tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post6098284326610107626..comments2024-03-28T22:51:37.034+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond discovers Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-29013404960048234642014-10-24T13:40:05.113+11:002014-10-24T13:40:05.113+11:00Lily Yuan Wang, number one on the West Side!Lily Yuan Wang, number one on the West Side!Lachlan Ridgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-7624473785917891662014-10-23T18:23:01.625+11:002014-10-23T18:23:01.625+11:00I dunno Anon, all those live writers. Can't y...I dunno Anon, all those live writers. Can't you come up with any dead ones? Preferably been dead for hundreds of years too. They're the only ones of importance in Professor Spurr's world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-80397420981792285962014-10-23T18:19:29.226+11:002014-10-23T18:19:29.226+11:00Spurr is just an old white man who doesn't und...Spurr is just an old white man who doesn't understand electronic communication. To put it in his language, Barry would you write those things on a letter with Uni of Sydneyh letterhead? <br /><br />Of course you wouldn't. Well, that's what e-mail is like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-84093209186006174242014-10-23T16:39:13.664+11:002014-10-23T16:39:13.664+11:00He could at least have been spurred on to do a GHu...He could at least have been spurred on to do a GHunt,<br />_____________<br /><br />Aboriginal writers and themes<br /><br />At the point of the first colonization, Indigenous Australians had not developed a system of writing, so the first literary accounts of Aborigines come from the journals of early European explorers, which contain descriptions of first contact, both violent and friendly.[5] Early accounts by Dutch explorers and the English buccaneer William Dampier wrote of the "natives of New Holland" as being "barbarous savages", but by the time of Captain James Cook and First Fleet marine Watkin Tench (the era of Jean-Jacques Rousseau), accounts of Aborigines were more sympathetic and romantic: "these people may truly be said to be in the pure state of nature, and may appear to some to be the most wretched upon the earth; but in reality they are far happier than ... we Europeans", wrote Cook in his journal on 23 August 1770.<br /><br />While his father, James Unaipon (c.1835-1907), contributed to accounts of Aboriginal mythology written by the missionary George Taplin, David Unaipon (1872–1967) provided the first accounts of Aboriginal mythology written by an Aboriginal: Legendary Tales of the Aborigines. For this he is known as the first Aboriginal author. Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1995) was a famous Aboriginal poet, writer and rights activist credited with publishing the first Aboriginal book of verse: We Are Going (1964). Sally Morgan's novel My Place was considered a breakthrough memoir in terms of bringing indigenous stories to wider notice. Leading Aboriginal activists Marcia Langton (First Australians, 2008) and Noel Pearson ("Up From the Mission", 2009) are active contemporary contributors to Australian literature.<br /><br />The voices of Indigenous Australians are being increasingly noticed and include the playwright Jack Davis and Kevin Gilbert. Writers coming to prominence in the 21st century include Kim Scott, Alexis Wright,Kate Howarth Tara June Winch, in poetry Yvette Holt and in popular fiction Anita Heiss.<br /><br />Indigenous authors who have won Australia's high prestige Miles Franklin Award include Kim Scott who was joint winner (with Thea Astley) in 2000 for Benang and again in 2011 for That Deadman Dance. Alexis Wright won the award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria.<br /><br />Many notable works have been written by non-indigenous Australians on Aboriginal themes. Examples include the poems of Judith Wright; The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally, Ilbarana by Donald Stuart, and the short story by David Malouf: "The Only Speaker of his Tongue".<br /><br />Histories covering Indigenous themes include Watkin Tench (Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay et Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson); Roderick J. Flanagan (The Aborigines of Australia, 1888); The Native Tribes of Central Australia by Spencer and Gillen, 1899; the diaries of Donald Thompson on the subject of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land (c.1935-1943); Alan Moorehead (The fatal Impact, 1966); Geoffrey Blainey (Triumph of the Nomads, 1975); Henry Reynolds (The Other Side of the Frontier, 1981); and Marcia Langton (First Australians, 2008). Differing interpretations of Aboriginal history are also the subject of contemporary debate in Australia, notably between the essayists Robert Manne and Keith Windshuttle.<br /><br />Letters written by notable Aboriginals leaders like Bennelong and Sir Douglas Nicholls are also retained as treasures of Australian literature, as is the historic Yirrkala bark petitions of 1963 which is the first traditional Aboriginal document recognised by the Australian Parliament.<br /><br />AustLit's BlackWords project provides a comprehensive listing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Storytellers.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-10800549751970192832014-10-23T15:07:56.831+11:002014-10-23T15:07:56.831+11:00"... African-American literature (which, unli..."... African-American literature (which, unlike Abo literature, actually exists and has some distinguished productions). "<br /><br />This from Spur .. really .. and the loonies are trying to defend him?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-39699326648315694452014-10-23T15:02:08.752+11:002014-10-23T15:02:08.752+11:00I am proud to say I no longer pay subscription fee...I am proud to say I no longer pay subscription fees to Crikey. They became as painful as the oz, which I never pay for, but read enough of their entertainment from DP's links. Enough of these hypocrites and no more Crikey.<br />As for that silly Lily, she must've wang the wong number on this occasion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-26741462590191102632014-10-23T14:59:13.511+11:002014-10-23T14:59:13.511+11:00Was the professor being whimsical when he asked Ne...Was the professor being whimsical when he asked New Matilda to return his emails?<br /><br />I have a mental picture of them being handed over in a neat bundle tied up with ribbon.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-23570932764380860212014-10-23T10:31:00.964+11:002014-10-23T10:31:00.964+11:00Spurr's comments were made using the universit...Spurr's comments were made using the university email system. I'm a high school teacher, not a professor, but I know you can't use the WA Education Department's email inappropriately. The department's login in page says "Inappropriate use of these services can result in disciplinary action that may include suspension of access to online services, dismissal or termination of contract". The University of Sydney would have similar requirements, so I don't understand why people are defending his behaviour. It was not "private" but through the official email. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08444773822923963234noreply@blogger.com