Why does Tasmania have zero indigenous people left? The short answer: Genocide. The long answer: We don't know. This unknown continues to intrigue writers of Australia, and they continue to create particular representations of people and/or places during this colonial era to make scathing remarks about our

Hello everyone! 😊 Welcome to Part 3 of my analysis 📖 on Judith Wright's Eve to Her Daughters 👩‍👧 (1966). In this post, I'll focus on how she criticises our patriarchal system in Australia for dismissing the female experience – we are not truly egalitarian by using the metonymic extension

Hello! 🙋‍♀️ Welcome back to my close analysis of Judith Wright's free verse poem 🔖, Eve to Her Daughters. In Part 2, we explore how Wright criticises the popular belief amongst Australians that Western ideals are superior to those of other cultures. 🧚‍♀️ (Sorry y'all I'm addicted

Australians predominantly believe in and are proud of their egalitarian, 'Golden soil' country, where everyone is united, at peace, and 'toils with hearts and hands'. But are these beliefs correct? Welcome 😊 to Part 1 of my analysis 📖 on Judith Wright's Eve to Her Daughters

Hello everyone! Welcome to Part 3️⃣ (and the finale) of the No Sugar 🍭 series, wherein we'll explore how the post-colonial 🥷 ideas Davis explored in the play have only become increasingly pertinent in modern Australia 🦘. Specifically, this post will explore how Davis urges 🚨 us to acknowledge Indigenous voices in

At least, if you lived in 1930s Australia – and as an Indigenous person. But I would argue that there is still 'no sugar' for many Indigenous Australians today. Welcome to Part 1 of the No Sugar 🍭 series, wherein we'll explore how the post-colonial 🥷 ideas Davis explored

Well, the short answer is, everywhere. Welcome to Part 3 of how The Hollow Men  by T.S. Eliot resonates across place and time. This is the last post on The Hollow Men – thank you for learning with me thus far! 🤩🤌 It's hard to imagine our world as

Or, at least, we are related to many hollow men. Welcome to Part 2 of my close analysis of how The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot resonates across place and time. 🤩 Easily one of the most thought-provoking works of modernist literature 🧠, let's dive deeper into how and