An entertainment for the 16th Australian Symposium on Gastronomy, October 2008Down came a jumbuck to drink from the waterholeUp jumped the swagman and shouted in gleeAnd he sang as he …
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A paper presented at the 2nd Australia’s Homosexual Histories Conference at the University of Melbourne, 5-6 November 1999Two moments in the global history of fags, dykes and food resonate across …
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Charlie and the Chestnut Forage
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2005Charlie knocks on the door at 5am. Bastard! It’s the first of cold autumn mornings and I’m desperate to snuggle down till the last possible moment. I stumble to the …
‘Doing’ Curry and Rice
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'Teaser' for the Second Symposium of Australian Gastronomy July 2018For the first years of my life in Australia, I felt that the food I had grown up on was very …