AustLit

'The article offers the author's insights on the lack of representation and recognition of the indigenous people in the Constitution of Australia. Topics mentioned include the First Nations dialogues in Thursday Island in Queensland, Australia, the meeting in Uluru, Australia to form a consensus that aims on constitutional reforms, and the coincide of the Uluru convention with the 1967 referendum 50th anniversary.' (Publication abstract)

'The article discusses the re-creation of the historical event when brothers Thomas and John Clarke were arrested on April 27, 1867 in Braidwood, New South Wales (NSW) for stealing banknotes. Topics mentioned role of Tom and Luke Clarke in the play as the bushrangers, the hut of cousin Thomas Berry were the brothers were captured, and the support of the NSW Police Force on the event.' (Publication abstract)

'Like the majority of Australians, I grew up in the suburbs - the southern suburbs of Sydney, to be precise; I was a Kogarah boy. I had no idea, at the time, that I was inhabiting a dismal purgatory, a haven for provincial smallmindedness, hypocritical piety and low-level kink, from which I could either escape (to the city or, better, overseas) or face the slow extinction of my finer feelings... How could I know? I’d read none of the books, seen none of the movies that might foster this belief. I don’t believe the phrase “the Australian ugliness” was ever uttered, either at my primary school or in my parents’ house. Only later, better read and more aware, did it occur to me that I was supposed to despise the things I had cherished. And then, obediently, I did.' (Introduction)