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Donna Lee Brian and Quinn Eades, Eds., Offshoot: Contemporary Life Writing Methodologies and Practice
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On the Centenary of E.C.H. Chisholm at Comboyne, New South Wales
Get PDFE.C.H. Chisholm was one of many naturalists who contributed to our knowledge of the flora and fauna of NSW during the early 20th century. His most significant contribution, commenced in 1922, was a survey of the flora of the Comboyne Plateau. During his appointment as Medical Officer at Comboyne he documented almost 400 species of vascular plants and contributed more than 100 herbarium specimens. Apart from a few uncertain taxa, it appears that none of Chisholm’s listed plant species have been lost from the plateau during the course of a century. Chisholm’s botanical work at Comboyne remains the most extensive botanical contribution by an individual for this region. His legacy is both valuable and enduring
China’s international education aid to Cambodia in the 2010’s: Situation analysis and trends
Get PDFSince 2004, China has contributed an increasing amount of annual financial aid to Cambodia, especially from 2010 to 2012. Cambodia’s increasing budget shortages in education from 2014 to 2018 motivated its government to seek development aid from abroad. In the context of the ongoing rise in China's overall budget aid to Cambodia, this research studied the circumstances of this educational aid, discerning trends from 2010 to 2019, and evaluating China’s position. Data was gathered using descriptive mixed methods, with statistical data gathered from the Cambodia Official Development Assistance (ODA) Database as well as relevant documents.Results were that 1) China was among the five countries with the overall highest number of development assistance projects in Cambodia (others included Japan, South Korea, the US, and Canada). China was the largest financial contributor with the most concessional loans, with the likelihood of offering further grants by the late 2010s; 2) China provided little aid to education when compared to that provided for other sectors and compared to other aid providers. However, China did provide aid for education when combined with the facilities sectors they invested in.Notably, most Chinese educational aid programs were not recorded in the Cambodia ODA Database; though these amounts did not vary much from those of Japan and South Korea
Book Review - Rebuilding the Education Sector in East Timor During UNTAET: International Collaboration and Timorese Agency
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“Nothing to Lose & Everything to Gain”: Louis and Marie de Rosset’s Intimate Friendship with Edward Bulwer Lytton
Get PDFBy examining the Victorian novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton’s (1803–73) relationship with Louis (1840–75) and Marie de Rosset (1844–70), this essay gives an insight into Lytton’s final years. The de Rossets, a middle-class couple from North Carolina, fled to Britain during the American Civil War. Their pursuit of status and wealth culminated in an intimate friendship with Lytton. Louis worked as Lytton’s unofficial secretary and agent in the United States. Particularly interesting is the close and affectionate personal relationship between Lytton and Marie, which ended in her death in 1870. Lacking the proper background, connections, and behaviour, the de Rossets were not as successful in social rise as they had hoped. The essay demonstrates how Lytton both supported and satirised their attempt to integrate into British high society and how it inspired his central oeuvres The Coming Race (1871) and The Parisians (1873). By analysing the correspondence of the trio, over 200 letters that have not been studied previously, this article informs scholars of history, literature, and cultural studies.
Listening to the Imagined Sound of Contemporary Australian Literature
Get PDFThis Early Career Researcher keynote address examines three contemporary Australian books, Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006), Christos Tsiolkas's Barracuda (2013) and Alex Miller's Max (2020). The methodology of listening to 'imagine sound' is used to think through the Australian histories, spaces and identities that we see and hear in the books. 
Tender Places: The Claypans Diaries, Part 1 and 2
Get PDFTender Places is a creative research project engaging the settler body in reflexive dialogue with theory in and through place, to explore moral responsibilities of settler descended peoples in the time of ecological breakdown. The entanglement of severance and extraction with ecological and social violence poses a provocation to settler descended peoples. Working with the Ilparpa Claypans, a site of personal significance on the outskirts of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, my creative research uses Deborah Bird Rose’s provocation of “Taking Notice,” sensual language and presencing the co-existence of love and violence in order to mobilise the body in the act of physical translation of ideas with/in place through walking, writing and digital photography. The research acknowledges and activates trans-local relationships through the creation and sending of postcards that document, translate and disseminate field notes to and through an international network of artist peers. The postcard is presented as a queering material medium; an appropriated artefact of outsider privilege, a public/ private artwork for an audience of one, and a material item that crosses political and geographical borders to link places and people through space and time. My paper locates this practice of (trans)local place-based inquiry into ecological crisis within broader decolonising, feminist and creative inquiries into the Anthropocene. Postcards and other creative research artefacts will be shared to demonstrate the methodology in action, and I reflect on the decolonising potential of reflexive and embodied engagement with place in relation to settler identity
Older adults and hoarding: Challenging medical and ageist constructions
Get PDFThe purpose of this article is to critically analyse the dominant discourses surrounding older adults who are labelled with a diagnosis of hoarding disorder. Hoarding has increasingly attracted social interest in recent decades, with a growing number of television shows, books and media dedicated to unpacking the explanations, implications and treatments of hoarding behaviour. The article seeks to disrupt deficit frameworks, applying critical social work perspectives to create new meanings, policy and practice directions for Social Workers. Informed by a postmodern and critical social work approach the article seeks to analyse how power is socially and systemically constructed, questioning universal grand narratives. It seeks to highlight how our understanding of hoarding is informed by Western, ageist and gender discourses. This theoretical platform recognises the diversity of human experiences, and the many ways in which people construct meaning throughout their lives. The article concludes with recommendations for future research