Voices of Challenge in Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press

1. Front Matter

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2. Australia’s Migrant and Minority Community Press and Cultural Heritage: An Introduction

   • Catherine Dewhirst, Richard Scully

   Pages 1-14

3. Indigenous Media and the Countering of the Racial Insular Imaginary in Settler-Colonial Australia

   • Lara Palombo

   Pages 15-42

4. Remembering Australasie: European Settlers and Trans-imperial Thinking in the Cosmopolitan Le Courrier Australien (1892–1896)

   • Alexis Bergantz

   Pages 43-61

5. Publishing Sydney’s Chinese Newspapers in the Australian Federation Era: Struggle for a Voice, Community and Diaspora Solidarity

   • Mei-fen Kuo

   Pages 63-82

6. Recovering an Optimistic Era: Chinese-Australian Journalism from the 1920s to the 1940s

   • Caryn Coatney

   Pages 83-106

7. Reimagining Italian Spaces: La Fiamma as a Lens to Explore the Development of the Italian Community in Adelaide, South Australia, Between 1947 and 1963

   • Angela A. Alessi

   Pages 107-125

8. Reflections and Transition of Old and New Italian Media in Australia: The Case of Il Globo

   • Bruno Mascitelli

   Pages 127-145

9. Historicising the Early Years of Nuovo Paese (1974–1981)

   • Simone Battiston

   Pages 147-171

10. Painting Queensland Red: Hugo Kunze, Transnational Print Culture and Propaganda for Socialism

    • Andrew G. Bonnell

    Pages 173-191

11. “Virtually a Victory”: The Australian Woman’s Sphere and the Mainstream Press During Vida Goldstein’s 1903 Federal Candidature

    • Natasha Walker, Catherine Dewhirst

    Pages 193-219

12. An Elite Minority: The Medical Journal of Australia’s Place in Australian and Global Publishing

    • Jeremy Fisher

    Pages 221-239

13. Counter-Hegemony in Ethnic Media: An Agonistic Pluralism Perspective

    • John Budarick

    Pages 241-257

14. Back Matter

    Pages 259-293

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This book brings together long-obscured histories to discuss Australia’s cultural, social, and political diversity in depth. The history of Australia’s migrant and minority print media reveals extensive evidence for the nation’s global connectedness, from the colonial era to today. A fascinating and complex picture of Australia’s long-term transnational ties emerges from the smaller enterprises of individuals and communities in the distant and more recent past. This book explores the authentic voices of minority groups which challenged the dominant experiences, patterns, and debates that have shaped Australia. 

 

• multiculturalism
• minority communities
• print culture
• globalization
• national identity

“Catherine Dewhirst and Richard Scully once more bring together a thought-provoking compilation of original studies of Australia’s minority and migrant press. The thematic scope and chronological range of their ‘Voices of Challenge’ are wide —Italian and Chinese communities and their journalism, indigenous media, class, gender, culture and counter-culture, ethnicity, politics, and propaganda. A candid account of the fortunes of the elite minority Medical Journal of Australia is an unexpected bonus. There is much to be learned and pondered in this well-edited volume.” (Cameron Hazlehurst, Honorary Professor, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Australia) 

“Voices of Challenge showcases cutting-edge scholarship in Australian media history, taking advantage of our ever-increasing access to historical newspapers and journals through digitisation and especially that wonderful Australian invention, Trove. Using textual analysis, oral history, and archival research, the authors show how diverse groups such as European socialists, Chinese merchants, Indigenous activists, and first wave feminists all used print culture to strengthen their communities and challenge those in power. In the spirit of ‘history from below’, these essays also demonstrate that a focus on marginalized groups can cast light on wider national, diasporic and world histories.” (Ann Curthoys, Honorary Associate Professor, The University of Sydney, Australia)

“Scholars have long discussed the role of news and journalism in constructing, in competition or in tandem, the Australian nation and an imperial Britishness. Moving beyond this established historiography, the fascinating essays in Voices of Challenge in Australia's Migrant and Minority Press compellingly restore unjustly neglected communities and visions, including ethnic minorities, indigenous peoples, and trans-European cosmopolites, to their rightful place. In doing so, they provide a valuable new perspective on Australian history and an important contribution to global and alternative journalism studies.” (Mark Hampton, Associate Professor of History, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, author of Visions of the Press in Britain, 1850-1950, Hong Kong and British Culture, 1945-97)

• University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

  Catherine Dewhirst

• University of New England, Armidale, Australia

  Richard Scully

Catherine Dewhirst is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.  She has published on Italian-migrant histories and co-edited, with Richard Scully, The Transnational Voices in Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press (Palgrave, 2020). 

Richard Scully is Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of numerous studies of the history of cartoons and caricature, including Eminent Victorian Cartoonists (3 volumes, 2018) and British Images of Germany (Palgrave, 2012).