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Much is speculative - as Karskens explains, there is too little evidence to be otherwise - but where other authors have retreated because of the fear that they would be seen to be speaking I for i Aboriginal people, Karskens has taken up the challenge. People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia: By Grace Karskens. Karskens refuses to accept the assumption so widely made that Indigenous and settler cultures were incompatible and so displacement of Indigenous life was rapid and complete. [Extracted from the article]

Dino Hodge recently produced an interesting study of how Dunstan's personal beliefs and sexuality influenced his political life, but it was much more limited in scope than Woollacott's contribution. (xii-xiii) Dunstan's biographer, Angela Woollacott, set herself the task of rekindling the brightness of the light, and she succeeds admirably in this comprehensive biography of one of South Australia's - and the Australian Labor Party's - most progressive figures. Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician Who Changed Australia: By Angela Woollacott. [Extracted from the article]

Honouring a Nation: A History of Australia's Honours System: By Karen Fox. For this reader, the most interesting and insightful chapters were six, where Fox outlines the Whitlam government's campaign for an Australian honours system, and seven, which explores the fierce debates over the nature of the system from 1975 to 1990. Fox is more nuanced in her reading of the saga and places it in the longer context of Australia's messy use of honours to find an identity in a post-imperial world. [Extracted from the article]

I Shooting the Picture i is an outcome of an Australian Research Council-funded Linkage research project conducted by the Walkley Foundation, the National Library of Australia and a group of scholars led by Fay Anderson and Sally Young. In addition to further visual analysis of images, the understanding of the unique communication power of press photography would be further enhanced by a more detailed exploration of the manner in which images sit on the printed page. Shooting the Picture: Press Photography in Australia: By Fay Anderson and Sally Young with Nikki Henningham. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the book "The Paper War: Morality, Print Culture and Power in Colonial New South Wales," by Anna Johnston.

As Fitzpatrick notes, most of the Russians who came to Australia after the war did so "accidentally" (151). In this book, her first book-length foray into Australian migration history, Fitzpatrick unravels the mystery of why migrants to Australia had to become adept at masking their identities, not only from Australians but from each other. White Russians, Red Peril: A Cold War History of Migration to Australia: By Sheila Fitzpatrick. [Extracted from the article]

While social histories of the war have hardly failed to note the significance of state power, Catherine Bond's study of the use of Australian law as an instrument in this process offers a precise means of studying the subject. Readers' responses to this moral intent may vary but many cases are certainly an apt reminder of the power wielded by law and the legal system. Buttressing the sense that the dynamics under review resonate beyond the war, the concluding chapter considers some of the war's legal legacies in Australian statutes, politics and lives. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the third edition of the book "Government Publications in Australia: Papers on Their Use and Understanding," edited by R. L. Cope.