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Evelyn Araluen, an First Nations Australian (FNA) author, released a poetry collection titled "Drop Bear" in 2021. One of her poems included the lines "Can't be lyric if you're fauna, right / Can't be sovereign if you're fauna, right?" The nouns "fauna" and "flora" are references to the pre-1967 Australian Law that classified FNAs as flora and fauna, dehumanising them and ignoring their habitation of the land prior to the European colonisation of Australia. This is highly reflective of the cultural values of the time of racism and prejudice against Europeans, and continues to bestow cultural trauma upon FNAs. Through her use of these nouns, Araluen demonstrates her identity as a FNA while simultaneously questioning the prejudice and racism that continues to affect FNAs.

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red skins -> red rippers; chicos -> cheekies

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https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/food/nestle-reveals-new-names-for-aussie-classics-that-remove-overtones-c-1589698

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Moving away from association with JK Rowling, as her political views and transphobic comments are not accepted by members of the IQA

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conversation between an old man (M) and a young woman (F)

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conversation between an old man (M) and a young woman (F)

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M: I was listening to these young people speak the other day, and I have nothing against them, but I could barely understand them.
F: Yeah
M: They said "like" at least twice in each sentence! And combined with the amount of new words ...
F: Haha yeah yeah, it's changed a lot
M: Yes but that's only natural– it happens in every language.
F: Mm yeah it must be pretty hard to make sense of language when it's changed so much.
M: Yes! I'm Hungarian, and I went back to Hungary recently.
F: Oh?
M: And I went into a store, and the lady behind the counter – the manageress or whoever – she said "oh ... where did you learn to speak such beautiful Hungarian?" Because we learnt–
F: Mhm
M: And the whole language has changed!
F: Yeahhh
M: So to her, we were speaking old-fashioned Hungarian, and I think that happens everywhere.
F: Yeah that's crazy. It's really cool, though.
M: It's *crazy*, it's *cool*.
F: Oh my God!

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In May 2022, the Australian Broadcasting Commission published a story about the Australian CP women’s football team, including the following quote from Rae Dower, an Australian Football coach; “This is a herstoric moment. The first ParaMatildas team.”. The neologism “ParaMatildas” refers to the team and is created and understood through a combination of cultural inference and affixation. The prefix “Para-” is derived from the proper noun “Paralympics” – a competition that ran parallel to the Olympic Games for people with disabilities, itself a neologism created through a blend of the lexemes “parallel” and “olympics”. This spawned various lexemes – such as “paralympian” – from to the semantic field of sport, specifically sport for those with disabilities, and has in this case been used to denote a team of women with Cerebral Palsy, a disorder that affects a person’s ability to move and their balance. This prefix has been added to the plural proper noun “Matildas”, which requires the cultural inference of the Australian Women’s Football team, the Matildas, whose name originated in the well-known Australian song “Waltzing Matilda”, a cultural touchstone that clearly demonstrates the team’s Australian identity. These two morphemes combine to create the name “ParaMatildas”, which shows the team’s Australian identity, female identity and identity as football players, all within one proper noun.

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On the first day of June in 1988, 11 Australian women walked out onto a scrappy football pitch in the Chinese city of Jiangmen.

The air was oppressively hot and sticky with humidity; a normal southern Chinese summer. Thousands of locals in cotton shirts and wide-brimmed hats lined the shallow stands, as curious about Westerners as they were about the sport itself. Many of them were school children who shrieked with delight at every strong tackle or big header.

The game itself ebbed and flowed, but ended in a way few expected. The plucky newcomers Australia defeated the myth and might of Brazil thanks to an audacious chip by striker Janine Riddington. Their first FIFA tournament, their first match, their first win. History.

Over a quarter of a million people showed up across that seven-day tournament, proving to FIFA that there was a growing appetite for women's football. The first official Women's World Cup was held three years later.

It was a game and a moment that former Matildas vice-captain Moya Dodd recalls with pride at a small gathering at Valentine Sports Park in Sydney's west.

She remembers being nervous, of course, but more than that, she remembers the sense of occasion. Finally, there they were. And by god, they wanted to put on a show.

"That was the first time FIFA had actually bothered to hold a women's tournament, and Australia were invited," Dodd tells the hushed conference room.

"I remember that time so clearly because I was actually the last player in the squad. I wasn't picked, but then someone got injured. So I was the worst player there.

"The day we played Brazil - it was the first time FIFA ever held a women's match, and we were the first match of the whole tournament - I think that was probably my best day in football, not just because we beat them one-nil, but because it was so historic."

Standing beside Dodd is inaugural Matildas captain and cap number one Julie Dolan, a force of history herself, and Rae Dower, Football Australia's first women's football technical adviser.

And in front of these pioneers, 12 women in matching green-and-grey tracksuits sit listening, captivated by the Matildas' story and struck by the realisation that they, too, are about to embark on their own history-making moment.

Next week, the ParaMatildas - Australia's first women's national team for footballers with cerebral palsy, acquired brain injury, and symptoms of stroke - will take part in the inaugural CP Women's World Cup in Spain.

The five-a-side round-robin tournament will see Australia face some of football's powerhouse nations including the USA, Japan, Spain and the Netherlands across 10 days.

Although the first CP world ahampionships were held in Denmark back in 1985, it wasn't until this year that female athletes were invited to take part.

"Moya referred to it as being historic - but it's actually her storic," Dower says.

"This is a herstoric moment. The first ParaMatildas team. The first World Cup for women's CP football.

"But you've also got 43 years of the Matildas. We're there with you every step of the way.

"You're already winners. Because you have that place in herstory.

"Take the opportunity to enjoy every single moment. Smile. Breathe. And just go: 'Wow, look at us.'"

Dolan smiles.

"You're an inspiration to all of us," she says.

"And you'll still be an inspiration to all of us, no matter what happens."

You can't be what you can't see

Rae Anderson knows how it feels to create "herstory".

The 25-year-old from Wamberal in New South Wales is one of just seven Australian para-athletes to compete at both a summer and winter Paralympics, most recently in the para-alpine skiing at the Beijing Games.

But with football as her first love, Anderson says the World Cup is something different altogether.

"Growing up, my idea of sport was all about teams, about family, about community," Anderson told ABC.

"As a kid in primary school, soccer was my first sport. I always knew I wanted to compete for Australia; I always told Mum and Dad I'd play for my country one day.

"I didn't quite process as a kid that I had cerebral palsy - and that my dreams were probably not as achievable as 12-year-old me thought.

"It wasn't until year seven that I started finding out about para-sports; as something I could watch and could aspire to be.

"Doing sports like athletics and alpine skiing, they're very individual sports. The Paralympics was a dream and something that's given me so much opportunity and experience ... but to finally be part of a team like this, and going to a World Cup for soccer, that's something really special."

Anderson's own story is a testament to the power of visibility and opportunity for athletes with disability.

She remembers watching snippets of the 2012 London Paralympics on ABC television, which inspired her to pursue para-sport more seriously. She made her major tournament debut at the Commonwealth Games just two years later, competing in javelin and discus, before being selected for her first Summer Olympics in Rio.

She then switched from summer athletics to winter alpine skiing, finishing seventh and 10th in the women's slalom and giant slalom events at the Winter Paralympics earlier this year.

These days, Anderson is paying that inspiration forward through her work as a project coordinator with Disability Sports Australia and the Cerebral Palsy Sporting and Recreation Association, which runs 'come and try' sport programs for primary school-aged kids with disability.

"My whole introduction to sport has been about visibility and opportunity," she said.

"To see para-sport on tv and in the media, to see athletes with disability in marketing, to see Paralympians at the forefront of big sporting companies and brands - it's amazing.

"I definitely look up to the Pararoos. Those boys, there's something about them: it's not just about their playing ability, but their personalities and what they bring to the sport and their enthusiasm for the next generation, especially for us as the female team coming through.

"It's so important for these younger kids to be able to see these role models and know they're still part of society, that they're part of sport, and that it's something they can be one day too."

But it's not just kids who Anderson and her ParaMatildas teammates are inspiring. It's their own coaches, as well.

"Every day I'm with these amazing players, I learn something new," inaugural ParaMatildas head coach Kelly Stirton said.

"The passion they have is infectious. It's life skills, it's resilience, it's that never-say-die attitude that they bring; the undefeated attitude the Pararoos and the ParaMatildas have.

"It's always about the athletes for me. They bring so much pride and joy to my life; without them, I wouldn't be here. I don't see myself as a mainstream coach, I see myself as an all-abilities coach, because that's where my passion lies.

"I can make a difference with these girls and they can make a difference for the world."

Stirton began as a game development coordinator for Capital Football, working mostly with powerchair athletes, before becoming the first woman to coach a team at the CP national championships back in 2019.

That's where she met many of the players now called into the ParaMatildas team, as well as the all-woman coaching staff who will accompany her to Spain.

She believes creating programs and pathways for athletes with disability at the grassroots and community level is crucial for the Australian game to grow, particularly off the back of next year's Women's World Cup on home soil.

"Pathways is the future of football. We wouldn't have any of this without those programs. Continuing to build those is really important," she said.

"As a country, we need to be open to change, open to inclusiveness. We're starting to do that now. I think we're gonna see all sorts of football develop in different forms like powerchair, CP football, let's bring frame football in, let's bring in blind football.

"Because football is football, you know? It shouldn't be based on gender or age or ability. It's a game that brings everyone together.

"For young athletes out there who may be in different sports but have a passion for football, yet they haven't had the chance or didn't know there was a pathway, they can now see these two teams at a CP World Cup. That's so exciting for our game."

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Launch of the ParaMatildas

With their eyes now turned firmly to Spain, Stirton said the team's biggest success would not necessarily be the numbers on the scoreboard.

"I think our first World Cup is all about overcoming our challenges, overcoming our fears, overcoming our anxieties of what we can achieve.

"I just want to see these girls on the pitch, enjoying their football. This is a sport that we need to enjoy; there are so many bad things happening in the world at the moment, let's try and look at the good things.

"It's all about overcoming the barriers that these athletes have had for many, many years. To be able to step onto that field with the Australian badge on is just the start.

"Results should matter in a World Cup, but being the first one for these girls, taking the pressure off them and letting them enjoy it is the main thing."

For Anderson, while she shares the drive of her teammates to come home with a medal, she knows that - just like that 1988 FIFA tournament - the biggest success will be felt long after the first one is over.

Herstory, after all, starts small. It starts with pioneers like them.

"I know the girls want to do well so badly, but we haven't seen ourselves in World Cups yet. We haven't even played as a team yet," she said, laughing.

"Results aside, I just want these girls to get a taste of what it's like to compete at this level and what it means when you come home: the feeling of that, and how much it shapes you moving forward in your life, whether that's in sport or work or family.

"I'm already so proud. Proud of these girls and proud of everyone who's got us here. Being able to back this up after Beijing is a dream for me, but to do it with this group is something I'll never forget.

"I hope that we can be for other girls what so many athletes with disability have been for us."

You can watch all the ParaMatildas games live and free on the MyFootball Youtube Channel.

Match schedule:

Australia v Netherlands
Date: Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Venue: Futbol Salou Field 8
Kick-Off: 12:45pm CEST / 8:45pm AET

Australia v Japan
Date: Friday, May 13, 2022
Venue: Futbol Salou Field 8
Kick-Off: 9:45am CEST / 5:45pm AET

Australia v Spain
Date: Saturday, May 14, 2022
Venue: Futbol Salou Field 8
Kick-Off: 12:45pm CEST / 8:45pm AET

Australia v United States of America
Date: Sunday, May 15, 2022
Venue: Futbol Salou Field 8
Kick-Off: 12:45pm CEST / 8:45pm AET

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'It's herstory': ParaMatildas embark on first ever CP Women's World Cup

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On the first day of June in 1988, 11 Australian women walked out onto a scrappy football pitch in the Chinese city of Jiangmen. The air was oppressively hot and sticky with humidity; a normal southern Chinese summer. Thousands of locals in cotton shirts and wide-brimmed hats lined the shallow stands, as curious about Westerners as they were about the sport itself.

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Lexical ambiguity is made use of frequently in the service of appealing to covert norms and demonstrating in-group membership. An image, created by a female instagram user, was later reposted on instagram, by a trans-man, bearing the caption "All I want for Christmas is balanced hormones and d*ck!" The profane noun "d*ck" is used by the original poster to dysphemistically refer to the act of sexual intercourse, making reference to the male sexual appendage. It is repurposed by the re-poster to mean the physical appendage, and demonstrates the identity of the re-poster as a transgender man, who was born as a woman but wishes to have a sex transition and thus a surgery to replace their female sexual characteristics with male ones. Through reference to this process, which is an integral part of the transgender experience but not widely known outside of this group, demonstrates the re-poster's identity and belonging to the group.

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Some months after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Australian politicians made the decision to release public health information to indigenous communities in non-standard English. This increased comprehension of the situation and things one must to do keep oneself safe after the failure of SE. The admittance that SE is not imperative directly led to an increase in the safety of Australians, demonstrating unequivocally that a pedantic concern with the constant use of SE can be unhelpful and damaging.

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Though prescriptivists see Standard English (SE) as the "correct" way to speak, this is not the case. As linguist Sarah J Shin explains, "linguistic prestige is not an indication of intrinsic beauty in languages, but rather of the perceived status of those who speak them". This belief that overt prestige is equivalent to superiority is both flawed and harmful. Many Australian ethnolects use non-standard lexemes, grammar or syntax. This is common in Indigenous ethnolects, and, when combined with the view that SE is superior, leads to the continuation of racial stereotypes and discrimination. When judged again SE, Aboriginal Australian English can appear unclear or grammatically incorrect, but from the other perspective, SE can seem strange and unclear. This demonstrates the arbitrariness of SE; in so far as there is no inherent reason why SE should be considered linguistically superior.

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In April 2019 Coles Supermarkets advertised their pork as “Sow Stall Free – For Better Welfare”. This is jargonistic doublespeak for meat industry farming practices. While many consumers prefer to purchase a more expensive pork product for the belief of improved welfare, the alternative is a ‘farrowing’ crate in which the female pig is still confined to a small caged space to deliver and feed her piglets is the alternative reality, misleading and manipulating the consumer to believe in raised welfare standards for the meat they buy.

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recognising the English language as the national language

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recognising the English language as the national language

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respect for the freedom & dignity of the individual

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respect for the freedom & dignity of the individual