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The Death of Captain Cook in Theatre 224
The Many Deaths of Captain Cook A Study in Metropolitan Mass Culture, 1780-1810 Ruth Scobie PhD University of York Department of English April 2013 i Ruth Scobie The Many Deaths of Captain Cook Abstract This thesis traces metropolitan representations, between 1780 and 1810, of the violent death of Captain James Cook at Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to these representations, in order to show how the interlinked texts of a nascent commercial culture initiated the creation of a colonial character, identified by Epeli Hau’ofa as the looming “ghost of Captain Cook.” The introduction sets out the circumstances of Cook’s death and existing metropolitan reputation in 1779. It situates the figure of Cook within contemporary mechanisms of ‘celebrity,’ related to notions of mass metropolitan culture. It argues that previous accounts of Cook’s fame have tended to overemphasise the immediacy and unanimity with which the dead Cook was adopted as an imperialist hero; with the result that the role of the scene within colonialist histories can appear inevitable, even natural. In response, I show that a contested mythology around Cook’s death was gradually constructed over the three decades after the incident took place, and was the contingent product of a range of texts, places, events, and individuals. The first section examines responses to the news of Cook’s death in January 1780, focusing on the way that the story was mediated by, first, its status as ‘news,’ created by newspapers; and second, the effects on Londoners of the Gordon riots in June of the same year. -
04 Chapters 8-Bibliography Burns
159 CHAPTER 8 THE BRISBANE LINE CONTROVERSY Near the end of March 1943 nineteen members of the UAP demanded Billy Hughes call a party meeting. Hughes had maintained his hold over the party membership by the expedient of refusing to call members 1a together. For months he had then been able to avoid any leadership challenge. Hughes at last conceded to party pressure, and on 25 March, faced a leadership spill, which he believed was inspired by Menzies. 16 He retained the leadership by twenty-four votes to fifteen. The failure to elect a younger and more aggressive leader - Menzies - resulted in early April in the formation by the dissenters of the National Service Group, which was a splinter organisation, not a separate party. Menzies, and Senators Leckie and Spicer from Victoria, Cameron, Duncan, Price, Shcey and Senators McLeary, McBride, the McLachlans, Uphill and Wilson from South Australia, Beck and Senator Sampson from Tasmania, Harrison from New South Wales and Senator Collett from Western Australia comprised the group. Spender stood aloof. 1 This disturbed Ward. As a potential leader of the UAP Menzies was likely to be more of an electoral threat to the ALP, than Hughes, well past his prime, and in the eyes of the public a spent political force. Still, he was content to wait for the appropriate moment to discredit his old foe, confident he had the ammunition in his Brisbane Line claims. The Brisbane Line Controversy Ward managed to verify that a plan existed which had intended to abandon all of Australia north of a line north of Brisbane and following a diagonal course to a point north of Adelaide to be abandoned to the enemy, - the Maryborough Plan. -
Out of Control Climate Change in Cook: Hotter, Drier and Winter No More
October 2018 Out of control climate change in Cook: Hotter, drier and winter no more Key points • Climate data modelling by the Science Division of the Queensland Department of Environment and Science (DES)1 shows that by mid-century communities in the federal electoral division of Cook would be markedly hotter, on average 15 per cent drier and experience more periods of extreme heat because of high global emissions. • By 2050, the seasonal cycles in Cook would be unrecognisable. Existing average winter conditions would not occur. Spring and Autumn conditions would move towards the middle of the year and contract to four and a half months combined. The rest of the year would be dominated by warmer temperatures associated with summer and joined by an extended and dangerous ‘new summer’ period. • This new climate would pose greater threats to human health and critical public infrastructure in the electorate. It would also require plant and animal species in the area to rapidly adapt to a heightened level of climate change, with many unlikely to cope. Federal electorate climate impact analysis The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has commissioned design and data experts at the Australian National University (ANU) School of Art and Design to analyse existing climate model projections and apply them to selected federal electorates ahead of the 1 Queensland Government LongPaddock project, which uses the SILO database (http://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/silo) and is operated by DES. The climate ‘change factors’ used to calculate consistent climate scenarios data have been estimated using: Coupled Model Intercomparison Research Program 3 (CMIP3) patterns of change data (projected changes per degree of 21st Century global warming) supplied by the CSIRO and the UK Met Office/Hadley Centre; and data from AR4 SRES scenario temperature response curves (projected amounts of global warming) supplied by the CSIRO. -
Proposed Redistribution of Victoria Into Electoral Divisions: April 2017
Proposed redistribution of Victoria into electoral divisions APRIL 2018 Report of the Redistribution Committee for Victoria Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 Feedback and enquiries Feedback on this report is welcome and should be directed to the contact officer. Contact officer National Redistributions Manager Roll Management and Community Engagement Branch Australian Electoral Commission 50 Marcus Clarke Street Canberra ACT 2600 Locked Bag 4007 Canberra ACT 2601 Telephone: 02 6271 4411 Fax: 02 6215 9999 Email: [email protected] AEC website www.aec.gov.au Accessible services Visit the AEC website for telephone interpreter services in other languages. Readers who are deaf or have a hearing or speech impairment can contact the AEC through the National Relay Service (NRS): – TTY users phone 133 677 and ask for 13 23 26 – Speak and Listen users phone 1300 555 727 and ask for 13 23 26 – Internet relay users connect to the NRS and ask for 13 23 26 ISBN: 978-1-921427-58-9 © Commonwealth of Australia 2018 © Victoria 2018 The report should be cited as Redistribution Committee for Victoria, Proposed redistribution of Victoria into electoral divisions. 18_0990 The Redistribution Committee for Victoria (the Redistribution Committee) has undertaken a proposed redistribution of Victoria. In developing the redistribution proposal, the Redistribution Committee has satisfied itself that the proposed electoral divisions meet the requirements of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (the Electoral Act). The Redistribution Committee commends its redistribution -
Sir Earle Christmas Grafton PAGE, PC, GCMG, CH Prime Minister 7 April to 26 April 1939
11 Sir Earle Christmas Grafton PAGE, PC, GCMG, CH Prime Minister 7 April to 26 April 1939 Earle Page became the 11th prime minister following the death of Joseph Lyons. Page was deputy prime minister in the Lyons Government and Australia’s first ‘caretaker’ prime minister. Member of the Farmers and Settlers Association and New State League 1915-25. Member of the Country Party of Australia 1920-61. Member of House of Representatives representing Cowper (NSW) 1920-61; Treasurer 1923-29; Minister for Commerce 1934-39, 1940-41; Health 1937-38, 1949-56. Page ceased to be prime minister when the new United Australia Party leader, Robert Menzies, was elected to replace him. The UAP was the majority party in the coalition. Main achievements (1921-1956) Founder of the Country Party in 1920 and parliamentary leader of the party 1921-39. Entered agreement with ruling Nationalist Party to form Australia’s first coalition government 1923-29, and served as deputy prime minister in that government 1923-29. As Treasurer, Page initiated subsidies for rural exports, abolished Federal land tax and set up a rural credits department within the Commonwealth Bank. With Bruce, he created the Loan Council in 1924, which became statutory in 1929. Also served as deputy prime minister in coalition government with United Australia Party headed by Joseph Lyons in 1934. He founded the Australian Agricultural Council and led two trade delegations to London, 1936 and 1938. Served on Australian War Cabinet 1941 and Advisory War Council 1942-43, 1944-45, and the Pacific War Council in London 1942. -
John Curtin a Tribute: Strengthening the Rule of Law and Australian Democracy
Curtin University John Curtin a tribute: strengthening the rule of law and Australian democracy JCPML Anniversary Lecture presented by the Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser on 12 June 2008. It is now over 60 years since John Curtin died. The circumstances of his own upbringing in Victoria, the family’s move to Western Australia, his work within the union movement, his repeated attempts to enter Parliament, his opposition to conscription in the First War, his unification of the Labor Party in 1935, his wartime leadership, are all well documented. There is little that can be added that is fresh or new. He was persistent. He had a high sense of public duty. The office of Prime Minister cost his life. His health was never good. He worried about important decisions in a manner that was much to his credit. When, with a great sense of Australian purpose, he defied both Churchill and Roosevelt to bring Australian troops home for the defence of Australia, he agonised over the decision. He knew he was putting those troops at risk until they were safely in Australian ports. The long journey across the Indian Ocean was unprotected and subject to Japanese attack. He often walked in the evening or at night to allay his concerns, or at least to make it possible to live with them. Worry or concern about the consequences of major decisions did not deter him from taking those decisions. It all stands greatly to his credit, to his determination and his moral strength. It needs to be understood that, up to the time of the Second World War, Australia had no independent foreign policy. -
John Curtin's War
backroom briefings John Curtin's war CLEM LLOYD & RICHARD HALL backroom briefings John Curtin's WAR edited by CLEM LLOYD & RICHARD HALL from original notes compiled by Frederick T. Smith National Library of Australia Canberra 1997 Front cover: Montage of photographs of John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, 1941-45, and of Old Parliament House, Canberra Photographs from the National Library's Pictorial Collection Back cover: Caricature of John Curtin by Dubois Bulletin, 8 October 1941 Published by the National Library of Australia Canberra ACT 2600 © National Library of Australia 1997 Introduction and annotations © Clem Lloyd and Richard Hall Every reasonable endeavour has been made to contact relevant copyright holders of illustrative material. Where this has not proved possible, the copyright holders are invited to contact the publisher. National Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data Backroom briefings: John Curtin's war. Includes index. ISBN 0 642 10688 6. 1. Curtin, John, 1885-1945. 2. World War, 1939-1945— Press coverage—Australia. 3. Journalism—Australia. I. Smith, FT. (Frederick T.). II. Lloyd, C.J. (Clement John), 1939- . III. Hall, Richard, 1937- . 940.5394 Editor: Julie Stokes Designer: Beverly Swifte Picture researcher/proofreader: Tony Twining Printed by Goanna Print, Canberra Published with the assistance of the Lloyd Ross Forum CONTENTS Fred Smith and the secret briefings 1 John Curtin's war 12 Acknowledgements 38 Highly confidential: press briefings, June 1942-January 1945 39 Introduction by F.T. Smith 40 Chronology of events; Briefings 42 Index 242 rederick Thomas Smith was born in Balmain, Sydney, Fon 18 December 1904, one of a family of two brothers and two sisters. -
Earle Page and the Imagining of Australia
‘NOW IS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT’ EARLE PAGE AND THE IMAGINING OF AUSTRALIA ‘NOW IS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT’ EARLE PAGE AND THE IMAGINING OF AUSTRALIA STEPHEN WILKS Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for? Robert Browning, ‘Andrea del Sarto’ The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Edward John Phelps Earle Page as seen by L.F. Reynolds in Table Talk, 21 October 1926. Published by ANU Press The Australian National University Acton ACT 2601, Australia Email: [email protected] Available to download for free at press.anu.edu.au ISBN (print): 9781760463670 ISBN (online): 9781760463687 WorldCat (print): 1198529303 WorldCat (online): 1198529152 DOI: 10.22459/NPM.2020 This title is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). The full licence terms are available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode This publication was awarded a College of Arts and Social Sciences PhD Publication Prize in 2018. The prize contributes to the cost of professional copyediting. Cover design and layout by ANU Press. Cover photograph: Earle Page strikes a pose in early Canberra. Mildenhall Collection, NAA, A3560, 6053, undated. This edition © 2020 ANU Press CONTENTS Illustrations . ix Acknowledgements . xi Abbreviations . xiii Prologue: ‘How Many Germans Did You Kill, Doc?’ . xv Introduction: ‘A Dreamer of Dreams’ . 1 1 . Family, Community and Methodism: The Forging of Page’s World View . .. 17 2 . ‘We Were Determined to Use Our Opportunities to the Full’: Page’s Rise to National Prominence . -
An Unlimited War Effort", June-July 194 1
CHAPTER 9 "AN UNLIMITED WAR EFFORT", JUNE-JULY 194 1 1—THE PRIME MINISTER'S PROSPECTU S call for an unlimited war effort was made by Menzies in June after A he had returned from his visit to Britain and America . He had arrive d in Sydney on 24th May . He had been away for four months during which time he had passed over battlefields, met soldiers in the Western Desert , heard the bombs on London, seen devastation, courage, sacrifice, an d endurance . He had talked with Churchill and with Roosevelt, with Cabine t Ministers, Chiefs of Staff, generals, admirals and organisers of the wa r effort. From the palace to the tenement, from Cabinet room to factory he had seen a nation at war . He had been at the heart of things and ha d seen both the dire need and also something of the organising of the tota l effort by which alone it could be met. The Australian Prime Minister was moved and deeply impressed . He had been impressed by the leadership of Churchill. "He is not only in himself the embodiment of the traditiona l spirit of Great Britain, but he has in him, in his spirit itself, a burning flame which will never admit defeat, and which can transfer itself to othe r men and women so that they are able to breathe freely once more, an d again turn themselves vigorously into battle." He had been impressed by Roosevelt who "has not merely been an interpreter of what his peopl e think, but has himself been a very great creator of public opinion an d international spirit" . -
The Federal Redistribution 2006 NEW SOUTH WALES, Suggestion
24 March 2006 Redistribution Committee for New South Wales Level 4, Roden Cutler House 24 Campbell Street, Haymarket, NSW 2000 Dear Commissioners, I attach the suggestion of the Australian Labor Party, (NSW Branch), for your consideration. This includes a map for each suggested Division and is provided by CD-ROM containing the MapInfo data used by the Australian Electoral Commission. Kind regards, Mark Arbib GENERAL SECRETARY Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch) Suggestions 1 of 36 AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY (NEW SOUTH WALES BRANCH) SUGGESTIONS 24TH MARCH, 2006. INTRODUCTION AND APPROACH ADOPTED The suggestions made by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) are the end product of a process that includes extensive consultation with both MP’s and party units. We had to take into account several considerations before making our suggestions. One consideration which frankly, we had to consider is the fact that the current boundaries are the most biased against the ALP in the entire history of Australia. Following the 2004 election, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has 60 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives. In 2004 the ALP’s national two party preferred (2PP) vote was 47.3%. On current electoral boundaries, for the ALP to win a majority (76) of Divisions it requires a uniform swing of 5% or 52.3% 2PP. In NSW, in 2004, on current boundaries, for the ALP to win a majority (26) it would have needed 53.4% of the 2PP vote in the State. Yet this state of affairs has arisen in spite of the 1984 reforms to the Australian Electoral Act of one vote one value. -
REDISTRIBUTION 20151216Reissue3
AUSCRIPT AUSTRALASIA PTY LIMITED ACN 110 028 825 T: 1800 AUSCRIPT (1800 287 274) E: [email protected] W: www.auscript.com.au TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS O/N H-629669 AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL COMMISSION NEW SOUTH WALES REDISTRIBUTION PUBLIC HEARING PRESIDING: THE HON D COWDROY OAM QC (Chairperson of the Australian Electoral Commission) MR D KALISCH (Australian Statistician and member of the Australian Electoral Commission) MR T ROGERS (Electoral Commissioner, Australian Electoral Commission) MR D ORR (Australian Electoral Officer for New South Wales, Australian Electoral Commission) MR T WHITFIELD PSM (Acting Auditor-General of New South Wales) MR D MOONEY (Surveyor General of New South Wales) LOCATION: WESLEY CONFERENCE CENTRE 220 PITT STREET SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES DATE: 9.37 AM, WEDNESDAY, 16 DECEMBER 2015 .REDISTRIBUTION 16.12.15R3 P-1 ©Auscript Australasia Pty Limited CHAIRPERSON: Welcome to this hearing for the Australian Electoral Commission for NSW, that is, the augmented Commission. This is the first of two hearings which are to be held in relation to the proposed redistribution. Today in Sydney and on Friday this week the augmented Commission goes to Port Macquarie. Let me 5 introduce who is on this table: my name is Dennis Cowdroy, I am the chairman of the Australian Electoral Commission. The other members present are Mr David Kalisch, immediately on my right, who is the Commonwealth Statistician. Mr Tom Rogers on my left is the Commissioner, 10 that is the Electoral Commissioner. The other members who make up the augmented Commission are Mr Tony Whitfield, the acting Auditor-General of NSW on my far right, and to my far left is Mr Doug Orr, the NSW Officer of the Australian Electoral Commission, and to his right is Mr Des Mooney, the Surveyor General for NSW. -
Proposed Redistribution of the New South Wales Into Electoral Divisions
Proposed redistribution of New South Wales into electoral divisions OCTOBER 2015 Report of the Redistribution Committee for New South Wales Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 Feedback and enquiries Feedback on this report is welcome and should be directed to the contact officer. Contact officer National Redistributions Manager Roll Management Branch Australian Electoral Commission 50 Marcus Clarke Street Canberra ACT 2600 PO Box 6172 Kingston ACT 2604 Telephone: 02 6271 4411 Fax: 02 6215 9999 Email: [email protected] AEC website www.aec.gov.au Accessible services Visit the AEC website for telephone interpreter services in 18 languages. Readers who are deaf or have a hearing or speech impairment can contact the AEC through the National Relay Service (NRS): – TTY users phone 133 677 and ask for 13 23 26 – Speak and Listen users phone 1300 555 727 and ask for 13 23 26 – Internet relay users connect to the NRS and ask for 13 23 26 ISBN: 978-1-921427-38-1 © Commonwealth of Australia 2015 © State of New South Wales 2015 The report should be cited as Redistribution Committee for the New South Wales, Proposed redistribution of New South Wales into electoral divisions. 15_0526 The Redistribution Committee for New South Wales (the Committee) has completed its proposed redistribution of New South Wales into 47 electoral divisions. In developing and considering the impacts of the redistribution proposal, the Committee has satisfied itself that the proposed boundaries meet the requirements of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Electoral Act). The Committee unanimously agreed on the boundaries and names of the proposed electoral divisions, and recommends its redistribution proposal for New South Wales.