“Translating the Short Stories of Alexis Wright” Sylvie Kandé talks to Demelza Hall about Le Pacte du serpent arc-en-ciel

Collapsing the barriers between personal memory and forms of fiction, Alexis Wright’s short stories are frequently framed by what has not been resolved and cannot be recounted. This interview with French translator and postcolonial critic Sylvie Kandé discusses the depiction/translation of trauma in Wright's French short fiction volume, Le Pacte du serpent arc-en-ciel. An awareness of the dynamics underpinning Indigenous exposition and cross-cultural exchange are integral to understanding Alexis Wright’s oeuvre. In this intreview, Kandé proposes an analysis of the “writer in the text,” as both a wordsmith and a spokesperson for Indigenous silenced trauma.Le Pacte du serpent arc-en-cielhas not been published in English under the same format, this intreview also examines the reception of Wright's work both in Australia and overseas. 

Framed by reconciliation : Reading cross-cultural space in early twenty-first century Australian literature

This thesis analyses literary works by Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian writers, focussing on the production and function of space in scenes of constructive cross-cultural interaction. All of the novels examined can be read as pedagogies of reconciliation due to their engagement with – and subversion of – the goals, processes, issues, and outcomes of the 1990s reconciliation movement. Yet, while these texts are all broadly framed by reconciliation, this thesis argues that it is their commitment to reimagining spaces of home which marks them as particularly productive reconciliatory pedagogies. One of the primary assertions of this thesis is that for reconciliatory discourses to become useful pedagogies – to educate and inspire and connect people, rather than just inform and unsettle – they need to create spaces of hope. Home became a contested site during the reconciliation years, with processes of historical revisioning and reports such as Bringing Them Home forcing a reconsideration of what it might actually mean to be at home. By moving away from traditional domestic spaces and staid conceptions of dwelling, these narratives attempt to heterogeneously reconfigure notions of home and nation. This thesis is organised around specific spaces and spatial metaphors, and the critical paradigms informing them. Chapter 2, for example, examines ways in which the metaphor of ‘the Gap’ structures ideas of intercultural exchange in reconciliatory discourse and postcolonial criticism. Chapter 3 – which analyses Kate Grenville’s The Secret River and Vivienne Cleven’s Her Sister’s Eye – focusses on the space of the colonial homestead and how it is used to frame notions of impasse, or unbelonging. Chapter 4 examines a series of “interspaces” and how “dwelling-in-motion” frames cross-cultural transformation in Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country, Gail Jones’s Sorry and Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria. Moving away from traditional conceptions of home, Chapter 5 analyses how heterotopic spaces are deployed to frame scenes of exile in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria, Tim Winton’s Dirt Music and Richard Flanagan’s Gould’s Book of Fish. Chapter 6 explores how conceptions of being in country frame notions of belonging and well-being in Alex Miller’s Landscape of Farewell and Kim Scott’s That Deadman Dance. Finally, in conclusion, Chapter 7 suggests that spaces of hope can emerge in reconciliatory discourses when home, like nation, is recognised as a site of entanglement.Doctor of Philosoph

Review of the senior managers & certification regime

Following the 2022 Edinburgh Reforms, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a set of reforms designed to drive growth and competitiveness in the financial services sector, both HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) with the Prudential Regulation Authority initiated consultations to review the Senior Manager and Certification Regime (SM&CR). The aim of the review was to understand stakeholders’ views on how well the SM&CR is functioning and to identify ways to improve the regime to help it work better for firms and regulators. The SM&CR is seen as an essential tool to strengthen the financial services market by ensuring that financial services professionals are individually accountable to their employers and to the regulators. This article examines how the SM&CR has been operating to date and critically analyses whether it is achieving its original aims. The impact of the SM&CR on the international competitiveness of the UK financial services sector is considered, with comparisons drawn with the United States. Ultimately, this article recommends a greater use by the FCA of its enforcement powers to sanction senior managers, to ensure the international competitiveness of the UK financial services sector and to deter financial crime

Framing the Unutterable: Reading Trauma in Alexis Wright’s Short Fiction

The main achievements and mistakes of the ALBAN scholarship programme are taken, in this article, as representative of the cooperation dynamics between the European Union and Latin America. On this basis, ALBAN’s most important results are analysed, synthetically. The objective of the article is to contribute to the design of more effective cooperation tools that can boostthe relationship between the European Union and Latin America for the period 2014-2020.RESUMENLos principales aciertos y desaciertos del programa de becas ALBAN son considerados, en este artículo, como representativos de la dinámica de cooperación entre la Unión Europea y América Latina. Sobre esta base, se analizan de forma sintética, sus resultados más importantes. Siendo así, el presente artículo pretende contribuir con el diseño de instrumentos más eficaces de cooperación que dinamicen las relaciones entre estas dos regiones durante el período 2014-2020. 

Response to home affairs committee inquiry into fraud

This submission provides an analysis of the Home Office’s progress to date on tackling fraud. The recently published Fraud Strategy is examined, with particular reference to corporate criminal liability and the failure to prevent fraud offence, which is currently included in the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (2022-23)

Money muling in higher education institutions

Researchers at Cardiff University, the University of the West of England and Reading University investigated the money laundering risks to which Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and their students are exposed, as well as how HEIs address identified risks. The article argues that a consistent approach to antimoney laundering (AML) across HEIs is required, which could be achieved by applying existing regulation

Review of the senior managers & certification regime

Following the 2022 Edinburgh Reforms, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a set of reforms designed to drive growth and competitiveness in the financial services sector, both HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) with the Prudential Regulation Authority initiated consultations to review the Senior Manager and Certification Regime (SM&CR). The aim of the review was to understand stakeholders’ views on how well the SM&CR is functioning and to identify ways to improve the regime to help it work better for firms and regulators. The SM&CR is seen as an essential tool to strengthen the financial services market by ensuring that financial services professionals are individually accountable to their employers and to the regulators. This article examines how the SM&CR has been operating to date and critically analyses whether it is achieving its original aims. The impact of the SM&CR on the international competitiveness of the UK financial services sector is considered, with comparisons drawn with the United States. Ultimately, this article recommends a greater use by the FCA of its enforcement powers to sanction senior managers, to ensure the international competitiveness of the UK financial services sector and to deter financial crime