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What We Mean When We Say ‘Sovereignty Was Never Ceded’,
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'In discussing the Uluru Statement from the Heart, I will be doing something that, as a lawyer, is perhaps not best practice: I am not going to define my terms or confine my comments to the law.' (Introduction)
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Editors Have Long Been Publishing’s Hidden Handmaidens – What Might We Gain If We Acknowledged Their Role?,
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'Editors are almost always unseen and unheard – until something goes wrong. That might be a relatively minor mistake, such as a typo – as in a cookbook that mistakenly listed “people” instead of “pepper” in a recipe. Or it could be more substantial questions about the integrity of a book’s contents.' (Introduction)
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‘It Was Devastating’ : Theatremakers on the Fallout from Their Worst Reviews,
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'Many directors crave critique as much as they fear it. But what happens behind the scenes after a public panning?'
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Women and Girls at Risk, at the End of the World: These Subversive Short Stories Reflect Our Anxieties,
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— Review of Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls 2022 selected work short story ; Everything Feels like the End of the World 2022 selected work short story ;'Anne Casey-Hardy’s Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls and Else Fitzgerald’s Everything Feels like the End of the World share feminist concerns. But while both use the short-story collection to explore latent social violence and collective anxieties, they are dramatically distinct.' (Introduction)
