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Lamnek, Larissa. "Australian-born Russians : the maintenance of ethnicity in South Australia /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arl232.pdf.
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Aylward, Joe. "Electoral sources of support in South Australia : The Australian Democrats /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ara981.pdf.
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Charlton, Claire Marie. "Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) Population Demographics in Southern Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59638.
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This thesis aimed to assess the population demographics of Southern right whales (SRW) Eubalaena australis, in South Australia. A combination of monitoring techniques were employed between 2014 and 2016 in the form of land and vessel based count and photo identification surveys. The study uses current and historical data (1991-2016) to assess distribution, abundance and life histories of SRW at two wintering aggregations in South Australia. Results provide information for recovery assessment and conservation management.
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Dawes, Walter J. C. "A history of Australia-Japan trade: A Western Australian perspective." Thesis, Dawes, Walter J. C. (1997) A history of Australia-Japan trade: A Western Australian perspective. Masters by Research thesis, Murdoch University, 1997. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51492/.
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This thesis is an intellectual and personal journey, written not so much to prove a particular point about the relationship between Australia and Japan, but so that I might understand changes which have taken place in my lifetime.
As a schoolboy voluntary worker at a military hospital, my earliest impressions of Japan were coloured by meeting victims of the Japanese invasions of Indonesia and New Guinea and the bombing of Darwin. My heroes included members of Sparrow Force, which fought on behind the Japanese lines in Timor, and Julius Tahija, winner of the Orange Cross for a valiant rearguard action in which hundreds of Japanese were killed. By the time I graduated from university my hatred of Japan, like that of most of my generation, had softened as memories of the war faded and Australia entered a period of full employment and rapid growth. Then, while working with a trading house in Indonesia in the late 1950s, I started to relate to Japanese as fellow human beings, as business competitors - and as members of the same golf club. It was not until the 1960s, working in a variety of industries as a management consultant, that I became aware of how much Japan could influence Australia's future: on the one hand as the dominant customer for our wool; and on the other as the maker of such things as synthetic rope which would put Australian rope and twine makers out of business. Upon joining the mining industry, the profitability of my company and my own income were inextricably linked with the success of Japanese industry.
And yet my colleagues and I knew little about the country and the people upon whom we were so dependent. The desire to learn more about the strange symbiotic relationship between Japan and Australia was the genesis of this thesis. Its objective is very simple: to trace the history of Australia's relationship with Japan and to identify the role played by governments, the bureaucracy and private individuals as Australia responded to changes in the Japanese economy. It will show that the complementary relationship is dynamic, calling for constant change and adaptation…
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Tindall, Alexis. "Creating Australia : cultural representations and national identity in contemporary Australian literature /." Title page, contents and conclusion only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09art588.pdf.
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David, Delphine. "'White', indigenous and Australian : constructions of mixed identities in today's Australia." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC179/document.
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Dans les années 1990, l’Australie met en place une politique de réconciliation s’étalant sur dix ans et visant à développer une meilleure relation entre Australiens aborigènes et non-aborigènes. Cette politique est fondée sur la reconnaissance de l’existence continue de tensions entre les deux communautés, et ce malgré une plus grande reconnaissance de la place des Aborigènes en Australie depuis les années 1970. La relation complexe entre Australiens aborigènes et non-aborigènes – en particulier "blancs" et dont les origines sont anglo-celtes – est le résultat du processus de colonisation, des politiques ultérieures conçues pour contrôler la population aborigène, et de la domination des Aborigènes par l’Australie "blanche" au cours de l’histoire. Du fait des politiques discriminatoires, de nombreuses familles aborigènes décidèrent de cacher leurs origines et de se faire passer pour blanches. De nombreux enfants métisses à la peau claire furent enlevés à leurs familles et perdirent leurs liens avec leurs familles aborigènes. Aujourd’hui, un nombre grandissant d’Australiens choisissent de revendiquer leur identité Aborigène et de reprendre possession d’un héritage dont ils ont été privés. Mais si avoir des origines aborigènes n’est plus source de honte, en revanche, le chemin à parcourir pour retrouver son identité aborigène peut être difficile. Cette étude analyse les parcours identitaires de onze Australiens élevés dans une culture "blanche" anglo-celte et qui ont des origines aborigènes. L’analyse de leurs perceptions de l’identité aborigène révèle la prédominance des discours "blancs" sur les Aborigènes en Australie aujourd’hui, mais aussi la présence de discours essentialistes restreignant la définition de l’identité aborigène, et maintenant utilisés par la communauté aborigène afin de contrôler cette définition. L’analyse de la relation d’opposition entre Aborigènes et Australiens "blancs" dans l’Australie contemporaine révèle la difficulté à revendiquer à la fois des origines "blanches" et "noires", ainsi que des identités multiplesIn the 1990s, Australia set up a ten-year policy of reconciliation aiming at developing a better relationship between Indigenous people and the wider Australian community. This policy was based on the recognition of the enduring dichotomy between both communities despite an increasing acknowledgement of the place of Indigenous people in Australia since the 1970s. The complex relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians – and especially ‘white’ Anglo-Celtic Australians – is the result of the process of colonisation, of the subsequent policies designed to control Indigenous people, and of the historical domination of ‘white’ Australia over Indigenous people. As a result of discriminatory policies, many Indigenous families decided to hide their heritage and ‘passed’ into ‘white’ society. Many mixed-race and fair-skinned children were taken from their families and lost their connection with their Indigenous relatives. Today, an increasing number of Australians choose to identify as Indigenous and to reclaim a heritage they were deprived of. But although having Indigenous heritage is no longer regarded as shameful, the road back to Indigeneity can be a difficult one. This study is the analysis of the identity journeys of eleven Australians who were raised in a ‘white’, Anglo-Celtic Australian culture and who have Indigenous heritage. Their perceptions of Indigeneity are analysed to reveal the dominance of ‘white’ discourses about Indigeneity in today’s Australia, but also the presence of restricting essentialist discourses now used by the Indigenous community to keep control over the definition of Indigenous identity. The analysis of the oppositional relationship between Indigenous and ‘white’ Australians in contemporary Australia reveals the difficulty of embracing both ‘white’ and ‘black’ heritages and of claiming multiple identities
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Kuhn, Rick. "Paradise on the instalment plan the economic thought of the Australian labour movement between the depression and the long boom /." Connect to full text, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1271.
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Fathi, Romain. ""Do not forget Australlia" : Australian war memorialisation at Villers-Bretonneux." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015IEPP0024.
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Cette thèse examine le processus de construction, de projection et de performance d’un aspect de l’identité nationale australienne – l’Anzac et son rôle central dans le récit national – par le prisme de la mémorialisation de guerre à Villers-Bretonneux. Elle se penche sur les liens tangibles entre cette commune et l’Australie – en incluant, parmi d’autres dispositifs commémoratifs, l’Ecole Victoria, le mémorial national australien, le musée franco-australien, l’association franco-australienne et la commémoration de l’Anzac Day – et ce que ces liens révèlent à propos de la nature des pratiques commémoratives australiennes. Cette thèse met en lumière que la commune de Villers-Bretonneux a été utilisée comme une scène sur laquelle des versions changeantes du récit national australien ont été assemblées et mises en scène. A Villers, la réécriture de ce récit a été constante, en organisant le passé pour se définir, individuellement et collectivement, dans le présent. Par ailleurs, ce processus actif d’élaboration d’identité nationale australienne par le biais de la mémorialisation de guerre relègue souvent les soldats morts commémorés au second plan pour servir les intérêts présents de ceux qui les commémorent. Villers-Bretonneux est une commune inconnue de la grande majorité des Français. Pourtant, c’est au travers des commémorations de guerre dans cette commune d’un peu plus de 4,000 habitants que l’Australie a construit et nourri son interprétation de l’hommage des Français aux soldats australiens de la Première Guerre mondiale. Cette thèse met en lumière cet aspect essentiel qu’est l’altérité dans la validation d’images nationales par l’étude de l’importance que l’Australie a accordée à la validation française perçue de son récit nationalThis thesis examines the process of assembly, projecting and performing an aspect of Australian national identity – Anzac and its central role in the national narrative – through the prism of war memorialisation at Villers-Bretonneux. It scrutinises the tangible ties between this town and Australia – including, amongst other forms of commemoration and commemorative devices, Victoria School, the Australian National Memorial, the French-Australian Museum, the French-Australian Association, and the commemoration of Anzac Day – and what these links reveal about the nature of Australian commemorative practices. The thesis argues that this village has been utilised as a stage upon which to engineer and perform changing representations of Australia’s national narrative. At Villers-Bretonneux there has been a constant rewriting of this narrative, managing the past to define oneself – collectively and individually – in the present. This active process of the development of the Australian national narrative through war memorialisation often relegates the commemorated dead soldiers to the background and serves, in their place, the present interests of those who commemorate. Villers-Bretonneux is a town unknown to the vast majority of French people and one to which even fewer ever travel. Yet, it is upon Australian war commemorations in this town of a little over 4,000 inhabitants that Australia has constructed its reportage of the French homage to Australian soldiers of the First World War and Australia. The thesis exposes this essential element of otherness in validating national images through an examination of the insistence on the perceived validation offered by the French
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Johnson, Carol. "Social harmony and Australian labor : the ideology of the Curtin, Chifley and Whitlam Labor governments /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1986. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phj659.pdf.
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Leach, Michael. "Discourses of identity in Australian socialism and labourism 1887-1901 /." St. Lucia, Qld, 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16511.pdf.
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Fritz, Clemens W. A. [Verfasser]. "From English in Australia to Australian English : 1788-1900 / Clemens W. A. Fritz." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1042540616/34.
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O'Brien, Kenneth John. "The lived experience of PTSD for children of Australian Vietnam veterans in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/49060/1/Kenneth_O%27Brien_Thesis.pdf.
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There is a growing area of scholarship that attests to the importance of understanding the impact of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on the military family (Cozza, Chun, & Polo, 2005; Peach, 2005; Riggs, 2009; Siebler, 2003). Recent research highlights the critical role that the family plays in mitigating the effects of this condition for its members (Chase-Lansdale, Wakschlag, & Brooks-Gunn, 1995; Fiese, Foley, & Spagnola, 2006; Hetherington & Blechman, 1996; Pinkerton & Dolan, 2007; Seedat, Niehaus, & Stein, 2001; Serbin & Karp, 2003; Walsh, 2003), society (Jenson & Fraser, 2006; Seedat, Kaminer, Lockhat, & Stein, 2000; Wood & Geismar, 1989) and the next generation (Davidson & Mellor, 2001; Ender, 2006; Weber, 2005; Westerink & Giarratano, 1999). However, little is understood about the way people who grew up in Australlian military families affected by PTSD describe their experiences and what the implications are for their participation in family life. This study addressed the following research questions: (1) ‘How does a child of a Vietnam veteran understand and describe the experience of PTSD in the family?’ and (2) ‘What are the implications of this understanding on their current participation in family life?’ These questions were addressed through a qualitative analysis of focus-group data collected from adults with a Vietnam veteran parent with PTSD. The key rationale for a qualitative approach was to develop an understanding of these questions in a way which was as faithful as possible to the way they talked about their past and present family experiences. A number of experiential themes common to participants were identified through the data analysis. Participants’ experiences linked together to form a central theme of control, which revealed the overarching narrative of ‘It’s all about control and the fear of losing it’, that responds to the first research queston. The second research question led to a deeper analysis of the ‘control experiences’ to identify the ways in which participants responded to and managed these problematic aspects of family life, and the implications for their current sense of participation in family life. These responses can be understood through the overarching narrative of: ‘Soldier on despite the differences’ which assists them to optimise the impact of control and develop strategies required to maintain a semblance of personal normality and a normal family life. This intensive research has led to the development of theoretical propositions about this group’s experiences and responses that can be tested further in subsequent research to assist families and their members who may be experiencing the intergenerational impacts of psychological trauma acquired from military service.
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Buchanan, David. "Contextual thesis Part I & Part II : Book of poems, "Looking off the Southern Edge" ; Stage play (full-length): Ecstasis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1015.
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This thesis, which accompanies my book of poems Looking Off the Southern Edge and my full-length stage play Ecstasis, is submitted in two parts: Part-I and Part-II. Part-l contextualises the writing practice of the above poems in considering the epistemological, autobiographical and landscape contexts of my poetry. Part-I then discusses how the poetry is involved in the process of decentring subjectivity within the southern India/Pacific arena. It should be pointed out that Part-I was submitted and marked last year, as the first year component of the Master of Arts (Writing) course. It is included this year because much of its thesis informs Part-II (and indeed is referred to and referenced by Part-II), especially in terms of my general theoretical approach to writing poems, plays, as well as the relevance of my music, painting and stained glass practices. Part II mostly addresses the writing of the play Ecstasis. I have however, discussed why I have re-edited, augmented and re-submitted my book of poems. I have then contextualised the writing of the play, by addressing the areas of Apophasis and the Aporia of 'the story', An Ecstatic Dramaturgy and the Undecidable Subject, and Ecstasis and an Endemic Specificity. This play was written, workshopped and enjoyed a partially moved reading (as late as the 11th, November) in the course of this year. While the writing of the piece is addressed under the previous headings, the workshopping and reading process is discussed in Workshopping the 'Spectacle Text' in the Co-operative Medium of 'Theatre. I have also included Appendix (i) in support of this process, in particular, the changes inspired by the reading. The conclusion discusses some of the boundaries for my writing of A Poetry and The Spectacle Text for theatre, and hints at the context required for any writing of experimentation in the southern Indian/Pacific arena.
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Deas, Megan Elizabeth. "Imagining Australia: Community, participation and the 'Australian Way of Life' in the photography of the Australian Women's Weekly, 1945-1956." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148424.
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While the cultural history and practices of press photography in Australia have gained scholarly attention in recent years, the contribution of other forms of photography published in magazines—including editorial, advertising and readers’ photographs—to burgeoning concepts of nationhood has been largely overlooked. This thesis examines the role of photography in visualising a post-war ‘imagined community’ in a study of The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine, the highest-circulating weekly publication in the country, between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the introduction of television in 1956. In its examination of these photographs, the thesis asks: What narratives of national identity were evident in the photographs? What subject matter and framing techniques were frequently employed to construct a national photographic language? And what does this reveal about the values the Weekly’s publisher and editors attached to being Australian? I argue that the Weekly was not passively depicting or reflecting a national community and its ‘Way of Life’, but that it actively constructed an Australian identity through the thousands of photographs it published, while simultaneously instructing its readers what good citizenship looked like—and how to perform their belonging to the nation. Visual analysis of over 200 photographs highlights the predominant narratives during the period, including an emphasis on the practice of family photography to reinforce ideals of urban, family life as centred within the modern home. Representations of immigration and Aboriginal Australians, the repetition of photographs of families participating in community events, and a valorisation of the rural worker’s relationship with the land were intertwined with the concepts of ordinariness and of the ‘Australian Way of Life’. These core ideals were deployed to enable multiple and potentially oppositional narratives to coexist on the pages of the magazine. Analysis of a series of readers’ colour travel photographs published in the later years of the study foregrounds the Weekly’s encouragement of its readers as collaborators by providing them with an opportunity to demonstrate their performance of national identity. The magazine thus became a platform through which readers contributed to the visual narrative of Australianness, via the medium of photography as a form of participatory citizenship. The thesis foregrounds the implementation of a high-speed printing press in 1950 as a turning point at which readers saw a significant increase in the publication of colour photographs of native flora and fauna, and specifically photographs of ordinary Australians within the landscape. I argue that Alice Jackson and Esme Fenston, the Weekly’s editors during the period of study, positioned it as the mediator of knowledge about Australia, and constructed a relationship with readers based on notions of intimacy and authority. Situated within the multidisciplinary field of visual culture, and drawing from photography studies, visual anthropology, cultural history and media studies, the thesis highlights the cultural work of photography in the process of imaging, and imagining, post-war Australia.
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Auton, Luke Thomas Humanities & Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "'A sort of middle of the road policy' : forward defence, alliance politics and the Australian Nuclear Weapons Option, 1953-1973." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. Humanities & Social Sciences, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/40319.
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This thesis is about the importance of nuclear weapons to Australian defence and strategic policy in Southeast Asia between 1953 and 1973. It argues that Australia's approach to nuclear issues during this period, and its attitude towards the development and acquisition of nuclear weapons in particular, was aimed exclusively at achieving narrowly defined political objectives. Australia was thus never interested in possessing nuclear weapons, and any moves seemingly taken along these lines were calculated to obtain political concessions - not as part of a 'bid' for their acquirement. This viewpoint sits at odds with the consensus position of several focused studies of Australian nuclear policy published in the past decade. Although in general these studies correctly argue that Australia maintained the 'nuclear weapons option' until the early 1970s, all have misrepresented the motivation for this by contending that the government viewed such weapons in exclusively military terms. The claim that Australia was interested only in the military aspect of nuclear weapons does not pay due attention to the fact that defence planning was based entirely on the provision of conventional forces to Southeast Asia. Accordingly, the military was interested first and foremost with issues arising from extant conventional planning concepts, and the government was chiefly concerned about obtaining allied assurances of support for established plans. The most pressing requirement for Australia therefore was gaining sway over allied countries. However, the Australian government was never in a position to overtly influence more powerful allies against an undertaking that could escalate into limited war, and was similarly incapable of inducing its allies to retain forces in the region in spite of competing pressures. It was for this reason that Australia would seek to manipulate the nuclear weapons option. Indeed, access to such weapons offered Australia the opportunity to achieve greater integration in formulating allied planning, while the threat to manufacture them provided a means of convincing regional partners to maintain a presence in the area. The thesis therefore concludes that Australia carefully presented its options for procuring nuclear weapons to gain influence over its allies in response to strategic developments in Southeast Asia.
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Duff, Mhairi C. "Binge eating and potentially dangerous purgation in an Australian student population." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/141361.
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Wilson, Mack. "Japanese schools in the Australian mirror : perceptions of schools among Japanese students in Australia /." Title page, contents and conclusion only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arw751.pdf.
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Cowan, Sean. "Cracking the code: Why Western Australia abandoned rugby for Australian rules football in 1885." Thesis, Cowan, Sean (2015) Cracking the code: Why Western Australia abandoned rugby for Australian rules football in 1885. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/29624/.
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This study of the early years of football in Western Australia investigates the reasons for the abandonment of the Rugby Union rules and the adoption of the new Victorian rules in 1885. Through an examination of the newspapers of the day – which are the only known primary material concerning those events – it will be established that the people of Western Australia were not wedded to a particular code before the 1880s. This changed in 1882 when the first clubs were formed and the Rugby Union rules were adopted.
Advocates for the Victorian rules were immediately active, claiming the British game was on its way out elsewhere because it was too violent and not entertaining to watch. As a result, playing that code would rule W.A. out of intercolonial competition in the future, they argued. The ad hoc nature of the matches played in Perth did little to convince people that football was moving in the right direction under the Rugby Union rules, while the footballers who enjoyed playing under them were also able to embrace the Victorian rules because the two codes were not as dissimilar in 1885 as they are today.
While historians have previously named Bill Bateman, Harry Herbert and Hugh Dixson as being responsible for forcing the adoption of the new rules, the situation was actually much more complex. Each club voted separately on whether to play under the Victorian or Rugby Union rules in 1885 and there were lobbyists for the new code at each club. Herbert’s importance to the decision taken by the Fremantle Football Club has been over-stated by previous historians, while Charles Bishop has never been recognised for his efforts at the Perth Rovers Football Club.
Migration from the eastern colonies and social class were also factors in the change. Before 1885, the homogeneity and insularity of the groups of footballers at each club had weighed against the adoption of the Victorian rules. At the crucial juncture in 1885, however, a group of South Australians, led by Dixson and supported by working class West Australians, formed a new football club. This tipped the balance in favour of the new code.
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Maher, Simon. "The 'citizens' and 'citizenship' debates 'vernacular citizenship' and contemporary Australian politics and society /." Access electronically, 2006. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070821.160030/index.html.
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Petrov, Ryan. "The microclimate of Australian cattle feedlots." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, 2007. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00003191/.
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[Abstract]: The incidence of cattle heat stress is a significant production and welfare issue for the feedlot industry. It is hypothesised that the presence and physical nature of feedlots causes significant microclimatic variations compared to the external environment.In order to test this hypothesis, data was collected using a series of automatic weather stations located in the external environment surrounding two Australian feedlots. Comparison of this data with regional Bureau of Meteorology sites was undertaken to verify the quality of these ‘control’ sites. To determine the climate within the feedlot separate automatic weather stations were placed within the cattle pens at each site, with one station located in an unshaded pen and one directly under an artificial shade structure within an adjacent pen.This dissertation reports the collection and analyses of detailed climatic data from the surrounds and within the cattle pens of these two Australian feedlots. The project also sought to determine microclimatic differences within the feedlot pen area that may be caused by the presence of the shade structures.It was found that the presence of a feedlot does create significant microclimatic variations. Specifically, it was determined that the albedo values of the feedlot pen surface are significantly lower (ranging from 0.13 to 0.19) than those of the external feedlot environment (typically 0.15 to 0.25). This is a result of the surface changes arising from the establishment of clay based manure covered pens. Under wet conditions the differences in albedo values were further increased. It was found that the short wave radiation reflection from the external feedlot environment was 4% greater than that from the unshaded feedlot pen surfaces under dry conditions and 10% greater under wet conditions. The increased adsorption of solar radiation by the feedlot pen surface created ground temperatures that were on average 2 to 4°C warmer than those of the feedlot surrounds. The re-radiation of heat from the pen surface was found to create warmer air temperatures within the feedlot pens compared to the external environment, particularly overnight. Between the hours of 4am to 6am it was found that on average the air temperatures of the shaded and unshaded feedlot pens were 0.7°C and 0.5°C warmer than the external feedlot environment.It was found that feedlot pen infrastructure and cattle significantly reduce wind speeds under a height of 10 metres. The average 2 metre wind speeds of the external feedlot environments were found to be 29% and 9% higher than those recorded in the unshaded pens at the northern and southern feedlots respectively.Shade structures within feedlot pens were found to be effective in reducing incoming solar radiation with the galvanised sheeting reducing incoming solar radiation by 76% and the shade cloth providing a 72% reduction. These reductions provided both lower ground temperatures and a significant reduction in radiant heat loads under the shade. It was determined that the environment under shade structures was more humid compared to that of the unshaded pens with humidity levels recorded being 8 to 12% higher. Shade structures also restrict horizontal wind movement with the 2 metre wind speeds in the shaded pens being on average 11% and 0.5% lower than those recorded in the unshaded pens for the Queensland and NSW feedlots respectively.Research has shown that microclimatic variations such as increased air temperatures, increased humidity and restricted air movement can have an adverse effect on cattle health. It is concluded from this project that in order to mitigate these effects a number of feedlot design concepts be implemented, and management practices should be adopted. Maintaining minimal quantities of manure on the pen surface will provide lower ground temperatures, dryer pen conditions and inhibit the re-radiation of heat and evapotranspiration from the pen surface. Adequate air flow should be maintained by siting feedlots in areas of suitable topography, and designing feedlot infrastructure and shade structures to maximise air movement. Shade structures need to aim at providing dryer pen surfaces to minimise humidity levels. Incorporation of these recommendations into feedlot design and management will assist in optimising the feedlot microclimate.
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Amery, Rob. "A new diglossia : contemporary speech varieties at Yirrkala in North East Arnhem land." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132957.
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This subthesis is concerned with one aspect of the
sociolinguistic situation at Yirrkala in N.E. Arnhem Land. In particular I
shall be looking at the role and structure of a contemporary dialect of
Yolngu Matha, Dhuwaya or so called "Baby Gumatj" in relation to
other clan dialects.
The main purpose of choosing this thesis topic is to lay some
linguistic groundwork for the making of an informed decision in regard
to the use of Dhuwaya within the bilingual program at Yirrkala
Community School. If it is decided to employ Dhuwaya in the earlier
grades (which appears to be the case), then guidelines are needed to
determine which Dhuwaya forms should be employed. Adult language
should be employed to serve as a model. Thus criteria are presented for
choosing adult forms in preference to developmental forms. By
undertaking research into Dhuwaya, I am not trying to encourage the
use of Dhuwaya in any way. On the contrary, by establishing the ways in
which Dhuwaya differs from clan languages and by making these
differences explicit, any formal language programs undertaken in the
school or in the community in the future may utilize these findings.
This then would facilitate clan language acquisition by the younger
generation. I use the title R New Diglossio in two senses :
a) Yirrkala is a diglossic situation not previously described and is a
departure from the diglossia originally defined by Ferguson (1959).
b) The diglossic situation at Yirrkala appears to have been a recent
development and is in fact s till in the making. In this sense it is a new
diglossia chronologically. See Section 4.4 for explication.
This study is by necessity a somewhat cursory overview. As a
Balanda (white Australian) without having previous exposure to Top End
Northern Territory communities or to Aboriginal languages of N.E.
Arnhem Land3, data collection and transcription proved extremely
difficult. This was especially the case because Dhuwaya is a highly
stigmatized language variety at Yirrkala. This preliminary study points
to the need for an in-depth longitudinal sociolinguistic study. Such a
study should prove valuable in understanding issues of language
maintenance within the bilingual program at Yirrkala Community School
and for educational policies in the isolated homeland centres. Brief chapter summaries are as follows:
CHAPTER 1 provides background material including: a) historical, b)
sociological and c) linguistic, relevant to the study of Dhuwaya and its
sociolinguistic context. Methodology and approach is outlined in 1.6.
There are three varieties, Baby Dhuwaya, Deuelopmental Dhuwaya
and Rdult Dhuwaya, all subsumed by the labels Dhuwaya or “Baby
Gumatj" in common usage. These three varieties have separate
identifiable phonological and morphological features.
CHAPTER 2 outlines and discusses phonological features of Dhuwaya
and makes comparisons between Baby Dhuwaya, Developmental Dhuwaya
and Adult Dhuwaya phonology. CHAPTER 3 discusses morphological features of Adult Dhuwaya
relative to a) clan dialects and b) Developmental Dhuwaya. Dhuwaya is
characterized by specific morphological rules applying to dialect
sensitive morphemes; rules which take into account the dialect
differences between Dhuwal and Dhuwala dialects.
CHAPTER 4 discusses the differences between the three varieties of
Dhuwaya and the rationale for differentiating between them. Baby
Dhuwaya is a restricted register demonstrating universal
characteristics of Baby Talk registers whilst Developmental Dhuwaya
is a maturational or child language variety illustrating features
typical of developmental varieties universally. Although Developmental
Dhuwaya as spoken by very young children shares many features in
common with Baby Dhuwaya, there are s till important differences
remaining. Adult Dhuwaya functions as a communilect or common
language for the younger generation, but belongs specifically to
Yirrkala and its homelands. The Yirrkala situation is quite different to
other Yolngu communities in N.E. Arnhem Land (e.g. Galiwin’ku where a
clan language Djambarrpuyngu has become the communilect.) At
Yirrkala Dhuwaya functions as the L (Low) variety in a diglossic
situation, where multilingualism is the norm.
CHAPTER 5 summarizes the linguistic findings and in the light of
these and other sociolinguistic evidence discusses various theories on
the origin of Dhuwaya. It differs from other Yolngu Matha dialects in
much the same way linguistically as these dialects differ from each
other. I conclude that the most likely theory is that Dhuwaya has
developed by means of koineization of Eastern Dhuwala/Dhuwal Baby
Talk or ‘motherese' and developmental varieties. Dhuwaya is
structurally and functionally an almost prototypical koine language
variety. The implications for sociolinguistic theory, of this unique
diglossic situation in North East Arnhem Land, are discussed briefly. CHAPTER 6 discusses the implications of these findings for the future
in terms of a) language maintenance and b) the Yirrkala Community
School bilingual education program. I conclude that the linguistic
differences between Dhuwaya and other Dhuwala/Dhuwal dialects are
really quite minimal. Should the community agree to the use of
Dhuwaya in the earlier grades in the school, I am suggesting specific
recommendations as to the variety of Dhuwaya to be employed. Adult
Dhuwaya forms are better employed and I present criteria for
differentiating adult forms from developmental and Baby Talk forms.
Several sample texts, chosen for their exemplification of
different varieties of Dhuwaya, are included in an appendix.
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Knox, Ian. "Web based regional newspapers : the role of content : a thesis." University of Ballarat, 2002. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/14587.
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The phenomenon and acceptance of electronic publishing has proliferated in the last five years due to the expansion in the use of the World Wide Web in the general community. The initial fears that newspapers would be decimated by the introduction of this technology have been proven groundless, but despite a high web presence by newspapers world wide, profitable models of cyber papers are elusive. In an online environment traditional relationships between newspaper advertising and editorial may not stand. Despite the considerable body of published literature concerning the movement of print newspapers to an online environment, little was found concerning online content. A need to re-evaluate what content and functions are considered to be desirable by print readers, in an online environment was identified as the main objective of this research. Evaluation the of user attitudes to web based newspapers provides a foundation for future research into areas such as developing effective models for profitable online newspapers. To achieve this objective, the research tools used were a content analysis, an online newspaper user survey and newspaper management personal interviews. The study looked at Victorian regional daily newspapers that also had online versions. By focussing on the regional newspapers, meaningful comparisons could be made between content, staff attitudes and readership interests. The content analysis measured the quantum and nature of the content of the print and online versions of the regional dailies during a one week period. This provided a measure of the type and source of the articles included both in print and online. Newspaper editorial staff interviews contributed a personalised view of content priorities, which was then contrasted with a web based questionnaire which measured user requirements in relation to content and interactivity. It was found from the survey that content alone would not provide a sufficient basis to build a profitable online regional newspaper site. The findings were analysed in relation to the literature, newspaper site content and editorial staff interviews. Despite regularly accessing online newspaper sites, it was found that users are unwilling to pay for the experience. Users indicated a desire for a higher level of interactivity, in addition to the content, which is currently provided, by online regional newspapers. Evaluation of user attitudes to web based newspapers provides a foundation for future research into the development of effective for profitable online newspapers.Master of Business
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Daniel, Rosalie, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Aspects of the interaction between Xanthorrhoea australis and Phytophthora cinnamomi in south-western Victoria, Australia." Deakin University. School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051201.144848.
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Diseases in natural ecosystems are often assumed to be less severe than those observed in domestic cropping systems due to the extensive biodiversity exhibited in wild vegetation communities. In Australia, it is this natural biodiversity that is now under threat from Phytophthora cinnamomi. The soilborne Oomycete causes severe decline of native vegetation communities in south-western Victoria, Australia, disrupting the ecological balance of native forest and heathland communities.
While the effect of disease caused by P. cinnamomi on native vegetation communities in Victoria has been extensively investigated, little work has focused on the Anglesea healthlands in south-western Victoria. Nothing is known about the population structure of P. cinnamomi at Anglesea. This project was divided into two main components to investigate fundamental issues affecting the management of P. cinnamomi in the Anglesea heathlands. The first component examined the phenotypic characteristics of P. cinnamomi isolates sampled from the population at Anglesea, and compared these with isolates from other regions in Victoria, and also from Western Australia. The second component of the project investigated the effect of the fungicide phosphonate on the host response following infection by P. cinnamomi.
Following soil sampling in the Anglesea heathlands, a collection of P, cinnamomi isolates was established. Morphological and physiological traits of each isolate were examined. All isolates were found to be of the A2 mating type. Variation was demonstrated among isolates in the following characteristics: radial growth rate on various nutrient media, sporangial production, and sporangial dimensions. Oogonial dimensions did not differ significantly between isolates. Morphological and physiological variation was rarely dependant on isolate origin.
To examine the genetic diversity among isolates and to determine whether phenotypic variation observed was genetically based, Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analyses were conducted. No significant variation was observed among isolates based on an analysis of molecular variance (AMQVA). The results are discussed in relation to population biology, and the effect of genetic variation on population structure and population dynamics.
X australis, an arborescent monocotyledon indigenous to Australia, is highly susceptible to infection by P. cinnamomi. It forms an important component of the heathland vegetation community, providing habitat for native flora and fauna, A cell suspension culture system was developed to investigate the effect of the fungicide phosphonate on the host-pathogen interaction between X. australis and P. cinnamomi. This allowed the interaction between the host and the pathogen to be examined at a cellular level.
Subsequently, histological studies using X. australis seedlings were undertaken to support the cellular study. Observations in the cell culture system correlated well with those in the plant. The anatomical structure of X australis roots was examined to assist in the interpretation of results of histopathological studies. The infection of single cells and roots of X. australis, and the effect of phosphonate on the interaction are described. Phosphonate application prior to inoculation with P. cinnamomi reduced the infection of cells in culture and of cells in planta. In particular, phosphonate was found to stimulate the production of phenolic material in roots of X australis seedlings and in cells in suspension cultures. In phosphonate-treated roots of X australis seedlings, the deposition of electron dense material, possibly lignin or cellulose, was observed following infection with P. cinnamomi. It is proposed that this is a significant consequence of the stimulation of plant defence pathways by the fungicide.
Results of the study are discussed in terms of the implications of the findings on management of the Anglesea heathlands in Victoria, taking into account variation in pathogen morphology, pathogenicity and genotype. The mode of action of phosphonate in the plant is discussed in relation to plant physiology and biochemistry.
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Marlow, Alison. "Facies distribution within the M. australis section on the Enderby Terrace, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia." Adelaide : [s.n.], 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbm347.pdf.
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Cardak, Buly Ahmet. "Does Australia have a long term current account problem? intertemporal substitution : theory and Australian evidence /." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EC/09ecc2663.pdf.
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Venn, Danielle. "Work timing arrangements in Australia in the 1990s : evidence from the Australian time use survey /." Connect to thesis, 2004. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000812.
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Brocx, Margaret. "Geoheritage: From global reviews and the Australian experience to guiding principles for coastal Western Australia." Thesis, Brocx, Margaret (2003) Geoheritage: From global reviews and the Australian experience to guiding principles for coastal Western Australia. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51663/.
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Geoheritage and geoconservation are concerned with the preservation of Earth products and processes, including landforms, exposures of geological features, at a wide range of scales, and encompassing the diversity of minerals, rocks and fossils. Coastal geoheritage as a subset of geoheritage represents a special zone where geological features and processes are exceptionally well developed, manifold, and complex. Globally, geoconservation has been afforded international status through organisations such as IUCN, ProGEO, and UNESCO, amongst others, and major in-roads have been made in protecting important geosites worldwide and intra-nationally. International conventions now contain globally accepted principles for geoconservation, involving sustainable development and intergenerational equity. In the unfolding of geoconservation, the United Kingdom, considered the birthplace of modern geology, particularly has a long association with geoheritage, and has provided models, procedures, and classifications that have been exported around the world, including Australia.
Australia has had a mixed history in relation to geoheritage. Initially, it was one of the early leaders in establishing national parks and protecting geosites, but later, through its reliance on minerals and agriculture, its perspective became economic, to the demise of conservation. Australia since the 1970s has continued with geoconservation, with achievements in procedures and listing of sites nationally through the Australian Heritage Commission and the Geological Society of Australia, and various international Conventions to which it is a signatory. However, at State level there are stark contrasts in practical achievements, with Tasmania a leader in geoconservation. Interviews with personnel involved in decision-making in relation to geoheritage in Western Australia highlighted deficiencies in procedure, legislation, and policy. Many are not geoscientists and are making decisions without knowledge of issues of geoheritage. The case study of the Pilbara Coast particularly brought out the matter that mineral wealth over-rides geoheritage. This Coast is internationally significant, but borders a mineral rich hinterland. Development has changed irreversibly the character of the coast, with loss of geoheritage as a result of ignorance of its values, and ad hoc exploitation of mineral resources.
To address coastal geoheritage in this State, an integrated whole-of-government statement as to guiding principles is required. This should at the least involve an inventory-based State-wide coastal classification, priority listing of sites, as well as drafting of legislation, policy, and definitions, and outlining clearly defined roles for each of the stakeholders.
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Burns, Kathryn E. "This other Eden exploring a sense of place in twentieth-century reconstructions of Australian childhoods /." Connect to full text, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1691.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2007.Title from title screen (viewed 25 March 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2007; thesis submitted 2006. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Camroux, David. "Changements sociaux et retentissements politiques le parti travailliste fédéral australien, 1972-84." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37596231b.
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Hall, Frederick Leonard. "Australians in a corporate culture the national characteristics, are they intrinsic? : a study of cultural behaviour of Australian employees in a multi national [sic] corporation : a measure of change of national culture over time and it's relevance to corporate culture in Australia /." Master's thesis, Australia : Macquarie Universityc, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/23256.
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Thesis (MA)--Macquarie University, Graduate School of Management, 1989.Introduction -- Values and culture -- The four dimensions -- Australia survey 1984/85 -- Methodological debate -- Literature reviews -- Outcome in terms of our national culture -- Transition to corporate culture -- Results of survey 1984/85 -- Appendix.
Bibliography: final [7] leaves (Appendix 4).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Beasley, Brian Glen. "'Death charged missives': Australian literary responses to the Spanish Civil War." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Arts, 2006. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00003199/.
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[Abstract]: ‘Spanish Civil War’ is an important, absent signifier in Australian history, letters, writing and cultural politics of the 1930s. I argue that despite the glossing over of the importance of Spain’s war in the period, events in Spain had a pervasive influence on Australian society, and writers in particular – on their political re-alignments, on their nationalist and internationalist cultural outlooks, and on their common acceptance that they lived in an essentially tragic age. Consequently, the critical neglect of Spain and its impact on Australian cultural affairs in the 30s is unwarranted.My thesis research has covered a very wide range of texts: the ephemeral pamphlet, the small circulation journal, poetry, agitprop, the mainstream novel, the ‘mass declamation’ and the associated ‘new media’ of the 30s – photography and film. It has also looked at different groups or cultural networks in the period, all of which (despite their disparate politics) saw Spain as a central cause: the Catholic Church, the Communist Party, anti-fascist and peace movements amongst others.The theoretical dimension of my work is driven by Raymond Williams’ concept of ‘structure of feeling’, first formulated in his study The Long Revolution then developed in a series of subsequent works. The generous range of texts I study conforms to Williams’ theory of ‘structure of feeling’, arguing that to understand the ‘field’ of a period, one should survey the interconnectivity of all its texts. Also drawing on Williams’ theory, I read the structured feeling of the 30s as essentially tragic: revealing exactly how Spain focalised fears and apparently symbolised the impasse of ‘modernity’ itself – Spain was a spectacle that graphically demonstrated how the inner destructiveness of technological modernity had tragically cancelled the possibility of progress and the arrival of variously imagined utopias.
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Smaill, Belinda 1972. "Amidst a nation's cultures : documentary and Australia's Special Broadcasting Service Television." Monash University, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8644.
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Barker, Elaine M. "Civilization in the wilderness : the homestead in the Australian colonial novel, 1830-1860 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armb255.pdf.
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Borger, Catherine. "The biology and ecology of Salsola australis R.Br. (Chenopodiaceae) in southwest Australian cropping systems." University of Western Australia. School of Plant Biology, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0062.
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Salsola australis is an introduced weed of crop and pasture systems in the Western Australian broad acre cropping and pasture region (wheat-belt). This thesis investigated the classification, biology and ecology of the genus Salsola in southwest Australia, as well as modelling the effectiveness of possible weed control practices. Prior to this research, S. tragus was the only recognised species of the Salsola genus within Australia. However, genetic analysis revealed that four genetically distinct putative taxa of the genus Salsola were found in southwest Australia, none of which were S. tragus. The taxa that is the most prevalent agricultural weed was classified as S. australis, but the other three putative taxa could not be matched to recognised species. All four taxa were diploid (2n = 18), as opposed to tetraploid (2n = 36) S. tragus. Within the agricultural system of southwest Australia, S. australis plants established throughout the year, although the majority of seed production occurred in late summer and autumn. Total seed production (138-7734 seeds per plant) and seed viability (7.6-62.8%) of S. australis were lower than that reported for other agricultural weed species of the Salsola genus. Seed dispersal occurred when the senesced plants broke free of their root system to become mobile. Wind driven plants travelled and shed seed over distances of 1.6 to 1247.2 m. Movement of approximately half the plants was restricted to less than 100 m by entanglement with other S. australis plants within the stand. Some seed was retained on the senesced plants, but the germinability of this seed fell to less than 2% in the two month period following plant senescence (i.e. a decline of 79%). Once seed shed into the soil seed bank, anywhere from 32.3 to 80.7% of the viable seeds germinated in the year following seed production, with the rest remaining dormant or degrading. A model of the life cycle of S. australis based on the population ecology data indicated that the dormant seed bank had very little effect on annual seedling recruitment, but seed dispersal from neighbouring populations had a large impact on population growth rate. Therefore, the most successful weed control measures were those that restricted seed dispersal from neighbouring populations, or those that were applied to all populations in the region rather than to a single population. Weed control techniques applied to a single population, without reducing seed dispersal, could not reduce population size.
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Genoni, Angela. "Health impacts and dietary composition of Paleolithic and Australian Guide to Healthy Eating Diets in Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2126.
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The Paleolithic diet is promoted in Australia for improved gut health. However, it excludes grains and dairy, food groups that form part of the evidence-based Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (AGHE). While total dietary fibre intake can be maintained from consumption of vegetables, fruit and nuts, it is not known if the elimination of grain-based foods results in changes to resistant starch (RS) intake. The Paleolithic diet can be classified as a low carbohydrate diet, however, interventions examining the impact of low carbohydrate diets on gastrointestinal health have been short-term and very low in dietary fibre, limiting comparison with a Paleolithic dietary pattern. Serum trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) arises mainly from colonic fermentation and hepatic conversion of animal protein and is positively associated with cardiovascular disease, but changes to RS intake may alter concentrations. With available literature on the Paleolithic diet examining only cardiometabolic and anthropometric outcomes, there exists a need to examine both fibre fraction intake and markers of gastrointestinal health, including the composition of the microbiota.
The PhD research comprised three separate studies. Studies One and Two re-examined data from a four-week randomised dietary intervention in healthy women (n=39) using the Paleolithic (n=22) and AGHE diets (n=17), to understand fibre fraction intake and to determine whether the short-term dietary change induced changes in serum TMAO concentrations. Study Three comprised a new, cross-sectional study and examined markers for dietary intake, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal health; comparing the results to a control group following a standard Australian diet. Forty-four long-term followers (>1 y) of the Paleolithic diet and 47 healthy controls were recruited; three-day weighed food records, diet history, anthropometric measures, fasting blood, 24-hour urine and 48-hour stool samples were collected. Food group, fibre and RS intake were estimated from weighed food records; serum TMAO concentrations were measured using LC-MS; faecal biochemistry with LC and GC-MS; faecal microbiota composition was analysed using 16s rRNA sequencing of the v4 region.
The short-term intervention comprising Studies One and Two showed RS intake postintervention, on a Paleolithic diet was significantly lower (RS Minimum 1.39 ± 0.95 g/day, RS Maximum 6.52 ± 4.59 g/day), than intake in the AGHE group (RS Minimum 2.46 ±2.26 g/day, RS Maximum 9.91 ± 9.06 g/day) and resulted in significant differences between groups (P
Study Three showed variation in the level of adherence to the Paleolithic diet and resulted in the stratification of the cohort into Strict Paleolithic (SP) (n=22) and Pseudo-Paleolithic (PP) (n=22) groups. Total dietary fibre intake was similar in the SP and control groups (30 g/day versus 27 g/day) and significantly higher than that of the PP group (21 g/day) (PBifidobacteriaand Roseburia genera, and increased abundance of TMA producing genera Hungatella.
Lower RS and carbohydrate intake, combined with high fat intake were associated with changes in microbiota and reduced abundances of beneficial genera in the Paleolithic group. The lack of differences between groups observed in SCFA excretion and the association with vegetable intake is supportive of dietary recommendations to increase consumption and may indicate a mechanism via which vegetables exert beneficial health impacts. The significantly higher concentrations of TMAO in the SP group and the association with both whole grain intake and the microbiota indicates that a variety of carbohydrate sources and fibre components may be required to maintain colonic health. Future research should now focus on including markers of intestinal permeability and inflammation to confirm these findings.
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Farrelly, Francis John. "A predictive model of sport sponsorship renewal in Australia." Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phf245.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 231-291. This thesis investigates key drivers of sponsorship renewal. The market orientation of sponsors, and their perception of their sponsored entity's (property's) market orientation, are analysed as antecedents of the trust invested by sponsors in the relationship, the level of commitment they exhibit and both the economic and non-economic satisfaction they derive from it. Sponsor economic and non-economic satisfaction and their commitment to the relationship are considered to be the ultimate drivers of the decision to renew. The argument is presented that sponsorship is a form of strategic or co-marketing alliance. The Australian Football League, the leading sponsorship property in Australia, is investigated in the empirical part of the thesis.
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Flanagan, Annette F. "Gender, Jobs and Geographic Origin of Australian Immigrants." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc935699/.
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This thesis examines access to managerial jobs in the Australian labor market by immigrant women and men from five continents and five individual countries. Comparisons were not made only among both continent and country groups, but also between the women and men within each group, as a measure of occupational gender inequality. An index of managerial representation in the Australian labor market (MORI) was computed and nine independent variables were applied to measure immigrant representation in managerial occupations. Rank order correlates were used to calculate relationships between variables. Results indicate that women (with the exception of Vietnamese) from all countries were disproportionately underrepresented in managerial jobs and that the more dissimilar immigrant men are to native born Australians, the less likely they are to hold managerial jobs.
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Barton, Philip S. "Beetle diversity in box-gum grassy woodlands : the importance of habitat heterogeneity at multiple scales." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150104.
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Jonita, Michael. ""For Australia": Joseph Furphy and Australian literary culture, 1889-1912." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/39502.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philoshpy (PhD)This thesis re-examines the Australian literary field of the 1890s by focussing on the life and times of the novelist Joseph Furphy. He had only one book, Such is Life, published during his lifetime but in addition produced a small volume of literary work. All of his works have been published or re-published since his death in 1912. To better appreciate why Furphy struggled to secure publication of his writing requires understanding not only of the author himself but also of Australian society and culture at the time he was writing. To this end this thesis considers the ideas of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and his concepts of capital, habitus and field as a useful frame of reference. The ensuing analysis uses this framework for the interrelated dynamics within a social space – a literary field – to explain the production of literary works. Using Bourdieu’s idea that the social space in which works were produced is the proper starting point for interpreting literary works, the first section of the thesis defines a relevant literary field. The next section analyses Furphy’s confrontations within this literary field as he proceeded in his life as an author. An essential part of a Bourdieuan analysis depends upon recognising that a literary field is a microcosm of society where outside events are mediated through the particular autonomy of the field. In considering this, the remainder of the thesis analyses Furphy’s writing as he engaged with the topics of education, religion, language and identity as they were retranslated through the specific logic operating within an Australian literary field of the 1890s.
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Jonita, Michael. ""For Australia": Joseph Furphy and Australian literary culture, 1889-1912." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/39502.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philoshpy (PhD)This thesis re-examines the Australian literary field of the 1890s by focussing on the life and times of the novelist Joseph Furphy. He had only one book, Such is Life, published during his lifetime but in addition produced a small volume of literary work. All of his works have been published or re-published since his death in 1912. To better appreciate why Furphy struggled to secure publication of his writing requires understanding not only of the author himself but also of Australian society and culture at the time he was writing. To this end this thesis considers the ideas of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and his concepts of capital, habitus and field as a useful frame of reference. The ensuing analysis uses this framework for the interrelated dynamics within a social space – a literary field – to explain the production of literary works. Using Bourdieu’s idea that the social space in which works were produced is the proper starting point for interpreting literary works, the first section of the thesis defines a relevant literary field. The next section analyses Furphy’s confrontations within this literary field as he proceeded in his life as an author. An essential part of a Bourdieuan analysis depends upon recognising that a literary field is a microcosm of society where outside events are mediated through the particular autonomy of the field. In considering this, the remainder of the thesis analyses Furphy’s writing as he engaged with the topics of education, religion, language and identity as they were retranslated through the specific logic operating within an Australian literary field of the 1890s.
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Lau, Sin Wen. "Echoes of family : Chinese-Australian belonging(s) in Perth, Western Australia." Master's thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10956.
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This is a study about belonging(s), entangled ones that transcend spatial and
temporal boundaries. It is about the processes through which a diasporic community -
the Chinese in Perth, Western Australia (W.A.) - struggle to become a part of their
adopted land. It is also about the ways in which the Perth Chinese have actively
engaged their quest for Chinese-Australian belonging(s) by (re-)interpreting, posturing
and positioning their Chinese-ness. Belonging(s) is an issue that underlines recent
discussions on cultural hybridisation, race and Australian national identity within
'Asian-Australian' communities, a category the Chinese in Perth (and the Chinese in
Australia, for that matter) are seen to be a part of. I hope to contribute to these
discussions, particularly in illuminating the negotiations that take place within the
community in their struggle to find an acceptable cultural location of belonging(s), both
for wider Australian society and themselves. In focussing on the internal processes
through which the community seeks to resolve its quest for belonging(s), I hope to
provide a bottom-up approach to the study of a particular Asian-Australian community.
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Munro, Lyle. "The collapse of the school to work transition." Master's thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/131327.
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The thesis is about the collapse of the school to work transition and its implications
for 15 to 19 year-olds still at school. It examines the response of school students to the
limited employment opportunities available to them by focusing on the pre-vocational
experiences of 21 students in an ACT secondary college.
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Kusumawardhani, Listya. "The ecology of the Australian water rat (Hydromys chrysogaster, Geoffroy) in the Australian Capital Territory." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/143974.
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Johnson, Maggie. "Report." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155959.
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Sewell, Bon. ""Australia full : Asians out! White supremacists in!" : a study of the dynamics of the Australian National Action Movement in Australia." Thesis, 1995. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32990/.
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My rationale for tackling this particular issue for my thesis work stems from the
immense fascination in the rhetoric, appearance and rationale of extremist right-wing and
ultra-nationalist pohtical organizations I have personally experienced. I desired to determine
whether an Australian national racist organization, namely Australian National Action (NA),
could in the future be a force to be reckoned with, or whether they will forever remain as an
insignificant and languishing fringe group. To explore this possibiUty, I had hoped to delve
into the dynamics of this organization via the utilisation and answering of several probing
and pivotal questions.
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Watson, Christine. "Kuruwarri, the generative force : Balgo women's contemporary paintings and their relationship to traditional media." Master's thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144360.
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Dimmlich, Wetjens F. "The life history and stock assessment of anchovy, Engraulis australis, in South Australia." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/65473.
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The abundance and distribution of small pelagic fish in coastal upwelling systems fluctuate in response to environmental or biotic factors acting on larval stages. Anchovies (Engraulis spp.) have evolved flexible adaptive strategies to maximise recruitment in such environments. Spawning usually occurs throughout coastal and shelf regions, however the relative importance of inshore/offshore waters for spawning and the survival of eggs and larvae is poorly understood. The objectives of this study were to 1-identify the locations, and season, of anchovy (Engraulis australis) spawning in South Australia; 2-determine the oceanographic and biotic characteristics (e.g sea-surface temperature and chlorophyll a levels,) of gulf and shelf waters during the spawning season of this species, and 3-determine the relative importance of gulf and shelf waters for anchovy spawning and larval recruitment. Ichthyoplankton and oceanographic surveys encompassing a total of 128,700 km² were
conducted and anchovies were captured at locations throughout this area. Anchovy eggs were found throughout gulf and shelf waters, with highest densities recorded in northern areas of Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent where sea surface temperatures (SST) were 24–26°C. Spawning appeared to peak between 0000 and 0100 hours. Otolith increment counts were used to age larval, juvenile and adult anchovies from both shelf and gulf waters. In the northern Spencer Gulf only smaller, young fish up to 1 year of age occurred, where there were eggs and young larvae (< 10mm) at high density. These anchovies spawned relatively small batches of eggs (c. 855 per fish) approximately every 3 days over an area of approximately 4,898 km². The daily egg production method (DEPM), used to estimate an adult biomass for the northern Spencer Gulf gave an estimate of 25,374 tonnes. The southern gulf area was inhabited by 1, 2 and 3 year old fish, whereas over the continental shelf, where upwelling occurs, 3, 4, and 5 year old fish were found. In these cooler, deeper, shelf waters, where the larger, older, anchovies are found, lower egg densities occurred despite individuals producing much larger batches of eggs (ca. 15,572 per fish) approximately every 7 days. In shelf waters, the highest egg densities were recorded at inshore sampling stations. Spawning by older fish took place over a far greater area of ca. 44,618 km² with an estimated adult biomass of 101,522 tonnes. Unlike in the gulf waters, larvae > 10 mm total length (TL) were mainly found with the
largest larvae, > 15 mm TL, being collected from shelf waters near up-welling zones where SSTs were relatively low (< 20°C) and levels of chlorophyll a (chl a) relatively high. The high levels of larval abundance in the upwelling zones may reflect higher levels of recruitment to later stages in these areas compared with the gulfs. Gonosomatic indices, together with egg and larval densities, indicated that the peak spawning season was from January to March. This coincided with the enhanced period of productivity in shelf waters due to up-welling events. However, these highly variable environments can be highly dispersive with resulting high egg and larval mortalities and are generally dominated by sardines (Sardinops spp.). In addition to the shelf population young fish are also present in the relatively stable gulf environment. This population may act as a reserve of anchovy in South Australia from which the population may expand under favourable conditions. When the population of dominant sardines (S. sagax) are reduced, it appears that the subordinate anchovies, represented by older age-classes, are able to utilise offshore environments which may then provide additional spawning and nursery areas for this species.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2011
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Hanson, Tricia. "Soft Options : Home and Memory." Master's thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155730.
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Hanson, Tricia. "Trove of Trinkets." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155732.
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McKenzie, Elizabeth St Clair. "A history of the Australian Capital Territory Schools' Authority, 1966-1980 : a process of change frustrated." Phd thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132402.
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This thesis examines the interaction of people during the
planning and implementation of a radical change in
Australian education: the creation of a decentralised,
participatory school system in Canberra. The motives and
priorities of the groups of stakeholders involved in the
change - the parents, teachers and administrators - are
examined. The members of the parents' group initiated and
campaigned for the establishment of a decentralised,
participatory school system for reasons, it is argued, derived
from their membership of the New Middle Class. The
teachers, represented in events by their union, were largely
preoccupied with their concerns to improve working
conditions and secure their fragile status as professionals:
priorities which at times brought them into conflict with
other stakeholders. Senior administrators in the
Commonwealth Department of Education together with those
in the Authority, were the members of the other key group
of stakeholders; with some notable exceptions, their priorities
determined by their role as advisors to their Minister and
their background and training in bureaucracy.
Achieving change is much more than passionately
believing in an idea and campaigning to have it adopted, as
the parents discovered. The social, economic and political
context in which it is situated, which can change over time,
and the congruence of the idea with other people's ideology, interests and agendas all play a part in determining the final
outcomes.
The first part of the thesis uses an Australian adaptation
of a strategic planning model as a framework to explain the
process used by the parents' group to plan the change they
sought; the scene is set, the main characters identified and the
decisions that were made and the actions taken to establish a
new and different school system examined. The second part of
the thesis is focused upon the implementation stage, and the
consequences of decisions made during the planning stage are
revealed when the expected outcomes are modified as
different groups facilitate or obstruct participation.
This thesis argues that while fundamental change occurred
in the new school system, by 1980, the vision of a new
democratic, participatory school system in the ACT was not
realised in its original form, because, during the planning, the
proponents of the change did not completely understand the
ideology, interests and agendas of all the key stakeholders'
groups, including their own, nor the influence these would
have on the achievement of full participation in the school
system. Nevertheless, the fact that the ACT Schools Authority
was established with administrative structures unique in
Australian education systems, was at that time, remarkable;
and its legacy, the belief that bureaucracy can be challenged
and participation should occur, endures.