Editorial

From the Editors

Contributors

Essays

The Strange Career of Gottfried Hanskie: A German Convict on the Van Diemonian Frontier

Hamish Maxwell Stewart

Victims of the Past? White-Aboriginal relations in Australian historiography in the nineteenth century

Johanna Perheentupa

In Search of “Herr O.”

Walter Struve

Amerikas treuer Juniorpartner in der asiatisch-pazifischen Region? Die historische Entwicklung der sicherheitspolitischen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Australien und den USA

Christian Wirtz

Post-Colonial Space and Australian Identity in Richard Flanagan’s Sound of One Hand Clapping

Jaroslav Kušnír

New Poetry

The Secret Lives of Boys

William D. Ehrhart

Skin

Kevin Gillam

Away

Sarah French

Creation Myth (‘to interpret someone else…’)

John Kinsella

Boiling Jam at Christmas

Marcella Polain

Reviews

Critical Studies

Nicholas Birns and Rebecca McNeer, eds.: A Companion to Australian Literature since 1900.

Gerhard Stilz

Barbara Glowczewski, Jessica De Largy Healy und die Künstler aus Lajamanu und Galiwin’ku: Die Farben der Traumzeit. Die Kunst der Aborigines.

Corinna Erckenbrecht

Philip A. Clarke: Aboriginal Plant Collectors. Botanists and Australian Aboriginal People in the Nineteenth Century.

Rosemarie Gläser

Tim Flannery: An Explorer’s Notebook. Essays on Life, History & Climate.

Reinhold Grotz

Sadanand Dhume: My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with an Indonesian Islamist.

Marion Spies

Zabus, Chantal. Tempests after Shakespeare.

Igor Maver

Leitner, Gerhard, Ian G. Malcolm, eds.: The Habitat of Australia’s Aboriginal Languages. Past, Present and Future.

Allan James

James Boyce: Van Diemen’s Land.

Adi Wimmer

New Fiction & Poetry

Halligan, Marion. Murder on the Apricot Coast.

Peter Stummer

Venero Armanno: The Dirty Beat.

Veronika Starnes

Venero Armanno: Candle Life.

Catherine Schwerin

Bob Mainwaring: Escape to Van Diemen’s Land.

Paula Kreiner

Tim Winton: Breath.

Adi Wimmer

Diana Fahey: Sea Wall and River Light.

Werner Senn

David Brooks: The Balcony.

Adi Wimmer

Film & Film Studies

Philip Brophy: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Mandy Kretzschmar

Henry Reynolds: The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith.

Adi Wimmer

Gail Jones: The Piano.

Mandy Kretzschmar

Baz Luhrmann, dir.: Australia.

Adi Wimmer