http://hdl.handle.net/10453/311 2013-05-24T11:36:58Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/12605 Home: The Importance Of Place To The Dispossessed Behrendt Larissa The concept of "home" is multifaceted and complex. This is especially so for Aboriginal people who are forcibly removed from their land, retain deep spiritual and cultural attachments to their traditional homes, but have been forced to create new communities. This essay looks at the concepts of home and place from a contemporary Aboriginal perspective. It looks at the way in which Aboriginal families have navigated assimilation policies such as the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and shows the impact on and legacy of such policies on Aboriginal people today. It includes personal reflections and analysis of some of the future implications for government policy relating to Aboriginal people in Australia. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/11869 'The Poetry of the Earth is Never Dead': Australia's Road Writing Falconer Delia This article discusses the process of editing The Australian Book of the Road. It uses William Hay¿s ¿An Australian Rip Van Winkle¿ as an exemplary Australian road text. With its diffuse sense of hauntedness, multiple time-warps, and eerie appropriation of northern hemisphere literary texts, Hay¿s story offers a suggestive frame for reflecting on our relationship with the road in Australia and the way it is figured in our writing; to consider the road not only as a material artefact represented by our road texts but a set of cultural traditions and tropes. Its layered hauntings offer paths to unpacking of the odd sense of unease that permeates so many of these road stories. Using ¿road writing¿ (my own term) as a strategic generic category through which disparate works can be interpreted, this paper will consider them as instances of ¿spatial history¿, following Paul Carter, opposed to more triumphalist literary traditions. It will also, finally, consider the Australian road within a global context; in particular, the strategic ways in which these stories play with strategies of adaptation. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/11867 The quadrivium of online public consultation: Policy, culture, resources, technology Macnamara Jim A report of qualitative research examining the objectives, methods used, and learnings of online public consultation trials conducted by the Australian federal government in 2008 and early 2009 as part of its commitment to e-democracy or what others call government 2.0. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/10642 Memory and a Hard Place: Revisiting Central Havana Wyndham Marivic; Read Peter Raul and Manolo are two Cuban men in their late sixties. Manolo left soon after Castro¿s triumph to become a television celebrity in Miami. He returned in 1991 to make a clandestine film about the city which once was his. Raul never left his decaying city. He applauded the revolution, but little by little his enthusiasm soured. The paper examines the relationship of the two men to what was once the ultra modern Central Havana of the mid-1950s. Manolo¿s froze on the day he left: his filmed city is silent, immobile, full of ghosts, almost empty, ugly, ruined. Manolo¿s Central Havana processes and changes, it is noisy, busy, - but also it is ugly and ruined. Both lament the city as it once was. Only Raul sees hope of reconciliation 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z