Inside Australia and New Zealand reviewed by Gunther
A lengthy critical review of John Gunther’s Inside Australia and New Zealand edited by William H. Forbis. The piece notes Gunther’s cautious, factual tone, strengths in city portraits, and weaknesses in neglecting crime, labor tensions, and darker social issues, with mixed judgments on figures from Menzies to Whitlam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
New Zealand
John Gunther
William H. Forbis
Hamish Hamilton
William Forbis
Time
Jane Gunther
Gunther
Academica
Nseescal
USA
Horne
Dutton
Victorian
Coral Sea
Mulvaney
Bob Maza
Sydney
Greenwich Village
King's Cross
Roebourne
Judah Waten
Melbourne
United States
Soho
Chelsea
King’s Cross
Times Square
Hamburg
Reeperbahn
Menzies
The
Daily Mirror
John Gorton
Whitlam
Labor
Victoria
Jim Cairns
Eugene McCarthy
Lance Barnard
Bob Hawke
Teddy Kennedy
McMahon
Henry Bolte
Don Dunstan
Robert Askin
Dr Warner
Tales Told to Kabbarl by Bates and Thomas
Aboriginal legends collected by Daisy Bates and illustrated by Harold Thomas are compiled for young readers. Barbara Ker Wilson researched a duplicate typescript donated to the University of Adelaide, with Bates’ unpublished notes and campfire stories forming the tales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hildren
Angus and Robertson
Daisy Bates
Adelaide
University of Adelaide
Barbara Ker Wilson
Ted
Harold Thomas
Reading Lawson sparked a lifelong love of Australian literature
A narrator recounts teenage discovery of Henry Lawson's Lawson and the Australian Pocket Library, bought with sixpence. He recalls a newsagent scolding him for reading, then a personal journey through Australian authors and classics, forming a lifelong reading habit and challenging academic gatekeeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gavin Casey
Men
Xavier Herbert
Capricornia
Frank Clune
Mettie
Newsagent
Henry Lawson
Treasure Island
Randwick
Lawson
Australia
the Lawson
Vance Palmer
Katherine Susannah Prichard
Haxby
Kylie Tennant
Ada Cambridge
John Lang
Wordsworth
Tolstoy
Chekhov
Browning
Hopkins
Scott
Thomas Moore
Spencer Button
Brian James
Dostoevsky
Sea and Forest and Nunawading Histories Compared
Two Australian histories offer broad appeal beyond local readers. WW G Fall’s The Sea And The Forest revisits Cockburn Sound timber trade, ships, and sailors of the late 19th century with vivid detail and strong research. Nial Brennan’s A History Of Nunawading surveys settlement growth, schools, transport, and notable figures, though sources vary in completeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nunawading
Victoria
Rockingham
Cockburn Sound
Western Australia
Australia
G. Fall
South-East Asia
Merchant Service
Cape Horn
Monkbarns
Fall
Brennan
August Schwerkolt
Schwerkolt
E. R. Walker
Opal Fever review highlights failed character depth
A harsh critique of Nicholas Miles book Opal Fever, praising some stark prologue energy while faulting the plot’s lack of focus and character development. The reviewer questions the depiction of a half caste girl, tribal contact with whites, and the author’s handling of themes such as exploitation and affection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Miles
Snow
Margaret
Opal Fields
Delese
Bereemeri South Australia State Portrait
A twenty year gas themed tour depicts the people, landscapes, industries and activities of South Australia, tracing regional development and the evolving character of the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bereemeri
South
Austalia
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L. C. F. Turner
St John
Bettina Gorton
Dudley Erwin
Ainsley Gotto
Kingston
Adults and
Giles St
Orlando
Douglas Stewart
Keepiy
Turgenev
W. B. Yeats
George Bernard Shaw
Jane Austen
Rudyard Kipling
Daniel Defoe
Jon Idriess
Roland Robinson
Ben Jonson
Christopher Brennan
D. H. Lawrence
Barbara Baynton
Miles Franklin
Blastus of
Bandicoot
Percy Lubbock
Dickens
Thackeray
Tennyson
Hazlitt
Byron
Wells
Commonwealth Literary Fund
Brian Jeffrey
V.og. Fall
University of Western Australia
Nial Brennan
Hawithorn Press
Walker
Nurnas Widing
James Cowles
Morgan Fisher
Blackburn Lake
Aml
Fisher
City of Today
Suburbia
Harold Shoemaker
Playboy
Peter Davies
By Marian Eldridge
Durabell
Columbus
Fingleton
Freeman — Arte and Crafts
Papua
New Guinea
Capital Bookshops
ZYG
Dane Tee
Hove
Wwe
Tel
Anne
the Joshua Onoker
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