This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and
criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for …

The coast is a place of boundless beauty and great terror. Coastal-based Australian
narratives derive from Gothic literary traditions, flipping historical tropes to create a singularly …

Abstract Drawing on Karen Barad's agential realism and the lens of citizenship, this thesis
explores the lived experiences and attitudes of Lebanese, Indian and Anglo LGBTQ+ young …

For many Australians, the beach is key to leisure and pleasure, an integral part of their
culture, and a symbol of their national sporting identity. There is ample evidence across a …

Football, or soccer, is a simple game. It requires very little in the way of practical resources.
Markers for a goal, a ball-shaped object. This simplicity enables the sport to be undertaken …

This article surveys book-length writing for a general readership about one of Australia's
most well-known and popular beaches, Sydney's Bondi Beach. Having located narratives …

And then we fly the three thousand kilometres, four lonely hours to Darwin. Over that
beautiful expanse of red desert, and you're in the air among the clouds […] and [the light is] …

The Australian continent is a place of diverse landscapes. The outback, frequently
considered an impenetrable space, captured the imagination of British colonisers. But …

Abstract Tidelands (2018), the first standalone Australian production in the Netflix Originals
portfolio, imports the monstrous figure of the siren from Greek mythology to the South-East …

Gold Coast beaches oscillate in the cultural imagination between everyday reality and a
tourist's paradise of 'sun, surf and sex'(Winchester and Everett 2000: 59). While these …