Definition & Meaning | English word MEANJIN

Definitions of MEANJIN

1. The spike of land on which central Brisbane is located, especially in an Indigenous Australian sense.
2. (by extension) Brisbane in general, especially in an Indigenous Australian sense.

Examples of Using MEANJIN in a Sentence

• Artist and patron Lina Bryans opened the doors of her Darebin Bridge House to the Meanjin group: then Vance and Nettie Palmer, Rosa and Dolia Ribush, Jean Campbell, Laurie Thomas, and Alan McCulloch.
• Historically, the vast majority of land in Brisbane, known as Meanjin, has been occupied by the Turrbal clan, together with the Jagera people.
• Macartney's works and commentary have been published in The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse; Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, Sydney; The Australian Quarterly (by Australian Institute of Political Science); The Collins Book of Australian Poetry; Critical Essays on Kenneth Slessor (by Andrew Kilpatrick Thomson - 1968); Meanjin Papers (by Melbourne University Press); An Australian Anthology by Percival Serle; Birth: A Little Journal of Australian Poetry; Path to Parnassus: Anthology for Schools; Dream and Disillusion: A Search for Australian Cultural Identity; The Australian Librarian's Manual; British Book News; Lines of Implication: Australian Short Fiction from Lawson to Palmer; Catalog of the South Pacific Collection; and The Humanities in Australia: A Survey with Special Reference to the Universities.
• In the short story The Value of a Nail (Meanjin, 1984), Collins eulogised that great Australian institution the hardware store, and in real life he gained creative pleasure from woodworking, establishing the 'Toby Toys' range for preschool children.
• Her short fiction and poetry have been published in a range of journals, including Lightspeed, Shimmer, Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, Review of Australian Fiction, Meanjin, Liminality, Southerly, Verity La, Cordite Poetry Review and ASIM (Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine).
• Some of these include 'Faith in a "Post Secular" Society' in Meanjin (Vol 65, No 4, 2006); 'Telling Tales of Women' in Lindsay and Scarfe, editors, Preachers, Prophets and Heretics (UNSW Press 2012); 'Saints and Saintliness in Judaism' in Alan Cadwallader, editor, In the Land of Larks and Heroes: Australian Reflections on Saint Mary MacKillop (ATF Press 2010); 'Jewish Thought and the Theory of Evolution' in Jacques Arnould OP, editor, Darwin on Evolution (ATF Press 2010) and 'Jews and Violence' in W Emilsen and J Squires, editors, Validating Violence, Violating Faith? (ATF Press 2007); 'The Ageing Spirit' in Elizabeth MacKinlay, editor, Ageing and Spirituality Across Faiths and Cultures (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, UK 2010), as well as "Is Jewish Thought Unique" in the Australian Journal of Jewish Studies 2010 and 'Encountering God Through Jewish Eyes' in Nigel Leaves (editor) Encountering God, Face to Face with the Divine (MorningStar Publications 2014), 'Self Religions' in Alan Black, editor, Religion in Australia, Sociological Perspectives (Allen & Unwin 1991); 'Cults and the New Age in Australia' in Gary Bouma, editor, Many Religions, all Australian, (CRA 1996); 'Sects, Cults, Democracy and the Law' in A Sharma, editor, The Sum of Our Choices, Essays in Honour of Eric J Sharpe, (Scholars Press 1996), and numerous articles on Jewish-Christian relations, e.
• Since leaving The Sun-Herald, he has been a contributor to the online current affairs site Crikey, the ABC site The Drum, and Pearls and Irritations and has written for Meanjin and Overland.

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