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Australian literature; Aboriginals; 20th century history; History; Australia

Although Australian indigenous poetry is often overtly polemical and politically committed, any reading which analyses it as merely propaganda provides only a small window on it. By presenting the verse of Alf Taylor collected in Singer Songwriter (1992) and Winds (1994) and discussing it in the context of the wider social and cultural rnilieu of the author, my essay aims to show its thematic richness of indigenous poetic expression. Indigenous poets have, on the one hand, undertaken the re­ sponsibility to strive for social and political equality, as is generally believed, while on the other, they have produced powerful self-revelatory accounts of their own mental and emotional interior, which urges us to see their careers in a perspective much wider than that of social chroniclers and rebels. ; Izhajajoč iz trditve, da avstralska staroselska poezija ni samo družbeno in politično angažirana, ampak tudi osebno izpovedna, avtorica članka podrobno pred­ stavi vrsto pesmi sodobnega avstralskega staroselskega pesnika in pisatelja Alfa Taylorja in opozori na tematsko raznolikost njegovega pesniškega ustvarjanja. Poleg kritičnega opazovanja avstralske socialne in politične scene in smelega razgaljanja njenih napak in krivic, ki jih je pesnik boleče izkusil na lastni koži, Taylorjevo po­ ezijo namreč zaznamujeta tenkočuten pogled v človekove duševne tokove in z njim povezano iskanje medsebojnih čustvenih povezav, kar ji daje pečat individualnosti, pa tudi splošne veljavnosti.

This book explores scholarly challenges within the fields of Anglophone language, literature, and culture. The section focusing on language details issues falling within two areas: namely, language contact and the language-culture relationship, and stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. The literature part investigates twentieth-century American, English, and Australian literature, dealing with both poetry and prose and discussing topics of identity, gender, metafiction, postmodern conditions, and other relevant theoretical issues in contemporary literature

One in three Australian children attend school-age childcare. School Age Care (SAC) services have increased to meet the growing demand for children to have somewhere safe to go before and after school while their parents work. SAC services have continued to grow in size, but are still considered a "care" rather than "education" service. This literature review highlights some current features of Australian SAC childcare sector. Key features detailed include the growth in service usage and the particular organisation types that characterise the sector. Other themes identified relate to parent expectations, venues, workforce needs and children's wellbeing. This literature review advocates for more research about the SAC sector.

This essay on cultural studies and the African Diaspora argues for a rethinking of cultural studies in two critical ways: firstly, that cultural studies, from its founding institutional and conceptual moment, cannot but be thought diasporically; and, secondly, that cultural studies be thought 'out of', or, against, context—that is, cultural studies is most revealing in its political and literary articulation when it is not read, as many of its advocates claim, contextually. This essay offers a broad critique of cultural studies and the (African) diaspora but derives its most cogent and creative argument from its ability to read together the work of two diasporic authors, deracinated South African and Australian writers, J. M. Coetzee and David Malouf.

In this examination of Stead's American work, Fiona Morrison explores Stead's profound engagement with American politics and culture and their influence on her "restlessly experimental" style. Through the turbulent political and artistic debates of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the emergence of McCarthyism, the "matter" of America provoked Stead to continue to create new ways of writing about politics, gender and modernity.

Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of alienation that colonization initially provoked in the colonized and colonizing populations of Australia and New Zealand has, recent studies indicate, developed into an endemic, existential pathology. Evidence of the psychological fallout from the trauma of geographical deracination, cultural disorientation and ontological destabilization can be found not only in the state of anomie and self-destructive patterns of behaviour that now characterize the lives of indigenous Australian and Maori peoples, but also in the perpetually faltering identity-discourse and cultural rootlessness of the present descendants of the countries' Anglo-Celtic settlers. It is with the literary expression of this persistent condition of alienation that the essays gathered in the present volume are concerned. Covering a heterogeneous selection of contemporary Australasian literature, what these critical studies convincingly demonstrate is that, more than two hundred years after the process of colonisation was set in motion, the experience that Germaine Greer has dubbed 'the pain of unbelonging' continues unabated, constituting a dominant thematic concern in the writing produced today by Australian and New Zealand authors.

German historical writing about Australia can be traced back to the early periods of European exploration of Terra incognita. A corpus of German‐Australian literature exists in the historical notes that were part of early travel books, geographic sketches and emigrant guides. Historical fiction provides another element. However an empirical historiography which elevated Australian history from footnotes and established it as the focus of a professional discipline did not develop until later. Australia was too often wrongly viewed as a space without history. This article examines the professional treatment of Australian history in Germany and the difficult path which faced those who sought to establish the history of Australia as an independent research field. It focuses upon three aspects: (a) the historical background of German Overseas Studies; (b) Australian history as topic in Germany's historiography; and (c) the post‐war situation of Australian historical studies in Germany.

Research Report—'Education, work and Australian society in an AI world: A review of research literature'1. Research BackgroundThe research was in the field of education. The Gonski Institute for Education commissioned us to research and write a report on current research literature concerning artificial intelligence and education. The emergence of Artificial Intelligence has become an issue for education in two ways—in terms of changing provision and practices within education itself, and in terms of education's crucial role in preparing for the future, especially but not only the future of work. Policy makers are seeking guidelines as to how to respond. The report's key aim was to review the literature in order to present policy recommendations. 2. Research Contribution The report contributes to knowledge by synthesising and evaluating the current literature and presenting 6 key policy recommendations in order to safeguard the future of Australian education and to foster social innovation. Its main concern is the organisation and administration of education in a world in which AI is becoming an increasingly powerful social force. The recommendations include: forming a cross-sector representative body; providing professional development opportunities for teachers; working towards the ethical and effective procurement of AI systems; introducing adaptive and personalised learning in a way that ensures a focus on educational and equity principles; providing appropriate data protection and legislation; focusing on AI-complimentary skills. 3. Research Significance & Evidence of Excellence The significance of this research is that it enables education policy influencers, policy makers and other stakeholders to frame appropriate responses to the emergence of AI. Its value is attested to by the following indicators: • Accepted and published by the Gonski Institute for education • Invited to publish an article based on the report for the Journal of Professional Learning published by The NSW Teachers Federation's (NSWTF) Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) [written and published January 2019]• Has received responses international from various teacher's group (e.g. from Canada)

"Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia's cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia's sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel--both vicarious and actual--'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their image of the nation and its place in the Pacific region. In this way, 'Walkabout' explicitly aimed to make its readers feel at home in their country, as well as including a diverse picture of Aboriginal and Pacific cultures. Given its wide availability and distribution, together with its accessible and entertaining content, 'Walkabout' changed how Australia was perceived, and the magazine is recalled with nostalgic fondness by most if not all of its former readers. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, Travelling Home engages with key questions in literary, cultural, and Australian studies about national identity and modernity. The book's diverse topics demonstrate how 'Walkabout' canvassed subtle and shifting fields of representation; as a result, this analysis produces complex and nuanced readings of Australian literary and cultural history"--

In November 1916, just a few years after Federation and while Australia was at war in Europe, Hazel Hood, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of a Riverina grazier, went to a local dance and never came home. Her mysterious disappearance caused a sensation in the district around the pioneer settlement of Wakool Crossing, near the Victoria-New South Wales border. The mystery further intensified when, a week later, Hazel's body - still clothed in her white party dress - was recovered from the Wakool river with a mark of violence upon her head, and her silk scarf tied tightly around her neck. Her