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