Table of Contents

 

Table of contents

Histories
Introduction
Australian karaoke plays the Nordic stars
Please consider Australian Shinto
The invisible city of Kitezh down under
The lost tribe of Levant
An unsafe haven for Illyrian guests
The Unaustralian saudade
Balanda dreaming
The city that never grew up
Letters
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech from Agnes the Grim
Kyutu at Hashi Mitsuri
Constantin File, Doc #B456
Enileh Haghar address to the General Assembly
Travels with the ALA
Sermon on returning from Rome
The Queen's Annual Christmas Address from Australia
Colloquy
Another Europe
Niemalsland by Tom Morton
Danish-Italian Colonisation by Julie Copeland
French colonisation by Greg Barnes
New Holland by Itiel Bereson
Dutch Australia and the conflict with Japan by Guy Rundle
Roman Australia by John Slavin
The stray Roman by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
La Perouse by Nikos Papastergiadis
Briefing Note for President Bush's Visit to Australia, May 2003 by Dennis Altman
Another Asia
The Cultural Revolution by Duncan Kerr MP
On to the Kingdom of Prester John by Christopher Kelen
The Antipodean Civil War by Chris Tsiolkas
Non-colonisation
Gondwana: Traces of the Exiles by Anthony Burke
The unimaginable by David Carter
Never a Colony by Barry Hindess
What Australia might have been had not it been invaded by White People from over the Seas… by Alan Gold
Antipodean Venice by Mardi McConnochie
Anti-colonisation
Radical Ecological Urbanisers by Geert Lovink
Pre.formed & Colony Sourced by MEZ
Australian Castles by Niall Lucy
Land at the Centre of the World by MTC Cronin
History in motion by Lesley Stern
wasteland by Nikki Gemmell
A kiss on two cheeks by Fiona Giles
Hop by Pi O

Bio

Kevin Murray is Director of Craft Victoria and a freelance writer and curator. He has curated a number of exhibitions that have toured nationally, including Symmetry: Crafts Meet Kindred Trades and Professions; How Say You; Turn the Soil: What if Australia had been colonised by someone else?; Water Medicine: Precious Works for an Arid Continent; and Loom. For two years, he was curator of the interactive program for the Melbourne Film Festival. As well as articles for art publications, he also writes features for The Age newspaper and produces radio programs for the ABC. In 1996, he was awarded an Australia Council Writing Fellowship. He has a PhD in the field of narrative psychology, to which he still contributes in his leisure.

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