Images of Australia: An Introductory Reader in Australian StudiesGillian Whitlock, David Carter This introductory text for students and general readers is designed for use with the new ABC TV Open Learning program. Through a collection of 14 readings by writers and academics such as Graeme Davison and Gail Reekie it explores questions of Australian culture and identity. |
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Page 78
... Miss Namagu . The Senior Constable at Lake Nash Station , writing on 21 September 1959 : There is now one half - caste here living with a lubra . He is not married to her , but has been living with her for about six years . I was under ...
... Miss Namagu . The Senior Constable at Lake Nash Station , writing on 21 September 1959 : There is now one half - caste here living with a lubra . He is not married to her , but has been living with her for about six years . I was under ...
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... at the end of the nineteenth cen- tury for the control of the national culture . To cast the struggle in terms of respectability and unrespectability is to miss the sexual Marilyn Lake: The Politics of Respectability.
... at the end of the nineteenth cen- tury for the control of the national culture . To cast the struggle in terms of respectability and unrespectability is to miss the sexual Marilyn Lake: The Politics of Respectability.
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... Miss C. Rossetti . I suppose I dreamed that dream twenty times before I wore it out . Oh well , dreams go by opposites , they say . Chances are it would have been another boy . What I meant was to tell not so much about me and the ...
... Miss C. Rossetti . I suppose I dreamed that dream twenty times before I wore it out . Oh well , dreams go by opposites , they say . Chances are it would have been another boy . What I meant was to tell not so much about me and the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Part Two White Australia Has a Black History | 59 |
Part Three A Multicultural Nation? | 101 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media, and Popular Culture Ien Ang No preview available - 2000 |