Great science, uncomfortable history: Sir Gustav Nossal and the long tail of eugenics
“Dhoombak Goobgoowana has revealed the extensive influence of Nazi apologists, racists and massacre perpetrators in the history of the university – not referring to Nossal. It outlines how eugenic ideas about white superiority denigrated First Nations people, as well as non-white immigrants.”
Finnane & Richards in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review investigate the evidence of genocide against First Nations on the Queensland frontier 1859-1897. They argue that the impact of colonisation needs to be studied carefully using local sources. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12278
Encounters With Indigeneity: Writing About Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples by Jeremy Beckett, 2014
Jeremy Beckett has carried out long-term field research with Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders. He is the author of Past and Present: The Construction of Aboriginality and Wherever I Go.
Tomorrow afternoon Sydney time, join my hybrid lecture, either at #UNSW, or register on Zoom at the link below.
It will be a book talk about my book, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale 2022). The subtitles is: How millions harmed by #nuclear weapons & power have been made invisible during the Cold War & after
"Our Prime Minister got it wrong yesterday,” he said at a press conference.
"The Prime Minister should stand shoulder to shoulder with Joe Biden and the leaders of other countries around the world who have made the right call here."
Rainbow Valley conservation reserve, Northern Territory | #Australia
Photographer Baillie Farley: ‘This image captures the breathtaking scene at Rainbow Valley conservation reserve, where the southern Milky Way gracefully arches above a remarkable formation of colourful sandstone. This area exudes a unique charm, with its vibrant hues and stunning geological formations creating a mesmerising landscape’
#Mungo Dreamtime | Mungo national park, NSW, #Australia
Photographer John Rutter: ‘This Mars-like landscape is the shores of the ancient Lake Mungo, where some of the oldest human remains outside Africa have been discovered, making it a significant site for all humankind. Its remote location grants it a Bortle 1 sky (the darkest and clearest), allowing you to stand where the first Australians once did and gaze at the same sky they beheld.
So despite climate change, Australia's federal government has just committed an extra $3.25 billion into building a toll road and a 20-lane freeway widening.
"Pouring an extra $3.25 billion worth of federal funds into Melbourne’s North East Link is a good use of taxpayer money, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has insisted, despite the project’s cost doubling just a few months ago.
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"The North East Link – which includes 6½ kilometres of tunnels – will stretch from Bulleen to Greensborough. It will widen the Eastern Freeway by up to 20 lanes.
"Allan revealed in December that the 10-kilometre toll road had more than doubled in cost since it was first announced.
"The toll road was initially budgeted at $10 billion and reassessed in 2019 at $15 billion. But the government revealed last year that the updated cost estimate was $26 billion."
Everything in this story is leading somewhere amazing. It's emotional, beautiful, touching, surprising and so incredibly moving. Sniffed, snuffled and out and out cried my way through the last part of this book.
@kcfromaustcrime@bookstodon Finally got hold of this beautifully written multi-levelled love story. Like her other two brilliant novels of #historicalFiction, she shows she has done the research and thinking and internalized the stories and feelings of the time and place as well as the relentless control and persecution of the feminine and the 'other'. This 3rd novel is personal for Kent. Highly recommend it.