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    Susan Norrie
    CREED, BARBARA ( 2004)
    The work of Susan Norrie, which now spans more than two decades, is challenging, provocative and inspirational. As with all visionary artists, Norrie’s practice has developed and changed over time, now incorporating painting, objects, still and moving images and sound. from her paintings to her installations and video projections, Norrie’s work combines technical brilliance and extraordinary talent with an acute and restless intelligence.
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    Red rag to a British bull?: Australian trained nurses working with British nurses during World War I
    HARRIS, KIRSTY (RMIT Publishing, 2004)
    The outbreak of WWI caused a rush of patriotism and thousands of male volunteers demonstrated their keenness to serve the Empire. Both Britain and Australia’s female nursing fraternities were just as enthusiastic to enlist. Some 3000 Australian nurses who joined the Australian Army Nursing Service or served in the British nursing reserve spent part of their service working in British military hospitals alongside nurses from the QAIMNS – Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service. Many Australian nurses had trained under systems of British origin and believed that they shared the same qualifications, skills and outlook as the English sisters. However, British regular army nurses did not regard their colonial sisters as equals. From general snobbishness to giving them all the ‘hard’ duties, Australian nurses had to prove their worth. It was a success; in many cases, by the end of the war British matrons sought Australian nurses in preference to their own country women. This paper explores notions of imperial femininity through aspects of nursing culture, nursing politics, class and primarily labour practices thus making an important contribution to the small but growing number of investigations into women’s military work during World War I.
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    Maintaining Britishness in a setting of their own design: the Troodos Hill Station in Cyprus during the early British occupation
    Varnava, Andrekos ; Darian-Smith, Kate ; Grimshaw, Patricia ; Lindsey, Kiera ; Macintyre, Stuart (RMIT Publishing, 2004)
    Britain occupied Cyprus by virtue of the Anglo-Turkish Convention of 4 June 1878,which ceded the occupation and administration (but not sovereignty) to Britain. The LordBeaconsfield Government planned to convert Cyprus into a place of arms. The architectsof this policy saw Cyprus as ideal for stationing troops, and sent there a 10,000 strongarmy of occupation. They saw Famagusta Harbour as the perfect naval and commercialstation in the eastern Mediterranean. But within months of the occupation, uncertaintiesdeveloped over the military and naval value of Cyprus. The decision to build the TroodosHill Station stood in stark contrast to the uncertainties over the military and naval valueof the island, and the uncertainties over whether to act as if Cyprus was a British orOttoman territory.