Trauma, memory and landscape in Queensland: women writing ‘a new alphabet of moss and water’

The cultural association of Queensland with a condition of imagination or unreality has a strong history. Queensland has always ‘retained much of its quality as an abstraction, an idea’, asserts Thea Astley in her famous essay on the state's identity (Astley 1976: 263). In one of the most quoted descriptions of Queensland's literary representation, Pat Buckridge draws attention to its ‘othering’, suggesting that Queensland possesses ‘a different sense of distance, different architecture, a different apprehension of time, a distinctive preoccupation with personal eccentricity, and . . . a strong sense of cultural antitheses’ (1976: 30). Rosie Scott comes closest to the concerns of this present article when she asserts that this so-called difference ‘is definitely partly to do with the landscape. In Brisbane, for instance, the rickety old wooden Queenslanders drenched in bougainvillea, the palms, the astounding number of birds even in Red Hill where I lived, the jacarandas, are all unique in Australia’ (quoted in Sheahan-Bright and Glover 2002: xv). For Vivienne Muller, Buckridge's ‘cultural antitheses’ are most clearly expressed in precisely this interpretation of Queensland as a place somewhere between imagined wilderness and paradise (2001: 72). Thus, as Gillian Whitlock suggests, such differences are primarily fictional constructs that feed ‘an image making process founded more on nationalist debates about city and bush, centre and periphery, the Southern states versus the Deep North than on any “real” sense of regionalism’ (quoted in Muller 2001: 80). Queensland, in this reading, is subject to the Orientalist discourse of an Australian national identity in which the so-called civilisation of the south-eastern urban capitals necessitates a dark ‘other’. I want to draw out this understanding of the landscape as it is imagined in Queensland women's writing. Gail Reekie (1994: 8) suggests that, ‘Women's sense of place, of region, is powerfully constructed by their marginality to History.’ These narratives do assert Queensland's ‘difference’, but as part of an articulation of psychological extremity experienced by those living on the edges of a simultaneously ideological and geographically limited space. The Queensland landscape, I argue, is thus used as both setting for and symbol of traumatic experience

Yvonne Smith, David Malouf and the Poetic: His Earlier Writings

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Análisis crítico a la legislación regulatoria del archivo tecnológico de documentos

This article is a legal and legislative analysis of the rules on document storage technology; a critical observation on his historical development and relevant aspects, as well as a descriptive review of the different rules they have created, modified and adjusted the concept; their contributions, innovations and highlights regulations; a technical comparison of the texts, objectives and purposes. Finally, a particular view of the legislation effectiveness and deficiencies.El presente artículo es un análisis jurídico-legislativo de la normativa en materia de almacenamiento tecnológico de documentos; una observación crítica sobre su evolución histórica y aspectos relevantes,  así como una revisión descriptiva de las diferentes normas que han creado, modificado  y regulado la figura; sus aportes, innovaciones y regulaciones más destacadas; una comparación técnica de los textos, objetivos y fines. Finalmente se brinda una opinión particular de la efectividad de dicha normativa y sus carencias

Evolución de la legislación ambiental y la necesidad de un código de ambiente para la República de Panamá

This article details, from a chronological perspective, the evolution of environmental legislation in the Republic of Panama; making mention of the main Laws promulgated by the Legislative Organ, the International Agreements signed by the country and the Constitutional principles on which it is based. Concluding with the need to group environmental regulations in a single legal body, in the figure of an Environmental Code that gathers and organizes all the pre-existing provisions.El presente ensayo  detalla, desde una visión cronológica, la evolución de la legislación ambiental en la República de Panamá; haciendo mención de las principales Leyes promulgadas por el Órgano Legislativo, los acuerdos internacionales firmados por el país y los principios Constitucionales en los que se fundamenta. Concluyendo con la necesidad de agrupar la normativa ambiental en un solo cuerpo legal, en la figura de un Código de Ambiente que reúna y organice todas las disposiciones preexistentes

'Good Reading' in the Australian Women's Weekly 1933-1970

This essay looks at how 'good reading' was defined, discussed, encouraged and modelled in the Weekly, and at how this objective related to the magazine's moral, political and social investments from the 1930s to the 1960s, a period in which it remains fairly constantly on the Weekly's agenda

Being Elsewhere: Aesthetics, Identities and Alienation in Peter Austen’s Life and Poetry

Being Elsewhere: Aesthetics, Identities and Alienation in Peter Austen’s Life and Poetr

The Writer Alan D. Mickle: Serendipity, Vanity and Obscurity in an Australian Literary Career

This article examines the work of a largely forgotten literary intellectual, Alan D. Mickle (1883-1969). His career testifies to the possibility of living a long, active, varied and productive writing life entirely without institutional support, national recognition, or even much in the way of professional affirmation or encouragement beyond a very small circle of family and friends. In fifty years of writing, he produced a remarkable quantity, breadth and variety of literary work, including books of literary and philosophical essays, travel, autobiography, poetry, fiction, humour, fantasy, dramatic criticism, children’s literature, sporting memoirs and political commentary: thirty separate volumes, none of them sufficiently popular, even at the time of publication, to earn the writer a living or even give him a profile in Australia. His writings often have a startling freshness and independence, but very singularity that makes him interesting also makes him unusually resistant to categorization in terms of group affiliations and clearly defined literary and intellectual traditions

Validez de los contratos informáticos en el derecho positivo panameño

Today commercial transactions, and other operations of a conventional nature, need to achieve validity and recognition, in the face of the frenzy of modern times. Being able to negotiate a contract, in which the clauses to reach an agreement are discussed, is no longer a priority, but what we seek to achieve is speed and volume, and for this the most effective tool is computer contracts.   By virtue of the above, digital or electronic channels represent the ideal route so that national and international trade does not slow down and therefore, operations become increasingly efficient, but at the same time, they ensure the parties involved, the rights and obligations that arise from them.   This article analyzes the relationship between Law and IT based on IT contracts and the Positive Law rules that regulate them, according to their characteristics and purpose.Hoy día las transacciones comerciales, y otras operaciones de carácter convencional, necesitan lograr validez y reconocimiento, ante el frenesí de los tiempos modernos. Lograr negociar un contrato, en el que se discutan las cláusulas para lograr un acuerdo, ya no es una prioridad, sino lo que se busca lograr es velocidad y volumen, y para esto la herramienta más eficaz son los contratos informáticos.   En virtud de lo anterior, los canales digitales o electrónicos, representan la ruta idónea, para que el comercio nacional e internacional, no se ralentice y por tanto, las operaciones sean cada vez más eficientes, pero a la vez, que aseguren a las partes involucradas, los derechos y obligaciones que dimanan de los mismos.   El presente artículo analiza la relación existente entre el Derecho y la Informática a partir de los contratos informáticos y las normas de Derecho Positivo que los regulan, según sus características y objeto

Editorial: Queensland modernisms

Special issue on Queensland modernisms