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Lisa Margaret Lines (born 18 July 1980) is a former academic editor, historian, author and lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales Canberra who is currently remanded in custody in South Australia having been charged with a number of serious criminal offences including attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. She has written about the history of the Spanish Civil War and the prevalence and influence of
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and
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in higher education. On 24 November 2023 she was extradited from Palau to South Australia on charges that she conspired to murder her former husband and his mother.


Education and career

Lines completed a Bachelor of Arts, an
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and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide and a Honours degree and PhD in history at
Flinders University Flinders University is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with a footprint extending across 11 locations in South Australia and the Northern Territory. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of British navigator ...
. Lines has lectured at Flinders University, the University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia and the University of New South Wales. In 2007, Lines founded Elite Editing, serving as Director and Head Editor until selling the business in 2014. After her tenure at the University of New South Wales, Lines founded Capstone Editing, a specialist academic editing company. Lines authored a book on ''milicianas''—female participants in the Spanish Civil War—exploring their origins in the Republican reaction to the coup of 1936 and contributions as
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and rearguard combatants during the first year of the war (after which women were largely removed from combat roles). Lines has also argued for a re-evaluation of General Franco's military leadership, strategy and political acumen during the Spanish Civil War, reasoning that Franco's prolonging of the war was purposefully done to solidify his control of the Nationalist camp, ensure the complete destruction of the Republican forces and establish the foundation for his position as head of state in the
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Research

Lines has criticised the current climate of Australian universities as overcommercialised, apathetic towards student needs, enabling of a monopolised textbook industry and overpriced textbooks, and unwilling to admit or confront the rising issue of ghostwriting for university students. Lines has also highlighted the under-representation of women in senior levels of academia.


Court cases and pending criminal charges

Lines served as a witness in the
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ed
murder Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person wit ...
trial of her ex-partner, Mr Jonathon Hawtin (''R v Hawtin'' in the
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). The trial followed an incident in October 2017, in which Mr Hawtin allegedly attempted to murder Mr Bruckner, with both being severely injured. Hawtin was acquitted by a jury in September 2019. On 15 November 2023, South Australian Police released a statement advising that a 43-year-old woman, who was later confirmed to be Lines, was arrested by local Police in Palau on behalf of South Australia Police Major Crime Investigation Branch to face charges in South Australia of two counts of attempted murder and two counts of conspiracy to murder involving the October 2017 incident in which Mr Hawtin was rendered a quadriplegic. A 36-year-old Brisbane man was also arrested in Brisbane to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on 16 November 2023 in relation to conspiracy to murder related offences. This man was later named as Zachariah Josef Bruckner.


Publications


Books

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Chapters

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Journal articles

* *'Female Combatants in the Spanish Civil War: Milicianas on the Front Lines and in the Rearguard', ''Journal of International Women's Studies'', vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 168–18

*'Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Twenty-First Century Anglophone Novels (2000–14)', ''Journal of War & Culture Studies'', vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 150–164. * *'Substantive Editing as a Form of Plagiarism among Postgraduate Students in Australia', ''Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education'', vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 368–383. *'Prostitution in Thailand: Representations in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction', ''Journal of International Women’s Studies'', vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 86–10


References


External links

*"Women in Academia": . Commentary and insight by Lines
Dr Lisa Lines
Capstone Editing profile
Dr Lisa Lines
Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfED) profile * https://amp.abc.net.au/article/12320858 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lines, Lisa 1980 births Living people Australian historians Flinders University alumni University of Adelaide alumni Australian military historians Historians of World War II Historians of the Spanish Civil War