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Ralli, Tony. "The Impact of the Australian Bibliographic Network on Australian Libraries." Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues 8, no. 1 (April 1996): 35–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095574909600800103.
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From its small beginnings in 1981 of six pilot users and the National Library of Australia (NLA), the Australian Bibliographic Network (ABN) has grown to be a truly national system, with 1,315 users at May 1995. The National Bibliographic Database has expanded to over 11 million records and 22 million holdings statements. It includes records from the USA, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam. It has come to be the single union list of holdings of Australian libraries, and the first point of reference for the majority of interlibrary loan transactions. The ABN is seen as both an NLA business and a cooperative undertaking of Australian libraries. Management consists of a Network Committee, which advises the Director General of NLA on all aspects of operation, and a Standards Committee, whose role is to make recommendations to NLA on cataloguing standards for the network. Annual Users' Meetings are held. Since 1987 NLA has been developing a database host for Australian libraries called OZLINE, in parallel with ABN. In 1990 it was decided to go for complete redevelopment using a text retrieval product and an industry standard Relational Database Management System. Following discussions with the National Library of New Zealand, which had indicated broadly similar requirements, it was agreed that the two libraries would jointly seek a system. The Australian service is to be known in future as WORLD 1.
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Stein, J. L., M. F. Hutchinson, and J. A. Stein. "A new stream and nested catchment framework for Australia." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 10, no. 12 (December 17, 2013): 15433–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hessd-10-15433-2013.
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Abstract. Nationally framed assessment and planning assists coordination of resource management activities across jurisdictional boundaries and provides context for assessing the cumulative effects of impacts that can be underestimated by local or regional studies. However, there were significant shortcomings in the existing spatial frameworks supporting national assessment and planning for Australia's rivers and streams. We describe the development of a new national stream and nested catchment framework for Australia that includes a fully connected and directed stream network and a nested catchment hierarchy derived using a modified Pfafstetter scheme. The directed stream network with associated catchment boundaries and Pfafstetter coding respect all distributary junctions and topographically driven surface flow pathways including across the areas of low relief and internal drainage that make up over half of the Australian continent. The Pfafstetter coding facilitates multi-scale analyses and easy tracing and query of upstream/downstream attributes and tributary/main stem relationships. Accompanying the spatial layers are 13 lookup tables containing nearly 400 attributes describing the natural and anthropogenic environment of each of the 1.4M stream segments across the Australian continent at multiple spatial scales (segment, sub-catchment and catchment). The database supplies key spatial layers to support national water information and accounting needs and assists a wide range of research, planning and assessment tasks at regional and continental scales. These include the delineation of reporting units for the Australian Water Resources Assessment, the development of an ecohydrological environment classification for Australian streams and the identification of high conservation value aquatic ecosystems for northern Australia.
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Ladwig, James G., and Vivienne White. "Integrating Research and Development in the National Schools Network." Australian Journal of Education 40, no. 3 (November 1996): 302–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494419604000307.
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Amidst a host of recent teacher professional development initiatives in Australia, the National Schools Network (NSN) can be seen as a major educational reform program. Funded by the commonwealth and state systems, the NSN is a national network providing support for over 200 Australian schools that are rethinking their work organisations and teaching and learning practices in order to improve learning outcomes for students and teachers. A key aspect of the NSN's work has been to link the professional development of teachers with a systematic research program which focuses on issues of organisational change and restructuring. This paper reports on the ongoing development of the NSN, place its work within the larger national and international educational reform agenda, and provides an overview of the Network's strategic rationale for its research and development programs.
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Perry, Barbara. "The Pictorial Collection of the National Library of Australia." Art Libraries Journal 13, no. 1 (1988): 23–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200005526.
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The National Library of Australia at Canberra includes a Pictorial Collection comprising paintings, drawings, prints and photographs which illustrate the history of Australia. The Collection is being actively developed, the ultimate goal being a comprehensive visual record of all aspects of Australian life. The Collection is open to the public, and is served by a photographic unit; a selection of pictures are always on display, and items are lent to exhibitions elsewhere. A publications programme is to culminate in the production of an illustrated catalogue. Data on selected items in the Collection is being entered into the Australian Bibliographic Network database.
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Stein, J. L., M. F. Hutchinson, and J. A. Stein. "A new stream and nested catchment framework for Australia." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 18, no. 5 (May 22, 2014): 1917–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-1917-2014.
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Abstract. Nationally framed assessment and planning assists coordination of resource management activities across jurisdictional boundaries and provides context for assessing the cumulative effects of impacts that can be underestimated by local or regional studies. However, there have been significant shortcomings in the existing spatial frameworks supporting national assessment and planning for Australia's rivers and streams. We describe the development of a new national stream and nested catchment framework for Australia that includes a fully connected and directed stream network and a nested catchment hierarchy derived using a modified Pfafstetter scheme. The directed stream network with associated catchment boundaries and Pfafstetter coding respect all distributary junctions and topographically driven surface flow pathways, including those in the areas of low relief and internal drainage that make up over half of the Australian continent. The Pfafstetter coding facilitates multi-scale analyses and easy tracing and query of upstream/downstream attributes and tributary/main stem relationships. Accompanying the spatial layers are 13 lookup tables containing nearly 400 attributes describing the natural and anthropogenic environment of each of the 1.4 M stream segments at multiple spatial scales (segment, sub-catchment and catchment). The database supplies key spatial layers to support national water information and accounting needs and assists a wide range of research, planning and assessment tasks at regional and continental scales. These include the delineation of reporting units for the Australian Water Resources Assessment, the development of an ecohydrological environment classification for Australian streams and the identification of high conservation value aquatic ecosystems for northern Australia.
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Fan, Qiuyan. "The Impact of Australia’s Government Policy on Broadband Internet Access." Journal of Information Technology Research 6, no. 4 (October 2013): 18–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jitr.2013100102.
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The Australian government has recognised the importance of broadband for their social and economic development. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of policy issues on broadband Internet access in Australia. This research has clearly indicated that the state of broadband Internet access is closely related to the Government’s policy and regulatory framework. The Government based its actions on market forces as a principal driver for broadband Internet connectivity. The research has indicated that the previous regulatory competition regime, by and large, has failed to address concerns of market dominance and market power in the Telecommunications sector as is evidenced by a relatively lower speed and value of broadband services in Australia. To rectify the situation, the Australian government has recently adopted a unique National Broadband Network (NBN) plan, which is linked to the national digital economy strategy. Australia is the first country in the world where a national broadband network infrastructure company, NBN Co, is regarded as a regulated national infrastructure provider rather than as a telecommunication company. The NBN Co builds and operates an open access, wholesale only and non-discrimination high-speed broadband network, the National Broadband Network (NBN). The Australian Government's goal for the NBN is to reform the telecommunications sector and ensure every home and business across the country has access to the NBN by 2020. This paper examines the policies underlying the NBN and discusses current practices and potential benefits of the NBN.
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Vajda, F. J. E. "The case for an Australian national neurosciences trial network." Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 13, no. 2 (February 2006): 168–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2005.05.010.
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Proctor, R., K. Roberts, and B. J. Ward. "A data delivery system for IMOS, the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System." Advances in Geosciences 28 (September 27, 2010): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-28-11-2010.
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Abstract. The Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS, www.imos.org.au), an AUD $150 m 7-year project (2007–2013), is a distributed set of equipment and data-information services which, among many applications, collectively contribute to meeting the needs of marine climate research in Australia. The observing system provides data in the open oceans around Australia out to a few thousand kilometres as well as the coastal oceans through 11 facilities which effectively observe and measure the 4-dimensional ocean variability, and the physical and biological response of coastal and shelf seas around Australia. Through a national science rationale IMOS is organized as five regional nodes (Western Australia – WAIMOS, South Australian – SAIMOS, Tasmania – TASIMOS, New SouthWales – NSWIMOS and Queensland – QIMOS) surrounded by an oceanic node (Blue Water and Climate). Operationally IMOS is organized as 11 facilities (Argo Australia, Ships of Opportunity, Southern Ocean Automated Time Series Observations, Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders, Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Facility, Australian National Mooring Network, Australian Coastal Ocean Radar Network, Australian Acoustic Tagging and Monitoring System, Facility for Automated Intelligent Monitoring of Marine Systems, eMarine Information Infrastructure and Satellite Remote Sensing) delivering data. IMOS data is freely available to the public. The data, a combination of near real-time and delayed mode, are made available to researchers through the electronic Marine Information Infrastructure (eMII). eMII utilises the Australian Academic Research Network (AARNET) to support a distributed database on OPeNDAP/THREDDS servers hosted by regional computing centres. IMOS instruments are described through the OGC Specification SensorML and where-ever possible data is in CF compliant netCDF format. Metadata, conforming to standard ISO 19115, is automatically harvested from the netCDF files and the metadata records catalogued in the OGC GeoNetwork Metadata Entry and Search Tool (MEST). Data discovery, access and download occur via web services through the IMOS Ocean Portal (http://imos.aodn.org.au) and tools for the display and integration of near real-time data are in development.
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Hobbs, David A., Jo K. Close, Andrew R. Downing, Karen J. Reynolds, and Lloyd T. Walker. "Developing a national research and development centre in assistive technologies for independent living." Australian Health Review 33, no. 1 (2009): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah090152.
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Assistive technology (AT) plays a pivotal role in the lives of people who require assistance with one or more aspects of daily living. Ranging from simple devices such as an augmented fork to complex devices like a power wheelchair with integrated environmental control, AT is a broad term to describe a range of products and services that provide assistance. Historically used in the ?disability sector?, in recent years AT devices have merged into the ageing sector as more Australians develop an impairment through ?age-related disability?, creating a larger market for equipment that provides independence or restores lost/reduced functionality. Despite the national focus on ageing, Australia lacks a nationally coordinated and cohesive AT sector ? most AT equipment and devices are imported and the sector struggles for local research, development, and commercialisation funding. In an attempt to address this issue, a network of rehabilitation engineering and AT centres, universities, and industry players formed a collaboration to submit a Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) proposal to drive Australian AT products and services. The main focus was on developing Australian capacity within the sector and creating innovative products that met Australian needs, leading to import replacement. A secondary focus was on providing a national education program to provide ongoing AT training and development across multiple disciplines associated with both disability and ageing.
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Mehrani, Inga, Nicole A. Kochan, Min Yee Ong, John D. Crawford, Sharon L. Naismith, and Perminder S. Sachdev. "Organisational aspects and assessment practices of Australian memory clinics: an Australian Dementia Network (ADNeT) Survey." BMJ Open 11, no. 2 (February 2021): e038624. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038624.
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ObjectivesConducting a national survey of clinicians and administrators from specialised dementia assessment services (memory clinics) in Australia to examine their current organisational aspects and assessment procedures and inform clinical tool harmonisation as part of the Australian Dementia Network—memory clinics project.DesignA cross-sectional survey.SettingPublic and private memory clinics across Australia.Participants150 individual clinicians completed the survey between May and August 2019. Responses could be given anonymously. Most clinics were publicly funded services (83.2%) and in metropolitan regions (70.9%).Outcome measuresDescriptive data on organisational aspects of memory clinics (eg, waiting times, staffing); the three most commonly used assessment tools per assessment type (eg, self-report) and cognitive domain (eg, attention).ResultsSince the last national survey in 2009, the number of memory clinics across Australia has increased substantially but considerable variability has remained with respect to funding structure, staffing and assessment procedures. The average clinic employed 2.4 effective full-time staff (range 0.14–14.0). The reported waiting time for an initial assessment ranged from 1 week to 12 months with a median of 7 weeks. While most clinics (97%) offered follow-up assessments for their clients, only a few (31%) offered any form of cognitive intervention. We identified over 100 different cognitive assessment tools that were used at least ‘sometimes’, with widespread use of well-established core screening tools and a subset of common neuropsychological tests.ConclusionThis paper presents a current snapshot of Australian memory clinics, showing considerable heterogeneity with some common core elements. These results will inform the development of national memory clinic guidelines. Furthermore, our data make a valuable contribution to the international comparison of clinical practice standards and advocate for greater harmonisation to ensure high-quality dementia care.
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Shaw, Margaret. "AARTI: Australian Art Index." Art Libraries Journal 11, no. 1 (1986): 17–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200004454.
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The Australian Art Index, AARTI, is one of a group of data bases within the Ausinet network which will, between them, cover contemporary Australian art and architecture on a national basis. National coverage is possible because of the small size of the Australian population, the existence of people prepared to take on the task with managements to back them and the availability of a network with the flexibility to take data in a wide range of formats. AARTI contains records of four types: monographs, journal articles, exhibitions and artists’ profiles. By April 1985 it contained some 9,500 records available online with a microfiche alternative for non-Ausinet members.
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Cheng, Jian Hui, Ran Zhao, and Cheng Jin. "Enlightenment from Australian Network Security Plan to Chinese Information Security." Advanced Materials Research 756-759 (September 2013): 2542–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.756-759.2542.
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With the development of information technology, the network information security is closely linked with national security. In order to resist the harmful information to safeguard national security, Australian government enforces network security plan. Its network of legal norms and such practices as real-name system, national information security have a certain degree of enlightenment to China.
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McGorry, Patrick D. "Australian Early Psychosis Research Network: national collaboration, international competitive advantage." Medical Journal of Australia 202, no. 4 (March 2015): 170–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja14.00914.
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Rizal Mohd Yusof, Ahmad, Zarina Othman, A. B. Shamsul, and Mohamed Abu Bakar Kassim. "Global Malaysian Studies Network: A Proposal to Australian National University." Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 7, no. 14 (April 12, 2014): 2890–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.19026/rjaset.7.616.
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Chow, Josephine, Debbie Fortnum, Jo-Anne Moodie, Rosemary Simmonds, and Melinda Tomlins. "THE HOME NETWORK: AN AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR HOME THERAPIES." Journal of Renal Care 39, S1 (January 2013): 56–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6686.2013.00339.x.
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Côté, Rochelle R., Xianbi Huang, Yangtao Huang, and Mark Western. "Immigrant network diversity in the land of the fair go." Journal of Sociology 55, no. 2 (December 10, 2018): 199–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783318817684.
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Using data from a first national Australian survey of networks, this article explores factors linked with differential diversity of immigrant social capital. Past international research shows that ethnic minorities have less diverse social capital, an important resource for securing opportunities and getting ahead. A similar research focus has not existed so far in Australia. This article explores social capital in Australia, focusing on immigrants from different world regions. Findings show significant inequalities in social capital across immigrants and that time spent in Australia does not improve these inequalities when compared with those who are native-born. Conclusions posit the need for a greater focus on social capital and ethnic inequality in Australia.
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Morsillo, Robert, and Trevor Barr. "Innovation or disruption? The National Broadband Network comes to Australian TV." International Journal of Digital Television 4, no. 3 (September 1, 2013): 239–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jdtv.4.3.239_1.
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Sivaraman, Vijay, Craig Russell, Iain Collings, and Adam Radford. "Architecting a national optical fiber open-access network: The Australian Challenge." IEEE Network 26, no. 4 (2012): 4–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mnet.2012.6246746.
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Beringer, Jason, Lindsay B. Hutley, Ian McHugh, Stefan K. Arndt, David Campbell, Helen A. Cleugh, James Cleverly, et al. "An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network – OzFlux." Biogeosciences 13, no. 21 (October 31, 2016): 5895–916. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5895-2016.
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Abstract. OzFlux is the regional Australian and New Zealand flux tower network that aims to provide a continental-scale national research facility to monitor and assess trends, and improve predictions, of Australia's terrestrial biosphere and climate. This paper describes the evolution, design, and current status of OzFlux as well as provides an overview of data processing. We analyse measurements from all sites within the Australian portion of the OzFlux network and two sites from New Zealand. The response of the Australian biomes to climate was largely consistent with global studies except that Australian systems had a lower ecosystem water-use efficiency. Australian semi-arid/arid ecosystems are important because of their huge extent (70 %) and they have evolved with common moisture limitations. We also found that Australian ecosystems had a similar radiation-use efficiency per unit leaf area compared to global values that indicates a convergence toward a similar biochemical efficiency. The two New Zealand sites represented extremes in productivity for a moist temperate climate zone, with the grazed dairy farm site having the highest GPP of any OzFlux site (2620 gC m−2 yr−1) and the natural raised peat bog site having a very low GPP (820 gC m−2 yr−1). The paper discusses the utility of the flux data and the synergies between flux, remote sensing, and modelling. Lastly, the paper looks ahead at the future direction of the network and concludes that there has been a substantial contribution by OzFlux, and considerable opportunities remain to further advance our understanding of ecosystem response to disturbances, including drought, fire, land-use and land-cover change, land management, and climate change, which are relevant both nationally and internationally. It is suggested that a synergistic approach is required to address all of the spatial, ecological, human, and cultural challenges of managing the delicately balanced ecosystems in Australasia.
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Moreton-Robinson, Aileen. "National Indigenous Research Knowledges Network (NIRAKN)—Some Reflections and Learnings." International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies 9, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcis.v9i2.135.
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This paper outlines the historical and policy context of the Australian Research Council funded National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN). Key learnings from four years of NIRAKN’s existence are set out, followed by a review of the higher education sector’s Indigenous research capacity building initiatives more generally.
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Ginsburg, Faye. "INDIGENOUS MEDIA FROM U-MATIC TO YOUTUBE: MEDIA SOVEREIGNTY IN THE DIGITAL AGE." Sociologia & Antropologia 6, no. 3 (December 2016): 581–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2238-38752016v632.
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Abstract This article covers a wide range of projects from the earliest epistemological challenges posed by video experiments in remote Central Australia in the 1980s to the emergence of indigenous filmmaking as an intervention into both the Australian national imaginary and the idea of world cinema. It also addresses the political activism that led to the creation of four national indigenous television stations in the early 21st century: Aboriginal People's Television Network in Canada; National Indigenous Television in Australia; Maori TV in New Zealand; and Taiwan Indigenous Television in Taiwan); and considers what the digital age might mean for indigenous people worldwide employing great technological as well as political creativity.
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Gregory, Mark A. "8K Arrives." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 7, no. 1 (March 31, 2019): ii—v. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v7n1.190.
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Papers in the March 2019 issue of the Journal include discussion on the National Broadband Network, technical papers on the Internet, MANET and Cloud security and a fascinating look back at the Eucla Recorder. The history of Australian telecommunications paper covers the Australian Post Office’s involvement in the Apollo 13 emergency and a review of laser developments. In the present day, 8K televisions are set to launch in Australia on 1 April 2019 and in the process move entertainment and telecommunications into the next phase of development. The Journal welcomes contributions.
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Biskup, Peter. "State Libraries in Australia." Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues 6, no. 2 (August 1994): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095574909400600204.
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Australia is a federation of six states, two self-governing territories and a number of external territories. The state libraries were modelled on the British Museum Library and saw themselves as ‘national’ institutions, with a mandate to collect ‘books of all languages and descriptions’. Until the 1950s they remained the backbone of the Australian library system. By 1962, with the expansion of university education, the holdings of the university libraries for the first time equalled the combined resources of the state libraries and the National Library of Australia (NLA). The other development that transformed the post-war library scene was the emergence of the NLA itself from the relative obscurity of the pre-war years. The rivalry that grew up between the state libraries and the NLA was eventually put to rest by a number of factors, including the creation of the Australian Bibliographic Network and the resulting National Bibliographic Database, which made all types of library more interdependent; also the enforced sharing of the new poverty of the 1980s and the early 1990s. However, the state libraries themselves are now better housed, leaner and more efficiently run than they were even a decade ago. The 5.2 million volumes they hold account for almost 13% of the nation's bibliographic resources.
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Greenslade, Diana J. M., Adriana Zanca, Stefan Zieger, and Mark A. Hemer. "Optimising the Australian Wave Observation Network." Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science 68, no. 1 (2018): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/es18010.
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The Australian national in situ wave data network currently consists of 35 platforms distributed around the Australian coastline. At present, all except for five are directional waverider buoys. The spatial density of the observation locations is variable – at a glance, density is higher on the east coast compared to the rest of the coastline. This variability has resulted in some areas of the coastline being well observed and well accounted for in models and wave climate studies and other areas not being observed at all. This work aims to identify potential gaps in the existing wave observing network in order to provide guidance for prospective future deployments. In addition, the technique used allows us to easily identify which are the key locations in the existing network. The method is based on considering the spatial coherence of the wave field determined from a multi-decadal hindcast wave data set. For each modelled data point, correlations between monthly statistics (means and 95th percentiles) of modelled variables (significant wave height, mean period and mean direction) at that location and corresponding modelled variables at each observation site are calculated. Areas of low correlation provide an indication of the key network gaps, i.e. areas where climatological variability of the wave fields is poorly captured by existing observations. Removing locations individually from the network and repeating the analysis can also provide an indication of which are the most important locations in the network (and conversely, which are the least important) to capture the regional climatological variability. Several key gaps are identified, suggesting that most value can be gained by placing additional buoys in these areas. However, it is noted that other factors such as accessibility, areas of maritime industry, and population distribution are also important in selecting sites for new buoy deployments.
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Gregory, Mark A. "Telecommunications Performance Monitoring and Unlimited Data." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 5, no. 1 (March 31, 2017): ii—iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v5n1.95.
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The Australian telecommunications industry has been slow to call for or to adopt new practices and the National Broadband Network has exacerbated the problem of technology adoption lag. There are two key issues facing telecommunication consumers today. The cost of optical networking has significantly reduced over the past five years so there is no justification for the network congestion that occurs on Australian telecommunication networks. To remedy this situation the introduction of performance monitoring is fully supported. It is time for the telecommunications industry to adopt new broadband business models that are based on the provision of unlimited data and a maximum of 90 to 95 per cent utilisation on optical network links.
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Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, Mark McMillan, and David Singh. "Editorial." International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies 9, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcis.v9i2.134.
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The articles in this special edition attempt to capture the key learnings and the legacy of the Australian Research Council ‘Special Research Initiative’ funded by the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN). NIRAKN is a national, inclusive, multidisciplinary hub-and-spokes-model network of Indigenous researchers at various stages of their careers. The significant research problem that the network sought to address was how to harness the power of diverse Indigenous knowledges to build a strong, sustainable cohort of linked, qualified, Indigenous researchers across disciplines and fields, and how to weave that cohort into the very fabric of Australian research.
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Kober, Thilo. "The Australian Cancer Network ?A strategy to improve cancer health outcomes." Australian Health Review 19, no. 2 (1996): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah960113.
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Cancer control in Australia has become a major social priority because of theincreasing impact of cancer on providers and users of health care. In recognition ofthis situation there is now an increased response by government agencies, non-governmentorganisations, health planners and the community at large to focus oncancer as part of a National Health Goals and Targets Strategy for better healthoutcomes in the next century. The following paper explores how the AustralianCancer Network effectively contributes to a national cancer control strategy.
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Holmes, Jim, John Burke, Leith Campbell, and Andrew Hamilton. "Towards a National Broadband Strategy for Australia, 2020-2030." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 8, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 192–269. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v8n4.371.
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This Report has been developed by the TelSoc National Broadband Network (NBN) Futures Group, drawing on substantial work since early 2019 to examine the current state and desirable future of broadband services in Australia. The purpose of the Group and this Report is to ensure Australia’s broadband infrastructure and services continues to develop in a financially responsible and timely manner, delivering value, economic benefit and new services to all Australian residents in all locations and in all economic circumstances. Broadband infrastructure, including the NBN in particular, represents National Critical Infrastructure providing essential services important for the development of a digital economy and online society. All Australians should benefit to the maximum extent in realising the social and economic potential of broadband. Large, long-term investments and programs that address the demand side, as well as the supply side, of broadband require a clear long-term vision and plan (the National Broadband Strategy), supported by a robust bipartisan commitment that endures beyond electoral cycles. The Report is not such a Strategy but is a major contribution towards it. It is addressed to all stakeholders, especially to the Commonwealth Government which has leadership responsibility, and to industry organisations whose involvement is important for success.
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Hiscock, Harriet, Margie H. Danchin, Daryl Efron, Alisha Gulenc, Stephen Hearps, Gary L. Freed, Prescilla Perera, and Melissa Wake. "Trends in paediatric practice in Australia: 2008 and 2013 national audits from the Australian Paediatric Research Network." Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 53, no. 1 (September 4, 2016): 55–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.13280.
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Gregory, Mark A. "Australian Wholesale Telecommunications Reforms." Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 6, no. 2 (June 22, 2018): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/ajtde.v6n2.155.
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The Australian telecommunications market has been reshaped with the introduction of the National Broadband Network (NBN), arguably a short-term renationalisation of the fixed-access telecommunications infrastructure. The NBN rollout commenced in 2009 and is expected to be completed by 2021. The telecommunications market has evolved rapidly as the NBN has taken shape and it is anticipated that the telecommunications industry will seek a period of certainty following the NBN’s completion. This paper considers what the government of the day should do with the NBN after the NBN is built and fully operational in 2022. It discusses four options for the ownership of NBN Co beyond 2022 and describes arguments for and against each option. Telecommunications provides an essential service, is central to the nation’s participation in the global digital economy, and the management of telecommunications infrastructure is a national priority.
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Gregory, Mark A. "Australian Wholesale Telecommunications Reforms." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 6, no. 2 (June 22, 2018): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v6n2.155.
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The Australian telecommunications market has been reshaped with the introduction of the National Broadband Network (NBN), arguably a short-term renationalisation of the fixed-access telecommunications infrastructure. The NBN rollout commenced in 2009 and is expected to be completed by 2021. The telecommunications market has evolved rapidly as the NBN has taken shape and it is anticipated that the telecommunications industry will seek a period of certainty following the NBN’s completion. This paper considers what the government of the day should do with the NBN after the NBN is built and fully operational in 2022. It discusses four options for the ownership of NBN Co beyond 2022 and describes arguments for and against each option. Telecommunications provides an essential service, is central to the nation’s participation in the global digital economy, and the management of telecommunications infrastructure is a national priority.
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Scott, Olan, Andrew Billings, Qingru Xu, Stirling Sharpe, and Melvin Lewis. "Relaying Rio Through an Australian Gaze: Australian Nationalistic Broadcast Focus in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games." Communication & Sport 7, no. 2 (January 16, 2018): 198–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479517753117.
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This study explored how potential national biases unfolded within the Australian broadcast of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. Applying social identity theory and self-categorization theory, this study content analyzed a total of 45 prime time broadcast hours of Australia’s Seven Network’s coverage of the Rio Games. Although the majority of top 20 most-mentioned athletes were Australian, non-Australian athletes were mentioned more frequently regarding total name mentions. Moreover, Australian athletes and non-Australian athletes were described in significantly different manners when ascribing reasons for athletic success and failure. This study contributed to the literature by uncovering how in-group members were portrayed in the Australian sports context while also providing insight into how consumers’ media consumption could potentially affect how the network broadcast the Olympics from a nationally partisan perspective.
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Hopper, John L., Debra L. Foley, Paul A. White, and Vincent Pollaers. "Australian Twin Registry: 30 Years of Progress." Twin Research and Human Genetics 16, no. 1 (December 3, 2012): 34–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/thg.2012.121.
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The Australian Twin Registry (ATR) is a national volunteer resource of twin pairs and higher-order multiples willing to consider participating in health, medical, and scientific research. The vision of the ATR is ‘to realize the full potential of research involving twins to improve the health and well-being of all Australians’. The ATR has been funded continuously by the National Health and Medical Council for more than 30 years. Its core functions entail the recruitment and retention of twin members, the maintenance of an up-to-date database containing members’ contact details and baseline information, and the promotion and provision of open access to researchers from all institutes in Australia, and their collaborators, in a fair and equitable manner. The ATR is administered by The University of Melbourne, which acts as custodian. Since the late 1970s the ATR has enrolled more than 40,000 twin pairs of all zygosities and facilitated more than 500 studies that have produced at least 700 peer-reviewed publications from classical twin studies, co-twin control studies, within-pair comparisons, twin family studies, longitudinal twin studies, randomized controlled trials, and epigenetics studies, as well as studies of issues specific to twins. New initiatives include: a Health and Life Style Questionnaire; data collection, management, and archiving using a secure online software program (The Ark); and the International Network of Twin Registries. The ATR's expertise and 30 years of experience in providing services to national and international twin studies has made it an important resource for research across a broad range of disciplines.
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Campbell, Ian. "Telstra's Future Mode of Operation - the transformation of the Telstra's Network - 1992/93." Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 5, no. 4 (December 25, 2017): 18–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/ajtde.v5n4.123.
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The Australian & Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (AOTC), later Telstra, was established on 1st January, 1992, as a government owned corporation and as the national telecommunications carrier.At the same time the Australian telecommunications market was deregulated and network competition was expected to begin within several months.Studies had indicated that AOTC's inter-exchange network was perhaps five years behind similar networks in the USA and uncompetitive with the network to be built by the incoming competitor, Optus Communications (Optus).AOTC's first Chief Executive Officer, Frank Blount, was an experienced senior executive of A&T, one of the most respected telecommunications businesses in the world, which had been operating in the highly competitive telecommunications market in the USA over the previous eight years. Blount decided that one of his highest priorities, if not the highest, was a major transformation of the AOTC's inter-exchange network.Within seven months the AOTC board approved Plan D, an interim hybrid strategy which broadly achieved what was required for the network to be competitive. Within fourteen months the Board approved the Future Mode of Operation (FMO), a strategy to achieve a fully competitive, almost fully digital inter-exchange network which would approach world parity within five years. The FMO strategy would leap a gap close to ten years within five years.This is the story of the rationale and planning to launch Plan D and the FMO, the building of the first competitive telecommunications network strategy in the Postmaster General's Department (PMG), Telecom Australia (Telecom) and AOTC (Telstra) in over 90 years.
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Campbell, Ian. "Telstra's Future Mode of Operation - the transformation of the Telstra's Network - 1992/93." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 5, no. 4 (December 25, 2017): 18–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v5n4.123.
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The Australian & Overseas Telecommunications Corporation (AOTC), later Telstra, was established on 1st January, 1992, as a government owned corporation and as the national telecommunications carrier.At the same time the Australian telecommunications market was deregulated and network competition was expected to begin within several months.Studies had indicated that AOTC's inter-exchange network was perhaps five years behind similar networks in the USA and uncompetitive with the network to be built by the incoming competitor, Optus Communications (Optus).AOTC's first Chief Executive Officer, Frank Blount, was an experienced senior executive of A&T, one of the most respected telecommunications businesses in the world, which had been operating in the highly competitive telecommunications market in the USA over the previous eight years. Blount decided that one of his highest priorities, if not the highest, was a major transformation of the AOTC's inter-exchange network.Within seven months the AOTC board approved Plan D, an interim hybrid strategy which broadly achieved what was required for the network to be competitive. Within fourteen months the Board approved the Future Mode of Operation (FMO), a strategy to achieve a fully competitive, almost fully digital inter-exchange network which would approach world parity within five years. The FMO strategy would leap a gap close to ten years within five years.This is the story of the rationale and planning to launch Plan D and the FMO, the building of the first competitive telecommunications network strategy in the Postmaster General's Department (PMG), Telecom Australia (Telecom) and AOTC (Telstra) in over 90 years.
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Bomba, David, Kurt Svardsudd, and Per Kristiansson. "A comparison of patient attitudes towards the use of computerised medical records and unique identifiers in Australia and Sweden." Australian Journal of Primary Health 10, no. 2 (2004): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py04024.
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This article compares the attitudes of Australian and Swedish patients towards the use of computerised medical records and unique identifiers in medical practices in Australia and Sweden. A Swedish translation of an Australian survey was conducted and results were compared. Surveys were distributed to patients at a medical practice in Sweden in 2003 and compared to the results of an Australian study by Bomba and Land (2003). Results: Based on the survey samples (Australia N=271 and Sweden N=55), 91% of Swedish respondents and 78% of Australian respondents gave a positive appraisal of the use of computers in health care. Of the Swedish respondents, 93% agreed that the computer-based patient record is an essential technology for health care in the future, while 86% of the Australian respondents agreed. Overwhelmingly, 95% of Swedish respondents and 91% of Australian respondents stated that the use of computers did not interfere with the doctor-patient consultation. Both groups preferred biometric identification as the method for uniquely identifying patients but differed in their preferred method to store medical information - a combination of central database and smart card for Australian respondents and central database for Swedish respondents. This analysis indicates that patient attitudes towards the use of computerised medical records and unique identifiers in Australia and Sweden are positive; however, there are concerns over information privacy and security. These concerns need to be taken into account in any future development of a national computer health network.
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Gregory, Mark A. "A Forum on the Future of Australia’s NBN." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 7, no. 2 (June 30, 2019): ii—v. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v7n2.196.
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The future of the $51 billion Australian National Broadband Network (NBN) remains unknown, with the Government still to commit to a course of action after the current build phase. Industry representatives have recently voiced their concerns about a potential future sale of the NBN and how this would occur. In response, the Telecommunications Association is hosting a public forum on the future of the NBN on 31 July 2019 at RMIT University. Papers in the June 2019 issue of the Journal include discussion on consumer interest in 5G in New Zealand, the history of Australian mail handling and technical papers covering a range of interesting topics. This month we include a paper titled Measuring Digital Inequality in Australia: the Australian Digital Inclusion Index that provides an important insight into digital inclusion. The Journal welcomes further contributions on telecommunications and the digital economy.
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Barney, Katelyn, Cindy Shannon, and Martin Nakata. "Introduction: Exploring the Scope of the Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 43, no. 1 (August 2014): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jie.2014.2.
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The Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network was established in 2011 to develop a focused national network of scholars to engage in key discussions about teaching Indigenous Studies at tertiary level. Funded by the Office for Learning and Teaching (2011–14), the Network combines leaders and early career academics and builds relationships between scholars in the discipline, identifies key issues and explores effective teaching and learning approaches. This introductory essay places this Special Issue of The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education (AJIE) in context by exploring the aims and outcomes of the Network along with the positioning of the Network team. It also examines key challenges for the Network and possible future directions.
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Campbell, L. H., and J. R. Holmes. "Regulating Service Providers' Access to an FTTN Network." Media International Australia 127, no. 1 (May 2008): 21–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0812700106.
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To date, the major deployments of FTTN or its fibre-rich cousin, Fibre to the Premises, have been driven by clear government policy (Republic of Korea, Japan) or competitive pressure from cable television companies (US, Netherlands — planned). Without these pressures, the business case for deploying FTTN is uncertain. The additional revenues from higher-speed internet access are likely to be slight, and new revenues from pay television are uncertain and likely to develop only over the medium term. The business case for investing perhaps A$9 billion or more for an extensive FTTN deployment in Australia is therefore weak. National governments, however, see many benefits in widespread deployment of high internet access speeds and may provide incentives for FTTN deployments if competitive pressures are absent. This article explains some of these incentives in the Australian context, especially the steps taken so far to regulate access to the fibre networks proposed by Telstra and the so-called G9 consortium.
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Bruns, Axel, Brenda Moon, Felix Münch, and Troy Sadkowsky. "The Australian Twittersphere in 2016: Mapping the Follower/Followee Network." Social Media + Society 3, no. 4 (October 2017): 205630511774816. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305117748162.
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Twitter is now a key platform for public communication between a diverse range of participants, but the overall shape of the communication network it provides remains largely unknown. This article provides a detailed overview of the network structure of the Australian Twittersphere and identifies the thematic drivers of the key clusters within the network. We identify some 3.72 million Australian Twitter accounts and map the follower/followee connections between the 255,000 most connected accounts; we utilize community detection algorithms to identify the major clusters within this network and examine their account populations to identify their constitutive themes; we examine account creation dates and reconstruct a timeline for the Twitter adoption process among different communities; and we examine lifetime and recent tweeting patterns to determine the historically and currently most active clusters in the network. In combination, this offers the first rigorous and comprehensive study of the network structure of an entire national Twittersphere.
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Beringer, Jason, Ian McHugh, Lindsay B. Hutley, Peter Isaac, and Natascha Kljun. "Technical note: Dynamic INtegrated Gap-filling and partitioning for OzFlux (DINGO)." Biogeosciences 14, no. 6 (March 23, 2017): 1457–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1457-2017.
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Abstract. Standardised, quality-controlled and robust data from flux networks underpin the understanding of ecosystem processes and tools necessary to support the management of natural resources, including water, carbon and nutrients for environmental and production benefits. The Australian regional flux network (OzFlux) currently has 23 active sites and aims to provide a continental-scale national research facility to monitor and assess Australia's terrestrial biosphere and climate for improved predictions. Given the need for standardised and effective data processing of flux data, we have developed a software suite, called the Dynamic INtegrated Gap-filling and partitioning for OzFlux (DINGO), that enables gap-filling and partitioning of the primary fluxes into ecosystem respiration (Fre) and gross primary productivity (GPP) and subsequently provides diagnostics and results. We outline the processing pathways and methodologies that are applied in DINGO (v13) to OzFlux data, including (1) gap-filling of meteorological and other drivers; (2) gap-filling of fluxes using artificial neural networks; (3) the u* threshold determination; (4) partitioning into ecosystem respiration and gross primary productivity; (5) random, model and u* uncertainties; and (6) diagnostic, footprint calculation, summary and results outputs. DINGO was developed for Australian data, but the framework is applicable to any flux data or regional network. Quality data from robust systems like DINGO ensure the utility and uptake of the flux data and facilitates synergies between flux, remote sensing and modelling.
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Stewart, M. P. "How Accurate is the Australian National GPS Network as a Framework for GPS Heighting?" Australian Surveyor 43, no. 1 (March 1998): 53–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00050347.1998.10558721.
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Freeman, Toby, Matthew Fisher, Fran Baum, and Sharon Friel. "Healthy infrastructure: Australian National Broadband Network policy implementation and its importance to health equity." Information, Communication & Society 22, no. 10 (February 9, 2018): 1414–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2018.1434555.
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Yan, Guan, and Stefan Trück. "A dynamic network analysis of spot electricity prices in the Australian national electricity market." Energy Economics 92 (October 2020): 104972. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104972.
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Ainsworth, Frank, and John Berger. "Family Inclusive Child Protection Practice: The History of the Family Inclusion Network and Beyond." Children Australia 39, no. 2 (May 21, 2014): 60–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2014.1.
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This article records briefly the history of the Family Inclusion Network as an organisation that promotes family inclusive child protection practice. Since its inception in Queensland in 2006, Family Inclusion Network organisations have been formed elsewhere and now exist in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. In 2010, developments at a national level saw the formation of the Family Inclusion Network Australia. Most organisations are incorporated and some have achieved charitable status. Each organisation endorses a common set of aims and objectives. There are, however, differences in terms of whether state or territory organisations accept government funding or not, are staffed by professionals or rely entirely on volunteer personnel, and have a capacity or otherwise to provide direct casework services to parents. Some state organisations focus on information and advice services, and legislative and policy reform efforts. All have telephone advice lines and a webpage presence. This article also focuses on a code of ethics for child protection practice and on the contribution parents can make to child protection services, and their rights to do so.
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Gregory, Mark A. "5G Arrives." Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 6, no. 4 (December 31, 2018): ii—iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/ajtde.v6n4.173.
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Papers in the December 2018 issue of the Journal include discussion on 5G security, what’s next for the National Broadband Network, a technical paper on the conflicts in routing and UAV autonomy, HTTP traffic flow load balancing and an insight into how the use of location information affects privacy. The history of Australian telecommunications paper on impressions of an overseas visit by a lines engineer provides an insight into how knowledge transfer improves with the opportunity to study telecommunications in Europe, North America and Australia. The Journal welcomes contributions.
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Gregory, Mark A. "5G Arrives." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 6, no. 4 (December 31, 2018): ii—iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v6n4.173.
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Papers in the December 2018 issue of the Journal include discussion on 5G security, what’s next for the National Broadband Network, a technical paper on the conflicts in routing and UAV autonomy, HTTP traffic flow load balancing and an insight into how the use of location information affects privacy. The history of Australian telecommunications paper on impressions of an overseas visit by a lines engineer provides an insight into how knowledge transfer improves with the opportunity to study telecommunications in Europe, North America and Australia. The Journal welcomes contributions.
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West, Deborah, and Helen Stephenson. "SANTPEN’s SoTL Journey: Building and Using a SoTL Approach Across Institutions." Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 16, no. 5 (October 31, 2016): 107–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434//josotl.v16i5.19983.
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In the current higher education environment, providing high quality teaching and learning experiences to students has moved beyond desirable to essential. Quality improvement takes many forms, but one core aspect to ensure sustainable improvement is the development of a culture of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Developing such an institutional culture is surprisingly challenging yet essential to improving the status of teaching in higher education (HE), being successful in teaching and learning awards and grants, and, improving the student experience. The Australian Government’s Promoting Excellence Network initiative funds networks to foster collaboration between HE institutions to improve outcomes in national learning and teaching award and grant programs. Supported by this funding, the South Australian / Northern Territory Promoting Excellence Network (SANTPEN), a grouping of six institutions, formed. Bringing together a diverse network of institutions, similar only by virtue of geographic location is challenging. This paper describes the first three years of SANTPEN’s journey from the context of our own development with the concept of SoTL and how we applied this to build a culture of SoTL in and between our institutions. It also demonstrates how a modest budget can be put to effective use to benefit those immediately involved, institutional objectives and the aims of the national funding body. We provide evidence of this effectiveness and conclude with our collective aspirations for the future of SANTPEN and other likeminded and funded networks.
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McIlwain, James, Owen McIIwain, and Stanislaw Paul Maj. "Facilitating Network Technology Training in the Australian Vocational Education Sector." Modern Applied Science 11, no. 1 (November 24, 2016): 242. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/mas.v11n1p242.
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Within the Australian Further Education sector for lecturers in the IT field it is not uncommon to use vendor based curriculum. The advantages to this approach are that students can graduate not only with a national award (Certificate or Diploma) and also an internationally recognized vendor qualification. Furthermore, the larger vendors supply comprehensive course materials, resources and assessment tools all of which have been extensively tested. In effect lecturers do not have to write their own course materials. Whilst it is recognized that lecturers may well facilitate student learning the quality of the educational outcomes is highly dependent on the quality of the vendor based materials. In the case of the Cisco Network Academy Program (CNAP) course materials did not provide a consistent diagrammatic representation of networking devices and protocols. Educational theory strongly suggests that such a model is the basis of quality teaching and learning. In this study student learning was evaluated using the State Model Diagram (SMD) method and the interpreted using the SOLO taxonomy. The results clearly demonstrate that there are considerable advantages to using the SMD method.
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Asher, A. "NETWORK INDUSTRY REGULATION AND CONVERGENCE IN SERVICE DELIVERY: CHALLENGES FOR SUPPLIERS, USERS AND REGULATORS." APPEA Journal 38, no. 1 (1998): 799. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj97054.
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has competition and fair-trading law responsibility for Australian industries. It has gained regulatory responsibilities for third-party access to telecommunications, soon will become the national regulator of gas pipeline access under a legislated code developed by the jurisdictions and industry working in a common forum, and will progressively become the national regulator of electricity transmission.This paper describes the ACCC's concept of the term 'efficient incentive regulation', gives examples of government decisions on network industry operations to which it is relevant and describes the general approach the ACCC will take in applying that concept, to encourage competition, innovation, economic investment and fair dealing by suppliers with users.The paper describes the relevance of the rise of national product markets and convergence in the delivery of telecommunications, electricity and gas services to the types of decisions the ACCC and State-based regulators will have to take and places those decisions in the context of common issues in regulatory reform internationally. Regulatory decisions taken for one network industry may have particular positive effects if the underlying principles flow on to others.A necessary part of dealing with national industries is the coordination of regulatory effort where Commonwealth and State/Territory regulators are involved. There is the risk in Australia that separation of regulatory powers between jurisdictional and national levels may cause welfare gains to business, customers and the wider community arising from the industry reform process to be lost if there are shortcomings in communications between regulators, duplication of effort or inconsistencies in approach. The paper describes the current division of responsibilities; the potential of the Utility Regulators' Forum to coordinate regulatory effort; and indicates the potential for losses of welfare and economic efficiency if COAG principles of a national approach to regulation are not fully embraced.The paper discusses the range of tools available to deal with challenges arising from privatisations, from the entry of multinational players to network industries and from the implementation of competition policy reforms, drawing on concerns about network industries raised with the ACCC, and on the ACCC's broader complaints experience. Finally, the paper outlines the reasons for policy-makers to pay particular attention to shaping and bringing light-handed but effective regulation to the areas of the converging network industries where market power remains unconstrained by competition, and for regulators to coordinate their administration of the regulated areas of network industries so that the policy objectives of incentive regulation are realised, resulting in the industry, users and the community sharing in the benefits.