Career
As a young lecturer in the 1920s, Robinson led a group of university and school teachers of English to conduct a local version of the Newbolt report under the auspices of the English and Modern Languages Association of Queensland. The Report on the teaching of English in secondary schools in Queensland, published in October 1927, was the result of four years of characteristically methodical work by Robinson, involving the collation of responses to detailed questionnaires sent to every secondary school in Queensland as well as a considered response to some of the key issues – such as the relative importance of literary and language studies – raised by Newbolt.
