This edited collection invites the reader to enter the diverse worlds of Australia's migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day. With a focus on the rare, radical and foreign-language print culture of multiple and frequently concurrent minority groups' newspaper ventures, this volume has two overarching aims: firstly to demonstrate how the local experiences and narratives of such communities are always forged and negotiated within a context of globalising forces the global within the local; and secondly to enrich an understanding of the complexity of Australian 'voices' through this medium not only as a means for appreciating how the cultural heritage of such communities were sustained, but also for exploring their contributions to the wider society.

Focuses on the rare, radical and foreign-language print culture of multiple and frequently concurrent minority groups' newspaper ventures. Demonstrates how the local experiences and narratives of such communities are always forged and negotiated within a context of globalising forces. Explores the diverse worlds of Australia's migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day

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Catherine Dewhirst is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, where she teaches European, global and women's histories, and historiography. Her research focuses on Italian migrant communities and newspapers from Italian imperialism to the Second World War.
Richard Scully is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of Eminent Victorian Cartoonists (2018), and is primarily a researcher of the history of political cartooning in Europe and its colonial empires.

Inhalt

1. Australia's Minority Community Printed Press History in Global Context: An Introduction- Catherine Dewhirst and Richard Scully.- 2. The Satirical Press of Colonial Australia: A Migrant and Minority Enterprise- Richard Scully.- 3. Cement, guide and representative for the exile and the emigrant: Ideological Discourse and italianità in L'Italo-Australiano- Marianna Piantavigna.- 4. Australia's Early Russian-Language Press (1912-1919)- Kevin Windle.- 5. Respectability and Disloyalty: The Competing Obligations of L'Italiano's Editors- Catherine Dewhirst.- 6. Zionism, Assimilationism and Antifascism: Divergent International Jewish Pathways in Three Post-War Australian Jewish Magazines- Max Kaiser.- 7. Literary Ambitions: The Polish Language Press in Australia- Katarzyna Kwapisz Williams and Mary Besemeres.- 8. Exploring the Migrant Experience through an Examination of Letters to The New Australian- Karen Agutter.- 9. Crónicas in Australia's Spanish-Language Press: The Case of El Expreso- Michael Jacklin.- 10. News Reporting of Italian Organised Crime in Australia: Examining Il Globo's Editorial Commentary- Clare Johansson and Simone Battiston.- 11. A Treasure Trove of Community Language Newspapers- Hilary Berthon.