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Diary 1920 - 1944
Whyte, Malcolm (1920 - )
A diary of significant events in the author's life. He began writing it retrospectively in December 1940.
Let it not be a fight of the minority’ Priorities for young multicultural Victorians to reduce the harms of racism and the effect it has on their lives
(The Australian National University, 2025-12-01) Doery, Kate; Lee, Alexandra; Ravalji, Krushnadevsinh; Nguyen, Phuong; Olsen, Anna; Stonnill, Meg; Priest, Naomi
Deep-time diversity: The Oriomo languages of Southern New Guinea
(2025) Josefsson, Michael
Southern New Guinea is a region of almost dizzying linguistic diversity, across every domain: the sheer number of languages spoken, their typological profile, and the number of first-order families they represent. Since Evans (2009), a documentary push emanating from the ANU has begun to grapple with the enormous diversity that exists today, but relatively little work has been done to examine the dynamics or stability of this diversity into the past. This thesis is designed to bring diachronic depth to this synchronic breadth. I target the linguistic prehistory of Oriomo, a small Papuan family consisting of four languages: Wipi, Bine and Gizrra on the mainland of New Guinea, and Meryam Mir in the Torres Strait. I reconstruct Proto-Oriomo using the classical comparative method: phonology and phonological history (in depth) and morphology (more selectively), alongside Oriomo’s internal phylogeny and 160 words of core vocabulary. I find that Proto-Oriomo’s typological profile included features like pronoun clusivity and a contrast between two rhotics, but excluded prenasalized or retroflex consonants, demonstrating the diachronic stability of typological features that set the modern Oriomo languages apart from their neighbours. Phylogenetically, by contrast, I find morphological evidence compatible with the suggestion of a deep-time link with the larger Yam family to the west (Evans et al., 2018).
Treaty Making (Makarrata) and an 'Invisible' People: Seeking a Just Peace After 'Conflict'
(Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, 2022) Wood, Asmi; Te Maihāroa, Kelli; Ligaliga, Michael; Devere, Heather
Indigenous Peoples in Australia are emerging from under the invisibility cloak of terra nullius placed upon them by English and international laws of the nineteenth century. While Anglo-Australian law has been slow in legally recognising them, starting afresh also provides an opportunity to form fair and robust agreements anew. The British, as with other colonisers, have acted in bad faith and even fraudulently with the Indigenous peoples of other lands with whom they did enter into treaties or agreements. Indigenous Peoples in Australia should ensure that they learn from the experience of such encounters and that suitable measures are put in place to avoid these and other foreseeable problems of entering into agreements with people who have shown themselves to be less than trustworthy in the past.