Keywords: Kangaroo Island
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Nigel Pearn
- 18 August 2010
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The book was banned after parents complained about its anti-authoritarian attitude: 'Wanja [the dog] loved to chase the [police] van ... to bark at the van ... to bite at the wheel. The police van would drive away.' Like Jewish humour, Aboriginal humour is a response to a history of oppression.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
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
John Sendy reviews Words for Country: landscape & language in Australia, Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths, eds.
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AUSTRALIA
The birthplace of a nation? Anzac Cove lies in wait for Australian pilgrims.
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AUSTRALIA
- Robert Manne
- 18 June 2006
This is the full text of the speech prepared for the debate with Keith Windschuttle at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. It draws on some of the contributions found in Robert Manne’s (ed), Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History (Black Inc, 2003).
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, David Glanz, Morag Fraser
- 16 June 2006
Death of the king, Little argument, Words to end winter
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Robert Hefner
- 14 May 2006
Robert Hefner catches Tim Flannery’s enthusiasm for our most famous marsupial in Country.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 25 April 2006
It is common knowledge that the Dunny School of Philosophy owes little to the medieval philosopher Duns Scotus.
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