Royal Australian Historical Society December journal

RAHS Journal, Vol. 97, Part 2, December 2011 - includes articles:

• Obituary: Dr Ruth Meredith Frappell.
• Reading in colonial Australia.
• 'Necessary and urgent'. The politics of Northern Australia, 1945-1975.
• 'No common corrobery': the Robert Burns Festivals and identity politics in Melbourne, 1845-59.
• Richard Dawson: colonial ironmaster, engineer, merchant and agent of technology transfer.
• The origins of a white Australia: the coolie question, 1837-43.
• Theatre, amphitheatre and circus in Sydney, 1833-60.