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Bibliography part 2
“Tourists clawed at by bear,” The Canberra Times, 13 Jan 1977, p. 1, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110834823. “Wildlife in Australia,” Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, 9 Jan 1980, p. 13, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251216995 “Woman claims £40,000,” The Canberra Times, 12 Mar 1960, p. 3, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105905461. “Young Tiger "At Large" In Grounds Of Circus,” The Newcastle Sun, 25 Nov 1953, p. 4, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/161504104. Secondary Sources Arrighi, Gillian, “Synthesising circus aesthetics and science: Australian circus and variety theatre at the turn of the twentieth century,” 2018, Early Popular Visual Culture, 16:3, pp. 235–253. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2019.1569843. “Bullen,” Dynasties, ABC Television, 4 December 2006, via The Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20161230212557/http://www.abc.net.au/dynasties/txt/s1789969.htm. 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Hailey, Renault & Feeney, Katherine, “Bullens African Lion Safari was 'like the plains of Africa, but in Yatala'”, ABC Radio Brisbane, 3 Apr 2022, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-03/queenslanders-remember-yatala-bullens-african-lion-safari/100932026. Jarvis, Lucy, “Bullen’s African Lion Safari Park history revived,” Perth Now, 5 August 2014, https://www.perthnow.com.au/community-news/north/bullens-african-lion-safari-park-history-revived-c-790716. Lemon, Andrea, “A gradual disappearing act,” The Age, 19 May 2007. Lemon, Andrea, “A gradual disappearing act,” The Age, 19 May 2007. Martin, Jacob, “The Enchanting Existential Dread of Aussie Theme Parks: Chapter Five - It’s Scary, But Nobody Cares,” 9 October 2020, Jade Crypt of Wonders, https://jadecryptofwonders.com/blog/the-enchanting-existential-dread-of-aussie-theme-parks-chapter-five-its-scary-but-nobody-cares. Nicastri, Timmothy, “How a boy's adventure helped a lion escape from a defunct safari park in Warragamba,” ABC Radio National, 20 September 2016, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-20/how-boys-adventure-helped-lion-escape-defunct-safari-park-sydney/7857426. O’Grady, Andrew, “The way we were,” The Advertiser, 13 December 2021. “Pet theory – big cats escaped from lion park,” Macarthur Chronicle, 14 July 2015. Pitt, Helen, “Paradise Lost: Sydney's forgotten theme parks,” Sydney Morning Herald, 14 July 2019, https://www.smh.com.au/national/paradise-lost-sydney-s-forgotten-theme-parks-20190712-p526pc.html. “Post 92 - Love Machine - Keep Searchin' / May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone”, 24 April 2009, Ozzie Music Man (Blog), available via The Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20100901175958/http://www.ozziemusicman.com/2009_04_01_archive.html St Leon, Mark, “A long & winding road: The story of circus in Australia,” The Penny Gaff, accessed: 21 October 2025, https://www.pennygaff.com.au/circus-history/ St Leon, Mark, “Adopted Apprentices: Juvenile Recruitment in Australian Circus, 1847-1942,” 2016, Labour History, 110, Liverpool University Press, 2016, pp. 97–124, https://search-informit-org.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/doi/10.3316/informit.262238881713504. St Leon, Mark, “Bullen, Alfred Percival (Perce) (1896–1974)”, 1993, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bullen-alfred-percival-perce-9621/text16965. St Leon, Mark, “Bullen, Alfred Percival,” The Penny Gaff, accessed: 21 October 2025, https://www.pennygaff.com.au/archives/bullen-alfred-percival/ St Leon, Mark, “Children inducted into circus, 1851-1928,” The Penny Gaff, accessed 21 October 2025, https://www.pennygaff.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Table_1_Children_inducted_into_circus.pdf Tabakoff, Jenny, “Obituary: STAFFORD BULLEN Circus and animal park proprietor (b. Bathurst NSW 1925; died Sydney NSW, 2001),” Sydney Morning Herald, 12 January 2001, via http://www.milesago.com/Obits/bullen-stafford.htm “Warragamba Dam,” Water NSW, accessed: 21 October 2025, https://www.waternsw.com.au/nsw-dams/greater-sydney-dams/warragamba-dam Willis, Ian, “The Camden Historical Society, 1957-2007: Fifty Years of Local History: An Address to the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Camden Historical Society, 12 July 2007,” AQ: Australian Quarterly, 79:6, 2007, pp. 11–40, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20638517.
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Bibliography Part 3 (sorry)
Eastern Tiers, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=470 Cockatoo Valley, Hollow Tree, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=471 Tooms Lake, Eastern Tiers, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=474 Eastern Marshes, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=497 St Paul's River, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=1104 West Tamar, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=492 Richmond, Coal River, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=498 Clyde and Ouse Rivers, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=500 Bullock Hunting Ground, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=491 Jones River, near Miles Opening, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=499 Three Thumbs, Pittwater, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=461 East of Ben Lomond, 1829, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=482 Upper Clyde River, 1830, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=501 Whitefoord Hills, Meander River, 1830, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=489 Clyde River, 1830, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=472 Ryan, Lyndall, “List of multiple killings of Aborigines in Tasmania: 1804-1835,” Violence de masse et Résistance - Réseau de recherche, 2008, https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/fr/document/list-multiple-killings-aborigines-tasmania-1804-1835.html Ryan, Lyndall, “Massacre in the Black War in Tasmania 1823–34: a case study of the Meander River Region, June 1827”, 2008, Journal of Genocide Research, 10:4, pp. 479–499, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520802447834. Ryan, Lyndall, “The Black Line in Van Diemen's Land: success or failure?”, 2013, Journal of Australian Studies, 37:1, pp. 3-18, https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2012.755744 Ryan, Lyndall, and Kiernan, Ben, “Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788–1928,” 2023, The Cambridge World History of Genocide, Ned Blackhawk, et al (Ed), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 461–480. Print. The Cambridge World History of Genocide. Shipway, Jesse, “Modern by analogy: modernity, Shoah and the Tasmanian genocide,” 2005, Journal of Genocide Research, 7:2, pp. 205–219, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520500127381 Short, Bruce, “Genocide and the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples: The Extermination of the 19th Century Aboriginal Tasmanians,” 2022, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 29:2, pp. 610-621, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35819395/ Sousa, Ashley, ““They will be hunted down like wild beasts and destroyed!”: a comparative study of genocide in California and Tasmania”, 2004, Journal of Genocide Research, 6:2, pp. 193-209, https://doi.org/10.1080/1462352042000225949 Spinks, Ryan, ““the People Will Kill, Destroy, and If Possible, Exterminate Every Black in the Island”: A Case Study of Massacre In Tasmania’s Black War, 1826-1828,” 2019, Macquarie University Thesis, https://doi.org/10.25949/19428614.v1 “The Black Line,” 2025, National Museum of Australia, https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/the-black-line “The Killing Times,” The Guardian Australia, 23 February 2025, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2019/mar/04/massacre-map-australia-the-killing-times-frontier-wars Tatz, Colin, "Genocide in Australia," 1999, Journal of Genocide Research, 1:3, pp. 315-352 Taylor, Rebe, and Ben Kiernan, “Genocide in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), 1803–1871,” The Cambridge World History of Genocide, 2023, Ned Blackhawk, et al (Ed), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 481–507. Taylor, Rebe, “Genocide, Extinction and Aboriginal Self-determination in Tasmanian Historiography,” 2013, History Compass, 11, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264456536_Genocide_Extinction_and_Aboriginal_Self-determination_in_Tasmanian_Historiography “Three Responses to ‘Can There Be Genocide Without the Intent to Commit Genocide?’” 2008, Journal of Genocide Research, 10:1, pp. 111–133, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623520701850955.
September 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Bibliography Part 2
Duyker, Edward, “Marion Dufresne, Marc-Joseph (1724 - 1772),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005, pp 258-259, published online 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20110525063922/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10318b.htm Duyker, Edward. “The Word in French [The Role of French Books in Australian History,” 2001, National Library of Australia News, 12:1, National Library of Australia, 2001, pp. 7–10, https://search-informit-org.simsrad.net.ocs.mq.edu.au/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200116458. Harman, Kristyn, “Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide,” The Conversation, 18 January 2018, https://theconversation.com/explainer-the-evidence-for-the-tasmanian-genocide-86828 Madley, Benjamin, “From Terror to Genocide: Britain’s Tasmanian Penal Colony and Australia’s History Wars,” Journal of British Studies, 2008, 47:1 pp. 77–106, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/abs/from-terror-to-genocide-britains-tasmanian-penal-colony-and-australias-history-wars/34384F9FAF0A4A1A2AD37AB2AF323928 . Madley, Benjamin, “Patterns of frontier genocide 1803–1910: the aboriginal Tasmanians, the Yuki of California, and the Herero of Namibia,” 2004, Journal of Genocide Research, 6:2, pp. 167–192. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462352042000225930 Maybury-Lewis, David, “Genocide against Indigenous Peoples,” in Annihilating difference : The anthropology of genocide, 2002, Hinton, Alexander, (Ed.), University of California Press. Refshauge, William, “An Analytical Approach to the Events at Risdon Cove on 3 May 1804,” 2007, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 93:1, pp. 39–54, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200706031. Rogers, Thomas, & Bain, Stephen, “Genocide and frontier violence in Australia,” 2016, Journal of Genocide Research, 18:1, pp. 83–100. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2016.1120466 Ryan, Lyndall, Debenham, Jennifer, Pascoe, Bill Smith, Robyn, Owen, Chris, Richards, Jonathan, Gilbert, Stephanie, Anders, Robert, Usher, Kaine, Price, Dan, Newley. Jack, Brown, Mark & Craig, Hugh, "Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930", 2025 https://doi.org/10.26193/L0WEID, ADA Dataverse, V1 Tasmanian Massacres in the data set: Risdon Cove, 1804, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=462 Scantland Plains, 1815, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=463 East Bay Neck, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=1093 Mayfield, Oyster Bay, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=475 Dairy Plains (2), Meander River, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=487 Bank Head Farm, Pittwater, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=464 Mt Augusta, Ross, 1826, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=478 Sally Peak (1), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=466 Quamby Bluff (1), Westmoreland Falls, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=481 Quamby Bluff (2), Quamby Brook, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=483 Quamby Bluff (3), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=1052 Quamby Bluff (4), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=486 Blackman River, intersection of Brumby Creek and Lake River, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=473 The Retreat, (Cheshunt) Dairy Plains, Meander River, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=480 Dairy Plains, Meander River, 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=484 Cape Grim (1), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=493 Cape Grim (2), 1827, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=494 Lagoon Lower Marshes near Jordan River, 1828 https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=468 Elizabeth River, Eastern Tiers, 1828, https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/detail.php?r=477
September 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Kudos to @australia.theguardian.com and Newcastle University for the Massacres Project. Learn more about it here:

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The killing times: a massacre map of Australia's frontier wars
This interactive tells the stories that have long been kept out of our history books. It shows evidence of mass killings from 1788 until 1928: a sustained and systematic process of conflict and expans...
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August 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Bibliography continued
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July 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Thanks I’ll have a look!
July 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Hey yeah fair call! Always a struggle when I’m monolingual. Frei does some great, accessible analysis of the primary sources though
July 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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(Once again my bibliography was too damn long, sorry!)
Lloyd, Seton, Twin Rivers - A brief History of Iraq from the earliest times to the present day, 1943, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, https://ia801401.us.archive.org/29/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.61071/2015.61071.The-Twin-Rivers.pdf McDonald, Matt, and Merefield, Matt, “How Was Howard’s War Possible? Winning the War of Position over Iraq,” 2010, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64:2, pp. 186–204, doi:10.1080/10357710903544346 Mizen, Ronald, “Iraq war secrecy reignites calls for inquiry,” Australian Financial Review, 1 January 2024, https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/iraq-war-secrecy-reignites-calls-for-formal-inquiry-20231230-p5eu9z O’Connor, Brendon, and Srdjan Vucetic, “Another Mars–Venus Divide? Why Australia Said ‘Yes’ and Canada Said ‘Non’ to Involvement in the 2003 Iraq War,” 2010, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 64:5, pp. 526–548. doi: 10.1080/10357718.2010.513368. Oppenheim, Adolf, “The Seafaring Merchants of Ur” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 74: 1, 1954, pp. 6–17. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/595475. Russell, Dean, “What makes the world’s first bar joke funny? No one knows,” wbur, 5 August 2022, https://www.wbur.org/endlessthread/2022/08/05/sumerian-joke-one Tanter, Richard, “Australia in America’s Third Iraq War,” Asia-Pacific Journal, 2014, 12:51, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/asia-pacific-journal/article/australia-in-americas-third-iraq-war/3A79E7ECA1EBEC9632AF73DDA38FECD6 Vine, David, Coffman, Cala, Khoury, Katalina, Lovasz, Madison, Bush, Helen, Leduc, Rachael and Walkup, Jennifer, “Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars,” The Costs of War, 19 August 2021, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2021/Costs%20of%20War_Vine%20et%20al_Displacement%20Update%20August%202021.pdf von Hlatky, Stéfanie, “Australia: Regional Power, Global War,” American Allies in Times of War: The Great Asymmetry, 2013, Oxford: Oxford Academic, https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673681.001.0001. Woodard, Garry, "We Now Know About Going to War in Iraq", APSNet Special Reports, November 2007, https://nautilus.org/apsnet/we-now-know-about-going-to-war-in-iraq/ Wright, Tim, “In Search of Justice – Why Australians should be prosecuted for war crimes committed in Iraq,” Alternative Law Journal, 34:3, 2009, pp. 193 - 196, https://www7.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/journals/AltLawJl/2009/55.html Wroe, David, "The Secret Iraq Dossier," Sydney Morning Herald, 24 February 2017, https://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2017/iraq-dossier/ Yule, Valerie, Review: Population crises and cycles in history by Claire Russell and W.M.S. Russell, 1999, http://www.valerieyule.com.au/poprus.htm
July 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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No way! I literally just did this cult last week (from an Aussie perspective), can't wait to listen to Robert's take podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #shamelessplug
Episode 11 - The Children of God & the History of Child Protection in Australia
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June 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Bibliography didn't fit in one post (!) apols.
Shepherd, Gary & Shepherd, Gordon, “Reboot of The Family International,” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 17:2, 2013, pp. 74-98, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2013.17.2.74 Shepherd, Gary & Shepherd, Gordon, “Accommodation and Reformation in The Family / Children of God”, 2005, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 9:1, pp. 67-92, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2005.9.1.067 Wright, Stuart, “Dyadic Intimacy and Social Control in Three Cult Movements,” Sociological Analysis, 1986, 47:2, pp. 137 - 150, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3711458
June 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM