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Wonderful Progress: Alternative Currents in Colonial Brisbane

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Stephen Stockwell
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… vast changes and wonderful progress, the most wonderful the world has ever known.

Edward Kinglake

The Australians at Home, 1891

Despite constructions of Brisbane's colonial history as a predominantly authoritarian pursuit of progress, reconsideration of the early years of white arrival reveals alternative tendencies that suggest an ambivalence to the paradigm of progress. These tendencies are precursors to an environmental, ‘anti-political’ consciousness that continues to play a role in the city and that contributes to the perception that Brisbane is ‘different.’

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Queensland Review , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , August 2000 , pp. 13 - 22
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