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The Dirt Baby, Tara Goedjen

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A woman has nothing in her hands and she is lonely. She goes outside and the sky is black without stars or planets. In the middle of the yard she kneels and spits on the ground beside her legs. Her saliva mixes..........................

The Pool Baby, Tara Goedjen

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A woman swimming laps wants desperately to have a child. She dries off and asks the man doing backstroke if he would like to a have a baby. He says no. She continues to ask the other swimmers. No one wants ...................................

Waiting, Sally Evans

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she knows his engine’s sound —— & the car door closing waits at the window ..................

Cubicles, Joshua M. Lobb

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Research Background: The work is an original short prose piece. It uses as its starting point the hypothesis that narratives surrounding gay male sexual encounters tend towards visual details, where as heterosexual narratives often depend on verbal exchanges. The research questions for the project are: what are the narrative and formal implications of writing about heterosexual and homosexual ‘courtship’? Which narrative form is the more limiting for characters’ agency?

Research Contribution: The work is situated in the methodology of research-led practice. It is a practical application of research, combining analysis of dialogue in realism with the writing on the ideological …

Towards Aphrodite, Diana Wood Conroy

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I wasn't sure I could walk that far to be honest - 17 km seemed quite a long way for a day's walk. It had been in my mind for years to make the walk from new Paphos to old Paphos along the pilgrim's way mentioned by the geographer Strabo in the first century. He wrote that every year 'men and women came from other cities to celebrate all along the road' ITom the port at new Paphos to the sanctuary of Aphrodite on the hill high above the coast. I tried to research the ro ute by looking for …

Islands Of Multilingual Literature: Community Magazines And Australia’S Many Languages, Michael R. Jacklin

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Australian literary studies has for some decades recognised the significance and contribution of multicultural writers to the national literary landscape; however, it has shown less interest in the multilingual nature of much of this writing. This article brings into focus a number of Australian magazines in which multilingual literature has been promoted, from the 1920s Brisbane publication The Muses Magazine, to the 1990s multicultural, multilingual women’s magazine Ambitious Friends, which featured creative work in Arabic, Lao, Spanish and Vietnamese. Further illustrations, specific to Vietnamese Australian writing, will be provided from Integration: The Magazine for Vietnamese and Multicultural Issues, published in …

Chinese Merchants In Singapore And The China Trade, 1819-1959, Jason Lim

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Chinese merchants in Singapore were involved with the China trade after the British established a trading post in Singapore in 1819. These merchants were regarded as Chinese citizens by the Chinese state and expected to be engaged in patriotic activities such as the promotion of Chinese goods as “national products” in the 1930s, and comply with Chinese government regulations during the Sino-Japanese War and after the communist victory in China in 1949. This paper traces the vicissitudes of the China trade for the Chinese merchants in Singapore as the island went through phases of political and economic stability, international competition, …

Review Of Zheng Yangwen And Charles J-H Macdonald, Personal Names In Asia: History, Culture And Identity And Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce, Rebuilding The Ancestral Village: Singaporeans In China, Jason Lim

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Both Personal names in Asia: History, culture and identity and Rebuilding the ancestral village: Singaporeans in China share a common theme of individuals and communities having to change with the times. Personal names examines individual and collective reactions to societal transformation through name changes; Rebuilding the ancestral village examines Chinese Singaporeans’ collective memory of, and struggles to maintain ties with, such villages in China.

Aplicando El Empirismo Trascendental: Deleuze En Medio-Oriente, Marcelo G. Svirsky

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This article applies some of Gilles Deleuze’s concepts, particularly the ideas supporting his transcendental empiricism onto a particular field of action: Arab-Jewish radical activism in Israel- Palestine. Specifically, the article interrogates three scenes: housing activism, bilingual education and professional football. Deleuze’s empiricism, the findings help to argue, is not only an approach to understanding but necessarily also an activist perspective on social life.

L'Ecole De La Republique: Inclusive Ou Exclusive, Henri A. Jeanjean

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La politique d’exclusion des langues régionales et de leurs locuteurs s’est clairement manifestée dans les décisions législatives prises au cours des siècles par les gouvernements successifs, depuis François 1er et son Edit de Villers-Cotterêts jusqu’aux gouvernements de la Vème République, qu’ils soient de droite ou de gauche1. On la retrouve toujours dans les discours de dirigeants politiques ou encore dans certaines décisions prises par différentes strates de l’administration, notamment l’Education Nationale. Un phénomène relativement nouveau est venu se greffer sur cette politique Jacobine et la renforcer: le refus du Communautarisme. Cette appellation avait été popularisée en 1999 au cours des …

The Personal Works Of Stephen Dupont, Stephen Dupont

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A must for anyone interested in photography, The Head On Photo Festival Seminar will be held over 2 days, on 5 - 6 May at Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach.

Whether you’re a photo artist, a professional photographer or a passionate enthusiast, this seminar is sure to inspire.

You can opt to participate in general sessions that cover all bases of the photography world - competitions, funding, support, getting published, protecting your copyright and personal journeys of leading photographers. You can also sign up for small group workshops on everything from fine art printing to the latest tips and tricks for …

Ourselves Writ Strange, Anne Collett

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As I consider what it is I most want to say in this brief essay, I realize that it is almost February and, essay marking aside, the winter term of teaching has come to an end. Already, after only four months in Tokyo, it is with some difficulty that I recall the first impressions of a stranger in a strange land; but the sense of achievement when I negotiated my way in, through and out of Shibuya station on my own is still palpable (and faintly ridiculous – I am after all a fully grown adult).

Review: Dawn For Islam In Eastern Nigeria: A History Of The Arrival Of Islam In Igboland By Egodi Uchendu, Josip Matesic

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Egodi Uchendu’s Dawn for Islam in Eastern Nigeria: A History of the Arrival of Islam in Igboland attempts to account for the arrival of Islam in Igboland (Nigeria’s ‘Christian heartland’) at the beginning of the twentieth century, and its survival and modest growth from that time onwards. As Uchendu writes, she wants to know how and why a region known to be opposed to Islam has accommodated Islam for a century.

The Responsibility To Protect In Oceania: A Political Assessment Of The Impact And Influence Of R2p On Police Forces, Andrew Goldsmith, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou

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The project ‘R2P in Oceania’ is a political assessment of the impact and influence of R2P principles on the developing police forces of three states, Timor-Leste, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea (PNG). It links most strongly with the Centre’s priority concept two: supporting states to build their capacities to protect their own populations from abuses of human rights, including genocide and mass atrocities. This articulates with the Responsibility to Assist, the least studied aspect of the UNSG’s ‘Three Pillars’ Approach to R2P. Our research provides empirical findings surrounding the process of police-building in these states. It points to the …

Festival Of Carols, David C. Vance

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12.30 Friday 30th November, 2012.

Gillian Meers - soprano

Amanda Harris - mezzosoprano

David Vance - associate artist

Why Animal Ethics Committees Don't Work, Denise Russell

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Animal ethics committees have been set up in many countries as a way to scrutinize animal experimentation and to assure the public that if animals are used in research then it is for a worthwhile cause and suffering is kept to a minimum. The ideals of Refinement, Reduction and Replacement are commonly upheld. However, while refinement and reduction receive much attention in animal ethics committees, the replacement of animals is much more difficult to incorporate into the committees’ deliberations. At least in Australia there are certain structural reasons for this but it is likely that most of the reasons why …

Signature And Illusion: Lessons From The Baroque For 'Truth' In Law, Arts And Humanities, Richard Mohr

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Basic to contemporary problems in the disciplines of representation and interpretation is a split between a naïve acceptance of bare facts, presumed to exist in their own ‘objective’ world of objects, and the actions of subjects who interpret an intersubjective world. The solution is sought in some ‘new’ epistemologies: Martín Alcoff, Grosz, Kristeva, Butler, as well as in Benjamin and Gadamer, who look back to older ways of knowing. The methodology is an archaeology of these ways of knowing, focussed on a crucial transition in the understanding of representation between the renaissance and the baroque. It uses quintessential methods of …

Editorial Essay: Networked Utopias And Speculative Futures, Su Ballard, Zita Joyce, Lizzie Muller

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The future began somewhere. The impulse behind this issue of The Fibreculture Journal was a crisis of imagination with regards to how the future might look and behave. Our starting point was the notion of post-millennial tension – the idea that in the decades following the year 2000 we find ourselves living in an era that was meant to be the future, but where many of our futuristic hopes and fantasies remain unfulfilled. Worse, our historical visions of hyper-technological futures seem to have propelled us into a perilous position where humankind may not have any kind of future at all. …

Science, Biodiversity And Australian Management Of Marine Ecosystems, Richard Kenchington, Pat Hutchings

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The United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) (United Nations 1982) came into effect in 1994. Signatory nations have substantial management obligations for conservation of marine natural resource and ecosystems. In this paper we discuss the challenges of defining and monitoring biodiversity at scales required for management of marine ecosystems. Australia's area of immediate responsibility under UNCLOS covers an area of 11 million sq km with further linked responsibilities for an estimated area of 5.1 million sq km of continental shelf. This presents substantial data challenges for development and implementation of management. Acoustic seabed mapping is providing substantial …

Great Big Hairy Bees! Regulating The European Bumblebee, 'Bombus Terrestris L'. What Does It Say About The Precautionary Principle?, Cameron Moore, Caroline Gross

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The previous Commonwealth Minister for the Environment, Mr Garrett, rejected a request to allow the importation of live bumblebees (Bombus terrestris L.) to mainland Australia. New South Wales and Victoria had already listed the introduction of bumblebees as, respectively, a key threatening process and a potentially threatening process. The Commonwealth, however, had previously declined an application to list the introduction of bumblebees as a key threatening process, although its Threatened Species Scientific Committee urged 'that extreme caution be shown in considering any proposal to introduce this species to the mainland.' The potential threat from bumblebees would appear to beg the …