Corfu Blues and Global Views

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Thursday, 26 January 2017

Australia Day, 26 January: Some Contrasting Images


I wish I could be there!






Cedric Talbot at Government House, NSW (above)

A Painting by Harry Wedge (below)





The Human Zoo: Documentary sheds light on stolen Aboriginal people 'treated as animals', ABC News

Haunting photos show the Aboriginal people who were kept in 'The Human Zoo' that toured the world, MailOnline


Rottnest Island: Black prison to white playground, ABC News

'An act of betrayal against Australia': Fremantle divided over cancellation of Australia Day festivities, ABC News


Let's talk about Australia day...Sydney Morning Herald

A great shame that the powerful BBC 2 TV drama Series, Banished, was cancelled. It can still be seen on Netflix.

About Banished (Wikipedia)

Related: BBC apologises for misleading documentary on 'drunken' Aboriginal community, The Guardian


Why are Australians so laid back? BBC



Jim at 07:46:00
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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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