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<title>Blue Poles: A Window into the Diplomatic and Cultural History of the Whitlam Government</title>
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<description>Blue Poles: A Window into the Diplomatic and Cultural History of the Whitlam Government
Mesimeris, Isander Spiros; Pollock, Jacques (Nom de plume)
In September 1973, when Gough Whitlam approved the purchase of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles for $1.3 million, he was trying to cement Australia’s status as a cosmopolitan society finally grown to international maturity without the crutch of great and powerful friends. This act of enlightened cultural bureaucracy was the perfect midwife for a nation that recognised ‘it was time’ (paraphrasing Whitlam’s 1972 campaign slogan) to renegotiate its subservient relationship with Washington. The nurturing of culture in Australian civic life through exposure to world art, and the pursuit of independent relationships with allies were flip-sides of the same coin. For Whitlam argued that only “nations with a secure and distinctive national identity” could be “forces for peace and cooperation”, able to act “with maturity and originality” on the world stage.
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<dc:date>2026-01-16T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Freedom as a Farce: or, Who Gets to be Free?</title>
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McCowan, MacKenzie; Aporia, George (Nom de plume)
This essay argues that “academic freedom” is a fantasy, one that inherently contradicts the ethical principles of safety, social harmony, and multiculturalism. Academic freedom—the right to “engage in intellectual inquiry”, to “express […] opinions and beliefs”, and to “contribute to public debate” in relation to “academic activities”—rests upon monocultural Western assumptions of epistemology, knowledge production, and rhetorical discourse.  These assumptions are rooted in oppression, and we cannot promote social harmony under such conditions.
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<dc:date>2025-12-11T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>From Sorcery to Scientific Revolution: A Brief History of Medicine and Science</title>
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Fitzpatrick, Cate Michelle; Daelith, Kai (Nom de plume)
The history of medicine and science demonstrates the close relationship between these two fields. Scientific discoveries have allowed humans to understand the causal mechanisms of diseases and biological processes, and the application of this knowledge in medicine has led to improved diagnoses and individual treatment. Thus, medicine and science cannot be viewed in isolation. This essay will explore some of the key scientific theories and medical practices throughout history to illustrate the importance of empirical scientific knowledge in the maintenance of good health. In ancient medicine, empirical scientific evidence was not widely available and did not play a large role in medical practices in regions such as Ancient Egypt and Ancient China.
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<dc:date>2025-11-10T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>The Colonial Origins of Nazi Ideology: Genocidal Practices from Namibia to Germany</title>
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Breen, Elizabeth; Breen, E.A. (Nom de Plume)
This essay analyses the connections between German colonial violence and the Holocaust, arguing that the systematic dehumanisation of colonised peoples in Africa provided a conceptual and psychological foundation for Nazi genocidal practices. In making this argument, this essay challenges historiographical claims of the Holocaust being an unprecedented event, demonstrating that Nazi genocidal practices represented the internal application of colonial extermination strategies.
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<dc:date>2025-10-27T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Babel, Belonging, and Colonial Queensland (1840–1870): Language, Naming, and the Making of a Colonial Order</title>
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<description>Babel, Belonging, and Colonial Queensland (1840–1870): Language, Naming, and the Making of a Colonial Order
Wu, Mingxi; Rowan (Nom de plume)
This essay is a historical reconstruction rather than a literary interpretation. Between the 1840s and 1870, officials, missionaries, surveyors, and settlers in the colony that became Queensland assembled an Anglophone “language order”: a modular set of practices that distributed belonging and exclusion through interpreting, schoolroom regulation, and naming. David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon serves only as an aperture for the question; the argument rests on administrative records and policy traces.&#13;
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Methodologically, the essay pairs microhistory with a history of concepts. It reads individual depositions, press notices, and rulebooks alongside survey charts, government gazettes, and mission files, and treats archival guides and indexes not as neutral finding aids but as artefacts of the order under study. Three mechanisms structure the analysis: (1) interpreting and translation as instruments for policing, governance, and evangelisation; (2) classroom language rules that ranked tongues and redirected children’s speech; and (3) onomastic practices of people and places that stabilised spellings and categories for filing, mapping, and search.&#13;
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Three clusters anchor the case studies: (A) administrative correspondence around Somerset in the 1860s shows how categories and names travelled between London, Brisbane, and Cape York, carrying vernacular labels into official geography; (B) mission schooling and rationing regimes reveal a covert curriculum in which First Languages were discouraged in dormitories and classrooms even as bilingual pupils were enlisted to interpret for order and catechesis; and (C) early translation and grammatical projects in eastern Australia, used here as a comparative lens, expose the politics of nomenclature in paratexts, glossaries, and prefaces, and illuminate Indigenous agency in mediating meanings.&#13;
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The contribution is twofold. Substantively, the essay recovers how authority moved through routine paperwork such as petitions, rolls, indexes, and gazetteers rather than through a single statute, and explains why the archive still speaks more loudly in some voices than others. Practically, it clarifies the retrieval pathways that continue to govern access today and suggests how indexing, place name restoration, and language programs co-designed with communities can unsettle inherited spellings and categories. Overall, it reframes belonging in colonial Queensland as co-produced through speech governance and naming power.
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Robinson, Sophia; Murphy, G. G. (Nom de plume)

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<dc:date>2025-05-08T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>“MIME” AND THE SUB-LITERARY: RE-HABILITATING THE ANCIENT GREEK LAMENT PAPYRI</title>
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Drevikovsky, Janek; Choricius (Nom de plume)

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<dc:date>2025-03-25T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Passenger</title>
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Han, Maxwell; MKH (Nom de plume)

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<dc:date>2025-03-25T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>The Doom of Men: The Purpose of the Edain in Tolkien’s Legendarium</title>
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<description>The Doom of Men: The Purpose of the Edain in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Lewis, Samuel; Ar-Pharazon (Nom de plume)
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<title>The Wilds of the city: addressing the biodiversity crisis in our backyard</title>
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<description>The Wilds of the city: addressing the biodiversity crisis in our backyard
Villafana, Danielle; Delapaña, Maria (Nom de plume)
Australia is currently suffering the largest documented decline in biodiversity of any continent, having&#13;
experienced at least 100 known extinctions since British invasion in 1788 (Cresswell et. al, 2021). In&#13;
part, this reflects the high rates of endemism among Australian species, and the distinct contribution of&#13;
Australian species to global biodiversity, with the continent supporting &gt;8% of the world’s species&#13;
(Legge et. al, 2023). However, it is also the direct result of the failure of various legal reforms to&#13;
effectively protect biodiversity since their introduction in the mid-twentieth century (Norton &amp; Kidge,&#13;
2023). This was confirmed in the most recent State of Environment report (2021), which posited that&#13;
Australia should expect further species extinctions unless current approaches to manage threats and&#13;
pressures to biodiversity are significantly reformed. Australia’s present strategies to address&#13;
biodiversity loss primarily relies on regulatory classifications of ‘critical habitat’ and ‘areas of&#13;
outstanding biodiversity value’. These are areas that are identified by state or federal governments to&#13;
be of outstanding biodiversity value, usually linked to a particular species, which experiences special&#13;
conservation measures. These frameworks reflect the measures that are most commonly associated with&#13;
biodiversity protection in Australia - that is the protection of the ‘wilderness’ through protected areas&#13;
such as nature reserves and national parks, areas where biodiversity thrives and where humans leave&#13;
only footsteps.
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<dc:date>2025-01-30T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>“Moral Illumination”: On Martha C. Nussbaum’s Literary Ethics</title>
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<description>“Moral Illumination”: On Martha C. Nussbaum’s Literary Ethics
Lin, Nicole; Tilbury, Parker (Nom de plume)
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<dc:date>2025-01-08T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Wobbegong</title>
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<description>Wobbegong
Bell, Jaime; Applicant 1 (Nom de plume)
Wobbegong - Girls stuffed their blouses up the back of their bras. They dunked their plaits into the bubblers and let water dribble down their necks. At recess they huddled in the arc of shade flung by the chapel steeple. Knucklebone circles were scratched into the dirt, but the plastic jacks burned too hot to close a proper fist around. The score evaporated in the ferocious November sunshine, until the only girl keeping count was Alannah Foot, who had never been invited to join but instead squatted a safe distance away, watching from beneath the classroom.
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<dc:date>2024-11-07T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>The House of Something Quieter</title>
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<description>The House of Something Quieter
Lucy, Honeychurch
(and You)
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<dc:date>2024-08-28T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>The King’s Speech: Unveiling the Colonial Gaze in Kenya (1895-1918)</title>
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<description>The King’s Speech: Unveiling the Colonial Gaze in Kenya (1895-1918)
Rana, Zarak Mohamed Ali; Blaze, Zack (Nom de plume)
In his recent speech to the people of Kenya, King Charles III took many by surprise when he espoused a semblance of cognizance and compassion towards the sufferings endured during the sombre epochs of imperial rule. During his speech, the King expressed a ‘great sorrow’ for past “wrongdoings”, yet, lamentably, the monarch stopped short of a genuine apology, leaving many Kenyans frustrated.2 The King’s royal visit rekindled strong emotions and is indicative of a complex and fraught relationship to empire, of which the shadow of the colonial gaze continues to loom large.
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<dc:date>2024-07-09T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Leaving for Port Jackson; the First Fleet's abandonment of Botany Bay</title>
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<description>Leaving for Port Jackson; the First Fleet's abandonment of Botany Bay
Gale, Stephen; Marjoribanks, Alexandra (Nom de plume)
On the morning of 28 April 1770, James Cook and his crew sailed into Botany Bay in the bark Endeavour, becoming the first Europeans to set foot on the east coast of Australia (Cook, 1955, 304-312). The event itself had negligible impact on the environment or on the peoples that occupied the territory. Its broader consequences, however, were massive. Perhaps the most significant of these was that the area was recommended as the site of the colony that Britain hoped to establish, inter alia, to house its overflowing gaol population 2, making Botany Bay the focus of the great colonial experiment that led to the transformation of New Holland into the modern continent-state of Australia.
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<dc:date>2024-07-08T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Some sort of yellow, sometimes</title>
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<description>Some sort of yellow, sometimes
Lobb, Jessamine Anne; Bean, Evie (Nom de plume)
National Pickle Day&#13;
Angelfish –&#13;
I’m sitting on a bench in Camperdown Park, imagining you beside me. I pick the beetroot out&#13;
of my kebab for you to eat. The juice drips on your jeans. It’s a warm evening. We’re&#13;
overlooking the grassy slope where you reminded me why I hate frisbee. The council’s planted&#13;
purple flowers. Pigeons headbang to inaudible heavy metal at our feet.
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<dc:date>2023-05-05T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Skinpolitik</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/31203</link>
<description>Skinpolitik
Robinson, Sophia; Grace, S G (Nom de plume)
I feel it in the rose garden, at the Holocaust memorial.
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<dc:date>2023-05-05T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Ashes to Absolution</title>
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<description>Ashes to Absolution
Dwyer, Annabelle Frances Ray; Ogasawara, Kaori (Nom de plume)
Max didn’t care for miracles. As for snarky comments, like what about evolution? What about&#13;
Jesus?, he didn’t care for them either. It wasn’t as if he didn’t hope for them, inevitably&#13;
everybody prayed for divine salvation. Unlike others however, Max understood the finiteness of&#13;
fortune. In his life, you either made your luck, or goddamnit, you didn’t have any.
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<dc:date>2023-05-05T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Balloons</title>
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<description>Balloons
Ryan, Brendan Samuel; Irish, Herschel (Nom de plume)
This was the earliest Robbie had been awake in five weeks. In the corner of the lively Surry&#13;
Hills café—his sister’s choice—he sat, waiting at a two-seater. He sipped warm water,&#13;
poured from a dirty bottle. He overheard conversations.
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<dc:date>2023-05-05T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Reimagining the Feudal Skeleton: An Investigation into the Legacy of Arguments for Allodial Land in Colonial New South Wales</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29951</link>
<description>Reimagining the Feudal Skeleton: An Investigation into the Legacy of Arguments for Allodial Land in Colonial New South Wales
Waugh, Harrison Hunter Redford; Marlow, Charlie (Nom de Plume)
Historians are frequently reminded that a lawyer’s law is a rational law, and the by-product of that rationality entails rejecting concepts that are too complex, confusing and unstable to fit into the legal hegemony.1 Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), Chief Justice of King James I’s bench, wrote in his famous treatise, the Institutes on the Lawes of England (1628), that “certainty is the mother of quietness and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.”2 Despite this condition, two renegading colonial barristers in New South Wales, Richard Windeyer (1806-47) and Robert Lowe (1811-92), interrogated and brought before a court a term too uncertain for legal discourse; a term that one prominent seventeenth-century antiquarian described had “long and much perplexed many prime men’s fancy to discern and find out [its] true and proper derivation.”3 The term characterised the ancient concept of allodial land – the alod.
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<dc:date>2023-02-02T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>From Pseudochrony to Diachrony: A.V. Dicey, Home Rule and the Invention of Legal History</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29867</link>
<description>From Pseudochrony to Diachrony: A.V. Dicey, Home Rule and the Invention of Legal History
Drevikovsky, Janek Otto; DOJ (Nom de Plume)
Pupils of the common law are weaned on a familiar diet: Coke, Blackstone, Maitland, Pollock&#13;
and, on questions constitutional, Albert Venn Dicey. With Dicey, the great ‘mid-Victorian’&#13;
intellectual aristocrat, the encounter is usually brief: a few, foundational hours on ‘common&#13;
law constitutionalism’, where students are taught to epitomise the man’s varied career into&#13;
three apothegms: parliament is sovereign; the rule of law has near-absolute value; the constitution is undergirded by non-legal conventions. These dicta are, in the telling, simple concepts (whose truth may or may not be challenged, depending on the proclivity of the teacher); their author is essentially anonymous — a ‘smooth-surfaced entity known as Dicey’ without historical reality.
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<dc:date>2023-01-12T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>The Weak Messianic Power of Elena Ferrante’s Feminism: A Reading of Smarginatura</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29815</link>
<description>The Weak Messianic Power of Elena Ferrante’s Feminism: A Reading of Smarginatura
Patchett, Lily Frances; Wood, Julie (Nom de plume)

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<dc:date>2022-12-20T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Charting a course for universalised humanity under the tattered sail of post-COVID (re)globalisation</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29739</link>
<description>Charting a course for universalised humanity under the tattered sail of post-COVID (re)globalisation
Tippett, Diane; Pinhan, Yalda (Nom De Plume)
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<dc:date>2022-11-23T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>The path to independence: Australia’s constitution and her British ties</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28851</link>
<description>The path to independence: Australia’s constitution and her British ties
Luo, Dane William; Evans, Robert  (Nom de Plume)
The Australian Constitution created the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. It was written ‘at a time of ambivalence about Australia’s place in the world, whether it was an independent country or a child of England. Whilst the framers were seeking greater independence from Britain, the Constitution, which itself formed part of an Act of the Imperial Parliament,2 was a colonial document that assumed the primacy of the ‘Mother Country’. At Federation, the legislature, executive and judiciary branches of the Commonwealth and States were all subject to the control of the Imperial Parliament, British Ministers and the Privy Council. Today, Australia is an independent nation, free&#13;
from British control. However, unlike other nations whose independence is symbolised by a major historical event, Australia’s independence was achieved ‘[n]ot with a bang but a whimper. The process of severing her British ties occurred through a series of milestones spanning nearly nine decades.
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<dc:date>2022-06-16T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Brutal Savages in an Unknown Island: Conspiracy, Mimetic Desire, Sacrificial Violence, and the Scapegoating of Irishness in Late Colonial New South Wales, 1860 – 1880</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28741</link>
<description>Brutal Savages in an Unknown Island: Conspiracy, Mimetic Desire, Sacrificial Violence, and the Scapegoating of Irishness in Late Colonial New South Wales, 1860 – 1880
Carney, Jack Alexander; Outrider, (Nom de plume)
Information regarding the incident that took place in the picturesque beachside Illawarra suburb of Bellambi during the early hours of the morning on Saturday, the 26th of May, 1877, remains scarce, although it can be safely assumed that the witnesses who flocked to the scene would be able to recall its grotesque details with vivid accuracy for years to come. After waking to the ominous sound of crackling in the near distance, trudging masses of townsfolk found themselves nudged from their beds and sucked unwittingly towards the unfamiliar source of pulsing orange heat and light at which a crowd had begun to slowly form in a trance-like stupor. A house had been set ablaze, its glowing embers curling into the night air and spirals of toxic smoke spewing into the crowd. As those present watched the fiery collapse of the building into smoldering mounds of rubble, they realized, to their horror, that more nightmarish images than they could have imagined lay flickering before them in the hazy gloom. Within a few yards of the burning ruins a dog’s decapitated head, cut cleanly to the neck, sat unblinking on the grass next to the mangled headless corpse of its former body, legs sprawled wildly in a sticky pool of blood. Near the dog rested the grisly charred skull and what remained of the skeletal shoulders and upper ribcage of a man, no longer resembling anything describable as human. Most tragic of all, a few yards further on the yard lay a pathetic splatter of ashen bones, fleshy organs, and dismembered extremities, loosely clustered around what could vaguely be discerned as the lifeless bodies of two small children who had been burned alive.
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<dc:date>2022-06-03T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER: A READING OF THE YELLOW WALLPAPER AND JUDITH BUTLER’S ‘PERFORMATIVE ACTS AND GENDER CONSTITUTION: AN ESSAY IN PHENOMENOLOGY AND FEMINIST THEORY’</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28698</link>
<description>UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER: A READING OF THE YELLOW WALLPAPER AND JUDITH BUTLER’S ‘PERFORMATIVE ACTS AND GENDER CONSTITUTION: AN ESSAY IN PHENOMENOLOGY AND FEMINIST THEORY’
Bullock, Charlotte Frances Crawford; Pargetter, Emma (Nom de plume)
The Yellow Wallpaper  is at its core a critique of the patriarchal society in which its author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, lived. In The Yellow Wallpaper Gilman not only seeks to challenge the confinement of women to the domestic sphere, their perception as the purer sex,  and the denial of any creative ambitions, but to confront the power of the patriarchy in medical discourses, a challenge which remains to an extent to this day. Gilman uses her narrator’s descent into madness to critique the way women were treated for mental illness, especially the use of the rest cure – a schedule of treatment, applied mostly to women, which began with the complete control of the treating doctor over the patient, followed by seclusion from her normal environment and bed rest for weeks on end.  The rest cure was designed and promoted by Weir Mitchell, a doctor who is named in The Yellow Wallpaper,  and to whom Gilman mailed a copy of her work.  He believed the cure should be applied to those women who struggled to control their emotions, were ‘hysterical’ and prone to sharing their feelings.  Gilman’s account of the effects of patriarchal medical discourses, and by extension, patriarchal control, is made more powerful through her use of the motif of the yellow wallpaper, which lines the walls of the room in which the narrator is confined
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<dc:date>2022-06-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Per speculum: Seeing mirrors in The Romance of the Rose and Pearl</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28697</link>
<description>Per speculum: Seeing mirrors in The Romance of the Rose and Pearl
Durney-Benson, Orana Loren; Paynter-Sanz, Eliza (Nom de plume)
In the twenty-first century, we are used to thinking of our eyes as clear windows onto the world around us. For audiences in the later Middle Ages, however, the human eye was a speculum, a dark mirror that alienated gazers from a realer world beyond. This essay uses the speculum as a model to explore reader-text relationships in The Romance of the Rose (c. 1275) and Pearl (c. 1375-1400). I argue that the Romance of the Rose and Pearl are unstable mirrors that condense and distort their narrators’ dream-experiences into images we are capable of imagining. These textual specula do not displace the specula of our physical eyes, but exist alongside them in complex relationship. Through a visual analysis of key illuminations in the Rose and Pearl manuscripts, I explore the ways in which the literal specula of medieval responders shaped, and were shaped by, the images in the written texts. I then examine how the synthesis of poem and illumination creates a third “text”, a super-speculum that colours the visual experience of readers in the present. Ultimately, I argue that The Romance of the Rose and Pearl use the gap between the dream and the text to highlight the larger discrepancy between the “real” world and the world that we see. In doing so, these texts turn our gaze back on the speculum itself, in an endless cycle of inward-looking.
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<dc:date>2022-06-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Como, 2019</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28693</link>
<description>Como, 2019
Weir, Georgia Gabriel
In a cold train station café in Northern Italy
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<dc:date>2022-06-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28689">
<title>Cornix in the Mangroves</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28689</link>
<description>Cornix in the Mangroves
Bell, Jaime Louisa; Bell, Jaime  (Nom de Plume)
With feathers of a coaly black,
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<dc:date>2022-06-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>The Constellations Change Rethinking Cadigal Land and the University of Sydney</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27090</link>
<description>The Constellations Change Rethinking Cadigal Land and the University of Sydney
Drevikovsky, Janek Otto
By the time Dennis Foley began searching for them, the two scar trees were long gone. Their bark-stripped trunks, which had given life to a canoe or a shield or a juguma basket,  had vanished from the University of Sydney’s Camperdown grounds.  Foley’s grandmother, Ruby, a Wiradjuri woman who worked at the university for 20 years, spoke of the scar trees often. They were part of a landscape Foley describes as ‘totemic’:   a place where lines of meaning are inscribed on ridges and dells, in a web of stories to be deciphered, performed and refashioned by the land’s Aboriginal owners, the Cadigal people of coastal Sydney,  and by other Indigenous  people who use the site today.
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<dc:date>2021-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26403">
<title>‘ALL HISTORY IS BIOGRAPHY’: RALPH WALDO EMERSON’S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26403</link>
<description>‘ALL HISTORY IS BIOGRAPHY’: RALPH WALDO EMERSON’S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
Mohseni, Aryan
R.W. Emerson’s (1803-1882) philosophy of history has been little discussed and even less understood. Emerson’s thought, outlined both in his poetry and in his Essays, has been variously dismissed as ‘ahistorical’,  ‘anti-historical’,  and even as ‘crude hero-worship’.  That may be so to a mind accustomed to the rigidity of analytic thought. But an appreciation of the Continental antecedents of American thought in the 19th century, particularly the influences of German Idealism and Romanticism, shows that Emerson grapples with fundamental historiographical problems that have bedevilled historians throughout the centuries.
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<dc:date>2020-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25780">
<title>Clytemnestra: a reimagining of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 'Leda and the Swan'</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25780</link>
<description>Clytemnestra: a reimagining of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 'Leda and the Swan'
Bell, Jaime
My little sister is born a month early, in a rush of golden afterbirth and crushed feathers. I stand over the tiny body on the rug. Feathers plastered flat against her still chest. Stiff, pale wings curling around her shoulders, like a plumaged cocoon to protect her from the faceless threat of the world.
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<dc:date>2021-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25070">
<title>Sharing the journey: Sixty years of the Royal North Shore Hospital Spinal Unit</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25070</link>
<description>Sharing the journey: Sixty years of the Royal North Shore Hospital Spinal Unit
Jones, Carter (Nom de plume); Fenton-White, Hugh
The HM Moran Prize was established in 1945 from a gift of £250 from Dr HM Moran and is awarded for the best essay. Applicants must submit an essay (maximum 5000 words) on the history of medicine and science.
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<dc:date>2020-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25058">
<title>The Mythology of Law: Colonial and Anti-Colonial World-Making</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25058</link>
<description>The Mythology of Law: Colonial and Anti-Colonial World-Making
Gonzales, Eric; Sanchez, Dominic (Nom de Plume)
Genealogies destabilise representations, empowering us to interrogate the ideologies and relationships of power they sustain. As Amia Srinivasan argues, historians are primarily&#13;
concerned with the co-origination of representations with ‘patterns of domination’. What follows is world-making: the reshaping of reality by exploiting the constitutive connections between representations and the social world they inhabit. By dispelling the fictions underlying the representations we take for granted, we ‘change what is true and what (and who) exists’
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<dc:date>2021-05-13T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25023">
<title>Le Mal du Ciel (the sickness of heaven): An Absurd, Artaudian Play</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25023</link>
<description>Le Mal du Ciel (the sickness of heaven): An Absurd, Artaudian Play
McCowan, MacKenzie Fiona; MM (nom de plume)
White strobe lights illuminate the stage. The lights throughout the scene are used to suggest an Artaudian nightmare. The atmosphere is dark, unsettling and nightmarish. Sirens wail, horns beep, dogs howl, the beat of a nightclub’s drum can be heard in a cacophony of sound. The CHORUS is spread throughout the audience.
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<dc:date>2021-05-05T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23675">
<title>The centre cannot hold: Climate change and the unmooring of the individual</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23675</link>
<description>The centre cannot hold: Climate change and the unmooring of the individual
Reid, Georgia; Anemoi, Renè D. (Nom de Plume)
Winning essay for the Wentworth Medal, 2020. Topic for 2020: An appropriate response to climate change requires that we draw on lessons from the physical sciences, social sciences and humanities.
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<dc:date>2020-10-23T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21290">
<title>Surveillance capitalism and its (un)intended consequences</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21290</link>
<description>Surveillance capitalism and its (un)intended consequences
Jacobs, Jack Michael; Fox, Q. B. (Nom de Plume)
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<dc:date>2019-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>be the cowboy: After Chris Kraus</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21252</link>
<description>be the cowboy: After Chris Kraus
Garcia-Dolnik, Lou; Bonnie Fide (Nom de plume)
</description>
<dc:date>2019-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21251">
<title>A PERFECT STORM: The flight of George Edwards Peacock — Convict, Weatherman &amp; Artist</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21251</link>
<description>A PERFECT STORM: The flight of George Edwards Peacock — Convict, Weatherman &amp; Artist
Burns-McRuvie, Maxwell; Bowington (Nom de Plume)
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<dc:date>2019-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21250">
<title>The Threat Within: American Servicemen in Australia during the Second World War</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21250</link>
<description>The Threat Within: American Servicemen in Australia during the Second World War
Taylor, Ashleigh; A. B. Taylor ((Nom de Plume)
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<dc:date>2019-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21219">
<title>“And in a hundred years stray folk will come”: Love, Death and the Museum Object in Edward Carpenter’s “Artemidorus, Farwell”</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21219</link>
<description>“And in a hundred years stray folk will come”: Love, Death and the Museum Object in Edward Carpenter’s “Artemidorus, Farwell”
Garner, Kate; Alex Rae (Nom de plume)
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<dc:date>2019-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21218">
<title>"High in the howes of the kin who are gone". Dancing with ghosts in The Waking of Angantyr</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21218</link>
<description>"High in the howes of the kin who are gone". Dancing with ghosts in The Waking of Angantyr
Lewis, Samuel; Snorri Sturluson (Nom de plume)
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<dc:date>2019-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21209">
<title>Oyster</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21209</link>
<description>Oyster
Garcia-Dolnik, Lou; Bonnie Fide (Nom de Plume)
</description>
<dc:date>2019-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21207">
<title>Indigenous criminals, settler jurisdiction and legal pluralism: a case study in anachronism and the vagaries of the legal archive</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21207</link>
<description>Indigenous criminals, settler jurisdiction and legal pluralism: a case study in anachronism and the vagaries of the legal archive
Charak, Sarah Edith; Sierra Gardos (Nom de Plume)
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<dc:date>2019-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Reclaiming the future: Searching for a way out of our perpetual present.</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21208</link>
<description>Reclaiming the future: Searching for a way out of our perpetual present.
Austin, Anthony; Anton Davidson (Nom de Plume)
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<dc:date>2019-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18952">
<title>CONCEPTUALISING THE ROMAN STATE THROUGH AGRARIAN VIRTUE IN THE DIALOGUES OF CICERO AND VARRO</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18952</link>
<description>CONCEPTUALISING THE ROMAN STATE THROUGH AGRARIAN VIRTUE IN THE DIALOGUES OF CICERO AND VARRO
Kynaston, Grant; King, Robert (Nom de Plume)
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<dc:date>2018-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>Portraits</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18954</link>
<description>Portraits
Tran, Vickie; Flet, G.E. (Nom de Plume)
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<dc:date>2018-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18955">
<title>A TANGLED CRIMSON THREAD: THE COMPLEXITIES OF AUSTRALIA’S CITIZENSHIP HISTORY</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18955</link>
<description>A TANGLED CRIMSON THREAD: THE COMPLEXITIES OF AUSTRALIA’S CITIZENSHIP HISTORY
Brown, Rebecca; Baker, Elizabeth  (Nom de Plume)
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<dc:date>2018-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18958">
<title>Ode to Love’s Victims  (Seneca Phaedra 330-357)</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18958</link>
<description>Ode to Love’s Victims  (Seneca Phaedra 330-357)
Drevikovsky, Janek; Andronicus, Livius(Nom De Plume)
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<dc:date>2018-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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<title>LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING</title>
<link>https://hdl.handle.net/2123/18953</link>
<description>LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING
Eames, Robin; Wheelwright, R (Nom de Plume)
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<dc:date>2018-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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