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'Waiting with Bated Breath'

'Waiting with Bated Breath'

REVIEW: Tears flow as redundancy stories spell end to journalism’s heyday

Upheaval: Disrupted Lives in Journalism, edited by Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson. Sydney: UNSW Press. 2021. 368 pages, ISBN 9781742237275
 I DOUBT there is anyone who has worked—or currently works—in journalism that would not have tears rolling down their cheeks as they read the stories of redundancy within Australia’s faltering news industry in this carefully edited collection. That’s not to say that Upheaval: Disrupted Lives in Journalism doesn’t also provoke laugh-out-loud moments at memories of newsroom antics or angry agreement about bullying, misogyny and blatant gender discrimination, but there is no getting around the fact that the central point of this book is tell the stories of the human impact of the brutal gutting of Australia’s media.

‘That’s not how we speak’: interpreting monolingual ideologies in courtrooms

ABSTRACT The paper examines the operation and impact of monolingual ideologies relating to English in interpreter-mediated courtrooms in Australia. This is an issue relevant to courts in many geographical places, especially in Anglophone nations with common law systems. Using recurrent thematic analyses, the paper draws on interviews with 36 court interpreters working in Australia. From the perspective of legal interpreters, the paper explores three specific language ideologies linked to a ‘monolingual mindset’ [Michael Clyne (2005) Australia's Language Potential, UNSW Press.] of courtrooms: accent as a key marker of Australian English according to standard language ideologies; monolingual assumptions that there is only one version of each language; and negative perceptions of the bilingual abilities of court participants from minority backgrounds. The findings illustrate the ‘us-them’ distinction as both a cause and an outcome of the perpetuation of monolingual ideologies, which, in turn, feed into the conditions for the production and reproduction of existing power structures and ideological uses of language, with ramifications for the fairness and justice of legal processes. The paper concludes by highlighting the pervasiveness of monolingual ideologies in courtrooms, the need for multilingual and multicultural training of legal professionals and the relevance of collaboration between interpreters and legal professionals to addressing monolingualism in Australian courtrooms.

British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the empire by Kama Maclean

Reviewed by: British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the empire by Kama Maclean Margaret Allen British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations and the empire By Kama Maclean. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2020. This volume sets out to write a history of relationships between India and Indians and Australia and Australians in the first half of the twentieth century, through the "framework of the [British] empire, and later the commonwealth." The period begins with the federation of the Australian colonies, based upon restrictive immigration policies directed, in part, at the Crown's Indian subjects. Federated Australia became a self-governing entity within the empire, while India was unable to progress to a similar position, remaining largely under direct British rule until the growing nationalist movement was able to effect independence in 1947. This study builds upon and makes a contribution to the small but growing literature on the histories of Indians resident in Australia during the heyday of the restrictive White Australia policy. But it does much more than that. The focus upon the "awkward triangular dynamic that developed between Britain, India and Australia in the early twentieth century" allows larger questions to be explored. Clearly the racially restrictive immigration policies were an important barrier to cordial relationships between these two very differently situated parts of the British Empire. Indeed Indians saw the White Australia policy as a "permanent characteristic of Australia." The British government was very critical of Australian racism, but Maclean argues for "the similarities between the White Australia policy and the White Man's Burden, the very premise of British imperialism in India." The British castigation of Australian racial thinking around immigration diverted attention from British rule in India. An important focus of this volume is upon political history and intercolonial/international relations but it also delves into popular culture and histories of representation. An exploration of the categorization of the naming practices of Indians in Australia reveals a litany of mostly derogatory terms: Hindoos, Asiatics, aliens, Natives, coolies, and Indians. Many of these were used on the Certificate Exempting the Dictation Test, an identity document which resident Indians needed to negotiate Australian entry ports. Maclean also traces the origins and meanings of the name "Charlie," often applied indiscriminately to Indian men resident in Australia, arguing it was a further manifestation of Indians being distanced by the Australian community. Politicians and press promoted an undesirable view of India and Indians which, along with the pervasiveness of works by Kipling and his ilk, served to maintain racial prejudices, but by delving into an archive of Australian family photographs, which included images of Indian hawkers, who were so often crucial to the rural communities they served, Maclean finds that some "individual Indian hawkers were able to transcend the stereotypes that were so dominant in the public sphere": their "acceptance" was both "limited and conditional." Maclean argues that as the nationalist movement built in the first decades of the twentieth century, Australian knowledge of India's hopes and aspirations was limited, especially as works expressing pro-Indian views including Palme Dutt's India Today (1940) were largely kept from the Australian public. The Australian public was fed a stream of pro-imperial propaganda as "the government of India continued to covertly influence global opinion about Gandhi and the Congress." Indeed even as Indian independence neared, the British were still intervening in the India-Australia relationship and even seeking to censure the speeches of India's first High Commissioner in Australia, R. Paranjpye. Maclean brings to light individuals such as Winston Burchett who sought to enlighten the Australian public. He attended the 1937 conference of the Indian National Congress, and hearing Nehru and other leaders speak, became committed to breaking through the veil of misinformation about India and to informing the Australian public about the nationalist movement and its aspirations. However, missing from this study is any discussion of Australian Christian missionary activity in India and such missionary influence on Australian views of India. India was a favoured field for Australian missionaries and many people and organizations formed long and deep associations with India and Indians. It is easy to see Christian missions merely as an arm of...

Influence of plants on soil mites (Acari, Oribatida) in gardens

Influence of plants on soil mites (Acari, Oribatida) in gardens

On the Strength of Hair across Species

Summary The hair of mammals varies in diameter across species from ∼60 μm in humans to over ∼400 μm in giraffes and elephants. Here, we establish that the tensile strength of hair generally decreases with increasing diameter. Although there is a commonality in the morphology of the hair in such differing species as they all possess a cortex surrounded by cuticles, there are also significant differences in the hierarchical structure that contribute to the observed differences in strength. In this work, the internal structure of the hair from different species is examined, with some unique peculiarities in javelina and capybara hair uncovered. The dimensional dependence of hair strength is compared using Weibull predictions. The good correlation of the strength of hair using such Weibull analysis suggests that the failure strength is dictated by the probability distribution of flaws within the cortex.

Charles Bean: Man, Myth, Legacy

Charles Bean: Man, Myth, Legacy. Edited by Peter Stanley (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2017), 249 pp. AU$39.99 (pb).

Jazz Culture in the North: A Comparative Study of Regional Jazz Communities in Cairns and Mackay, North Queensland

Jazz Culture in the North: A Comparative Study of Regional Jazz Communities in Cairns and Mackay, North Queensland

"We Will Show the Country": Bringing History to Life

"We Will Show the Country": Bringing History to Life

Implementing a palliative approach in the intensive care unit: an oxymoron or a realistic possibility?

Providing a palliative approach in an ICU is not an oxymoron and is within our reach today. Implementing a palliative approach will better ensure the needs of older patients and their families are met. Investing in developing the palliative care capabilities of ICUs and implementing appropriate policies that support the delivery of best evidence-based palliative care, will help ICU clinicians move seamlessly from implementing intensive therapies focusing on cure to palliation and relief of symptoms and care of families.

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issueVan Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History. By Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane (Sydney: NewSouth, 2015), pp.x + 453. AU$39.99 (pb).Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier. By Libby Connors (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2015), pp.xii + 268, AU$32.99 (pb).Anglican Clergy in Australia 1788–1850: Building a British World. By Michael Gladwin (London: Boydell and Brewer and Royal Historical Society, 2015), pp.xiv + 268. One map. £50.00 (cloth).Nature's Gifts: The Australian Lectures of Henry George on the Ownership of Land and Other Natural Resources. By John Pullen (Sydney: Federation Press, 2014), pp.240. AU$34.95 (pb).Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales. By Tanya Evans (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2015), pp. ix + 304. AU$39.99 (pb).Albert Hall: the Heart of Canberra. By Lenore Coltheart (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2014), pp.x + 318. Colour and b/w photographic illustrations throughout. AUS$49.99 (pb).Silent System: Forgotten Australians and the Institutionalisation of Women and Children. Edited by Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson (North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014), pp.xiv + 224. AU$34.95 (pb).Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s. By Stuart Macintyre (Sydney: NewSouth, 2015), pp.xi + 596. AU$34.99 (pb).David Syme: Man of the Age. By Elizabeth Morrison (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing and the State Library of Victoria, 2014), pp.433. AU$39.95 (pb). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.Inside the Hawke‐Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary. By Gareth Evans (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2014), pp.xvii + 414. AU$49.95 (cloth)/$19.99 (ebook).Paul Keating: The Biography. By David Day (Sydney: Fourth Estate, 2015), pp.xviii + 557. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, AU$49.95 (cloth).Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration: Mobilizing the Past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Edited by Shanti Sumartojo and Ben Wellings (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014), pp.329. €56.00 (pb).The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd. By Quentin Beresford (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2015), pp.442. AU$32.99 (pb).Dangerous Allies: The United States and Australia. By Malcolm Fraser with Cain Roberts (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2014). Pp.viii + 360. ISBN 978‐0‐6740‐67141. AU$45.00 (cloth).An Age of Neutrals: Great Power Politics, 1815–1914. By Maartje Abbenhuis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp.x + 289. ISBN 978‐1‐107‐03760‐1. AU$135.00 (cloth).Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923. By R.F. Foster (London: Allen Lane, 2014), pp.xxiii + 463. Thirty‐three plates. Ten text illustrations. £20.00 (cloth).Five Year Mission: The Labour Party under Ed Miliband. By Tim Bale (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp.320. £7.69 (pb).Inside Concentration Camps: Social Life at the Extremes. By Maja Suderland (Cambridge: Polity, 2013), [Ein Extremfall des Sozialen (Frankfurt/Main; Campus Verlag GmbH, 2009)]; translated by Jessica Spengler, pp.xiii + 336. £17.99 (pb).The Passage to Europe: How a Continent became a Union. By Luuk Van Middelaar, translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters (New Haven and London: Yale University Press 2013), pp.xvii + 372 £25 (cloth), £12.99 (pb). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.Writing the History of Memory. Edited by Stefan Berger and Bill Niven (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), pp. ix + 247. AU$39.99 (pb).Artists under Hitler. Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany. By Jonathan Petropoulos (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), pp.xiii + 407, b/w illustrations and colour plates. US $40.00 (cloth). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.A Stranger in My Own Country. The 1944 Prison Diary. By Hans Fallada, ed. Jenny Williams and Sabine Lange, trans. Allan Blunden (Cambridge: Polity, 2015), pp.viii + 274. £20.00 (cloth).Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York. By Phillip Deery (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), pp.xi + 252, US$34.95 (cloth).Dumont d'Urville: Explorer and Polymath. By Edward Duyker (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2014), pp.671. NZ$70.00 (cloth).Globalization and Social Transformation in the Asia‐Pacific: The Australian and Malaysian Experience. Edited by Claudia Tazreiter and Siew Yean Tham (Houndsmills, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), £65.00 (cloth).Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth. By Alison Bashford (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), pp.480. 16 Illustrations, AU$97.00 (cloth). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.Politics Against Pessimism: Social Democratic Possibilities Since Ernst Wigforss. By Winton Higgins and Geoff Dow (Bern: Peter Lang, 2013), pp.434. US$73.00 (pb).The Vulnerable in International Society. By Ian Clark (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp.1 + 190. AU$44.00 (pb).The Yezidis. The History of a Community, Culture and Religion. By Birgϋl Açikyıldız (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014) pp. xvii + 283, AU$41.95 (pb). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.Totalitarian Dictatorship: New Histories. Edited by Daniela Baratieri, Mark Edele and Giuseppe Finaldi (New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2014), pp.280. £80.00 (cloth).We Are Amphibians: Julian and Aldous Huxley on the Future of Our Species. By R.S. Deese (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015), pp.vii + 230, AU$76.00 (cloth). Distributed in Australia by Footprint Books.

Counterculture, Property, Place, and Time: Nimbin, 1973

Counterculture, Property, Place, and Time: Nimbin, 1973

The Right Stuff? The Original Double Jay as Site for Youth Counterculture

The Right Stuff? The Original Double Jay as Site for Youth Counterculture

Trading Nation: Advancing Australia's Interests in World Markets, by MikeAdams, NicolasBrown and RonWickes (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2013), pp. 404.

Economic RecordVolume 90, Issue 290 p. 409-414 Book Review Trading Nation: Advancing Australia's Interests in World Markets, by Adams, Mike, Brown, Nicolas and Wickes, Ron ( UNSW Press, Sydney, 2013), pp. 404. Malcolm Bosworth, Malcolm Bosworth World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandSearch for more papers by this authorGreg Cutbush, Greg Cutbush ANU Enterprise, ACT, AustraliaSearch for more papers by this author Malcolm Bosworth, Malcolm Bosworth World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandSearch for more papers by this authorGreg Cutbush, Greg Cutbush ANU Enterprise, ACT, AustraliaSearch for more papers by this author First published: 22 September 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12148Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume90, Issue290September 2014Pages 409-414 RelatedInformation

Alternative Entrances: Phillip Noyce and Sydney’s Counterculture

[Extract] Phillip Noyce is one of Australia's most prominent film makers - a successful feature film director with both iconic Australian narratives and many a Hollywood blockbuster under his belt. Still, his beginnings were quite humble and far from his role today when he grew up in the midst of the counterculture of the late sixties. Millions of young people his age joined the various 'movements' of the day after experiences that changed their lives-mostly music but also drugs or fashion. The counterculture was a turbulent time in Sydney artistic circles as elsewhere. Everything looked possible, you simply had to "Do It!" - and Noyce did. He dived head-on into these times and with a voracious appetite for its many aspects-film, theatre, rallies, music, art and politics in general. In fact he often was the driving force behind such activities.

Indonesia. The roots of terrorism in Indonesia: From Darul Islam to Jema'ah Islamiyah. By Solahudin, translated by Dave McRae. Sydney: UNSW Press and Lowy Institute for International Policy, 2013. Pp. xx + 236. Notes, Index.

The roots of terrorism in Indonesia: From Darul Islam to Jema'ah Islamiyah By SOLAHUDIN, translated by DAVE MCRAE Sydney: UNSW Press and Lowy Institute for International Policy, 2013. Pp. xx + 236. Notes, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463413000696 This is a valuable book by a well-informed author, translated well and presented in a style that non-specialists and specialists alike will find accessible. Solahudin is a senior journalist who has researched Indonesia's violent terrorist movements since the Bali bombings of 2002. His book was originally published in Indonesian in 2011. The translator, Dave McRae, is now with the Lowy Institute; he holds a Ph.D. from the Australian National University and spent several years in Indonesia with the International Crisis Group and World Bank. His own book on interreligious violence in Poso (A few poorly organised men) has just been published. Solahudin's principal contribution is to set out the ideological and family lines that lead from and link independent Indonesia's first Islamist terrorist movement--the Darul Islam of the 1940s-early '60s--to the extremist groups that have become more prominent since the end of the Soeharto regime in 1998. It is, as the author says, 'a history of the jihadi movement in Indonesia, from Darul Islam through to Jema'ah Islamiyah'. While these links are familiar to specialist scholars, there is, I think, no other book-scale discussion that sets them out as clearly as Solahudin does here. By following both the people and the ideas, Solahudin fills a gap in the literature. The book seeks the deeper roots of Salafism and jihadism in Islamic tradition, reaching back to Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328). In Indonesia, the story begins with the Padri movement in West Sumatra over two centuries ago, from which Solahudin quickly moves to the reformist movements of the early twentieth century. This earlier history is a small part of the book, but an important one, for it reminds readers that the ideas that motivate extremists are not something recent, that they have roots in religious thinking which is validated by a long history--as, of course, are the contending Islamic traditions that reject such interpretations. There are inherent risks in writing about such a topic, for this is a field plagued by secrecy, misinformation, and disinformation. Solahudin relies on a wide range of sources, including interrogations of captured individuals and interviews with major players. The book is about clandestine, violent movements that engage in criminality and mayhem, whose enemies include repressive governments and their agents (who sometimes infiltrate or befriend terrorist groups if it suits them)--including police of legendary levels of corruption and brutality--the records of whose interrogations are subject to grave doubts about their veracity and the likelihood of whose interviews being candid and reliable must be doubtful. …

Australia and China at 40, edited by James Reilly and Jingdong Yuan. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2012. xii + 244 pp. AU$49.99 (hardcover).

<i>Australia and China at 40</i>, edited by James Reilly and Jingdong Yuan. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2012. xii + 244 pp. AU$49.99 (hardcover).

The Body That Read the Laugh: Cixous, Kristeva, and Mothers Writing Mothers

The Body That Read the Laugh: Cixous, Kristeva, and Mothers Writing Mothers

Bunnies, Bilbies, and the Ethic of Ecological Remembrance

Bunnies, Bilbies, and the Ethic of Ecological Remembrance

‘Differences … in Dealing with The Australian Public’: Australia as A Foreign Market in the 1920s

‘Differences … in Dealing with The Australian Public’: Australia as A Foreign Market in the 1920s