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AUSTRALIA

No vote, no voice
- Daniel Gregory
- 10 August 2023
6 Comments
The upcoming Voice referendum in Australia will be a defining moment for the nation. However, Australians living overseas indefinitely are unable to participate, raising questions about the true boundaries of democratic participation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

More lies about imaginary Mexico
- Gabriella Munoz
- 15 October 2018
3 Comments
The more than 53 million people living in poverty in Mexico are being insulted in every episode of the new Netflix reality show Made in Mexico. Nine socialites of Mexico's one per cent are the protagonists of a reality show that can only be described as a mishmash of The Real Housewives and Beverly Hills 90210, catty moments included.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A world of majesty and cruelty
- Catherine Marshall
- 11 August 2017
14 Comments
We have just taken off from Dubai for St Petersburg. My son is marvelling at the immensity of Dubai’s airport—now officially the busiest in the world. We have stood on a bus—stifling, cramped—and boarded our air-conditioned connecting flight with a deep sense of relief. We have watched the planes lining up behind ours on the shimmering tarmac, and have noted the outside temperature flashing on the screen: 44 degrees Celsius. Thank God we’re getting out of here.
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INTERNATIONAL

Thoughts from a sanctimonious expatriate
- Ellena Savage
- 21 February 2014
9 Comments
There is a difference between immigration and expatriatism. The term 'expat' seems only to refer to the affluent, particularly those with Caucasian ancestry. The expat has no obligation to learn the language and customs of the place they live, and always has a home they can return to. Since taking a job in publishing in South East Asia, I am the kind of person who gets to be thought of as an expat. It feels weird.
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INTERNATIONAL

Confessions of a fat, exploitative tourist
- Ellena Savage
- 25 October 2013
5 Comments
One person told me the story of going out to a gallery in a rural area and seeing the same man harvesting rice with a buffalo that they'd seen a few months earlier. When they asked the gallery owner if it was harvest time again, he was told that the man was not actually harvesting rice, he was just employed to look like he was. A spectacle for the tourists. Which I'm pretty sure is the most alienated labour possible.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Race against grief
- Tim Kroenert
- 20 October 2011
In 2002, jockey Damien Oliver rode to Melbourne Cup glory, one week after his brother, Jason, was killed in a racing incident. The Cup, a paean to the Golden Age of Australian cinema, recreates the tragic and inspirational events in style.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD

The mingled yarn
- Bronwyn Lay
- 21 July 2010
2 Comments
My granddad was a fourth generation white Australian who worked with sheep. I used to tell the story that he was a small town racist who disliked Blacks, Catholics and Jews. The punch line was that his daughter married a Fijian, his son married a Jew and my dad married a Catholic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Returning to place
- Daniel Donahoo
- 14 May 2006
Daniel Donahoo examines the experiences of an expat in Peter Conrad’s Tales of Two Hemispheres.
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AUSTRALIA

The sons of privilege
- Anthony Ham
- 11 May 2006
Anthony Ham travels the enigmatic and affluent Saudi Arabia
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Sumatran reflections
- Madeleine Byrne
- 25 April 2006
John Mateer’s Semar’s Cave: An Indonesian Journal is best appreciated for its lyrical reflection and vivid detail, writes Madeleine Byrne.
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Keywords: Expats