Strange Goings On

Musical work composed by me entitled Strange Goings On. One of eleven compositions in this book: Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) publication - Clarinet Series 3 Grade 3

Foofaraw

Published musical work composed by me entitled Foofaraw - one of 12 pieces in this publication (11 composed by other composers): Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) publication - Clarinet Series 3 Grade 4

2 Cool 4 Skool

Musical work composed by me entitled 2 Cool 4 Skool. One of twelve compositions in this book - the other eleven composed by other composers: Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) publication - Alto Saxophone Series 2 Grade 4

2 Cool 4 Skool

Musical work composed by me entitled 2 Cool 4 Skool. One of twelve compositions in this book - the other eleven composed by other composers: Australian Music Examinations Board (AMEB) publication - Tenor Saxophone Series 2 Grade 4

After the flood

FRUSTRATED residents of Grantham, the Lockyer Valley township devastated by Queensland's deadly summer floods, are demanding that the commission of inquiry into the disaster investigate whether an earth wall around a sand quarry helped cause the "inland tsunami" that killed 12 people and destroyed scores of homes.

Queensland farmers rise up to take on the miners

Queensland’s Surat Basin has the third largest energy resource in the world — with vast coal seam gas and coal reserves — but farm groups are warning that mining areas, which are prime farm land, risk catastrophic environmental damage to food-producing areas. Mining development is moving very quickly with 36,000 wells due to be sunk in the next few years. A Senate inquiry into the impacts of mining in the Murray-Darling Basin heard evidence from farm and mining industry representatives in Oakey on the Darling Downs yesterday.

Sweden of the Sagas

In this paper, I discuss the representation of Sweden and Swedes in the Íslendingasögur, with an emphasis on identifying patterns across the works, both in terms of narrative structure and content. The aim in doing so is to shed light on modes of representing non-Icelanders in the Íslendingasögur, as well as on medieval Icelandic conceptions of Sweden as a distinct region within Scandinavia. I also aim here to add to a longer-term project that examines the place of foreign visitors to Iceland in the saga corpus more generally. As the scope of this paper is limited to Swedish characters, I am cautious about drawing broad conclusions about their representation – observations given here will need to be framed by a wider study, and one that reads for the characterisation of Swedes in the context both of other genres of saga literature and representations of characters from other regions beside Sweden. However, it is clear that some similarities exist in saga episodes involving Swedish characters: in four of the Íslendingasögur, Swedes are given roles as intruders or outsiders who threaten the community of the saga and whose deaths bring about a change in the for- tunes of their killers.