Dr Murray Johnson
Honorary Research Senior Fellow in History
Publications
Books
Johnson, Murray (2016). The Beerburrum experiment: a history of Australia's first World War One soldier settlement. North Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Johnson, Murray and McFarlane, Ian (2015). Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History. New South Wales: UNSW Press.
Evans, Eamon and Johnson, Murray (2014). Bundaberg Distilling Co. 1888-2013: 125th Anniversary. Celebrating the re-reinvention of rum. McMahons Point, NSW, Australia: Rafa Publishing for Diageo Australia.
Johnson, Murray (2013). Australia's ancient Aboriginal past : a global perspective. North Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Rolls, Mitchell and Johnson, Murray (2011). Historical dictionary of Australian Aborigines. Lanham, MD, United States: Scarecrow Press.
Johnson, Murray (2007). Trials and tribulations: A social history of Europeans in Australia, 1788-1960. Launceston, Tasmania: Myola House of Publishing.
Johnson, Murray (2003). No holds barred - Hughie Williams: Olympic wrestler and trade union heavyweight. Rockhampton, QLD, Australia: Central Queensland University Press.
Book Chapters
Johnson, Murray (2011). People, place and identity in the Tamar Valley precinct. Pulp friction in Tasmania: A review of the environmental assessment of Gunns' proposed pulp mill. (pp. 1-17) edited by Fred Gale. Launceston, Tas., Australia: Pencil Pine Press.
Johnson, Murray (2010). Australian bushrangers: Law, retribution and the public imagination. Crime over time: Temporal perspectives on crime and punishment in Australia. (pp. 3-22) edited by Robyn Lincoln and Shirleene Robinson. Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Johnson, Murray (2007). Cataract Gorge and hydro-electric power. Health, wealth and tribulation: Launceston's Cataract Gorge. (pp. 215-265) edited by Murray Johnson and Paul A. C. Richards. Launceston, Tasmania: Myola House of Publishing.
Johnson, Murray (2007). Tourism and recreationl sights, sound, action. Health, wealth & tribulation : Launceston's Cataract Gorge. (pp. 267-279) edited by Paul A.C. Richards and Murray Johnson. Launceston, Tas: Myola House of Publishing.
Johnson, Murray (2007). Punts to bridges. Health, wealth and tribulation: Launceston's Cataract Gorge. (pp. 223-234) edited by Paul A. C. Richards and Murray Johnson. South Launceston, Tas., Australia: Myola House of Publishing.
Johnson, Murray (2007). Indigenous people of the Cataract. Health, wealth and tribulation: Launceston's Cataract Gorge. (pp. 57-68) edited by Paul A. C. Richards and Murray Johnson. South Launceston, Tas., Australia: Myola House of Publishing.
Johnson, Murray (2006). The 1903 smallpox epidemic at Launceston, Tasmania, and Federal Health: The role of J.S.C. Elkington. Effecting a cure: Aspects of health and medicine in Launceston. (pp. 347-360) edited by Paul A. C. Richards, Barbara Valentine and Tom Dunning. Launceston, Tasmania: Myola House of Publishing.
Johnson, Murray (2004). Larrikin "Push", 1902. Radical Brisbane: An unruly history. (pp. 123-127) edited by Raymond Evans and Carole Ferrier. Carlton North, VIC, Australia: Vulgar Press.
Johnson, Murray (2002). Whose guilt? What reward?: The loss of the Soverign 1847. Brisbane: Moreton Bay matters. (pp. 11-18) edited by Murray Johnson. Brisbane, Australia: Brisbane History Group.
Journal Articles
Johnson, Murray (2014). Protest, Land Rights and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s.. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60 (3), 476-477.
Johnson, Murray (2014). Tasmanian Aborigines: A History Since 1803. Journal of Australian Studies, 38 (2), 250-252. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2014.904723
Johnson, Murray (2013). Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin. By Emily O'Gorman. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 59 (3), 469-470. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12028
Johnson, Murray (2009). Fangs and faith: The search for an effective antidote against snake envenomation in Australia. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 95 (2), 125-143.
Johnson, Murray (2009). The failure of post-World War 1 Soldier Settlement in Queensland: case studies of Bald Hills and Coominya. Queensland History Journal, 20 (9), 405-424.
Johnson, Murray (2007). Fruitless endeavours: Genesis of the Bjelke-Petersen government's persecution of unionists in Queensland, 1976-1977. The Queensland Journal of Labour History, 4, 20-29.
Johnson, Murray (2006). Denis Murphy on strikes. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 19 (9), 122-137.
Johnson, Murray (2006). ‘Feathered foes’: Soldier settlers and Western Australia's ‘Emu War’ of 1932. Journal of Australian Studies, 30 (88), 147-157. doi: 10.1080/14443050609388083
Johnson, Murray (2005). "Promises and Pineapples": Post-first world war soldier settlement at Beerburrum, Queensland, 1916-1929. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 51 (4), 496-512. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2005.00390.x
Johnson, Murray (2004). Brisbane and federation: A review article. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 50 (3), 420-424. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2004.00344.x
Johnson, M. (2000). Review of John Merritt, That Voluminous Squatter, W.E. Abbott, Wingen. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 46 (3), 428-429.
Johnson, M. (2000). 'Cranial connections': Queensland's 'Talgai Skull' debate of 1918 and custodianship of the past. Aboriginal History, 24, 117-131.
Conference Papers
Johnson, Murray (2005). The 1903 smallpox outbreak at Launceston and the role of J.S.C. Elkington. A Mixed Bag of Medical History, Launceston, TAS, Australia, 13 November 2005. Launceston, TAS, Australia: Launceston General Hospital Historical Committee.
Johnson, Murray (2004). Denis Murphy's 'Interpretation of strikes'. Denis Murphy Conference, Legislative Council Chambers, Parliament House, Brisbane, 19 June 2004.
Newspaper Articles
Johnson, Murray (2007, 11 01). Mining Developments in Twentieth Century Queensland Queensland Business Review
Johnson, Murray (2007, 10 01). Veteran soldiers poisoned chalice Queensland Business Review