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A quick overview of the Australian music countdown, Triple J's Hottest 100

Who's the weird mob anyway? Assimilation and authenticity in They're A Weird Mob

As one of the most well-known films about Australia's post-war immigration, Michael Powell's They're A Weird Mob (1966) is also one of the most complex and arguably problematic filmic representations of migrants' experiences. Nevertheless, it remains one of the very few mainstream Australian films from the time that in any way addresses immigration and settlement during this period of post-war nation building. Specifically, the film captures a moment in Australia's post-war history when immigrants were expected to assimilate into an Australian culture and society that was still imagined in terms of its colonial connections to Britain. Critical perspectives of They're A Weird Mob vary from those that decry its assimilationist overtones to those who are able to recognise in the film a form of inclusive 'benign multicultural tolerance'. While the film remains problematic because of its assimilationist message, particularly from a current multiculturalist perspective, it must be appreciated as an important artefact of its era

Cloudland, stronzoland, brisbane: Urban development and ethnic bildung in Venero Armanno’s fiction

The evolving urban landscape of Brisbane becomes a significant presence in Venero Armanno’s fiction, distinct from the often more documented sites of Sydney, Melbourne. The use of Brisbane as the setting for Armanno’s novels is significant in that this city, like the characters he creates within it, is often seen as being in search for its own culture and identity, having grown up in the shadow of the reputedly more cosmopolitan eastern coast capital cities of Sydney and Melbourne. Brisbane’s recovery from its somewhat shady past involving corrupt government and law enforcement echoes the journey upon which Armanno’s protagonists embark. Furthermore, Brisbane, especially the suburbs of New Farm and Fortitude Valley featured in Armanno’s works, acts as a symbolic Little Italy to which the protagonists might retreat in search of their ethnic beginnings. Questions of community and identity are intrinsic to the urban landscape through which the protagonist travels in their quest for Bildung. Focussing on the three of Armanno’s fictional works set in the city of Brisbane and using critical definitions of Bildung and the notion of ethnic Bildungsromane, this paper aims to examine the parallel development of the Italian Australian protagonists and their urban environments

Bipolar (Un)patriots: national identity, ethnic identity and the 2006 FIFA World Cup

Qualifying for the first time since its World Cup debut in 1974, this international soccer tournament generated an unprecedented level of excitement amongst Australians. Beginning with a pre-tournament friendly with Greece, who did not qualify for the World Cup, Australia faced three countries from which significant numbers had migrated to Australia. Greek Australians, Italian Australians and Croatian Australians faced an interesting choice that heretofore had only been hypothetical: if Australia played Greece/Croatia/Italy in the World Cup, who would you support? The choice is laden with social, cultural and political implications. Discussions about choosing other national teams over the Socceroos should be read in light of recent public debate about national identity and citizenship. In the months preceding the 2006 World Cup, the role of dual citizenship and, by implication, multicultural and transnational Australian identities in contemporary Australian society were questioned and challenged. It is assumed that one’s choice of team also indicates one’s national loyalty, yet is it not also possible that one’s choice of team and one’s choice of country articulates fluid and multiple identities in an increasingly globalised context? Through an analysis of the shifting status of soccer in Australian society in recent years, this paper examines the complex relationship of sport and national identity, and the place of ethnic identification within the multicultural sporting nation

Better off dead?: the creative practice of reviving Ophelia

Various attempts have been made to reclaim Shakespeare’s heroines from tragic fates and patriarchal oppression. Hamlet’s Ophelia has been a particular source of inspiration for writers and filmmakers but, as with many heroines of the tragedies, the greatest challenge for revising Ophelia is rewriting her death, which is the pivotal point of her narrative significance in the original play. Framed within a broader consideration of the feminist project to revive and reclaim Ophelia in the 1990s and beyond, this article considers how treatment of Ophelia’s death in twenty-first century has been the significant narrative turning point for adaptations and appropriations. This focus on her death has either facilitated or compromised her subjectivity and agency. The article concludes with suggestions for the other thematic and technical possibilities afforded to both creative writers and literary scholars engaged in the process of canonical revision

Calvary or limbo? Articulating identity and citizenship in two Italian Australian autobiographical narratives of World War II internment

Almost 5,000 Italians were interned in Australia during World War II, a high proportion of them Queensland residents. Internment was a pivotal experience for the Italian community, both locally and nationally, complicating Italian Australians’ sense of belonging to their adopted country. Through an examination of two migrant autobiographical narratives of internment, Osvaldo Bonutto's A Migrant's Story and Peter Dalseno's Sugar, Tears and Eyeties, this article explores the impact of internment on the experience and articulation of cultural and civic belonging to Australian society. It finds that internment was a ‘trial’ or ‘transitional’ phase for these internees’ personal and civic identities, and that the articulation of these identities and sense of belonging is historically contingent, influenced by the shift from assimilation to multiculturalism in settlement ideology, as well as Italian Australians’ changing place in Australian society throughout the twentieth century

Avaliação das qualidades anatômicas e composição química do bagaço de cana-de-açúcar para a produção de papel

Projeto acadêmico (graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Campus Curitibanos. Ciências Rurais.Tendo em vista os incentivos para a produção de produtos ecologicamente corretos, cada vez mais se busca alternativas para se ter uma produção de qualidade e de maneira a reduzir impactos ambientais. O bagaço de cana-de-açúcar é um resíduo do processo industrial de usinas sucroalcoleiras, em sua maior parte é queimado para geração de bioenergia, contudo grande parte do bagaço fica inutilizado, saturando os pátios das usinas. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo avaliar as propriedades anatômicas e químicas do bagaço de cana-de-açúcar para a produção de papel. As analises anatômicas e químicas, serão realizados para identificar o tamanho das fibras e teores de lignina, celulose e Hemicelulose, assim sabendo o potencial do bagaço para a produção de papel

Organismos independientes de regulación del audiovisual : los primeros cinco años de la OFCOM y el desafío de la convergencia

Este artículo presenta algunas conclusiones del Trabajo de Investigación defendido por este autor en 2008, que analizó las actuaciones de organismos reguladores del audiovisual en España y en el Reino Unido, entre los años de 2003 y 2007. El período coincide con los primeros cinco años de andadura de la Office of Communications (OFCOM), el nuevo ente regulador británico, creado para hacer frente al proceso de convergencia tecnológica.This paper presents some conclusions of the research defended by this author in 2008, which analyzed the performances of broadcasting regulatory bodies in Spain and the UK, between 2003 and 2007. The period coincides with the first five years of operation of the Office of Communications (OFCOM), the new Britain regulatory body, created to deal with the process of technological convergence

La educación de los ciudadanos aliada a la regulación de los medios : el papel de los consejos audiovisuales en España como promotores de la alfabetización mediática.

Aunque generalmente son reconocidos por sus potestades para fiscalizar y sancionar a los operadores de medios audiovisuales, muchos Organismos Reguladores trabajan también para fomentar las buenas prácticas en el sector y promover junto a la ciudadanía las capacidades relativas a la alfabetización mediática. Es el caso de los Consejos Audiovisuales de tres Comunidades Autónomas españolas - Andalucía, Cataluña y Navarra –, que son el objeto de estudio de la presente comunicación. La revisión de sus marcos legales y de sus Informes Anuales nos permite verificar qué tareas relacionadas con la alfabetización mediática tienen asignadas y en qué medida son cumplidas. El estudio analiza también la recién aprobada Ley General de Comunicación Audiovisual, que incluye la creación del Consejo Estatal de Medios Audiovisuales (CEMA), para observar si el texto contempla la alfabetización mediática en el marco estatal español y el papel del futuro CEMA.In spite of being generally recognized by their powers in order to supervise and punish the broadcasters, many Regulatory Bodies also work to incentive good practices within the sector and to promote, together with citizens, the abilities related to media literacy. This is the case of the Audiovisual Councils of three Spanish Autonomous Regions – Andalusia, Catalonia and Navarra -, which are the aim of this paper. The review of their legal frameworks and their annual reports allow us to verify which tasks related to media literacy are assigned to them, and to what extent they are fulfilled. Furthermore, we will also analyse the Spanish Audiovisual Communication Act, which includes the creation of the State Council of Audiovisual Media, to observe if the law provides media literacy for the Spanish framework and the future role of the State Council