Juniper Publishers Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology

Archaeology & Anthropology -  Juniper Publishers Opinion This article considers the composition of Queensland’s transport systems during the 1920s, positing events of 1924 as significant markers in the evolution of transport across the state. By the 1920s, Queensland’s major transport systems on sea, river, road and rail, were interlinked and interdependent. The range and rapid development presented challenges for the construction and management of efficient transport systems, with the introduction of new infrastructure, institutions and legislation required at a similar pace and complexity. For most of its history, from European settlement in 1825, Queensland’s development was less centralised than Australia’s other states and territories. Throughout the nineteenth century, coastal shipping, river transport, roads used by horse and bullock drawn vehicles and a decentralised rail network enabled the expansion and development of communities, along with co...

Archaeology & Anthropology -  Juniper Publishers The Windrush scandal In April 2018, the British government faced widespread public anger and outcry against, and later acknowledged, the mistreatment of hundreds of British Caribbean residents who had settled in the United Kingdom following the Second World War [1]. Migrants from the then British colonies in the Caribbean had been encouraged to cross the Atlantic by the British government and industriesand were offered work permits to help re-build an economy and society decimated by war. West Indian migrants arriving between 1948 and the early 1970s came to be known as the ‘Windrush Generation’, named after the first 492 adults and children arriving from Jamaica, who disembarked from the passenger ship HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, London on 22 nd June1948. Migrants and settlers from Caribbean societies have shaped British history and society for centuries, and the transatlantic Caribbean dias...

Archaeology & Anthropology -  Juniper Publishers Introduction AlQaradawi’s Response to the Pope’s Critique of Islam -Wasaṭiyya as Islamic PR Various Muslim Scholars, not least Egyptian Sheikh Yusuf alQaradawi, raised some claims in rebuttal to Pope Benedict XVI’s September, 2006 address in Germany. Ideological light of the wasatiyya or Centrist school of thought, alQaradawi sees himself as ideological heir to Hassan alBanna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, in which alQaradawi was formerly a member. The Pope had quoted seventh century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II, who said: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and in human, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” AlQaradawi’s response to the Pope is part of a broad-spectrum effort to cultivate a Centrist Islamic discourse in an Age of Globalization, as AlQaradawi writes “Our Islamic Discourse in The Age of Globalization....