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Alcohol and Drugs

Dawson, Christopher. Intemperance and the Train of Evils: A Life on the Wrong Side of the Tracks in Colonial Brisbane.  Fairfield Gardens: Inside History, 2008.

Fitzgerald, Ross. Under the Influence: A History of Alcohol in Australia.  Pymble: ABC Books, 2011.

Garton, Stephen. “Once a Drunkard Always a Drunkard: Social Reform and the Problem of ‘ Habitual Drunkenness’ in Australia, 1880-1914.” Labour History, no. 53 (November 1987): 38-53.

Lewis, Milton J. “The Early Alcoholism Treatment Movement in Australia, 1859-1939.” Drug and Alcohol Review 2, no. 1 (1992): 75-84.

Lewis, Milton. “Alcoholism in Australia, the 1880s to the 1980s: From Medical Science to Political Science.” Australian Drug and Alcohol Review 7, no. 4 (October 1988): 391-402.

Manderson, Desmond. From Mr. Sin to Mr. Big: A History of Australian Drug Laws.  Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1993.

McConnell, Ruth, and Steve Mullins. “‘We Had Both Been Drinking since Christmas,’ – Battered Wives and Dead Abusive Husbands in Early Colonial Rockhampton.” Journal of Australian Colonial History 5 (2004): 100-19.

McCoy, Alfred W. Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organized Crime in Australia.  Sydney: Harper & Row 1980.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Dangerous to Know: An Australasian Crime Compendium Carlton: Victory Books, 2009.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Gangland Australia.  Melbourne University Press: Melbourne, 2007.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Gangland Melbourne.  Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2011.

Morton, James, and Susanna Lobez. Gangland Queensland.  Carlton: Melbourne University Publishing, 2012.

Piper, Alana. “‘A growing vice’: The Truth about Brisbane girls and drunkenness in the early twentieth century,” Journal of Australian Studies 34, no. 4 (2010): 485-497.

Piper, Alana. “All the waters of Lethe: An experience of female alcoholism in federation Queensland,” Queensland Review 18, no. 1 (2011): 85-97.

Straw, Leigh S. L. Drunks, Pests and Harlots: Criminal Women in Perth and Fremantle, 1900-1939.  Kilkerran: Humming Earth, 2013.

Straw, Leigh. ““The Worst Female Character”: Criminal Underclass Women in Perth and Fremantle, 1900–1939.” Journal of Australian Studies 37, no. 2 (2013): 208-24.

Straw, Leigh. “Celebrating Kate: The Criminal-Celebrity of Sydney Underworld Figure, Kate Leigh.” Journal of Australian Studies 40, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 59–73.

Sturma, Michael. “Police and Drunkards in Sydney, 1841-1851.” Australian Journal of Politics and History 27, no. 1 (1981): 48-56.

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