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Humans have lived on the Australian continent for around 50,000 years. During that time, the indigenous people developed complex cultural, economic and social systems. These systems were sustained and expressed through the myths and songlines which comprise the indigenous people's Dreaming. It was through the Dreaming that the natural, symbolic and material worlds converge, enabling humans to orient themselves spiritually, cosmologically and geographically. This cultural and natural contingency was shattered by the British invasion and settlement of Australia from 1788. In one particular region of the country, the Burrup Peninsula, this violation has been perpetuated through the destructive practices of mining. The Burrup Peninsula is located in the remote Western Australia Pilbara region on the Dampier Archipelago. This area hosts one of the world's most extensive and significant indigenous Palaeolithic art galleries—petroglyphs that may be as old as 30,000 years Before Present. The Pilbara also contains one of the world's most extensive and richest iron ore deposits, as well as a vast array of other minerals and fuels. This paper examines the ways in which the cultural and natural heritage of the Burrup has been excoriated by the mining industries. The paper examines recent attempts to protect the heritage of the area from further destruction. It focuses on the World Heritage nomination of the Burrup, indigenous activism and the complex politics of conservation in the area.

A veces sueño que cae un meteorito sobre mi país y lo construye [Sometimes I dream that a meteorite falls on my country and builds it], by Karlo Andre Ibarra, is the title of his recent exhibition, open at Projecto Local. There, the artist uses an ironic and bitter spirit to reflect on Puerto Rican politics. ; A veces sueño que cae un meteorito sobre mi país y lo construye, de Karlo Andre Ibarra, es el título de su reciente exhibición, abierta en Proyecto Local. En ella, el artista emplea su talante irónico y amargo para reflexionar sobre la política puertorriqueña.

RESUMO: Este texto pretende descortinar algumas variações e fatos que marcaram a produção artística dos artistas aborígenes. Para alcançar o meu objetivo utilizei como guia obras de arte que compõem a exposição 'O Tempo dos Sonhos: Arte Aborígene Contemporânea da Austrália'. O projeto visita cidades brasileiras desde 2015 e oferece ao nosso público, pela primeira vez, uma coleção diversificada e vigorosa da arte dos primeiros australianos, em contexto contemporâneo. Palavras-Chave: arte aborígene, Austrália, pinturas do deserto. THE EXHIBITION 'OUT OF DREANING' AND THE ART BY ABORIGINAL ARTISTS FROM AUSTRALIA ABSTRACT: This text intends to reveal variations and facts that marked the artistic production by aboriginal artists. To achieve my goal I used as a guide works of art presented in the exhibition 'Out of the Dreaming: Australian Contemporary Aboriginal Art'. The project visits Brazilian cities since 2015 and offers our audience, for the first time, a diverse and vigorous collection of the art by the first Australians, in a contemporary context. Key-Words: Aboriginal art, Australia, desert paintings.

1: Middle power dreaming: Australian foreign policy during the Rudd-Gillard governments (James Cotton and John Ravenhill), S. 1. - 2: The Howard-Downer legacy: global deputy, regional sheriff (Geoffrey Barker), S. 13. - 3: Back from the brink: Australia and the global economy 2006-10 (John Ravenhill), S. 32. - 4: Australia-America 2006-2010: waiting for Obama (James Cotton), S. 53. - 5: Australia and China: the challenges to forging a 'true friendship' (Jian Zhang), S. 71. - 6: Australia and Japan: mobilising the bilateral relationship (Rikki Kersten), S. 94. - 7: Australia and Europe (Donald Kenyon and David Lee), S. 111. - 8: Australia's strategic and commercial engagement with South Asia under Kevin Rudd: the paradoxes (Marika Vicziany), S. 129. - 9: Australia, the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste (Stewart Firth), S. 147. - 10: Progress and limits in regional cooperation: Australia and Southeast Asia (Garry Rodan), S. 165. - 11: Australian foreign policy towards Africa (Tanya Lyons), S. 185. - 12: Plus ça change? Coalition, Labor and the challenges of environmental foreign policy (Lorraine Elliott), S. 208. - 13: The Australia 2020 summit as an experiment in foreign policy-making (Melissa H. Conley Tyler and Emma White), S. 224. - 14: Defence and security (Hugh White), S. 244. - 15: Australia's foreign policy machinery (Michael Wesley), S. 261. - 16: Regional, alliance and global priorities of the Rudd-Gillard governments (Andrew O'Neil), S. 273

Cover Image -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Part 1. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Waking Up to Earth -- From Earth-Connection to Earth-Care -- Slowing Down -- Earth Spirit Dreaming: Three Steps for Re-Visioning Our Planetary Stories -- Chapter 2. How to Use This Book: Growing the Gifts of Ecological Consciousness -- Working with This book -- Daily Practice of Rituals -- A Method for Discovering Magic -- Prepare, Prepare, Prepare -- Coming Home -- Chapter 3. Everything Is Connected: A Brief Introduction to Visionary Environmental Thought -- A Shifting Sense of Self: From Separation to Care and Connection -- The Participatory Worldview -- From Environmental Theory to Earth-Connecting Practices -- Part 2. Earth-Connecting Practices -- Chapter 4. Earth-Connecting: The First Step of Earth Spirit Dreaming -- Transforming Sustenance -- Developing Earth-Connected Consciousness -- Chapter 5. Coming to Our Senses: Slowing Down, Tuning In, Waking Up -- Doing Nothing -- Cultivating Boredom -- Chapter 6. Cultivating Ecomindfulness: Increasing Our Conscious Connection with Nature -- Ecomindfulness Practices -- Chapter 7. Returning to the Land: Connecting with the Rhythms and Cycles of Nature -- My Special Place: The Chagrin River -- Chapter 8. Nature Art Rituals: Earth-Connecting through Creativity -- Nature Art Rituals in Sacred Places -- Part 3. Spirit-Connecting Practices -- Chapter 9. Spirit-Connecting: Working with Light and Vibrational Reality -- Portals to Guides in Vibrational Reality -- Incorporating Revelation into the "Everyday" -- Raising Vibrations: A Full-Time Job -- Chapter 10. Sacred Space and Preparation for Working with Light -- How to Know Vibrational Reality -- Chapter 11. Opening to Vibrational Reality -- Chapter 12. Karmic Eddies: Personal Vibrational Healing.

On 12 November 2012 the then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she was recommending to the Governor General the establishment of a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Following inquiries in Australia and elsewhere much is already known about institutional and inter-institutional child protection failures and what is required to address them. That Australia's national government has pursued another abuse inquiry with terms of reference limited to institution-based (excluding the family) sexual abuse is of interest given the lack of political will to enact previous findings and recommendations. This article examines the background to the Government's announcement, the Commission's terms of reference and some of its settings, and literature on the nature of royal commissions across time and place. After the lack of success in implementing the recommendations of previous inquiries into how to better protect Australia's children, the question is: how will this Royal Commission contribute to Australian child protection and safety? Will the overwhelming public support generated by "truth speaking to power" in calling for this inquiry translate into action?

On 12 November 2012 the then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she was recommending to the Governor General the establishment of a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Following inquiries in Australia and elsewhere much is already known about institutional and inter-institutional child protection failures and what is required to address them. That Australia's national government has pursued another abuse inquiry with terms of reference limited to institution-based (excluding the family) sexual abuse is of interest given the lack of political will to enact previous findings and recommendations. This article examines the background to the Government's announcement, the Commission's terms of reference and some of its settings, and literature on the nature of royal commissions across time and place. After the lack of success in implementing the recommendations of previous inquiries into how to better protect Australia's children, the question is: how will this Royal Commission contribute to Australian child protection and safety? Will the overwhelming public support generated by "truth speaking to power" in calling for this inquiry translate into action?

This manuscript from Hollinshead and Vellah calls for researchers in Tourism Studies and related Fields to reflect upon their own role in refreshingthe social imaginaries of "after-colonialism" under the nomadisms of ourtime. Deleuzian in outlook, it positions the "post" of postcolonialism notas an end to colonialism's imperatives but as a generative-portal throughwhich new-seeds-of-"becoming" are discernable as the postidentities (ratherthan the "identities") of populations are interpretable in multidirectional,non-hierarchical, and not easily-predictable ways. In provoking (afterDeleuze) thought per rhizomatic processes (rather than via fixed concepts),the manuscript - critiquing these dynamic matters of "postidentity" - thenharnesses the insights of (Leela) Ghandi's on hybrid-nomadic-subjects, andof Venn on alternative-(com)possible-futures. Thereafter, these concerns ofand about "after-colonialism" are critically contextualised within Aboriginal "Australia", via the views of a pool of Indigenous intellectuals there,who synthesise the disruptive dialectics of belonging-cum-aspiration whichthey maintain that they and fellow Aboriginal people (of many sorts) facetoday. Throughout this manuscript, the agency and authority of tourismhovers in its sometimes-manifest / sometimes-latent generative power toproject empowering postidentities for the world's "host" or "visited" populations today.