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Shadows Of 1951, Rowan Cahill

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We reproduce here the text of a talk given by Rowan Cahill at the Labor History Weekend held on 3-4 August 1996 at St. Stephens Hall, Newtown, Sydney. The Weekend was ‘Organised by The Red and Black Forum and convened by Mr. Bob Gould. Rowan is co-author of The Seamen’s Union of Australia 1872-1972, Sydney, 1981.

The 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute started in February of that year when a General Wage Order granted a IS per cent increase on all A ward rates except interim increases. The employers argued that waterside workers were only entitled to 9 per cent, …

Consciousness Demystified: A Wittgensteinian Critique Of Dennett's Project, Daniel Hutto

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Presents a critique of D.C. Dennett's work on consciousness by L. Wittgenstein. New state of consciousness.

A Conscription Story, 1965-69, Rowan Cahill

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Conscription (National Service) was re-introduced to Australia in November 1964, and ended in 1972. Conscripts were randomly selected by a lottery system for 20-year-old males. While it was not publicly known at the time, I in 12 eligible males were actually selected, though this ratio varied according to the number eligible each year and the actual number required by the army; so, for example, in October 1972 the chances of being selected were I in 20.1

Whilst historians tend to refer to conscripts as “men”, it should be remembered that in Australia during the 1960s neither the right to vote …

Lucas Heights Revisited: The Framing Of A Major Scientific Controversy By The Sydney Morning Herald, Adam Robert Lucas

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A detailed analysis of the Sydney Morning Herald's reportage of the Lucas Heights controversy reveals significant omissions in the cover-age. In particular, I draw attention to the existence of two competing rationalities within the controversy, that is, the instrumental rationality used by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), the Australian Federal Government, and the SMH editorial to publicly justify the buildeing of a new reactor, and the ecological rationality advocated by the Sutherland Shire Council's scientific consultants and some individuals within the environmental lobby. I further argue that the full ramifications of the SMH's reportage of this controversy …

Edgy Laughter: Women And Australian Humour, Dorothy Jones

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Offers a look on how Australian humor describes the status of women in several literary works. Women writers' treatment of their marginalization in society; Creation of a world where gender power relations are reversed; Description of male myths of nationhood; Satirical presentation of gender bias..

Art, Science And Technology In An Expanded Field, Adam Robert Lucas

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The author suggests that new concepts in twentieth-century science not only provides commonalitites between the arts, sciences and humanities, they also point to the emergence of a new philosophy of nature with some promising political, sociological and technological implication. These developments demand a throught-going ethical practice and a fundamental reformulation of accepted notions of creativity, consciousness and natural and social organization. Outlining key concepts and discoveries in twentieth-century science and philosophy, the author draws attention to the existence of a strong organismic or process tradition in Western culture that is re-emerging in various fields of the physical, biological and social …

More Than A Footnote: A Biographical Portrait Of L. C. Rodd, Rowan Cahill

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A marina full of space age technology. cast in the form of pleasure craft. stretches before me; millions of dollars worth of monopoly money tugging gently on nylon leashes. My attention, however, is diverted from these state-of-the-art maritime fantasies to the iron-ribbed skeleton of another era, the barque James Craig, rescued from dereliction in Recherche Bay, Tasmania, now in the process of loving restoration by Sydney maritime buffs. On display in an effort to drum up the necessary restoration funds, she is a proud reminder of our sea-faring past, when wood and wire and rope and iron and canvas were …

Review: Jolley, Elizabeth, My Father's Moon, Dorothy L. Jones

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In My Father's Moon Elizabeth Jolley presents a discontinuous narrative where readers must piece together, through a series of short stories, the life of the narrator, Vera Wright, as schoolgirl, student nurse and young mother. We shift back and forward in time not only between stories but within many of the individual stories as well. Most of the action is set in a period before, quring and just after the Second World War, but the second story, 'My Father's Moon', with its allusions to television, break dance and esoteric religious sects who go in for communal living and vegetarian diets, …

The Myth Of The Neutral Social Researcher In Contemporary Scientific Controversies, P Scott, Evelleen Richards, Brian Martin

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According to both traditional positivist approaches and also to the sociology of scientific knowledge, social analysts should not themselves become involved in the controversies they are investigating. But the experiences of the authors in studying contemporary scientific controversies - specifically, over the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, fluoridation, and vitamin C and cancer - show that analysts, whatever their intentions, cannot avoid being drawn into the fray. The field of controversy studies needs to address the implications of this process for both theory and practice.

Australia And The Convention For The Regulation Of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (Cramra), Sam Blay, Ben M. Tsamenyi

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Australia, a leading Antarctic state that played a key role in negotiating the Convention for the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities, in May 1989 announced its opposition to the Convention and adoption instead of a World Park or Wilderness Reserve concept for Antarctica. This article examines possible environmental and economic reasons for Australia's attitude, which is likely to have significant implications for the future of the Convention and for the Antarctic Treaty System as a whole. -Authors

Review: Anderson, Jessica, An Ordinary Lunacy, Dorothy L. Jones

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It is good to see Jessica Anderson's first novel, An Ordinary Lunacy, initially published in 1963, now reissued by Penguin, for it is important that work by a writer of Anderson's stature should be readily available and remain in print.

Bohemians In And Out Of Toronto, Dorothy L. Jones

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Book review of: Katherine Govier, Fables of Brunswick Avenue, Markham, Penguin (Canada), 1985, pp. 253, C. $7.95, paperback.

Rituel Commun + Common Ritual, Jonathan P. Cockburn, Gerry Weise

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Jon Cockburn exhibited, in conjunction with works by expatriate Australian Artist Gerry Weise, at the Australian Embassy, 4 rue Jean Rey, Paris, France between the 25 September to 30 October 1987 in an exhibition entitled by Gerry Weise ‘Rituel Commun + Common Ritual’. The exhibition was listed in French art journal Art Press and gained other print media publicity (two further exhibitions of works by Cockburn and Weise using the title ‘Rituel Commun + Common Ritual’ also took place over the following months at privately run galleries in Reims and Toulouse). In August 1987, Jon Cockburn sent to Paris a …

‘Current Australian Art Exhibition’ At Galleria D’Arte Lillo, Venezia-Mestre (Venice) Italy, 1985, Jonathan P. Cockburn

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Information concerning work undertaken in Italy by Jon Cockburn (b.1953) entitled, White dogs/black dog/black birds (temporary installation) 1985. The work was completed in contact paper stuck directly onto the gallery walls, dimensions to fit, and shown in the ‘Current Australian Art Exhibition’ (curated by Judith Blackall) May-June 1985, Galleria d’Arte Lillo, Venezia-Mestre (Venice), Italy

Soft Attack: Artists Against Militarism, Jonathan P. Cockburn, Denis Mizzi, George Alexander

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The image of the work is the death's head, the skull. A universal and extremely familiar if not hackneyed symbol. One that continues to pop up in such places as: Shakespeare's HAMLET ... Hitler's EUROPE ... Truman's JAPAN ... Kissinger's CHILE . . . Kissinger and Nixon and Mao and Frazer's VIETNAM and KAMPUCEA ... Sukarto and Whit lam's TIMOR ... Reagan and Breznev's AFGHANISTAN .. . Reagan's EL SALVADOR and HONDURAS and GUATAMALA and NICARAGUA and GRANADA .

Pig Memory Ii, Jonathan P. Cockburn

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The work by Jon Cockburn exhibited in the Wynne Competition at the AGNSW (1982-83) was entitled Pig Memory II (1982), this work being a relief sculpture that explored the fragmentation of meaning that accompanies the scattering of a sense of place reaching back to Jon Cockburn’s adolescence, partly achieved by the inclusion of a Sepik (PNG) icon in the form of a small carved pig given to Jon by his father when they lived in the small town of Maprik, in the East Sepik District of Papua New Guinea. From this carved animal totem comes the meaning about which fragmentation …

Word Works Satellite Exhibition/Performance Event 4th Biennale Sydney, Jonathan P. Cockburn

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‘Word Works’ were performed by Jon Cockburn on Tuesday, 27 April 1982, 7.30-9.30pm, at ‘An Evening of Performance Art’ a satellite program organized by Derek Kreckler, during the 4th Biennale of Sydney, and held at the Shepherd and Newman Warehouse, Darlinghurst, Sydney.

The list of word works performed by Jon Cockburn included some, if not all, of the following titles

• Suicide

• Terence Maloon

• A Shove in the Right Direction

• The Reason Why

• Terry Smith

• Loosing Confidence...or Post Modern Sexuality

• of Joseph Beuys

• Four light pieces for interlude in a Performance

(Above word …

Word Works At Experimental Audio Works, Jonathan P. Cockburn

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A list of five Word Work pieces performed by Jon Cockburn at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Paddington, Sydney on the evening of Wednesday 17 March.

Ambiguity And Tension, Jonathan P. Cockburn

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• Approximately two weeks after the opening of the 4th Biennale of Sydney (the Biennale opened on 07 April and ran until to 23 May 1982) it was noted by Jon Cockburn that a wall in the exhibition at the AGNSW was not being used (word going around the art community was that an exhibit had failed to arrive).

• On the 08 May 1982, Jon Cockburn (with the assistance of Jill Moonie, photographic documentation and Tammy Smith, Roxy [Pat McGuire], Kim Machin and Tim Harris as lookouts) entered the AGNSW and on the blank wall of 4th Biennale Exhibition …

Travelling Head, Richard Boulez, Jonathan P. Cockburn

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Throughout 1981 visiting North American performance artist Richard Boulez offered his head as an exhibition space to a selected number of Sydney artists. The artists were invited to do a work attached to Boulez’s head on dates that coincided with exhibition openings at The Watters Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney. Mr Boulez would visit the artist’s studio or work place prior to the opening. After the artist had completed the work Mr Boulez and the artist concerned would travel by public transport to the particular opening at The Watters Gallery, then onto a coffee shop, restaurant or theatre before Mr Boulez would …

Talking About My Childhood: Tacky, Jonathan P. Cockburn

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The work by Jon Cockburn exhibited in the Wynne Competition at the AGNSW (1981-82) was entitled Talking About my Childhood: Tacky, and this relief sculpture explores the fragmentation of self that accompanies shifting meanings of place. The work takes its title from an instance in 1981 when Joan Brassil, Judith Blackall and Jon Cockburn went to the Australia Hotel, at the Rocks, for a few beers after completing respective projects in their shared studio space (Cumberland Street). Jon Cockburn got talking about his childhood in Papua New Guinea and Joan said: “Jon you have got to be where your soul …

Monash Days, Alan Wearne

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