Australian Horror One The Lost Soldier to an Empire of Bone and Ash Under the unsparing glare of a white-hot sky, the horror does not lurk in the shadows—it bakes into the earth's surface itself. This image presents Australian Gothic Horror as a visceral, speculative dread, where the landscape is not merely hostile, but an active, devouring force that refuses to let the past rot in peace. The horror is elemental and corporeal: human history grafted directly into ancient geology. The Lost Soldier's flesh has not decayed; it has calcified into red earth, oxidized stone, and petrified khaki cotton. It has accepted the intrusion of human technology—corroded copper telegraph wire coiled into sinew, thick glass insulators staring blindly like unblinking eyes—suggesting a brutal, botched metamorphosis. It has become the physical manifestation of an unspoken colonial and wartime trauma, where the forgotten dead are subsumed, weaponized, and regurgitated by the country they sought to ta...
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What is Manga - is a research-based unit/tutorial plan for Year 10 students
> Free to use and alter
Learning Requirements and Success Criteria
Learning Requirements:
Understand, analyze, and evaluate the impact of social and/or ethical issues related to information-processing and publishing technologies.
Success Criteria:
You will demonstrate a greater cultural understanding of the characteristics and conventions of Manga art through a study of Japanese artists.
You will demonstrate a greater understanding of how information-processing and publishing technologies employ Manga art.
Expectations
Expectation 1:
You will need to participate in the WHAT IS MANGA forum by addressing 2 requirements:
Requirement 1: You must post your ideas and thoughts on Manga into the forum
Requirement 2: You must reply to other classmates ideas and thoughts on Manga
WARNING: The Manga forum is a place to share ideas and thoughts on Manga. You must respect each other's ideas and thoughts. NO TROLLING is allowed.
Expectation 2:
You will complete a 350 to 400-word research paper (or multimodal equivalent) on Manga.
HINT: The 350 to 400-word research paper submission will only appear once you have completed the requirements of the WHAT IS MANGA forum
HINT: Take Notes and Share your ideas and thoughts in the What is Manga forum
What is Manga? Forum
This is a formative assessment task. It is designed to assist you and your manga class-mates, to discuss and reflect on your thoughts concerning Manga.
To successfully do this, you must have watched
What is Manga? Presentation
BBC Report on Manga
It is expected that you will post your reflections and reply to another classmates reflection
The What is Manga? Forum must be completed before attempting the written assignment
(Teacher needs to set up a online forum)
FORUM: Questions to Address
Manga History: What interested you and why?
Anime Characters: Which ones appeal to you and why?
Culture: How does Manga influence culture and how does culture influence Manga
Technology: What types of technology have been employed by Manga artists?
Written Assignment
It is expected that you will complete a 350 to 400-word research report on Manga Culture and Technology. You are able to submit a multimodal equivalent research report. This can be either;
an oral recording
a powerpoint with notes
a video
a photo story Please consult your teacher if you wish to discuss the multimodal alternatives
To successfully do this, you must have
Completed the What is Manga Forum
and watched the What is Manga? Presentation and BBC Report on Manga.
researched the internet for more information and Manga and Culture and Technology.
Topic 1: Written Assignment requirements
350 to 400 words (or equivalent)
The report INTRODUCTION should cover: An overview of Manga - history
The report BODY should contain 3 key paragraphs covering
An issue/interest concerning CULTURE
An issue/Interest concerning TECHNOLOGY
An issue/interest concerning a MANGA ARTIST and or CHARACTER
The report CONCLUSION should cover: Your thoughts and ideas
The Highway and the Lost Soldier The midday sun around Adelaide River does something violent to the bitumen. At forty-five degrees, the Stuart Highway softens like melting fat; it turns into a black mirror, rippling with an unnatural, liquid glare that pools over every low rise. That is where it waits. He is always trudging south, away from life and deeper into the blistering furnace, his boots making no sound against the tar. The Highway and Lost Soldier Standing From two hundred yards out, he resembles a stranded traveler you’d pull over to save. He wears sun-bleached, disintegrating drill cotton that matches the bone-white dust of the termite country, his head angled down at an impossible, broken angle against the glare. No broad-brim hat. No swag. No water bottle. Just stiff, unnatural limbs jerking with every stride. “Driver... look at his face. We need to stop—why won't he turn around?” He is no lost tourist. Could he be the linesman from the Overland Telegraph days who tore ...
The Terminal Horizon Tourist Bus Discovering the Terminal Horizon The Long Highway Out here, the world ends not in silence, but in fire. The asphalt bleeds into cracked red earth, stretching toward a bruised horizon where the sky refuses to cool. Behind the glass, you drive chasing ghosts through a desert that forgot rain a lifetime ago. Beneath the Scorch Every road leads deeper into the furnace. Even below the surface, the rock fissures and weeps, hot steam rising through subterranean fractures where molten veins pulse in the dark, feeding an ancient, unforgiving heat. Broken Arteries What we built couldn’t hold. Rails twist into the dunes, swallowed by iron sand and wind. Bridges split down the seam, concrete splintered into raw bone, tangled rebar, and dying wires crackling into the smoke. The machines stopped; the wasteland stayed. The Last Horizon And when the road finally runs out, there is only the ash, the petrified stumps, and the quiet. You are a lone figure sitting in...
Incandescent - Ode to the Endless Scrub Beneath the vault of fallen light Where red dirt cools to iron stone The ancient country meets the night Unyielding, patient, and alone Cracked earth yields to twisted root To hardy bark and spinifex Where time leaves neither mark nor foot Nor petty boundaries to perplex Rank upon rank the pale trunks rise A silent host that drinks the dry Repetition stretching past the eyes To where the flat horizon lies Trees behind trees in quiet grace A labyrinth of slender wood Carving the stillness out of space Where centuries have stood Above, the sky ignites its coal A canopy of smoke and ember Holding the continent’s deep soul In dark and fiery surrender No hurried end, no measured shore Just red loam, shadow, branch, and tree The scrub that breathes forevermore Into the quiet of infinity. Be Creative and Innovative with Knowledge John Bennett - AKA JJFBbennett , is an independent artist. You can view and subscribe to my work via Blogge...
