Some new stuff of note on the web:
If you’re in Melbourne, check out this exhibition of work from Milingimbi artists, including my mami Lilly.
There’s an article in today’s Australian about paying kids to turn up at school. There’s some comment here. It doesn’t make a great deal of sense to me, to be honest. OK, [...]
We had a very enjoyable bloggers evening at the LSA, we being The Tensor, Mark (LanguageLog), Ben Zimmer (OUP), Neil (Literal Minded), Conor (Conor, what’s your blog address?), Sally (LanguageLog), Russell (Noncompositional), and who have I forgotten? We had some fun going back through the years of [the] LSSU’s lists of banned words [see e.g. [...]
If you haven’t already done so, go to YouTube immediately to watch those Chuckie boys performing Zorba the Greek painted up Yolŋu style.
In Melbourne’s Age newspaper this morning discussion continues of John Howard’s plan to solve “the problem of child abuse in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities”. Mr Howard has called the the “crisis” Australia’s Hurricane Katrina, referring to the magnitude of the problem* and the necessity of immediate mobilisation of resources.
Parallels might be drawn, but not in [...]
The Boonthamurra (Punthamarra) land claim has been refused registration on the grounds that most Punthamarra people don’t live in their traditional country. It’s worth noting why most Punthamarra and Wangkumarra (and indeed, many other Western Queensland Aboriginal groups) are mostly located away from their country these days. It’s because in about 1932* the Queensland Protector [...]
Notice anything about this article? or this one?
My friend Tim thought that I didn’t spend enough time reading online news sources/blogs/etc, and pointed me in the direction of an archaeology news page. Today one of the articles is a online Nature article about the acoustics of the amphitheatre at Epidaurus.
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