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Among the diverse national varieties of Postcolonial English (Schneider 2007), Australian English is an interesting example of the potential a non-dominant variety of English can have nationally and inter¬nationally. After only having... more
Aboriginal incarceration rates are much higher than the general Australian population. Moreover, indigenous women represent 34% of the total number of inmates. As if this wasn't enough, the legal and welfare systems are removing... more
This appendix lists New Zealand plant species stocked and available in Australian nurseries, over time. Raised in a large New Zealand garden full of native trees, plant lover Stuart Read was perhaps hard-wired to notice kiwi plants in... more
Dutch characteristics in culture and attitude of Dutch migrants in Victoria. Paper presented at DACA conference 1993
CHAPTER 14 Soccer and social capital in Australia: Social networks in transition Daniel Lock, Tracy Taylor and Simon Darcy ... For example, sporting clubs have been found to promote mas-culine aggression, tensions (Kerr, 2005) and... more
As tensions mount with China and polarization widens the gap between Beijing and the four members of the Quad, the Foreign Ministers of Australia, India and Japan and the Secretary of State of the United States met in Melbourne on Friday,... more
This paper examines the north-north migration of care workers within the industrialised world. While care migration has traditionally been conceptualised as a phenomenon of women moving from the global south to the global north, a growing... more
Everybody is born into a family. Each has its own history, therefore, 'our history' is not made by us, but by previous generations. The rise of International migration and the crumbling of family structures, however, only make it harder... more
The UN and Australian government organised a vote, by which, in 1984, Cocos Malays chose to become Australians.
Special issue of Hecate: Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation
The price penalty for genetically modified (GM)canola (compared to non-GM canola) is 7.2% based on the past five years of price data from two receival depots (Albany and Kwinana) in Western Australia. The average annual price penalty for... more
While nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public museums have been implicated in the nation-state’s inculcating agenda, debate exists as to whether the contemporary museum persists in such a role. Using the Museum of Sydney as a case... more
In: ›And there'll be NO dancing‹. Perspectives on Policies Impacting Indigenous Australia since 2007, ed. by Elisabeth Bähr, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishing 2017.
The Shakespeare Tercentenary Memorial Fund was established in Sydney in 1912, with the intention of raising money to erect a local memorial to Shakespeare on the three hundredth anniversary of his death. The fundraising events became in... more
In this surprising and revelatory history of the Bible in Australia, Meredith Lake gets under the skin of a text that’s been read, wrestled with, preached and tattooed, and believed to be everything from a resented imposition to the very... more
Este artigo oferece uma visão panorâmica da evolução das políticas de prevenção primária, secundária e terciária no Brasil relacionadas à prevenção da violência baseada no gênero contra as mulheres e meninas, trazendo insumos de uma visão... more
In 1932, the respected anthropologist Raymond Firth wrote that the Aboriginal Australian manifested a strange trait, one unlike their indigenous counterparts elsewhere in the colonised Pacific. The Indigenous person, Firth said, ‘mutely... more
While the stereotype of Australian culture is one of relentless secularism, this essay examines the persistence of visions of the sacred in literary writing. From Makarand Paranjape ed. Sacred Australia Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan,... more
This work engages in a Critical Discourse Analysis of the legitimatory discourse of the governing Australian Labor Party in relation to the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory policy 2012. The policy effectively prolonged central... more
... Journal of Australian Studies. Issue 77 (2003). I Knit Water [Book Review]. Bond, Sue (Reviewed by). Full Text PDF (85kb). To cite this article: Bond, Sue. ... [cited 20 Oct 10]. Personal Author: Bond, Sue. Source: Journal of... more
Chinatown, as a distinctive urban space, exists in almost all major cities in Western countries. As a richly storied place, Chinatown has been the focus of successive generations of social science ...
This paper proposes the enactment of an ex gratia compensation scheme for loss of Indigenous languages in Australia. Although some Australian states have enacted ex gratia compensation schemes for the victims of the Stolen Generation... more
"Women have had a long history of participation in modern sporting activities though they have faced countless barriers to sporting competition, particularly in ‘contact’ sports. As we move into the twenty-first century, many more doors... more
In a time when a white labour-force was lacking and fear for the survival of the white man in Tropical Australia was widespread, when a cultural and economic hegemony in the Tropical North was still to be achieved, and slavery in the... more
In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women since the 1970s, including growing awareness and action... more
This article uses a newly developed theoretical concept – the 'uncommodified blackness' image, to accentuate the discursive methods in which the humanness of Africans is denied in subtle and commonplace ways in Australia. In other words,... more
The removal of Aboriginal children from their parents has been a policy in all states at different times. In Australia, the argument of the Aborigines Protection Board rested on the supposed ‘idleness and immorality’ of the Aborigines... more
The Lebanese Rugby League was formed in 1997 in Sydney when a team comprised of Australian-based players of Lebanese descent participated in an international tournament. The Lebanese national team later qualified for two rugby league... more