeted a historical figure whose name is memorialised in a Riverina town, a Canberra suburb and a Queensland university. Reynolds charged that Griffith was morally and politically responsible for the violence carried out by an agency of the Queensland government, the Native Police. This historically grounded allegation relates to Griffith's pre-Federation Queensland political career, 1874–93, when he served intermittently as Premier, Attorney-General and Colonial Secretary. In this article we consider the historical record of S.W. Griffith as law-maker and ministerial decision-maker, asking what elements of fact and context may be brought to the important work of reckoning with a violent colonial past and its memorialisation in the present.' (Publication abstract)
1 Raphael Cilento in Medicine and Politics: Visions and Contradictions Mark Finnane , 2013 single work biography
— Appears in: Queensland Review , June vol. 20 no. 1 2013; (p. 4-14) 'At the end of his working life as a medical bureaucrat, Raphael Cilento twice tried his hand at Australian federal politics. After an initial joust at a Senate seat, he was encouraged by the fledgling Australian Democratic Union to try the House of Representatives. His choice of electorate was heroic. The seat of McPherson (Qld) was held by Arthur Fadden, one time prime minister and perennial member for this Darling Downs electorate. Standing as an ‘Independent Democrat’, Cilento targeted the Italian community in Stanthorpe, a district where he picked up half the vote in his otherwise unsuccessful campaign. His candidature attracted some notice. Brisbane’s Truth described Sir Raphael as ‘the most distinguished Queenslander to ever enter the Federal political arena’. This might seem a little hyperbolic, but seen in the larger context of Cilento’s national and international work, it was a defensible proposition. Seen literally, it is slightly less defensible since Cilento was not Queensland born. Rather, he came to adopt Queensland — and to seek to advance its standing as an example of successful white settlement of the tropics.' [Source : Queensland Review vol. 20, no. 1, p. 4]
1 7 y separately published work icon J. V. Barry : A Life Mark Finnane , Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2007 Z1442864 2007 single work biography 'This is the history of John Vincent Barry: judge, historian, criminologist, civil libertarian and public intellectual before his time. Drawing on an archive of more than 10,000 letters as well as recent interviews with those who knew him, Mark Finnane looks at Barry in the cultural, political and intellectual milieu of inter- and post-war Australia, and describes Barry's considerable role in the creation of a discourse of justice and human rights in Australia. The book approaches under-documented domains of Australian life such as crime and the courts, divorce, the building of institutions, the conduct and consequences of public enquiries, enriching our understanding of the constraints faced by earlier generations and the possibilities opened up by their choices.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Pursuing Ned Kelly in the 1950s Mark Finnane , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , June vol. 17 no. 9 2007; (p. 10-13) Discusses John Vincent Barry's research into Ned Kelly for an Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) entry (finally published in an edited version in the ADB in 1974). Barry began research in 1949-1950 for a book on the legal aspect's of the Kelly case but the book was shelved possibly due to the concurrent research by Frank Clune for his work The Kelly Hunters. Finnane looks at the research of both authors and particularly at the pioneering research of Barry.
1 'Building Castles in the Air' - the Castieau Diaries Mark Finnane , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , January vol. 15 no. 4 2005; (p. 10-13)
1 3 y separately published work icon The Difficulties of My Position : The Diaries of Prison Governor John Buckley Castieau, 1855-1884 John Buckley Castieau , Mark Finnane (editor), Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2004 Z1172332 2004 single work diary

'A career in the Victorian penal system might not seem to be a source of excitement, but for John Buckley Castieau it was the trigger for nearly three decades of diaries that reveal far more about the colony's early social history than what went on behind prison walls. J.B. Castieau was the governor of both Beechworth and Melbourne gaols as well as, somewhat disastrously, the Inspector-General of Penal Establishments. Well-educated, fond of the theatre, frequently in debt, impulsively generous, self-doubting and of 'unsteady habits' in his cups, he knew many of the prominent characters of 'Marvellous Melbourne' - the journalist Marcus Clarke, the famous and fiery legal figure, Sir Redmond Barry and Sir George Kerferd, Premier of the state. Fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in Victoria and the penal system from the 1850s to the 1880s. ' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Irish-Australian Studies : Papers Delivered at the Seventh Irish-Australian Conference, July 1993 Rebecca Pelan (editor), Noel Quirke (editor), Mark Finnane (editor), Sydney : Crossing Press , 1994 Z985819 1994 anthology criticism essay non-fiction
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