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This cluster of papers explores Australian Indigenous languages, including their grammatical properties, cultural significance, and influence on other languages. It delves into topics such as Aboriginal astronomy, ethnobotany, kinship systems, traditional knowledge, and the impact of language contact on these indigenous languages.

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Australian Indigenous Languages; Aboriginal Astronomy; Language Contact; Cultural Continuity; Ethnobotany; Kinship; Traditional Knowledge; Astronomical Traditions; Substrate Features; Placenames

The Tiwi of North Australia

1961-01-01

Asen Balikci , C. W. M. Hart , Arnold R. Pilling

Tiwi Marriage. Life in the Bush. The Prestige and Influence System. The Corrective Life. Friend and Foe (1600. 1928). Changing Tiwi Society: 1930 to the 1970s. The Tiwi Revisited: 1954-1986 … Tiwi Marriage. Life in the Bush. The Prestige and Influence System. The Corrective Life. Friend and Foe (1600. 1928). Changing Tiwi Society: 1930 to the 1970s. The Tiwi Revisited: 1954-1986 By Jane C. Goodale. Fieldwork Among the Tiwi: 1928-1929 By C.W.M. Hart.

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

1957-05-01

Mark H. Beers , Robert Berkow

Evoked Potentials in Psychology, Sensory Physiology and Clinical Medicine

1972-10-01

D. E. Regan

Methods of Biochemical Analysis

1956-09-01

David Glick

Desert People: A Study of the Walbiri Aborigines of Central Australia

1963-08-01

Jane C. Goodale

A grammar of Jingulu, an Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory

2003-01-01

Rob Pensalfini

Reading National Geographic

1994-10-01

Virginia R. Domínguez

Reading National Geographic. Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. xvii. 309 pp. 40 halftones, appendices, bibliography, index. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Reading National Geographic. Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. xvii. 309 pp. 40 halftones, appendices, bibliography, index. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The Dyirbal Language of North Queensland

1978-03-01

Bruce Rigsby , R. M. W. Dixon

Preface 1. Australian languages 2. Dyirbal: the language and its speakers 3. word classes 4. Syntax 5. Deep syntax 6. Morphology 7. Phonology 8. Semantics 9. Lexicon 10. Prehistory Appendices. Preface 1. Australian languages 2. Dyirbal: the language and its speakers 3. word classes 4. Syntax 5. Deep syntax 6. Morphology 7. Phonology 8. Semantics 9. Lexicon 10. Prehistory Appendices.

Grammatical Categories in Australian Languages

1980-09-01

Alan Rumsey , R. M. W. Dixon

Words of Our Country: Stories, Place Names and Vocabulary in Yidiny, the Aboriginal Language of the Cairns-Yarrabah Region

1993-03-01

Bernard Comrie , R. M. W. Dixon

CONGENITAL WORD-BLINDNESS.

1900-05-01

James Hinshelwood

Should the History of Science Be Rated X?

1974-03-22

Stephen G. Brush

I suggest that the teacher who wants to indoctrinate his students in the traditional role of the scientist as a neutral fact finder should not use historical materials of the … I suggest that the teacher who wants to indoctrinate his students in the traditional role of the scientist as a neutral fact finder should not use historical materials of the kind now being prepared by historians of science: they will not serve his purposes. He may wish to follow the advice of philosopher J. C. C. Smart, who recently suggested that it is legitimate to use fictionalized history of science to illustrate one's pronouncements on scientific method (56). On the other hand, those teachers who want to counteract the dogmatism of the textbooks and convey some understanding of science as an activity that cannot be divorced from metaphysical or esthetic considerations may find some stimulation in the new history of science. As historian D. S. L. Cardwell has argued (57, p. 120): . . . [I]f the history of science is to be used as an educational discipline, to inculcate an enlightened and critical mind, then the Whig view . . . cannot do this. For it must emphasize the continuities, the smooth and successive developments from one great achievement to the next and so on; and in doing so it must automatically endow the present state of science with all the immense authority of history. He suggests that the critical mind might be inhibited by seeing the present as the inevitable, triumphant product of the past. The history of science could aid the teaching of science by showing that "such puzzling concepts as force, energy, etc., are man-made and were evolved in an understandable sequence in response to acutely felt and very real problems. They were not handed down by some celestial textbook writer to whom they were immediately self-evident" (57, p. 120). The past may give some hints on how to survive the most recent recurrence of public hostility to science. Rather than blaming historians such as Kuhn for encouraging antiscientific attitudes, as one physicist did in a public address in 1972 (58), one might consider this criticism of the older style of science history, published in 1940 by W. James Lyons (59, p. 381): The historians of science are responsible, it would appear, for the unpopularity of science among those most acutely affected by the depression. In their clamor to enhance the scientific tradition, and hoard for science all credit for the remarkable and unprecedented material advances which studded the century and a quarter preceding 1930, these historians have been more enthusiastic than accurate . . . science emerged [in the popular mind] as the most prominent force responsible for making this modern world so startlingly different from all preceding ages. Thus when, for many people, the modern world, in spite of all its resources, began to slip from its role of "best of all imaginable worlds," science came in for a proportionate share of blame. Had a more accurate picture of the part science has played been presented, science would not now be the object of so much suspicion and resentment. In more recent times, hostility to science has been intensified by the image of the "objective," robot-like scientist lacking emotions and moral values. If the new approach to the history of science really does give a more realistic picture of the behavior of scientists, perhaps it has a "redeeming social significance." Then, rather than limiting the conception of science to the strict pattern allowed by traditional local standards, one might try to change those standards in such a way as to reflect the freedom that the boldest natural philosophers have always exercised.

Handbook of Australian Languages

1981-12-31

Barry J. Blake , R. M. W. Dixon

This Handbook is intended to make available short gra mmatical sketches of Australian languages.Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a … This Handbook is intended to make available short gra mmatical sketches of Australian languages.Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text (where available) and vocabulary list.(See section 3 of the Editors' Introduction.)The first volume includes one account of a living lan guage -Guugu Yimidhirr, which is still spoken by some hun dreds of people, mostly living at Hopevale Mission and at Cooktown.The other three sketches deal with dying (or dead) languages -there is one fluent speaker of Gumbaynggir, the last good speaker of Pitta-Pitta died as the volume was being prepared for publication, and the last speaker of Yaygir died in 1973.These three grammars contain all that is known of the languages; the vocabularies are also exhaustive.(There are further texts in Gumbaynggir, which are available in the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, P.0.Box 553, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601.)In the case of Guugu Yimidhirr John Haviland has provided a sample vocabulary, extracted from his fairly comprehensive diction ary, following the editors' 500-word list.Work on this language is continuing.Haviland has employed a practical orthography for Guugu Yimidhirr, using just letters of the Roman alphabet; this has made it possible to employ italic type for all Guugu Yimidhirr material.The other authors use some non-Roman symbols, and here Australian language material is typed with a standard phonetic ball.Each contributor to the handbook is responsible for having his grammar typed according to a standard stylesheet, and providing camera-ready copy for the editors.Authors are responsible for their own sub-editing and proof-checking.It is planned that Volumes 2 and 3 of the Handbook should follow at intervals of roughly a year.It is hoped to include in further volumes Bägandji by Luise Hercus, Antikirinya (a Western Desert dialect) by

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The Voyage to Marege: Macassan Trepangers in Northern Australia

1979-01-01

Alan R. Tippett , Campbell Macknight

Speech and Brain‐Mechanisms

1960-04-01

Wilder Penfield , Lamar Roberts

Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939

1999-03-01

Rosita Henry , Russell McGregor

White Australians once confidently - if regretfully - believed that the Aboriginal people were doomed to extinction. In this challenging analysis Russell McGregor explores the origins and the gradual demise … White Australians once confidently - if regretfully - believed that the Aboriginal people were doomed to extinction. In this challenging analysis Russell McGregor explores the origins and the gradual demise of the 'doomed race' theory, which was unquestioned in nineteenth-century European thinking and remained uncontested until the 1930s. White perceptions had been shaped by Enlightenment ideas about progress, Darwin's new theories on the survival of the fittest, and other European philosophical concepts. These ideas exerted a powerful influence and shaped white Australian attitudes to, and policies for, Aboriginal people.

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A Grammar of Wardaman, a Language of the Northern Territory of Australia

1996-12-01

R. M. W. Dixon , Francésca Merlan

The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed … The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.

THE INSULA

1955-01-01

Wilder Penfield , M. E. FAULK

Journal Article THE INSULA: FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON ITS FUNCTION Get access WILDER PENFIELD, WILDER PENFIELD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar M. E. … Journal Article THE INSULA: FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON ITS FUNCTION Get access WILDER PENFIELD, WILDER PENFIELD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar M. E. FAULK, JR. M. E. FAULK, JR. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Brain, Volume 78, Issue 4, December 1955, Pages 445–470, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/78.4.445 Published: 01 December 1955

Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

1963-01-01

Clayton L. Thomas

The Native Tribes of Central Australia.

1969-09-01

Margaret King Boyes , Baldwin Spencer , F. J. Gillen

Preface 1. Introduction 2. The social organisation of the tribes 3. Certain ceremonies concerned with marriage, together with a discussion regarding the same 4. The totems 5. The churinga or … Preface 1. Introduction 2. The social organisation of the tribes 3. Certain ceremonies concerned with marriage, together with a discussion regarding the same 4. The totems 5. The churinga or bull roarers of the Arunta and other tribes 6. Intichiuma ceremonies 7. Initiation ceremonies 8. Initiation ceremonies (continued) 9. Initiation ceremonies (continued) 10. Traditions dealing with the origin of the Alcheringa ancestors of the Arunta tribe and with particular customs 11. Traditions dealing with the origin of the Alcheringa ancestors of the Arunta tribe and with particular customs (continued) 12. Customs concerned with knocking out of teeth, etc. 13. The customs of Kurdaitcha and Illapurinja and the avenging party or atninga 14. Customs relating to burial and mourning 15. The Iruntarinia and Arumburinga, or spirit individuals 16. The making and the powers of medicine men various forms of magic 17. Methods of obtaining wives 18. Myths relating to sun, moon, eclipses, etc. 19. Clothing, weapons, implements, decorative art Appendices Glossary of native terms used Index.

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Martuthunira : a language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia

1995-01-01

Alan Dench

Handbook of American Indian Languages

1924-03-01

Franz Boas

Journal Article Handbook of American Indian languages. By Franz Boas. Part 2. [Smithsonian institution, Bureau of American ethnology, bulletin number 40]. (Washington: Government printing office, 1922. v, 903 p.) Get … Journal Article Handbook of American Indian languages. By Franz Boas. Part 2. [Smithsonian institution, Bureau of American ethnology, bulletin number 40]. (Washington: Government printing office, 1922. v, 903 p.) Get access Journal of American History, Volume 10, Issue 4, March 1924, Pages 448–451, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892936 Published: 01 March 1924

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Obituary. Rupert Samuel Bruce Pearson.

1974-08-31

Oxon Dm

The Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

1943-05-28

Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia.

1995-03-01

Bruce Rigsby , Michael D. Walsh , Colin Yallop

The Native Tribes of Central Australia

1899-01-01

Baldwin Spencer , F. J. Gillen

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On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life /

1859-01-01

Charles Darwin

Introduction <sc>When</sc> on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of … Introduction <sc>When</sc> on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to me...

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John Crighton Bramwell.

1976-10-09

Cantab Ma

Howard Atwood Kelly (1858–1943)

1991-03-01

PAUL M. ALLEN , THERESA K. SETZE

Australian Natural History1

1897-07-01

ROBERT K. REYNOLDS and BERNARD A. L

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Kabat and Mayer's Experimental Immunochemistry

1962-05-01

Grammatical categories in Australian languages

1978-05-01

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The Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia

1943-05-28

Ethnological Studies among the North-West Central Queensland Aborigines

1898-04-01

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Handbook of Australian Languages

1983-12-31

Karl Heinz M. Rensch , Sandra Keen , Marganj Gunja +7 more

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Verb Classification in Australian Languages

2002-12-31

William B. McGregor

This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their … This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concerning the historical origins and grammaticisation of these systems, and suggestions regarding the grammatical relations involved. In addition, an attempt is made to situate the phenomenon of verb classification within the context of related verbal phenomena such as serial verb constructions, nominal incorporation, and complex predicates.

THE CHEMISTRY OF MUSCULAR CONTRACTION

1922-08-01

A. Szent-Györgyi

Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy

2025-06-20

Henry Reynolds | Australian Historical Studies

Five letters from Maurice Wheeler to Edward Lhywd

2025-06-17

Anthony Turner | Oxford University Press eBooks

:Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

2025-05-23

Harriet Mercer

Daniel Davis, Jr., and his Manual of Magnetism

2025-05-22

Thomas B. Greenslade

In the preface to his 1842 Manual of Magnetism, the Boston scientist and manufacturer of electrical apparatus, Daniel Davis, Jr., wrote, “Magnetism and Electricity have become related sciences within such … In the preface to his 1842 Manual of Magnetism, the Boston scientist and manufacturer of electrical apparatus, Daniel Davis, Jr., wrote, “Magnetism and Electricity have become related sciences within such a short a period, and their growth has been so rapid, that many important facts which have been observed have not been collected in any scientific treatise, and the amount of unwritten knowledge has been constantly increasing.” His book served as a companion to the apparatus that he manufactured, and it supplied the scientific background to experiments using these instruments. This paper traces the development of some of these instruments and explains their operation, showcasing their ingenuity and inspiring demonstrations for contemporary physics classes. A great deal of his apparatus still exists in museums and the storage closets of schools, college, and universities. I urge you to seek it out and husband it.

Finding Some Rhythm – Analysing the Utility of Implantable Loop Recorders in the Waitemata District

2025-05-01

Aruna T. Bansal , V. Bhana , Trevor R. Scott

James Clark

2025-04-30

Coals for the Study: Reading Fire in William Westall’s Views of Australia

2025-04-30

Ben Pollitt

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

2025-04-15

What Birdo is That? A Field Guide to Bird-People / Enchantment by Birds: A History of Australian Birdwatching

2025-04-11

John C. Rumm

‘The Anti Laundress’: Languages of Service in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia 1830–1860

2025-04-08

Paula Jane Byrne

Three languages of service in the Hunter Valley show the emotional impact of new labour systems on valuing and self-valuing in work. The newspaper advertisements present a self-image of the … Three languages of service in the Hunter Valley show the emotional impact of new labour systems on valuing and self-valuing in work. The newspaper advertisements present a self-image of the servant as a negotiator for wages and conditions, and servants read these advertisements and formed attitudes from them. Their language suggests they were significant players in the modernising of work. Wealthy employers sought the cheapest labour possible, and the new lower middle-class townsman added notions of respectability that servants adopted themselves. In conflict with this, the letters of a squatter family represent the servant as an object of humour, as sly, untrustworthy, and dangerously sexualised. This abject status derived from notions of servants as less than human, as stock, from slavery. In response, servants replied that they knew their work and emphasised a labour market perspective.

Teaching Aboriginal Languages as First Languages in the Northern Territory

2025-04-02

Elizabeth Milmilany , Barbara Martin Napanangka , Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr +3 more

Western Australia Department of Education, Aboriginal Languages Teaching Training Course

2025-04-02

Lola Jones , Cathy Sherratt , Denis O’Hara +2 more

The Diverse Indigenous Creole Languages and First Nations Language Repertoires in Queensland, with Information for Educators

2025-04-02

Denise Angelo , Carly Steele , Bernadine Yeatman +1 more

John McDouall Stuart: food insecurity on the South Australian Central Australia expedition

2025-04-01

Bayden R. Wood

The aim was to assess food security on Stuart’s sixth expedition to the north (20 December 1861 to 10 December 1862), when he succeeded in crossing the continent from Adelaide … The aim was to assess food security on Stuart’s sixth expedition to the north (20 December 1861 to 10 December 1862), when he succeeded in crossing the continent from Adelaide to Van Diemen Gulf and returned without loss of life. Contemporary methods were applied to the evidence available for the expedition food supply in published reports (1) . These included qualitative assessment of dietary food group diversity and food variety. These measures have been used as a proxy for the level of food security provided by the rations over the duration of the expedition. The food rations were also subjected to nutrient analysis and the results compared to recommended dietary intakes for explorers who had a high physical activity level. Observations of the edible wild flora and fauna observed along the route were collated and assessed. Weekly food ration packs were taken (7 lb flour, 2 lb meat-dried, 1 lb sugar, ¼ lb tea) and found to be very poor in both dietary diversity of food groups (excluding dairy, fruit, vegetable) and the variety of food items. The packs were low in energy, high in protein, low in riboflavin and probably other micronutrients. Vitamins A (retinol) and C were completely absent. The Naturalist on the expedition (FG Waterhouse) was the only man authorised to shoot (for the Adelaide Museum collection) and, after processing, the remaining tissues were added to the cooking pot, which increased food variety more than food group diversity. The men (10) were travelling rapidly with a large group of horses. The gathering of edible wild foods was intermittent, determined by their availability according to latitude and seasonal conditions. The men could not supplement their inadequate food rations by hunting and gathering enough edible foods. On one of his earlier and less successful expeditions (to achieve the same aim), Stuart wrote that he was aware that five pounds of flour per man per week was not enough, but he soon reduced (day 35) the weekly rations per man to 4 lb flour, 1 lb meat-dried, 1 lb sugar and ¼ lb tea. The men suffered from food insecurity and its health consequences for the entire duration of the expedition (day 356). They were perpetually hungry and became gaunt shadows of their former selves. Stuart himself suffered from night blindness (Vitamin A deficiency) and grievous scurvy (Vitamin C deficiency). Stuart achieved his aim to cross the continent against the great odds of food insecurity. He knew better but chose to ignore it, creating great danger for himself and his companions.

James Andrew Carmichael

2025-03-28

Bruce Fogle , Michael Gordon

He was a much‐loved vet – elegant and debonnaire. He loved the vistas of Italy so much that he had murals of them painted on the walls of his operating … He was a much‐loved vet – elegant and debonnaire. He loved the vistas of Italy so much that he had murals of them painted on the walls of his operating theatre.

Donald G. Paterson (1892–1961)

2025-03-18

Michael J. Zickar

Untying Settler-Colonial Knots in Australian Psychology

2025-03-14

Belle Selkirk

This reflexive paper is written from the positionality of an Indigenous psychologist in response to the majority-Australia vote against constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the … This reflexive paper is written from the positionality of an Indigenous psychologist in response to the majority-Australia vote against constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the National Referendum, October 14th, 2023. I utilise the Net Metaphor conceptual tool offered by Jongbloed, Hendry, Behn Smith, and Gallagher Kʷunuhmen to articulate settler-colonialism in Australian psychology. Through the net metaphor, I describe the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project and my reflexive experience of psychology-activism in untying settler-colonial knots in Australian psychology. I juxtapose my positionality and experience against the failed Referendum and the implications for Australian psychology. Finally, this paper finishes with reflections of how the discipline can engage in collective activism necessary for addressing settler-colonial knots in psychology’s spheres of influence.

History, extinction and ambiguity: analysing James Bonwick’s literary work on the Aboriginal Tasmanians

2025-03-12

Zach Wallis

The Syntax of Resistance: The Use of Language and Genre to Assert Indigenous Identity and Inclusion in Australian Literature

2025-02-17

Raffaele Marotta

This paper will explore the use of language as a form of resistance among the indigenous writers of Australia. My plan is to examine how altering English syntax and modifying … This paper will explore the use of language as a form of resistance among the indigenous writers of Australia. My plan is to examine how altering English syntax and modifying the conventions of narrative genre create layers of resistance to literary conventions to assert indigenous identity and belonging. Syntax is a path of disclosure that reaches deep into the matrix of indigenous literature and, just as paganism embraces a spirituality free of dogma, this body of literature pursues a voice, a syntax free of the language structures of the Invader. Paradoxically, indigenous writers seek a language independent of colonial influences, while knowing this may not be possible, except through the reanimation of the Dreamtime, that primordial state of the beginning.

Bob Morris: teacher and explorer

2025-02-12

Richard Rodger

Abstract Two characteristics that defined Bob Morris were his empathy and his humanity. As a person, not just as a teacher and scholar, these elements infused his approach to people … Abstract Two characteristics that defined Bob Morris were his empathy and his humanity. As a person, not just as a teacher and scholar, these elements infused his approach to people no matter their age or status. This short appreciation considers his contributions to urban and social history, his capacity for synthesis and analysis and his sensitivity in exploring places and spaces using text, data and images. Bob Morris’ humility was the hallmark of an exceptional historian, colleague and friend.

“More tucker than you could poke a stick at”: The bicultural journey of an enduring Australianism

2025-01-28

Madeleine Clews

‘Their beneficial effect upon a people’: settlers, songbirds and civilisation in nineteenth-century Victoria

2025-01-27

Simon Farley

Through the figure of journalist and philanthropist Edward Wilson (1813–1878), this article explores the settler-colonial dimensions of the mid-nineteenth century acclimatisation movement in Australia. In the latter half of the … Through the figure of journalist and philanthropist Edward Wilson (1813–1878), this article explores the settler-colonial dimensions of the mid-nineteenth century acclimatisation movement in Australia. In the latter half of the 1850s, Wilson became obsessed with the new science of acclimatisation, which promoted the transportation of plants and animals across the planet for a variety of purposes. By importing familiar wildlife, especially birds, to Australia from the metropole, Wilson and his fellow acclimatisers hoped to 'improve' Australian landscapes and, consequently, the humans dwelling within those landscapes. In doing so, they also aimed to create a likewise 'improved' emulation of metropolitan society. By drawing links between Wilson's promotion of acclimatisation, his rejection of convict transportation, and his interest in 'civilising' the Aboriginal peoples of Victoria, this article adumbrates the extent to which settler colonialism has shaped settlers' feelings towards and interactions with flora and fauna.

The Role of Astronomy in Australian Indigenous Knowledge

2025-01-23

R. P. Norris , Robert S. Fuller , Duane W. Hamacher +2 more

Abstract Astronomy plays a significant role in the culture of many Australian Indigenous peoples. Traditional Indigenous Australians had an extensive knowledge of the sky and the motion of the bodies … Abstract Astronomy plays a significant role in the culture of many Australian Indigenous peoples. Traditional Indigenous Australians had an extensive knowledge of the sky and the motion of the bodies within it. That astronomical knowledge was not only important culturally, but also revealed an intellectual complexity that has gone largely unrecognized, including a quest to understand phenomena such as tides and eclipses (Hamacher and Norris, 2011). More practically, Indigenous Australians used that knowledge for navigation, as well as to regulate their calendars to maximize food resources. The tradition of songlines offers another example of how the natural world and oral tradition have interacted for Indigenous Australians over time. Songlines are oral representations of landscapes or routes that were created by the Culture Heroes, or creation ancestors, and are sometimes called “ancestral tracks,” or Dreaming tracks. Songlines crisscross the continent and connect sacred cultural sites to the journeys of important creation ancestors of the Dreaming. They can extend into the night sky, with waypoints on the ground being represented by particular stars.

Orwell, George (1903–50)

2025-01-23

Educators' Reflections in Australian Aboriginal Translingual Classrooms

2025-01-23

Ana Tankosić , Sender Dovchin , Rhonda Oliver

In this chapter, we discuss challenges involved in teachers' emotional entanglement with racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity in Australian Aboriginal translingual classrooms. The importance of exploring teachers' emotionality in … In this chapter, we discuss challenges involved in teachers' emotional entanglement with racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity in Australian Aboriginal translingual classrooms. The importance of exploring teachers' emotionality in translingual classrooms lies in expanding our understanding of this space as diverse, positive, and encouraging and also towards perceiving it as a space infused with strong emotions and histories. This includes stories of microaggressions, racism, and linguicism. As a team of educators and researchers, we weave our narratives within applied linguistics and social justice. At the same time, we give countenance to psychological well-being, reflecting on our experiences in the translingual classrooms of Aboriginal youth. Our narratives show the importance of empathy, familiarity, and intimacy and how supporting resilience, engaging in political discourse, addressing gaps in mental health support, and relatability are important factors that should be considered in such classrooms as ways to support culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Lhotsky, the Impostor? Negotiating Natural History in the Australian Colonies

2025-01-02

Anja Schwarz

This article considers the activities of naturalist John Lhotsky, who lived in Sydney and Hobart Town between 1832 and 1836, as a means of examining the imagined and material stakes … This article considers the activities of naturalist John Lhotsky, who lived in Sydney and Hobart Town between 1832 and 1836, as a means of examining the imagined and material stakes that British settler colonialism held for German-speaking naturalists. For outsiders like Lhotsky, natural history was a means of securing social recognition and financial stability. It was also an ideological minefield, deeply entangled in class politics, with great potential for misinterpretation of social interactions by outsiders. Lhotsky's dealings within this minefield eventually earned him the reputation of an impostor among some of his contemporaries. Rather than attempting to verify or falsify such assessments, the article attends to these moments with the aim of mapping the complex 'multidirectional sets of imperial relations' that he and other German-speaking naturalists inhabited in the mid-nineteenth century.

Wattles of Victoria and Tasmania

2025-01-01

Neville G Walsh , Daniel J. Murphy , Arthur Court +1 more

Wattles (Acacia) are among the most vibrant plants in the southern Australian bush, with their iconic yellow blooms particularly visible in late winter and spring. As the largest genus of … Wattles (Acacia) are among the most vibrant plants in the southern Australian bush, with their iconic yellow blooms particularly visible in late winter and spring. As the largest genus of flowering plant in Australia, they are one of the most resilient, recognisable and culturally significant native plants. However, they can be difficult to identify at a species level. This comprehensive guide to all 121 species and subspecies of wattles found in Victoria and Tasmania includes notes on the habitat, distribution and special properties of each species. Identification keys, high-quality field photos and distribution maps enable easy identification, and fascinating detail on the etymology of species names, their use as food and the taxonomic history of the group is also included. This guide will inform and inspire botanists, conservationists and wattle enthusiasts.

W. C. Clark

2025-01-01

Josep Pedro

Captain John Laskey, Dr Peter McDougall and the roseate tern, Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813

2025-01-01

E.G. Hancock

The roseate tern, Sterna dougallii was described by Montagu in his 1813 Supplement to his Ornithological Dictionary in which he provided considerable detail on how the specimens came to him … The roseate tern, Sterna dougallii was described by Montagu in his 1813 Supplement to his Ornithological Dictionary in which he provided considerable detail on how the specimens came to him from Glasgow. Recent research by Mearns & Mearns has revealed biographical details of the finder, Dr Peter McDougall. This article provides further information on the role of Captain John Laskey leading to the publication of Montagu’s description, and on preserved examples of the roseate tern from McDougall’s collection that are additional to the type specimen.

The Papers of Thomas A. Edison

2025-01-01

Thomas Edison

Naming Taboos

2025-01-01

Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald

Bibliography of the history of Australian science, no. 45, 2023/24

2025-01-01

Compiled by Helen M. Cohn

Numbers in Australia

2025-01-01

Karenleigh A. Overmann

Burnell, Jocelyn Bell.

2024-12-18

Vinal, George Wood on 1964 March 20.

2024-12-18

Webster, David Locke on 1963 January 26.

2024-12-18

White, Addison Hughson on 1976 September 30.

2024-12-18

Wilson, Edwin Bidwell on 1964 June 3.

2024-12-18

Wood, Frank Bradshaw on 1977 November 4.

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Humason, Milton Lasell circa 1965.

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Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

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Jeremy Martens

Clamor Schürmann and Christian Teichelmann: Truth Tellers in the Model Province of South Australia, 1838–40

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Skye Krichauff

The foundation of the colony of South Australia coincided with the influence of philanthropic evangelicals in the Colonial Office and British parliament, and the colony's founding documents seemingly sought to … The foundation of the colony of South Australia coincided with the influence of philanthropic evangelicals in the Colonial Office and British parliament, and the colony's founding documents seemingly sought to protect Aboriginal people's rights to land. But whether the colonists would find such rights existed according to British law was another matter. Lutheran missionaries Clamor Schürmann and Christian Teichelmann arrived in South Australia in October 1838, and this article demonstrates that the two missionaries – linguistically, ethnically and religiously distinct from the settler society that encompassed them – were the colonists' source of knowledge of Aboriginal customs of land ownership. On realising that Aboriginal people's proprietary rights were not being respected, Schürmann and Teichelmann voiced their concerns to colonial authorities (both in the colony and in the metropole). That their complaints were ineffective suggests that the British were never genuinely committed to protecting Aboriginal people's rights to land.

Haunting Biology. Science and Indigeneity in Australia

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Paul Turnbull

Appendix A: William John Dewitt Prouse (1877-1956): Biography

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Christine McCarthy

This appendix provides background material on William Prouse of Prouse and Wilson up to the time the University Senate Building was designed. The factual record suggests Prouse's life was experientially … This appendix provides background material on William Prouse of Prouse and Wilson up to the time the University Senate Building was designed. The factual record suggests Prouse's life was experientially rich and unusual. He was a talented musician married to an even more talented musician, who travelled the world. He held partnerships in a string of significant architectural firms in early‐twentieth‐century New Zealand, and shareholdings in building development companies and in what appears to be pioneering ventures in motor camps in the Wellington region. 1940 was not only significant as the year that saw the design of the University Senate building ‐ but it was also the year that his wife Ava died. Helliwell states that c1941, Prouse was "feeling the advance of age and did little at the office," suggesting that his involvement in architecture lessened from this time.

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