Gendered violence is now such a major problem globally that the United Nations has named
it as a significant violation of women's human rights and freedoms. However, men's violence …

Christos Tsiolkas is one of the most recognizable and internationally successful literary
novelists working in Australia today. He is also one of the country's most politically engaged …

Recent reports suggest that the last decade has witnessed a significant increase
incompetition between different television stations and an associated struggle for …

Christos Tsiolkas's fiction has inspired a robust body of academic work over the past
decade. Scholars have commented on how his novels, short stories and critical essays offer …

The politico-historical settings of Christos Tsiolkas's novels The Jesus Man (1999) and The
Slap (2008) compromise the expressions of self manifested by his transcultural characters …

This essay analyzes queer representations in the context of Indigenous Australian
discourses by looking at the two-season Australian science fiction series Cleverman (2016 …

The brain-based economy, in which the fast-moving field of neuroscience is playing an
important part, is gradually making its mark on academia and is likely to supersede the idea …

This thesis examines the representation of nation and masculinity in the work of Australian
authors Martin Boyd, Patrick White, Sumner Locke Elliott, and Christos Tsiolkas across the …

This project explores the complexity of Melbourne's inner and outer suburban spaces as
portrayed within contemporary Melbourne fiction. The study is a textual analysis of the works …

This thesis uses the 2015 American remake of The Slap as a case study to interrogate the
notion that transnational remakes serve to translate the text on which they are based. I …