A Mcgrath
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 25967 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Mcgrath |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Mcgrath |
| FIRMA | MCGRATH A |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1353-4653 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Frances Peters-Little (1958–2024)
Gordon Briscoe AO (1938–2023)
People of the Footprints
Using a case study from one of Australia’s most significant deep history sites, “People of the footprints” shows how reconciliatory efforts to share the western scientific kudos attached to discovery have proved an uncomfortable fit with Indigenous cultural values. When a young Mutthi Mutthi woman was credited with discovering an ancient human trackway at Lake Mungo in western New South Wales, Australia in 2003, it exposed not only the footprints…
Deep history and deep listening
This article outlines the possibilities of a deep history practice that engages with rather than sidelines Indigenous historical knowledges. Many Indigenous people insist that their knowledge of the deep past demands engagement. They do so, we suggest, because scientific historicism and Indigenous knowledge-systems and historicities already impinge upon and inform each other: they are intertwined. We propose ‘deep listening’ as a way historians m…
The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History
All communities and individuals living on North American land are, in a geo-political sense, ‘treaty people’ and attention to treaty history is vital to the challenge of addressing the profound environmental, technological, and resource-use changes of the future. This chapter makes the case for re-examination of existing thinking on treaties as the fundamental diplomatic artefacts that have codified and articulated relationships between settlers …
In Search of the Never-Never
Mickey Dewar made a profound contribution to the history of the Northern Territory, which she performed across many genres. She produced high-quality, memorable and multi-sensory histories, including the Cyclone Tracy exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the reinterpretation of Fannie Bay Gaol. Informed by a great love of books, her passion
Illicit Love
Bold in approach and beautifully crafted, Illicit Love is a multi-layered and nuanced account of the intersection between interracial relationships, marriage law and sovereignty centered on the lan
Critiquing the Discovery Narrative of Lady Mungo
Mickey Sue Dewar OAM (1956–2017)
Xavier Herbert
Xavier Herbert is one of Australia's outstanding novelists and one of the more controversial. In his time, he was also an outspoken public figure. Yet many young Australians today have not heard of the man or his novels. His key works Capricornia (1938) and Poor Fellow My Country (1975) won major awards and were judged as highly significant on publication, yet there has been relatively little analysis of their impact. Although providing much mate…
Colonial Relations
Deep Histories in Time, or Crossing the Great Divide
Long History, Deep Time asks whether it is possible to enlarge the scale and scope of history. 1 If so, the vast shape-shifting continent of Australia may be a good place to start. It hosted a very long human history that endured through the great climatic epochs of the Pleistocene and Holocene. Rising and falling seas carved out new islands and coastlines, creating the larger Ice Age continent of Greater Australia that was connected to current-d…
Collaborative Histories of the Willandra Lakes
In the Willandra Lakes region of south-western New South Wales, Australia, \nresearch over the past 45 years has created a vivid picture of interactions between \nhumans and their environment spanning an immensely long period of time. \nThe landscape provides an archaeological record of grand proportions, almost \nunique in its capacity to offer a complex picture of Pleistocene Aboriginal life. \nUnderstandings of this landscape, and of Australia…
Illicit Love
Jumping around’
Sexual health indicators for young remote-living Aboriginal women are the worst of all of Australian women. This study aimed to describe and explore young women's behaviour and knowledge in relation to sexual health, as well as to provide health professionals with cross-cultural insights to assist with health practice. A descriptive ethnographic study was conducted, which included: extended ethnographic field work in one remote community over a s…
Long History, Deep Time
The vast shape-shifting continent of Australia enables us to take a long view of history. We consider ways to cross the great divide between the deep past and the present. Australia’s human past is not a short past, so we need to enlarge the scale and scope of history beyond 1788. In ways not so distant, these deeper times happened in the same places where we walk today. Yet
Long History, Deep Time. Deepening Histories of Place
The vast shape-shifting continent of Australia enables us to take a long view of history. We consider ways to cross the great divide between the deep past and the present. Australia’s human past is not a short past, so we need to enlarge the scale and scope of history beyond 1788. In ways not so distant, these deeper times happened in the same places where we walk today. Yet, they were not the same places, having different surfaces, ecologies and…
Is history good medicine
Australian historians tend to assume that history is good medicine for the wider community, offering beneficial results for the social well-being of a nation, if not the globe. This article calls for this claim to be tested. It examines the pain of history lessons for Indigenous Australians, and, looking beyond the National Apology of 2008, it considers the role that historians might play in developing collaborative approaches to address the cris…
Matters of the Heart
AHR Conversation How Size Matters
In the last few years, the AHR has published six “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011), and “The Historical Study of Emotions” (2012). For each the p…
History in 3D
In many societies history is kept alive in oral form, through ballads, songs and stories. Some indigenous cultures have passed down oral traditions that reveal geological events dating back over 10 000 years. In many cultures and contexts the first histories were not written. Biblical stories were first transmitted orally. Some of our best-known written stories, including that of Robin Hode (Robin Hood), first published in a broadsheet, were base…
How to Write History that People Want to Read
Drawn from decades of experience, this is a concise and highly practical guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history academic historians, public historians, professional h
Shamrock Aborigines
Shamrock Aborigine' is the sentimental nickname to denote Aboriginal Australians with Irish descent.The Shamrock's green, round-leafed trinity has become a national and religious symbol of Irishness, associated with both Saint Patrick and good luck.This humble wild plant suggests closeness to the earth and a grounded sense of place.As a signifier for a rural people, it also evokes many intangible so-called national characteristics such as a quirk…
Modern Monsters and The Martu
Contact. Directors, Martin Butler and Bentley Dean. Screen Australia/Contact Films, 2009. Film website: www.contactfilms.com.au
Exhibitions
National Library of Australia, 12 December \n2007 17 February 2008. Free entry. A \ntravelling exhibition of the South Australian \nMuseum curated by Philip Jones, \nAnna Kenny, and Angela Makris, with \nassistance from Michael Abbott.Philip \nJones and Anna Kenny, Australia’s Muslim \nCameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860s 1930s, \nAdelaide: South Australian Museum & \nWakefield Press, 2007
Long History, Deep Time. Deepening Histories of Place
The vast shape-shifting continent of Australia enables us to take a long view of history. We consider ways to cross the great divide between the deep past and the present. Australia’s human past is not a short past, so we need to enlarge the scale and scope of history beyond 1788. In ways not so distant, these deeper times happened in the same places where we walk today. Yet, they were not the same places, having different surfaces, ecologies and…
AHR Conversation How Size Matters
In the last few years, the AHR has published six “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011), and “The Historical Study of Emotions” (2012). For each the p…
The white man's looking glass
I had arrived in Sydney from Queensland via several years in Melbourne. \nLiving at North Bondi amidst the Bicentennial hoo-ha, I \nfound a subject that enabled me to contemplate my surrounds of \nrock, sea and harbour from a new angle. I first started working on \nPort Jackson materials as part of a new feminist history of Australia. \nJournals kept by members of the First Fleet led me into the \nintimate yet public thoughts of the earliest Brit…
Gender, Race, and Policy
This article examines the history of colonial and national policies towards indigenous peoples in Australia and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is specifically concerned with the ways in which such legislation affected Aboriginal women. In attempting to provide a comparative assessment of the "statutory subjugation" of Aboriginal women, the article examines the law's definition of identity and band membership; enfranchisement and as…
Blood from a Stone. William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League
Deep history and deep listening
This article outlines the possibilities of a deep history practice that engages with rather than sidelines Indigenous historical knowledges. Many Indigenous people insist that their knowledge of the deep past demands engagement. They do so, we suggest, because scientific historicism and Indigenous knowledge-systems and historicities already impinge upon and inform each other: they are intertwined. We propose ‘deep listening’ as a way historians m…
Playing Colonial
Growing up during the 1960s in Brisbane, the subtropical capital city of Queensland, Australia, "cowboys and indians" was simply what we played with the neighborhood kids. Although some found it too rough for their liking, few questioned its appropriateness as a children's game. Between the ages of three and ten, boys and many girls were keen to play. The game involved a lot of chasing, hiding, and pretend killing and dying. In our backyard and i…
The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History
All communities and individuals living on North American land are, in a geo-political sense, ‘treaty people’ and attention to treaty history is vital to the challenge of addressing the profound environmental, technological, and resource-use changes of the future. This chapter makes the case for re-examination of existing thinking on treaties as the fundamental diplomatic artefacts that have codified and articulated relationships between settlers …
Beneath the skin’
When Australia became a nation in 1901, its newly written constitution \nexcluded all Aborigines, male and female, from citizenship. The Australian \nstate was premised upon particular understandings of the bodies within it, \nbased upon assumptions about race, gender and culture. Black people stood \noutside the white shell of Australia's emergent body politic. \nSex, or their different physical constitutions, had long precluded white \nwomen fr…
White Brides
Images of "mixed-color" couples depicted in frontier settings could transform weddings into multilayered imaginaries of gender, conquest, and boundary crossing \nfertility. The painted image of a bride marrying across colonized borders of "color" and culture suggests a cathartic but fleeting historical moment where representatives of the "Old" and "New" worlds appear to unite freely for mutual benefit. Although paintings of such weddings are not …
The Female Eunuch in the Suburbs
McGrath reenters her adolescence by virtue of a well-thumbed copy of Germaine Greer's "The Female Eunuch" (1970) and her teenage diary compiled in 1972
Modern Stone-Age Slavery
As a white girl growing up in Bardon, Queensland, I used to stretch out on the \ncarpeted floor in our steamy lounge room to watch television with my brothers \nand sisters. Tarzan, the pale 'Wild-man, showed us how 'natural man' behaved in \nthe jungles, and his partner lane did the same for 'natural woman'. My young \nbrother learnt the exotic language - that rather repetitive 'bwana mon-tinna bibi', \nspoken amidst whooping bird and ape sound …
Shamrock Aborigines
Shamrock Aborigine' is the sentimental nickname to denote Aboriginal Australians with Irish descent.The Shamrock's green, round-leafed trinity has become a national and religious symbol of Irishness, associated with both Saint Patrick and good luck.This humble wild plant suggests closeness to the earth and a grounded sense of place.As a signifier for a rural people, it also evokes many intangible so-called national characteristics such as a quirk…
Consent, Marriage and Colonialism
In 1901, the year of Australian federation, the newly \nconstituted State of Queensland restricted marriage \nbetween Indigenous women and non-Indigenous men. \nThese amendments to the Aboriginal Protection Act \nlegislation of 1897 criminalized the informal marital \narrangements that criss-crossed Queensland's cultural \nand colonizing boundaries. The stated aims of the policy \nwere to "protect" Indigenous women from sexual \nexploitation and …
Sex Workers or Citizens? Prostitution and the Shaping of “Settler” Society in Australia
The history of prostitution, defined as the commercial exchange of sexual services, provides a fertile ground for the study of the intersections between gender, race and class. Obviously, the sale of sexual labour has implications for constructions of gender, although the specific implications may change with time. Commercial sex offers particularly sharp insights into the ways in which gender considerations intersect with class and race because …
In Search of the Never-Never
Mickey Dewar made a profound contribution to the history of the Northern Territory, which she performed across many genres. She produced high-quality, memorable and multi-sensory histories, including the Cyclone Tracy exhibition at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and the reinterpretation of Fannie Bay Gaol. Informed by a great love of books, her passion
Xavier Herbert
Xavier Herbert is one of Australia's outstanding novelists and one of the more controversial. In his time, he was also an outspoken public figure. Yet many young Australians today have not heard of the man or his novels. His key works Capricornia (1938) and Poor Fellow My Country (1975) won major awards and were judged as highly significant on publication, yet there has been relatively little analysis of their impact. Although providing much mate…
Is history good medicine
Australian historians tend to assume that history is good medicine for the wider community, offering beneficial results for the social well-being of a nation, if not the globe. This article calls for this claim to be tested. It examines the pain of history lessons for Indigenous Australians, and, looking beyond the National Apology of 2008, it considers the role that historians might play in developing collaborative approaches to address the cris…
Matters of the Heart
Blood from a Stone. William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League
Frontier
Born in the Cattle'. Aborigines in Cattle Country
The Aboriginal stockman in cowboy hat, brightly coloured shirt, jeans and riding boots, is a familiar sight in much of outback Australia. Yet, white Australia has largely excluded Aborigines - men and women - from its national legends. Born in the Cattle tells the story of Aboriginal involvement in the northern cattle industry. It shows how the Aboriginal people excelled at this 'no shame job', how they incorporated it into their world, how they …
The white man's looking glass
I had arrived in Sydney from Queensland via several years in Melbourne. \nLiving at North Bondi amidst the Bicentennial hoo-ha, I \nfound a subject that enabled me to contemplate my surrounds of \nrock, sea and harbour from a new angle. I first started working on \nPort Jackson materials as part of a new feminist history of Australia. \nJournals kept by members of the First Fleet led me into the \nintimate yet public thoughts of the earliest Brit…
Through White Eyes
Beneath the skin’
When Australia became a nation in 1901, its newly written constitution \nexcluded all Aborigines, male and female, from citizenship. The Australian \nstate was premised upon particular understandings of the bodies within it, \nbased upon assumptions about race, gender and culture. Black people stood \noutside the white shell of Australia's emergent body politic. \nSex, or their different physical constitutions, had long precluded white \nwomen fr…
Un domaine de controverse
E n janvier 1988, quand fut lancee en presence du Premier ministre Bob \nHawke la Penguin Bicentennial History of Australia (Histoire de l'Australie \npubliee par Jes editions Penguin pour le Bicentenaire), la ceremonie, clans \nle cadre verdoyant de Sydney Harbour, prit un eclat inattendu. Un membre d'une \ndelegation de protestataires aborigenes se saisit du livre et, sous I' ceil des cameras \nde television, le jeta clans l'eau d'un geste rage…
"Three Views on "Creating a Nation
View One Reviewing this book has not been easy, let me tell you. Only the most persistent review editor in recent memory has led to this review being finished at all. Having already discussed Creating A Nation in a mere 800 words for The Age, and finding it difficult to talk about the work of people I know extremely well, I had hoped my earlier commitment to Labour History would be set aside. It was not to be. Still, looking at the book again, af…
Modern Stone-Age Slavery
As a white girl growing up in Bardon, Queensland, I used to stretch out on the \ncarpeted floor in our steamy lounge room to watch television with my brothers \nand sisters. Tarzan, the pale 'Wild-man, showed us how 'natural man' behaved in \nthe jungles, and his partner lane did the same for 'natural woman'. My young \nbrother learnt the exotic language - that rather repetitive 'bwana mon-tinna bibi', \nspoken amidst whooping bird and ape sound …
Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative
This interview took place in a back room of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co op, Abercrombie St, Sydney, on the 10th February, 1995, surrounded by easels and half-complete works of art, the paint smell bringing back all the fond memories of working with paint. The first time I visited Boomalli was to choose a work for the cover of a forthcoming book on Aboriginal history. Hetti told me this was the room the artist, Harry Wedge, used for a studi…
Gender, Race, and Policy
This article examines the history of colonial and national policies towards indigenous peoples in Australia and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is specifically concerned with the ways in which such legislation affected Aboriginal women. In attempting to provide a comparative assessment of the "statutory subjugation" of Aboriginal women, the article examines the law's definition of identity and band membership; enfranchisement and as…
Survival of the fittest
Francis' critique, 'Social Darwinism and the construction of Institutionalized racism in Australia', attacks the race theory of recent Australian historians with all the enthusiasm of a kid knocking down a sandcastle. Francis accuses these writers of not differentiating between divergent scientific debates, of applying them too loosely, or for getting them right too quietly. Anthropologists are lined up for paying inadequate attention to earlier …
Aboriginal History in the Age of Mabo
Damned Whores and God's Police
Books
Anzac Remembered: Selected Writings of K.S. Inglis. Edited by John Lack. History Department, University of Melbourne, 1998. Pp. v + 269. $20.00 (plus postage) paper. Anzacs, the Media, and the Great War. By John F. Williams. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999. Pp. x + 302. $35.00 paper. Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. By Ken Inglis assisted by Jan Brazier. The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press,…
The Female Eunuch in the Suburbs
McGrath reenters her adolescence by virtue of a well-thumbed copy of Germaine Greer's "The Female Eunuch" (1970) and her teenage diary compiled in 1972
Sex Workers or Citizens? Prostitution and the Shaping of “Settler” Society in Australia
The history of prostitution, defined as the commercial exchange of sexual services, provides a fertile ground for the study of the intersections between gender, race and class. Obviously, the sale of sexual labour has implications for constructions of gender, although the specific implications may change with time. Commercial sex offers particularly sharp insights into the ways in which gender considerations intersect with class and race because …
Playing Colonial
Growing up during the 1960s in Brisbane, the subtropical capital city of Queensland, Australia, "cowboys and indians" was simply what we played with the neighborhood kids. Although some found it too rough for their liking, few questioned its appropriateness as a children's game. Between the ages of three and ten, boys and many girls were keen to play. The game involved a lot of chasing, hiding, and pretend killing and dying. In our backyard and i…
Making Representations
In defending its refusal to lend the Elgin marbles to Athens for the Olympics, the British Museum recently adopted the position that they are the better custodians because Greece lets its treasures crumble. The Museum argues that it has always been an institution not just of Britain but of the world. While not denying that preservation responsibilities are at the centre of the keeper and curator’s traditional duties, the British Museum’s highly p…
White Brides
Images of "mixed-color" couples depicted in frontier settings could transform weddings into multilayered imaginaries of gender, conquest, and boundary crossing \nfertility. The painted image of a bride marrying across colonized borders of "color" and culture suggests a cathartic but fleeting historical moment where representatives of the "Old" and "New" worlds appear to unite freely for mutual benefit. Although paintings of such weddings are not …
Consent, Marriage and Colonialism
In 1901, the year of Australian federation, the newly \nconstituted State of Queensland restricted marriage \nbetween Indigenous women and non-Indigenous men. \nThese amendments to the Aboriginal Protection Act \nlegislation of 1897 criminalized the informal marital \narrangements that criss-crossed Queensland's cultural \nand colonizing boundaries. The stated aims of the policy \nwere to "protect" Indigenous women from sexual \nexploitation and …
Books
This book makes me wonder why Australian \nhistorians have so readily agreed to \na history that starts at 1788. Perhaps the \nFirst Fleet's entertaining publishing enterprises \nhave been too seductive. Whereas \nhistorians may doubt that it is possible \nto write history without archival word \nmiddens, archaeologists doubt that one \ncan write without material discoveries. \nSources and methodological expertise \nhave created a major chasm bet…
Exhibitions
National Library of Australia, 12 December \n2007 17 February 2008. Free entry. A \ntravelling exhibition of the South Australian \nMuseum curated by Philip Jones, \nAnna Kenny, and Angela Makris, with \nassistance from Michael Abbott.Philip \nJones and Anna Kenny, Australia’s Muslim \nCameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860s 1930s, \nAdelaide: South Australian Museum & \nWakefield Press, 2007
Modern Monsters and The Martu
Contact. Directors, Martin Butler and Bentley Dean. Screen Australia/Contact Films, 2009. Film website: www.contactfilms.com.au
History in 3D
In many societies history is kept alive in oral form, through ballads, songs and stories. Some indigenous cultures have passed down oral traditions that reveal geological events dating back over 10 000 years. In many cultures and contexts the first histories were not written. Biblical stories were first transmitted orally. Some of our best-known written stories, including that of Robin Hode (Robin Hood), first published in a broadsheet, were base…
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