Essays On Air

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Join us as we read aloud fascinating, meticulously researched essays penned by academics who are experts in their fields.

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Essays On Air

Episodes (17)

May 3, 2019 Nimbin before and after: local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town forever
Oct 2, 2018 Essays On Air: the politics of curry
Aug 6, 2018 Essays On Air: The female dwarf, disability, and beauty

Essays On Air

May 3, 2019
30¼ minutes
69 MB

A scene at the Aquarius Festival, Nimbin, 1973. Flickr/Harry Watson Smith, CC BY-SA In the north-east corner of Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales is a small former dairying and banana farming community. Today, however, that village is unrecognisable. Nimbin is now widely acknowledged as Australia’s counter-cultural capital, a sister city to both Woodstock in New York State and Freetown Christiania in Denmark. Among Nimbin’s tourist attractions today are its Hemp Embassy and the annual Mardi Grass festival in early May, which argues for the legislation of marijuana for personal and me...

Essays On Air

Nimbin before and after: local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town forever

The Conversation

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