Reclaiming the Silenced Past: A Postcolonial Reading of Sally Morgan’s My Place
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Australia today is acknowledged as a multicultural and multiethnic democracy. However, its history of a quarter millennium ago is neither spotless nor unblemished. Numerous heterogeneous Aboriginals tribes inhabited this island region for about 40,000 years until 1788. Nonetheless, their proportion of the total population in Australia has decreased to approximately 3.8% now. The missing 96.2% of Aboriginal population needs to be accounted for. The predominant narrative, woven by white scholars with a predominant Eurocentric viewpoint, conveniently ignores such uncomfortable enquiries. It distorts Australian history and culture, glorifying the colonisers who hoisted the Union Jack on the native land in 1788. The indigenous Aboriginal tribes were portrayed as savage heathens in urgent need of reform, civilisation, culture, and religion. It was used as an alibi to displace, dispossess, subjugate and annihilate the numerous native tribes. A small number of Indigenous populations, who have successfully achieved upward social mobility assume the crucial role of advocating for their community by sharing their narrative, historical experiences, cultural heritage, the injustices they have endured and continue to face and how they envision a dignified future. In this context, the present paper is a reading of one such life-writing by an Aboriginal woman, My Place by Sally Morgan.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".