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What does the Australian accent really say about us? It was, somewhat unexpectedly, during a screening of Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke (1999), starring Kate Winslet as a young Sydney woman called Ruth, that I first became preoccupied with this question. As I watched Campion’s follow-up to The Piano (1993), it struck me that Winslet’s Australian accent was so damned perfect that an explanation was mandatory. I mean, Winslet could even sigh like an Aussie.
... (read more)The Porn Report by Alan McKee, Katherine Albury and Catharine Lumby & Princesses and Pornstars by Emily Maguire
by Jay Daniel Thompson •
Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre
by Gillian Dooley •
Encyclopedia of Exploration 1850–1940 by Raymond John Howgego & Australia in Maps by Maura O’Connor et al.
by Ian Morrison •