Journal articles: 'Documentary Australia'

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Laughren, Pat. "Debating Australian Documentary Production Policy: Some Practitioner Perspectives." Media International Australia 129, no. 1 (November 2008): 116–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0812900112.

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On 1 July 2008, Screen Australia commenced operation as the main Australian government agency supporting the screen production industry. This article considers some of the policy issues and challenges identified by the ‘community of practitioners’ as facing Australian documentary production at the time of the formation of that ‘super-agency’ from the merger of its three predecessor organisations — the Australian Film Commission, the Film Finance Corporation and Film Australia. The article proceeds by sketching the history of documentary production in Australia and identifying the bases of its financial and regulatory supports. It also surveys recent debate in the documentary sector and attempts to contextualise the themes of those discussions within the history of the Australian documentary.

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Lemon, Barbara, Kerry Blinco, and Brendan Somes. "Building NED: Open Access to Australia’s Digital Documentary Heritage." Publications 8, no. 2 (April 8, 2020): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/publications8020019.

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This article charts the development of Australia’s national edeposit service (NED), from concept to reality. A world-first collaboration between the national, state and territory libraries of Australia, NED was launched in 2019 and transformed our approach to legal deposits in Australia. NED is more than a repository, operating as a national online service for depositing, preserving and accessing Australian electronic publications, with benefits to publishers, libraries and the public alike. This article explains what makes NED unique in the context of global research repository infrastructure, outlining the ways in which NED member libraries worked to balance user needs with technological capacity and the variations within nine sets of legal deposit legislation.

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Smaill, Belinda. "Commissioning Difference? The Case of SBS Independent and Documentary." Media International Australia 107, no. 1 (May 2003): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0310700111.

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SBS Independent (SBSI) is the arm of SBS Television responsible for commissioning new work. Since 1994, SBSI has been working in conjunction with other screen funding bodies to commission feature film, short drama, animation and documentary. The charter that dictates the practices of SBS Television also provides guidelines for SBSI, which is consequently required to focus on work that is innovative and concerned with Indigenous issues and cultural diversity. This article focuses on the case of documentary in Australia and the impact of SBSI on a filmmaking community and contemporary documentary culture with particular reference to the Australia by Numbers and Hybrid Life series of half-hour programs. The focus on diversity, and the fact that this is the first Australian television institution to adopt an outsourcing model for almost all production, means that SBSI has formed a unique relationship with independent documentary. Here I examine the specificity and efficacy of this relationship.

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Nash, Kate. "Goa Hippy Tribe: Theorising Documentary Content on a Social Network Site." Media International Australia 142, no. 1 (February 2012): 30–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1214200105.

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In the 1970s, a wave of young Western hippies descended on the beaches of Goa in India. Forty years later, some of them reconnected on the social network site Facebook and planned a reunion. This event, and the Goan hippy community then and now, are the subjects of a documentary called Goa Hippy Tribe, produced by Australian documentary maker Darius Devas. Funded by Screen Australia, SBS and Screen New South Wales, Goa Hippy Tribe is the first Australian documentary to be produced for the social network site Facebook. In this article, I consider how documentary in a social network context might be theorised. While the concept of the database narrative is most often invoked to explain user interactivity in online documentary, social networks such as Facebook invite different forms of interaction, and therefore raise distinct theoretical questions. In particular, Goa Hippy Tribe demonstrates the potential for the audience to engage creatively and communally with documentary.

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Hemelryk Donald, Stephanie. "Shaming Australia." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 18 (December 1, 2019): 70–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.18.06.

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This article analyses Australian audiovisual treatments of contemporary refugee experiences of the Australian government’s “Pacific Solution”, which was introduced after the Tampa affair in 2001. I call into question the conventional premise of much documentary filmmaking, that the moving photographic image can reveal the reality of that experience (indexicality). That approach is exemplified, I argue, by Eva Orner’s award-winning film, Chasing Asylum (2014), which aspired to reveal the truth about conditions in the Regional Processing Centre on Nauru and thereby to shock Australian audiences into demanding a change in government policy. The problem with the film is that its reliance on the norms of documentary has the unintended consequence of silencing the detainees and reducing them to the status of vulnerable and victimised objects. The article concludes by comparing Chasing Asylum with an installation by Dennis Del Favero, Tampa 2001 (2015), which exemplifies a nonrepresentational, affect-based aesthetic that says less in order to achieve more in evoking complex refugee stories of dispossession or disappearance.

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Smaill, Belinda. "Promoting Australia: post-war documentary and Asia." Continuum 28, no. 5 (August 8, 2014): 616–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2014.941974.

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Maver, Igor. "Slovene migrant literature in Australia." Acta Neophilologica 35, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2002): 5–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.35.1-2.5-11.

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This article on the literary creativity of Slovene rnigrants in Australia after the Second World War, including the most recent publications, discusses only the most artistically accomplished auth ors and addresses those works that have received the most enthusiastic reception by the critics and readers alike. Of course, those who are not mentioned are also important to the preservation of Slovene culture and identity among the Slovene migrants in Australia from a documentary, histori cal,or ethnological points of view. However, the genresfeatured here include the explicitly literary, the semi-literary fictionalized biography, the memoir and documentary fiction, and the literary journalistic text - all those fields and genres that nowadays straddle the division line between 'high' literature and so-called 'creative fiction'.

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Cunningham, Stuart. "Regionalism in Audiovisual Production: The Case of Queensland." Queensland Review 1, no. 1 (June 1994): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600000490.

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A great deal has been made of the boom in audiovisual production based in southern Queensland (and to some extent in northern Queensland) in the 1990s. This follows a pattern throughout the so-called ‘revival’ period (since the early 1970s) in Australia which has seen successive moments of regional upsurge. In the 1970s, it was South Australia, under the energetic leadership of the South Australian Film Corporation, that saw many of the best feature films and several of the early historical mini-series of the early revival period made in that state (see, for example, Moran). During the early to mid-1980s, Western Australia, with the location of bold production houses such as Barron Films and strong independent documentary traditions, offered robust regional opportunities, culminating in such memorable films as Shame and Fran.

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Moran, Albert. "Nation building: The post‐war documentary in Australia (1945–1953)." Continuum 1, no. 1 (January 1988): 57–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10304318809359319.

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Si, Aung, and Myfany Turpin. "The Importance of Insects in Australian Aboriginal Society: A Dictionary Survey." Ethnobiology Letters 6, no. 1 (September 17, 2015): 175–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.14237/ebl.6.1.2015.399.

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Insects and their products have long been used in Indigenous Australian societies as food, medicine and construction material, and given prominent roles in myths, traditional songs and ceremonies. However, much of the available information on the uses of insects in Australia remains anecdotal. In this essay, we review published dictionaries of Aboriginal languages spoken in many parts of Australia, to provide an overview of the Indigenous names and knowledge of insects and their products. We find that that native honeybees and insect larvae (particularly of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera) are the most highly prized insects, and should be recognized as cultural keystone species. Many insects mentioned in dictionaries lack scientific identifications, however, and we urge documentary linguists to address this important issue.

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Attenbrow, Valerie J., and Caroline R. Cartwright. "An Aboriginal shield collected in 1770 at Kamay Botany Bay: an indicator of pre-colonial exchange systems in south-eastern Australia." Antiquity 88, no. 341 (August 26, 2014): 883–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00050754.

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A bark shield now in the British Museum can be identified from documentary and pictorial evidence as one collected by Captain Cook during his first voyage to Australia in 1770. Such shields often had special value to their Australian Aboriginal owners and hence might have been exchanged over considerable distances. This particular shield is known to have been collected in Kamay Botany Bay but analysis of the bark of which it is made revealed it to be of red mangrove, a tropical species found today more than 500km distant on the New South Wales north coast. It hence bears valuable testimony to the long-distance exchange networks operating in eastern Australia in the period before the disruption caused by European colonisation.

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Cass, Philip. "REVIEW: Noted: Documentary exposes dark side of Tongan diaspora." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 25, no. 1&2 (July 31, 2019): 314. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v25i1and2.497.

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Gangsters in Paradise—The Deportees of Tonga. Documentary. 2019. Director: Ursula Williams. Vice/Zealandia.‘IT’S LIKE crabs being stuck in a bucket scratching each other to get out.’‘It’s like rubbish dumping.’Those are two views about the crisis facing Tonga as countries like the United States, Australia and New Zealand deport criminals to the kingdom.

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King, Kylie, Marisa Schlichthorst, Louise Keogh, Lennart Reifels, Matthew J. Spittal, Andrea Phelps, and Jane Pirkis. "Can Watching a Television Documentary Change the Way Men View Masculinity?" Journal of Men’s Studies 27, no. 3 (December 6, 2018): 287–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1060826518815909.

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Men’s conformity to masculine norms, such as stoicism and self-reliance, has been shown to be associated with a range of negative psychological outcomes. We developed Man Up—a three-part documentary that examined the link between masculinity, mental health, and suicide for men in Australia. We conducted a multifaceted evaluation that included a randomized controlled trial (RCT) and a web survey. RCT participants and web survey respondents were asked how their views of the term “man up” had changed since watching the documentary. This article provides feedback from the 306 men who responded to this question. Participants commented on how the documentary prompted them to rethink stereotypes of masculinity. The findings suggest that the documentary had a positive impact on men.

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Turnbull, Gemma-Rose. "Navigating Socially Engaged Documentary Photographic Practices." Nordicom Review 36, s1 (July 7, 2020): 79–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nor-2015-0031.

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AbstractAs Documentary Photographers increasingly introduce the collaborative and participatory methodologies common to socially engaged art practices into their projects (particularly those that are activist in nature, seeking to catalyse social change agendas and policies through image making and sharing), there is an increased tension between the process of production and the photographic representation that is created. Over the course of the last five years I have utilised these methodologies of co-authorship. This article contextualizes this kind of transdisciplinary work, and examines the ways in which the integration of collaborative strategies and co-authored practice in projects that are explicitly designed to be of benefit to a primary audience (the participants, collaborators and producers) might be usefully disseminated to a secondary audience (the general public, the ‘art world’, critics etc.) through analysis of my projects Red Light Dark Room; Sex, lives and stereotypes made in Melbourne, Australia, and The King School Portrait Project made in Portland, Oregon, America.

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Mitchell, Tony. "Doppio: a Trilingual Touring Theatre for Australia." New Theatre Quarterly 8, no. 29 (February 1992): 70–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00006333.

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Doppio is a theatre company which uses three languages – English, Italian, and a synthetic migrant dialect it calls ‘Emigrante’ – to explore the conditions of the large community of Italian migrants in Australia. It works, too, in three different kinds of theatrical territory, all with an increasingly feminist slant – those of multicultural theatrein-education; of community theatre based in the Italian clubs of South Australia; and of documentary theatre, exploring the roots and the past of a previously marginalized social group. The company's work was seen in 1990 at the Leeds Festival of Youth Theatre, but its appeal is fast increasing beyond the confines of specialisms, ethnic or theatric, and being recognized in the ‘mainstream’ of Australian theatrical activity. Tony Mitchell – a regular contributor to NTQ, notably on the work of Dario Fo – who presently teaches in the Department of Theatre Studies in the University of Technology in Sydney, here provides an analytical introduction to the company's work, and follows this with an interview with one of its directors and co-founders, Teresa Crea.

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Bohane, Ben. "OBITUARY: A guerrilla and a one-man band." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 10, no. 1 (October 11, 2019): 201–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v10i1.786.

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In the coastal village of Abepura in West Papua, one of Australia and the Pacific’s great underground artists was recently laid to rest. His name was Mark Worth, although he went by a variety of nicknames, including Kurtz, Captain Kino, Captain Kaos and, affectionately, ‘Worthy’. Worth, who died of pneumonia at 45, was one of Australia’s finest frontier cameramen. He aspired to the pantheon of great Australian documentary filmmakers and conflict cameramen – Frank Hurley, Damien Parer and Neil Davis – and his contemporary peers included Dennis O’Rourke, Bob Connelly, Mark Davis and David Brill. Pictured: Mark Worth / Ben Bohane

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Bowker, Sam. "No Looking Back." Australian Journal of Islamic Studies 4, no. 1 (July 17, 2019): 18–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v4i1.153.

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This is a critical review of changes in the two years since I wrote “The Invisibility of Islamic Art in Australia” for The Conversation in 2016. This includes the National Museum of Australia’s collaborative exhibition “So That You May Know Each Other” (2018), and the rise of the Eleven Collective through their exhibitions “We are all affected” (2017) in Sydney and “Waqt al-Tagheer – Time of Change” (2018) in Adelaide. It considers the representation of Australian contemporary artists in the documentary “You See Monsters” (2017) by Tony Jackson and Chemical Media, and the exhibition “Khalas! Enough!” (2018) at the UNSW. These initiatives demonstrate the momentum of generational change within contemporary Australian art and literary performance cultures. These creative practitioners have articulated their work through formidable public networks. They include well-established and emerging artists, driven to engage with political and social contexts that have defined their peers by antagonism or marginalisation. There has never been a ‘Golden Age’ for ‘Islamic’ arts in Australia. But as the Eleven Collective have argued, we are living in a time of change. This is an exceptional period for the creation and mobilisation of artworks that articulate what it means to be Muslim in Australia.

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Pardy, John. "Remembering and forgetting the arts of technical education." History of Education Review 49, no. 2 (November 12, 2020): 181–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-02-2020-0009.

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PurposeTechnical education in the twentieth century played an important role in the cultural life of Australia in ways are that routinely overlooked or forgotten. As all education is central to the cultural life of any nation this article traces the relationship between technical education and the national social imaginary. Specifically, the article focuses on the connection between art and technical education and does so by considering changing cultural representations of Australia.Design/methodology/approachDrawing upon materials, that include school archives, an unpublished autobiography monograph, art catalogues and documentary film, the article details the lives and works of two artists, from different eras of twentieth century Australia. Utilising social memory as theorised by Connerton (1989, 2009, 2011), the article reflects on the lives of two Australian artists as examples of, and a way into appreciating, the enduring relationship between technical education and art.FindingsThe two artists, William Wallace Anderson and Carol Jerrems both products of, and teachers in, technical schools produced their own art that offered different insights into changes in Australia's national imaginary. By exploring their lives and work, the connections between technical education and art represent a social memory made material in the works of the artists and their representations of Australia's changing national imaginary.Originality/valueThis article features two artist teachers from technical schools as examples of the centrality of art to technical education. Through the teacher-artists lives and works the article highlights a shift in the Australian cultural imaginary at the same time as remembering the centrality of art to technical education. Through the twentieth century the relationship between art and technical education persisted, revealing the sensibilities of the times.

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Wilcock, Scarlet. "(De-)Criminalizing Welfare? The Rise and Fall of Social Security Fraud Prosecutions in Australia." British Journal of Criminology 59, no. 6 (April 23, 2019): 1498–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz027.

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Abstract The social security fraud prosecution rate has fallen by approximately 74.9 per cent in Australia since 2010. This is remarkable considering the national dialogue continues to propound a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to fraud in the welfare system. Drawing on interviews with compliance staff from the Australian Department of Human Services, documentary research and a Foucauldian governmentality analytic, this article charts and interrogates the declining welfare fraud prosecution rate in the context of neoliberal welfare reform. It argues that this decline is at least partially the result of the reformulation of the objects of prosecution strategies by staff responsible for their enactment. This finding highlights the importance of localized accounts of welfare administration to supplement and complicate macro analyses of the ‘criminalization of welfare’ in Western industrialized nations.

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Muhi, Stephen, Amy Crowe, and John Daffy. "Acute Pulmonary Histoplasmosis Outbreak in A Documentary Film Crew Travelling from Guatemala to Australia." Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 4, no. 1 (February 1, 2019): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed4010025.

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Histoplasma capsulatum is an endemic mycosis with a widespread distribution, although it is infrequently reported in travellers. In April 2018, five television crew members developed an acute febrile illness after filming a documentary about vampire bats in Guatemala. Patients developed symptoms after travelling to Australia, where they presented for medical care.

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Freund, Mandy, Benjamin J. Henley, David J. Karoly, Kathryn J. Allen, and Patrick J. Baker. "Multi-century cool- and warm-season rainfall reconstructions for Australia's major climatic regions." Climate of the Past 13, no. 12 (November 30, 2017): 1751–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1751-2017.

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Abstract. Australian seasonal rainfall is strongly affected by large-scale ocean–atmosphere climate influences. In this study, we exploit the links between these precipitation influences, regional rainfall variations, and palaeoclimate proxies in the region to reconstruct Australian regional rainfall between four and eight centuries into the past. We use an extensive network of palaeoclimate records from the Southern Hemisphere to reconstruct cool (April–September) and warm (October–March) season rainfall in eight natural resource management (NRM) regions spanning the Australian continent. Our bi-seasonal rainfall reconstruction aligns well with independent early documentary sources and existing reconstructions. Critically, this reconstruction allows us, for the first time, to place recent observations at a bi-seasonal temporal resolution into a pre-instrumental context, across the entire continent of Australia. We find that recent 30- and 50-year trends towards wetter conditions in tropical northern Australia are highly unusual in the multi-century context of our reconstruction. Recent cool-season drying trends in parts of southern Australia are very unusual, although not unprecedented, across the multi-century context. We also use our reconstruction to investigate the spatial and temporal extent of historical drought events. Our reconstruction reveals that the spatial extent and duration of the Millennium Drought (1997–2009) appears either very much below average or unprecedented in southern Australia over at least the last 400 years. Our reconstruction identifies a number of severe droughts over the past several centuries that vary widely in their spatial footprint, highlighting the high degree of diversity in historical droughts across the Australian continent. We document distinct characteristics of major droughts in terms of their spatial extent, duration, intensity, and seasonality. Compared to the three largest droughts in the instrumental period (Federation Drought, 1895–1903; World War II Drought, 1939–1945; and the Millennium Drought, 1997–2005), we find that the historically documented Settlement Drought (1790–1793), Sturt's Drought (1809–1830) and the Goyder Line Drought (1861–1866) actually had more regionalised patterns and reduced spatial extents. This seasonal rainfall reconstruction provides a new opportunity to understand Australian rainfall variability by contextualising severe droughts and recent trends in Australia.

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Swartzburg, Susan G. "Resources for the conservation of Southeast Asian art." Art Libraries Journal 18, no. 2 (1993): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200008336.

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There is a desperate and urgent need to conserve works of art and documentary materials in Southeast Asia, where the rigours of the climate and the effects of war and political unrest have ravaged the cultural heritage. An initiative launched by Cornell University in Cambodia, with the intention of preserving documentary materials and training Cambodian librarians in conservation techniques, may result in the development of a badly-needed regional centre which would complement the National Archives of the Philippines, and the Regional Conservation Centres established by IFLA on the Pacific rim, in Australia and Japan. Information and expertise are available from UNESCO, ICOMOS, ICCROM, ICOM, the Getty Conservation Institute, IIC, IADA, IPC, IFLA, ICA, and other international and US organisations.

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Robertson, Scott, and Noni Boyd. "Paganin House: a risen phoenix." Modern Houses, no. 64 (2021): 58–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.52200/64.a.k9zzixfe.

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A risen phoenix examines the issues surrounding the reinstatement of an important post-war house in suburban Perth, Western Australia that was destroyed by fire and examines the preservation of the original architect’s design intent through use and interpretation of the documentary evidence, the physical evidence and an understanding of the personality and design ethos of the original architect by the architect for the reinstatement work.

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Weitkamp, Emma. "Filling the Gaps: exploring researchers communication experiences." Journal of Science Communication 15, no. 06 (December 16, 2016): E. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.15060501.

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This issue sees the publication of several papers that contribute to our understanding of the challenges faced by researchers in communicating about their research, adding richness to our understanding of practices and policies in Zimbabwe as well as amongst non-Anglophone speakers working in Australia. The potential of incorporating documentary filmmaking tools and techniques into open science projects raises interesting questions about subjectivity, data and the collaboration skills needed for today's scientists.

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Gergis, Joelle. "A drought history of south-eastern Australia: evidence from documentary, early instrumental and palaeoclimate records." Quaternary International 279-280 (November 2012): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.08.204.

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Khorana, Sukhmani. "‘Now I fight for belonging’." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 14 (January 24, 2018): 61–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.14.03.

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This article addresses cosmopolitan cinema through the figure of a former refugee in an Australian-made documentary, Constance on the Edge (Belinda Mason, 2016). Beginning with an overview of cosmopolitanism as a project and a political ideal, as well as its relevance now, I then trace its manifestation in the discourses of refugee advocacy that have been evident in Australia over the last couple of decades. This helps set the stage for a close reading of the film, in which a Sudanese asylum seeker who has been resettled in a regional town with her family is struggling to find a sense of belonging in her new home. I argue that such an instance of cosmopolitan cinema facilitates the audience’s capacity to see both similarities and differences in the refugee other, thereby enabling a politics of solidarity that is simultaneously in dialogue with global and national discourses.

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Lee, Lisa. "A Case From Australia's War Crimes Trials: Lieutenant-General Nishimura, 1950." Deakin Law Review 18, no. 2 (December 1, 2013): 337. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dlr2013vol18no2art42.

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In the aftermath of World War II, Australia undertook domestic trials of suspected Japanese war criminals between 1945 and 1951. This article focuses on Australia’s war crimes trial of Lieutenant-General Nishimura as held at the Los Negros court in mid-June 1950, and the subsequent petitioning period and confirmation process. The Australian war crimes courts were military courts vested with broad discretionary powers that facilitated the expeditious trials of accused. The procedure of war crimes courts differed from that of field general courts-martial in two main areas: admissible evidence and sentencing range — and this article highlights concomitant problems arising during the trial and subsequent case on review. This article examines the prosecution of the case entirely on documentary evidence; the impact of low admissibility thresholds for evidence; issues regarding the voluntariness and reliability of witness evidence; and the option of capital punishment in the Nishimura trial.

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Jakubowicz, Andrew Henry. ""Once upon a Time in … ethnocratic Australia: migration, refugees, diversity and contested discourses of inclusion "." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8, no. 3 (December 13, 2016): 144–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v8i3.5239.

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To what extent can Australia be analysed as an ‘ethnocracy’, a term usually reserved for ostensibly democratic societies in which an ethnic group or groups control the life opportunities of a more widely ethnically diverse population? Australia adopted its first refugee policy in 1977 having been forced to address the humanitarian claims of Asian and Middle Eastern refugees. Only a few years after abandoning the White Australia policy of three generations, the public discourse about refugees was framed by the ethnic origins of these groups (primarily Vietnamese and Lebanese). Over the decades a utopian light has come to be cast on the Indo Chinese as a success story in settlement, while the Middle Eastern peoples have been shaded as a settlement failure. Yet the counter narratives developed in the SBS television documentary series “Once Upon a Time...” demonstrate how ethnocratic framing can be challenged and more nuanced and analytical discourses introduced into the public sphere.

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Kilroy, Peter. "Screening Indigenous Australia: Space, Place and Media in Frances Calvert’s Talking Broken." Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies 69, no. 2 (June 7, 2016): 139. http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n2p139.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2016v69n2p139Drawing on the fields of postcolonial studies and media theory, this article analyzes Frances Calvert’s 1990 documentary, Talking Broken, which, inter alia, looks at the role of space, place and media amongst Australia’s ‘other’ Indigenous minority, Torres Strait Islanders. The article explores the historical and geographical complexity of the space-place-media relation (particularly in terms of the centre-periphery relations between the Torres Strait and the Australian mainland), and considers the extent to which Calvert – after the Australian bicentenary of 1988 – is able to absorb and playfully challenge such formulations. More broadly, it considers the extent to which contemporary Indigenous media might go further and enact a shift from absorbing and challenging such formulations to taking control of media institutions themselves.

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Riley, Emily, Peter Sainsbury, Phil McManus, Ruth Colagiuri, Francesca Viliani, Angus Dawson, Elizabeth Duncan, Yolande Stone, Tracy Pham, and Patrick Harris. "Including health impacts in environmental impact assessments for three Australian coal-mining projects: a documentary analysis." Health Promotion International 35, no. 3 (May 5, 2019): 449–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daz032.

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Abstract Notwithstanding the historical benefits of coal in aiding human and economic development, the negative health and environmental impacts of coal extraction and processing are of increasing concern. Environmental impact assessments (EIAs) are a regulated policy mechanism that can be used to predict and consider the health impacts of mining projects to determine if consent is given. The ways in which health is considered within EIA is unclear. This research investigated ‘How and to what extent are health, well-being and equity issues considered in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) of major coal mining projects in New South Wales, Australia’. To this end we developed and applied a comprehensive coding framework designed to interrogate the publicly available environmental impact statements (EISs) of three mines in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, for their inclusion of health, well-being and equity issues. Analysis of the three EISs demonstrates that: the possible impacts of each mine on health and well-being were narrowly and inadequately considered; when health and well-being were considered there was a failure to assess the possible impacts specific to the particular mine and the communities potentially affected; the cumulative impacts on human health of multiple mines in the same geographical area were almost completely ignored; the discussions of intragenerational and intergenerational equity did not demonstrate a sound understanding of equity and, it is essential that governments’ requirements for the EIA include detailed analysis of the health, well-being, equity and cumulative impacts specific to the proposed mine and relevant communities.

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Pacey, Fiona, Jennifer Smith-Merry, James Gillespie, and Stephanie D. Short. "National health workforce regulation." International Journal of Health Governance 22, no. 1 (March 6, 2017): 5–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhg-01-2016-0005.

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Purpose In 2010, Australia introduced the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for the health professions (the Australian scheme) creating a legislative framework for a national system of health workforce regulation, delivering a model of collective (and multi-level) government involvement in regulatory activities. The purpose of this paper is to examine how its governance arrangement compares to different national systems and other health regulatory bodies in Australia. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative case study is informed by documentary analysis in conjunction with policy mapping. This is part of a larger project investigating the policy pathway which led to establishment of the Scheme. The authors compare the Scheme with other Australian health standard setting and regulatory bodies. Findings The Australian scheme’s governance model supported existing constitutional arrangements, and enabled local variations. This facilitated the enduring interest of ministers (and governments) on matters of health workforce and articulated the activities of the new regulatory player. It maintains involvement of the six states and two territories, with the Commonwealth Government, and profession-specific boards and accreditation agencies. This resulted in a unique governance framework delivering a new model of collective ministerial responsibility. The governance design is complex, but forges a new way to embed existing constitutional arrangements within a tripartite arrangement that also delivers National Boards specific to individual health professions and an organisation to administer regulatory activities. Originality/value This study demonstrates that effective design of governance arrangements for regulatory bodies needs to address regulatory tasks to be undertaken as well as the existing roles, and ongoing interests of governments in participating in those regulatory activities. It highlights that a unique arrangement, while appearing problematic in theory may in practice deliver intended regulatory outcomes.

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Fenby, Claire, and Joëlle Gergis. "Rainfall variations in south-eastern Australia part 1: consolidating evidence from pre-instrumental documentary sources, 1788-1860." International Journal of Climatology 33, no. 14 (December 28, 2012): 2956–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.3640.

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Maxwell, Hazel, Carmel Foley, Tracy Taylor, and Christine Burton. "Social Inclusion in Community Sport: A Case Study of Muslim Women in Australia." Journal of Sport Management 27, no. 6 (November 2013): 467–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsm.27.6.467.

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This paper considers how organizational practices facilitate and inhibit the social inclusion of Muslim women in a community sport setting. A case study of social inclusion practices in an Australian community sport organization (CSO) was built through interviews, focus groups, secondary data, and documentary evidence. Drawing on the work of Bailey (2005, 2008) the analysis employed a social inclusion framework comprised of spatial, functional, relational, and power dimensions. Findings indicated that there are a range of practices which facilitate social inclusion. Paradoxically, some of the practices that contributed to social inclusion at the club for Muslim women resulted in social exclusion for non-Muslim women. Examining each practice from multiple perspectives provided by the social inclusion framework allowed a thorough analysis to be made of the significance of each practice to the social inclusion of Muslim women at the club. Implications for social inclusion research and sport management practice are discussed.

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Crowder-Taraborrelli, Tomás. "Migration, Regional Traditions, and the Intricacy of Documentary Representation in Cuates de Australia and La chica del sur." Latin American Perspectives 41, no. 1 (November 19, 2013): 172–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0094582x13512265.

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Tofighian, Omid. "Displacement, exile and incarceration commuted into cinematic vision." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 18 (December 1, 2019): 91–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.18.07.

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Chauka, Please Tell Us the Time (Behrouz Boochani and Arash Kamali Sarvestani, 2017) is a documentary that exposes the systematic torture of refugees banished by the Australian Government to Manus Prison (in Papua New Guinea and officially called the Manus Regional Processing Centre). Shot clandestinely from a mobile phone camera by Boochani and smuggled out for codirection with Kamali Sarvestani, the film documents an important phase in the history of migration to Australia. This article analyses the film by foregrounding the experience of displacement, exile and incarceration as a unique cinematic standpoint. Boochani’s cinematic vision and socio-political critique will be interpreted in terms of embodied knowing and his existential predicament. The symbiotic relationship between the experience of seeking asylum, exile, imprisonment and the filmmaking process raises critical questions regarding the film as anti-genre, common tropes used to define refugeehood, and the criteria necessary to interpret and evaluate cultural production created from this unique position. The article draws on theories pertaining to accented cinema and incorporates ideas from social epistemology. Furthermore, it considers the author’s dialogue and collaboration with Boochani and Kamali Sarvestani and examines the significance of various contributors to the filmmaking process and cinematic vision.

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Zeller, Bruno, and Camilla Baasch Andersen. "Australian Trade Policy and the sme Backlash: Are Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (smes) Sufficiently Respected and Reflected in our Trade Agreements and Outcomes?" Global Journal of Comparative Law 5, no. 2 (July 30, 2016): 262–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2211906x-00502004.

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This paper discusses the importance of smes in the context of Australia’s trade policy. The question is asked; is sufficient attention given to smes in the drafting of ftas or is the trade policy directed to “the big end of town?” This paper highlights the difficulties of enterprises in navigating through the multitude of trade agreements. One of the issues is that the documentation accessing ftas is not uniform. This causes compliance problem specifically in relation to rules of origin. As a corollary to the different documentary requirements the associated transaction costs are examined with the conclusion that Australia does not exploit its growth potential, as smes are not maximizing their contribution to international trade.

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Magagnoli, Paolo. "“A Library of Photographs Covering the Entire Continent”: Walkabout Magazine and the Politics of Documentary in Post-War Australia." Photography and Culture 13, no. 1 (December 19, 2019): 29–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17514517.2019.1693878.

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Gergis, Joëlle, and Linden Ashcroft. "Rainfall variations in south-eastern Australia part 2: a comparison of documentary, early instrumental and palaeoclimate records, 1788-2008." International Journal of Climatology 33, no. 14 (December 28, 2012): 2973–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.3639.

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Thorsteinsson, Einar B., Natasha M. Loi, and Kathryn Farr. "Changes in stigma and help-seeking in relation to postpartum depression: non-clinical parenting intervention sample." PeerJ 6 (November 8, 2018): e5893. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5893.

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Postpartum depression (PPD) is a prevalent mental illness affecting women, and less commonly, men in the weeks and months after giving birth. Despite the high incidence of PPD in Australia, rates for help-seeking remain low, with stigma and discrimination frequently cited as the most common deterrents to seeking help from a professional source. The present study sought to investigate PPD stigma in a sample of parents and to examine the effects of an intervention on stigma and help-seeking behaviour. A total of 212 parents aged 18–71 years (M = 36.88, 194 females) completed measures of personal and perceived PPD stigma and attitudes towards seeking mental health services and were randomly assigned to one of four groups: an intervention group (video documentary or factsheet related to PPD) or a control group (video documentary or factsheet not related to PPD). Results showed that there were no effects for type of intervention on either personal or perceived PPD stigma scores. No effect was found for help-seeking propensity. Males had higher personal PPD stigma than females and older age was associated with lower personal PPD stigma. Familiarity with PPD was associated with perceived PPD stigma in others but not personal PPD stigma. More work needs to be conducted to develop interventions to reduce PPD stigma in the community.

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Madsen, Virginia. "Innovation, women’s work and the documentary impulse: pioneering moments and stalled opportunities in public service broadcasting in Australia and Britain." Media International Australia 162, no. 1 (November 24, 2016): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x16678933.

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This article explores the roles of some of the key women producers, broadcasters and writers who were able to work within the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from their foundational periods to the 1950s. Despite the predominantly male culture of radio broadcasting from the 1920s to the 1970s, this article considers the significance and long-term impacts of some of these overlooked female pioneers at the forefront of developing a range of new reality and ‘talk’ forms and techniques. While the article draws on primary BBC research, it also aims to address these openings, cultures and roles as they existed historically for women in the ABC. How did the ABC compare in its foundational period? Significantly, this paper contrasts the two organisations in the light of their approaches to modernity, arguing that BBC features, the department it engendered, and the traditions it influenced, had far reaching impacts; one of these relating to those opportunities opened for women to develop entirely new forms of media communication: the unrehearsed interview and actuality documentary programmes.

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Nero, Lorraine M. "Manuscript libraries and archival description in the Caribbean." New Library World 116, no. 5/6 (May 11, 2015): 289–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/nlw-08-2014-0098.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the indexing method used by Caribbean libraries to describe special collections and manuscripts. Design/methodology/approach – Various types of finding aids spanning 1960-2014 are used to show the pattern of descriptions adopted by the librarians. At the same time, the factors which have sustained the approach at national libraries and university libraries are highlighted. Findings – The paper concludes that while the indexing approach may be labour-intensive, this practice is perceived as developing a national and regional documentary heritage. The materials used for this study are primarily accessible to the public inclusive of published guides and online databases. Originality/value – The literature is replete with theories and cases from places such as the UK, the USA and Australia, this paper presents a perspective on the development of archival description in the Caribbean.

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Harris, Patrick, Jennifer Kent, Peter Sainsbury, Emily Riley, Nila Sharma, and Elizabeth Harris. "Healthy urban planning: an institutional policy analysis of strategic planning in Sydney, Australia." Health Promotion International 35, no. 4 (June 23, 2019): 649–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daz056.

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Abstract Rapid urbanization requires health promotion practitioners to understand and engage with strategic city planning. This policy analysis research investigated how and why health was taken up into strategic land use planning in Sydney, Australia, between 2013 and 2018. This qualitative study develops two case studies of consecutive instances of strategic planning in Sydney. Data collection was done via in-depth stakeholder interviews (n = 11) and documentary analysis. Data collection and analysis revolved around core categories underpinning policy institutions (actors, structures, ideas, governance and power) to develop an explanatory narrative of the progress of ‘health’ in policy discourse over the study period. The two strategic planning efforts shifted in policy discourse. In the earlier plan, ‘healthy built environments’ was positioned as a strategic direction, but without a mandate for action the emphasis was lost in an economic growth agenda. The second effort shifted that agenda to ecological sustainability, a core aspect of which was ‘Liveability’, having greater potential for health promotion. However, ‘health’ remained underdeveloped as a core driver for city planning remaining without an institutional mandate. Instead, infrastructure coordination was the defining strategic city problem and this paradigm defaulted to emphasizing ‘health precincts’ rather than positioning health as core for the city. This research demonstrates the utility in institutional analysis to understanding positioning health promotion in city planning. Despite potential shifts in policy discourse and a more sophisticated approach to planning holistically, the challenge remains of embedding health within the institutional mandates driving city planning.

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Presence, Steve. "Kuo, Liangwen. Migration Documentary Films in Post-war Australia. New York: Cambria Press, 2010. 328 pp. £74.92/US$114.99 (paperback/hardback)." WorkingUSA 16, no. 4 (November 14, 2013): 553–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/wusa.12082.

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Healey, Lucy, Cathy Humphreys, and Keran Howe. "Inclusive Domestic Violence Standards: Strategies to Improve Interventions for Women With Disabilities?" Violence and Victims 28, no. 1 (2013): 50–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.28.1.50.

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Women with disabilities experience violence at greater rates than other women, yet their access to domestic violence services is more limited. This limitation is mirrored in domestic violence sector standards, which often fail to include the specific issues for women with disabilities. This article has a dual focus: to outline a set of internationally transferrable standards for inclusive practice with women with disabilities affected by domestic violence; and report on the results of a documentary analysis of domestic violence service standards, codes of practice, and practice guidelines. It draws on the Building the Evidence (BtE) research and advocacy project in Victoria, Australia in which a matrix tool was developed to identify minimum standards to support the inclusion of women with disabilities in existing domestic violence sector standards. This tool is designed to interrogate domestic violence sector standards for their attention to women with disabilities.

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Carmichael, Bethune, Greg Wilson, Ivan Namarnyilk, Sean Nadji, Jacqueline Cahill, Sally Brockwell, Bob Webb, Deanne Bird, and Cathy Daly. "A Methodology for the Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation Options for Cultural Heritage Sites." Climate 8, no. 8 (July 24, 2020): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cli8080088.

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Cultural sites are particularly important to Indigenous peoples, their identity, cosmology and sociopolitical traditions. The benefits of local control, and a lack of professional resources, necessitate the development of planning tools that support independent Indigenous cultural site adaptation. We devised and tested a methodology for non-heritage professionals to analyse options that address site loss, build site resilience and build local adaptive capacity. Indigenous rangers from Kakadu National Park and the Djelk Indigenous Protected Area, Arnhem Land, Australia, were engaged as fellow researchers via a participatory action research methodology. Rangers rejected coastal defences and relocating sites, instead prioritising routine use of a risk field survey, documentation of vulnerable sites using new digital technologies and widely communicating the climate change vulnerability of sites via a video documentary. Results support the view that rigorous approaches to cultural site adaptation can be employed independently by local Indigenous stakeholders.

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van Vuuren, Kitty, and Libby Lester. "Ecomedia: Of Angelic Images and Environmental Values." Media International Australia 127, no. 1 (May 2008): 71–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0812700111.

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The prominence of media events in 2006, including the release of former US Vice President Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, the publication of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, even the death of ‘eco-celebrity’ Steve Irwin, suggested a need to devote an issue of Media International Australia to media and the environment. The study of environmentalism through the lens of media, journalism and communication is all but absent in Australia, with some notable exceptions. This issue of MIA goes some way towards redressing the absences identified by Tom Jagtenberg and David McKie in their influential book Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity, published more than 10 years ago, which claimed for the environment an equal status with traditional research foci: class, race and gender. The current public interest in environmental issues emphasises this point, although it is not unprecedented. History shows that environmental issues move in waves to and from the heart of public debate. As well as showcasing some of the field's distinct approaches and traditions, the articles in this issue contribute to a better understanding of this current wave and its likely aftermath. In doing so, it goes some way towards moving the environment in the direction of a more central position on the research and public agenda.

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Townley, Cris. "Playgroups: Moving in from the Margins of History, Policy and Feminism." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 43, no. 2 (June 2018): 64–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.23965/ajec.43.2.07.

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PLAYGROUPS BEGAN IN AUSTRALIA in the early 1970s, at the same time as significant changes in early childhood education and care (ECEC) began taking place. This paper explores how early playgroups were positioned in the ECEC policy, and the experiences of playgroup organisers in New South Wales. Methods used were documentary analysis of Project Care (Social Welfare Commission, 1974) and interviews with key players. Findings were that playgroups grew rapidly in response to grassroots demand from mothers wanting their children to learn through quality play, besides the demand for adult social support. Since Project Care was strongly influenced by feminist lobbying and the objective of enabling women to engage in paid work—and playgroups relied on mothers to deliver the service—playgroups were an uneasy fit in the ECEC policy. Although Project Care integrated playgroups into its recommendations for ECEC services, subsequent funding was at a low level. Today, ECEC services would benefit from a strengthening of the community playgroups model.

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Pimenta, Cláudia Oliveira. "Avaliação da educação infantil na Austrália: contribuições para o Brasil." Estudos em Avaliação Educacional 29, no. 70 (April 23, 2018): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.18222/eae.v29i70.5143.

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Este artigo tem o propósito de apresentar resultados de investigação cujo objetivo foi identificar eventuais contribuições da experiência de avaliação da educação infantil australiana para a análise de iniciativas da mesma natureza, em curso no Brasil. Tem como base análise documental e informações coletadas in loco, quando da realização de estágio de pesquisa no exterior, na Graduate School of Education da Universidade de Melbourne, Austrália, em 2016. Os resultados do estudo evidenciam que o desenho avaliativo australiano reflete a preocupação com dimensões da qualidade consideradas fundamentais pela legislação e documentos norteadores da educação infantil no Brasil, ainda que os contextos social e educacional de ambos os países sejam bem diferentes. Ademais, indicam a importância da articulação e colaboração entre entes federados para a implantação de políticas voltadas para a primeira infância.Palavras-chave: Avaliação da Educação; Educação Infantil; Qualidade da Educação; Austrália. Evaluación de la educación infantil en Australia: contribuciones para BrasilEste artículo tiene el propósito de presentar resultados de una investigación que tuvo el objetivo de identificar eventuales contribuciones de la experiencia de evaluación de la educación infantil australiana para analizar iniciativas de la misma naturaleza en curso en Brasil. Su base es el análisis documental e informaciones recogidas in loco, cuando se realizó la práctica de investigación en el exterior, en la Graduate School of Education de la Universidad de Melbourne, Australia, en el 2016. Los resultados del estudio evidencian que el diseño evaluativo australiano refleja la preocupación con dimensiones de la calidad consideradas como fundamentales por la legislación y documentos orientadores de la educación infantil en Brasil, aunque los contextos social y educacional de ambos países sean bastante diferentes. Además, indican la importancia de la articulación y colaboración entre entes federados para la implantación de políticas destinadas a la primera infancia.Palabras clave: Evaluación de la Educación; Educación Infantil; Calidad de la Educación; Australia. Evaluation of early childhood education in Australia: contributions for BrazilThis article aims to present research results intended to identify possible contributions from the Australian experience in evaluation early childhood education, in order to analyze similar initiatives existent in Brazil. It is based on documentary analysis and information collected in loco, when we conducted research internship abroad, at the Graduate School of Education of the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2016. The results of the study show that the Australian evaluation initiative reflects the concern with dimensions of quality which are considered fundamental, by the legislation and documents guiding children’s education in Brazil, even though the social and educational contexts are very different in both countries. Furthermore, they indicate the importance of articulation and federative collaboration between federal, state and municipal governments for the deployment of policies focused on early childhood.Keywords: Education Assessment; Early Childhood Education; Quality of Education; Australia.

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Rapport, Frances, Andrea L. Smith, Anne E. Cust, Graham J. Mann, Caroline G. Watts, David E. Gyorki, Michael Henderson, et al. "Identifying challenges to implementation of clinical practice guidelines for sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with melanoma in Australia: protocol paper for a mixed methods study." BMJ Open 10, no. 2 (February 2020): e032636. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032636.

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IntroductionSentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a diagnostic procedure developed in the 1990s. It is currently used to stage patients with primary cutaneous melanoma, provide prognostic information and guide management. The Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines state that SLNB should be considered for patients with cutaneous melanoma >1 mm in thickness (or >0.8 mm with high-risk pathology features). Until recently, sentinel lymph node (SLN) status was used to identify patients who might benefit from a completion lymph node dissection, a procedure that is no longer routinely recommended. SLN status is now also being used to identify patients who might benefit from systemic adjuvant therapies such as anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD1) checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy or BRAF-directed molecular targeted therapy, treatments that have significantly improved relapse-free survival for patients with resected stage III melanoma and improved overall survival of patients with unresectable stage III and stage IV melanoma. Australian and international data indicate that approximately half of eligible patients receive an SLNB.Methods and analysisThis mixed-methods study seeks to understand the structural, contextual and cultural factors affecting implementation of the SLNB guidelines. Data collection will include: (1) cross-sectional questionnaires and semistructured interviews with general practitioners and dermatologists; (2) semistructured interviews with other healthcare professionals involved in the diagnosis and early definitive care of melanoma patients and key stakeholders including researchers, representatives of professional colleges, training organisations and consumer melanoma groups; and (3) documentary analysis of documents from government, health services and non-government organisations. Descriptive analyses and multivariable regression models will be used to examine factors related to SLNB practices and attitudes. Qualitative data will be analysed using thematic analysis.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval has been granted by the University of Sydney. Results will be disseminated through publications and presentations to clinicians, patients, policymakers and researchers and will inform the development of strategies for implementing SLNB guidelines in Australia.

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Gergis, J., D. Garden, and C. Fenby. "The Influence of Climate on the First European Settlement of Australia: A Comparison of Weather Journals, Documentary Data and Palaeoclimate Records, 1788-1793." Environmental History 15, no. 3 (July 1, 2010): 485–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emq079.

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