Issue 1, 2007

01 February 2007

From Warwick Dilley

Congratulations on the first issue of Eureka Street for 2007 (vol. 17, no. 1). It has all that breadth, depth, rigour and relevance that I’ve learned to expect from your journal when it came by snail mail, and I’m pleased that you have managed to retain it in the electronic version. Well done.

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