Shirleene Robinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shirleene Robinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shirleene |
| FAMILY NAME | Robinson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINSON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2211-1540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia’s Aids Crisis
Colour and movement: Coming Out in the 70s
The State Library of New South Wales’ Coming Out in the 70s exhibition is a timely reminder of the transformative power of this decade for gay and lesbian people in Sydney (and across Australia). I
Pride in Defence: The Australian Military and LGBTI Service Since 1945
Marriage as a Marker of Secular Inclusion? Oral History and Lesbian and Gay Narratives on Marriage in Contemporary Australia
Same‐sex marriage has been one of the most widely discussed social issues in contemporary Australia for some time. In late 2017, after holding a contentious national postal survey that year, the Australia government introduced legislation allowing same‐sex couples to marry. This article draws on a major national lesbian and gay oral history project conducted in partnership with the National Library of Australia between 2012 and 2015, when discuss…
Negotiating Difference Across Time: The Temporal Meanings of the Sydney Mardi Gras in Lesbian and Gay Life Narratives
This paper examines the temporal meanings of the annual LGBTI pride event, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Drawing on findings from a large-scale oral history project, the paper explores ways in which Australian lesbians and gay men place Mardi Gras within life narratives. Three temporal frameworks were commonly used by our interviewees. First, Mardi Gras acted as an annual temporal marker through which to plan a year. Second, changing per…
Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World
Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives
Young and Free: [Post] Colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia
Australian Lesbian and Gay Life Stories: A National Oral History Project
Lesbian and gay Australians have lived through extraordinary social change over the past six decades as attitudes towards homosexuality have shifted significantly. This article explores a collaborative project with the National Library of Australia, which was the first nation-wide oral history project to investigate the impact of these changes in the intimate lives of different generations of gay men and lesbians. Sixty men and women across Austr…
Regulating the race: Aboriginal children in private European homes in colonial Australia
This article focuses on the incorporation of Aboriginal children into European families on a private basis in the colonial era. While state-based missions and reserves were central sites where Aboriginal children were placed, other Aboriginal children were privately placed with European families during the colonial era. This article explores the shifting reasons for this practice. It finds that Aboriginal children who entered European families aw…
Working Together? Medical Professionals, Gay Community Organisations and the Response to HIV/Aids in Australia, 1983–1985
This article provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between gay men, community organisations and the medical profession between 1983 and 1985 in Australia, a period when the key features of that nation's HIV/AIDS public health policy were determined. It charts the continuing acceptance of a medical mode of understanding homosexual behaviour. The article uses a range of original sources to investigate the relationship and tensions betwe…
We do not want one who is too old’: Aboriginal child domestic servants in Queensland, 1842–1945
In 1997, the Bringing them home report of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission explored the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families in the 19th and 20th centuries. 1 It highlighted the particular interest that European officials had in Aboriginal children, as opposed to Aboriginal adults, and the way that many of these removed children were sent out from missions to perform labour for Europeans. This article further…
Inventing Australia for Americans: The Rise of the Outback Steakhouse Restaurant Chain in the USA
Extract:The Outback Steakhouse is a commercially successful chain of American-owned, Australian themed restaurants. There are more than twelve hundred of these restaurants spread through-out the United States and across the world in places as diverse as China, Indonesia, and Venezuela. In 2001, the first Outback Steakhouse to open in Australia was launched in Parklea, New South Wales. By 2011, another six of these restaurants were operating in Ne…
Responding to Homophobia: HIV/Aids, Homosexual Community Formation and Identity in Queensland, 1983–1990
During the 1980s, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic threatened to become the largest public health crisis of the twentieth century, Queensland was governed by the right-wing Premier ‘Joh’ Bjelke-Petersen. This article explores the homosexual response to HIV/AIDS and associated homophobia in that state by considering the terrain the community-based Queensland AIDS Council traversed from 1983 onwards as the state's major gay and lesbian organisation. It a…
Homophobia as Party Politics: The Construction of the 'Homosexual Deviant' in Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland
In 1987, years of frustration with Queensland's sexually repressive culture compelled a homosexual man named Cliff Williams to write to the national gay magazine OutRage. Williams outlined a number of the difficulties he faced being gay in Queensland and ended his letter with the exclamation, 'To hell with homophobic Queensland!' This exclamation captures many ofthe tensions in Queensland in the 1970s and 1980s. While these decades were a time of…
The question of genocide and Indigenous child removal: The colonial Australian context
Most academic debate about the stolen generations of Aboriginal children in Australia's past has focused on the twentieth century, when government agents directed official attention to the removal of Aboriginal children from their family groups. This article focuses on the earlier colonial period in Australia, from 1788 to 1901, when generations of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their Aboriginal family groups. Aboriginal children …
JAS review of books
Bain Attwood and S G Foster (eds), Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience, National Museum of Australia, 2003, pp 218, pb S39.95, ISBN 1876944110. Walmajarri Storytellers, edited by Eirlys Richards, Joyce Hudson and Pat Lowe, Out of the Desert: Stories from the Walmajarri Exodus, Magabala Books, 2003, pp 186, pb $39.95, ISBN 1875641491. Veronica Brodie as told to Mary‐Anne Gale, My Side of the Bridge, Wakefield Press, 2002, pp 190, pb $24.9…
JAS review of books
Penelope Hetherington, Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth‐Century Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, 2002, pp 256, pb $34.95, ISBN 1876268735. B W Higman, Domestic Service in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 304, hb $49.95, ISBN 0522850111. Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788–1840, Currency Press, 2002, pp 366, hb $49.95, ISBN 0958121303. Mimi…
JAS review of books
A C Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life, Phoenix Paperbacks, 2001, pp 208, pb $21. ISBN 0753813599. Miriam Estensen, The Life of Matthew Flinders, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 538, hb $59.95. ISBN 1865085154. Marele Day, Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 357, pb $29.95. ISBN 1865088021. Tim Rowse, Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp 419, hb $59…
JAS review of books
David Burchell and Andrew Leigh (eds), The Prince's New Clothes: Why Do Australians Dislike Their Politicians?, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp 191, pb $34.95. ISBN 086840604X. Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: a portrait of Paul Keating, Random House, 2002, hb $45.00. ISBN 0091835178. Warwick Anders, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Radical Destiny in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 364…
JAS review of books
Brigid Hains, The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 218, pb S49.95. ISBN 0522850367. John Connor, The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788–1838, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp 176, pb $29.95. ISBN 0868407569 John Carroll, Terror: A meditation on the meaning of September 11, Scribe Publications, pp 106, pb $16.95. ISBN 0908011849. Helen Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger: G…
The Unregulated Employment of Aboriginal Children in Queensland, 1842-1902
Australian Lesbian and Gay Life Stories: A National Oral History Project
Lesbian and gay Australians have lived through extraordinary social change over the past six decades as attitudes towards homosexuality have shifted significantly. This article explores a collaborative project with the National Library of Australia, which was the first nation-wide oral history project to investigate the impact of these changes in the intimate lives of different generations of gay men and lesbians. Sixty men and women across Austr…
Marriage as a Marker of Secular Inclusion? Oral History and Lesbian and Gay Narratives on Marriage in Contemporary Australia
Same‐sex marriage has been one of the most widely discussed social issues in contemporary Australia for some time. In late 2017, after holding a contentious national postal survey that year, the Australia government introduced legislation allowing same‐sex couples to marry. This article draws on a major national lesbian and gay oral history project conducted in partnership with the National Library of Australia between 2012 and 2015, when discuss…
Working Together? Medical Professionals, Gay Community Organisations and the Response to HIV/Aids in Australia, 1983–1985
This article provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between gay men, community organisations and the medical profession between 1983 and 1985 in Australia, a period when the key features of that nation's HIV/AIDS public health policy were determined. It charts the continuing acceptance of a medical mode of understanding homosexual behaviour. The article uses a range of original sources to investigate the relationship and tensions betwe…
We do not want one who is too old’: Aboriginal child domestic servants in Queensland, 1842–1945
In 1997, the Bringing them home report of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission explored the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families in the 19th and 20th centuries. 1 It highlighted the particular interest that European officials had in Aboriginal children, as opposed to Aboriginal adults, and the way that many of these removed children were sent out from missions to perform labour for Europeans. This article further…
Inventing Australia for Americans: The Rise of the Outback Steakhouse Restaurant Chain in the USA
Extract:The Outback Steakhouse is a commercially successful chain of American-owned, Australian themed restaurants. There are more than twelve hundred of these restaurants spread through-out the United States and across the world in places as diverse as China, Indonesia, and Venezuela. In 2001, the first Outback Steakhouse to open in Australia was launched in Parklea, New South Wales. By 2011, another six of these restaurants were operating in Ne…
Responding to Homophobia: HIV/Aids, Homosexual Community Formation and Identity in Queensland, 1983–1990
During the 1980s, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic threatened to become the largest public health crisis of the twentieth century, Queensland was governed by the right-wing Premier ‘Joh’ Bjelke-Petersen. This article explores the homosexual response to HIV/AIDS and associated homophobia in that state by considering the terrain the community-based Queensland AIDS Council traversed from 1983 onwards as the state's major gay and lesbian organisation. It a…
Young and Free: [Post] Colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia
Regulating the race: Aboriginal children in private European homes in colonial Australia
This article focuses on the incorporation of Aboriginal children into European families on a private basis in the colonial era. While state-based missions and reserves were central sites where Aboriginal children were placed, other Aboriginal children were privately placed with European families during the colonial era. This article explores the shifting reasons for this practice. It finds that Aboriginal children who entered European families aw…
Homophobia as Party Politics: The Construction of the 'Homosexual Deviant' in Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland
In 1987, years of frustration with Queensland's sexually repressive culture compelled a homosexual man named Cliff Williams to write to the national gay magazine OutRage. Williams outlined a number of the difficulties he faced being gay in Queensland and ended his letter with the exclamation, 'To hell with homophobic Queensland!' This exclamation captures many ofthe tensions in Queensland in the 1970s and 1980s. While these decades were a time of…
The question of genocide and Indigenous child removal: The colonial Australian context
Most academic debate about the stolen generations of Aboriginal children in Australia's past has focused on the twentieth century, when government agents directed official attention to the removal of Aboriginal children from their family groups. This article focuses on the earlier colonial period in Australia, from 1788 to 1901, when generations of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their Aboriginal family groups. Aboriginal children …
JAS review of books
David Burchell and Andrew Leigh (eds), The Prince's New Clothes: Why Do Australians Dislike Their Politicians?, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp 191, pb $34.95. ISBN 086840604X. Don Watson, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: a portrait of Paul Keating, Random House, 2002, hb $45.00. ISBN 0091835178. Warwick Anders, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Radical Destiny in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 364…
JAS review of books
Brigid Hains, The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 218, pb S49.95. ISBN 0522850367. John Connor, The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788–1838, University of New South Wales Press, 2002, pp 176, pb $29.95. ISBN 0868407569 John Carroll, Terror: A meditation on the meaning of September 11, Scribe Publications, pp 106, pb $16.95. ISBN 0908011849. Helen Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger: G…
The Unregulated Employment of Aboriginal Children in Queensland, 1842-1902
JAS review of books
Bain Attwood and S G Foster (eds), Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience, National Museum of Australia, 2003, pp 218, pb S39.95, ISBN 1876944110. Walmajarri Storytellers, edited by Eirlys Richards, Joyce Hudson and Pat Lowe, Out of the Desert: Stories from the Walmajarri Exodus, Magabala Books, 2003, pp 186, pb $39.95, ISBN 1875641491. Veronica Brodie as told to Mary‐Anne Gale, My Side of the Bridge, Wakefield Press, 2002, pp 190, pb $24.9…
JAS review of books
Penelope Hetherington, Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth‐Century Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, 2002, pp 256, pb $34.95, ISBN 1876268735. B W Higman, Domestic Service in Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 304, hb $49.95, ISBN 0522850111. Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788–1840, Currency Press, 2002, pp 366, hb $49.95, ISBN 0958121303. Mimi…
JAS review of books
A C Grayling, The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life, Phoenix Paperbacks, 2001, pp 208, pb $21. ISBN 0753813599. Miriam Estensen, The Life of Matthew Flinders, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 538, hb $59.95. ISBN 1865085154. Marele Day, Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife, Allen & Unwin, 2002, pp 357, pb $29.95. ISBN 1865088021. Tim Rowse, Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp 419, hb $59…
The question of genocide and Indigenous child removal: The colonial Australian context
Most academic debate about the stolen generations of Aboriginal children in Australia's past has focused on the twentieth century, when government agents directed official attention to the removal of Aboriginal children from their family groups. This article focuses on the earlier colonial period in Australia, from 1788 to 1901, when generations of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their Aboriginal family groups. Aboriginal children …
Responding to Homophobia: HIV/Aids, Homosexual Community Formation and Identity in Queensland, 1983–1990
During the 1980s, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic threatened to become the largest public health crisis of the twentieth century, Queensland was governed by the right-wing Premier ‘Joh’ Bjelke-Petersen. This article explores the homosexual response to HIV/AIDS and associated homophobia in that state by considering the terrain the community-based Queensland AIDS Council traversed from 1983 onwards as the state's major gay and lesbian organisation. It a…
Homophobia as Party Politics: The Construction of the 'Homosexual Deviant' in Joh Bjelke-Petersen's Queensland
In 1987, years of frustration with Queensland's sexually repressive culture compelled a homosexual man named Cliff Williams to write to the national gay magazine OutRage. Williams outlined a number of the difficulties he faced being gay in Queensland and ended his letter with the exclamation, 'To hell with homophobic Queensland!' This exclamation captures many ofthe tensions in Queensland in the 1970s and 1980s. While these decades were a time of…
We do not want one who is too old’: Aboriginal child domestic servants in Queensland, 1842–1945
In 1997, the Bringing them home report of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission explored the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families in the 19th and 20th centuries. 1 It highlighted the particular interest that European officials had in Aboriginal children, as opposed to Aboriginal adults, and the way that many of these removed children were sent out from missions to perform labour for Europeans. This article further…
Inventing Australia for Americans: The Rise of the Outback Steakhouse Restaurant Chain in the USA
Extract:The Outback Steakhouse is a commercially successful chain of American-owned, Australian themed restaurants. There are more than twelve hundred of these restaurants spread through-out the United States and across the world in places as diverse as China, Indonesia, and Venezuela. In 2001, the first Outback Steakhouse to open in Australia was launched in Parklea, New South Wales. By 2011, another six of these restaurants were operating in Ne…
Working Together? Medical Professionals, Gay Community Organisations and the Response to HIV/Aids in Australia, 1983–1985
This article provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between gay men, community organisations and the medical profession between 1983 and 1985 in Australia, a period when the key features of that nation's HIV/AIDS public health policy were determined. It charts the continuing acceptance of a medical mode of understanding homosexual behaviour. The article uses a range of original sources to investigate the relationship and tensions betwe…
Regulating the race: Aboriginal children in private European homes in colonial Australia
This article focuses on the incorporation of Aboriginal children into European families on a private basis in the colonial era. While state-based missions and reserves were central sites where Aboriginal children were placed, other Aboriginal children were privately placed with European families during the colonial era. This article explores the shifting reasons for this practice. It finds that Aboriginal children who entered European families aw…
Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World
Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives
Young and Free: [Post] Colonial Ontologies of Childhood, Memory and History in Australia
Australian Lesbian and Gay Life Stories: A National Oral History Project
Lesbian and gay Australians have lived through extraordinary social change over the past six decades as attitudes towards homosexuality have shifted significantly. This article explores a collaborative project with the National Library of Australia, which was the first nation-wide oral history project to investigate the impact of these changes in the intimate lives of different generations of gay men and lesbians. Sixty men and women across Austr…
Negotiating Difference Across Time: The Temporal Meanings of the Sydney Mardi Gras in Lesbian and Gay Life Narratives
This paper examines the temporal meanings of the annual LGBTI pride event, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Drawing on findings from a large-scale oral history project, the paper explores ways in which Australian lesbians and gay men place Mardi Gras within life narratives. Three temporal frameworks were commonly used by our interviewees. First, Mardi Gras acted as an annual temporal marker through which to plan a year. Second, changing per…
Marriage as a Marker of Secular Inclusion? Oral History and Lesbian and Gay Narratives on Marriage in Contemporary Australia
Same‐sex marriage has been one of the most widely discussed social issues in contemporary Australia for some time. In late 2017, after holding a contentious national postal survey that year, the Australia government introduced legislation allowing same‐sex couples to marry. This article draws on a major national lesbian and gay oral history project conducted in partnership with the National Library of Australia between 2012 and 2015, when discuss…
Pride in Defence: The Australian Military and LGBTI Service Since 1945
Colour and movement: Coming Out in the 70s
The State Library of New South Wales’ Coming Out in the 70s exhibition is a timely reminder of the transformative power of this decade for gay and lesbian people in Sydney (and across Australia). I
Critical Care: Nurses on the Frontline of Australia’s Aids Crisis
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (11 works) · Australian History and Society (10 works) · Law (9 works) · History (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)