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Vic: Exhibition lauds 'father of Australian landscapes'
AAP General News (Australia); 8/14/2004; 142 words
; AAP General News (Australia) 08-14-2004 Vic: Exhibition lauds 'father of Australian ... travelled halfway around the world from England to Tasmania -- then Van Diemens' Land -- in 1831, where he settled for his last 18 years. Deputy director ...
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Depicting cross-cultural interaction: figurative designs in wood, earth and stone from south-east Australia.
Archaeology in Oceania; 7/1/2003; Tacon, Paul S.C. South, Barrina Hooper, Shaun Boree; 8816 words
; ... land, as well as Roman numerals (van Toorn 2001)--something very different ... For instance, dispossession from land and the erection of barbwire fences ... Stephen 2000:252), cut off from their land and sacred sites between the Macquarie ... portable objects. 3. 'Connection to land' is a central ...
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TAS: Factbox on the demise of the Tasmanian tiger
AAP General News (Australia); 2/16/2005; 302 words
; AAP General News (Australia) 02-16-2005 TAS: Factbox on the demise of the Tasmanian ... habitation such as fossils, bones and Aboriginal paintings. 1830: The Van Diemens Land Company, a pastoral company in north-west Tasmania, introduces the ...
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Qld: History rewritten at Weipa
AAP General News (Australia); 8/9/2000; 375 words
; AAP General News (Australia) 08-09-2000 Qld: History rewritten ... the West Australia coast in 1616 and Van Diemens Land in the 1640s but the Duyfken is not widely ... clans who traditionally inhabited the land before they stepped ashore. Duyfken 2000 ...
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Contact archaeology and native title.
Australian Aboriginal Studies; 3/22/2005; Harrison, Rodney; 10248 words
; ... Peninsula region of Arnhem Land. Although he is dealing ... occupied by members of the Van Diemens Land Company and later for a ... process which may result in land justice for Aboriginal ... 225-33. Baker, R 1999, Land is life from bush to town ...
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Annual bibliography of studies in Australian literature: 2001.(Bibliography)
Australian Literary Studies; 5/1/2002; Hetherington, Carol Petersson, Irmtraud; 14104 words
; ... Carole. `Literary Lives in Letters.' NLA News 11.2: 14-17. Discusses the importance of ... Untersuchungen zur deutschen Australienliteratur [News from the land of the antipodeans: studies ... Paine. `In Search of Christina Stead.' NLA News 11.6:11-13. Describes how Stead's working ...
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Old hands warm hearts.(News)
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 5/22/2006; 227 words
; ... preserve of the young . Every Span fan there will have had their own favourites - mine were Seagull, Scullion King and Van Diemens Land - but picking highlights is perhaps a little derisory given that this was a set with no weaknesses. But when it comes ...
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'The new prima donnas': 'homegrown' Tasmanian 'stars' of the 1860s Emma and Clelia Howson.
Journal of Australian Studies; 1/1/2005; Anae, Nicole; 5860 words
; ... forces. General Ralph Darling visited Van Diemen's Land in 1825 and promptly proclaimed the ... charging five shillings per acre for land, ostensibly to raise revenue to fund ... 9) Some of the first players in Van Diemen's Land arrived under this scheme. At this ... developing opera began in ...
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Mark Twain's Critique of Globalization (Old and New) in Following the Equator, A Journey Around the World (1897)
The Arizona Quarterly; 4/1/2005; Rowe, John Carlos; 9547 words
; ... Watson A3). Today, hijras are making news in India, thanks to the political campaign ... crucially on the control of information, news, advertising, and transport of commodities ... who are more commonly demonized in the news. And like all terrorists, Twain's forerunners ...
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Making Tasmania Home: Louisa Meredith's Colonizing Prose
Frontiers; 1/1/2007; Grimshaw, Patricia; Standish, Ann; 5828 words
; ... offered uncontested access to land for cultivation. All these conditions ... from Britain to Tasmania (then Van Diemens Land) in 1820 to take up land on which his growing family of ... temporary interaction with the land and its people. The author of ...
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