The Writing of North Queensland History

Abstract

This paper was read at the Seminar on North Queensland Writing held by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (Townsville), August 2-3. 1980.

This paper does not pretend to be exhaustive, or even particularly thorough, in its discussion of works on the history of North Queensland. It is simply a brief survey of some of the major contributions to the topic, with an attempt to identify some of the themes evident in those works.