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Short, Stephanie Doris, Hyo-Young Lee, Mi-Joung Lee, Eunok Park, and Farah Purwaningrum. "The Case for a Reciprocal Health Care Agreement between Australia and South Korea." Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management 16, no. 1 (February 28, 2021): 21–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.24083/apjhm.v16i1.505.

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Objectives: This study presents the case for a reciprocal health care agreement (RHCA) between Australia and South Korea. Design and Setting: The research utilised a qualitative social scientific methodology. Document analysis was conducted on government reports, official statistics and media articles in English and Korean. Main outcomes: In Australia, the Health Insurance Act 1973 enables health care agreements with 11 nations, however, Korea has no similar legislation in place. Therefore, Korea would need to build a broader consensus on the need for a RHCA in full, based on the precedent of Australia's agreements with other nations, as well as on the Korean Pension Act, which has enabled reciprocal (equal treatment among the countries) pension agreements with 28 nations through an exceptive clause. Results: The active government commitment and involvement of the Ministry of Health and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Australia, and of the Ministry of Health & Welfare and Ministry of Foreign Affairs in South Korea, would be essential for a successful RHCA process to come to fruition. Conclusions: While a potential health care agreement between Australia and Korea would constitute a significant step forward in strengthening people-to-people links between these two significant trading partners in the spirit of health diplomacy, the feasibility at the current time is very low indeed.
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Keneley, Monica, and Tom McDonald. "THE NATURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GENERAL INSURANCE INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA TO 1973." Australian Economic History Review 47, no. 3 (November 2007): 278–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8446.2007.00212.x.

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Flynn, Kathryn. "Financial fraud in the private health insurance sector in Australia." Journal of Financial Crime 23, no. 1 (December 31, 2015): 143–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfc-06-2014-0032.

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Purpose – The purpose of this article is to explore financial fraud in the private health insurance sector in Australia. Fraud in this sector has commonalities to other countries with similar health systems but in Australia it has garnered some unique characteristics. This article sheds light on these features, especially the fraught relationship between the private health funds and the public health insurance agency, Medicare and the problematic impact of the Privacy Act on fraud detection and financial recovery. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative methodological approach was used, and interviews were conducted with fraud managers from Australia’s largest private health insurance funds and experts in fields connected to health fraud detection. Findings – All funds reported a need for more technological resources and higher staffing levels to manage fraud. Inadequate resourcing has the predictable outcome of a low detection and recovery rate. The fund managers had differing approaches to recovery action and this ranged from police action, the use of debt recovery agencies, to derecognition from the health fund. As for present and future harm to the industry, the funds found on-line claiming platforms a major threat to the integrity of their insurance system. In addition, they all viewed the Privacy Act as an impediment to managing fraud against their organizations and they desired that there be greater information sharing between themselves and Medicare. Originality/value – This paper contributes to the knowledge of financial fraud in the private health insurance sector in Australia.
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Saunders, Cheryl. "Australian Federalism and the Role of the Governor-General." International Journal of Legal Information 28, no. 2 (2000): 407–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0731126500009185.

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Australia is both a federation and a constitutional monarchy. The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900, which made the Australian Constitution law, refers to the establishment of the federation “under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.” In fact, however, since 1973, the appropriate style of the monarch in relation to Australia has been “Queen of Australia.” And ever since federation, the monarch has been represented in Australia by a Governor-General, who progressively has acquired a more significant role, in parallel with the acquisition of Australian independence.
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Li, Jixin, and Yuze Li. "Factors affecting utilization of healthcare services in Australia." Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology 8 (August 17, 2022): 185–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/hset.v8i.1126.

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The health care access rate can highly contribute to society’s living quality, and further influence the general labor productivity and economic growth of a country. However, the health expenditure per person in Australia is very high and not able to decrease immediately, which can gradually impact the proportion of people visiting health care services. Thus, it is important to reveal other important factors influencing health care utilization and seek solutions via the results. This study aimed to reveal the factors associated with the healthcare service utilization in Australia. We first hypothesized that insurance coverage will be the factor with the most contribution. The data, collected from the health survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1978-1978, were analyzed via regression model and exploratory data analysis. Model comparison was also performed to receive a more accurate conclusion. The overall results showed that factors influencing health conditions, such as higher age, diseases affecting daily activities appeared to have the greatest relevance with utilization rate. Insurance is also a significant factor, but has a lower contribution compared to the health-related ones. The results can act as an important indicator in introducing policies in health care system and enhance citizen’s health conditions.
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Crockett, Michael, and Muhammad Jahangir Ali. "Auditor independence and accounting conservatism." International Journal of Accounting & Information Management 23, no. 1 (March 2, 2015): 80–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijaim-02-2014-0008.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficacy of the current legislative provisions that protect auditor independence in Australia. The collapses of several high-profile companies (Enron and WorldCom in the USA, HIH insurance and OneTel in Australia) in the early 2000s has raised questions about audit quality and independence. In response, regulators have introduced new regulations and guidance to improve audit quality. In Australia, the Corporations Act 2001 (2001) was amended via the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act 2004. This study poses the question: do non-audit service fees influence the level of accounting conservatism? Design/methodology/approach – The sample used in this analysis consists of all available Australian listed companies from the years 2006 till 2010. Findings – Using multiple measures of accounting conservatism and the auditor-client economic bond, our results suggest that the level of the economic bond between the auditor and the client does not significantly influence the level of accounting conservatism. Originality/value – Our results demonstrate that the combination of intrinsic market mechanisms and regulation in Australia sufficiently protect auditor independence.
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Pikas, Bohdan, and Anastasia Pikas. "Global Trade, Admiralty Law And Zero Sum Games." Journal of Business Case Studies (JBCS) 5, no. 3 (June 24, 2011): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jbcs.v5i3.4707.

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A shipment of heavy sand from Australia was contaminated by sea water during a hurricane. Upon examination of the ships hold hatches, it was determined by the consignee that the hold hatches were in poor repair and faulty. Immediate compensation for the insurance deductible and shipping expense was demanded of the ships owners. Claiming an act of God under Admiralty Law, the ships owner refused payment. Upon consultation with maritime attorneys, the consignee decided to apply a provision of maritime law and arrest the ship to force payment.
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Furst, Mary Anne, Jose A. Salinas-Perez, and Luis Salvador-Carulla. "Organisational impact of the National Disability Insurance Scheme transition on mental health care providers: the experience in the Australian Capital Territory." Australasian Psychiatry 26, no. 6 (November 8, 2018): 590–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856218810151.

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Objectives: Concerns raised about the appropriateness of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia for people with mental illness have not been given full weight due to a perceived lack of available evidence. In the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), one of the pilot sites of the Scheme, mental health care providers across all relevant sectors who were interviewed for a local Atlas of Mental Health Care described the impact of the scheme on their service provision. Methods: All mental health care providers from every sector in the ACT were contacted. The participation rate was 92%. We used the Description and Evaluation of Services and Directories for Long Term Care to assess all service provision at the local level. Results: Around one-third of services interviewed lacked funding stability for longer than 12 months. Nine of the 12 services who commented on the impact of the NDIS expressed deep concern over problems in planning and other issues. Conclusions: The transition to NDIS has had a major impact on ACT service providers. The ACT was a best-case scenario as it was one of the NDIS pilot sites.
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N. H. Seabrook-Davison, M., W. Ji, and D. H. Brunton. "New Zealand lacks comprehensive threatened species legislation ? comparison with legislation in Australia and the USA." Pacific Conservation Biology 16, no. 1 (2010): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc100054.

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New Zealand lacks dedicated threatened species legislation which is hindering the effective recovery of the country?s threatened species. Few of New Zealand?s recorded threatened species receive active management. New Zealand is recognized as a biodiversity hotspot which has undergone widespread anthropogenic change in a relatively short time. Using its own threat classification system based on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, but modified to suit the island characteristics of its biota, New Zealand has identified 2,788 species and subspecies within 14 taxonomic groups that are threatened with extinction. However, this level of awareness of the threatened state of New Zealand?s biota is not supported by comprehensive threatened species legislation. We reviewed New Zealand?s current legislation for the management and recovery of threatened species and made a comparison with the US Endangered Species Act 1973 (ESA1973) and the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 (EPBC1999). We argue that New Zealand needs to develop similar legislation to the ESA1973 and EPBC1999 to enable an integrated and legally accountable approach to the management and recovery of threatened species. A strength of the ESA1973 and EPBC1999 is that species that have been assessed to be threatened with extinction are listed on a central government register with a legal mandate for the production of recovery plans. A weakness of both acts is that species can languish on these lists without effective recovery actions. Although not always implemented, both acts have the provision for the protection and conservation of critical habitat.
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Gordon, Carey N. "Recent Developments in the Land Law of the Sudan: A Legislative Analysis." Journal of African Law 30, no. 2 (1986): 143–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300006537.

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With the promulgation of the Sudanese Civil Transactions Act, 1984, in February, 1984, the Republic of the Sudan joined several other Arab countries (e.g. Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Libya) which have codified major areas of their non-criminal law. The Sudan's previous attempt at such codification was short-lived: the Civil Code, 1971 was repealed in 1973. Although many sectors of the Sudanese legal establishment have been critical of the 1984 legislation, because of questions regarding the quality of the draftsmanship and the absence of its circulation for comment prior to promulgation, it remains the most comprehensive single piece of legislation since the 1971 Civil Code, covering such topics as contract, sales, tort, gift, insurance, bailment and property, both real and personal.This article will survey all current Sudanese legislation affecting real property, including, most importantly, the Civil Transactions Act, 1984. Because there are more than twenty-five separate legislative acts in the Sudan relating to land, comprising more than six hundred relevant sections, the discussion herein must of necessity be to highlight the major divisions of the current land law, pointing out its distinctive features and those areas in which it appears that conflicts exist as between the various pieces of legislation.The Civil Transactions Act, 1984 (hereinafter sometimes referred to as “C.T.A.”), was promulgated on 14 February, 1984, and took effect on that date. It comprises some 95 chapters with 819 separate sections, more than one-third of which deal with matters relating to land.
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Jansen, van Vuuren Johanna Petronella. "A legal comparison between South African, Canadian and Australian workmen's compensation law." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18551.

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Workers’ compensation originated internationally because of the need to address the plight of workers and communities left destitute due to occupationally sustained disabilities or death. This study examines how the right to no-fault compensation developed in South Africa in comparison to the comparable law in Canada and Australia. Specific limitations regarding the right to workers' compensation pursuant to the South African compensatory laws were identified. Limitations identified include the persons falling within the ambit of the law, circumstances creating a right to compensation, the right to claims for increased compensation uniquely provided for in South African compensatory law and founded in the negligent conduct of employers as well as common law redress for damages. The background of the administrative remedy in the form of the right to compensation for occupational injuries and diseases ought to be seen in the light of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996.
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Books on the topic "Australia Insurance Act 1973"

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Peter, Mann. Annotated Insurance Contracts Act. Sydney: Law Book Co., 1994.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance. Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session, March 8, 1990. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1990.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance. Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session, March 8, 1990. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1990.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance. Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, second session, March 8, 1990. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1990.

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US GOVERNMENT. Laws concerning the Access Board: Architectural Barriers Act of 1968, section 502 of the Rehabilition Act of 1973, section 504 of the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. Washington, DC (1331 F St., N.W., Washington 20004-1111): The Board, 1994.

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Australia. Superannuation & Insurance & the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 (Report (Australia. Human Rights Commission)). Australian Government Publishing Service, 1986.

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Western Australia. Dept. of Consumer and Employment Protection. Consumer Protection Division., ed. Review of the Home Building Contracts Act 1991 : issues paper. Perth, W.A: Dept. of Consumer and Employment Protection, Consumer Protection Division, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Australia Insurance Act 1973"

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Attia, Adel, Ismail Siala, and Fathi Azribi. "General Oncology Care in Libya." In Cancer in the Arab World, 133–48. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7945-2_9.

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AbstractLibya is a large country, ranking at fourth in terms of area both in the Arab world and the African continent (https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/which-are-the-10-largest-countries-of-africa-by-size.html). It is part of the World Health Organization–Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO–EMRO) region. Oil production is the main source of income which has transformed the country massively over the past 50 years and the healthcare system is one of the sectors that have improved significantly. The Health Act No (106), issued in 1973, guarantees free health services to all Libyans, with inevitable challenges regarding the delivery of adequate and sustainable services. The health system in Libya is a mix between the public sector and the private sector. The private sector is basically depending on funding through insurance companies and self-pay. It is not yet adequately developed but is striving and rapidly growing in the last two decades.The oncology services are accessible and available for all Libyans, most of the diagnostic and therapeutic facilities are of good standards and the modern treatments like immunotherapy and targeted therapies are also available. However, there were periods when the health care system—in general—was struggling to meet the increasing demand on health services and has seen considerable challenges, especially over the past few years due to the conflict, political, and economic instability of the country. This chapter covers the oncology care in Libya, describing the current state, challenges, and future directions.
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"Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Australia)." In International Cargo Insurance, 664–71. Informa Law from Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315879284-28.

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Boutros, Andrew. "Investigations, Privacy and Data Security Issues." In From Baksheesh to Bribery, 593–604. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190232399.003.0022.

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When conducting internal investigations, it is critical to understand and consider various U.S. and international privacy and data protection laws. Some of the key laws investigators must consider include the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. In addition, Sarbanes-Oxley in the United States and privacy and data security regimes in other countries and regions, for example Australia and the European Union, contain critical data security provisions, of which internal investigators must be aware. This chapter also includes discussion of other laws pertaining to the subject, such as the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Communications Act, and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act.
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Baines, Donna, and Doug Young. "Austerity, Personalized Funding and the Degradation of Care Work: Comparing Scotland’s Self-Directed Support Policy and Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme." In Working in the Context of Austerity, 171–92. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529208672.003.0009.

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This chapter examines the employment impacts of two of the most significant pieces of social policy introduced in Scotland and Australia in the past decade, namely the Social Care (Self-Directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 and the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act in Australia. Launched in the era of austerity, both policies have been viewed as critical human rights-engaged legislation aimed at improving the social inclusion of marginalized and vulnerable populations. Drawing on qualitative interview data in Scotland and Australia, the chapter identifies a downward spiral in wages and conditions, and increased privatization, fragmentation, precarity, and insecurity, alongside serious concerns about quality of care. The analysis shows no winners, as may be characteristic of social policy introduced in the context of austerity and neoliberalism. Instead, the private-market focus and austere funding of these new policies places the human rights of service users in a zero-sum competition with the employment rights of care workers.
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Ervin, Karen. "Legal and Ethical Considerations in the Implementation of Electronic Health Records." In Healthcare Ethics and Training, 960–73. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2237-9.ch045.

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This chapter examines the literature of healthcare in the United States during the transitioning to electronic records. Key government legislation, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), which were part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Affordable Health Care Act, are reviewed. The review concentrates on patient privacy issues, how they have been addressed in these acts, and what recommendations for improvement have been found in the literature. A comparison of the adoption of electronic health records on a nationwide scale in three countries is included. England, Australia, and the United States are all embarking in and are at different stages of implementing nationwide electronic health database systems. The resources used in locating relevant literature were PubMed, Medline, Highwire Press, State Library of Pennsylvania, and Google Scholar databases.
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Ervin, Karen. "Legal and Ethical Considerations in the Implementation of Electronic Health Records." In E-Health and Telemedicine, 1432–44. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8756-1.ch072.

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This chapter examines the literature of healthcare in the United States during the transitioning to electronic records. Key government legislation, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), which were part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Affordable Health Care Act, are reviewed. The review concentrates on patient privacy issues, how they have been addressed in these acts, and what recommendations for improvement have been found in the literature. A comparison of the adoption of electronic health records on a nationwide scale in three countries is included. England, Australia, and the United States are all embarking in and are at different stages of implementing nationwide electronic health database systems. The resources used in locating relevant literature were PubMed, Medline, Highwire Press, State Library of Pennsylvania, and Google Scholar databases.
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Ervin, Karen. "Legal and Ethical Considerations in the Implementation of Electronic Health Records." In Cases on Electronic Records and Resource Management Implementation in Diverse Environments, 193–210. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4466-3.ch012.

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This chapter examines the literature of healthcare in the United States during the transitioning to electronic records. Key government legislation, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), which were part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Affordable Health Care Act, are reviewed. The review concentrates on patient privacy issues, how they have been addressed in these acts, and what recommendations for improvement have been found in the literature. A comparison of the adoption of electronic health records on a nationwide scale in three countries is included. England, Australia, and the United States are all embarking in and are at different stages of implementing nationwide electronic health database systems. The resources used in locating relevant literature were PubMed, Medline, Highwire Press, State Library of Pennsylvania, and Google Scholar databases.
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Huf, Benjamin. "The Experience of Labor in the Age of Reform." In Frontiers of Labor. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041839.003.0013.

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Over the past two decades, labor historians in America and Australia have deployed a range of new analytic tools to challenge older, essentialist interpretations of working-class politics in each country (rendering them anomalous compared to their European forebears) and better evaluate workers’ thoughts and actions on their “own terms.” This chapter continues this process of revision. It compares workers’ responses to major pieces of welfare reform in each country during the Depression era, not to assess them as agents of social change but for insight into their self-understanding as political subjects. Specifically, reactions to the contributory principle that underpinned both the Social Security Act in the United States and the National Insurance Act in Australia highlights the ways in which workers’ negotiation of institutional change might affirm or alter political self-understandings. American workers’ acceptance of the contributory principle accompanied the construction of a newfound “self-governance” and “consumer citizenship” among white, working men, whereas Australian workers’ hostility to the principle was couched in a pre-existing sense of “independence” and “self-reliance” undergirded by existing social and wage policies. A comparative approach thus stresses the historicity and contingency of working-class subjectivities even in two countries much alike for their “liberal hegemony” and helps open up the possibility of rethinking institutional forms and their relations with constituting new subjectivities in late-capitalist societies.
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Brown, Tegan P., Assaf Inbar, Thomas J. Duff, Patrick NJ Lane, and Gary J. Sheridan. "Indirect effects of climate change on forest structure alters fuel availability in wet Eucalypt forests." In Advances in Forest Fire Research 2022, 894–98. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2298-9_135.

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The direct effects of climate change are increasing the frequency of high-intensity fire events in many ecosystems across the globe, including wet Eucalypt forests of south-eastern (SE) Australia. Recurrent high-intensity fire can alter vegetation structure and composition, and the resultant alternative vegetation states may be more likely (positive feedback) or less likely (negative feedback) to burn again than the vegetation community replaced. These indirect effects of climate change have been reported for a range of different ecosystems across the globe. However, a common limitation to many empirical studies is the narrow temporal range of observations, often limited to a single fire season. In turn, this limits our understanding of the potential for vegetation-mediated indirect effects of climate change to generate positive or negative fire feedbacks across the range of climate conditions common to the region. In wet Eucalypt forests of SE Australia, dead fuel moisture content (FMC) is a key determinant of fire activity, and therefore a useful metric on which to quantify the potential for feedbacks across alternative forest states. To quantify potential for indirect effects of climate change to alter future fire activity, FMC was modelled in the open and at seven alternative forest states to wet Eucalypt forest using a process-based FMC model. The model was run using a long-term climate dataset spanning 1973 – 2020, which were transferred from macro- to microclimate values using forest structural properties derived from lidar. Hourly FMC outputs were summarised to fuel availability (FMC < 16% for one hour each day) to understand the potential for positive, negative of no feedbacks on potential fire activity. Mean annual FMC was significantly different between each alternative forest state across each of the 48 years of climate data – which act as a replicate for different climate conditions in our experimental design. By quantifying these differences using the metric of fuel availability, we have demonstrated that statistically significant differences in FMC translate into meaningful differences in the context of potential fire activity. Overall, the results show strong positive and negative feedbacks across the alternative forest states compared to the mature wet Eucalypt forest that they replaced, which were greater than age-related differences within the wet Eucalypt forest sites. Overall, our results support the hypothesis that indirect effects of climate change, acting through vegetation conversion to alternative forest states, have a substantial impact on the potential for future fire activity, with important implications for land and fire managers in this region.
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