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Rickard implemented one of the most memorable visualizations of that myth having his class watch excerpts from "Crocodile Dundee" to get a feel for both the mythical outback and hints of modern attitudes toward issues, such as aborigine relations and perceptions.
The massive postwar immigration, says Kalantzis, is one of two events of global importance to have taken place in modern Australian history. The other, she maintains, is the near destruction of Aboriginal society that followed the arrival of Europeans in 1788. Yet Aborigines have not only survived -- precariously -- but have...
Wertenbaker rarely stoops to the cliches that abound in the Australian productions, platitudes which are generally crafted for American consumption. For good measure, the audience is favored with a gratuitous glimpse of the Aborigine as a Noble Savage, revealed in appropriately lyrical phraseology: "A giant canoe drifts on the sea...
Not long ago, I was giving Bharati Mukherjee, a writer from India who now lives in Berkeley, what I call the Ishmael Reed Oakland tour, which lately has also been given to an Australian Aborigine writer, three Czech writers and an Italian television crew, a professor of film from the...
Eddie Cameron was 23 when he was arrested, charged with burglary and placed in a solitary cell in Geraldton, Western Australia, one night last July. A few hours later he was found dead, hanging by his own bootlaces. But the death of Eddie Cameron, an Aborigine who was a local...