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Inky Stephensen's internment experience in Australia: letters to his wife (1942-45)

Fitzpatrick, Georgina

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P.R. or 'Inky Stephensen (1901-1965), author of The Foundations of Culture in Australia: An Essay Towards National Self Respect (1936) was once well known as an advocate for Australian culture. Midwife to Xavier Herbert's Capricornia, publisher of finely-printed books in his and Jack Lindsay's Fanfrolico Press, advisor to the indigenous committee for the 1938 Day of Mourning, he came to the attention of the Security Service as the business manager, contributor to and later editor (1936-1942)...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorFitzpatrick, Georgina
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-09T03:20:50Z
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-20T06:05:40Z
dc.date.available2009-11-09T03:20:50Z
dc.date.available2010-12-20T06:05:40Z
dc.identifier.citationEras 9 (2007)
dc.identifier.issn1445-5218
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10440/995
dc.identifier.urihttp://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/10440/995
dc.description.abstractP.R. or 'Inky Stephensen (1901-1965), author of The Foundations of Culture in Australia: An Essay Towards National Self Respect (1936) was once well known as an advocate for Australian culture. Midwife to Xavier Herbert's Capricornia, publisher of finely-printed books in his and Jack Lindsay's Fanfrolico Press, advisor to the indigenous committee for the 1938 Day of Mourning, he came to the attention of the Security Service as the business manager, contributor to and later editor (1936-1942) of The Publicist: The Paper Loyal to Australia First. This article focuses on the period when his placing Australia first, ahead of Britain and America, led to his internment in camps at Liverpool (NSW), Loveday (SA) and Tatura (Vic.) from 11 March 1942 until 17 Augut 1945, two days after the Pacific war ended. His case was the most publicised at the time but was one of some 50 cases of 'British-born' Australians interned for their dissident opinions or behaviour and placed in the same camps as internees of enemy alien ethnicity. Based on the extensive correspondence between Stephensen and his wife, Winifred, over the three and a half years of his internment under Regulation 26 and supplemented by the official security files on him held in the National Archive, I suggest markers for a social history of internment in Second World War Australia.
dc.format18 pages
dc.publisherMonash University
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dc.titleInky Stephensen's internment experience in Australia: letters to his wife (1942-45)
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesNote: See also Images for 'Inky Stephensen's internment experience' available on journal web site at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/publications/eras/edition-9/final-pdf-versions/fitzpatrick-illustrations.pdf
local.identifier.citationvolume9
dc.date.issued2009-11-09T03:20:50Z
local.identifier.absfor210303
local.identifier.ariespublicationu8205243xPUB65
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationFitzpatrick, Georgina, Research School of Social Sciences, History Program
dc.date.updated2015-12-08T07:34:46Z
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