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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 The Evolution of the Queensland Kid : Changing Literary Representations of Queensland Children in Children's and Adolescent Fiction
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    y separately published work icon Queensland Review vol. 3 no. 2 Lynette Finch (editor), 1996 Z1094592 1996 periodical issue 'Young in a Warm Climate is a collection of essays about childhood in Queensland, a region of Australia which has historically been represented as having a significantly warmer, harsher, more challenging, yet simultaneously more fecund, climate than the more populous southern states. European understandings of the Australian climate plays vital role in most studies about the European experience of Australia. From the time of first white settlement, this country's environment, characterised as harsh, was seen to be providing challenges for Europeans in their efforts to work, live, give birth, and stay healthy in their new settlements. It is a perception which has endured until well into the twentieth century. As Richard White has detailed, during the second half of the nineteenth century earlier fears about "the possible physical degeneration of the English race in the bright Australian climate" gave way to a conviction that "[t]he sunnier climate and the outdoor life, which some thought debilitating, could also be used to help 'explain the vigorous frame, manliness of bearing, and stamp of independence of the average Australian''.' (Introduction) 1996 pg. 59-75
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