Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Shaping a Regional Identity : Literary Non-Fiction and Short Fiction in North Queensland
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'Stories, anecdotes, and descriptive articles were the earliest publications, following the main wave of colonisation in the 1860s, to bring Queensland north and west of Proserpine to the attention of the national and international community. Such publications were also the main vehicle of an internal mythology: they shaped the identity of the inhabitants, diversified following settlement, and their sense of the region. The late date of settlement compared with south-eastern Australia meant that frontier experience continued both as lived reality and as mythology well into the twentieth century. The self-containment of the region as actual and exemplary frontier was breached only with the arrival of television and university culture in the 1950s and 1960s.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Queensland Review vol. 8 no. 2 November Belinda McKay (editor), 2001 Z941734 2001 periodical issue 'This issue of Queensland Review coincides with the tenth anniversary of its host institution, the Queensland Studies Centre at Griffith University. In its first decade, the Centre has mounted a large number of seminars, conferences and exhibitions on a wide range of issues related to Queensland history, art, literature, politics and society for a constituency which includes individuals from Queensland universities, the teaching profession, libraries, museums and public service departments, as well as independent researchers. The Centre acts as an umbrella organisation which facilitates research into Queensland's history, politics, society and culture by maintaining a database of Queensland researchers, and involving researchers across the state in cross-disciplinary projects and partnerships. It also acts as a public education resource through answering requests for information and through the provision of public seminars on matters of contemporary interest. In addition to Queensland Review, the Centre also produces Occasional Publications.' (Editorial)  2001 pg. 41-52
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  • Far North Queensland, Queensland,
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