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Death Spaces And Distant Skies (Every Day We Say Goodbye), Renee Estee Dec 2022

Death Spaces And Distant Skies (Every Day We Say Goodbye), Renee Estee

Theses and Dissertations

Linking ideas and imagery of the Australian Outback, Hauntology and Orphism, my practice highlights myth-making and rituals surrounding mourning, celebration and commemoration. Operating as visual love letters and epitaphs, my paintings coalesce figuration and abstraction to conjure spaces where I can commune with the deceased and contend with future loss.


The Figure Of The Animal In Modern And Contemporary Poetry By Michael Malay, Brian Bartlett Mar 2020

The Figure Of The Animal In Modern And Contemporary Poetry By Michael Malay, Brian Bartlett

The Goose

Review of Michael Malay's The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry


Plunging Down Under, Ian Smith Apr 2019

Plunging Down Under, Ian Smith

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Plunging Down Under


Hard Data, Soft Data, Louise Boscacci Apr 2019

Hard Data, Soft Data, Louise Boscacci

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Hard Data, Soft Data


Launch Announcement For In The Hollow Of The Land, 2 Vols., Glen R E Phillips Professor Mar 2018

Launch Announcement For In The Hollow Of The Land, 2 Vols., Glen R E Phillips Professor

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Announcing the launch of Glen Phillip's Collected Poetry, 1968-2018


Sprung, John W. Gordon Mar 2018

Sprung, John W. Gordon

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

A poem that that explores the Australian landscape, an environment of despair, and ennui.


Poetry Of Roe 8, Nandi Chinna Mar 2018

Poetry Of Roe 8, Nandi Chinna

Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language

Poetry of Roe 8

The occasion for the writing of these poems was activism surrounding the controversial highway known as the Roe 8 extension in the areas of Cockburn and Fremantle in Western Australia. Planned in the 1950s, Roe 8 is contentious for a number of reasons, including extraordinary political deals over funding, undue process regarding environmental reporting, lack of a business case, inadequate noise and traffic modelling, erasure of Indigenous heritage sites, and clearing of the sensitive Beeliar wetlands and Coolbellup banksia woodlands which were designated a Threatened Ecological Community in 2016. During the summer of 2016/2017 contractors started …


Humanity On The Verge Of Insanity: Maintaining Cultural Identity Against Oppressive Rule, Danica Katarina Skoric May 2017

Humanity On The Verge Of Insanity: Maintaining Cultural Identity Against Oppressive Rule, Danica Katarina Skoric

Senior Theses

Ubuntu is a South African term in the Bantu language that translates to “human kindness.” This essay discusses the present-day impact of the South African philosophical concept of Ubuntu in light of the dehumanization, which Aboriginal Australians and Black South Africans faced, specifically during the period of 1960-1985. How has humanity been enslaved and degraded by assimilation and a cruel division of races, yet positively evolved and progressed due to the efforts of both female and male activists--in particular literary figure Oodgeroo Noonuccal and political leader Nelson Mandela? A lack of respect and tolerance as a result of colonialism has …


2016-The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Of Spinifex Press, Kathleen Barry Nov 2016

2016-The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Of Spinifex Press, Kathleen Barry

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

No abstract provided.