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Truganini's time as a bushranger
Listen Now – 08022009 |Download Audio – 08022009 Source: ABC Radio National Hindsight 8th February 2009 One of the most familiar names in the story of Australian colonisation is that of th… more →
Tasmania in Photographs
inclusion/exclusion: descent, dna, and aboriginality
natasia wright wrote 5 days ago: The difference between an Aboriginal person and a non-Aboriginal person is a contested issue for Abo … more →
Julie Lawson's White Jade Tiger
pernodel wrote 6 months ago: Lawson, Julie. White Jade Tiger. 1993. Toronto: Sandcastle Dundurn, 2006. The text is a tradition … more →
Monica Hughes's Log Jam
pernodel wrote 7 months ago: Hughes, Monica. Log Jam. Toronto: Irwin, 1987. Opposite to what tends to happen in novels presenti … more →
Richard Marsh's The Joss: A Reversion
pernodel wrote 7 months ago: Marsh, Richard. The Joss: A Reversion. 1901. Chicago: Valancourt, 2007 Marsh, best known as auth … more →
#12 The Secret River (2005) - Kate GRENVILLE
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matttodd wrote 8 months ago: This book appeared on my reading list for English this semester, and it has been such a long time si … more →
#11 Plains of Promise (1997) - Alexis WRIGHT
matttodd wrote 8 months ago: And so the march of contemporary Australian novels continues at university, and so, therefore, do my … more →
Truganini's time as a bushranger
TP publishers wrote 10 months ago: Listen Now – 08022009 |Download Audio – 08022009 Source: ABC Radio National Hindsight 8t … more →
Australia Day or Invasion Day
TP publishers wrote 10 months ago: Aborigines mark ‘invasion day’ Source: ABC News online Tasmanian aborigines march in Hob … more →
Marlene Carvell's Sweetgrass Basket
pernodel wrote 10 months ago: Carvell, Marlene. Sweetgrass Basket. New York: Dutton, 2005 In this novel of what claims to be fre … more →
Martyn Godfrey's Alien War Games
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pernodel wrote 1 year ago: Godfrey, Martyn. Alien War Games. Richmond hill, ON: Scholastic TAB, 1984 This is the third book … more →
Pamela F. Service's Under Alien Stars
pernodel wrote 1 year ago: Service, Pamela F. Under Alien Stars. New York: Atheneum, 1990. In a future that sounds much like … more →
Aboriginality and Alternating Narratives: Books and Themes, Part Two
pernodel wrote 1 year ago: What I’d like to do now is take a look at the books on aboriginality I listed in my last entry … more →
Aboriginality and Alternating Narratives: Books and Themes
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pernodel wrote 1 year ago: I’ve now made my way through what I’ve been able to find so far of novels for young peop … more →
Terry Pratchett's Nation
pernodel wrote 1 year ago: Pratchett, Terry. Nation. London: Doubleday, 2008. Nation is most interesting (in the context of m … more →
Wanting: Richard Flanagan's new novel
TP publishers wrote 1 year ago: Richard Flanagan in interview with Ramona Koval on the ABC’s Book Show Source: ABC Radio Natio … more →
Doctor Atomic and Alternating Narratives
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pernodel wrote 1 year ago: Having gone to the Cineplex last Saturday to see John Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic “live … more →
More on John Smelcer's The Trap
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pernodel wrote 1 year ago: When I wrote my earlier post on John Smelcer’s The Trap, I accepted the truth of the descripti … more →
Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road
pernodel wrote 1 year ago: Boyden, Joseph. Three Day Road. Toronto: Viking, 2005 The author is, according to the jacket … more →
William Mayne's Drift
pernodel wrote 1 year ago: Mayne, William. Drift. 1985. Bath: Lythway-Chivers Press, 1986. From the perspective of twenty ye … more →
