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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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Frappell, Deidre E. "Anther culture of Australian wheats." Adelaide Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Department of Plant Science, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21655.
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Frappell, Deidre E. "Anther culture of Australian wheats." Thesis, Adelaide Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Department of Plant Science, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21655.
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Hutchins, Brett. "Bradman : representation, meaning and Australian culture /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16171.pdf.
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Mah, D. B., University of Western Sydney, and of Performance Fine Arts and Design Faculty. "Australian landscape : its relationship to culture and identity." THESIS_FPFAD_Mah_D.xml, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/257.
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This paper is an examination of the relationship of Australian landscape imagery to culture and identity. Visual and historical ideas in the Heidelberg School and more contemporary landscape work is assessed in relation to social history in the work of Ian Burn et al and the social history in the work of Anne Maree Willis. These two types of history are compared and conclusions are made about their similarities and differences in the articulation of identity and culture. It will be concluded that identity and culture are ideas and values which are recycled and relocated with the passage of time and that certain central themes reoccur in the construction of identity and cultureMaster of Visual Arts (Hons)
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Quick, Shayne P. "World series cricket, television and Australian culture /." The Ohio State University, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487683401442143.
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Whittington, Joshua, and n/a. "Constructing Australian soccer: the media's influence on soccer's position within the Australian culture." University of Canberra. Human & Biomedical Sciences, 2001. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050726.161835.
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Despite soccer being arguably the world's most popular sport, Australia's
national soccer competition has consistently failed to attract the prolonged
mainstream support that is given to the comparable rugby league, Australian
Rules football and rugby union competitions. This is a puzzling situation
considering Australia's British lineage, soccer's British origins and the
game's pre-eminent international status. Indeed, soccer's lowly position in
Australia is paradoxical given the sport's historically dominant status in
Britain and Australia's traditional adoption of Anglocentric culture. Most
research into the situation has pointed to the sport's inability to shake-off the
adverse effects of a lingering connection to post-World War II immigration
and certain ethnic communities. Soccer has, in the eyes of many, been unable
to access popular culture primarily because it has been viewed by the
mainstream as 'foreign' or inherently un-Australian. The sport has clashed
with traditional notions of national identity even though, historically, the
Australian men's national team has received relatively strong community
support.
Strangely though, there has been little attention paid to the role the mass
media has played in establishing, maintaining and even altering soccer's
position in relation to mainstream Australian culture. While some
researchers, such as Mosely and Hay, have criticised the media's coverage of
violence associated with soccer at the domestic level, there has been no
textual analysis of the mass media's role in soccer's marginal position in
Australian popular culture. Considering that the mass media is critical to the
development, reinforcement and maintenance of culture and has been
implicated in shaping entire professional sporting competitions to its own
ends, this is an area of considerable scholarly neglect. By undertaking a
textual analysis of the mainstream newspaper coverage given to two critical
periods in the history of the Australian men's soccer team it becomes clear
that there is marked divergence between the media's treatment of
internationally-based soccer and domestically-based soccer. This divergence
in coverage has contributed to the development of two distinct mediated
'realities' of soccer, which in turn has influenced the game's ambivalent
place in mainstream Australian culture. First, the media's control over the
news production process has given it the ability to send textual messages that
elevate soccer from its traditional cultural exclusion- and establish the
national team as part of the historically dominant Anglocentric mainstream
culture in Australia. This process has been inextricably linked to the
increasing ethnic diversity of Australia's population and the dominant
culture's efforts to maintain, despite this emerging plurality, the preeminence
of a traditional Australian 'way of life'. Second, the media's
messages have helped to maintain the ascendancy of the dominant culture by
establishing the characteristics of modern day corporatised sport as the
'normal' expectation for soccer's development in Australia. As a result,
soccer's future in Australia is deemed to be limited until it is able to conform
fully to the commercialised and professionalised mode of production that
defines the sport overseas.
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Singley, William Blake. "Recipes for a nation : cookbooks and Australian culture to 1939." Phd thesis, 2013, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109392.
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Cookbooks were ubiquitous texts found in almost every Australian home. They played an influential role that extended far beyond their original intended use in the kitchen. They codified culinary and domestic practices thereby also codifying wider cultural practices and were linked to transformations occurring in society at large. This thesis illuminates the many ways in which cookbooks reflected and influenced developments in Australian culture and society from the early colonial period until 1939. Whilst concentrating on culinary texts, this thesis does not primarily focus on food; instead it explores the many different ways that cookbooks can be read to further understand Australian culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through cookbooks we can chart the attitudes and responses to many of the changes that were occurring in Australian life and society. During a period of dramatic social change cookbooks were a constant and reassuring presence in the home. It was within the home that the foundations of Australian culture were laid. Cookbooks provide a unique perspective on issues such as gender, class, race, education, technology, and most importantly they hold a mirror up to Australia and show us what we thought of ourselves.
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West, Sharon Ann, and sharon west@rmit edu au. "A pictorial historical narrative of colonial Australian society: examining settler and indigenous culture." RMIT University. Education, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20091104.102857.
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This exegesis covers a period of research and art practice spanning from 2004 to 2007. I have combined visual arts with theoretical research practice that considers the notion of Australian colonialism via a post colonial construct. I have questioned how visual arts can convey various conditions relationships between settler and Indigenous cultures and in doing so have drawn on both personal art practice and the works of Australian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. These references demonstrate an ongoing examination of black and white relations portrayed in art, ranging from the drawings of convict artist, Joseph Lycett, through to the post federation stance of Margaret Preston, whose works expressed a renewal of interest in Indigenous culture. In applying a research approach, I have utilised a Narrative Enquiry methodology with a comparative paradigm within a Creative Research framework, which allows for various interpretations of my themes through both text and visuals. These applications also express a personal view that has been formed from family and workplace experiences. These include cultural influences from my settler family history and settler historical events in general juxtaposed with an accumulated knowledge base that has evolved from my personal and professional experience within Indigenous arts and education. I have also cited examples from Australian colonial and postcolonial art and literature that have influenced the development of my visual language. These include applying stylistic approaches that incorporate various artistic aspects of figuration and the Picturesque and literal thematic mode based on satire and social commentary. Overall, my research work also expresses an ongoing and evolving process that has been guided and influenced by current Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian postcolonial critical thinking and arts criticism, assisting within the development of my personal views and philosophies .This process has supported the formation of a belief system that I believe has matured throughout my research and art practices, providing a personal confidence to assert my own analytical stance on colonial history.
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MacCarthy, Martin. "Shooters : culture and consumption in Australian gun clubs." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/233.
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This thesis explores cultural aspects of consumer behaviour in Australian target shooting clubs. It is the culmination of nine years of ethnographic research commencing in 1999 and finishing in 2008. Initially one gun club, The Pine Valley Pistol Club was chosen for the indepth study; however as the result of an iterative methodological process three more clubs of different types and disciplines were included. This occurred after realising the closeted nature of this shy and restrictive enclave manifests in subtle sub-cultural differences between clubs and disciplines.
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Hart, Izumi. "Measurement of Rail Safety Culture - An Australian Sample." Thesis, Hart, Izumi (2013) Measurement of Rail Safety Culture - An Australian Sample. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2013. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/22907/.
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Safety culture and safety climate have been a focus of heated debate for over three decades. Despite the general recognition of their importance in safety performance, many disparate views exist in their definition and theoretical framework. While some researchers stress the importance of clear distinctions between safety culture and safety climate, others seem to take a more flexible view using the terms interchangeably. One of the dominant definitions describes safety culture as “the product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behaviour that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency of, an organisation’s health and safety management” (Health and Safety Commission, 1993). Safety culture is based on shared underlying beliefs, values and assumptions towards work and the organisation in general. On the other hand, safety climate is defined as organisational members’ shared perceptions about their work environments, safety policies and practices. Safety culture is regarded as stable and long-enduring, while safety climate can fluctuate in response to external factors (e.g. political and socio-economic change). Safety climate is regarded as a “snapshot” of the underlying safety culture. Proponents of the culture-climate distinction maintain that safety culture cannot be quantified and that safety climate can be used as a ‘surrogate’ measure of safety culture, for example, through self-report questionnaires. Other researchers take a more pragmatic approach and claim safety culture can also be measured. For the purpose of the current study, the definitional distinction is respected with the understanding that safety climate is an integral part of safety culture.
An industry-specific questionnaire was created, utilising retrospective and prospective approaches for evaluating safety perception and culture in the rail industry in Australia. This was achieved through: a) analysis of 104 rail safety accident investigation reports based on Reason’s Generic Error Modelling System; and b) adapting items from an instrument extensively used by a large multinational organisation for assessing the level of safety culture maturity based on Westrum’s typology. This facilitated a holistic approach, which addressed both technical/structural aspects and psychological aspects of safety as perceived by the employees. Six rail organisations in four jurisdictions across Australia participated, which yielded 241 responses. Factor analysis was conducted to identify safety perception and culture factors for further statistical analyses. Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA revealed significant differences among occupational groups in the evaluation of the organisations’ safety measures and culture. Predictive analyses were also conducted to investigate factors potentially associated with safety outcomes. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that when the effect of occupational group was controlled for, a safety perception factor External Factors and a safety culture factor Reactivity – Blame Culture were significant predictors of the experience of near misses. Furthermore, when the effect of occupational group, tenure and near miss frequency were controlled for, Workplace Stress and Reactivity – Blame Culture were significant predictors of the frequency of safety defect reporting. The predictive values of both retrospective items (predominantly safety climate pertaining to employees’ perception about technical/structural aspects of safety measures) and prospective items (safety culture) were both validated. The implications of the results are discussed, particularly in terms of cultivating leadership attributes which embrace organisational learning.
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Otsuji, Emi. "Performing transculturation : between/within 'Japanese' and 'Australian' language, identities and culture /." Electronic version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/598.
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University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Education.This thesis examines the construction processes of language, culture and identities in relation to both the macro level of society and culture, as well as the micro-individual level. It argues that there is a need to understand these constructions beyond discrete notions of language, identities and culture. The thesis mobilises performativity theory to explore how exposure to a variety of practices during the life trajectory has an impact on the construction and performance of language, identities and culture. It shows how a theory of performativity can provide a comprehensive account of the complex process of, and the relationships between, hybridisation (engagement in a range of cultural practices) and monolithication (nostalgic attachments to familiar practices). The thesis also suggests that the deployment of performativity theory with a focus on individual biography as well as larger social-cultural factors may fill a gap left in some other modes of analysis such as Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Conversation Analysis (CA). Analysing data from four workplaces in Australia, the study focuses on trans-institutional talk, namely casual conversation in which people from a variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds work together. Following the suggestion (Pennycook 2003; Luke 2002) that there is a need to shift away from the understanding that a particular language is attached to a particular nation, territory and ethnicity, the thesis shows how discrete ethnic and linguistic labels such as ‘Japanese’ and ‘English’ as well as notions of ‘code-switching’ and ‘bi-lingualism’ become problematic in the attempt to grasp the complexity of contemporary transcultural workplaces. The thesis also explores the potential agency of subjects at the convergence of various discourses through iterative linguistic and cultural performances. In summary, the thesis provides deeper insight into transcultural performances to show the links between idiosyncratic individual performances and the construction of transcultural linguistic, cultural phenomena within globalisation.
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Pavils, J. G. "ANZAC culture : a South Australian case study of Australian identity and commemoration of war dead /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09php3382.pdf.
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Versluys, Cornelia. "Creative interaction between Australian aboriginal spirituality and biblical spirituality." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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English, Rebecca M. "Internationalising Australian secondary education." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61416/1/Internationalising_Australian_Secondary_Education.pdf.
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This thesis presents the findings of a case study of international students who enrol in Australian secondary schools. Specifically, it focuses on the ways that staff in three schools and two international colleges position Eastern Asian international students through discourses of cultural difference. It draws together the Discourse Historical Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis with the work of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu. The study finds that groups of students are positioned positively or negatively depending on their relationship to the dominant discourses of the Australian school. Australian students, while rarely mentioned, were positioned positively. By contrast, the Eastern Asian international students were positioned negatively in relation to the privileged discourses of Australian schooling. These discourses reflected the cultural capital that was valued in the schools. In particular, the cultural capital of active and willing engagement in competitive sports and being rough, rugged and an ‘ocker’ were privileged at the schools. International students from Papua New Guinea, and a few Eastern Asian students who behaved as ockers, were positioned positively because they realised cultural capital that was valued at the schools. By contrast, the students who were unable to be positioned through these discourses, because they did not realise cultural capital that was valued, were not viewed favourably. As a result, the data showed that there was a hierarchy of positions at the schools that were constructed in staff accounts. The analysis of data suggests that only some students are positioned favourably in Australian schools. The students who were already able to construct privileged Australian school discourses were positioned positively. The data suggest that the majority of the Eastern Asian students were represented through negative discourses because they did not realise cultural capital that was valued at the schools. Findings of this study may assist schools to identify international students who may experience their Australian school education negatively. The findings may also contribute to assisting staff to better engage with international students.
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Thompson, Jay. "Sex and power in Australian writing during the Culture Wars, 1993-1997 /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/6714.
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I address a selection of texts published in Australia between 1993 and 1997 which engage with feminist debates about sex and power. These texts are important, I argue, because they signpost the historical moment in which the culture wars and globalisation gained force in Australia. A key word in this thesis is ‘framing’. The debates which my texts engage with have (much like the culture wars in general) commonly been framed as conflicts between polarised political factions. These political factions have, in turn, been framed in terms of generations; that is, an ‘older’ feminism is pitted against a ‘newer’ feminism. Each generation of feminists supposedly holds quite different views about sex. I argue that my texts actually provide an insight into how various feminist perspectives on sex diverge and intersect with each other, as well as with certain New Right discourses about sex. My selected texts also suggest how the printed text has helped transport feminism within and outside AustraliaMy texts fit into two broad genres, fiction and scholarly non-fiction. The texts are: Helen Garner’s The First Stone (1995), Sheila Jeffreys’ The Lesbian Heresy (1993), Catharine Lumby’s Bad Girls (1997), Linda Jaivin’s Eat Me (1995) and Justine Ettler’s The River Ophelia (1995). I engage with various critical responses to these texts, including reviews, essays and interviews with the authors. I draw also from a range of theoretical sources. These include analyses of the culture wars by the American theorist Lillian S. Robinson and the Australian scholars McKenzie Wark, David McKnight and Mark Davis. Davis has provided a useful overview of how the metaphor of ‘generational conflict’ circulated in Australian culture during the 1990s. I draw on Arjun Appadurai’s model of “global cultural flows” and Ann Curthoys’ history of feminism in Australia. I engage with research into the increasingly ‘globalised’ nature of Australian writing, as well as a number of feminist works on the relationship between sex and power
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Falconer, Boyd Travis School of Aviation UNSW. "Attitudes to safety and organisational culture in Australian military aviation." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Aviation, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/25751.
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This thesis describes original research that examines the extent to which organisational culture, and psychosocial aspects specifically, relate to individuals??? ???normal??? performance within Australian Defence Force (ADF) aviation. The primary rationale for the research relates to the ???safety record??? of ADF aviation, whereby more than fifty ???peace time??? fatalities have occurred in ADF aviation accidents since 1990 and many of these have links to organisational culture attributes. The secondary rationale relates to a more general perspective: previous research identifies human functioning in military aviation ??? more than any other aviation domain ??? as being dependent upon psychosocial attributes including interpersonal collaboration, communication and coordination. However, the depth to which such qualities impact the safety of a sociotechnical system remains substantially uncharted. This thesis firstly examines both scientific and Australian military literature on organisational behaviour, culture and human factors. Subsequently, it describes the design and implementation of a new 45-item questionnaire ??? the Australian Defence Force Aviation Questionnaire (ADFAQ). More than four hundred ADF aircrew and engineers completed the ADFAQ. The data analysis involved quantitative and qualitative consideration of survey responses and comparisons between numerous demographic criteria. Following this, the thesis describes the design and implementation of an interview study that was designed to both cross-examine key ADFAQ results and explore more deeply other issues that were only superficially identified by the (largely psychometric) composition of the ADFAQ. The research results offer three main contributions to scientific knowledge. These relate to: (1) the efficacy of triangulated and contextualised methodology in building an understanding of organisational culture; (2) the nature of the safety culture concept and its relationship with organisational culture; and (3) rank-based homogeneity of attitudes. This research shows that survey methodologies are not a panacea, but they can illuminate the nature of attitudes to safety and provide empirical guidance for other methods to explore more deeply the cultural roots of such attitudes and associated behaviours.
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Cavanagh, Robert F. "The culture and improvement of Western Australian senior secondary schools." Curtin University of Technology, Faculty of Education, 1997. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=11830.
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The operation and development of Western Australian senior secondary schools is based upon traditional theories of organisational management and school administration. The study sought to explore alternative conceptions of the nature of schools and the processes by which they can be improved.Examination of research on school effectiveness revealed that student learning outcomes were consequential on the values and norms of the staff of schools. These values and norms constitute the culture of a school and govern the professional activity of teachers. School culture can be contrasted with the formal school organisation in which the work of teachers is prescribed by explicit rules and regulations. Viewing schools from a cultural rather than organisational perspective requires conceptualising the school as a learning community. A learning community is bonded together by common expectations about the roles of teachers and the learning of students. The predominant consideration is the educative mission of the school and not the requirements of the formal organisation. Organisational development is viewed as cultural transformation. The improvement of the school is facilitated by the growth of a school culture which is supportive of the professional needs of teachers and the educative needs of students.The study utilised a developmental mixed-method research approach to investigate the nature, temporal stability and improvement of the culture of local senior secondary schools.A quantitative instrument was developed to measure aspects of school culture identified in the school effectiveness literature. The School Cultural Elements Questionnaire (SCEQ) provided a measure of the level of teacher efficacy, emphasis on learning, collegiality, collaboration, shared planning and transformational leadership in local schools. The SCEQ data were supplemented by data from a ++stratified sample interview programme in two schools. Empirical findings indicated school culture was internally dynamic, in interaction with its external environment and capable of changing. Interview data provided examples of internal and external influences on the maintenance, growth and decline of school culture.The results of the empirical phases of the study were applied in the development of a model of school culture, the School Improvement Model of School Culture. The model contained six cultural constructs which are characteristic of school culture and the processes by which it can be transformed. The model was then applied in a detailed examination of practical and theoretical aspects of Western Australian systemic school improvement initiatives. The effectiveness of these initiatives was explained as a consequence of implementation strategies and their interaction with the prevailing school culture.The study is important for school level personnel, school improvement programme designers and educational researchers. In particular, the School Improvement Model of School Culture provides a significant alternative conception of the nature of schools and the processes by which they improve.
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Cavanagh, Robert. "The culture and improvement of Western Australian senior secondary schools." Thesis, Curtin University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2189.
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The operation and development of Western Australian senior secondary schools is based upon traditional theories of organisational management and school administration. The study sought to explore alternative conceptions of the nature of schools and the processes by which they can be improved.Examination of research on school effectiveness revealed that student learning outcomes were consequential on the values and norms of the staff of schools. These values and norms constitute the culture of a school and govern the professional activity of teachers. School culture can be contrasted with the formal school organisation in which the work of teachers is prescribed by explicit rules and regulations. Viewing schools from a cultural rather than organisational perspective requires conceptualising the school as a learning community. A learning community is bonded together by common expectations about the roles of teachers and the learning of students. The predominant consideration is the educative mission of the school and not the requirements of the formal organisation. Organisational development is viewed as cultural transformation. The improvement of the school is facilitated by the growth of a school culture which is supportive of the professional needs of teachers and the educative needs of students.The study utilised a developmental mixed-method research approach to investigate the nature, temporal stability and improvement of the culture of local senior secondary schools.A quantitative instrument was developed to measure aspects of school culture identified in the school effectiveness literature. The School Cultural Elements Questionnaire (SCEQ) provided a measure of the level of teacher efficacy, emphasis on learning, collegiality, collaboration, shared planning and transformational leadership in local schools. The SCEQ data were supplemented by data from a stratified sample interview programme in two schools. Empirical findings indicated school culture was internally dynamic, in interaction with its external environment and capable of changing. Interview data provided examples of internal and external influences on the maintenance, growth and decline of school culture.The results of the empirical phases of the study were applied in the development of a model of school culture, the School Improvement Model of School Culture. The model contained six cultural constructs which are characteristic of school culture and the processes by which it can be transformed. The model was then applied in a detailed examination of practical and theoretical aspects of Western Australian systemic school improvement initiatives. The effectiveness of these initiatives was explained as a consequence of implementation strategies and their interaction with the prevailing school culture.The study is important for school level personnel, school improvement programme designers and educational researchers. In particular, the School Improvement Model of School Culture provides a significant alternative conception of the nature of schools and the processes by which they improve.
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Schuler, Margaret Louise. "The culture of the olympic games from Australian athletes' perspectives." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15833/1/Margaret_Schuler_Thesis.pdf.
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Specifically, this study is about the effects of culture, organisational culture and postmodernism on the Olympic Games and the perceptions of Australian Olympic athletes, both past and present and their understanding of the culture of the Olympic Games. The focus of this research examines the culture of the Olympic Games and provides insights into the background of the Games from Australian athlete's perspective. The study explores this theme further in order to understand those areas of culture which Australian athletes rarely get the opportunity to talk about and thereby offers the occasion to open new avenues for research into the culture of organisations, such as the International Olympic Committee. Furthermore, the thesis probes into the culture of the Olympic Games using the theoretical structures of Organisational Culture and Postmodernism to provide a better understanding and knowledge base for the discipline. Also, the research reports upon the athlete's perspectives in the light of the two previous theoretical structures. In spite of these previous points, little is known regarding the cultural aspects of the Olympic Games and even less is known of the culture of the Olympic Games from the athletes' perspective. Participants in an Olympic Games - athletes, officials, dignitaries, press, technicians and support personnel all experience the cultural mix of individuals at the Games first hand. However, it would certainly be of importance to understand how athletes communicate and relate to each other and how all participants within the Olympic Games organisation relate and communicate with each other. However, there is a need to acknowledge that politics exists within the Olympic Games and that its existence should be brought out of the background and placed on the agenda so that political action within the Games can be avoided in order that they might function more effectively and at a higher standard. A knowledge of culture and politics and the pitfalls and problems associated with change in the Olympic Games would support the building between individual athletes rather than allow conflict and competition to occur. This implies that, if individuals can work together without having to consider politics, then the system will benefit.
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Schuler, Margaret Louise. "The Culture of the Olympic Games from Australian Athletes' Perspectives." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15833/.
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Specifically, this study is about the effects of culture, organisational culture and postmodernism on the Olympic Games and the perceptions of Australian Olympic athletes, both past and present and their understanding of the culture of the Olympic Games. The focus of this research examines the culture of the Olympic Games and provides insights into the background of the Games from Australian athlete's perspective. The study explores this theme further in order to understand those areas of culture which Australian athletes rarely get the opportunity to talk about and thereby offers the occasion to open new avenues for research into the culture of organisations, such as the International Olympic Committee. Furthermore, the thesis probes into the culture of the Olympic Games using the theoretical structures of Organisational Culture and Postmodernism to provide a better understanding and knowledge base for the discipline. Also, the research reports upon the athlete's perspectives in the light of the two previous theoretical structures. In spite of these previous points, little is known regarding the cultural aspects of the Olympic Games and even less is known of the culture of the Olympic Games from the athletes' perspective. Participants in an Olympic Games - athletes, officials, dignitaries, press, technicians and support personnel all experience the cultural mix of individuals at the Games first hand. However, it would certainly be of importance to understand how athletes communicate and relate to each other and how all participants within the Olympic Games organisation relate and communicate with each other. However, there is a need to acknowledge that politics exists within the Olympic Games and that its existence should be brought out of the background and placed on the agenda so that political action within the Games can be avoided in order that they might function more effectively and at a higher standard. A knowledge of culture and politics and the pitfalls and problems associated with change in the Olympic Games would support the building between individual athletes rather than allow conflict and competition to occur. This implies that, if individuals can work together without having to consider politics, then the system will benefit.
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Slay, Jill. "Culture and conceptualisations of nature : an interpretive analysis of Australian and Chinese perspectives." Thesis, Curtin University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2290.
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Issues of culture and worldview and their impact on students' learning of science have become increasingly important to science teachers. This study details work that I carried out in the period 1995-1999 which examined the effect of culture on students' conceptualisations of nature. It is framed as the creation of my own 'living educational theory' as I, a teacher-researcher, dealt with what I perceived were the cultural inequities experienced by students in my classroom. I carried out my first study with a group of seven rural high school students in the Far North of Queensland in Australia, where I was teaching in 1995. Later, in two visits to China, I was able to carry out the same sort of research with a group of seven Chinese college students in Jinan, Shandong Province, PRC, largely using the Chinese language. I used a naturalistic inquiry approach and a semi-structured interview technique to determine students' conceptualisations of nature. I have chosen to embed the results of these two studies within narratives that describe my experiences in the two cultures as I carried out my research. For each culture, I have also developed an epic description of the role of science from the literature and history of that culture. From my three sources of data, interview, narrative and historical description, I have made knowledge claims about the students' beliefs about the natural world.My research findings are ironic to me since they are diametrically opposite to what I had expected. Initially I had believed that Mainland Chinese students would possess a world view full of alternative perspectives to that of Western school science. My research indicates however that students in rural Mainland China hold a traditional and integrated modem Western scientific world view. Although some researchers in other South-East Asian communities propose alternative frameworks for the teaching of science, frameworks that are actually 'pre-modern' these do not appear to be appropriate for Mainland Chinese students. I had expected that the Australian students would bring a modern Western scientific world view to the science classroom. However, the group of rural Western students that I interviewed displayed a world view that is not recognisable as that of modern Western science. Postmodernism and other cultural and social effects appear to have influenced them to such an extent that some have clearly not 'crossed the border' to a modern Western scientific world view. This thesis reflects my desire to overcome the perceived problem of inequity in my own teaching. The knowledge claims made here give some indication as to how I may improve my own practice. A return to the classroom will allow me to continue the cycle of action and reflection by which I can validate, develop and refine my living educational theory.
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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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Slay, Jill. "Culture and conceptualisations of nature : an interpretive analysis of Australian and Chinese perspectives." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2000. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=10025.
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Issues of culture and worldview and their impact on students' learning of science have become increasingly important to science teachers. This study details work that I carried out in the period 1995-1999 which examined the effect of culture on students' conceptualisations of nature. It is framed as the creation of my own 'living educational theory' as I, a teacher-researcher, dealt with what I perceived were the cultural inequities experienced by students in my classroom. I carried out my first study with a group of seven rural high school students in the Far North of Queensland in Australia, where I was teaching in 1995. Later, in two visits to China, I was able to carry out the same sort of research with a group of seven Chinese college students in Jinan, Shandong Province, PRC, largely using the Chinese language. I used a naturalistic inquiry approach and a semi-structured interview technique to determine students' conceptualisations of nature. I have chosen to embed the results of these two studies within narratives that describe my experiences in the two cultures as I carried out my research. For each culture, I have also developed an epic description of the role of science from the literature and history of that culture. From my three sources of data, interview, narrative and historical description, I have made knowledge claims about the students' beliefs about the natural world.My research findings are ironic to me since they are diametrically opposite to what I had expected. Initially I had believed that Mainland Chinese students would possess a world view full of alternative perspectives to that of Western school science. My research indicates however that students in rural Mainland China hold a traditional and integrated modem Western scientific world view. Although some researchers in other South-East Asian communities propose alternative frameworks for ++the teaching of science, frameworks that are actually 'pre-modern' these do not appear to be appropriate for Mainland Chinese students. I had expected that the Australian students would bring a modern Western scientific world view to the science classroom. However, the group of rural Western students that I interviewed displayed a world view that is not recognisable as that of modern Western science. Postmodernism and other cultural and social effects appear to have influenced them to such an extent that some have clearly not 'crossed the border' to a modern Western scientific world view. This thesis reflects my desire to overcome the perceived problem of inequity in my own teaching. The knowledge claims made here give some indication as to how I may improve my own practice. A return to the classroom will allow me to continue the cycle of action and reflection by which I can validate, develop and refine my living educational theory.
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Partington, Geoffrey. "The significant past in Australian thought : some studies in nineteenth century Australian thought and its British background." Title page, preface and contents only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09php2732.pdf.
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Gibson, Lorraine Douglas. "Articulating culture(s) being black in Wilcannia /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/70724.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Department of Anthropology, 2006.Bibliography: p. 257-276.
Introduction: coming to Wilcannia -- Wilcannia: plenty of Aborigines, but no culture -- Who you is? -- Cultural values: ambivalences and ambiguities -- Praise, success and opportunity -- "Art an' culture: the two main things, right?" -- Big Murray Butcher: "We still doin' it" -- Granny Moisey's baby: the art of Badger Bates -- Epilogue.
Dominant society discourses and images have long depicted the Aboriginal people of the town of Wilcannia in far Western New South Wales as having no 'culture'. In asking what this means and how this situation might have come about, the thesis seeks to respond through an ethnographic exploration of these discourses and images. The work explores problematic and polemic dominant society assumptions regarding 'culture' and 'Aboriginal culture', their synonyms and their effects. The work offers Aboriginal counter-discourses to the claim of most white locals and dominant culture that the Aboriginal people of Wilcannia have no culture. In so doing the work presents reflexive notions about 'culture' as verbalised and practiced, as well as providing an ethnography of how culture is more tacitly lived. -- Broadly, the thesis looks at what it is to be Aboriginal in Wilcannia from both white and black perspectives. The overarching concern of this thesis is a desire to unpack what it means to be black in Wilcannia. The thesis is primarily about the competing values and points of view within and between cultures, the ways in which Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people tacitly and reflexively express and interpret difference, and the ambivalence and ambiguity that come to bear in these interactions and experiences. This thesis demonstrates how ideas and actions pertaining to 'race' and 'culture' operate in tandem through an exploration of values and practices relating to 'work', 'productivity', 'success', 'opportunity' and the domain of 'art'. These themes are used as vehicles to understanding the 'on the ground' effects and affects of cultural perceptions and difference. They serve also to demonstrate the ambiguity and ambivalence that is experienced as well as being brought to bear upon relationships which implicitly and explicitly are concerned with, and concern themselves with difference.
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Lammervo, Tiina. "Language and culture contact and attitudes among first generation Australian Finns /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe.pdf.
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Cook, John S. "Culture, control and accountability in community enterprises among the Tiwi." Master's thesis, Northern Territory University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/268567.
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This study reviews factors which have been found to affect the operation of Aboriginal enterprises in Australia and discuss these in relation to three empirical case studies of Aboriginal community enterprises located at Nguiu, Bathurst Island. In order to provide a theoretical framework within which valid questions concerning Aboriginal management might be formulated, what is generally known regarding the management and organisational development of Aboriginal enterprises was first discussed. Factors to do with historical and contemporary operations, Aboriginal attributes and the high degree of non-Aboriginal control over Aboriginal organisations were seen to be of major importance in understanding the problems for Aboriginal management and
organisational development Importantly, the integrated social and economic life in communities appears to have a major impact on the success or failure of enterprise operations.
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Akehurst, Douglas Damien. ""Formed of my dust" toward an Australian contextual theology /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Lane, Tim. "Information security management in Australian universities : an exploratory analysis." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2007. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16486/1/Tim_Lane_Thesis.pdf.
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Australian Universities increasingly rely on Information Technology (IT) systems for essential business operations, including administration, teaching, learning and research. Applying information security to university IT systems is strategically important to maintaining overall business continuity in universities. However, the process of effectively implementing information security management in the university sector is challenging for security practitioners. University environments consist of a cultural mix of academic freedoms, student needs and compliance mandates. Consequently, unique and divergent demands are placed on securing and accessing university IT systems. This research undertook a qualitative based exploratory analysis of information security management in Australian universities. The aims and objectives of the research (represented as the research questions) were to determine:
1) What is the current status of information security management practices in the Australian university sector?
2) What are the key issues and influencing factors surrounding the effectiveness of information security management practices?
3) How could improvements in information security management be achieved?
The findings from the research led to a comprehensive and insightful examination of the current status, issues and challenges facing information security practitioners in Australian universities. The research findings culminated in the development of a Security Practitioner's Management Model. An essential aim of the model is to assist security practitioners to successfully implement and progress information security in the Australian university environment. The research improves current understanding of information security issues and reinforces the pertinence of information security management as a strategically important business function for Australian universities.
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Lane, Tim. "Information security management in Australian universities : an exploratory analysis." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16486/.
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Australian Universities increasingly rely on Information Technology (IT) systems for essential business operations, including administration, teaching, learning and research. Applying information security to university IT systems is strategically important to maintaining overall business continuity in universities. However, the process of effectively implementing information security management in the university sector is challenging for security practitioners. University environments consist of a cultural mix of academic freedoms, student needs and compliance mandates. Consequently, unique and divergent demands are placed on securing and accessing university IT systems. This research undertook a qualitative based exploratory analysis of information security management in Australian universities. The aims and objectives of the research (represented as the research questions) were to determine: 1) What is the current status of information security management practices in the Australian university sector? 2) What are the key issues and influencing factors surrounding the effectiveness of information security management practices? 3) How could improvements in information security management be achieved? The findings from the research led to a comprehensive and insightful examination of the current status, issues and challenges facing information security practitioners in Australian universities. The research findings culminated in the development of a Security Practitioner's Management Model. An essential aim of the model is to assist security practitioners to successfully implement and progress information security in the Australian university environment. The research improves current understanding of information security issues and reinforces the pertinence of information security management as a strategically important business function for Australian universities.
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Ham, Rosalie, and rosalieh@optusnet com au. "Representations of men and women of the bush in Australian fiction." RMIT University. Creative Media, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080110.100527.
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At the heart of this exegesis is the city-bush gap and the rivalry and stereotypes that gap has generated. I acknowledge how and why our national identity evolved from the writing of the 1890s but I argue that most current artists, particularly novelists, have failed to incorporate the ongoing cultural, societal and industrial changes that have occurred since, particularly in the last thirty years. I assert that the majority of artists still refer to and draw inspiration from established, inaccurate myths and stereotypes rather than the bush and Australian characters of today. Through examining three texts, Kate Grenville's The Idea of Perfection (Picador, Sydney, 1999), Christos Tsiolkas's Loaded (Random House, Sydney, 1995) and Silences Long Gone (Picador, Sydney, 1998) by Anson Cameron, I also point out how most artists in general have failed to keep pace with changes in the bush city cross-culture. My exegesis attempts to give an account of some deficiencies in contemporary Australian literature. In the creative component of this project, Summer at Mount Hope (Duffy and Snellgrove, Sydney, 2005), I write, as did Anson Cameron in his book, Silences Long Gone, (Pan Macmillan, 1998) of a bush (in 1894) where city and bush rely on each other and technology pushes into the bush uniting city and bush, thus enhancing the economy, the cross cultural interdependence and advancing the commonality between the two. I replace stereotypical characters with less predictable characters whose traits sit easily in either bush or city culture and skew the Traditionalist role of bush and city.
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Leavy, Brett A. "Australian Aboriginal virtual heritage." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/72790/1/Brett_Leavy_Thesis.pdf.
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Garth, Alan, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "A Study of an Australian Rural Music Festival." Deakin University. School of Australian and International Studies, 2000. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040617.152028.
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A social and cultural study of the development of the Port Fairy Folk Festival within the context of the current revival of folk music in Australia. The folk music movement is a social and cultural phenomenon, as well as a musical event.
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Abood, Paula School of English UNSW. "The Arab as spectacle: race, gender and representation in Australian popular culture." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/29501.
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This thesis, The Arab as Spectacle, is about representation. It is about the limits and the contradictions of representation. It is about the burden and the violence of representation. It is about the persistence of Orientalism and how the hierarchies of race and gender intersect with discourses on sexuality to inform and inflect the representation of Arabs in contemporary literary and media spheres of Australian popular culture. This thesis comprises two sections. Part One is a research dissertation that explores the strategies, devices and parameters of the representation of Arabic culture and identities through close readings of specific texts. This theoretical project inaugurates the second part of my study which takes up the question of the contradictions of representation through a collection of ficto-critical writings. Through these satirical narratives, I seek to expose and disrupt the hegemony of Orientalist representations that proliferate in English language literature and news media by bringing into focus the inherent paradox of representation, working within and against Orientalist representational traditions. In so doing, it is not my aim to 'correct' the Orientalist logic and imagery that I theorise in the first part of this thesis, but rather to undermine the spurious truth-value of Orientalist representations by deploying the literary weapons of satire, parody and irony. In this way, my fiction works to engage creatively and critically with the very tropes that I theorise in my research dissertation.
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Cahill, Shane. ""The Friendly Games"? the Melbourne Olympic Games in Australian culture, 1946-1956 /." Connect to this title online, 1989. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2401.
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Melbourne is making a concerted bid to obtain the centenary 1996 Olympic Games. While much of its bid is occupied with explanations of the city’s ability to meet the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) requirements, it is underpinned by a common theme that the city possesses a unique quality of “Friendliness”. (For complete abstract open document)
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Miller, Benjamin Ian English Media & Performing Arts Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "The Fantasy of Whiteness: Blackness and Aboriginality in American and Australian Culture." Awarded By:University of New South Wales. English, Media, & Performing Arts, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44584.
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This dissertation argues that a fantasy of white authority was articulated and disseminated through the representations of blackness and Aboriginality in nineteenth-century American and Australian theatre, and that this fantasy influenced the representation of Aboriginality in twentieth-century Australian culture. The fantasy of whiteness refers to the habitually enacted and environmentally entrenched assumption that white people can and should superintend the cultural representation of Otherness. This argument is presented in three parts. Part One examines the complex ways in which white anxieties and concerns were expressed through discourses of blackness in nineteenth-century American blackface entertainment. Part Two examines the various transnational discursive connections enabled by American and Australian blackface entertainments in Australia during the nineteenth century. Part Three examines the legacy of nineteenth-century blackface entertainment in twentieth-century Australian culture. Overall, this dissertation investigates some of the fragmentary histories and stories about Otherness that coalesce within Australian culture. This examination suggests that representations of Aboriginality in Australian culture are influenced and manipulated by whiteness in ways that seek to entrench and protect white cultural authority. Even today, a phantasmal whiteness is often present within cultural representations of Aboriginality.
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Dougal, Josephine Kathleen. "Nation, culture and family : identity in a Scottish/Australian popular song tradition." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/596.
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This study arose out of an interest in my own family’s Scottish song traditions and a desire to understand them within a wider cultural context. Its purpose is to create a critical account of music and migrant identity that brings insights from folklore studies, cultural studies, and migration and diaspora studies together to shed light on transcultural identity formation and maintenance. More specifically, it seeks to ‘discover’ an explanation for why and how the cultural resources/traditions that migrants bring with them continue to have force in migrant family life. It examines the complex of ways in which homeland and hereland are implicated in migrant identities, the role of cultural tradition and family in the migrant experience, and their part in shaping migrant memories, identities and concepts of ‘home’.In examining the salience of homeland culture in migrant family life, this study addresses one of the core questions in migration theory and research, that is, why and how migrants maintain connections to their homeland.1 Much of the migration theory and research that addresses this question focuses on the role of migrant communities and institutions, ethnic networks, and transnational social, economic and political ties, often stressing the connections between kinship groups and families across borders. Some of this work, in the fields of transnational migration and diaspora studies, has placed greater emphasis on the role of ‘imagined’ connections, and on the ways in which migrants make symbolic connections to a sense of homeland as a means of supporting new identities.2 It is these symbolic connections with homeland, rather than the social, political and economic that this study seeks to investigate. This investigation will focus on music as a source of symbolic connections to homeland, and its role in the construction of family and migrant identity.The study posits that national/cultural identity is not determined by membership, nor pervasive cultural constructions of identity, but is rather a process in which people draw upon, appropriate and customise these discourses in an active process of self-making. Its guiding proposition is that national/cultural identity arises in the intersection between the ‘nation’ and the individual, between the ‘public’ and ‘private’, and is mediated by the particular social and cultural contexts in which people operate - migration being one such context.The ways in which the ‘nation’ comes to have personal relevance at the local level is explored through the interchanges between public song traditions and localised forms of song tradition. The focus of the thesis is on the role of Scottish song culture in constructing representations of national/cultural identity, and how such cultural constructions, their modes of production and dissemination interact with local practices and meanings, and how these dynamics play out in the construction of migrant cultural identity.In pointing to how the ‘nation’ is made local in the context of migration, the study challenges the idea that cultural traditions are backward looking and regressive, and frozen in time in diaspora, arguing instead that tradition and the past are actively deployed as key cultural strategies in migrants’ creation of home and belonging. In doing so, it makes a case for how collective ideas of nation are appropriated and customised at the local level, and how the cultural construction of Scottishness in song, deployed in a Scottish/Australian migrant family, acted as important referents to their identity and gave shape and meaning to their formulations of Scottish/Australian identity.
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Parisi, Ann Margaret. "Investigation of Secondary Metabolite Production in Selected Australian Native Species via Plant Cell Suspension Culture." Thesis, Griffith University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366129.
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Natural products and natural-product-derived substances comprised about
35% of the total pharmaceuticals market volume of US$230 billion in 1996
(Wessjohann, 2000). The success of natural-based drugs can be attributed to
nature’s ability to induce effects by chemical means and many of these chemicals
are able to pass species boundaries to cause an effect. Since plant secondary
metabolites have evolved in the interaction with other organisms, many of them
have interesting biological or therapeutical activities that are useful to man. In
addition to their intriguing chemistry a number of these compounds are
economically important, serving as pharmaceuticals, aromatics, fragrances,
stimulants, colours and pesticides.
Plant cell culture is viewed as a potential means of producing useful plant
products without the inherent problems associated with conventional agriculture.
Undifferentiated cell suspension cultures have the potential to produce varied
secondary metabolites by the alteration of culture conditions or addition of
chemicals to elicit expression of different metabolic pathways. Suitable substrate
compounds may be biotransformed to a desired product using plant cell cultures.
Biotransformation can produce compounds that can then be replicated by
synthetic means or produce novel compounds that have previously not been
identified or recognised as important. This thesis describes the initiation of plant
suspension cultures for the purposes of examining the production of secondary
metabolites of selected Australian native rainforest species.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Bannerman, Colin, and n/a. "Print media and the development of an Australian culture of food and eating c. 1850 to c. 1920 : the evidence from newspapers, periodical journals and cookery literature." University of Canberra. School of Creative Communication & Culture Studies, 2001. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060606.155602.
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Chapter 1 considers culture as a product of communication. The central problem
is to understand how an array of influencing factors such as food supply, technology
and physical and intellectual environment are represented, stored and shared as 'food
culture'. It considers mechanisms by which culture might be transmitted from one
location to another including the relevance of historical literature and Louis Hartz's
notion of Australia as a 'cultural fragment' cast off from the Old World. Chapter 2
shows that the Australian literature represents a discourse in which information about
various aspects of feeding was gathered from local and overseas sources and circulated
for instruction, entertainment and use. The discourse and the means of conducting it
were products of their age. Public participation was evident in the correspondence
columns of weekly newspapers and in 'contributory' cookery books. The discourse
drew on various themes that were prominent in other Western discourses and reflected
social and moral values of the times. It evidenced beliefs that the manner of a society's
feeding demonstrates the extent of its' civilisation and that refinement of food and
feeding contributes to the improvement of society. It also reflected nationalist sentiment
and demonstrated some attempts to develop a distinctive Australian cuisine. Chapter 3
supports these claims with detailed analysis of recipes published in a sample of journals
and cookery books. Chapter 4 describes five instances which illustrate in more depth the
influence of print media in culture development. The first two show deliberate use of
print media to reform cookery practice. The third shows the role of print in cookery
education, suggesting an alternative mechanism by which cookery in Australia retained
its British character. The fourth tests the idea that the transmission of food and science
cultural influences from the Old World to the New followed broadly similar paths and
questions the origins of the domestic science movement. The fifth examines commercial
influences exerted through print media and notes that food production, processing and
distribution enterprise was to become increasingly influential as Australia (and other
countries) turned to industrial feeding. The thesis concludes with some reflections on
the processes of culture formation and the role of mass communications. It suggests that
food culture is both an expression of conceptions of character and identity and a
formative influence on them, that the engine of cultural change has been industrial
progress and, finally, that the communication system which supports and enriches food
culture may also tend to undermine it.
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Ismail, Jumiati. "Challenges in international business communication : a study of language, culture and inter-cultural issues in Malaysian-Australian business discourse." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Education, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0107.
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This study aims to explore communication deviances and strategies in the negotiation discourse of Malaysian-Australian business encounters, from both a linguistic and nonlinguistic perspective. Specifically, it sees miscommunications/deviances as factors that may hinder the business communication process and prevent the negotiators from achieving their objectives. The study also focuses on strategies, or those discourse skills which promote successful business negotiation. The research method is based on the analysis of discourse generated from initial 'perception' interviews, business meetings, and post-meeting 'follow-up' interviews. The research involved a cross-section of Malaysian and Australian business people from various industries; such as tourism, information technology, hospitality and financial services. The initial 'perception' interviews were intended to gather data on the prior experiences of Malaysian and Australian businesspeople, both in terms of the reported difficulties and strengths in their business interactions and dealings in Western Australia. In the second stage of the analysis, the deviances which signalled miscommunication in the negotiation were identified in the recorded meeting data. Also identified were the strategies which were used by the negotiators to increase the likelihood that their goals will be achieved. The objective of the research was then to interpret why these strategies were being used, and their influence on the negotiation process. From the data a pattern emerged in the way that deviance occurred, and the way that strategies were being performed. This has made it possible to group deviance and strategies and present the findings thematically. Altogether, five themes identified, these were: Management of topics, Building rapport; Ethical business conduct; Building recognition; Styles in business practice. The study has shown that business communication discourse reflects the embedded culture of its speakers. Topic management was also found to play an important role in the business meetings as it enabled the participants to more effectively lead their discussion towards its intended goal. Both the deviance and strategies have been managed by the business negotiators in the way they select the appropriate topic categories in order to effectively maintain the discussion throughout the meeting.
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Lattas, Andrew. "The new panopticon : newspaper discourse and the rationalisation of society and culture in New South Wales, 1803-1830 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phl364.pdf.
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Agnew, Richard Quentin, and n/a. "The Australian Customs Service : towards organisational 'turnaround'." University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 1999. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060529.172334.
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For the past decade the Australian Customs Service (ACS) has been regarded as an
organisation in decline. Customs' history has been sporadically influenced by
numerous reports that identify many instances of 'maladministration'. More recently,
instances, such as the 'Midford Paramount Affair', have brought media and public
notoriety to Customs followed by the establishment of the Review of the ACS in May
1993 (The Conroy Report). This, the latest and most comprehensive report
undertaken on the ACS, documented administrative malfunctions of a major kind.
Each report, using its own rationale has recommended more advanced levels of
information technology (IT) application.
To study these protracted administrative issues, the author has used, as the basis of
analysis, a dynamic contingent decision-paths schema as well as furthering the
theoretical constructs of organisational 'reliability' theory. The dynamic contingent
decision-paths schema is designed to provide a conceptual framework regarding
public (and private) sector situations of agency decline, evaluation, strategic response
and finally 'turnaround' policy and implementation. The ACS is now implementing a
comprehensive turnaround strategy, which includes new and novel information
technologies.
Organisational 'reliability' theory relates to organisations that are required to be
highly reliable in their daily work-related activities otherwise crises of some major
magnitude may occur. These organisations need to practice near perfect
organisational and decision-making performance, and tend to be highly technical,
relying increasingly in turn on information technology in managing their respective
systems or operations. Customs was an early innovator in using Electronic Data
Interchange and is now pursuing e-commerce, which in part is being outsourced, to
EDS, a multinational company.
The study initially reviews the recent history of the ACS - 'mapping' the nature of the
organisation's decline, raising relevant factors which the author argues may be seen
as successive 'crisis points', and lastly, addresses the strategic 'turnaround' policies of
the organisation.
The author believes the nadir for Customs has been reached and there are now
positive signs that the ACS has commenced its organisational 'turnaround'.
Organisational design matters including structural and cultural issues have been
addressed which has allowed Customs to forge new relationships with its clients, as
well as fostering 'new' management philosophies. These new philosophies and
relationships, together with participation with an industry lead advisory team and a
new internal management team, have provided the catalyst for change and recovery.
Political and industry pressure and their formal involvement in a recovery strategy
provide a high level of confidence for Customs' future and the strategic and
operational changes being implemented.
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Sarris, Aspasia. "Australians in Antarctica : a study of organizational culture." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs247.pdf.
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Includes Organisational Culture Inventory (OCI) and 6 item subscales adapted from the OCI as appendices. Bibliography: leaves 240-255. Investigates the culture of isolated Australian Antarctic stations using qualitative and quantitative research methods. The research also investigated the assessment of person-culture fit within the context of Antarctic station life and culture. Five studies were undertaken on returned Australian Antarctic expeditioners and the results reflect a historical overview of Antarctic station culture from 1950 to 1999.
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Vine, Josie, and josie vinces@rmit edu au. "The Larrikin Paradox: An Analysis of Larrikinism's Democratic Role in Australian Journalism." RMIT University. Applied Communication, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090721.140654.
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The Larrikin Paradox is concerned with the unexplored nexus between Australian journalism's larrikin tradition and Enlightenment-informed normative theories relating to journalism's public responsibility in liberal democracy. Australian journalism's larrikin tradition, with its connotations of irresponsibility, has so far been considered an inappropriate lens through which to conceptualise Australian journalism's public role. Yet, paradoxically, it is the larrikin's capacity for irresponsibility that gives him, or her, the potential to be an enacting agent of Australian journalism's public responsibility. Using a form of Cultural Historiography, The Larrikin Paradox tests this Thesis Statement: In Australian history, larrikin journalists have been responsible for facilitating and protecting democratic freedom in the public sphere from authority. Because this freedom is in a state of vulnerability, contemporary Australian journalism still needs its larrikin tradition to vouchsafe a work culture capable of maintaining its declared responsibility to 'inform citizens' and 'animate democracy'. However, the dearth of theory concerning the larrikin as a democratic figure has meant that The Larrikin Paradox has had to conceptualise it, more or less, from scratch. After first assembling the figure from over a century of references to the larrikin, The Larrikin Paradox approaches this conceptualisation using a process of historiographical recovery and interpretation. Using a literature review of larrikinism in general, The Larrikin Paradox investigates a possible larrikin axiology relevant to Australian journalism micro-culture. This axiology is gleaned from an analysis of the term's meanings in sources such as dictionaries and commentaries on Australian English, as well as biographical and autobiographical material directly related to Australian journalism. Once gleaned, this axiology is used to inform an investigation into the history of larrikinism in Australian journalism. The history is drawn from those salient sources of journalism as a micro-culture: biographies and autobiographies by, or about, Australian journalists. Here we assume that our axiological 'compass' can help us seek out the larrikin elements in those micro-cultural sources; thereby identifying manifestations of larrikinism within almost 150 years of Australian journalism history. With larrikinism's historical and axiological significance established, The Larrikin Paradox moves on to a comparative analysis of Australian journalism during the Whitlam (1972 - 1975) and Howard (1996 - 2007) eras using oral history and industry-specific publications. This part of the investigation finds there is marked divergences in Australian journalism's cultural interpretation of its larrikin tradition arising from distinct socio-political contexts. In short, the Howard generation (1996 - 2007) of journalists is found to be less larrikin than those of the Whitlam generation (1972 - 1975). However, with the cultural theories of Stuart Hall (1978) and Raymond Williams (1958, 1977) in mind, The Larrikin Paradox concludes that the larrikin, as a democratic figure, can be re-constructed within the micro-culture of Australian journalism.
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Lawlor, Heather Jane. "Tissue culture of Australian brown seaweeds and an assessment of their tocopherol content." Thesis, Lawlor, Heather Jane (1989) Tissue culture of Australian brown seaweeds and an assessment of their tocopherol content. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1989. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51977/.
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The problems of harvesting phaeophycean algae make it desirable to investigate the possibility of tissue cultures as an alternative source of algal secondary metabolites. Ecklonia radiata was used as a model to develop a procedure for axenic tissue culture of phaeophycean macroalgae, and the method was then applied to species of Cystophora and Sargassum.
In E. radiata, growth from the explant occurred in 2 main forms. Pale yellow or unpigmented cells which grew from the cut surface of the explant could not be excised and grown separately. These cells grew for a limited period in dark culture and their development was inhibited by light. Deeply pigmented cells developed initially from centres within the stipe explants, but later grew freely on the surface of the medium. They grew indefinitely in the light and showed minimal growth in the dark. Both types of cells grew either as filaments or callus. In species of Cystophora, unpigmented growth was most common, but pigmented filaments and callus were initiated from explants of C. siliquosa and C. retorta. Only unpigmented callus was seen in Sargassum sp. Tissue cultures of E. radiata regenerated sporophytelike thalli from both unpigmented and pigmented cells, but this occurred rarely.
Heterotrophic growth of the cultures was not achieved despite the addition to the medium of a wide range of organic carbon compounds, vitamins and growth regulators. Best growth of E. radiata tissue cultures was on media modified from Provasoli's enriched seawater (1968) or Murashige and Skoog medium (1962), based on seawater (75%), with nitrate, filter sterilised vitamins, and 2,4-D (10 βM). The concentration of agar or nitrate in the medium, or the addition of seaweed extract, changed the morphology of the cultures.
The tocopherol content of E. radiata, Acrocarpia sp., Caulocystis sp. and 11 species of Cvstophora was investigated. High pressure liquid chromatography was used for the analysis of tocopherol isomers. In the Fucaceae (Cvstophora, Acrocarpia and Caulocystis) there was a high total tocopherol content (e.g., 1130 βg tocopherol g-1 dry weight in C. retroflexa), and high ratio of non- γtocopherols relative to γ-tocopherol (e.g., 30 βg r-, 453 βg β- plus γ-, and 463 βg δ-tocopherol g-1 dry weight in Acrocarpus sp.). The levels exceed those of the leaves of higher plants and other macroalgae, and are only surpassed by the content of seeds from some higher plants, and by certain microalgae.
Analysis of C. siliquosa pigmented tissue cultures showed that tocopherols were also produced in vitro. The total tocopherol content in these cultures was similar to that described in the literature for safflower cell cultures.
The results demonstrate that macroalgae are an important source of vitamin E. They also indicate the potential of cell culture of phaeophycean macroalgae for the selection and multiplication of cell lines with commercial value. Before the full potential of cell culture can be realised, the problem of the requirements for indefinite rapid heterotrophic growth of undifferentiated cultures must be solved.
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Snell, Edgar William. "Close focus : interpreting Western Australia’s visual culture." Thesis, Curtin University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2309.
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Distance from the centres of world art and from national hubs of creative practice provides both opportunities and constraints for Western Australian visual artists. Informed but isolated, they have learned to direct the lens shaped by received ideas onto the extraordinary natural environment they inhabit. Regional perspectives influence this act of re-focusing, which is inflected by local knowledge and personal experience in a process of reinvention and re-imagination that has escalated since the Second World War.The objective of this PhD by supplication is to situate my practice as an art historian, critic and curator within the broader context of Australian visual culture and to examine how the process of assimilation, described by George Seddon as taking 'imaginative possession', has contributed to our understanding of local identity within the wider framework of a national identity.In my writing and through my activity as a curator of exhibitions over the past two decades, I have identified the importance of local conditions in generating a critical, regional practice and I have shown how imported ideas have been absorbed, modified and accommodated within the work of the State’s leading artists to create a vibrant sense of regional identity that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of a wider and more comprehensive view of cultural practice in Australia.
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Wong, Frank Yet Kheong. "Study of non-halophilic Vibrio in Australian freshwater crayfish farms : distribution, epidemiology and virulence /." [St. Lucia, Qld. : s.n.], 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16642.pdf.
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Seares, Roger C. "Market orientation, organisational culture and organisational performance : an analysis of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation /." Connect to this title, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0105.
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Diaz, Adriana Raquel. "Developing a Languaculture Agenda in Australian Higher Education Language Programs." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365619.
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The last few decades have witnessed profound changes in population mobility, instant international communication and the ever-increasing frequency of intercultural encounters. In response, languages education, as an inherently intercultural activity, has been called upon to equip learners to deal with this new reality, heralding significant changes to the field of language teaching. The most fundamental change is reflected in the underlying goal of language learning, no longer defined primarily in terms of the acquisition of communicative competence (CC) (1972) in a foreign language, but rather, the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) (Byram, 1997). The latter encompasses the skills, knowledge and attitudes that help learners to communicate effectively across languages and cultures and thus to become „interculturally competent speakers‟.
Despite widespread agreement that languages education should lead to the development of interculturally competent speakers, there is lack of agreement about how to achieve such a goal. This discrepancy between expected goals, and teaching approaches and practices in place to achieve them, is reflected in the failure of both theorists (i.e., linguists and applied linguists) and practitioners (i.e., teachers, teacher trainers and curriculum designers) to traverse the theory/practice divide.
This is particularly evident in the Australian higher education (HE) context, where curricular contents and objectives of even experienced university language teachers fail to reflect the broader educational mission in everyday practices. This discrepancy between „ends‟ and „means‟ requires further examination and, above all, the identification of possible avenues that may bridge the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between theory and practice in language and culture pedagogy.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Languages and Linguistics
Arts, Education and Law
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