Hecate articles from May 2007

Hecate archives from May 2007

Celebrating May Day.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Celebrating May Day Istanbul The sea is dark and fierce which Jason sailed taking Medea from her Amazon country back to a strange land where men ruled Grey-haired companions we sit sipping tea ...

Focus on women and work: editors' introduction.
May 1, 2007... In March 2006, Australia's national industrial relations laws were significantly rewritten. At the same time, welfare legislation was amended. There was considerable concern about these two sets of changes, individually and in combination,...

Addressing work: industrial women and organising in the interwar years.(Table)
May 1, 2007... It is not to be wondered at that class hatreds should grow when a wage rate is fixed which is as near to the poverty line as one can get... less pay to women workers being nothing but exploitation. (1) We have, and will continue to, make...

Uncovering the normative family of parental leave: Harvester, law and the household.(Case study)
May 1, 2007... Introduction From the mid 1970s, Australian parliaments enacted legislation for the stated purpose of addressing discrimination in the paid labour force, including more recently in relation to the issues of pregnancy and childbirth. These...

Institutions and activism around women and work at a time of change.(Case study)
May 1, 2007... Introduction Recent and substantial 'reforms' have significantly amended the 1996 Workplace Relations Act (Cth) and 'Welfare-to-Work' regimes. These reforms have renewed the focus on gender at work, in the community at large, and among...

Collateral damage: women and the workchoices battlefield.(Table)(Case study)
May 1, 2007... In 2003, management at a nursing home in Parkes, New South Wales, attempted to persuade its enrolled nurses to become Care Service Employees, on significantly lower rates of pay. The nurses refused, and the company, aware it would have to deal...

WorkChoices and pay equity.(Table)
May 1, 2007... Introduction The year 2006 was a milestone for the regulation of industrial relations and efforts to achieve gender pay equity in Australia. The commencement on 27 March 2006 of the Howard government's Workplace Relations Amendment...

'I just juggle': work and family balance in Australian organisations.(Case study)
May 1, 2007... There is a plethora of research that addresses women's need to integrate family and community responsibilities with paid work and an extensive debate on the work and family interface in Australia, and how it can best be accommodated across...

Workplace bullying, women and WorkChoices.
May 1, 2007... [B]ullying behaviour involving grossly improper conduct, including racist and sexist vilification, is notoriously underreported even in the workplace and the undoubted fact that many victims seem unable or unwilling to take action at least for...

The interplay of Welfare-to-Work and Work Choices.(Report)
May 1, 2007... Introduction The main object of labour law has always been, and I venture to say will always be, a countervailing force to counteract the inequality of bargaining power which is inherent and must be inherent in the ...

Hecate at the Winter Solstice.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Hecate at the Winter Solstice Dear M. I was shocked to hear about L. I didn't even know she had been ill It's a natural part of life of course but when I leave people behind I expect them to stay there ...

Leaving Romance.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Leaving Romance Today I buried the dress I met you in The one I packed and took out in Durham, and Bristol visiting your mum Today I whacked it in the rubbish tin Under the tea-leaves and rotting fruit Someone...

The Separate Prison, Port Arthur.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... The Separate Prison, Port Arthur Some went mad in the Separate Prison, mask over face No name, only number, observed in place Not a spoken word, a message had Designed to mull--poor-judged as bad In hour-yard...

Older Now.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Older Now Restored, the brass bed looks impressive where we lay in nightly ritual watching stars cascade through space-- death, the ancients said. Once stars were our passion exploding two strangers...

Pleasure At His Majesty's.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Pleasure At His Majesty's I sit on the bench. The thick wrought-iron is warm from the heat of the sun though the sky is a little cloudy, a little breezy, in mid-afternoon. And all around me, electric-green...

In Your Lunchbox.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... In Your Lunchbox It's dark in here. I'm sandwiched against something sweet-- a vegemite scroll and an apple; a cake for a treat. My open fists beat at the sides with a hollow din and tear at the gladwrap. My lungs bellow...

Nine days.(Short story)
May 1, 2007... Today it is winter. The houses close like clouds. And that sweet steam, how it drifts in from the unfilled swamp. Without our fence we get the thick of it--in the summer we were killing flies and now it's just the muck from the wetland in our...

'There's no guarantee that the future will be worth it'--government and class in Amanda Lohrey's The Reading Group.
May 1, 2007... Introduction Amanda Lohrey's 1988 novel, The Reading Group, a polyphonic dystopian fiction, is arguably a deeply pessimistic account of the failures of reformism and a lament for the resistance and imaginative possibilities brought about...

'The Flour Shed'.(Short story)
May 1, 2007... 'I'll be the doctor!' called David, as the three children ran towards the flour shed at the end of the driveway, the medical set in its white box bouncing against his thigh. Before Nell could say anything, Elizabeth cried, 'I'll be the nurse!'...

Occidental echoes: Beth Yahp's ambivalent Malaya.
May 1, 2007... This paper discusses the novel The Crocodile Fury (1992) by Beth Yahp, winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Sheaffer Pen Prize for First Fiction, 1993, and the New South Wales State Literary Awards, Ethnic Affairs Commission Award...

Little Bird.(Short story)
May 1, 2007... I found Little Bird lying on a gritty, sunstruck pavement in the port of Patras one sweltering morning in June. I had been sent to that city by the British Council in Athens with a large contingent of English examiners, to conduct the interview...

'Only teachers, nurses and wives': women on Methodist missions in Arnhem Land.
May 1, 2007... 'I don't think we had many women missionaries in North Australia. Only teachers and nurses.' (1) 'On Elcho Island, to tease us, our husbands used to say to us, 'Oh, but you are only a wife!" (2) 'Only' was a pejorative term used to...

Alexis Wright Interview.(Interview)
May 1, 2007... This interview with Kerry O'Brien for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation '7.30 Report' programme was televised on 21 June 9007. KERRY O'BRIEN: Coincidentally tonight, as governments continue to grapple with the on-going social crisis...

Dead Women.(Short story)
May 1, 2007... Lily woke up one morning to find Virginia Woolf sitting on the end of her bed. She instantly recognised the thin, protuberant cheekbones and phosphorescent eyes. She liked the way the dark morbid floral pattern on Virginia's shirt-dress skimmed...

Loss of mother/hood: maternalising posteolonial cultural memory.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2007... Remembrance and nostalgia for mother and motherhood saturate contemporary culture, and are often inseparable from the ideological project of fixing the maternal subject both in the past and in the home. In remembering mothers, a specifically...

Ghost Story.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Ghost Story Under a night sky as immense as sleep. On a land mass shifting over the earth's blood, dream-slow. Near the muddy coast, mangrove-dark, of a body of water rocked by the moon. (How oceans heave with...

Oil.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Oil one of the keywords that remains relevant to this day, out of their seven even though one was fictively described as oleaginous as if it were a bad thing and another one ends up leaving the premises having...

Steve Irwin: Death of a Hero.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Steve Irwin: Death of a Hero I. Before the camera he was larger than life but in the Great Barrier Reef small enough for death An 'authentic Australian,' he showed us who we are supposed to be, ...

Snapshot.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Snapshot Dora Maar 1907-1997 Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 In a Man Ray shot Picasso first got a glimpse of you, which he couldn't forget. 'I admire the utter fatality of objects,' you said, photographing his head...

The Birth of Shame.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... The Birth of Shame 1. Skidding along the spinal cord Uncurling for the first time Vertebra by vertebra The whole way up You're hungry it seems For the smell of human hair 2. The teacher told us...

Dream Catcher.(Poem)
May 1, 2007... Dream Catcher she comes to me when I least expect her company broken pearls crushed inside disheveled dreams emotional aspirins swirling around my unconscious universe hidden words blow my cover more naked then...