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Dumay, Johannes Cornelius. "Intellectual capital in action: Australian studies." Faculty of Economics and Business, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2398.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)The overarching objective of this thesis is to investigate and examine several contemporary IC theories and how they are utilised in practice so that understandings of the IC concept can be developed, in order to answer in part the main research question of “How does IC in action influence organisations?” The content of the thesis is based on a review of IC from both a theory and practice perspective and four empirical papers that examines IC theory as it is implemented in practice. In combining these papers into a coherent piece of work, a critical research perspective, as outlined by Alvesson and Deetz (2000), has been utilised as the theoretical framework. The term ‘critical’ is used in this thesis not to find fault with contemporary theory and practice of IC but rather to examine and question the application of IC theory into practice. The end result of doing so is the narrowing of an identified gap between IC theory and practice. A ‘critical’ analysis of IC in action is justified because the development of the concept of IC parallels that of ‘critical’ theory in that both have evolved from changing conditions in society as technology and the proliferation of knowledge that have fundamentally altered the conditions under which organisations operate. The overarching findings of the thesis are based on three outcomes of critical research being insight, critique and transformative re-definitions. Insight into IC is developed by examining contemporary IC frameworks as they have been applied. Critique is developed by putting to the test the implications for organisations as a result of implementing these contemporary IC frameworks. Last, transformative re-definition is achieved by opening a discourse on the impact of implementing IC practices so that academics and practitioners can develop critical, relevant and practical understandings that begins the process of change and develops practical managerial skills. More importantly this thesis identifies how the development of tools to reduce ‘causal ambiguity’ about how intangible resource help create (or destroy) value has the potential to raise the profile of IC as a strategic management technology. But from the wider view of the critical perspective, it is not the intention of this thesis to prescribe specific formulae for the measuring, management and reporting of IC, nor does it intend to further develop theory. So while the individual papers may proffer that certain avenues proved productive in developing insights, critique and transformative re-definition, these avenues are not offered as the preferred way of investigating IC. More specifically the goal of a critical perspective is to open a discourse. The opprurtinity for academics and practitioners to engage in discourse is enabled by the thesis’ focus on the issues identified by highlighting the gap between IC theory and practice. Furthermore, each of the included papers offers the opportunity for further discourse by way of the opportunities that remain for future research. Additionally, the thesis achieves exemplifies a number of different approaches to conducting research into IC practice that puts to the test particular aspects of IC theory in order to develop insights and understandings of IC in practice. As the empirical material only examines a fraction of contemporary IC theory there is scope for further research and thus discourse into the implementation of IC theory into IC practice. This future research should not be constrained by a particular method of research as exemplified in the variety of methods employed to gather the empirical material for the papers which stretches along the continuum of qualitative and quantitative research. This too provides an avenue of for future discourse.
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Sedgwick, Enid. "Kulturelle Beziehungen : German-Australian literary links in Catherine Martin's An Australian girl and Henry Handel Richardson's Maurice Guest." University of Western Australia. European Languages and Studies Discipline Group. German Studies, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0140.
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This thesis demonstrates the close links between Australian literature and German thought and culture in Catherine Martin's An Australian Girl (1890) and Henry Handel Richardson's Maurice Guest (1908), and thereby provides a fuller understanding of the sophisticated literary and intellectual purposes of these two works. In examining the German elements in each novel, and the contexts from which much of that material is drawn, this study seeks to supplement the scholarly explanations provided in the two Academy Editions of these works. While Maurice Guest has received serious scholarly attention, An Australian Girl has been accorded relatively little. Despite generally favourable reviews on publication, both appear to have been undervalued over time. The study begins with a brief historical survey of German migration to Australia and the contribution German migrants made to the intellectual life and culture of the evolving nation. The examination of Catherine Martin's work includes: biographical details, particularly concerning her contact with German culture; an analysis of the form of the novel and a comparison of An Australian Girl with Goethe's Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister with regard to form, theme and characterisation; an analysis of German philosophical elements in the novel; and Martin's presentation of social conditions in Germany in 1888-90, and their role in the novel as a whole. The examination of Henry Handel Richardson's work encompasses: biographical details; the genesis of Maurice Guest; differences between the reception of the novel in England and Germany; the genre to which the novel belongs and parallels with Künstlerromane; an analysis of Richardson's description of the physical, historical and intellectual milieu of Leipzig, and its role in the novel; and finally her integration of German social customs and the German language into the text. Use has been made of five primary sources which have not been used before in any detail with regard to these aspects of either author: additional material from the Mount Gambier Border Watch; The Hatbox Letters, the family history of the Martin and Clarke families; the German translation of Maurice Guest; German reviews of Maurice Guest; and the correspondence between Richardson and her French translator Paul Solanges. The key argument of this thesis is that the German influence on both form and content, in the case of An Australian Girl, and on style and content, in the case of Maurice Guest, is deep and various, and that these German elements have proved to be an impediment to a full understanding and appreciation of these novels for many Anglo-Saxon readers and reviewers. In the two novels Martin and Richardson provide pointers to Australia's earlier interaction with the wider world and display a level of sophistication which makes these works worthy of greater recognition than they currently enjoy.
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Anderson, Jane Elizabeth Law Faculty of Law UNSW. "The production of indigenous knowledge in intellectual property law." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Law, 2003. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20491.
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The thesis is an exploration of how indigenous knowledge has emerged as a subject within Australian intellectual property law. It uses the context of copyright law to illustrate this development. The work presents an analysis of the political, social and cultural intersections that influence legal possibilities and effect practical expectations of the law in this area. The dilemma of protecting indigenous knowledge resonates with tensions that characterise intellectual property as a whole. The metaphysical dimensions of intellectual property have always been insecure but these difficulties come to the fore with the identification of boundaries and markers that establish property in indigenous subject matter. While intellectual property law is always managing difference, the politics of law are more transparent when managing indigenous concerns. Rather than assume the naturalness of the category of indigenous knowledge within law, this work interrogates the politics of its construction precisely as a ???special??? category. Employing a multidisciplinary methodology, engaging theories of governmental rationality that draws upon the scholarship of Michel Foucault to appreciate strategies of managing and directing knowledge, the thesis considers how the politics of law is infused by cultural, political, bureaucratic and individual factors. Key elements in Australia that have pushed the law to consider expressions of indigenous knowledge in intellectual property can be located in changing political environments, governmental intervention through strategic reports, cultural sensitivity articulated in case law and innovative instances of individual agency. The intersection of these elements reveals a dynamic that exerts influence in the shape the law takes.
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Mason, Renate Surveying & Spatial Information Systems Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Developing Australian Spatial Data Policies - Existing Practices and Future Strategies." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, 2002. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18646.
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This thesis investigates the problems associated with the development of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). The results of this investigation are used as input for the development of new spatial data policy strategies for individual organisations to enable an improved better facilitation of SDIs. Policy issues that need to be considered by an organisation when developing spatial data policies, were identified as being: SDI requirements; organisational issues; technical issues; Governmental/organisational duties; ownership/custodianship; privacy and confidentiality; legal liability, contracts and licences; Intellectual Property Law; economic analysis; data management; outreach, cooperation and political mandate; and users' choices, rights and obligations. In order to gain an understanding of current spatial data policy practices and to device new policy strategies a spatial data survey was conducted. This survey addressed the identified SDI problem areas. Some 6630 questionnaires were mailed out with more than 400 responses returned. These were reduced to 379 useful responses. Once analysed, the results were compared with the findings of the SDI investigation and used throughout the thesis. The results of the analysis to the spatial data survey are displayed in tables and graphs throughout Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6 and in Appendix 2. The tables and graphs show the answers to the questions asked in the questionnaire as a percentage of the total number of respondents. The survey discovered that many organisations had no spatial data policies, nor individual policies on spatial data pricing and/or intellectual property protection. This thesis established that SDI requirements are not being met by many spatial data policies used by individual organisations. Hence, the thesis studied the spatial data policy issues that are involved when an organisation develops new policies with the aim to aid the development of SDIs. It uniquely established current Australian spatial data policy practices in the areas of spatial data quality, access, pricing, and legal issues to form the basis for future strategies. It reviewed the current knowledge of intellectual property law applied to spatial data and devised new approaches to deal with all the identified policy issues. Finally, the thesis defines spatial data policies that facilitate SDI development.
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Parkin, Stephanie. "The theft of culture and inauthentic art and craft: Australian consumer law and Indigenous intellectual property." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205870/2/Stephanie_Parkin_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis addresses the 2017 Parliamentary Inquiry into the ‘growing presence of inauthentic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ‘style’ art and craft products and merchandise for sale across Australia’. Inauthentic art and craft is Aboriginal ‘style’ souvenir products that are created without the involvement of an Aboriginal person. This thesis prioritises the evidence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to the 2017 Inquiry, investigates intellectual property and consumer law and explores colonial influences and power dynamics that allow inauthentic art and craft to exist. This thesis answers the question: ‘How can the law protect Aboriginal cultural expression from exploitation?’
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au, cgraydon@murdoch edu, and Clare Marie Graydon. "Protection or paternalism: A critical evaluation of Australian legislation relating to sexual acts involving persons with intellectual disability." Murdoch University, 2009. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090610.84938.
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As a result of the development and recognition of human rights and of the principle of normalisation, in recent decades sweeping changes have occurred in the living conditions of many people with intellectual disability.
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons (1971)contains statements to the effect that, as far as possible, the lives of disabled persons should resemble those of their non-disabled peers, and this presumably extends to sexual expression. However, the words as far as possible imply that in some circumstances, limitations on a right may be justifiable. One such circumstance is where a competing right exists, for example, the right to sexual expression has to be balanced against a right to protection. Under some conditions, the provision of protective measures may fall to the criminal justice system, which may be used to afford protection to persons with intellectual disability. Australian jurisdictions have used three different approaches in current legislation: to set a minimum standard of sexual knowledge that must be present before the person is deemed capable of consent to sexual activities; to prohibit sexual relations with persons holding power or authority over the person; and to proscribe all sexual exploitation. This thesis contains proposals for reforms to each category of legislative provisions. First, it is suggested that the standard of knowledge required to support consent should more closely resemble the knowledge required for informed consent to medical procedures. Second, restrictions on sexual activity with persons with intellectual disability based on employment status should be relaxed where the role of the staff member does not confer power to coerce people with intellectual disability. Third, with regard to the prosecution of offences against incapable persons with mental impairment, it is proposed that the charge should be sex without consent. On the other hand, it is argued that prosecution under criminal law is inappropriate where a vulnerable but capable person is deemed to have been exploited. The thesis contains a number of further recommendations for the reform of anomalies which exist between the general law of sexual offences and those committed specifically against persons with mental impairment. It is suggested that marriage be abolished as a defence to sexual acts with an incapable person and that offences against persons with mental impairment carry equivalent penalties to general sexual offences. On the basis of literature reviewed in this thesis, two additional proposals have been made. First, that education in the sexual rights of persons with intellectual impairment should be given to carers so that they do not unduly inhibit the development of sexual relationships by that person. The second proposal is that reform should be accompanied by the provision of repeated, appropriate, detailed and specific sex education of all persons with intellectual impairment and that this education should be based on needs identified in the aforementioned research. The tentative outcome of proposals contained in this thesis is that persons capable of consent would enjoy enhanced freedom to exercise their right to sexual expression, and those incapable of consent would be afforded more certain protection.
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Graydon, Clare. "Protection or paternalism? : a critical evaluation of Australian legislation relating to sexual acts involving persons with intellectual disability /." Murdoch University Digital Theses Program, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20090610.84938.
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Graydon, Clare Marie. "Protection or paternalism: A critical evaluation of Australian legislation relating to sexual acts involving persons with intellectual disability." Thesis, Graydon, Clare Marie (2009) Protection or paternalism: A critical evaluation of Australian legislation relating to sexual acts involving persons with intellectual disability. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2009. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/705/.
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As a result of the development and recognition of human rights and of the principle of normalisation, in recent decades sweeping changes have occurred in the living conditions of many people with intellectual disability.
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons (1971)contains statements to the effect that, as far as possible, the lives of disabled persons should resemble those of their non-disabled peers, and this presumably extends to sexual expression. However, the words “as far as possible” imply that in some circumstances, limitations on a right may be justifiable. One such circumstance is where a competing right exists, for example, the right to sexual expression has to be balanced against a right to protection. Under some conditions, the provision of protective measures may fall to the criminal justice system, which may be used to afford protection to persons with intellectual disability. Australian jurisdictions have used three different approaches in current legislation: to set a minimum standard of sexual knowledge that must be present before the person is deemed capable of consent to sexual activities; to prohibit sexual relations with persons holding power or authority over the person; and to proscribe all sexual exploitation. This thesis contains proposals for reforms to each category of legislative provisions. First, it is suggested that the standard of knowledge required to support consent should more closely resemble the knowledge required for informed consent to medical procedures. Second, restrictions on sexual activity with persons with intellectual disability based on employment status should be relaxed where the role of the staff member does not confer power to coerce people with intellectual disability. Third, with regard to the prosecution of offences against incapable persons with mental impairment, it is proposed that the charge should be sex without consent. On the other hand, it is argued that prosecution under criminal law is inappropriate where a vulnerable but capable person is deemed to have been exploited. The thesis contains a number of further recommendations for the reform of anomalies which exist between the general law of sexual offences and those committed specifically against persons with mental impairment. It is suggested that marriage be abolished as a defence to sexual acts with an incapable person and that offences against persons with mental impairment carry equivalent penalties to general sexual offences. On the basis of literature reviewed in this thesis, two additional proposals have been made. First, that education in the sexual rights of persons with intellectual impairment should be given to carers so that they do not unduly inhibit the development of sexual relationships by that person. The second proposal is that reform should be accompanied by the provision of repeated, appropriate, detailed and specific sex education of all persons with intellectual impairment and that this education should be based on needs identified in the aforementioned research. The tentative outcome of proposals contained in this thesis is that persons capable of consent would enjoy enhanced freedom to exercise their right to sexual expression, and those incapable of consent would be afforded more certain protection.
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Graydon, Clare Marie. "Protection or paternalism: A critical evaluation of Australian legislation relating to sexual acts involving persons with intellectual disability." Graydon, Clare Marie (2009) Protection or paternalism: A critical evaluation of Australian legislation relating to sexual acts involving persons with intellectual disability. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2009. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/705/.
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As a result of the development and recognition of human rights and of the principle of normalisation, in recent decades sweeping changes have occurred in the living conditions of many people with intellectual disability.
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons (1971)contains statements to the effect that, as far as possible, the lives of disabled persons should resemble those of their non-disabled peers, and this presumably extends to sexual expression. However, the words “as far as possible” imply that in some circumstances, limitations on a right may be justifiable. One such circumstance is where a competing right exists, for example, the right to sexual expression has to be balanced against a right to protection. Under some conditions, the provision of protective measures may fall to the criminal justice system, which may be used to afford protection to persons with intellectual disability. Australian jurisdictions have used three different approaches in current legislation: to set a minimum standard of sexual knowledge that must be present before the person is deemed capable of consent to sexual activities; to prohibit sexual relations with persons holding power or authority over the person; and to proscribe all sexual exploitation. This thesis contains proposals for reforms to each category of legislative provisions. First, it is suggested that the standard of knowledge required to support consent should more closely resemble the knowledge required for informed consent to medical procedures. Second, restrictions on sexual activity with persons with intellectual disability based on employment status should be relaxed where the role of the staff member does not confer power to coerce people with intellectual disability. Third, with regard to the prosecution of offences against incapable persons with mental impairment, it is proposed that the charge should be sex without consent. On the other hand, it is argued that prosecution under criminal law is inappropriate where a vulnerable but capable person is deemed to have been exploited. The thesis contains a number of further recommendations for the reform of anomalies which exist between the general law of sexual offences and those committed specifically against persons with mental impairment. It is suggested that marriage be abolished as a defence to sexual acts with an incapable person and that offences against persons with mental impairment carry equivalent penalties to general sexual offences. On the basis of literature reviewed in this thesis, two additional proposals have been made. First, that education in the sexual rights of persons with intellectual impairment should be given to carers so that they do not unduly inhibit the development of sexual relationships by that person. The second proposal is that reform should be accompanied by the provision of repeated, appropriate, detailed and specific sex education of all persons with intellectual impairment and that this education should be based on needs identified in the aforementioned research. The tentative outcome of proposals contained in this thesis is that persons capable of consent would enjoy enhanced freedom to exercise their right to sexual expression, and those incapable of consent would be afforded more certain protection.
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Evans, Ruth Lynette. "Picnics, principles and public lectures : the social, cultural and intellectual role of the Baptist Church in South Australian country towns /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09are919.pdf.
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Thesis (B.A.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of History, 1994?"Extensive use of written records including both minute books and published matter has been supplemented with oral histories." Tapes include conversations with members of various local communities, with an index to these: leaves 41-42. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-44).
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Lees, Jennifer Anne, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "Eisteddfoditis : the significance of the City of Sydney Eisteddfod in Australian cultural history 1933-1941." THESIS_CAESS_HUM_Lees_J.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/714.
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This thesis documents the early history of the City of Sydney Eisteddfod from its beginning in 1933 until it recessed in 1941 for the duration of the Pacific War. Eisteddfods had long been commonplace in Australia, but this competition began for political rather than cultural reasons in 1932, when organisers of the Harbour Bridge celebrations decided that since the spectacular edifice had made Sydney an icon on the world map, the city needed to cultivate a more sophisticated image. In observing events that led to its establishment, the project looks at the technological revolution of the 1920s and the social upheaval of the jazz age. This thesis observes that Sydney competition was Welsh only in name and grew from the political roots of the high and lowbrow debates that had come to divide society. In examining these issues, this thesis focuses on the Sydney contest, the talent that rose from its stages and the cultural revival that exploded in its wake. Written as a narrative history, this thesis draws mostly from empirical sources. It includes a statistical analysis and a substantial amount of original materialDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Pavis, Mathilde Goizane Alice. "The author-performer divide in intellectual property law : a comparative analysis of the American, Australian, British and French legal frameworks." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/23692.
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Western intellectual property frameworks have at least one feature in common: performers are less protected than authors. This situation knows many justifications, although all but one have been dismissed by the literature: performers are simply less creative than authors. As a result, the legal protection covering their work has been proportionally reduced compared to that of their authorial peers. This thesis investigates this phenomenon that it calls the 'author-performer divide'. It uncovers the culturally-rooted principles and legal reasoning that policy-makers and judges of Australia, France, the United Kingdom and the United States have developed to create in the legal narrative a hierarchy between authors and performers. It reveals that those intellectual property systems, though continuously reformed, still contain outdated conceptions of creativity based on the belief in ex nihilo creation and over-intellectualised representations of the creative process. Those two precepts combined have led legal discourse to portray performers as their authors' puppets, thus underserving of authorship themselves. This thesis reviews arguments raised against improving the performers' regime to challenge the preconception of performers as uncreative agents and questions the divide it supports. To this end, it seeks to update the representations of creativity currently conveyed in the law by drawing on the findings of other academic disciplines such as creativity research, performance theories as well as music, theatre and dance studies. This comparative inter-disciplinary study aims to move current legal debates on performers' rights away from the recurring themes and repeated arguments in the scholarship such as issues of fixation or of competing claims, all of which have made conversations stagnate. By including disciplines beyond the law, this analysis seeks to advance the legal literature on the question of performers' intellectual property protection and shift thinking about performative forms of creativity.
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Cirino, Gina. "American Misconceptions about Australian Aboriginal Art." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1435275397.
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Lee, Chao-Ying. "An empirical study of the impact of human resource configurations and intellectual capital on organisational performance in the Australian biotechnology industry." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/237.
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The objective of this study is to examine the impact of human resource (HR) configurations (combinations) and intellectual capital (lC) in the Australian biotechnology industry. This study investigates how HR configurations facilitate the development of IC elements, which, in turn, enhance organisational performance. More specifically, it explores how HR configurations affect an organisation's level of IC; which IC elements contribute the most to the organisational perfomance; and whether innovation capital acts as a mediating variable between the three IC elements (human, organisational, and social capital) and organisational performance or whether it acts as an independent variable.
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Knowles, Christine L. A., and n/a. "Observations of a horseriding programme for primary-aged students with an intellectual disability requiring high support." University of Canberra. Professional & Community Education, 1998. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060814.095655.
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This study examined the observed effects of horse-riding which took
place as an extra-curricula activity within the school day. The three
children in the case study were primary aged students from a Canberra
primary school who have an intellectual disability requiring high
support. The criteria for selection was on the basis of how long they
had taken part in the horse-riding programme. The three children
were either just about to start or had just started the programme and
had no previous experience with horses or horse-riding.
The aim of the study was to explore the effects that the horse-riding
programme had on the children's behaviour, attitudes and the way
they communicated when riding. The children's behaviour was
observed in the different settings of the school and the stables
environment. Certain individual behaviours were observed and
recorded on a weekly basis for an eight week period. Audio-recordings
of behaviour took place as well as interviews both before and after the
eight week period, from teachers, riding instructors, helpers, and
parents.
Whilst the case study could not be said to be large enough to be
representative of all children with intellectual disabilities attending
this horse-riding programme, in general some common themes
relating to counselling emerged which corresponded with other
studies referred to in the literature. These include positive effects such
as a general sense of well-being and a feeling of success whilst being in
control of the horse. An emerging empathy and closeness of each
child with their particular horse was observed over time, which
appeared to lead to increased communication. This took place whilst
the children were talking or communicating to the horse or in the
presence of the horse.
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Murray, Craig. "Intellectuals in the Australian Press." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16022/1/Craig_Murray_Thesis.pdf.
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The notion of the 'public intellectual' has been a recurring discussion topic within sociology and the humanities for decades. Yet it has been largely neglected within media and cultural studies. Accordingly, few scholars have discussed in much depth how public intellectuals operate within the media and what functions this media role may facilitate. Intellectuals in the Australian Press is an exploration into this generally overlooked area of scholarship. It aims to provide three levels of insight into the topic. Firstly, the study looks closely at the appearance and the function of public intellectuals in the Australian press. It outlines how public intellectuals contribute to the newspapers and how newspapers contribute to Australian public intellectual life. Secondly, the thesis outlines and examines in detail three types of public intellectual in Australia. Specifically, it examines the journalist, the academic and the think tank researcher as types of intellectual who write regularly for Australia's newspapers. Thirdly, Intellectuals in the Australian Press delivers detailed intellectual biographies of three of Australia's most prominent press intellectuals, each of whom exemplifies one of these three categories. These commentators are The Australian's Paul Kelly, The Age's Robert Manne, and the Sydney Morning Herald's Gerard Henderson.
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Murray, Craig. "Intellectuals in the Australian Press." Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16022/.
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The notion of the 'public intellectual' has been a recurring discussion topic within sociology and the humanities for decades. Yet it has been largely neglected within media and cultural studies. Accordingly, few scholars have discussed in much depth how public intellectuals operate within the media and what functions this media role may facilitate. Intellectuals in the Australian Press is an exploration into this generally overlooked area of scholarship. It aims to provide three levels of insight into the topic. Firstly, the study looks closely at the appearance and the function of public intellectuals in the Australian press. It outlines how public intellectuals contribute to the newspapers and how newspapers contribute to Australian public intellectual life. Secondly, the thesis outlines and examines in detail three types of public intellectual in Australia. Specifically, it examines the journalist, the academic and the think tank researcher as types of intellectual who write regularly for Australia's newspapers. Thirdly, Intellectuals in the Australian Press delivers detailed intellectual biographies of three of Australia's most prominent press intellectuals, each of whom exemplifies one of these three categories. These commentators are The Australian's Paul Kelly, The Age's Robert Manne, and the Sydney Morning Herald's Gerard Henderson.
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Frawley, Patsie, and timpat@pacific net au. "Participation in Government Disability Advisory Bodies in Australia: An Intellectual Disability perspective." La Trobe University. School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2008. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20090122.114029.
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This qualitative study examined the participatory experiences of people with an intellectual disability as members of government disability advisory bodies in Australia. These forums are one of the strategies adopted by governments to enable people with an intellectual disability to participate in the formulation of social policy. Such opportunities have arisen from progressive policy that frames people with an intellectual disability as full citizens with equal rights to inclusion and participation in society.
Little research has considered how people with an intellectual disability experience the participatory opportunities that have grown from this recognition of their rights. This reflects the more traditional focus on their status and participation as consumers and service users. The central question of this study is how people with an intellectual disability experience participation in government advisory bodies, and how such forums can be inclusive and meaningful.
This study positions people with an intellectual disability as the experts about their own experiences by relying primarily on their first person accounts of their experiences. Ethnographic and case study methods were employed including in-depth interviews with the central participants, document analysis, observation of the work of the advisory bodies and interviews with others involved in advisory bodies. Analysis led to the development of a typology of participation that describes the political and personal orientations people have to participation.
The study found that structures and the processes used by advisory bodies can mediate people�s experiences; however more significantly, the experiences of people with intellectual disability are shaped by their perception of how they are regarded by others. Central to this is the efficacy of support based on the development of collegiate relationships, similar to the notion of civic friendship described by Reinders (2002), rather than support that is solely focussed on tangible accommodations
The study concludes that citizen participation bodies have not fully recognised the personal and political potential of members with an intellectual disability. It presents evidence that people with an intellectual disability are capable of this form of participation, can provide legitimate and informed perspectives on policy and can engage meaningfully, given full recognition of their capacity to participate as well as structures and processes that enable this.
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Frawley, Patsie. "Participation in government disability advisory bodies in Australia : an intellectual disability perspective /." Access full text, 2008. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/thesis/public/adt-LTU20090122.114029/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- La Trobe University, 2008.Research. "A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [to the] School of Social Work and Social Policy, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora". Includes bibliographical references (leaves 302-318)
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Rimmer, Matthew Rhys. "The pirate bazaar the social life of copyright law." View electronic text, 2001. http://eprints.anu.edu.au/documents/disk0/00/00/08/14/index.html.
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Available via the Australian National University Library Electronic Pre and Post Print Repository. Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 28, 2003) Includes bibliographical references. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Reilly, Lucy. "Progressive modification : how parents deal with home schooling their children with intellectual disabilities." University of Western Australia. Graduate School of Education, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0035.
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While home schooling is by no means a new phenomenon, the last three decades have seen an increasing trend in the engagement of this educational alternative. In many countries, including Australia, a growing number of families are opting to remove their children from the traditional schooling system for numerous reasons and educate them at home. In response to the recent home schooling movement a research base in this area of education has emerged. However, the majority of research has been undertaken primarily in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, with very few studies having examined home schooling in Australia. The existing corpus of research is also relatively small and incomplete. Also, certain categories of home schoolers and the processes involved in their undertaking of this modern version of a historically enduring educational alternative have been overlooked. In particular, children with disabilities appear to be one of the home schooling groups that have attracted very little research world wide. This group constituted the focus of the study reported in this thesis. Its particular concern was with generating theory regarding how parents deal with educating their children with intellectual disabilities from a home base over a period of one year. Data gathering was largely carried out through individual, face-to-face semi-structured interviewing and participant observation in the interpretivist qualitative research tradition. However, informal interviews, telephone interviews and documents were also used to gather supplementary data for the study. Data were coded and analysed using the open coding method of the grounded theory model and through the development and testing of propositions. The central research question which guided theory generation was as follows: 'How do parents within the Perth metropolitan area in the state of Western Australia deal with educating their children with intellectual disabilities from a home base over a period of one year?' The central proposition of the theory generated is that parents do so through progressive modification and that this involves them progressing through three stages over a period of one year. The first stage is designated the stage of drawing upon readily-available resources. The second stage is designated the stage of drawing upon support networks in a systematic fashion. The third stage is designated the stage of proceeding with confidence on the basis of having a set of principles for establishing a workable pattern of home schooling individualised for each circumstance. This theory provides a new perspective on how parents deal with the home schooling of their children with intellectual disabilities over a period of one year. A number of implications for further theory development, policy and practice are drawn from it. Several recommendations for further research are also made.
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Twee, Pam, of Western Sydney Macarthur University, and Faculty of Education and Languages. "Literacy learning of adolescent students with intellectual disabilities : a case study." THESIS_FEL_XXX_Twee_P.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/310.
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This study explores the learning, and specifically literacy learning, of intellectually disabled adolescent students. Factors that have influenced this learning throughout the adolescent's education are identified. Nineteen case studies of the literacy development of adolescent students with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities were developed through observations in their classrooms, and of related activities. The results of the study show that there were three main influences on literacy development for these students. These were the unique nature of the learner, home and family factors and the impact of school on the literacy learning of these students from their early learning and through their years of formal education. This research adds to the current research on the learning of adolescent students with intellectual disabilities by looking specifically at literacy development and using qualitative approaches to search within and beyond the classroom for issues which affect their learning.Practitioners in education and in the care of disabled children can use the study's findings to build a framework of knowledge to develop appropriate educational placements, programs and support for learning by drawing on significant aspects of the child's personal, social and educational development.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Rimmer, Matthew. "The Pirate Bazaar: The Social Life of Copyright Law." Thesis, The Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales, 2001. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/86581/1/fulltext.pdf.
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This thesis provides a cultural history of Australian copyright law and related artistic controversies. It examines a number of disputes over authorship, collaboration, and appropriation across a variety of cultural fields. It considers legal controversies over the plagiarism of texts, the defacing of paintings, the sampling of musical works, the ownership of plays, the co-operation between film-makers, the sharing of MP3 files on the Internet, and the appropriation of Indigenous culture. Such narratives and stories relate to a broad range of works and subject matter that are protected by copyright law.
This study offers an archive of oral histories and narratives of artistic creators about copyright law. It is founded upon interviews with creative artists and activists who have been involved in copyright litigation and policy disputes. This dialogical research provides an insight into the material and social effects of copyright law.
This thesis concludes that copyright law is not just a ‘creature of statute’, but it is also a social and imaginative construct. In the lived experience of the law, questions of aesthetics and ethics are extremely important. Industry agreements are quite influential. Contracts play an important part in the operation of copyright law. The media profile of personalities involved in litigation and policy debates is pertinent. This thesis claims that copyright law can be explained by a mix of social factors such as ethical standards, legal regulations, market forces, and computer code. It can also be understood in terms of the personal stories and narratives that people tell about litigation and copyright law reform.
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Prologue 1
Introduction A Creature of Statute: Copyright Law and Legal Formalism 6
Chapter One The Demidenko Affair: Copyright Law and Literary Works 33
Chapter Two Daubism: Copyright Law and Artistic Works 67
Chapter Three The ABCs of Anarchism: Copyright Law and Musical Works 105
Chapter Four Heretic: Copyright Law and Dramatic Works 146
Chapter Five Shine: Copyright Law and Film 186
Chapter Six Napster: Infinite Digital Jukebox or Pirate Bazaar? Copyright Law and Digital Works 232
Chapter Seven Bangarra Dance Theatre: Copyright Law and Indigenous Culture 275
Chapter Eight The Cathedral and the Bazaar: The Future of Copyright Law 319
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Dornan, Don, and n/a. "Peer perception of the intellectually handicapped." University of Canberra. Education, 1986. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060705.131044.
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In 1980 Jackson and Knowles presented a paper at the
Australian Group for the Study of Mental Deficiency [A.G.S.O.M.D.] conference in Launceston, Tasmania. The paper,
titled "Primary School Children's Perceptions and Understandings
of Mental Retardation", reported in detail responses on twenty
questions from the sixty-three item questionnaire instrument used
in their study. These twenty questions reflected stereotyped
responses of an alarming nature. If these responses were a
reflection of how Australian children generally thought, then
integration of the intellectually handicapped child into
mainstream classes would be counter productive.
The current study was initiated to help assess the attitudes
of Australian Capital Territory children to the Intellectually
Handicapped. The twenty significant questions from the Tasmanian
study were formed into a questionnaire and administered to 769
children in Years 3 and 6 from six Government and two Catholic
schools in the Australian Capital Territory. In most cases the
results were in direct contrast to those obtained in Tasmania.
At first glance this meant that the attitudes of Australian
Capital Territory children towards the Intellectually Handicapped
were much less stereotyped than those of Tasmanian children.
Further investigation, however, led to the discovery that the
results from the Tasmanian study were spurious. The date had not
been accurately computerized, giving a result that was probably
the reverse of what Tasmanian children actually thought.
Four supplementary hypotheses, comparing the responses of
Years 3 and 6 girls and boys, Government and Private schools,
exposed and unexposed schools, were tested. The analysis of the
data for these hypotheses supported, to some degree, past
findings that older children and girls have less stereotyped
attitudes towards the Intellectually Handicapped than younger
children and boys. The responses of Government schools versus
Private schools were varied. Three of the five significantly
different responses indicated a less stereotyped view was held by
Government school children, while two of these significant
questions indicated a less stereotyped view was held by Private
school children. With regard to exposed and unexposed schools,
the two significantly different responses indicated less
stereotyped views were held by the nonexposed children.
Future directions are indicated in the sections dealing with
Limitations and Future Directions.
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Cockram, Judith. "Justice or differential treatment? : Adult offenders with an intellectual disability in the criminal justice system." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2000. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1532.
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The purpose of the study was to present a thorough examination of the extent of participation of adult offenders with an intellectual disability within all levels of the criminal justice system in Western Australia, that is, from arrest to charge, to court appearance and finally to conviction. Western Australia provides a unique opportunity to examine the operations of the criminal justice system, because it possesses comprehensive computerised data sources on offenders, and by utilising the State central register on people with disabilities; it was possible to include in the study a significant proportion of those people with an intellectual disability in Western Australia. The study was a longitudinal study over a ten-year period where it was possible to examine all levels of the criminal justice system, that is, from arrest to court appearance and finally to conviction and possible detention. In examining the different outcomes, it was also possible to control for the number and types of offences committed by first time offenders. In addition, the available data provided the opportunity to study the rate of recidivism of people with an intellectual disability compared with other offenders. Eight hundred and forty three individuals with an intellectual disability were tracked through the justice system and their experiences were compared with two thousand four hundred and forty two other offenders. At the first stage of the justice process, namely arrest, the study found that people with an intellectual disability were no more likely to be arrested and charged with a criminal offence than others within the general population. However, once they entered the system, they were subsequently rearrested at nearly double the rate compared with the non-disabled sample. In addition, it was found that there was substantial disparity in the offending profiles, at arrest, between the two groups. A notable finding was the difference in the charge pattern over time. Not only were people with an intellectual disability charged more often, they were charged at a far greater rate over the latter part of the study period, while arrests for the non-disabled sample were about the same over the two five year periods. It is suggested that the higher incidence of arrests during the period 1990-1994, may offer support for the view that the rise of arrests of people with an intellectual disability within the criminal justice system, has corresponded with the deinstitutionialisation of state facilities. At the next stage of the justice process, formal prosecution in the court, it was found that people with an intellectual disability appear to be treated differently in the types of penalties imposed, and the different penalties imposed for similar offences. It was also found that differing uses were made of alternatives to imprisonment. An important aspect of the study of offenders with an intellectual disability is the prevalence of recidivism. A considerably higher probability of re-arrest was found for offenders with an intellectual disability compared with other offenders, and the study canvassed several explanations for this higher recidivism rate. The conclusion of this study is that explanations of psychological and sociological disadvantage or the susceptibility hypothesis which have been put forward as possible reasons for people with an intellectual disability being over-represented in prison populations are not sufficient to account for the findings of this study. The fact that different outcomes were experienced by people with an intellectual disability as they proceeded through the criminal justice system is not inconsistent with the different treatment hypothesis. In addition there is strong evidence to suggest that the equality of services is a critical factor relevant to the rate of recidivism. A service model is recommended to assist in reducing the high rate of re-arrest of people with an intellectual disability.
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Wybrow, Vernon, and n/a. "Construction of the savage : western intellectual responses to the Maori and Aborigine, first contact to 1850." University of Otago. Department of History, 2002. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070508.150402.
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This thesis is a comparative study of the West�s intellectual responses to the indigenous inhabitants of Australia and New Zealand from the period of first contact through until 1850. The thesis does not attempt a comprehensive history of the West�s encounters with Australasia nor does it attempt to discuss the role of the indigene within these encounters. The thesis does, however, discuss the formulation and expression of those intellectual traditions that informed the Western response to the Maori and Aborigine. Specifically, each chapter addresses a particular aspect of the West�s interaction with the indigenous peoples of Australasia in order demonstrate how the Western narratives of exploration, travel and settlement were informed by the wider discourse of colonialism. Amongst some of the themes addressed in the course of this thesis are: the ideal of the �Good Savage�, the shifting notion of a �Great Chain of Being�, the rise of natural history as a system for classifying human difference and the importance of ideas of savagery in framing the colonial response to the Maori and Aborigine were characterised by similarities and continuities as much as by the more commonly acknowledged differences and discontinuities.
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Helth, Ulrich. "Der Schutz der kommerziellen Aspekte der Persönlichkeit im australischen Recht /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016139809&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Lamlert, Wariya. "International uncertainty in the exceptions for individual use in copyright law : a comparative study of Australia and Thailand /." Canberra, 2007. http://erl.canberra.edu.au/public/adt-AUC20080912.140432/index.html.
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Ludlow, Karinne Anne. "Which little piggy to market? : legal challenges to the commercialisation of agricultural genetically modified organisms in Australia." Monash University, Faculty of Law, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5489.
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Bellany, Jeanette Anne. "'Going live' : establishing the creative attributes of the live multi-camera television professional." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/57730/1/Jeanette_Bellany_Thesis.pdf.
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In my capacity as a television professional and teacher specialising in multi-camera live television production for over 40 years, I was drawn to the conclusion that opaque or inadequately formed understandings of how creativity applies to the field of live television, have impeded the development of pedagogies suitable to the teaching of live television in universities. In the pursuit of this hypothesis, the thesis shows that television degrees were born out of film studies degrees, where intellectual creativity was aligned to single camera production, and the 'creative roles' of producers, directors and scriptwriters. At the same time, multi-camera live television production was subsumed under the 'mass communication' banner, leading to an understanding that roles other than producer and director are simply technical, and bereft of creative intent or acumen. The thesis goes on to show that this attitude to other television production personnel, for example, the vision mixer, videotape operator and camera operator, relegates their roles to that of 'button pusher'. This has resulted in university teaching models with inappropriate resources and unsuitable teaching practices. As a result, the industry is struggling to find people with the skills to fill the demands of the multi-camera live television sector.
In specific terms the central hypothesis is pursued through the following sequenced approach. Firstly, the thesis sets out to outline the problems, and traces the origins of the misconceptions that hold with the notion that intellectual creativity does not exist in live multi-camera television. Secondly, this more adequately conceptualised rendition, of the origins particular to the misconceptions of live television and creativity, is then anchored to the field of examination by presentation of the foundations of the roles involved in making live television programs, using multicamera production techniques. Thirdly, this more nuanced rendition of the field sets the stage for a thorough analysis of education and training in the industry, and teaching models at Australian universities. The findings clearly establish that the pedagogical models are aimed at single camera production, a position that deemphasises the creative aspects of multi-camera live television production.
Informed by an examination of theories of learning, qualitative interviews, professional reflective practice and observations, the roles of four multi-camera live production crewmembers (camera operator, vision mixer, EVS/videotape operator and director's assistant), demonstrate the existence of intellectual creativity during live production. Finally, supported by the theories of learning, and the development and explication of a successful teaching model, a new approach to teaching students how to work in live television is proposed and substantiated.
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Lloyd, Robbie, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and Centre for Cultural Research. "Going walkabout through the suburbs." THESIS_CAESS_CR_Lloyd_R.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/484.
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This work explores human consciousness, using a framework of the Structure of Feelings and Experience developed from the work of Raymond Williams and Bernard Smith. It then examines aspects of the consciousness of the Mentally Ill, the Intellectually Disabled, Addicted and Indigenous people, with three aims: 1/. To identify a model of consciousness which reflects the major indicators arising from the structure of feelings and experience, and those arising from consideration of the four subject groups, representing the plurality of human consciousness. 2/. To explore some of the lessons for mainstream citizens, arising from alternative aspects of consciousness, both positive and negative, which these groups exhibit. 3/. To suggest ways the model of consciousness can be used to empower those with mental illness, or intellectual disability, by acknowledging and strengthening their opportunities to take responsibility for their lives. By engaging them more in active roles in the planning and delivery of their health, rehabilitation and community services. And to illustrate some examples of practical applications of person-valuing and spirit-engaging healing and empowering processes, used in groups in Australia and overseas, which point to ways of improving health and rehabilitation policy and practice in AustraliaMaster of Arts (Hons)
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Forsyth, Guy, and N/A. "A minimalist sui generis legislative proposal for the application of common law principles to the protection of computer software." University of Canberra. Law, 1998. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20090714.142532.
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This thesis examines the development of copyright and patent protection in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia and proposes that intellectual property is not the correct mechanism for protecting computer software. Both copyright and patent protection are evaluated in relation to their application to protecting the various elements of software.
The increased desire for patent protection of software in the United States has recently impacted the debate over the correct regime for intellectual property protection. There has also been a corresponding restriction in the application of copyright protection by the courts. Combined with an undercurrent of sui generis software legislation being advocated by academia this has lead to the situation where there is continuing uncertainty over which method of protection should be provided for software.
It will be shown that copyright is inadequate for the protection of computer software and that it does not address the correct element requiring protection. Patents, by corollary, provide protection that is excessive. The socio-economic effects of patent protection will be shown to demonstrate that it is not a worthy successor or adjunct to copyright. While copyright has attempted to protect one aspect (source code) patents have attempted to protect another (functionality). The thesis identifies the fundamental flaws in the protection offered by both regimes and proposes that they are equally unsuitable for the protection of software.
Software will be shown to possess a diverse array of elements that are largely indivisible if adequate protection is to be provided. It is proposed that software be considered as a new form of property, referred to as Binary property, which covers informational and information processing entities. Further, the existing common law principles should be applied to the aspects that are at the heart of the intellectual property protection dilemma. In reality the elements requiring protection in software are activities that wrongfully duplicate a work or replicate it to create clones. It will be shown that the common law principles of theft, trespass, breach of contract and passing-off are suitable for protecting developers from these infringements. It will also be contended that any legislative intervention should be limited so that a certain degree of replication is allowable where there is a benefit to society through technological
advancement or enhancement through standardisation. As such the application of common law principles are applied in a minimalist legalistic environment.
The minimalist approach takes the position that there should be minimal legislative intervention in the computer industry. It proposes that there should be legislative intervention to enable the existing common law to take account of computer technology and provide for its continuing impact on society that will accelerate into the next millennium. It further shows that the continuing development of computer technology will outpace intellectual property necessitating the recognition of computer software as a unique form of new property in existing jurisprudence. The application of existing common law principles of property and the reduction in the monopolistic nature of intellectual property will not only benefit the highly dynamic and creative international computer industry but it will also be in the best interests of the Australian software development industry.
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Merlyn, Teri, and n/a. "Writing Revolution: The British Radical Literary Tradition as the Seminal Force in the Development of Adult Education, its Australian Context, and the Life and Work of Eric Lambert." Griffith University. School of Vocational, Technology and Arts Education, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040616.131738.
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This thesis tells the story of an historical tradition of radical literacy and literature that is defined as the British radical literary tradition. It takes the meaning of literature at its broadest understanding and identifies the literary and educational relations of what E.P. Thompson terms 'the making of the English working class' through its struggle for literacy and freedom. The study traces the developing dialectic of literary radicalism and the emergent hegemony of capitalism through the dissemination of radical ideas in literature and a groundswell of public literacy. The proposed radical tradition is defined by the oppositional stance of its participants, from the radical intellectual's critical texts to the striving for literacy and access to literature by working class people. This oppositional discourse emerged in the fourteenth century concomitant with nascent capitalism and has its literary origins in utopian vision. This nascent utopian imagination conceived a democratic socialism that underpinned the character of much of the following oppositional discourse. The thesis establishes the nexus of the oppositional discourse as a radical literary tradition and the earliest instances of adult education in autodidacticism and informal adult education. The ascent of middle class power through the industrial revolution is shadowed by the corresponding descent of the working class into poverty. Concomitant with this social polarisation is the phenomena of working class literary agency as the means to political and economic agency. While Protestant dissenting groups such as the Diggers and Levellers were revolutionary activists, it was Methodism that formed a bulwark against revolution. Yet it was their emphasis on self-improvement that contributed to an increasingly literate populace. Radical texts produced and disseminated by individuals and organisations and read by autodidactics and informal reading groups are seminal in the formation of a working class identity. Spearheaded by the Chartist movement, education became a central ethic of working class politics and the civil struggle for economic and political justice throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth centuries. The avant garde movements of the early twentieth century are analysed as a strand of this tradition. The narrative of the thesis then moves to the penal colony of Australia and explores the radical literary tradition's development there. Early colonial culture is seen as having a strong impetus towards a developing a native literary expression of the new land. Where conservative colonial literature struggled to differentiate itself from formal British literary models, the radical heritage and its utopian vision of a working man's paradise gave definitive expression to the Australian experience. This expression was strongly influenced by Chartist ideals. The British radical literary tradition is thus seen to have had a dominant influence in the development of a native radical literary tradition that strove to identify the national character. Socialist thought developed in Australia in concert with that in the parent culture, and anarchist and libertarian trends found a ready home amongst independent minded colonials. Yet, in preventing the formation of a native aristocracy the small radical population made a compromise with liberalism that saw a decidedly conservative streak develop in the early labour movement. There were little in the way of sophisticated radical literary offerings at first, but from the mid-nineteenth century a vanguard of radicals produced a thriving native press and other fugitive text forms. At the turn of the century the native radical literary tradition was vibrantly diverse, with a definitive style that claimed literary ownership of the Australian character. However, exhausted by the battles over WWI conscription and isolated by censorship, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was able to subsume the vanguard position from the socialists. The Party laid claim to the Australian radical literary tradition, at once both strengthening it with the discipline of a Marxist ideology and diminishing its independence and diversity. Party literary theory centred upon the issue of class, developing a doctrine of socialist realism that communist writers were expected to practice. How well a writer adhered to socialist realist principles became a measure of their class position and loyalty. Drawing more from primary sources, the thesis develops an analysis of the intellectual development of the Australian post-WWII writer Eric Lambert through his experience of class instability during Depression and war. The study examines Lambert's decision to join the Party and his literary response to his experiences of war, the Party, the turmoil of 1956 and life after the Party. Lambert's body of work is then analysed as the unintentional memoir of a writer working as an adult educator in the radical literary tradition. Lambert's struggles, for artistic independence within the narrow precepts of Party dogma and with class tensions, were common amongst intellectuals committed to the communist cause. Like many of his peers, Lambert resigned from the Party at the end of 1956 and suffered a period of ideological vacuum. However, he continued to write as a Marxian educator, seeking to reveal that which makes us human in the humanity of ordinary people. It is concluded that, while the Party did much to foster disciplined cohesion, the mutual distrust it generated amongst its intellectuals suppressed the independent thought that had kept the radical literary tradition alive. Although the Party developed an ideological strength within the radical literary tradition, its dominance over thirty years and subsequent fall from grace acted to fragment and discredit that centuries-old tradition which it subsumed. An argument is made for a reinvestment of the centrality of the radical literary tradition in the education of adults for the maintenance of social justice and the democratic project.
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Kanake, Sarah J. "Sing fox to me : an investigation into the "use" of Down Syndrome in both the Down Syndrome and Gothic novel." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/75916/1/Sarah%20Kanake%20Thesis.pdf.
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This project investigates the current borders around and within, what I have in this exegesis termed, "the Down Syndrome novel", using a close reading analysis of literary texts containing characters with Down syndrome and contextualised by theoretical works drawn from both disability and literary theory. This practice-led thesis introduces and discusses select fictional characters with Down syndrome from numerous genres, revealing them as highly contained, or "boundaried", spoken for, and generally used for narrative conflict rather than included as individuals with agency and a legitimate, autonomous voice and narrative point of view. In reframing the Australian landscape as "disabled" this exegesis illustrates that the Australian Gothic novel can shift, and sometimes even remove, the boundary around characters with intellectual disabilities, allowing a space where the stories of characters with Down syndrome can emerge.
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Shay, Richard Michael. "Users' entitlements under the fair dealing exceptions to copyright." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/71691.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis analyses current South African copyright law to ascertain the proper interpretation and application of the fair dealing provisions contained in the Copyright Act 98 of 1978. Copyright law ensures that authors’ works are not used without their consent, which they can grant subject to compensation or conditions attached to the use. Fair dealing exceptions allow the general public to use copyright works for certain purposes without the copyright owner’s consent and without paying compensation. These provisions are intended to balance copyright owners’ interests with the interest that members of the public have in using copyright works for socially beneficial purposes. These provisions typically allow the use of a copyright work for the purposes of research or private study, personal or private use, criticism and review, and news reporting. Unfortunately there is no South African case law concerning the fair dealing provisions, and the application of these exceptions remains unclear. This study aims to clarify the extent of application of the fair dealing exceptions to copyright infringement so that courts may be more willing to consider foreign and international law and in doing so develop South African intellectual property law. The social and economic policy considerations underlying the fair dealing exceptions are considered to determine their function. International conventions relating to copyright and neighbouring rights are examined, specifically the provisions allowing exceptions to copyright. The legislation and case law of Australia and the United Kingdom are analysed to determine the proper interpretation and application of these statutory defences. This knowledge is then used to inform South African law. The Copyright Act 98 of 1978 does not contain a fair dealing exception for parody and satire. Australian legislation does contain such an exception, and it is analysed in that context. An exception for parody is proposed for South African law, and the need for and application of this provision is considered. The constitutionality of the proposed exception is evaluated in terms of its impact on the constitutional property rights of copyright owners.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek Suid-Afrikaanse outeursreg om die behoorlike uitleg en toepassing van die “billike gebruik”-bepalings in die Wet op Outeursreg 98 van 1978 te bepaal. Outeursreg beskerm die werk van ʼn outeur teen ongemagtigde gebruik van haar intellektuele eiendom. Gebruik kan deur die outeur gemagtig word, òf teen vergoeding òf onderhewig aan bepaalde voorwaardes. Artikels 12-19B (die billike gebruik-bepalings) van die Wet op Outeursreg laat ander toe om sekere werke te gebruik sonder die toestemming van die eienaar van die werk en sonder om vergoeding te betaal. Die bepalings streef om ʼn balans te tref tussen die belange van die outeur en die belange van die publiek. ʼn Werk mag volgens hierdie bepalings tipies gebruik word vir die doeleindes van navorsing of private studie, persoonlike of private gebruik, beoordeling of resensie, of om nuus te rapporteer. Daar is tans geen Suid-Afrikaanse regspraak rakende hierdie uitsonderings nie, en hul toepassing is dus onseker. Hierdie tesis beoog om die werking van die billike gebruik-bepalings duidelik uiteen te sit om hoër gewilligheid in howe te skep om internasionale en buitelandse reg toe te pas, en sodoende Suid-Afrikaanse immateriële goederereg te ontwikkel. Die sosiale en ekonomiese beleidsoorwegings wat die bepalings ondersteun word geanaliseer om die doel daarvan te bepaal. Internasionale outeursreg-verdragte word bespreek om ʼn raamwerk vir die uitsonderings te skep. Wetgewing en regspraak van Australië en die Verenigde Koninkryk word ondersoek, en die kennis wat daar opgedoen word, word toegepas op die Suid-Afrikaanse bepalings. Die Wet op Outeursreg 98 van 1978 bevat geen uitsondering vir die doeleindes van parodie en satire nie. Die Australiese Wet op Outeursreg 63 van 1968 bevat wel so ʼn uitsondering, en dit word in hierdie verband beoordeel. ʼn Uitsondering vir parodie en satire word voorgestel en oorweeg in die konteks van Suid-Afrikaanse outeursreg. Die grondwetlikheid van die voorgestelde uitsondering word bepaal na aanleiding van die impak wat dit sal hê op outeurs se eiendomsreg.
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Karsono, Sony. "Setting History Straight? Indonesian Historiography in the new Order." Ohio : Ohio University, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1127249724.
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Jeevanandam, Lohsnah. "Burnout, coping, self-efficacy, attitudes towards people with disabilities, and negative psychological variables in service providers working with people with intellectual disability : a cross-national compariosn across Australia and Singapore /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19642.pdf.
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Yang, Manuel. "Yoshimoto Taka’aki, Communal Illusion, and the Japanese New Left." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1122656731.
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Loff, Beatrice. "Health and human rights : case studies in the potential contribution of a human rights framework to the analysis of health questions." Monash University, Dept. of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 2004. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/5291.
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Brown, Nicholas. "Possess the time : the formation and character of Australian intellectual conservatism in the 1950s." Phd thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112121.
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This thesis studies intellectual conservatism in Australia in the 1950s and, by placing the emphasis on the
cultural and institutional response to social change, examines realignments in social analysis rather than its
ideological dimension. Commentaries on six issues are discussed to assess the range and character of
conservatism, and its relationship to social change. These issues are: reactions to Asian nationalism;
administrative priorities in Papua New Guinea; the economic policies recommended in times of prosperity;
the decentralisation campaigns; post-war concepts of citizenship and ‘personality’; and the social role of
the universities. The argument of this thesis is that the reaction of the commentators to these issues, and
their careers, values and strategies in analysis, indicate that intellectual conservatism at that time
represented elements of a continuation of an earlier period of intellectual reformism and not a radical break
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Anderson, Jane Elizabeth. "The production of indigenous knowledge in intellectual property law /." 2003. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20050207.144548/index.html.
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Kongka, Palanuch. "Exploring the effects of voluntary disclosures on hidden value: an analysis of Australian and Thai listed companies." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1036833.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Intangible assets generate most of corporate growth and shareholder value while stakeholders’ concerns about social and environmental issues have increased significantly around the globe. Current accounting standards are unable to capture the financial or other consequences of these two issues, resulting in a difference between book value and market value of a listed entity. The difference has been termed ‘hidden value’. Lev and Rubenstein suggested that management should disclose supplementary information to their stakeholders to increase their knowledge of the intangible assets as well as the consequences of social and environmental activities undertaken by the firm to explain the difference between market and book values. The purpose of this thesis was to investigate whether voluntary disclosures in relation to intellectual capital and the community and environment made by 41 listed companies (20 Australian and 21 Thai companies) increased the knowledge of stakeholders and so impacted on hidden value. The findings of this study showed that listed Australian firms disclosed more voluntary sentences than Thai firms. These voluntary disclosures particularly those concerning intellectual capital before the global financial crisis statistically (positively) affected hidden value. This finding demonstrates that voluntary information may minimise the imperfections of accounting practices. The voluntary disclosures were descriptive, largely selective and self-laudatory.
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Rillotta, Fiona. "Family quality of life of Australian families with a member with an intellectual/developmental disability: measurement issues." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/65626.
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The main aim of this thesis was to investigate factors that affect the quality of life (QOL) of families with a member with an intellectual and/ or developmental disability. A second aim was to compare the validities of two established instruments designed to assess Family Quality of Life (FQOL): the international FQOL Survey: Main caregivers of people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (FQOLS-2006; I. Brown et al., 2006) and the Beach Center FQOL Scale (Beach Center on Disability, 2003). Qualitative and quantitative FQOL data were collected by interviewing main caregivers of family members with an intellectual/ developmental disability in South Australia. Results confirmed the need for multi-dimensional measures of FQOL, as contained in both surveys. The results also suggested that FQOL is more accurately assessed using the surveys in an interview format. The need for a combination of measurement concepts including satisfaction and attainment of FQOL, as in the FQOLS-2006, was also supported. Suggested improvements to the surveys included separating questions about practical and emotional support for other people and asking about the past, as well as parenting issues. The FQOL of Australian families assessed in this study was found to be significantly affected by having a member with an intellectual/ developmental disability. For example, families reported concerns such as not knowing where or how to obtain particular services, and the need for medical professionals specialising in intellectual/developmental disability. The results confirmed the need to measure FQOL of families with a member with an intellectual/ developmental disability in order for disability- related services to be better
informed to support such families. Results also suggested ways in which existing and new measures of FQOL could more comprehensively assess the QOL of families with a member with an intellectual/ developmental disability. The outcomes of such measurement could lead to significantly improved individual and FQOL.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 2010
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Bose, Sanjoy. "A valuation process for intellectual property in a technology park environment." Thesis, 2004. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/16092/.
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With the rapid development of the global economy, intellectual capital has become a critical driver of a business's sustainability. The essential difference between companies operating in the 'old' and the 'new' economy is that, where value in the past was created within industrial sectors such as manufacturing, education, retail, wholesale and financial services, value in the future will be created primarily from the application of knowledge. Increasingly, the main assets of 'smart' companies will be in the form of intellectual, and not physical, capital. Technology development is a logical product of intellectual capital. Thus, in the new economic paradigm, companies perceive technology developments as necessary commercial activities to underpin their competitive standings, and provide a platform for economic growth, profitability and shareholder value. However, the development of commercially viable intellectual capital projects also requires substantial investments in intellectual property, often without certainties of success. Since valuation techniques and processes are crucial for business investments, this paper evaluates the various methods that are currently used to value intellectual capital and intellectual property, and finds that, in view of substantial inadequacies, there has arisen an imperative need to develop a n e w process for valuing these.
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Niblett, Michael. "Text and context : some issues in Warlpiri ethnography." Master's thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112873.
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This thesis is concerned with the way in which particular aspects of Warlpiri ethnography have been
inescapably contextualised by intellectual, institutional and political conditions of
anthropological practice. Recent literature has opened up new perspectives on the relation between
ethnography and its subjects. These concerns do not, however, address the broader political
implications of anthropological representation, nor the means by which one form or style of
ethnographic writing and analysis rather than another becomes dominant and accepted as valid.
Certain conventions developed internationally were decisive in constraining the means by which
anthropological knowledge could be constructed and communicated. This situation went largely
unrecognised by anthropologists, participating as they were within unquestioned historically and
politically determined parameters "authorised" by the Anglophone interpretive community. The
dominance of this paradigm was transferred to Australia, where national considerations too shaped
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Kemp, Paul William. "Paul Kelly and George Megalogenis: media intellectuals in Australian politics." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/115369.
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Paul Kelly and George Megalogenis are Australian journalists and political historians who have been influential in their interpretation of contemporary Australian political history. This thesis supports the claim made – sometimes critically – by scholars ranging from James Walter to Robert Manne, and politicians ranging from Gareth Evans to Tony Abbott, as well as fellow elite journalists, that they have both been significant figures in articulating, in Australian political discourse, the effectiveness of market-orientated policies as the foundation of national political and economic success since 1991. Their central point is that the Australian version of what may be categorised as neoliberal policies, which Kelly has called `Australian exceptionalism’ and Megalogenis has labelled variously `pragmatic deregulation’ and `the Australian miracle’, constitutes a unique achievement in Australian history. The research finds this remains, with some caveats, a valid interpretation.
Yet, as the first comprehensive survey of their books and journalism, it also finds the former have some limitations; particularly that insufficient attention is given to the problems of political disengagement, economic insecurity, inequality and the effect of the media on political discourse. Nonetheless, it finds their books remain valuable as historico-qualitative accounts of Australian executive government, from the Whitlam government onwards, and they have strengths that give them continuing relevance alongside current and subsequent academic histories that offer explanations from a broader range of perspectives.
The research also addresses criticisms concerning their role as journalists for The Australian, Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited’s flagship newspaper. A content analysis of their commentary demonstrates that while their journalism is, on economic matters, broadly in line with their employer’s ideological world view, they are also practitioners of what American scholars call `knowledge journalism’. That is, they bring a degree of contextual explanation and analysis to their commentary which enhances debate in the Australian political public sphere – even in an era of declining newspaper revenues and readerships where their salience in the space of opinion has clearly waned.
The thesis also adds to the literature on public intellectuals in Australia and finds they should be classified as such on a number of grounds. Specifically, it confirms the assessment that they operate as `organic’ intellectuals who, in effect, speak to the elite group of politicians, political operatives, policy-actors, journalists and politically-engaged voters who constitute the political class. Their championing of a particular model of political leadership and economically liberal policy directions has indeed been referenced and recruited by a range of politicians, journalists and policy actors. The research confirms their status as `super achievers’ among Australian political journalists stems from a range of factors including: their skills across a range of media platforms; recognition from journalistic peers; access to the highest levels of official power and their commitment to writing political `history of the present.’ It is this status which underpins their authority as media intellectuals in the increasingly complex and multifaceted space of mass-mediated opinion that is a central feature Australian federal politics.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 2017
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Bartie, Susan Maree. "The Political Enterprise of Theory and Education within Australia’s Discipline of Law." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2440/136350.
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This thesis explains how three prominent legal scholars, each professors of legal theory, responded to surrounding political conditions to strengthen the discipline of law in Australia. It investigates the careers of Professor Peter Brett, who held the Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Melbourne, Professor Alice Erh-Soon Tay, who held the Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Melbourne, and Professor Geoffrey Sawer, who headed the Department of Law in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. As fully explained in the body of this thesis, these three scholars were selected because the positions they held and their theoretical dispositions made them obvious candidates for achieving change in the way that law was conceptualised, taught and studied within Australian universities. A central question addressed in this thesis is whether they ought to be considered pioneers and, if so, on what basis. This thesis also considers whether any of these scholars failed to capitalise on the opportunities afforded to them and whether such failures might explain why the discipline moved in one direction rather than another. By answering these questions this thesis provides a richer and deeper understanding of the way in which the discipline of law has evolved in Australia in the second half of the 20th century. This thesis argues that each of these legal scholars made novel and distinctively Australian contributions to legal theory, legal education, law school management and the community that ought to be recognised as part of broader thinking about the history of the discipline. In so doing it exposes the reductionist tendencies found in other histories of the discipline. By combining life histories of three legal scholars with broader contemplation of the discipline of law within Australia, it makes a new and novel contribution to the understanding of the founding of modern university legal education and scholarship within Australia.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Adelaide Law School, 2016
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Kent, Penny. "Measuring quality of life : developing a questionnaire to measure satisfaction with lifestyle of people with an intellectual disability." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/122261.
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Zhao, Fangwei. "Tsiang Tingfu : une vie intellectuelle et politique (1895-1937)." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/19264.
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Dans l’histoire de la République de Chine, Tsiang Tingfu était un historien et un critique politique, en même temps, il était un politicien représentatif dans la grande vague des « experts en politique ». Ce mémoire se concentre sur sa pensée et ses expériences dans la première moitié de sa vie. Pendant cette période, Tsiang a présenté les caractères de la maturité et l’activité dans sa pensée. En particulier, dans les années de 1930, il a déjà préconisé la pensée la plus importante qui a provoqué un gros débat entre les intellectuels chinois. Au travers des expériences de Tsiang de suivre les études, on fait ressortir que la culture traditionnelle chinoise et la nouvelle éducation occidentale ont conjointement influencé sa pensée. Dans ce mémoire, on analyse ses opinions et ses pratiques en politique et trouve que les noyaux de sa pensée consistent au nationalisme et à son intention de la modernisation chinoise. Au fur et à mesure de l’aggravation de l’invasion japonaise en Chine, la sauvegarde de la nation a occupé la position centrale dans ses opinions, et sa pensée a été devenue conservatrice. En 1935, stimulé par son sens de responsabilité comme un intellectuel, Tsiang a participé au gouvernement nationaliste chinois et a servi ce régime jusqu’à sa retraite.Tsiang Tingfu was a historian and political critic. In the history of the Republic of China, he was also a representative politician in the wave of "scholar-bureaucrat". This thesis focuses on his thoughts and his experiences in the first half of his life when Tsiang exhibited characteristics of maturity and activity in his thinking. In particular, in the 1930s, as one of the leaders of the public opinion in China, he had advocated most of his important thoughts which triggered a heated discussion among the Chinese intellectuals. Through investigating each step in his educational career, we come to the conclusion that both the Chinese traditional culture and the Western education had shaped his later political and social thinking. By examining his principle political thoughts and his social practices, it is also found that the core of his thoughts lies in the nationalism and his intention of Chinese modernization. As the Japanese invasion intensified in China, saving the nation became his superior value and his thought therefore turned to the conservative. In 1935, prompted by the sense of responsibility as an intellectual, Tsiang participated in the Nationalist government and had served it until his retirement.
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"Chen Duxiu's early years: The importance of personal connections in the social and intellectual transformation of China 1895--1920." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/61867.
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Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), is without question one of the most significant figures in modern Chinese history. Yet his early life has been curiously neglected in Western scholarship. In this dissertation I examine the political, social and intellectual networks that played such an important role in his early career---a career that witnessed his transformation from a classical scholar in the Qing dynasty (1644-1912), to a reformer, to a revolutionary, to a renowned writer and editor, to a university dean, to a founder of the Chinese Communist Party, all in the space of about two decades.