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Australian Aboriginal astronomy is a name given to the parts of indigenous Australian culture relating to astronomical subjects ? such as the Sun and Moon, the stars, planets, and the Milky Way, and their motions on the sky. Some Aboriginal groups use the motions of celestial bodies for calendar purposes. Many attribute religious or mythological meanings to celestial bodies and phenomena. There is a diversity of astronomical traditions in Australia, each with its own particular expression of cosmology. However, there appear to be common themes and systems between the groups. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Australian Library Journal, published by Australian Library and Information Association on May 1, 2001. The length of the article is 847 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The human face of the book trade: print culture and its creators.(Review)
Author: Sydney Shep
Publication: The Australian Library Journal (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2001
Publisher: Australian Library and Information Association
Volume: 50Issue: 2Page: 193

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 982 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media and Popular Culture.(Review)
Author: Tseen Khoo
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Page: 203

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In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and USA scholars (settlers, invaders, temporary visa holders) comment on the transliteration of sea, land and interior through the works of major and minor authors and through their own experience with the bioregion. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature and is organised around the natural environment - rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There's the beach where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Wheatbelt area - the most visible clearance line on the planet; desert literature, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an inland island. New Age literature that 'appropriates' Aboriginals and their cultures as the healing poultice for an ailing and dispirited West; a re-examination of pastoralism, and "the feet of millions of sheep [. that] have done unspeakable damage to soils"; an inquiry into whether Judith Wright's work can "persuade us to rejoice" in the world; an investigation of the Limestone Plains, home of the bush capital and the bogong moth; of bananas, cane toads and the Great Barrier Reef in tropic Queensland; of national parks and guesthouses where "the mountains meet the sea"; a discursive approach to temperate islands that covers sealing, Soldier Settlement, and sea country pastoral; and finally to Antarctica, where an initial utopian approach gives way to an emphasis on its stark, 'timeless' icescape as a minimalist backdrop for human dramas. The author-terrain is no less grand in its scope: poets, playwrights, novelists, and non-fiction writers are discussed across the broad range of contexts that constitutes the littoral zone known as 'Australia'. ... Read more

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Chapters: Adelaide Culture, Brisbane Culture, Culture in Geelong, Culture in Perth, Western Australia, Melbourne Culture, Sydney Culture, Sydney Opera House, Rugby League, National Gallery of Victoria, Culture of Sydney, Opera Australia, Brisbane Broncos, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Victorian Artists Society, Sydney Push, Black Theatre, Culture of Melbourne, World Youth Day 2008, Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, World Expo 88, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth, 1993 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Burswood Entertainment Complex, Sydney Royal Easter Show, Arts and Culture in Brisbane, Perth Concert Hall, Western Australia, Street Art in Melbourne, List of Songs About Melbourne, Montsalvat, Twelfth Night Theatre, Animania, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, If? Records, 2007 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Rocketsmiths, 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Libraries in Melbourne, Sydney Symphony, Piccadilly Theatre and Arcade, Perth Dance Music Awards, Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, the Arts Centre, Cygnet Cinema, Opera Queensland, Melbourne Zoo, List of Songs About Sydney, Melbourne Celtic Club, Livid, City Tattersalls Club, Griffin Theatre Company, Melbourne Writers Festival, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, University of Melbourne Student Organisations, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Paul Hammond, Prosh, Melbourne Shuffle, Every Picture Tells a Story Melbourne, Westie, Chelsea Cinema, Marryatville, 2009 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, Astor Cinema, Perth Entertainment Centre, Harvest Rain Theatre Company, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Perth Royal Show, the Regals Musical Society Inc, Music of Perth, St Mary's Cathedral Choir, Sydney, Zoetrope Live Electronica, Kaurna Language, Ekka, Biennale of Sydney, Abbotsford Convent, the Tender Trap, Coopers Brewery, Larry La Trobe, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Nullarbor, Popular Entertainment in Brisbane, Melbourne Theatre Company, Edward William Cole, Make Poverty History Concert, Harry's C...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13703842 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1071 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: David Carter Kate Darian-Smith and Gus Worby eds, Thinking Australian Studies: teaching across cultures.(Book review)
Author: Anette Bremer
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 87Page: 209(3)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 7508 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dunnies and Australian culture: looking backward and forward to explicate community memory.(Essay)
Author: Janice Newton
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 91Page: 81(11)

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Chapters: Daramulum, Indigenous Australians, Cronulla Sand Dunes, Kurnell Peninsula, Bushfood, Imparja Television, Gweagal, Aboriginal Sites of New South Wales, Australian Aboriginal Astronomy, Australian Aboriginal Culture, Death Wail, Dreamtime at the 'g, National Aboriginal ... Read more

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Australian education has been substantially re-shapedover the past decade or more, as part of a wider re-shaping of theAustralian state. Equity agendas have been increasingly muted, whileeconomic priorities have increasingly dominated educationalreforms. The book analyses key policy areas (Aboriginal education,multicultural education, gender, social class, schooling and work, andback-to-basics-curriculum movements) in light of these changes, andexamines whether these changes are best seen as reforms, or are theresult of a crisis in the Australian state. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Australian Studies, published by University of Queensland Press on September 1, 2001. The length of the article is 859 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901-1939. (Review of Books). (book review)
Author: Denise Whitehouse
Publication: Journal of Australian Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Page: 173(2)

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