Category Archives: Australian culture

May 1, 2024 · 10:55 pm

Gaza! Gaza! A Protest Encampment at Adelaide University

CIRCULAR to Staff from JENNIE SHAW, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, 1 May 2024 .… A Circular which I, as an Uni-Adelaide Staff retiree, received today: now presented with highlighting [in red] imposed and photographs added; and other news items as essential contextualization.

 Dear Colleagues

You may be aware that a protest encampment has been set up today on the North Terrace campus.

The group said it did not know how many people would take part in the Adelaide protest but it would stay as long as needed.

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April 25, 2024 · 7:46 pm

ANZAC DAY Commemorations Today … 25 April 2024

The Ceremonial “Markings” in Turkey and Elsewhere: Momentous & Indelible Recollections

GALLIPOLI, TURKEY – APRIL 25: New Zealand Lieutenant General Jerry Mateparae speaks at the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at ANZAC Cove on April 25, 2010 in Gallipoli, Turkey. Today commemorates the 95th anniversary of ANZAC (Australia New Zealand Army Corps) Day, when First World War troops landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey early April 25, 1915. Today April 25 is commemorated with ceremonies of remembrance for those who fought and died in all wars ….. Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images   

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April 24, 2024 · 2:56 am

Ironies in the Metaphors of Anzac Cove in Australian Lore

Richard Koenigsberg plus ….

Addressing the practices of remembrance in Australia, Richard Koenigsberg has noted the irony that a battlefield defeat at Gallipoli in World War One, 1915, served a people as an emblem of nationhood: the “Australian nation, came into being on the foundations provided by the slaughter of its young men.”

There is more irony. The commemoration of Australian courage, sacrifice and manliness at Gallipoli (and subsequently on the Somme) was threaded by tropes of youthful innocence that drew on classical Hellenic motifs; while the monuments and epitaphs that were crafted in Australia to mark this event were manifestly Greek in form. The gendered masculine metaphor, in turn, was often embodied in the seminal image of a full-bodied blonde young man. “Archie Hamilton” in Peter Weir’s classic film Gallipoli was/is one such trope (and he died of course).

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April 20, 2024 · 9:38 pm

Ashton Agar in Freelance Rejuvenation?

Alex Malcolm, in ESPNcricinfo … where the title of the essay runs thus  …. ” ‘It gives me flexibility’ – Agar opts for freelance life while still committing to Australia”

Ashton Agar has become the latest Australian player to make the bold decision to become a freelance global gun-for-hire, and he couldn’t be more excited about it.

Ashton Agar in his delivery stride•Getty Images and Cricket Australia

But the 30-year-old says he remains committed to trying to play for Australia in all three formats, including Test cricket, and playing domestic cricket for Western Australia when he’s available despite opting not to sign a state contract for 2024-25.

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March 20, 2024 · 7:08 pm

Mareeba: An Albanian Muslim Community in Outback Queensland

VISIT … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZvzG1WtlM

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OnePath Network travelled all the way over to North Queensland to meet with the Muslim Community of Mareeba. They are a small rural community of Albanian farmers that have been here for over 100 years. Their story is nothing short of inspirational for Muslims around the world. We uncovered how they not only were able to blend in so flawlessly into Australian culture but also the secret behind their ability to survive for so many generations. Enjoy their story! Read more real stories from right here in Australia of how local Zakat has transformed peoples lives, empowering generations to come:

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February 23, 2024 · 2:42 pm

TORMENTED BY TELSTRA …. in Australia

Michael Roberts the Thuppahiyaa

 Dear MP for WAITE in South Australia, friends and countrymen

A =ISSUES with the MOBILE PHONE

This is a remarkable tale of TELSTRA failures amounting to persecution of a couple in their mid-eighties.

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February 12, 2024 · 12:13 pm

‘Made’ in Australia: The Journal SOUTH ASIA

SEE … https://southasianstudies.org.au/journal/

   

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies ranks as the leading academic journal in South Asian studies. It provides a forum for scholarly research, comment and discussion on the history, society, economy, culture and international relations of the South Asian region, drawing on a range of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences. South Asia publishes cutting edge, innovative, conceptually interesting, original case studies and new research, which shape and lead debates in the field.

SOUTH ASIA-Journal

 Professor Kama Maclean: a key figure in the history of the journal

 

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February 9, 2024 · 4:42 pm

Captain Cook, the First Fleet & Australia Day: Relevant Facts

Earlson Forbes in Sydney in Email Memo to Michael Roberts, 9 February 2024** as a Comment on this TPS Item viz https://thuppahis.com/2024/02/08/anzac-day-outdoes-australia-day-in-the–scales-of-dinky-die-australian-nationalism/ ……….. Note that the highlights in black are those by Earlson, while the other coloured segments are those of Editor Roberts.

Whilst the author of this email has made many interesting observations, I think clarification is due on some aspects of the contents. The email in question states. ‘The first fleet arrived in Botany Bay on 18th January. The 26th was chosen as Australia Day for a very different and important reason.  The 26th of January 1949 is the day Australians received their independence from British Rule’.

The comment regarding the arrival of Captain James Cook is correct. James Cook did not bring the First Fleet to Australia. Many years before the First Fleet arrived in Australia Captain Cook was on a voyage to the mid Pacific.  Cook’s voyage took him to Hawaii where there was a fierce encounter with the Hawaiians and Cook was killed in the skirmish on 14 February 1779.

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February 8, 2024 · 9:09 pm

Anzac Day Outdoes Australia Day in the Scales of Dinky-Die Australian Nationalism

Michael Roberts 

A week or so before patriotic Sri Lankans marked and celebrated “Independence Day” on 4th February denoting the day on which the imperial British order of the modern era relinquished its formal colonial hold on “Ceylon,”  Australians marked “Australia Day” with commemorative ceremonies on 26th January. In fact, at the ceremony in Adelaide marking our Sri Lankan independence, I came across a former naval officer in resplendent out with medals marking his service in the Sri Lankan Navy who had received his Australian citizenship a week or so earlier. 

 

 

 

 

 

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January 25, 2024 · 7:18 pm

Arrowheads directed at AUSTRALIA DAY…..Today

Item in THE ADVERTISER Newspaper in Adelaide … web-reference gone walkabout … But see ………………………… https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/cricket/cricket-australia-boss-nick-hockley-left-speechless-after-grilling-from-radio-host/news-story/199aa83d0e60b1da470ce4721b05b861

The issue that’s reaching boiling point today is the Australia Day debate. Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins has added his voice to calls to change the date from January 26:

“My personal opinion 

INSERTION: photos of typical Australia Day displays in Sydney in 2023 as  concurrent ceremnies occurred in all cities, town and villages

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