For Researchers
Petherick Research Register and Publications
Researchers engaged in advanced, long-term research use the resources and facilities of the Petherick Reading Room to access the National Library's collections and services.
This Petherick Research Register lists the Petherick Readers' areas of research and their publications. The publications list is limited to 5 titles, as selected by the researcher. Many of the researchers listed have a larger body of works to their credit. If you have any questions about this list please email peth@nla.gov.au or contact the relevant reader at the email address given.
Some Petherick Readers prefer not to be contacted directly - email may be sent to them care of the Petherick Librarian at peth@nla.gov.au. Please ensure you include the person's name.
Australian history
Biography
Food
Gardening
History
Human and environmental sciences
Language
Literature
Music
Pacific
Religion
Social sciences
Women's issues
Publications by Petherick readers
The publications list is limited to 5 titles, as selected by the researcher. Many of the researchers listed have a larger body of works to their credit.
The Upside-down Pudding: a Small Book of Christmas Feasts. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1999.
Acquired Tastes: Celebrating Australia's Culinary History. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1998.
A Friend in the Kitchen: Old Australian Cookery Books. Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1996.
Mary Shelley, Life of William Godwin: The unfinished text from the Abinger papers deposited at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Sydney: English Department and University of Sydney Library, 2002. http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/godwin
'"Obliged to make this sort of deposit of our minds": William Godwin and the sociable contract of writing', in Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840, edited by Gillian Russell and Clara Tuite. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 166-185.
'Mary Shelley: Writing/Other Women in Godwin's Life', in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives, edited by Helen M. Buss, D. L. Macdonald, and Anne McWhir. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001, pp.139-157.
Chapters on Sir George Dibbs and Sir Patrick Jennings in The Premiers of New South Wales, edited by David Clune and Ken Turner. Annandale, N.S.W.: Federation Press, 2005.
'Canberra's National "Cathedrals": What Happened to Them?', Canberra Historical Journal, New Series no. 53, March 2004.
'The hidden lives of Helen Leishman', Women-Church: An Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, no. 33, Spring 2003.
'The 1886-88 Reredos Issue', Anglican Historical Society Journal, (The Church of England Historical Society, Diocese of Sydney), vol. 48, no. 2, December 2003.
'My dear Lord Jersey - My dear Sir George Dibbs', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Sydney, vol. 88, part 1, June 2002, pp. 20-35.
'The Private Papers of Baginda Omar of Terengganu (1844-1894). A preliminary report and a draft catalogue to the collection. Manuscripts in Insular South East Asia'. Workshop Papers on Malay Epistolography. Leiden, The Netherlands, Royal Institute for Linguistics & Anthropology (KITLV), January 2002.
'A Penang Kaddish: The Jewish Cemetery in Georgetown. A case study of the Jewish Diaspora in Malaysia (1830-1960)'. The Penang UNESCO Heritage Nomination Conference Papers. Penang Heritage Trust, April 2002.
'Malay Manuscripts in New Zealand. The "Lost" MS of the "Hikayat Abdullah" and other Malay MSS in the Thomson Collection at the Hocken Library in Dunedin', Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, December 2002.
'A Variant Version of The "Hikayat Iblis''', SARI:The Journal for Malay Cultural & Civilizational Studies vol. 20, July 2002, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia / The National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor.
'The Queensland Shearers' Strikes in Rosa Praed's Fiction', Queensland Review, vol. 9, no. 1, May 2002, pp. 67-87.
Steps to Federation: Lectures marking the Centenary of Federation (editor). Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing in association with the Canberra and District Historical Society, 2001.
John Lang : Australia's larrikin writer barrister, novelist, journalist and gentleman. Canberra: Mulini Press, 2005.
Yesterday's Gardens: A History and Bibliography of Australian Gardening Books. Canberra: Mulini Press, 2002.
Selves Crossing Cultures: Autobiography and Globalisation, (editor). Melbourne, Vic.: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2002. This collection includes my essay, '"A Tramp with Redskins": A British Colonial Administrator's Cross-Cultural Encounters'.
'Shame and Slaughter' (an essay on Robert Drewe's memoir, The Shark Net), Meanjin 3, 2002, pp. 97-105.
'Exploration Narratives and the Imperial Adventure Novel: The Curious Case of Sir Everard im Thurn and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, vol. 45, no. 2, January 2002, pp. 131-57.
Shameful Autobiographies: Shame in Contemporary Australian Autobiography and Culture. Carlton South, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1999.
'The Myth of Aboriginal Barbarity: Perceptions of Colonial Women in Northern Australia during the 1870s', in Northern Encounters: New Directions in Northern Australian History, edited by David Carment. Darwin, NT: Charles Darwin University Press, 2004, pp. 111-126.
'Nan Phillips Lectures', in Canberra History 1953-2003: Celebrating 50 Years, edited by Chris Clarke. Canberra: Canberra & District Historical Society, 2003, pp. 46-50.
'Sisters under the Skin? Friendship: crossing the racial gulf', Crossings, vol. 7, no 3, December 2002. Also at http://asc.uq.edu.au/crossings.
'Striking Out for Independence: Moves Towards Self-determination and Self-sufficiency on the Southern Monaro Property of Bibbenluke, 1861-1884', Labour History, no. 79, November 2000, pp. 123-139.
'Eat, Drink and be Merry: Hotels in Nineteenth-Century Canberra', in Canberra's Early Hotels: A Pint-sized History, edited by Shirley Purchase. Canberra: Canberra & District Historical Society, 1999, pp. 11-25.
'Closely Observed Trains: The Railway Compartment as a Locus of Desire in Victorian Culture', Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, vol. 53, 2001, pp. 111-138.
'The Unreliable Camera: Photography as Evidence in Mid-Victorian Fiction', Victorian Review, vol. 27, 2001, pp. 42-55.
Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Alan Sandison and Robert Dingley. London: Palgrave, 2000.
'Eating America: James M. Cain's Consuming Passion', Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 33, 1999, pp. 63-78.
The Land of the Golden Fleece: George Augustus Sala in Australia and New Zealand,(editor). Canberra: Mulini Press, 1995.
'Eastern Australia in the World's Migration Streams', Crossings, vol. 7 no. 3, December 2002.
Identification and analysis of the Select Committees of the New South Wales Legislative Council 1824-1856. [Sydney]: NSW Parliamentary Library, 2004.
New South Wales Legislative Council 1824-1856 : abstracts of votes and proceedings : with an index / compiled by R.F. Doust. [Sydney]: NSW Parliamentary Library, 2004.
Confessing a Murder. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.
Sir Harold Nicholson and International Relations: The Practitioner as Theorist (Foreword by Sir Adam Roberts). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
'Sir Reginald Wildig Allen Leeper (1888-1968)' and 'Robert Balmain Mowat (1883-1941), Oxford Dictionary of Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with The British Academy, 2004.
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: Volume 1: 1901-1929. (Assistant Editor and author of seven entries). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000.
'Sir Daniel McVey (1892-1972)' and 'James Vincent Moroney (1898-1965)', The Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 15, edited by J. D. Ritchie. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000.
'Sir Harold Nicolson and Diplomacy' (Paper presented to the University of Oxford, Foreign Service Programme), Oxford, 5 June 2000.
Arabian Deserts - Nature, Origin and Evolution. Berlin, New York: Springer, 2006.
'Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous Foraminifera from the Canning Basin, Western Australia', Micropaleontology, vol. 50, no. 1, 2004, pp. 1-26.
'The myth of the "lost city of the Arabian Sands"', Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, vol. 34, 2004, pp.105-120.
'Upper Devonian Charophyta of Western Australia', Micropaleontology, vol. 49. no.4, 2003, pp. 359-374.
'Karst and Hydrogeology of Dhofar, southern Oman,' in Present State and Future Trends of Karst Studies, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium and Field Seminar, Marmaris, Turkey, International Hydrological Programme, IHP-V, Technical Documents in Hydrology 2001, no. 49, vol. II, pp. 617-628, UNESCO, Paris.
‘Between the Waitman’s Wars: 1914-42’, in Bougainville before the conflict, edited by Anthony J. Regan and Helga M. Griffin. Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2005.
'The Winds of Change: E.W.P.Chinnery (1887-1972) and F.G.G.Rose (1915-1991) in the Australian Territories', South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture (UPNG - Port Moresby), vol.5, 2001, pp. 50-93.
'The ACT Government's Vision for Canberra's Landscapes', Landscape Australia, vol. 24, no.3, 2002, pp. 23-25.
'Postcards from Europe', Landscape Australia, vol. 24, no. 4, 2002, pp. 30-34.
The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, edited by R. Aitken and M. Looker. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002 , pp. 51, 266-267, 295, 313, 431-432.
20th Century Heritage - Our Recent Cultural Legacy, edited by D. Jones. Victoria: Australia ICOMOS, 2002, pp. 413-416.
Calamities, Fatalities and Realities: Local and Regional Anecdotes from 'The Golden Age', 1860-1864, Queanbeyan NSW. Canberra: P.M. Frei, 2005.
'What Can a Cemetery Tell us About Gravestones? A Survey of Riverside Cemetery, Queanbeyan NSW', The Ancestral Searcher, vol. 27 no. 2, June 2004, pp. 173-190.
'Types of Monuments, Materials, Symbols and Plants Found in Cemeteries', The Ancestral Searcher, vol. 27, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 191-196.
'Rev. Dr. J.D. Lang and the Bounty Ship "Portland" (1837)', The Ancestral Searcher, vol. 27, no. 1, March 2004, pp. 40-46.
British Family History Sources: A Select Bibliography from the National Library of Australia, Canberra: P.M. Frei, 2001.
'Birds in early Australian history', Wingspan vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 12-15.
The landing site debate: Where were Australia’s first European residents marooned in 1629? Hydro 2007 Conference
'The evidence for cohabitation between Indigenous Australians and marooned Dutch mariners and VOC passengers', in The Dutch Down Under: 1606 – 2006, Nonja Peters (Coordinating Author). Sydney: Wolters Kluwer, 2006, pp.38-55.
'Historical Problems and Methodological Issues Regarding Nhanda, an Aboriginal Language of Western Australia', Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 46, no. 1, 2004, pp. 84-99.
The Batavia Legacy: The First European Settlement in Australia, Hutt River, 1629. Geraldton, WA: Batavia Coast Maritime Heritage Association, 2003 (with Colin Slee and Max Cramer).
'"To Open a Door upon the Past of Scotland": Helena Mennie Shire (1912-1991)' in Women Medievalists and the Academy edited by Jane Chance. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, pp. 733-46.
'Music and Sir David Lyndsay', in 'Notis Musycall'': Essays on Music and Scottish Culture in Honour of Kenneth Elliott, edited by Gordon Munro, Stuart Campbell, Greta-Mary Hair, Margaret A. Mackay, Elaine Moohan and Graham Hair. Glasgow: Musica Scotica Trust, 2005, pp. 133-141.
'Writing and Publishing in Sixteenth-century Scotland: Some French Connections', in Renaissance Reflections: Essays in Memory of C.A. Mayer, edited by Pauline M. Smith and Trevor Peach. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002, pp. 129-44.
'The Earliest Surviving Text of Lyndsay's Tragedie of the Cardinall: an English edition of a Scottish poem', in Literature, Letters and the Canonical in Early Modern Scotland, edited by Theo van Heijnsbergen and Nicola Royan. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2002, pp. 22-34.
‘Dunbar and His Immediate Heirs’ in William Dunbar ‘The Nobill Poyet’: Essays in Honour of Priscilla Bawcutt, edited by Sally Mapstone. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001, pp. 85-107.
'Deus ex Machina: Arthur Wicks' Solstice Project', Art Monthly, no. 150, June 2002, pp. 9-10.
The Shape of Air (introductory essay for exhibition catalogue), Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart 2002.
'On the Role of the Curator of Historical Material' (conference workshop paper, Visual Arts, Craft and Design Special Interest Group) Once Upon Our Time, Museums Australia Annual Conference, Adelaide, March 2002.
'Naming Rites', Newsletter of the Friends of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, no. 88, Autumn 2002.
'Argonaut', Simon Buttonshaw; Land and Sea (exhibition catalogue). Warrnambool Art Gallery, 2002.
Visual Design: A Collection of Essays concerning the Visual Nature of Place and Landscape-essays for Paintings. Hobart: UniPrint, University of Tasmania, 1999.
The Appropriateness of 'Design Overview' in a National and Iinternational Context. Armidale: University of New England, 1995.
Young Digger. Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2002.
Forbidden. Ringwood, Vic: Puffin, 2002.
Soldier Boy : the True Story of Jim Martin the Youngest Anzac. Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 2001. This book won the Ethel Turner Prize for young adult literature in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. It is the first time that a book of 19th or 20th century history has won the Ethel Turner Prize. Soldier Boy was an Honour Book in the Children's Book Council of Australia 2002 awards.
The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2000.
“Canton to Gawler with a Hanoverian Consul: An ‘English’ Schoolboy in the Outback”, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 33, 2005, pp. 56-70.
Hatching an Air Force: 2 SFTS, 5 SFTS, 1 BFTS Uranquinty and Wagga Wagga. Maryborough, Qld.: Banner Books, 2002.
Empire Airmen Strike Back: The Empire Air Training Scheme. Maryborough, Qld.: Banner Books, 1999.
Ngambri ancestral names: for geographical places and features in the Australian Capital Territory and surrounds. Canberra: A. Jackson-Nakano, 2005.
The Pajong and Wallabalooa: a History from the Records of Aboriginal Farming Families at Blakney and Pudman Creeks, 1820-1945 and Historical Overview 1945-2002. Weereewaa History Series, vol. 2; Aboriginal History Monographs, 9. Canberra: Aboriginal History Inc., 2002.
The Kamberri: a History from the Records of Aboriginal Families in the Canberra-Queanbeyan District and Surrounds 1820-1927 and Historical Overview 1928-2001. Weereewaa History Series, vol. 1; Aboriginal History Monographs, 8. Canberra: Aboriginal History Inc. 2001.
Heritage and Native Title: Anthropological and Legal Perspectives: Proceedings of a Workshop Conducted by the Australian Anthropological Society and Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra 14-15 February 1996. (edited with Julie Finlayson) Canberra: Native Title Research Institute, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1996.
Japanese Women: a Century of Living History. Adelaide, SA: Rigby, 1986.
'Myanmar in 2005: In a Holding Pattern', Asian Survey, vol. 56, no. 1, 2006, pp. 162-167.
Governance and Civil Society in Myanmar: Education, Health and Environment. London: Routledge Curzon, 2005.
Thailand Culture and Society Then and Now: Vol. 1, Trade, Culture and Society Before 1200 AD. Yangon: SEAMO Centre for History and Tradition, 2005.
'Myanmar's International Relations Strategy: The Search for Security', Contemporary Southeast Asia, vol. 26, no. 3, 2004, pp. 530-553.
Thai Reference Grammar. Bangkok: Duang Kamol Editions, 2001.
'China's International Socialization: The Role of International Organizations', Global Governance, vol. 8, no. 3, July-Sept. 2002, pp. 343-364.
'The Unpredictability of Liberal States: Australian and International Human Rights', The International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 6, no. 3, Autumn 2002, pp. 55-84
China, the United Nations and Human Rights: The Limits of Compliance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.
Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1993.
'Arthur Phillip Defensor de Co1ónia, Governador de Nova Gales do Sul' ('Arthur Phillip: Defender of Colônia, Governor of New South Wales'), Derroteros de la Mar del Sur, (Lima), año 9, núm.9, 2001, pp.61-72; Revista Naval, (Montevideo), no.40, agosto 2001, pp.113-122; and in O Português na Austrália, nos.1553, 1554, 1555, 21 and 28 August, 6 September 2002; and in Anais de História de Além-Mar [Portugal], 2005 no.6, pp.339-349 (presented at the V Simpósio de História Marítima e Naval Ibero-americana, Ilha Fiscal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 25 to 29 October 1999). Also at: http://web.mala.bc.ca/black/amrc/index.htm?research.htm&2 (in English and Spanish) and (in Portuguese) at: http://derroteros.perucultural.org.pe/textos/derroteros9/king.doc
'The Timor Gap, Wonosobo and the Fate of Portuguese Timor', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 88, pt. 1, June 2002. Also at: http://www.nla.gov.au/pathways/jnls/austjnls/view/324.html.
'Francisco Muñoz y San Clemente and his Reflexions on the English Settlements of New Holland', British Library Journal, vol. 25, no.1, 1999, pp. 55-76.
'Terra Australis, New Holland and New South Wales: the Treaty of Tordesillas and Australia', The Globe (Journal of the Australian Map Circle) no. 47, 1998 (first presented at the Vasco da Gama Quincentenary Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 21-24 June 1997). Also at: http://www.nla.gov.au/pathways/jnls/austjnls/view/324.html.
'''Bahía Botánica y Liqueyos": Alexandro Malaspina and British designs in the Pacific', in Malaspina '93: Alessandro Malaspina e la sua spedizione scientifica (1789-1794), edited by Blanca Sáiz. Mulazzo: Centro di Studi Malaspiniani, 1995.
'The Exotic Frontier of the Imperial Imagination', Eighteenth-Century Life, vol. 26, no. 3, December 2002.
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 9: Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives, Edited compendium volume (with Christopher Norris). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
'Women Translators, Gender and the Cultural Context of the Scientific Revolution', Translation and Nation: The Cultural Politics of Englishness, edited by Roger Ellis and Liz Oakley-Brown. Clevedon: Translation Matters, 2001, pp. 85-119.
'Robert Hooke's Micrographia and the Aesthetics of Empiricism', The Seventeenth Century, vol. 16, no. 1, 2001, pp. 177-200.
'Flags', 'Memorials and Monuments', and 'State Emblems', The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, edited by Wilfrid Prest. Netley, SA: Wakefield Press, 2002.
'Flags', The Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, Stuart Macintyre. 2nd ed. Melbourne: OUP, 2001.
'Flags Act 1953 (Commonwealth)' http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/item.asp?dID=20 , 2000.
'John Verran', The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, edited by Ann Millar. Carlton, Vic.: MUP, 2000.
'Blue over the Red: Australia's Victorian Flag Legacy and Menzies' Decision', Crux Australis, vol. 13/4, no. 56, Feb 2000, pp. 158-175.
Macquoid of Waniassa : portrait of a colonial sheriff. Wanniassa, A.C.T. : Waniassa Publications, 2006.
'Excavating a Bonanza: Sarah Campion', Australian Literary Studies, vol 21, no. 3, 2004, pp. 350-361.
Rosemary Dobson : a Celebration, compiled and edited by Joy Hooton for the Friends of the National Library of Australia. Canberra, National Library of Australia, 2000, pp. 37-44.
Gertrude the Emigrant, a Tale of Colonial Life - Louisa Atkinson, (editor). Canberra : School of English and Australian Scholarly Editions Centre, University College, ADFA, in association with Mulini Press, 1998.
The Natural Art of Louisa Atkinson. Sydney: State Library of New South Wales Press, c1995.
The Poetry of Gwen Harwood. Melbourne: Sydney University Press, in association with Oxford University Press, Australia, 1991.
Introduced and translated The Army Medical Service of the Imperial and Royal (k.u.k.) 14th Infantry Regiment (Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse) during World War 1 - a unit of the Austro-Hungarian Army as written by Dr.Leopold Strauss, the Regiment's last Chief Medical Officer. Aranda, ACT: Jean Main, 2002.
A Fragment of History : the Life of Brig. John Walter Main. Aranda, ACT: J. Main, 1998.
William Findlay Main 1832-1906 : a Presbyterian Life of Faith.Aranda, ACT: J. Main, 1994.
Transcribed and annotated The Barque "John" : a Voyage to the Land of Hope Gravesend to Adelaide 1839/1840. Aranda, ACT: J. Main, 1994.
Mary Main and her Descendants : the Biography of a Family. Canberra: J. Main, 1993.
Governors Wives in Colonial Australia, by Anita Selzer. Canberra. (Historical Consultant and supplementary editor.) National Library of Australia, 2002.
'The Rolls Series', National Library News, August 2002.
'History on a Roll', National Library News, October 2002.
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, edited by Ann Millar, Vol 1, Senators Annabelle Rankin, Simon Fraser and Edward Millen. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2000.
Coals to Newcastle: a History of Coal Loading at the Port of Newcastle, New South Wales 1797-1997. Wagga Wagga, NSW: Bobby Graham Publishers, 2002.
Joseph Lyons: Guide to Archives of Australia's Prime Ministers. Canberra. National Archives of Australia, Canberra, 2002.
Urban Heritage: the Rise and Postwar Development of Australia's Capital City Centres. Canberra: Australian Council of National Trusts and Australian Heritage Commission, 2000. Published on the Internet in 2001 at: http://www.ahc.gov.au/publications/generalpubs/urban/.
Our House: Histories of Australian Homes (compiler, editor, contributor). Canberra: Australian National University & Australian Heritage Commission, 2001. Published on the Internet by the Australian Heritage Commission, Canberra at: http://www.heritage.gov.au/ourhouse.
'Access to Arts and Intellectual Life: a Fundamental Right?' Imaginative Country: Some Ideas on the Arts and Entertainment, and on the Humanities and Public Intellectual Life in Australia, edited by D. Horne and M. Travers. Sydney: NSW Centenary of Federation Committee, 2001.
South by northwest: the magnetic crusade and the contest for Antarctica. Kent Town, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 2006.
'Ships of the Spanish Main: Palacio on proportion and burden', The Mariner's Mirror, vol. 92, no 1, Feb 2006, pp. 88-93.
Ahab's Trade : the Saga of South Seas Whaling. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1999.
Most Perfectly Safe : the Convict Shipwreck Disasters of 1833-42. St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1997.
Fast Company : the Lively Times and Untimely End of the Clipper Ship Walter Hood 1852-1870. Hughes, ACT: Plainwords Press, 1994.
'In Search of a "Considerable River": Retracing the Paths of the Early Explorers to Lake George, the Limestone Plains and the Murrumbidgee', Canberra Historical Journal, vol. 45, March 2000, pp. 15-24.
'Charles Throsby in Australia', Leicestershire Historian, no 36, 2000.
'Fire regimes in semi-arid and tropical pastoral lands: managing biological diversity and ecosystem function', Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes and the Biodiversity of a Continent, edited by R.A. Bradstock, J.E. Williams and A.M. Gill.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 373-400. (with A. C. Grice.)
'Lignotubers and meristem dependence in mallee (Eucalyptus spp.) coppicing after fire', Australian Journal of Botany, vol. 49, 2001, pp. 31-41.
'The potential for degradation of landscape function and cultural values following the extinction of mitika (Bettongia lesueur) in Central Australia, Land Degradation in Australia, edited by A. Conacher. Dordrecht: Kluwer Scientific Publications, 2001, pp. 71-89. (with J. Gillen, G. Jacobson, W.A. Low, C. Miller, and Mutitjulu Community.)
' Regulating Callitris populations: a tale of two pineries', Perfumed Pineries: Environmental Histories of Australias Cypress Pines,edited by J. Dargavel, D. Hart and B. Libbis. Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, 2001, pp. 173-83.
' Towards improved management of arid and semi-arid banded landscapes', Banded Vegetation Patterning in Arid and Semi-arid Environments: Ecological Processes and Consequences for Management,edited by J. Seghieri and D. J. Tongway. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2001, pp. 210-27. (with R. Peltier, P. Montagne, and El H. L. Mahamane.)
'Performance Management and the Psychological Contract in the Australian Federal Public Sector', The Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 44, no. 3, September 2002. (with J. Shields)
'Towards a New Public Unitarism: Employment and Industrial Relations in the Australian Public Service', The Economic and Labour Relations Review, vol. 13, no. 1, June 2002, pp. 60-87. (with J. O'Brien)
'Individualism, Union Organisation And Management Prerogatives In The Australian Public Service 1983-2000', Labour & Industry, vol. 12, no. 3, April 2002, pp. 103-122. (with J. O'Brien)
'The New Performance Management Paradigm in the Australian Public Service: Discourse, Practice, Impact', Motivation at Work in the Public Sector, edited by T. Duvillier. Brussells: Academia-Bauylant, 2002. (with D. Grant, and J. Shields)
'The New Pay? Performance-Related Pay in Australia', Employment Relations Management: Australia in a Global Context, edited by J. Teicher, P. Holland and R. Gough. Melbourne: Pearson, 2002. (with J. Shields)
Empty North: the Japanese presence and Australian reactions, 1860s to 1942. Darwin: Charles Darwin University Press, 2006.
'Espionage and Paranoia: Assessing Australian Responses to "Japanese Activities" 1870-1947.' Ritsumeikan Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, vol. 11, March 2003, pp. 27-56.
'Who is One of Us? (Re)discovering the Inside-out of Australia's Japanese Immigrant Communities, 1901-1957", Japanese Studies, vol. 22, issue 3, December 2002, pp. 273-288.
'Interpreting "Japanese Activities" in Australia, 1888-1945', Journal of the Australian War Memorial, no 36, May 2002.
'Japanese Immigrants and the Japanese Trading Company Network in Sydney 1880s - 1941.' in Changing Histories: Australia and Japan, edited by P.A. Jones and P.M. Oliver. Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2001.
Media History (London), vol. 8, no. 1, June 2002, 'Special Issue: Australian Media History in 2002', (edited with Denis Cryle).
'"We have Enemies to Oppose": Communication, Class and the Federation of Australia', Media History, vol. 8, no. 1, June 2002, pp. 35-47.
'Introduction', Media History, vol. 8, no. 1, June 2002, pp. 5-7 (with Denis Cryle).
'Communications', The Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by G. Davison, J. Hirst, S. MacIntyre, Revised Edition. South Melbourne: OUP, 2001, pp.142-144 (with Kevin Livingston).
Communication Traditions in Australia: Packaging the People, 2nd ed. South Melbourne: OUP, 2001. (with Glen Lewis).
Great Southern Land: the maritime exploration of Terra Australis. Canberra: Dept of the Environment and Heritage, 2006.
The Watermen of Gundagai, Gundagai: Old Gundagai Project Committee, 2002. (with B. O'Keefe and M. McIntyre)
Tracking the Dragon: a Guide for Finding and Assessing Chinese Australian Heritage Places. Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission, 2002.
'The Landscape of the Marginal Land: Cultural Landscapes in the Tinderry Ranges, New South Wales', Heritage Landscapes: Understanding Place and Communities, edited by M. Cotter, B. Boyd and J. Gardiner. Lismore: Southern Cross University Press, 2001
Australia: State of the Environment 2001: Natural and Cultural Heritage, Canberra: Department of the Environment and Heritage and CSIRO Publishing, 2001. (with J. Lennon, D. Marshall, P. McConville, S. Sullivan, W. Nicholls and D. Johnston)
Norse in the South: the Hansen Berg family: Hovding emigrants from Grue, Norway to New Zealand, then to tumut, Canberra and Melbourne, Australia. Canberra: Pam Ray, 2002.
The Flight of the Emu : A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001.Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2001.
Defending the Little Desert: The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1998.
Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies, edited by Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin. Edinburgh: Keele University Press, 1997.
Building a Forest Conscience: An Historical Portrait of the Natural Resources Conservation League of Victoria, 1944-1990. Springvale: Natural Resources Conservation League, 1991.
Leadership in Medieval English Nunneries. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2005.
'Daughters of Syon', Birgittiana, Naples, 2003, pp. 161-180.
'Change and Decay?', Our Medieval Heritage, edited by Linda Rasmussen, Valerie Spear and Dianne Tillotson. Cardiff: Merton Priory Press, 2002, pp. 15-36.
'A Canterbury Lament', Parergon (New Series), vol. 18, no. 3, July 2001, pp. 15-36.
'More Australian Women Who Made a Difference', The Canberra Times, 2 February 2002, p. 19, (Panorama).
'What Happened to Mrs Petrov's Shoe?', The Canberra Times, 26 December 2001, p. 22.
'Isaacs Appointment Stirred Big Debate',The Canberra Times, 12 July 2001, p.13.
'Pioneer Writer Sheds Light on a Wild Side',The Canberra Times, 31 May 2001, p. 11.
'Dame Edith Broke Down Barriers', The Canberra Times, 3 May 2001, p. 11.
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