[Editor: This poem by P. I. O’Leary was published in The Advocate (Melbourne, Vic.), 2 November 1939.] Design Here beauty — not flower-frail or artly-soft for surface grace to vibrate with æsthetic pulse alone — beats commandant thro’ winged, commingled … [Read more...] about Design [poem by P. I. O’Leary, 2 November 1939]
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Editorial [by Rex Ingamells, April 1939]
[Editor: This article by Rex Ingamells was published in Venture: Jindyworobak Quarterly Pamphlet (Adelaide), April 1939.] Editorial The Jindyworobaks stand for a precise cultural movement. While we realize that culture springs from varied sources, we insist that a … [Read more...] about Editorial [by Rex Ingamells, April 1939]
Despair [poem by Paula Fitzgerald, April 1939]
[Editor: This poem by Paula Fitzgerald was published in Venture: Jindyworobak Quarterly Pamphlet (Adelaide), April 1939.] Despair Despair has found me . . . . for I had to pass By Madness, vacant-eyed in senile way, And see her beckoning in foolish play To phantom … [Read more...] about Despair [poem by Paula Fitzgerald, April 1939]
Chapter 15 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter XV. Throughout the country that day more than 40,000 men laid down their arms, and our conquest was complete. We entered on the third stage of our humiliation. The first was that three weeks of … [Read more...] about Chapter 15 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
Chapter 14 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter XIV. We five little thought when we cut across from Donnybrook to Whittlesea that afternoon of the strange wild life for which we were headed. It was dark when we reached Yea, and strange, after … [Read more...] about Chapter 14 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
Chapter 13 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter XIII. Although we did not know it then, that decision we five made that afternoon on the empty highway at Donnybrook, was typical of the disintegration of a nation. On Thursday, October 13, the … [Read more...] about Chapter 13 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
Chapter 12 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter XII. Looking back on that tragic week from September 23, its every hour brought its own irreparable disaster. In the seven days, Australia had been torn from its apparently unassailable pedestal … [Read more...] about Chapter 12 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
Chapter 11 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter XI. There was a refugee bureau at the South Melbourne cricket ground where information could be obtained. Here our story that we had come from Sydney by the South Coast attracted immediate … [Read more...] about Chapter 11 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
Chapter 10 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter X. It was on Tuesday, while Fergus and I were engaged in the appalling work of gathering the remains of the victims of Saturday, that the patients in the hospital were evacuated to emergency … [Read more...] about Chapter 10 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
Chapter 9 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]
[Editor: This is a chapter from Fools’ Harvest (1939) by Erle Cox.] Chapter IX. In making this digression on the fate of the lost State, my desire has been to set out fully the situation that the Federal Government was called upon to face during the three first days from … [Read more...] about Chapter 9 [Fools’ Harvest, by Erle Cox, 1939]