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McGregor, Russell (2024) Book Review of "John Büsst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest" by Iain McCalman. Sydney, Australia, NewSouth, 2024. ISBN 9781742239026. Australian Policy and History, 26 July 2024.

Bradshaw, Wayne (2024) Book Review of "W.E.H. Stanner: Selected Writings" by W.E.H. Stanner. Melbourne, Australia, La Trobe University Press, 2024. ISBN 9781760644048. Australian Policy and History, 3 April 2024.

McGregor, Russell (2024) Book review of "The Fin de Siecle Imagination in Australia" by Mark Hearn. London, UK, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. ISBN: 9781350291393. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 110 (1). pp. 101-103.

Brennan, Claire (2024) Land and Sea: the significance of named places in digitally mapping historic ocean voyages. M/C Journal, 27 (5).

McGregor, Russell (2024) On the wing: Holidays with the birds. Australian Birdlife, 13 (1). pp. 40-43.

Buhrich, Alice, Richards, Lewis, Bing, Brian, Richards, Jimmy, Prior, Sharon, Lacey, Jenny, Casey, Tania, and Mosquito, Megan (2024) Resistance and reprisals: The Ewamian Frontier Wars 1863–98. Aboriginal History, 47. pp. 111-131.

McGregor, Russell (2024) Windows onto the wild. Openbook, Spring 2024. pp. 20-25.

Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka (2023) Adam Grossetti's Mano Nera: Fictional narratives as a pedagogical strategy for teaching history. Journal of the Queensland History Teachers' Association, 2023. pp. 21-25.

Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka (2023) A Beaut of a Cut Near Cairns: The Butty Gang System in the Cane Fields in John Naish’s The Cruel Field. Labour History, 124 (1). pp. 31-61.

McGregor, Russell (2023) Book review of "What Birdo Is That?: a Field Guide to Bird People" by Libby Robin. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Melbourne University Press, 2023. ISBN: 978-0522879346. Australian Birdlife, 12 (2). p. 56.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2023) British Investment in Overseas Gold Mines: The Queensland Experience 1886-1890. Journal of Australasian Mining History, 21. pp. 125-131.

White, Patrick (2023) Developing northern Australia to defend the nation. The Strategist, "North of 26° south" (4 July 2023).

McGregor, Russell (2023) A Hymn to Biodiversity: Graham Pizzey's Field Guide. Australian Birdlife, 12 (2). pp. 32-35.

Burrows, Lianda, Holden, Darren, and Tynan, Elizabeth (2023) Untangling Maralinga: Spatial and Temporal Complexities of Australia’s Atomic Anthropocene. Journal of Australian Studies, 47 (3). pp. 515-530.

McGregor, Russell (2022) The First Field Guide. Australian Birdlife, 11 (3). p. 10.

McGregor, Russell (2022) Before Slater: A history of field guides to Australian birds to 1970. Australian Field Ornithology, 39. pp. 125-138.

Tynan, Elizabeth (2022) Britain's atomic oval: The vassalage of Australian governments in the 1950s and 1960s. Australian Book Review, 443.

McGregor, Russell (2022) J. A. Leach's Australian Bird Book: at the interface of science and recreation. Historical Records of Australian Science, 33 (2). pp. 97-109.

McGregor, Russell (2022) JA Leach: A Nature Influencer of his Time. Linnean Society of London: Blogs and Essays, 2 September 2022.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2022) The Lion and the Fox: Whitlam, Bjelke-Petersen and the Queensland Electorate 1961–1975. ANU Historical Journal II, 3. pp. 23-52.

Killoran, Tianna (2022) Sex, Soap and Silk: Japanese Businesswomen in North Queensland, 1887–1941. Lilith: a feminist history journal, 28. pp. 35-54.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2022) The Townsville Chamber of Commerce Jubilee Brochure, 1882-1932. Sūdō Journal, 4. pp. 23-29.

McGregor, Russell (2022) An oologist at Tinaroo: Sid Jackson’s 1908 expedition to north Queensland. North Queensland Naturalist, 52. pp. 19-33.

McGregor, Russell (2021) Book review of "Where Shadows Have Fallen: the unhappy descent of Henry Kendall" by Adrian Mitchell. Wakefield Press, Mile End, SA, Australia, 2020. ISBN: 9781743057483. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 107 (2). pp. 251-252.

McGregor, Russell (2021) A fleeting return. Openbook, Spring 21. pp. 64-67.

McGregor, Russell (2021) Paradise lost. Australian Birdlife, 10 (1). pp. 34-35.

McGregor, Russell (2021) 100 years ago, this man discovered an exquisite parrot thought to be extinct. What came next is a tragedy we must not repeat. The Conversation, 10 December 2021.

McGregor, Russell (2021) Alec Chisholm and the extinction of the Paradise Parrot. Historical Records of Australian Science, 32 (2). pp. 156-167.

McGregor, Russell (2021) Everyday enchantment: a short history of birdwatching. Australian Birdlife, 10 (3). pp. 28-31.

Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka, and Brennan, Claire (2021) Hidden women of history: Melanesian indentured labourer Annie Etinside hailed as a Queensland 'pioneer' on her death. The Conversation, May 19 2021.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2021) “Legislating for the Future: Robert Philp and the Politics of Mining in Queensland 1893 to 1903”, Vol. 19, 2021, pp. 108-32. Journal of Australasian Mining History, 19. pp. 108-132.

McGregor, Russell (2021) Mateship with Nature: nationalism and conservation in the writings of Alec Chisholm. Environment and History, 27 (3). pp. 399-420.

Killoran, Tianna (2021) Visible participation: Japanese migrants in north Queensland, 1880–1941. History Australia, 18 (3). pp. 508-525.

Nile, Richard (2021) West of Westerly: exceptionalism in Australian Studies. Journal of Australian Studies, 45 (2). pp. 221-235.

White, Patrick (2021) What if the Burdekin was never bridged? Sudo Journal, 3. pp. 11-23.

Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka (2021) Window in Time, a community oral history project: its challenges, shortcomings and lessons learnt. Studies in Oral History, 43. pp. 214-217.

McGregor, Russell (2021) The tragedy of the Paradise Parrot. Arcadia, Summer (27).

Nile, Richard (2020) The Anzac Legend didn't mention mud: Australian novels of the Western Front. Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 20 (1).

Dowe, John Leslie (2020) The Australian paintings of Marianne North, 1880–1881: landscapes ‘doomed shortly to disappear’. Cunninghamia, 20.

Hodgson, Patrick (2020) Commentary: 'Just the tip of the iceberg': Queensland's experience of the influenza pandemic of 1918-20. Queensland Review, 27 (2). pp. 154-165.

McGregor, Russell (2020) Disputing the Territory: the Payne-Fletcher Report of 1937. Australian Historical Studies, 51 (4). pp. 383-400.

Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka (2020) Female invisibility in the male's world of plantation-era tropical north Queensland. Lilith: a feminist history journal, 26. pp. 143-170.

Dowe, John, Maroske, Sara, and May, Tom (2020) Flowers and fungi: illustrations by Ferdinand von Mueller’s nieces. Australian Garden History, 32. pp. 12-15.

Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka (2020) The Hawai'ian Sugar Planters' Association and the Herbert River Farmers' Association: regional articulations of agricultural associations on the periphery. International Journal of Regional and Local History, 15 (2). pp. 111-130.

Dowe, John, and Maroske, Sara (2020) John Dallachy (1804–71): collecting botanical specimens at Rockingham Bay. Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (2). pp. 101-117.

Dowe, John, and Maroske, Sara (2020) John Dallachy (1804–71): from gardener to botanical collector. Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (2). pp. 87-100.

White, Patrick (2020) Many voices, one ambition: local government, post-war reconstruction and northern development in Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 66 (4). pp. 578-595.

Tynan, Elizabeth (2020) Operation Buffalo: a historical fiction. History Australia, 17 (3). pp. 573-575.

Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka (2020) Planter inertia: the decline of the plantation in the Herbert River Valley. Circa: the Journal of Professional Historians, 7 (2020). pp. 20-26.

Nile, Richard (2020) Post memory violence: the Great War and children of trauma. M/C Journal, 23 (2).

Dowe, John, May, Tom W., Maroske, Sara, and Smith, Lucy T. (2020) The Wehl family of South Australia and their botanical connections with “Dear Uncle” Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. Swainsona, 34. pp. 1-79.

Megarrity, Lyndon, and Megarrity, Lyne (2020) What a difference a decade makes: Jessie and Mina, the two wives of Queensland premier Sir Robert Philp (1851–1922). Australian Journal of Biography and History, 4. pp. 29-52.

Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka (2020) The mercurial Henry Alexander Wickham: 'American tobacco planter' on the Herbert. Queensland History Journal, 24 (7). pp. 628-641.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2019) Archibald Laurence Wilson (1852–1935): uncrowned King of Ravenswood. Journal of Australasian Mining History, 17. pp. 118-140.

Robb, Sandi (2019) Daughters of the Flowery Land: Chinese Women in Queensland, 1860–1920. Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, 8. pp. 151-167.

Nile, Richard (2019) Desert Worlds. Southerly, 79 (1). pp. 84-105.

McGregor, Russell (2019) "People the North": nation-building in 1960s Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 65 (2). pp. 215-229.

Henry, Louise (2019) A Perspective from the Periphery: Re-imagining Regional North Queensland Women's Stories Using Historical Fiction. Text, 23 (54).

Vidonja Balanzategui, Bianka (2019) A 'clique of insignificant cockies'?: an agricultural association in the tropics. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 21. pp. 103-120.

Brennan, Claire (2019) The physical Endeavour: how a wooden ship shaped Cook's first circumnavigation. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 105 (2). pp. 135-158.

Brennan, Claire (2018) Digital humanities, digital methods, digital history, and digital outputs: history writing and the digital revolution. History Compass, 16 (10).

Murphy, Ffion, and Nile, Richard (2018) Gallipoli's troubled hearts: fear, nerves and repatriation. Studies in Western Australian History, 32. 2. pp. 25-38.

Wegner, Janice, and Kahabka, Jana (2018) Croydon’s historic machinery collection: a case study in the uses and needs of outback heritage machinery collections. Queensland Review, 25 (2). pp. 252-266.

Stevenson, Ana (2018) Harriet Clisby’s 'Sketches of Australia': travel writing and colonial refigurations in Boston’s Woman’s Journal. Women's History Review, 27 (5). pp. 837-857.

Strauss, Jonathan (2018) What did we want? Debates within the Australian nuclear disarmament movement in the 1980s. Labour History, 115. pp. 145-165.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2017) Drake's progress: the political somersaults of J.G. Drake. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 103 (2). pp. 111-135.

Wegner, Janice (2017) A weed by any other name: problems with defining weeds in tropical Queensland. Environment and History, 23 (4). pp. 523-544.

Brennan, Claire (2017) Australia's Northern Safari. M/C Journal, 20 (6).

Biedermann, Narelle (2017) Australian military nursing from ANZAC to now: embracing the ghosts of our nursing ancestors. Advances in Historical Studies, 6. pp. 65-77.

Dowe, John Leslie (2017) Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, the “Princeps of Australian Botany,” and a historical account of his Australasian palms. Palms, 61 (1). pp. 21-40.

Lloyd, Rohan, Newlands, Maxine, and Petray, Theresa (2017) Coral Battleground? Re-examining the 'Save the Reef' campaign in 1960s Australia. Environmental Sociology, 3 (1). pp. 54-63.

McGregor, Russell (2017) Excursions through emptiness: interwar travel writing on Northern Australia. Journal of Australian Studies, 41 (4). pp. 421-434.

Dowe, John Leslie (2017) A family’s contribution to Queensland botany: John Howard Simmonds [Snr] (1862–1955), Rose Simmonds (née Culpin) (1877–1960) and John Howard Simmonds [Jnr] (1901–1992). Austrobaileya, 10 (1). pp. 168-183.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2017) The life and times of Sir Robert Philp. Queensland History Journal, 23 (1). pp. 328-343.

Wegner, Janice (2016) Too much haste, not enough prospecting: Mount Garnet Mine and Smelters, North Queensland. Journal of Australasian Mining History, 14. pp. 99-115.

Dowe, John Leslie, and Maroske, Sara (2016) 'These princely plants': Ferdinand Mueller and the naming of Australasian palms. Historical Records of Australian Science, 27 (1). pp. 13-27.

Dowe, John Leslie (2016) Charles Weldon (de Burgh) Birch (Count Zelling), an unassuming botanical and zoological collector in central and north-eastern Queensland. North Queensland Naturalist, 46. pp. 16-46.

Shields, Rosemary, and Shields, Linda (2016) Dame Maud McCarthy (1859–1949): Matron-in-Chief, British expeditionary forces France and Flanders, First World War. Journal of Medical Biography, 24 (4). pp. 507-517.

Griggs, Peter (2016) Empires of leaves: tea traders in late nineteenth-century and Edwardian Melbourne. Victorian Historical Journal, 87 (1). pp. 29-57.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2016) Northern visions: the Commonwealth and the north since 1945. Northern Territory Historical Studies, 27. pp. 26-46.

Dowe, John Leslie (2016) Odoardo Beccari and Enrico D’Albertis in Australia and New Zealand, 1878: botanical and zoological collections. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 150 (2). pp. 27-41.

Noonan, Patrick (2016) "Sons of science": remembering John Gould's martyred collectors. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 21 (1). pp. 28-42.

Dowe, John Leslie (2016) Walter Hill: his involvement with palms (Arecaceae), and notes on his herbarium and the expeditions of 1862 and 1873. Austrobaileya, 9 (4). pp. 489-507.

Murphy, Ffion, and Nile, Richard (2016) The naked Anzac: exposure and concealment in A.B. Facey's A Fortunate Life. Southerly, 75 (3). pp. 219-238.

Book Chapter

Megarrity, Lyndon (2024) Queensland Liberalism: The Queensland People’s Party 1943–49. In: Gorman, Zachary, (ed.) Unity in Autonomy: A Federal History of the Founding of the Liberal Party. Connor Court Publishing, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, pp. 147-168.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2023) Overseas Students in Australia: Before and After the Colombo Plan. In: Gorman, Zachary, (ed.) The Menzies Watershed: Liberalism, Anti-communism, Continuities 1943–1954. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 183-195.

Holbrook, Carolyn, Megarrity, Lyndon, and Lowe, David (2022) Conclusion: The history of the future. In: Holbrook, Carolyn, Megarrity, Lyndon, and Lowe, David, (eds.) Lessons from History Leading historians tackle Australia’s greatest challenges. NewSouth, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 346-349.

Holbrook, Carolyn, Megarrity, Lyndon, and Lowe, David (2022) Introduction: Seeing the world with the past. A call to historians and policymakers. In: Holbrook, Carolyn, Megarrity, Lyndon, and Lowe, David, (eds.) Lessons from History Leading historians tackle Australia’s greatest challenges. NewSouth, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 1-7.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2022) The neglected north: Developing Northern Australia from the south since 1901. In: Holbrook, Carolyn, Megarrity, Lyndon, and Lowe, David, (eds.) Lessons from History Leading historians tackle Australia’s greatest challenges. NewSouth, Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 314-331.

Brennan, Claire (2021) Protecting the environmental integrity of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. In: McNicol, Barbara, (ed.) Sustainable Planet: Issues and Solutions for our Environment's Future. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, pp. 371-380.

Brennan, Claire (2021) Urban flooding in Australia. In: McNicol, Barbara, (ed.) Sustainable Planet: Issues and Solutions for our Environment's Future. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, pp. 105-113.

Nile, Richard (2020) Digital disruption and co-creating Australian Studies. In: Károly, K., Lázár, I., and Gall, C., (eds.) Culture and Intercultural Communication: Research and Education. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, pp. 181-191.

Lloyd, Rohan, White, Patrick, and Brennan, Claire (2020) Escaping water: living against floods in Townsville, North Queensland, from settlement to 2019. In: McKinnon, Scott, and Cook, Margaret, (eds.) Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe. Palgrave McMillan, Singapore, pp. 99-117.

Stevenson, Ana (2020) Gillard of Thrones: using popular culture to resist misogyny. In: Firestone, Amanda, and Clark, Leisa A., (eds.) Resist and Persist: essays on social revolution in 21st century narratives. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, NC, United States, pp. 162-174.

Murphy, Ffion, and Nile, Richard (2017) Writing silence: grieving mothers and the literature of war. In: Das, Devaleena, and Dasgupta, Sanjukta, (eds.) Claiming Spaces: Australian Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 37-59.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2017) The regional and the local: Whitlam's 'quality of life' agenda. In: Hocking, Jenny, (ed.) Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda. Australian History . Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 71-87.

Report

Álvarez-Romero, Jorge, Kiatkoski Kim, Milena, Buissereth, Rachel, Pressey, Robert L., Panell, David, Douglas, Michael M., and Spencer-Cotton, Alaya (2021) Looking back to look forward: a timeline of the Fitzroy River catchment. Report to the Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. Report. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

Conference Item

White, Patrick (2021) The 2019 flood in Townsville: politics and water crises in Queensland's dry tropics. In: 2021 Queensland Disaster Management Research Forum: presentation abstracts. p. 7. From: 2021 Queensland Disaster Management Research Forum, 14 July 2021, Online.

Bradshaw, Wayne (2021) On building a Church in the north: Father William McGinty’s time in Bowen. In: [Presented at the Australian Historical Association Conference]. From: AHA Conference 2021: ‘Unfinished Business’, 29 November - 2 December 2021, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Hayes, Anna (2020) The Quad: A perennial element in Australia's strategic outlook. In: Proceedings of the 16th East Asia Security Symposium and Conference (1) From: 16th Auunual East Asia Security Symposium and Conference, 24-27 June 2019, Beijing, China.

White, Patrick (2019) A flood of responses: politics and water crises in Townsville since 1860. In: [Presented at the Australian Historical Association Conference 2019]. From: Australian Historical Association Conference 2019: Local Communities, Global Networks, 8-12 July 2019, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia.

White, Patrick (2018) North Queensland municipal activism: A regional voice is heard across the nation. In: [Presented at the Australian Historical Association Conference 2018]. From: Australian Historical Association Conference 2018: The Scale of History, 2-6 July 2018, Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Nile, Richard (2016) Generational renewal: new paradigms for Australian Studies. In: Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Indo Australian Relations. From: Conference on Indo Australian Relations: Retrospect and Prospects, 24-25 January 2014, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

Book

McGregor, Russell (2024) Enchantment by Birds: A history of birdwatching in 22 species. Scribe, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2024) Rex Patterson: A Voice for the North. Australian Biographical Monographs, 22 . Connor Court Publishing, Redland Bay, QLD, Australia.

Brennan, Claire (2022) Beyond Cook: Explorers of Australia and the Pacific. James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2022) Robert Philp and the Politics of Development. Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne.

Tynan, Elizabeth (2022) The Secret of Emu Field: Britain's Forgotten Atomic Tests in Australia. NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Piper, Alana, and Stevenson, Ana (2019) Gender violence in Australia: historical perspectives. Australian History . Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.

McGregor, Russell (2019) Idling in green places: a life of Alec Chisholm. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.

Megarrity, Lyndon (2018) Northern Dreams: the politics of northern development in Australia. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Kuttainen, Victoria, Liebich, Susann, and Galletly, Sarah (2018) The Transported Imagination: Australian Interwar Magazines and the Geographical Imaginaries of Colonial Modernity. Cambria Press, Amherst, NY, USA.

Spicer, Chrystopher (2017) The Flying Adventures of Jessie Keith "Chubbie" Miller. McFarland and Company, Jefferson, NC, USA.

Tynan, Elizabeth (2016) Atomic Thunder: the Maralinga story. NewSouth, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

McGregor, Russell (2016) Environment, Race and Nationhood in Australia: revisiting the empty north. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, USA.

Thesis

Killoran, Tianna (2023) The near north and the far north: The Nikkei community in North Queensland, 1885-1946. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

White, Patrick (2022) Northern promise: North Queensland and the politics of northern development, from 1939 to 1969. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Long, Gillian Angela Patricia (2021) Shadows in the cane: reconstructing history through fiction to responsibly reimagine and make accessible the 1930s history of Cassowary Coast migrant sugar workers. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Shephard, Rosalie Joyce (2020) Cultural landscape change in the historical perspective of white settlement in the Wet Tropics: case study of the Redlynch Valley. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Henry, Louise Caroline (2020) Once there was a time when... Reimagining regional women's lives using historical fiction, family stories and artefacts. PhD thesis, James Cook University.

Gibson-Wilde, Dorothy Mary (1992) James Thomas Walker: banker, Federation father, Australian senator. PhD thesis, James Cook University of North Queensland.

Gibson-Wilde, Dorothy Mary (1982) Gateway to a golden land: Townsville to 1884. Honours thesis, James Cook University of North Queensland.

Loos, N. A. (1970) Frontier conflict in the Bowen district, 1861-1874. Other thesis, James Cook University of North Queensland.

Creative Work

Bradshaw, Wayne, and Lucas, Helen (2021) Encountering the History of Catholic Education in the Townsville Diocese [Exhibition]. [Creative Work]

Álvarez-Romero, Jorge, and Buissereth, Rachel (2021) Looking back to look forward: a timeline of the Fitzroy River catchment, Story Map. [Creative Work]

Brennan, Claire, Megarrity, Lyndon, and Fielding, Trisha (2018) From swords to ploughshares: Townsville men and women who served their community in war and peace. [Creative Work]

Newlands, Maxine, Brennan, Claire, Hodgson, Patrick, Moran, Viv, Roebuck, Ann, and M'Balla-Ndi, Marie (2016) Townsville turns 150: the old and the news. [Creative Work]

Other

Brennan, Claire, and Stevenson, Ana (2023) Australasian Cook Monuments, and Australasian Cook Landings [Map]. UNSPECIFIED.