A Mabo Blood Test?<sup>1</sup>

Birch, Tony

doi:10.1111/j.1835-9310.1995.tb00143.x

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“…40 Jesse however imagines the wooden tabletop reads J and R: "Jesse and Rachel" "Jesse and Rachel Were Here". 41 The graffiti foreshadows the relationship Jesse has with his sister Rachel from the very beginning. Much like the graffiti Rothwell observes in remote Northern Territory communities, Birch uses intertextual graffiti to portray not only where characters have been, but in proximity with whom, and how their relationships (both familial and those of hostility with police) have wider implications for belonging and cultural survival.…”

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Seeking Poetic Justice: A Reading of Dylan Voller’s Prison Graffiti

Sefton-Rowston

2019

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When Four Corners aired the program ‘Australia’s Shame’ we entered into the prison cells of Darwin’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre and witnessed through CCTV footage the torture of mostly Aboriginal inmates, enduring a colonial system of controlling and ‘settling’ them down. Images of Dylan Voller under a spit-hood and strapped to a restraint chair are horridly similar to the prison machine in Franz Kafka’s 1914 story: In the Penal Colony. In his story, Kafka’s prison machine is a ‘bed’ where the ‘condemned man is laid face-down naked’ and a marker carves script into the prisoner’s back that is “not easy to decipher with one’s eyes”, but the prisoner can “decipher the words “with his wounds” . One purpose of literary studies is to decipher the cultural markers responsible for humanity’s ‘wounds’ through the study of words or scripts known as texts. Kafka encourages us to read only the texts that wound us; books that allow us to reflect deeply, and with feeling, in order to inspire positive changes to the material world (Winston, 2016). Balla’s poem brings attention again to the treatment of Aboriginal children in Darwin’s Don Dale Youth Detention Centre. Her poem suggests there may be a poetic response to such atrocities if one reflects deeply. Recent texts that further expose Australia’s racist penal system and invite critical and creative reflection include, Kim Scott’s Taboo, Paul Collis’ Dancing Home and selected stories from Tony Birch’s Common People. These texts are published not long after the Four Corners exposé, and too inform writing about the treatment of Aboriginal people by white police and prison guards.

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Sefton-Rowston

2019

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“…The development of reliable low-power closed-cycle coolers producing ∼0.5 W of refrigeration at 60 K from ∼10 W of input power [49], coupled with the production of large-area HTS thin films with very low surface resistance [37] in the same temperature range (R s (60 K) ∼ 100 µ at 10 GHz for YBCO) means that very compact lowpower dielectric resonators should be realizable with a total volume of not more than 10 −3 m 3 . Increasing the operating temperature from 4 K to 60 K does increase the dielectric loss in ultrapure sapphire to a value of tan δ = 10 −7 but this is still low enough not to seriously compromise performance of the stable oscillators [50] and, in any case, the impact of the assumed dominant d-wave symmetry of the cuprate order parameter (see section 2.2)) is expected to limit unloaded HTS cavity resonator Q values to within an order of magnitude greater than this and certainly the volume reduction by more than an order of magnitude which dielectric loading offers is highly advantageous in most clock or standard frequency applications.…”

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“…Further work on compact coolers is expected to simplify this arrangement. At present thin film filters, although the most compact design, have not demonstrated the ability to handle sufficiently high microwave current densities to deal with the required levels of 10-100 W for the transmitter channel filters and combiners (but see [49]). For channel filter applications the third-order intermodulation product (see section 3) is a particularly important figure of merit.…”

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Microwave applications of high-temperature superconductors

Gallop

1997

Supercond. Sci. Technol.

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For at least eight of the first ten years of high-temperature superconductivity it has been clear that one of the earliest areas of application and commercialization of these materials is as passive devices for microwave electronics. At the time of writing the first prototype products are entering service in the mobile communications industry and a wide range of other devices are at a relatively advanced stage of development. In the further future one can see a cryogenic integrated technology based on HTS materials and the related functional materials which have emerged within the last ten years.

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Healthy imaginations: A social history of the epidemiology of aboriginal and Torres strait islander health

Brough

2001

Medical Anthropology

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It is difficult to imagine Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health without the powerful descriptors of epidemiology. The statistical imagery of numerical tables, pie charts, and bar graphs have become a key element in the public presentation of Indigenous public health issues. Such quantitative measurements of health draw on the authority of neutral, objective science and are thus rarely questioned in terms of their social meaning. This paper traces the history of this imagery through the 20th century, providing a social account of epidemiological description. Historical notions such as social Darwinism, assimilation, and dangerous other are all seen to be woven into the epidemiological text. The enormous rise in the epidemiological description of Indigenous health problems in recent years needs to be analyzed as a social phenomenon and, in particular, as an aspect of emerging forms of governmentality. Finally, it is argued that such analyses are needed in order to promote an anthropology of epidemiology and to avoid limiting medical anthropology to applications within epidemiology.

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A Mabo Blood Test?¹

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Seeking Poetic Justice: A Reading of Dylan Voller’s Prison Graffiti

Microwave applications of high-temperature superconductors

Healthy imaginations: A social history of the epidemiology of aboriginal and Torres strait islander health

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