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*The author would like to thankLabour History’stwo anonymous referees as well as Andrew Moore, John Shields and Carl Power for their encouragement over the four year period associated with the original submission, recrafting, resubmission and eventual publication. Google Scholar

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2.June Stoodley, “The Development of Gold-Mining Unionism in Queensland in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Labour History, no. 14(May1966):14–27. Google Scholar

4.D. J. Murphy,R. B. Hughes andColin Hughes, eds, Prelude to Power: The Rise of the Labour Party in Queensland, 1885–1915(:Jacaranda Press, 1970);D. J. Murphy, ed., Labor in Politics: State Labor Parties in Australia, 1880–1920(:University of Queensland Press (UQP), 1975);D. J. Murphy, T. J. Ryan: A Political Biography(:UQP, 1975);D. J. Murphy,R. B. Hughes andColin Hughes, eds, Queensland Political Portraits 1859–1952(:UQP, 1978);D. J. Murphy,R. B. Hughes andColin Hughes, eds, Labor in Power: The Labor Party and Governments in Queensland 1915–1957(:UQP, 1980);D. J. Murphy, Bill Hayden: A Political Biography(:Angus & Robertson, 1980);D. J. Murphy, ed., The Big Strikes: Queensland 1889–1965(:UQP, 1983). Google Scholar

5.Frank Bongiorno, “The Importance of Being Practical: DJ Murphy and Australian Labour History,” Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland(hereafterJRHSQ) 19(December2006):49. Google Scholar

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8.Bongiorno, “The Importance of Being Practical,” 31–53;Kay Saunders, “Denis Murphy at the University of Queensland,” JRHSQ 19(December2006):14–30;Raymond Evans, “Reconsidering Murphy and Ryan,” JRHSQ 19(December2006):54–64;Joanne Scott, “Where are the Women? Denis Murphy and Labour History,” JRHSQ 19(December2006):138–49. Google Scholar

9.W. Hudson, “Gordon Greenwood: A Student’s Recollection,” Australian Journal of Politics & History 29, (August1983):202–205;John Moses,George Shaw andJoseph Siracusa, “Editorial,” Australian Journal of Politics & History 29(August1983):195–96. Google Scholar

10.Heather Radi, “Thanks Mum,”inAgainst the Odds: Fifteen Professional Women Reflect on Their Lives and Careers, eds,Madge Dawson andHeather Radi(:Hale & Iremonger, 1984), 169–85;Saunders, “Denis Murphy,” 14–30;Scott, “Where are the Women,” 138–49. Google Scholar

11.Evans, “Reconsidering Murphy and Ryan,” 56. Google Scholar

14.L. F. Crisp, Examiner’s Report on PhD Thesis of D. J. Murphy, 10 April 1972, Box 41, UQFL129;L. F. Crisp toD. J. Munro, 23 May1972, Box 41, UQFL129. Google Scholar

15.L. R. Page toFrank Thompson, 5 December1978, Box 57, Folder 2, UQFL198. Google Scholar

16.Gordon Greenwood, Application: McCaughey Chair of History, c. December1948, Folder 8, Box 7, UQFL516. Google Scholar

17.S. A. Rayner, “The Evolution of the Queensland Labour Party to 1907”(MA thesis,University of Queensland, 1947), ii–iii. Google Scholar

18. Ibid., Appendix H;D. J. Murphy, “Queensland,”inMurphy, Labor in Politics, 216–23. Google Scholar

19.M. G. Birrell, “T. J. Ryan and the Queensland Labour Party”(BA Hons thesis,UQ, 1951), i. Google Scholar

20.Robert McCaig, “Labour Organisation and Objectives in Queensland, 1890–1920,”(BA Hons thesis,UQ, 1950), ii. Google Scholar

21.Gordon Greenwood, Honours in History, c.1964, 2, Folder 10, Box 7, UQFL516. Google Scholar

23.Saunders, “Denis Murphy,” 20;Radi, “Thanks Mum,” 169–75. Google Scholar

24.Don Dignan, Chairman’s Report, UQ History Department Staff Committee, September 1978, Box 32, UQFL129. Google Scholar

27.D. P. Crook, “Obituary: Gordon Greenwood,” Australian Academy of Social Sciences: Annual Report, 1986–87(:Australian Academy of Social Sciences, 1987), 49. Google Scholar

28.Gordon Greenwood toDr Madgwick(Vice-Chancellor, University of New England): Report on Robin Gollan, 14 September 1956, Folder 14, Box 7, UQFL516. Google Scholar

29.R. A. Gollan, “Nationalism, the Labour Movement and the Commonwealth,”inAustralia: A Social and Political History, ed.Gordon Greenwood(:Angus & Robertson, 1955), 145–95;Saunders, “Denis Murphy,” 20. Google Scholar

30.Gordon Greenwood, “National Development and Social Experimentation,”inGreenwood, Australia, 200. Google Scholar

31.Greenwood, “National Development,” 196–257;Gordon Greenwood, “Development in the Twenties,”inGreenwood, Australia, 289. Google Scholar

32.Denis Murphy toBrian Dickey, 25 March 1970, Folder 3, Box 40, UQFL129. Google Scholar

33.SeeAlex Macdonald toD. J. Murphy, 23 October 1967, Box 41, UQFL129. Google Scholar

34.J. B. Dalton, “The Queensland Labour Movement 1889–1915”(BA Hons. Thesis,UQ, 1961), unpaged conclusion. Google Scholar

35.Joe Harris, “Queensland Labour History,” Bulletin for the Study of Labour History, no. 1(January1962):16–24. AlsoTimothy Coghlan, Labour & Industry in Australia, vol. 3(:Macmillan, 1969), 1519;Lloyd Ross, William Lane and the Australian Labour Movement(:Lloyd Ross, 1935), 43–44;Robin Gollan, Radical and Working Class Politics(:Melbourne University Press, 1960), 124. Google Scholar

36.Joe Harris, The Bitter Fight: A Pictorial History of the Australian Labor Movement(:UQP, 1970), viii. Google Scholar

37.Harris, “Queensland Labour History,” 16–24;Joe Harris, “The Struggle against Pacific Island Labour,” Labour History, no. 15(November1968):40–48. Google Scholar

38.R. M. Harney, “Organisational Conflicts in the Queensland Labour Movement, 1888–1893,” Labour History, no. 4(May1963):19–35;G. L. Buxton, “Incident at Barcaldine, 1891,” Labour History, no. 7(November1964):22;Eric Fry, “Queensland Parliamentary Papers, 1860–1900,” Labour History, no. 8(May1965):37–45. Google Scholar

39.Stoodley, “The Development of Gold-Mining Unionism”;June Stoodley, “Queensland Miners’ Attitudes towards the Need for Safety Regulations,” Labour History, no. 14(May1968):23–33. Google Scholar

40.Denis Murphy, “The Establishment of State Enterprises in Queensland, 1915–18,” Labour History, no. 14(May1968):13–22. Google Scholar

41.John Merritt, “George Foster Pearce and the Perth Building Strike of 1897,” Bulletin for the Study of Labour History, no. 3(November1962):5–22. Another article was based on a UQ Honours degree in economics:S. K. Proctor, “History of the Brisbane Branch of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia, 1904–1919,” Labour History, no. 13(November1967):26–32. Google Scholar

42.Murphy toDickey, 25 March1970. Google Scholar

43.D. J. Murphy,R. B. Joyce andColin Hughes, “Introduction,”inMurphy,Joyce andHughes, Prelude to Power, 222; Google Scholar

44.D. J. Murphy, “Two Administrators,”inMurphy,Joyce andHughes, Prelude to Power, 222;D. J. Murphy, “The Changing Structure of the Party,”inMurphy,Joyce andHughes, Prelude to Power, 132. Google Scholar

45.Denis Murphy toBob Hawke, 5 June1974, Folder 3, Box 40, UQFL129. Google Scholar

46.Denis Murphy toBrian Dickey, 17 September1970, Folder 3, Box 40, UQFL129. Google Scholar

47.Denis Murphy to Contributors toLabor in Politics, 30 August1970, Folder 10, Box 40, UQFL129. Google Scholar

48.Denis Murphy toHumphrey McQueen, 20 November1969, Folder 3, Box 40, UQFL129;Humphrey McQueen toDenis Murphy, c. April1970, Folder 3, Box 40, UQFL129. Google Scholar

49.Denis Murphy toPeter Loveday, 6 July1972, Folder 3, Box 40, UQFL129. Google Scholar

50.A fuller account of the writing ofLabor in Politicsis inBongiorno, “The Importance of Being Practical,” 31–53. Google Scholar

51.John Merritt toFrank Thompson, 18 June1973, Denis Murphy Folder, Box 346, UQFL198. Google Scholar

52.D. J. Murphy, “Introduction,”inMurphy, Labor in Politics, 9;Jim Hagan, The History of the ACTU(:Longman Cheshire, 1981), 14. Google Scholar

53.Crisp, Examiner’s Report on PhD Thesis of D. J. Murphy. Google Scholar

54.Crisp toMunro. Google Scholar

55.Frank Thompson toBob Hawke, 6 March1975, Box 346, UQFL198. Google Scholar

57.Crisp, Examiner’s Report on PhD Thesis of D. J. Murphy. Google Scholar

59.Bongiorno, “The Importance of Being Practical,” 45. Similarly, Evans (“Reconsidering Murphy and Ryan,” 59) observes that Murphy “had little time for Marxist – or … any other – theory.” Google Scholar

60.Gordon Greenwood toA. A. Ritchie(Angus & Robertson), 5 July 1955, Folder 8, Box 5, UQFL516. Note: Colin Roderick was a noted literary critic and historian who worked as an Editor for Angus & Robertson during the 1950s and early 1960s. In 1965 he was appointed Professor of English at what subsequently became James Cook University. Queensland’s most prestigious literary award, the Colin Roderick Award, is named in his honour. Google Scholar

61.Denis Murphy toRoger Joyce, 11 March1975, Folder 10, Box 40, UQFL129. Google Scholar

62.D. J. Murphy, “The Dawson Government in Queensland,” Labour History, no. 20(November1970):1–8;Margaret Cribb, “The ARU in Queensland,” Labour History, no. 22, (May1972):13–22;Margaret Cribb, “State in Emergency,” Labour History, no. 24(May1973):225–48;B. J. Costar, “The Great Depression: Was Queensland Different?,” Labour History, no. 26(May1974):32–48. Google Scholar

63.Kay Saunders, “Masters and Servants,” Labour History, no. 35(November1978):96–111;Joy Guyatt, “The Labor Government and the Queensland Shearers’ Strike of 1956,” Labour History, no, 33(November1977):53–64. In addition, there were two articles on the German labour movement:John Moses, “Bureaucrats and Patriots: The German Socialist Trade Union Leadership from Sarajevo to Versailles,” Labour History, no. 30(May1976):1–21;John Moses, “The Concept of Economic Democracy within the German Socialist Trade Unions during the Weimar Republic,” Labour History, no. 34(November1978):45–57. Google Scholar

64.K. H. Kennedy, “The South Johnstone Strike and Railway Lockout, 1927,” Labour History, no. 31, (November1976):1–13;K. H. Kennedy, “Theodore, McCormack and the Amalgamated Workers’ Association,” Labour History, no. 33(November1977):14–28;Doug Hunt, “Exclusivism and Unionism,” Labour History, no. 35(November1978):80–95;Terrance Cutler, “Bloody Sunday,” Labour History, no. 24(May1973):81–102. Google Scholar

65.Raymond Evans,Kay Saunders andKathryn Cronin, Exclusion, Exploitation and Extermination: Race Relations in Colonial Queensland(:Australian and New Zealand Book Co., 1975). Google Scholar

67.Roger Joyce toMerril Yule andFrank Thompson, 7 April1976, Box 345, UQFL198;Craig Munro toColin Hughes, 29 April1976, Box 345, UQFL;Colin Hughes toCraig Munro, 7 May1976, Box 345, UQFL198. Google Scholar

68.Denis Murphy toCraig Munro, Box 345, UQFL198. Google Scholar

69.Bede Nairn, Reader’s Report on Labor in Power, 29 November1977, 4–5, Box 345, UQFL198. Google Scholar

70.R. B. Joyce, “Introduction,”inMurphy,Joyce andHughes, Labor in Power, xxi. Google Scholar

71.Denis Murphy, “Organisation, Structure and Finance,”inMurphy,Joyce andHughes, Labor in Power, 36. Google Scholar

72.Craig Munro toFrank Thompson, 18 August1976, Box 345, UQFL198. Munro was appointed UQP’s inaugural fiction editor in 1971, subsequently replacing Thompson as publishing manager. Munro’s long UQP career is recorded in,Craig Munro, Under Cover: Adventures in the Art of Editing(:Scribe, 2015). Google Scholar

73.Denis Murphy to Duke University, 7 April1975, Box 33, UQFL129. Google Scholar

74.Page to Frank Thompson;Merril Yule toDenis Murphy, 10 November1981, Box 346, UQFL198. Google Scholar

75.Merril Yule toMalcolm Thomis, 5 April 1979, Box 345, UQFL198. Google Scholar

76.Malcolm Thomis toMerril Yule, 10 April 1979, Box 345, UQFL198. Google Scholar

77.University of Queensland Press, Contract:“Big Strikes,”26 October1981, Denis Murphy Folder, Box 346, UQFL198. Google Scholar

78.Peter Beattie, Comments on Bill Hayden MSS, c. 1977, Box 9, UQFL129. Google Scholar

79.Evans, “Reconsidering Murphy and Ryan,” 55–56. Google Scholar

80.Denis Murphy toDr S. A. Raynar re R. L. Evans Application for Promotion, 16 June1981, Box 2, UQFL 129. Google Scholar

81.Malcolm Thomis, Communications that Seem to be Important, 1 June1982, unpublished note to UQ History Department staff, Box 32, UQFL129. Google Scholar

82.Kay Saunders, “Inequalities of Sacrifice: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islander Labour in Northern Australia during the Second World War,” Labour History, no. 69(November1995):131–48;Raymond Evans andJoanne Scott, “‘Fallen among Thieves’: Aboriginal Labour and State Control in Inter-War Queensland,” Labour History, 69(November1995):115–30;Joanne Watson, “‘Couldn’t Tolerate any More’: The Palm Island Strike of 1957,” Labour History, no. 69(November1995):149–70. Google Scholar

83.In particular:Henry Reynolds, The Other Side of the Frontier: Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia(:Penguin, 1982);Henry Reynolds, With the White People(:Penguin, 1990);Dawn May, From Bush to Station: Aboriginal Labour in the North Queensland Pastoral Industry, 1861–1892(:James Cook University, 1983). Google Scholar

84.Bradley Bowden,Simon Blackwood,Cath Rafferty andCameron Allan, eds, Work & Strife in Paradise: The History of Labour Relations in Queensland 1859–2009(:Federation Press, 2009). Google Scholar

85.Strachan did her Honours degree under Murphy in 1972. Bowden completed an Honours degree in the Department between 1973 and 1977, although his thesis was on anti-colonial revolutions. Penrose completed a PhD thesis on the Communist Party of Australia in the Department in1993. Google Scholar

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