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Articles
- Challenging Voices: Tracing the Problematic Role of Testimony in Political Change
A review of Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Politics of Recognition by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith.
1 October 2006 - Person, Persona and Product: Henry Kendall and ‘Steele Rudd’
Arthur Hoey Davis, a diffident twenty-six-year-old clerk, invented 'Steele Rudd' in 1894 as the nom de plume for a rowing column. The pseudonym grew, like…
1 May 1996 - ‘Talking with Yagan’s Head’: The Poetry of John Mateer
Begins with the provocation that Mateer's poetry can be fruitfully read through his poem 'Talking with Yagan's head'. 'Yagan's head ... is not simply an…
1 October 2000 - Helen Garner’s Education
On the 14th of December 1972, a schoolteacher named Helen Garner found herself fired. This essay argues that the terms of Garner’s firing inform the…
28 October 2021