Coolabah (Jan 2017)
Foreword: “Veronica Brady, academic voices and pending hugs”
Abstract
We could hardly guess its consequence at the time, but back in November 1988, as White Australia celebrated the bicentenary of settlement and Indigenous Australians mourned two centuries of dispossession and annihilation, the cultural distance between Western Australia and northern Spain began to shrink. Not that flight connections were miraculously improved, or that our old but modest university had struck a magical jack pot of funding to spot us on the map of the already expanding academic networks.
