The linguistics of 'nation building': East Timor and Macquarie
How does an 'oral' culture turn itself into a 'literate' culture?
Can the community exercise choice in the matter at all, or will
the process be the result of the dominating tides of the world's
globalising cultures? East Timor is facing these issues and Macquarie
University is working with the National University of East Timor
to find some solutions.
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Biodiversity under the microscope
When we cut down forests to make plantations or clear land for
farming we are also changing the biodiversity of that area. But
how much change can an area sustain before it affects how the thousands
of different organisms living there interact?
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Eternity: a tribute to Arthur Stace
As the smoke from the New Years Eve 1999 fireworks cleared, the
word Eternity hung symbolically from the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Revellers stared up in wonder at this word, many pondering its significance,
many too young to understand its place in Sydney's history.
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