David Ritter David Ritter i(A81310 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 The Banksia Revolution : The New Alliance of Community and Capital David Ritter , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 74 2021; (p. 163-173)
1 We All Took a Stand : Margaret River Versus the Coal Industry David Ritter , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , January no. 63 2019; (p. 89-101)

'Nobody looks very comfortable. There are four faces, angled inelegantly, only one inclined to engage with the camera, the attached bodies mostly submerged in a hot, foaming tub. There are two men and two women. The picture is from an age before digital cameras were everywhere, so the image hasn't been altered and as far as I know exists only in slowly fading semi-gloss hard copy. It is a scene more awkward than salacious: only one drink is in evidence and the expressions of the four twenty-somethings reflect self-consciousness more than any release of inhibitions. Everyone is wearing bathers and there's nothing scandalous to see here. As one of that group, I remember the night wryly.'  (Publication summary)

 

1 The High Court Decides : The Tasmanian Dams Judgment David Ritter , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Telling Stories : Australian Life and Literature 1935–2012 2013; (p. 398-403)
1 y separately published work icon Making Australian History : Perspectives on the Past Since 1788 Deborah Gare (editor), David Ritter (editor), South Melbourne : Cengage Learning , 2008 Z1601730 2008 anthology non-fiction (taught in 5 units)

Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past since 1788 is an exciting new text that meets an unusual gap in the literature of Australian history. It presents students with an in-depth, multi authored collection of articles, documents and short essays that are structured around the major themes discussed in most history courses.

Each theme in Making Australian History contains a collection of primary and secondary sources, including chapters by current leading scholars, reprints of publications from previous decades that have proven seminal in the historiographical debate or research of each theme, photographs or artwork, and short feature articles on matters of human interest.

Making Australian History gives students the unique opportunity to study a range of articles and commentary on such themes as the Anzac legend, the convict stain, gold and federation, white Australia, Australians at war, myth, environmentalism and sustainability, ideology and politics. Publisher's blurb.

1 Untitled David Ritter , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: API Review of Books , February no. 41 2006;

— Review of The Latham Diaries Mark Latham , 2005 single work diary
1 Untitled David Ritter , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , March no. 22 2004; Journal of Australian Studies , no. 81 2004; (p. 159-160)

— Review of Death Sentence : The Decay of Public Language Don Watson , 2003 single work prose
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