Chilla Bulbeck

Alison Broinowski reviews the accounts of Australia offered over the last hundred-odd years  by Asian ‘opinion leaders’ – generally  Asian politicians and journalists – but also those within Australia, including the Chinese headmen or community leaders, Colombo Plan students, and Asian-Australian fiction writers. It is perhaps surprising that such a diverse group of commentators ... (read more)

This sequel to In Defense of Animals, published twenty years ago, contains fourteen new essays, three revised essays and one that has been reprinted unchanged. Claiming that ‘philosophers served as midwives of the animal rights movement in the late 1970s’, Peter Singer devotes Part I to ‘The ideas’. The second edition displaces the now well-published philosophers found in the previous edit ... (read more)

In the latest offerings in Cambridge University Press’s ‘Contemporary Japanese Society’ series, Vera Mackie outlines 130 years of Japanese feminism, while Roger Goodman’s collection explores a decade of policy interventions in that country that challenge a society still based largely on a strict gendered division of labour. Men’s primary role is to be the overworked salaryman warrior, wh ... (read more)