animals

anthropological approaches to, xviii–xxii, 11–12, 72–74

as food, 63, 80

as alien invaders, 3

blue animals, 66–67

claims to place and, 76–80

gold animals, 64–66

indigineity and, xxii, 78–79, 82–83

metaphoric uses of, 3, 65–66, 74–76

movement and. See movement, animals

native, xx–xxii, xxv, 3, 9–10, 12, 25n6, 63–69

red animals, 68–69

remembering with, 69–72

ants, xxi–xxii, 10–13, 34, 76, 125–126, 144–145, 151–153, 190–191

Appadurai, Arjun, xxiii, 16, 18, 87–88, 114, 118, 127n1

asylum seekers

advocacy for, 13, 76, 134–136, 154, 159–160, 163

invisibility of, xxvi, 158–160

metaphors and, xxi–xxii, 13, 40, 66, 76–78, 126, 135–136, 141–145, 147–152, 190–191

Australian election 2001, 39

Australians. See Europeans

Bennett, Gordon, 34–35, 56, 97, 102

birds

in metaphor, 111, 153, 160, 190

birds (continued)

vagrant, 65–66, 76

birth

being local and, 9, 18, 86, 121–122, 150, 190

rules on island, 18, 66

blood

in eggs, 185–186, 192

in metaphor, xviii, xxii, xxvi, 3, 75, 105, 151

boats

fishing, 25n1, 64

in metaphor, 139

national borders and, 2, 12–14, 36–37, 45

passenger, 28, 41–42, 193

people, 132, 138, 141, 146–149, 159–160

Suspected Illegal Entry Vessels (SIEV), 14, 56, 157–158, 161–164, 189–190

borders

animals and, xxi, 80–83, 150

Australian national cartographic, 133, 136–141

Australian government changes to, 13, 25n2, 36, 40, 45, 133, 137, 139–141, 156–157

internal, 153–158

island, 141–145

in metaphor, 126, 135, 148–149, 152, 190

security, xxii, xxvi, 39, 126, 132–133

Borthwick, Fiona, xxvi, 161