Voices of Challenge in Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press

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. 

1. Australia’s Migrant and Minority Community Press and Cultural Heritage: An Introduction, Catherine Dewhirst and Richard Scully.- 2. Indigenous Media and the Countering of the Racial Insular Imaginary in Settler-Colonial Australia, Lara Palombo.- 3. Remembering Australasie: European Settlers and Trans-imperial Thinking in the Cosmopolitan Le Courrier Australien (1892-1896), Alexis Bergantz.- 4. Publishing Sydney’s Chinese Newspapers in the Australian Federation Era: A Struggle for a Voice, Community and Diaspora Solidarity, Mei-fen Kuo.- 5. Recovering an Optimistic Era: Chinese-Australian Journalism from the 1920s to the 1940s, Caryn Coatney.- 6. 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.- 7. Reflections and Transition of Old and New Italian Media in Australia: The Case of Il Globo, Bruno Mascitelli.- 8. Historicising the EarlyYears of Nuovo Paese (1974-1981), Simone Battiston.- 9. Painting Queensland Red: Hugo Kunze, Transnational Print Culture and Propaganda for Socialism, Andrew G. Bonnell.- 10. “Virtually a Victory”: The Australian Woman’s Sphere and the Mainstream Press during Vida Goldstein’s 1903 Federal Candidature, Natasha Walker and Catherine Dewhirst.- 11. An Elite Minority: The Medical Journal of Australia’s Place in Australian and Global Publishing, Jeremy Fisher.- 12. Counter-Hegemony in Ethnic Media: An Agonistic Pluralism Perspective, John Budarick.

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).