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Australian Wikileaks Party launch
The Australian Wikileaks Party Senate campaign was launched on Saturday (6 April 2013) in Fitzroy, Melbourne. The Campaign manager is Greg Barnes, and the party’s secretary is John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father. The party is a welcome entry into the Australian political landscape, bringing a whole new dimension of openness and a unique style of…
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Manifesto of the Digital Humanities
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Digital Humanities is not the humanities nor anti-humanities >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Examples of Digital Humanities Can look like the humanities but are not the humanities. We believe that the context of the works of digital humanities is already the humanities The context for the Digital Humanities is nothing but the humanities Pieces of Digital Humanities…
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Uncommon choices: The Australian Festival of Travel Writing
I am attending the Australian Festival of Travel Writing at the University of Melbourne this weekend. I have never been to such an event and find it extremely useful as two important life narratives; travel and education- have come together. In my case, they have never really been linked except that a love of independent…
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Underground: The Julian Assange Story
As part of their Meet the Filmmaker series, Underground: the Julian Assange story has been playing at Cinema Nova all this past week in Melbourne. The movie was principally made as a telemovie and was primarily funded by Channel 10 (and it was aired last year). Alex Williams, Laura Wheelright, and Robert Connolly The movie…
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War Horse in Melbourne
I was lucky enough to see War Horse in Melbourne recently. I usually see something other than high-end and popular international theatre productions but prefer local independent theatre (which has an extraordinarily vibrant community in Melbourne). I only saw Warhorse because my mother was in town, and I was familiar with it as I worked…
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Wanderlust
A personal project that I have been working on in my spare time over the past few months involved locating, digitising, tagging, and putting into neat little country boxes (on Flikr) all the photos that I have taken on my travels since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. And there are a lot…
