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Convicts, Call Centres And Cochin Kangaroos: South Asian Globalising Of The Australian Imagination., Paul Sharrad Feb 2006

Convicts, Call Centres And Cochin Kangaroos: South Asian Globalising Of The Australian Imagination., Paul Sharrad

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This paper considers a history of imaginative links between Australia and India, offering readings of Suneeta Perez da Costa's 'Homework' and Christopher Cyrill's 'The Tributaries of the Ganges'.


Enemy Aliens: Gli Italoaustraliani E Il Secondo Conflitto Mondiale, Gaetano Rando Nov 2005

Enemy Aliens: Gli Italoaustraliani E Il Secondo Conflitto Mondiale, Gaetano Rando

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L’entrata in guerra dell’Italia rese molto problematica l’esistenza della comunità italoaustraliana che negli anni ’30 annoverava oltre 30000 unità ed era diventata la più numerosa collettività nonangloceltica del quinto continente. Le autorità australiane, ritenendo la presenza di tanti non-britannici una grave minaccia potenziale alla sicurezza della nazione, rinchiusero 4727 Italoaustraliani, quasi tutti uomini, in appositi campi di internamento indipendentemente dai titoli di cittadinanza o dalla fede politica. Quale conseguenza le donne e i bambini furono lasciati allo sbaraglio in un ambiente palesemente ostile, fascisti convinti e attivisti antifascisti furono rinchiusi nello stesso campo talvolta con esiti devastanti, i figli degli …


Tales Of Internment: The Story Of Andrea La Macchia, Gaetano Rando Jan 2005

Tales Of Internment: The Story Of Andrea La Macchia, Gaetano Rando

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Relates the plight of one Italian migrant, Andrea La Macchia, who arrived in Australia in 1940 only to be caught up in the events following Italy's entry into the war by being interned for nearly three years. His story is placed in the general context of the internment experience.


The Struggle For Generational Legitimacy: Youth, Antiracism And Counter Movements In Australia Since The Mid-1900'S, Robert Carr Jan 2005

The Struggle For Generational Legitimacy: Youth, Antiracism And Counter Movements In Australia Since The Mid-1900'S, Robert Carr

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This paper examines the ways in which many young people have attempted to directly assert and define their place in Australian life since the mid-1990s. It analyses how young people have attempted to actively grasp a sense of social power through racial debates. Since the mid-1990s, a great number of young people have become active participants on two opposing sides of the antiracism movement. On the one hand, many young people attempted to resist mainstream political rhetoric on immigration, land rights and multiculturalism, partaking in protests and school walkouts. On the other hand, counter to antiracism, there have been movements …


The Intervention You Have When You're Not Having An Intervention': Australia, Png And The Enhanced Cooperation Program, Charles M. Hawksley Jan 2005

The Intervention You Have When You're Not Having An Intervention': Australia, Png And The Enhanced Cooperation Program, Charles M. Hawksley

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The idea of non-interference in the domestic affairs of states has been a hallmark of international relations since the seventeenth century. The universalisation of the nation-state model following decolonisation over the twentieth century rendered this ideal of state sovereignty the basis of the modem international political system. States mostly keep out of each other’s business, but intervention may take the form of war to enforce regime change.


Transformative Soundscapes: Innovating De Forest Phonofilms Talkies In Australia, Brian M. Yecies Jan 2005

Transformative Soundscapes: Innovating De Forest Phonofilms Talkies In Australia, Brian M. Yecies

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The coming of sound to cinemas around the world traditionally has been included in the writings about great men and all-powerful companies and how their visions and integrated industry connections helped them maintain a dominating monopoly of the motion picture industry. Important and canonical reports of these business histories have been documented and offered by Tino Balio (1976; 1985; 1993), David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson (1985), Douglas Gomery (1986), Thomas Schatz (1988), John Belton (1994), Robert Sklar (1994), Donald Crafton (1997) and Ruth Vasey (1997) in the US and by Sally Stockbridge (1979), Susan Dermody (1981), John Tulloch …


Alternative Solutions: Multiculturalism And The Struggle For Hegemony In Australian Community Broadcasting, Robert Carr Jan 2005

Alternative Solutions: Multiculturalism And The Struggle For Hegemony In Australian Community Broadcasting, Robert Carr

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‘Who listens to community radio anyway?’ This has undeniably been the most common response to my investigations of the history of community radio in Australia. However, for those involved in the establishment of 3ZZ Radio in Melbourne, their struggle was about more than broadcasting to their own cultural and linguistic communities. It had a greater social significance, and would change the nature of the Australian broadcasting sector. The history of 3ZZ Radio is an indicator of the social context in which it is set; that is, 1970s Australia. Its rise and plummet out of existence between 1974 and 1977 reflects …


The Corrosive Acid Of Commercialism Has Bitten Into Our Life': Commodification And The Rise Of Popular Political Economy In Australia 1900-25, Ben Maddison Jan 2003

The Corrosive Acid Of Commercialism Has Bitten Into Our Life': Commodification And The Rise Of Popular Political Economy In Australia 1900-25, Ben Maddison

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The term 'commercialism' started to appear in Australian popular and political discourse in the decades that spanned 1900. On one hand, its appearance reflected the qualitative change in commodity relations in Australia in that period. On the other, the use of the term was also part of the reconstucted conceptual apparatus through which working class and popular anti-capitalist stances were articulated. This popular political economy was a vernacular expression of social knowledge about the dehumanising effects of the commodification process. It also expressed popular resistance to bourgeois attempts to represent capitalist institutions such as the market as natural and inevitable.


Belated Labour Reform: Australia And The Abolition Of Asian Indenture, Julia T. Martinez Jan 2003

Belated Labour Reform: Australia And The Abolition Of Asian Indenture, Julia T. Martinez

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The abolition of indentured labour and the rejection of so-called' coloured' labour was a central concern of the first parliament of Australia, following" Federation. An exception was made, however, for the pearl-shelling industry which continued to import Asian indents despite concerns that this undermined the ' White Australian agenda. In the 1950s Australian government support for indentured labour remained steadfast ignoring growing international criticism. The dismantling of the indenture system in the late 1960s was a belated attempt at labour reform. Government debates, however, reveal that the liberalisation of labour policy masked a continued desire to limit Asian immigration.


The End Of Time? Aboriginal Temporality And The British Invasion Of Australia, Mike Donaldson Jan 1996

The End Of Time? Aboriginal Temporality And The British Invasion Of Australia, Mike Donaldson

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Many of the best studies of time have been concerned with the transitions from one temporal order to another, and in particular the origins and the pervasive global impact of metric time. This focus risks attributing a facticity and durability to capitalist time at the expense of other temporalities. This study counterbalances this problem by exploring the time use and 'Dreamtime' of Australian Aboriginal people, from pre-history, through the British invasion to the present day. Despite the massive disruptions in temporal order, significant continuities are revealed.