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1 y separately published work icon One More Hour Mary Anne Butler , 2018 Fortitude Valley : Playlab , 2021 21597195 2018 single work drama fantasy

'One More Hour is about the last hour we have living on this earth.

'Set in a post-apocalyptic future, after climate change has wrought its full fury onto Planet Earth, One More Hour tells the story of three Dogs – Fate, Chance and Hope – who each try to lead their humans to safety in a fast-disintegrating world.' (Production summary)
1 These Are Not My People Mary Rachel Brown , 2018 single work drama

'On the eighth of April at five seventeen pm, an incident of racial abuse occurs on a bus. Mobile phone footage of the abuse is uploaded on to social media at five thirty pm, by six o’clock the incident goes viral. The hunger for blame above resolution dominates the debate.

'The perpetrator, the victim, the bystander and the person filming are thrown into a media storm.

'Their actions and inactions judged.
Their privacy gone.
Their family harassed.
Their perception of the truth challenged.
Their ethics commodified.
Their safety threatened.

'Behind the eight-seconds of footage exists four personal lives that are forever altered. These Are Not My People questions the fine line between revenge and justice when it comes to social media shaming.'

Source: australianplays.org
1 y separately published work icon Grandfather's Gully Mogo Public School , Batemans Bay : University of Wollongong Mogo Public School , 2017 14503166 2017 anthology poetry art work prose

"Following on from the successful 2015 Possum Skin Cloak project, the 'Mogo and Mudji' project 2017 builds further connections between the local Aboriginal Community and UOW (University of Wollongong) Batemans Bay. The project has been funded by the Community Engagement Grants Scheme (CEGS) which provides funding to UOW staff and students for educational, research or outreach projects that partner with community organisation and groups. Mogo Public School has partnered in this project alongside UOW Batemans Bay to produce this collaborative project."
1 y separately published work icon Literary Migrations : White, English-Speaking Migrant Writers in Australia Ingeborg van Teeseling , Wollongong : 2011 Z1860612 2011 single work thesis 'In this thesis, I am arguing that [a] false core/periphery binary has made a particular group of migrants ,-those who are white and have migrated from English-speaking countries - invisible - invisible as migrants, that is. For the writers within this group, this leads to a critical blindness in relation to their work and place within Australian national literature. As a critic, however, I look at the work of Ruth Park, Alex Miller and John Mateer and see it is profoundly influenced by their migrant experience. More often than not they write about themes that are typical of migrant writing: alienation, identity, belonging, home, being in-between cultures, history. For a more appropriate, complete appreciation of their work, this thesis argues that it is imperative to go back to the beginning and return the 'default setting' of migrant to its literal meaning.' [From the author's abstract]
1 y separately published work icon 'I shall tell just such stories as I please' : Mary Fortune and the Australian Journal Megan Brown , Wollongong : 2011 10491616 2011 single work thesis

Examines Mary Fortune's writing in the Australian Journal between 1865 and 1885.
1 y separately published work icon Indigenous Diasporic Literature : Representations of the Shaman in the Works of Sam Watson and Alootook Ipellie Kimberley McMahon-Coleman , Wollongong : 2009 Z1608785 2009 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Mapping Literature Infrastructure in Australia Wenche Ommundsen , Michael Jacklin , Australia Council , 2008 Z1543466 2008 single work criticism

'Literature infrastructure' refers to the organisations within the literature sector that actively support writers and their work: state writers' centres, Varuna - The Writers' Centre, the Australian Society of Authors, literary journals, genre-based organisations, and writers' festivals.

The study aims to determine where each organisation sits in the 'supply chain' of support and what contribution it makes to the literature sector as a whole: what services and opportunities are offered to writers, how it contributes to the training and development of writers, whether it contributes to readership/audience development or community engagement, the extent of its national/international reach and how well it is served by its operational, financial and governance model.

The research also seeks to identify trends in the sector as well as gaps in the support currently available to Australian writers.

1 1 y separately published work icon Speakin' Out Blak : An Examination of Finding an 'Urban' Indigenous 'Voice' Through Contemporary Australian Theatre Ernie Blackmore , Wollongong : 2007 Z1433609 2007 single work thesis 'This thesis attempts a complex negotiation between critical and creative writing modes, articulated through the prism of Indigenous issues. As an urban Indigenous writer and critic, I have sought to provide a platform from which it may be possible both to chart a recognisable urban Indigenous *voice* and to see how it can be given shape through the medium of contemporary theatre. Critically the thesis examines the absence of an urban Indigenous voice within mainstream Australia and the reasons for its absence. It asks how the identity, legitimacy and supremacy of that voice can be accommodated. The creative works contained within the thesis are disparate in time, *voice* and setting, demographics: Positive Expectations is contemporary and urban, a more conventionally structured drama looking at issues about racial and sexual identity and questions of family. "Waiting for Ships" is a dramatic monologue that addresses more personal issues to do with the Stolen Generations and the politics of child removal. Both provide different takes on what an urban Indigenous voice can sound like and the messages it can speak. This thesis argues that there has always been a need for an *urban* Indigenous voice, but that that voice has largely been silenced by academe, industry, politics. As a result, urban Aboriginal people may well experience a redoubled sense of cultural loss because of this effective denial of their identity. This thesis seeks to provide a platform for this Indigenous voice to be heard. Finally, this thesis argues for the connection between the theatre and the public and the need for theatre to be both a platform for didactic performance and the vehicle to engage readers and audiences as essential participants in the process of reshaping views about the role of urban Aboriginal people in theatre, politics and nation.' Source: http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/647/ (Sighted 22/07/2010).
1 y separately published work icon Textual Migrations: South Asian-Australian Fiction Tamara Athique , 2006 Z1393092 2006 single work thesis This thesis brings a neglected area of study into view and considers the productive limits and limitations of literary categorisation. It tests the utility of concepts drawn from postcolonial studies, theories of diaspora and critical multiculturalism and argues for an integrated theoretical approach to a set of texts that operate across local, national and transnational literary contexts.
1 y separately published work icon Memory, Music and Displacement in the Minor Memoirs of Evelyn Crawford, Ruby Langford Ginibi and Lily Brett Gay Breyley , Wollongong : 2005 Z1824795 2005 single work thesis 'This thesis investigates some legacies of colonialism and genocide through a reading of Evelyn Crawford's transcribed oral history Over My Tracks, Ruby Langford Ginibi's life narrative Don't Take Your Love To Town and Lily Brett's memory-based volumes of poetry After The War and Unintended Consequences.
These texts, for different but related reasons, constitute minor Australian memoirs. The thesis argues that new readings of such memoirs contribute to new understandings of the intersectional nature of cultural histories. The reading presented in this thesis is structured theoretically and thematically by a focus on memory, music and displacement. Using a theoretical framework based more closely on aural than on visual models, this reading brings the three narrating subjects into conversation and attends to their respective representations of ancestral legacies, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. With methods drawn from literary criticism, ethnomusicology and history, the thesis offers a new way of listening to the complex memories of displaced people and their descendants.' (Author's abstract)
1 y separately published work icon The Heart of Each Reflection : Texts in Search of Identity Gerry Turcotte (editor), Courtney Price (editor), Wollongong : University of Wollongong , 2005 Z1438377 2005 anthology short story poetry life story
1 y separately published work icon A New Defence of Poetry : and New Possibilities from Hypertext to Ecopoetry John Bennett , Wollongong : 2004 Z1726480 2004 single work thesis This thesis is, in part, a response to the loss of poetry as an epistemic discourse, a process that began with the development of writing. However, it is also energised by new opportunities of using the powerful tool of language, and techniques of poetry. The thesis aims to update previous defences of poetry, rebutting Plato’s initial attack in Ion, claiming poetry is non-cognitive. While building on a famous tradition, this thesis expands the repertoire of argumentation, incorporating findings from the cognitive sciences, and insights from pragmatist, phenomenological, and ecological perspectives on the emergent/embodied nature of cognition. An emphasis on a speech-based poetics and embodied skilled practice, with no claims to transcend the ordinary and everyday, undermines formalist approaches. This approach is developed through an investigation of two new forms of the poem – ecopoetry and hypertext poetry; fresh forms to reinvigorate, not only poetry discourse, but ways of dwelling in the world. Throughout this thesis, the processes by which language comes to mean, and be used, are explored, with a view to explaining the power of poetry. Poems provide cognitive opportunities for making use of the amazing cognitive techniques that we have co-evolved with; techniques, which put us in touch with our environments.
1 y separately published work icon Filipino Women and Their Citizenship in Australia: In Search of Political Space Glenda Lynna Anne Tibe-Bonifacio , Wollongong : 2003 Z1395893 2003 single work thesis 'This research examined the meaning and practice of Australian citizenship in the lives of migrant Filipino women in Australia. It utilized the life story approach and pariticipant observation in Sydney and Wollongong.
1 y separately published work icon Beyond the Moons of August Beatriz Copello , Wollongong : 2003 Z1388672 2003 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon The Grotesque Poetics of Rodney Hall's Dream Trilogies Greg Ratcliffe , 2000 Z1361903 2000 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon The Male Line and Epic Drama: An Investigation of Epic Drama in Theory and in Practice Using Traditional Sources Clem Gorman , 1998 Z1420348 1998 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Bestiary Coral Hull , 1998 Z1035529 1998 single work thesis
1 1 y separately published work icon Billy Pogo's Fire : A Creative Arts Project in Drama, Poetry and Visual Arts on the Theme of An Aboriginal Wiringin or Clever Man Ken Stone , Wollongong : 1994 Z1717528 1994 single work thesis
1 y separately published work icon Circling the Mountain : From Naming to Namelessness Towards Writing and Performing a Contemporary Epic Poem Merlinda Bobis , Wollongong : 1994 Z1355255 1994 single work thesis From author's abstract: 'this explanatory text documents the process involved in writing and performing my epic, in which I recast a traditional myth about the active volcano Mt. Mayon in my region Bikol in the Philippines.' The analysis and discussion focuses on 're-inventing the Self beyond rigidified and oppressive definitions of identity,' through three sections: Naming, Unnaming, and Namelessness (i).
1 y separately published work icon La Voce del Cuore : poesie di Flora Mori Flora Mori , Wollongong : s.n. , 1990 Z1303007 1990 selected work poetry
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