The Justification of Joseph Tice Gellibrand: A Thesis

A return to the Frontier History of colonial Victoria, with a focus on cultural understanding and relationship.

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I am a 4th-to-6th generation Australian of Silesian (Prusso-Polish), Welsh, Schwabian-Württemberg German, yeoman English, Scots, & Cornish stock; all free settlers who emigrated between 1848-1893 as colonial pioneers. I am the 2nd of 7 brothers and a sister raised on the income off 23 acres. I therefore belong to an Australian Peasantry which historians claim doesn't exist. I began to have outbreaks of poetry in 1975 when training for a Diploma of Mission Theology in Melbourne. I've since done a BA in Literature and Professional Writing and Post-graduate Honours in Australian History. My poem chapbook 'Compost of Dreams' was published in 1994. I have built a house of trees and mud-bricks, worked forests, lived as a new-pioneer, fathered-n-raised two sons and a daughter, and am now a proud grandfather. I have worked as truck fresh-food farmer, a freelance foliage-provider, been a member of a travelling Christian Arts troupe, worked as duty officer and conflict resolutionist with homeless alcoholic men, been editor/publisher of a Journal of Literature for Christian Pilgrimage, a frontier researcher, done poetry in performance seminars in schools and public events.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

A Frontier of Romance and Jeopardy!

A Frontier
of Romance
and Jeopardy!




Towards some Principles for the Frontier
of Australian Identity and Reconciliation
as seen within and around the Treaty
of Dutigalla, (Batman) or Port Phillip,
in and with some of its Prequels,
Contexts, Encounters and Aftermaths.





by

Wayne David Knoll
[ Jupurrula ]

Dedicated to the Old Man
- Walpiri Elder & Artist -
Darby Jampijimpa Ross
who gave me skin (kinship)






A Thesis submitted in September 2001 to the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne as the key research component to a successful Post Graduate Diploma in History/Australian Studies.













CONTENTS Page

Introduction: Robertson~Clemenceau: and not Robinson Crusoe ! - 1.
Principles and Disciples - 4.
Part One: Active Material and Spiritual Freedom - 5.
Historical Potency and Spiritual Hope - 8.
Meetings, Adaptions and Hybrid Cross-fertilisation - 9.
The Legacy of Gellibrand & Company - 12.
Gellibrand: The Judicious Firebrand - 16.
Gellibrand and the Tasmanian Newspaper - 19.
The Parchments of Treaty and other Parchments - 27.
On Historic Castles In The Air and Historic Bridges of Chasms - 28.
The Search for Gellibrand & Hesse - 29.
Gellibrand’s Disappearance and /or Death - 30.
Part Two: The Jaga Jagas and Five others - 31.
Sign Language - 32
Kinship - 37.
Namesake - 38.
Too Much Mainmait - 39.
Part Three: The Opening Crack of Otherness - 40.
Historic Yeast in the Ingredients of ‘Culture’ - 45.
Meetings of Intertexture / Inversion as Goodwill Events or as Badwill Events - 49
Motive Conclusion - 51

Bibliography - 54.

Appendices: I, II, III, IV - from 59.

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