Hecate articles from May 2002

Hecate archives from May 2002

Editorial.(Australian national identity)(Editorial)
May 1, 2002... June 12 this year was the centenary of the Commonwealth Franchise Act whereby, in a first in the western world, Australian women had the right both to vote and to stand for election. Prior to Federation in 1901, women in South Australia and...

White girl 'gone off with the blacks'.
May 1, 2002... On 2 September 1861 Robert Hickson, superintendent of the Acheron Aboriginal Station wrote a report to Robert Brough Smyth, secretary of the Central Board Appointed to Watch Over the Interests of the Aborigines (1) about a 'white girl' who had...

Nugi Garimara (Doris Pilkington) interviewed by Christine Watson.(Interview)
May 1, 2002... Introduction The struggle of citizens against state power is the struggle of their memory against forced forgetting. (1) One of the biggest struggles faced by Aboriginal people in Australia since colonisation is the struggle against...

The formalities of the formal.(shopping horror stories)
May 1, 2002... The pain and suffering associated with shopping for a formal dress will haunt me for the rest of my life. In retrospect I cannot believe it. I was in year 11 and it was my first formal occasion. About the only things I associated with...

'Yet another end of another aboriginal filmmaker's journey': a personal account of aboriginal documentary filmmaking in the ABC.
May 1, 2002... When I was thirty years old I landed a job in 1989 as a television documentary researcher, quite by accident. I was an undergraduate media student sharing a house and a huge phone bill with six other UTS communication students. Just hours...

Credit repair.(Short Story)
May 1, 2002... The sirens start dropping out of the pines like a mess of crows, but Tirana has already smelled smoke. 'Fire!' she cries, jumping up. When she opens my living room window and leans out, something hot sucks at us and a stack of filing...

Stony words.(Short Story)
May 1, 2002... 'Look at the bum on ya! And you wonder why I won't walk down East Street with ya!' Every day he runs her down. He has their whole married life, but it's built up and built up. Since he took early retirement from the railways he feels...

Bone Home.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... Bone Home Ashlley Morgan-Shae I am going to build myself a bone home of chicken-stick legs, from the ones who couldn't stand, for window frames of thigh bones, that lay near unaccommodating dicks, for corner struts ...

Water Lily.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... Water lily Alison Lambert beware the blue-fanged waterlily she infiltrates your soul nibbles at the edges of your dreams spitting out the leavings which fall to the mud at the bottom of the lake her green-snouted head weaves...

Snake Bird.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... Snake Bird Alison Lambert Black in the bright midafternoon By the placid waterhole, A death shape dries Its night rag wings. Like a pencil, Like a snake, The diver slides through underworld, Strikes from still To...

Flapper.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... Flapper Jennifer Chrystie After the painting by Margaret Preston At first gaze steady mutual nothing flighty about her except knees crossed and exposed by the checked dress with Peter Pan collar ...

Patchwork.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... These poems that form part of the sequence The Female Factory focus on Jane Franklin's attempts to alter the prison system for female convicts. She was influenced in her thinking by Elizabeth Fry, an English woman who fought for prison reform...

Bloomsbury Forty Years Ago.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... Bloomsbury Forty Years Ago. Nicola Knox In those days, in boarding houses, there was time to dream, on 5 pounds a week. Three floors up, no bathing after nine no washing in rooms and breakfast seven to eight, not kept back....

Absence.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... Absence. Kristin Hannaford does a tree fall/make a sound in the forest/in the forest home from the garden the gate is swinging rattling windnotes discordant noises these scrapes of metal a heel turns awkwardly over...

Succulence.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... Succulence Kate Maxwell Back to the caravan park off the highway; black garbage bins, mangy dog and old tin nags tied to cement blocks - ridden for years in sweat, thrown crockery and screams. You walked into the shabby...

Untitled.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... Untitled. Andrea Sherwood I am alone, sparingly, Spirited, backed like a Cathedral. Utterly unlike others, I am Rare as hen's teeth My mean-red mouth Words to eat with. I am steel as eel, Infinite. Do you see a...

Broken Sandals.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... Broken sandals Helen Hagemann You drive to work, hear the falling of war Horror, horror at arm's length Heart too irascible, too helpless To assuage this bludgeoning Of New York streets All you can do is sharpen the instrument...

Malevolent story.(Poem)
May 1, 2002... What is this, here in this story IN FAIRYTALES at the center, the point that can no longer SUCH AS be found or placed? It does not feel like LITTLE love, his dry romantic reverence of RED roses and odes and RIDING kisses beside fountains, or...

Valse Frontenac.(Short Story)
May 1, 2002... Shauna Heffernan stands like a submarine periscope, waist-high on a ladder peering into the darkness of the attic. She pulls herself up through the hole and crawls along the beams. When she finds what she is looking for she moves back towards...

From the Last Clone.(Fiction)
May 1, 2002... I have been jolted by the events of September 11, in particular the reactions and the aftermath in the West, into focussing on possible future directions of the world. This is why I am no longer interested in writing historical novels as I have...

Eleanor and Eve.(Excerpt)
May 1, 2002... The Blue Mountains region west of Sydney is still thick with writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, actors. This community has a long history of such like minded spirits attracted to a unique and astonishing area. Although it's a community...

Focus on women in prison.(community organisation Sisters Inside)
May 1, 2002... Introduction I have been asked to write an Introduction for the group of articles included in this edition focusing on women in prison. These articles are from the State, National and International Women in Prison Conference hosted by...

Keeping 'our' women safe: containing Australian fear and danger through immigration detention.
May 1, 2002... In 1992, immigration detention was introduced in Australia by the ALP government with bipartisan support. It was introduced relatively quietly at the time, and without widespread knowledge or acknowledgment of it by the general public. Since...

Globalisation and criminal injustice.
May 1, 2002... What I want to talk about today is the direct link between the massive growth in the number of women, and especially indigenous women, being imprisoned in Queensland prisons over the last decade and the process of corporate globalisation....

Many Prisons.(Australian aboriginal women face racism)
May 1, 2002... I'd like to begin by saying that I'm a Murri woman, that is, members of my family have always lived in this place. My Aboriginal brothers have done time but I haven't. So I want to be clear I don't speak for women in prison, but simply offer...

Tales of a private women's prison: writ in women's lives.
May 1, 2002... Until October 2000, women prisoners in Victoria's Metropolitan Women's Correctional Centre (MWCC) suffered as guinea pigs in the first private prison experiment on women in Australia. After four year long years, the Victorian state...

Women and drugs: destruction by incarceration.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... In 1986 in New South Wales, I was charged with importing one kilo of cannabis resin. I was sentenced when the federal government's 'Drug Offensive' policy was being enforced; this ensured a political climate of 'get tough' on drug offenders. My...

A perspective on long term imprisonment.
May 1, 2002... It is my hope that you leave this conference with a more open mind and at the very least having learned something of what it is like for women in jails. While I must pay a price for my crime and am most willing to do so, it must be remembered...

The risky business of risk assessment.(assessing young offenders in Canada)
May 1, 2002... Correctional authorities in many Canadian provinces and territories are utilizing actuarial risk assessment procedures with criminalized adults and youth within their jurisdictions. Although some highly problematic philosophical issues and...