This study describes the management of and outcomes for adult and paediatric patients with newly diagnosed brain stem gliomas during 1998-2000 in Victoria. Adult patients were identified in a retrospective cohort study conducted by surveying doctors involved in managing incident brainstem glioma cases identified from the population-based Victorian Cancer Registry. Paediatric cases were identifi...

The criminal trial constitutes a drama performed by its leading actors (legal professionals) plus supporting actors (including spectators). How conscious and strategic are their performances? This article argues that conscious legal performativity is part of a sustained tradition of 'infotainment' with lasting implications for today's real-life courtroom dramas. The adoption of stereotypical co...

The presence of Empire in the Victorian period and its aftermath has become a new trope neo-Victorian studies, introducing postcolonial approach to re-writing past. This, combined with metaphor sea as symbol British colonial maritime power, makes Joseph O’Connor’s novel Star Sea story love, vulnerability identity. Set winter 1847, it tells voyage group Irish refugees travelling New York trying ...

This article compares the representations of jealousy in popular culture, medical and legal literature, and in the trials and diagnoses of men who murdered or attempted to murder their wives or sweethearts before being found insane and committed into Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum between 1864 and 1900. It is shown that jealousy was entrenched in Victorian culture, but marginalised in medica...

This paper identifies 'savage numbers'--number-like or number-replacing concepts and practices attributed to peoples viewed as civilizationally inferior--as a crucial and hitherto unrecognized body of evidence in the first two decades of the Victorian science of prehistory. It traces the changing and often ambivalent status of savage numbers in the period after the 1858-1859 'time revolution' i...

During January and February 2003 vast areas of Australia’s Alpine areas were burnt during a series of massive bushfires (see Fig. 1 in Bureau of Meteorology (2003)). While not minimising any part of the period, two days stand out meteorologically. The first was 18 January 2003, when fires caused the deaths of four people, many other injuries, the loss of over 500 houses and other infrastructure...

OBJECTIVES To analyse and provide current data surrounding paediatric critical procedures performed in three EDs of a single Victorian health network. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study of every paediatric ED attendance requiring management in a resuscitation cubicle at three Victorian hospitals in 2013. The primary outcome measure was the frequency of each paediatric critical procedu...

Sappho was an ancient Greek lyric poet writing on the isle if Lesbos in the seventh century BC. Her original works were contained in seven books; however, only a few fragments are extant. These fragments are mainly about women and are erotic in nature. Considering the homoerotic tone of Sappho's poetry, it is interesting that the Victorians were fascinated with her and a proliferation of biogra...

This article examines the role and reputation of Ellen Terry, the most eminent British Shakespearean actress of the late-Victorian period, and the extent to which she interrogated her function on the eminently spectacular stage of London’s Lyceum theatre. The article contends that in her writing – her autobiography, annotations of playscripts and lectures – Terry self-consciously and deliberate...