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Knowledge, Numbers and the Northern Territory Intervention: Re-Conceptualising Facts in Remote Indigenous Australia

This post to to say a thank you and to encouraged any online comments and discussion around one of my papers which has gained a little interest after being republished. A big thank you to Peter Dwyer who is the editor of the The Australian Anthropological Society Newsletter for republishing my paper “Knowledge, Numbers and [...]

Burn Out

I have been trying to find a story about the last few months. Lara and I had to leave the community we were living in quite suddenly. We landed back in Victoria and staying in Murrindindi with my parents. Murrindindi is now quite well know as it is the name of one of the dreadful [...]

time in Gapuwiyak

“Every year this happens. Every year the shearers come, every year there is tis adventure and excitement. It will never end; there is no reason why it should ever end, as long as there are years.” It is our second year here. As long as there are years, you can have a second year, and [...]

showing not telling

“A limited point of view is wonderful as a device; when, for example, there’s a fist person narrative talking to us and that character lacks self insight. For a reader, that is a marvellous experience, to be filling in the insight that the character doesn’t have about themselves. When we use that old adage of [...]