Date: 1937-1939
Date: 1937
Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 Australian National Review
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After a long career with various Australian newspapers as a journalist and editor, W. Farmer Whyte moved to Canberra in 1927 to join the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery and establish the Federal News Service. Ten years later he founded the Australian National Review with the entomologist R. J. Tillyard.

The Australian National Review aimed to produce an independent forum that would 'provide a new medium of cultural thought and expression which may assist Australians to arrive at a deeper understanding of the nation's need'. At first the magazine was unapologetically religious in tone, hoping to 'raise awareness of, and contact with, the unseen, spiritual world'. But this tone did not continue for long, perhaps lost with the death of the deeply religious Tillyard in 1937.

Whyte attracted a diverse number of contributors to the Australian National Review, publishing articles on politics, science, economics, leisure and the arts. Literature remained a particular focus through Whyte's love of verse (as both a reader and writer) and his correspondence with Miles Franklin. Contributors of literary material included Roderic Quinn, Mary Gilmore, Ian Mudie, Zora Cross, Miles Franklin, A. R. Chisholm, Frederick Macartney, C. B. Christesen, Furnley Maurice, Louis Lavater, Paul Grano, Martin Haley, H. M. Green, T. Inglis Moore, Victor Kennedy, R. G. Howarth, Dal Stivens, R. D. FitzGerald, Mary Finnin, A. D. Hope, Brian Vrepont and Judith Wright.

The Australian National Review received positive reviews and maintained a regular monthly appearance. The August issue of 1939 showed no signs of imminent closure, but it was to be the last issue. The Second World War broke out the following month.

Notes

  • RANGE: Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1937)-v. 6, no. 32 (Aug. 1939)
  • FREQUENCY: monthly
  • SIZE: 26cm

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1937

Works about this Work

New Australian Work Frederick T. Macartney , 1937 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 January vol. 9 no. 1 1937; (p. 5-7)

— Review of Come Home at Last Jack Lindsay , 1936 selected work short story ; Lucid Intervals Walter Murdoch , 1936 single work prose ; Children of the Dark People : An Australian Story for Young Folk Frank Dalby Davison , 1936 single work children's fiction ; The Test Match Murder Denzil Batchelor , 1936 single work novel ; Threepence to Marble Arch Paul McGuire , 1936 single work novel ; Australian Rhodes Review periodical (4 issues); Australian National Review 1937 periodical (31 issues)
Macartney casts doubts on any continued claim Jack Lindsay may have on being regarded as an Australian writer.
New Australian Work Frederick T. Macartney , 1937 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 January vol. 9 no. 1 1937; (p. 5-7)

— Review of Come Home at Last Jack Lindsay , 1936 selected work short story ; Lucid Intervals Walter Murdoch , 1936 single work prose ; Children of the Dark People : An Australian Story for Young Folk Frank Dalby Davison , 1936 single work children's fiction ; The Test Match Murder Denzil Batchelor , 1936 single work novel ; Threepence to Marble Arch Paul McGuire , 1936 single work novel ; Australian Rhodes Review periodical (4 issues); Australian National Review 1937 periodical (31 issues)
Macartney casts doubts on any continued claim Jack Lindsay may have on being regarded as an Australian writer.
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