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On being an ordinary Australian, II

A working bibliography from the 10 year anniversary commentary. Please feel free to add (must contain reference to Howard’s ‘ordinariness’).
New Matilda: Howard The Ordinary, Bill Leak
The Bulletin: The House of Howard, Tony Wright
The Australian: No Suburban Solicitor, Mike Steketee
The Age: Howard: An ordinary bloke who feeds a nation’s prejudices, Hugh Mackay
The 7.30 Report: [...]

Levinas Centenary Conference

Emmanuel Levinas Centenary Conference: Levinas Today
The University of Queensland: 30 June – 1 July 2006
The Powerhouse, Brisbane Australia
Third Announcement: 22 March 2006
Extended Title Deadline 30 March 2006
Speakers
David L. Clark: Professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies and Associate Member of the Health Studies Program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
Ghassan Hage: Associate Professor [...]

Promising signs

From the Higher Education section in today’s Australian:
FEDERAL Education, Science and Training Minister Julie Bishop has expressed strong support for the Australian Research Council and the system of peer review it uses to distribute $540million in research funds each year. She has also signalled she will not pursue the same controversial practice as her [...]

Will this get you up?

GetUp says this is the ad the government doesn’t want you to see, and that you should send it to five friends today. Do they really think people don’t know that the government was having it both ways with Iraq? The point is that people don’t care – after 10 years, they expect their government [...]

Finding your voice

John Byron has just saved me from writing a post about this, which is on Saturday. Yay! I’m going. I so want to know where my voice went. Well actually, to be serious, I’m keen to hear what other academics have to say about this, given that I’ve spent the last year writing about voices, [...]

On being an ordinary Australian

It may be 10 years since John Howard became Prime Minister of Australia, but this year also marks 10 years since I started – and never left – university. In response to the commitments I’ve already lined up for the rest of the year, I’ve decided to use this experience as some kind of organising [...]

The Operator

[Contains mild spoilers]
Last night I braved the cyclone conditions upon us here in Brisvegas to see a David Williamson play for the first time: The Operator which is on at La Boite. It was fun being in a theatre again. In another life I studied drama (and won a university prize for an essay [...]

Email from publisher

[Ms Commissioning Editor] has now had a chance to look at your manuscript. Since your acknowledgements suggest that quite a few people have seen (parts of) it during your writing she will not send it out for a clearance reading in which case we can now prepare it for hand over to our production department.
The [...]

i-everything continues…

Another desperately needed invention.

MACS launch: Tara Brabazon on Surviving the PhD

Glen’s post asking for input on the proposed CSAA wiki for postgrads reminds me to publicise this seminar we’re holding soon. It’s the defacto MACS launch for this year – everyone is welcome. Plus there is a prize for guessing which topics I suggested the speaker address!

Postgraduate Development Seminar
Sponsored by the School of English, [...]

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