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Islam in Australia - Whyte references

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| The Muslim Brotherhood in Australia | Politics | References | References * Shaheen Amid Whyte, Institutionalising Islamic Religious Authority in Australia: The Case of the Australian National Imams Council , Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs , 41(4), 2021. Specific Australian references and footnotes from this article are listed below.  Australian National Imams Council Limited , Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission, n.d.  Shaheen A. Whyte, Islamic Religious Authority in Cyberspace: A Qualitative Study of Muslim Religious Actors in Australia, Religions , 13(1), 2022, 3.  Anisa Buckley, Not “Completely” Divorced: Muslim Women in Australia Navigating Muslim Family Laws , Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2019.  Ann Black and Nadirsyah Hosen, Fatwas: Their Role in Contemporary Secular Australia, Griffith Law Review , 18(2), 2009.  Nora Amath, The Phenomenology of Community Activism: Muslim Civil Society Organisations in Australia , Me...

Politics

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A listing of the various blogs which deal with political and sociological issues plus various conspiracy theories. They are arranged most recent to oldest posted. 2025 The Muslim Brotherhood in Australia , 6 November 2025. A brief discussion of the secret imposition of radical Islam into Western societies, including Australia, with the thesis that the Muslim Brotherhood is behind much of the worst examples arising, including the imposition of Sharia law. [Blog] Trump's Med-beds ..... "absolutely bonkers, bizarre, crazy, magic, conspiracy theory..." , 28 September 2025. A discussion around the subject of Alien-origin med beds. [Blog] Ilhan Omar: Mogadishu, Minneapolis (Minnesota, U.S.) and a fall from grace , 23 September 2025. A brief account of the controversy surrounding the Somalia born US Congresswoman. [Blog] The Toobeah Aboriginal land transfer 2025 , 22 September 2025. Discussion of right wing opposition to Australian Aboriginal land transfers. [Blog] ...

Fender Blues Junior 2017

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What is it? The writer was recently shown a Fender guitar amplifier from a deceased estate and sought to identify its age and specs. A label on the back indicated it was a   Fender Blues Junior , though no date was provided. 2025 marked the 30th anniversary of the model, first appearing in 1995. The following are two pictures of the amp.   From these images we can search the Fender Serial Number Lookup site to reveal the following information (click on images for supersize): Production date: November 2017. Made in Mexico. It is a 240V Australian model. Covering - lacquered tweed, yellow-brown. Valves - single channel, 15 watt, all tube amp. Serial number - B723449. Wattage - 15W. Speaker - Lacquered Tweed Limited Edition Blues Juniors ship with the Italian manufactured Jensen model C12N. Controls knobs - black, vintage pointer x 6.  Product description for a current model selling for Aus$1400: The Blues Jr. Lacquered Tweed takes Fender's 15W gem and g...

Eliza Dunlop's Gibber gunyah 1839

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| Australian Aboriginal / Indigenous / First Nations Archive | Elizabeth Hamilton Dunlop Contents Introduction The Aboriginal Mother 1838 Gibber gunyah 1839 The Eagle Chief 1842 References ------------------- 1. Introduction Elizabeth Hamilton Dunlop (1796-1880) was an Irish-born woman who arrived as a free settler in New South Wales , Australia, during February 1838 with a husband and four children. The family settled in the Hunter Valley region, north of Sydney, in a property known as Mulla Villa at Wollombi . Her husband was appointed Police Magistrate and Protector of Aborigines . Almost immediately Eliza began reflecting on her new situation through poetry, as she had done before arriving in Australia. At the end of the year she achieved both notoriety and fame when she published The Aboriginal Mother , a reflection on the Myall Creek massacre of more than 28 Aboriginal people on 10 June.1838. Eliza maintained an interest in local Aboriginal ...

Towwaa of Jarvis Bay 1810

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Shoalhaven & South Coast: Aborigines / Indigenous / First Nations archive | Amootoo | Aunty Julie Freeman art | Berry's Frankenstein & Arawarra | Blanket lists | Broughton & Broger | Bundle & Timelong | Byamunga's (Devil's) Hands | Cornelius O'Brien & Kangaroo Valley | Cullunghutti - Sacred Mountain | Death ... Arawarra, Berry & Shelley | God | Gooloo Creek, Conjola | Indigenous words | Kangaroo Valley | Mary Reiby & Alexander Berry | Mickey of Ulladulla | Minamurra River massacre 1818 | Mount Gigenbullen | Neddy Noora breastplate 1834 | Timelong | Towwaa 1810 | Ulladulla Mission | Yams | John Lewin, Towwaa [Jarvis Bay], 1810 (detail). Collection: British Museum. Contents Smiling man Tom Ugly / Eugally ? Richard Browne's Towa Chronology Names References -------------------- 1. The smiling young man Early colonial po...