Acknowledgments
This book is the outcome of our scholarly collaboration over the past ten years and during that time we have benefited from many opportunities to present and discuss our work. We are particularly grateful to Amanda Barry, Julie Evans, Helen Gardner, Regina Ganter, Renate Howe, David Lowe, Andrew May, Claire McLisky, Mark McMillan, Sarah Pinto, Tiffany Shellam, Sandra Smith, Shurlee Swain, Bart Ziino, and the organisers of the Australian Women’s History Network and the Melbourne Feminist History Group. We also take this opportunity to acknowledge and remember Tracey Banivanua-Mar, a brilliant scholar and colleague, who passed away late in our writing of this work. She is deeply missed.
In bringing the book to completion, we are very grateful for the encouragement and assistance provided by Ingrid Heijckers-Velt and Pieter van Roon at Brill Publishers and Professor Peggy Brock, as well as the helpful comments provided by two anonymous reviewers who read a draft of the manuscript. Chandra Jayasuriya kindly produced the original maps included in this work and we are indebted to Ann Standish for compiling the index.
We acknowledge funding provided by the Australian Research Council, the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin and the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, all of which made our research for this book possible. We gratefully acknowledge permission from Marjorie Le Souef to access the Le Souef family collection held in the Battye Library, Perth. We are grateful to the Journal of Australian Studies and their publisher, the Taylor & Francis Group, Sussex University Press and ANU Press for permission to republish work.
Joanna Cruickshank particularly acknowledges the support of family and friends who have provided the twenty-first century equivalent of the ‘village’ necessary to raise children and write a book. Peter and Jenny Richardson, Yve and Lindsay Cruickshank, Michelle Charis and Naomi Richardson have all been stalwart supporters, stepping or flying in to assist on many occasions. Andrew Cruickshank has patiently held the fort at home and with our children Abel and Elinor provided the very best reasons to step away from the computer.