Qualifications Bachelor of Arts Honours - University of Queensland Doctor of Philosophy - University of Queensland Dr Shirleene Robinson received her BA (Hons) and PhD from the University of Queensland. She has lectured in history and Australian Studies at the University of Queensland and the University of Wales (Lampeter). Shirleene is the author of Something like slavery? Queensland's Aboriginal child workers, 1842-1945 (Kew, Victoria: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008) and the editor of Homophobia: An Australian History (Annandale, New South Wales: Federation Press, 2008). She has also published articles in journals that include Aboriginal History, Labour History, the Journal of Genocide Research, the Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Australian Colonial History and the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society. She has presented conference and seminar papers both nationally and internationally, including at Australian Studies Centres in Beijing, Budapest, Copenhagen, Hohhot in Inner Mongolia, London, Dublin, Shanghai and Vancouver. She has received a number of academic awards and fellowships, including the Denis J Murphy Memorial Prize for History and a teaching fellowship at the University of Wales.
Articles
Inventing Australia for Americans: The rise of the Outback Steakhouse restaurant chain in the USA, Journal of Popular Culture (2011)
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The Outback Steakhouse is a commercially successful chain of American-owned, Australian themed restaurants. There are...
Aboriginal child labor in colonial Australia, The world of child labor: An historical and regional survey (2009)
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Thousands of Aboriginal child workers, like adult Aboriginal workers, provided much essential labor in...
Preserving the traditions of a 'great race': Youth and national character in Queensland, 1859-1918. (with Emily Wilson), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
Extract: In 1915, the Brisbane Courier declared that in order 'to make the growing race...
The question of genocide and indigenous child removal: The colonial Australian context (with Jessica Paten), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
Most academic debate about the stolen generations of Aboriginal children in Australia's past has focused...
Queensland’s queer press, Queensland review (2007)
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Since the 1970s, there has been a strong and active gay and lesbian...
Books
Speaking out: Stopping homophobic and transphobic abuse in Queensland (with Alan Berman), Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2010)
Based on the largest survey of gay, lesbian, bisexual, intersex, transgender and queer reactions to...
Something like slavery? : Queensland's Aboriginal child workers, 1842-1945, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
The rapid economic development of Queensland in the 19th and early 20th centuries was due...
Book Chapters
Homophobia: Towards an Australian history, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
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Over the past 20 years, gay culture has become very much part of...
On the frontline: The queer press and the fight against homophobia, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
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The Australian gay and lesbian press developed in conjunction with the homosexual liberation...
Keep them away from Brisbane: Bribie Island aboriginal reserves 1877-79 and 1891-92, Moreton Bay matters (2002)
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In June 1877, following two commissions into Aboriginal matters and sustained agitation by...
Conference Papers
Regulating homosexuality: Australia’s early gay press and the censorship struggle, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2008)
Australia’s gay and lesbian press developed in conjunction with the movement for gay and lesbian...
Homophobia: Towards writing an Australian history, Paper presented at the Australian Historical Association biennial conference: Locating history (2008)
Homophobia and heterosexism tend to be treated as a historically specific set of prejudices that...
Witnessing Indigenous oppression: Communication between humanitarians in Australia and London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2006)
Frontier violence and past practices of Indigenous child removal are topics that cause some of...
Their pain, legal shame? The removal of Aboriginal children in Queensland’s past, Humanities & Social Sciences papers (2005)
The forced removal of Indigenous Australians from their family groups in the past remains one...