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"Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia's Lost Generation" by Ross McMullin is a sequel to his acclaimed book "Farewell Dear People." The book focuses on the lives of three young Australians who were part of the 'lost generation' of World War I. Captain Brian Pockley, Norman Callaway, and Murdoch Mackay are profiled in the book, highlighting their pre-war potential, their war experiences, and the impact of their deaths on their families and communities. McMullin's writing is sympathetic and well-researched, providing insight into the emotional connections between the soldiers and their loved ones. The book raises questions about the worth of the war and the loss of talented young men. [Extracted from the article]

This article analyses the crystallisation of a community composed mostly of ethnic Ukrainians at Ardeer in Melbourne's outer-west after 1949. The cohort of small-home builders collectively constructed dwellings, grew vegetables, bartered goods and favours, kept animals and nurtured a staunch diaspora nationalism in one of the city's rawest suburbs. Despite a robust contemporary discourse on migrant suburbs, recent historical examinations of the experiences of ethnic settlers on city fringes are scarce indeed. These few accounts fail to locate the hybrid cultural worlds fashioned by the newcomers within key political, economic and intellectual contexts of the post-war era, as this article does. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The appearance of 'larrikins'—or young street toughs—in city spaces across late-Victorian Melbourne represented a fundamental challenge to contemporary understandings of public order and age-related behaviour. This article reassesses the activities of these individuals and contends that larrikinism is best regarded as a series of 'performances' in space. Key aspects of the larrikin's repertoire are considered, and larrikin activities related to the urban locations in which they occurred. Application of a gender analysis further reveals the sexualised undertones of larrikin behaviour and the anxieties of society's elders concerning both native-born youth and the reputation of 'Young Australia'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]