In this paper I will pursue one of the issues that Castles et al. raise concerning the role that women, in particular, have played both at home and abroad; especially that group of women who became internationally eminent and conspicuously representative of Australia on the world opera and concert stage after about 1870.
Jeff Brownrigg is Director of "The People's Voice" project of the National Council for Centenary of Federation. He holds a position as Head of Academic Outreach and Research at Screen Sound Australia, formerly the National Film and Sound Archive. With David Headon he edited The People's Conventions: Corowa and Bathurst (1997), published by the Australian Senate. His account of the life and career of Amy Castles was published in 2001.
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