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• Recollection and Reconstruction
• Reflection and Reminiscence
  • An Elegant Queenslander in Auchenflower
  • A Catholic nunnery in a thoroughly Protestant neighbourhood
  • Milton State School
  • A Move to Townsville
  • The Wilds of Aitkenvale
• Origins, Indigenes, Antecedents 
• Mapping The North
• Themes and Variations
  • When Is Something "Discovered"? 
    • Newfoundland Wasn't Newly Found
  • The Minimalist View of Australian History
  • Why Did the British Government Send Convicts to Botany Bay?
  • A Radical, Republican, Multicultural North? Really?
  • Why did it take so long to "discover" Australia's east Coast?
• Texts, Sources and Readings
  • Sources and Readings
  • Texts
    • Anonymous, Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
    • George Elphinstone Dalrymple, Reports And Narrative Of The North-East Coast Expedition, 1873
    • Ian Hughes, A State Of Open Warfare: Frontier Conflict In The Cooktown Area
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    • Biographical Sketches; Englishmen: Historical Figures
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    • Biographical Sketches: North Queensland
  • Years: A Chronology
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