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Douglas, Roger. "Timber cutting on trial: Police, courts and the rainforest action group∗." Interdisciplinary Peace Research 2, no. 2 (October 1990): 74–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14781159008412727.
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Fox, Vashti Jane. "“Never Again”: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Melbourne in the 1990s." Labour History 116, no. 1 (May 1, 2019): 215–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlh.2019.10.
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An upsurge of fascist and anti-fascist activity in Australia in the early part of the twentieth century has received sustained historical attention. Yet scholarly historical coverage of the latter part of the century has been minimal. This article demonstrates the ongoing existence of both a far-right movement and a concomitant anti-fascist opposition by focusing on Melbourne in the 1990s. It draws from interviews with anti-fascist activists and from campaign paraphernalia and press reports. It introduces the group National Action (NA), identifies its political tactics and shows how it rebranded fascist traditions from Europe and the USA by drawing on iconic figures and symbols of the Australian labour movement, anti-immigrant racist tropes and on white Australian nationalism. Anti-fascist groups were loose collections of left activists and organisations animated by memories of the racist horrors of World War II. This article shows that, over time, loosely affiliated ant-fascist groups were influenced by various overseas currents of thought about political practice. These included notions of a United or Popular Front, direct and indirect action, “no platforming” and “squaddism” respectively. The analysis draws on contemporary trends in international anti-fascism studies.
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Wilkinson, Sara, Hera Antoniades, and Dulani Halvitigala. "The future of the Australian valuation profession." Property Management 36, no. 3 (June 18, 2018): 333–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pm-04-2017-0026.
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PurposeValuers face significant challenges as processes become automated and the role evolves to data handling and processing. To survive and thrive, valuers must respond to a changing market. The purpose of this paper is to examine the issues, threats and challenges facing the Australian profession, though the issues are global.Design/methodology/approachThis qualitative research sought a deeper understanding of the threats, challenges and new areas of practice that Australian valuers were experiencing. A focus group approach was designed to collect data from practitioners in Sydney and Melbourne. The research aimed to identify new knowledge and skills for the future and emerging trends and practices.FindingsThe key issues, threats and challenges faced included increasing use of automated valuation models for low-risk residential valuations, valuers being unable to protect themselves against the banks, loss of control of the data and valuations. In total, 12 knowledge domains and skills required in the future were established and ten emerging trends and practices were identified.Research limitations/implicationsThe key limitations were that participants were from Melbourne and Sydney in Australia only and the focus is NSW and Victoria centric, although many participants have international work experience. There was an under representation of rural valuers, of small valuation firms, of young, recently joined or qualified valuers and females.Practical implicationsThe findings inform a manifesto for the future which sets out the practical implications for valuers and the professional body. This action plan sets the new knowledge domains, practices and trends that can be adopted by the profession and its members.Originality/valueThis is the original research and highlights some real threats, issues and challenges facing the Australian valuers. It complements work undertaken by legal and accounting professional bodies, which sense change affecting their membership and services. A manifesto for action has been outlined to address the changes that are coming and those already here.
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H-H. Hsu-Hage, Bridget, K. C. Tang, Rebecca Jie Li, Vivian Lin, Tony Chow, and Frank Thien. "A Qualitative Investigation into the Use of Health Services among Melbourne Chinese." Australian Journal of Primary Health 7, no. 3 (2001): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py01044.
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Understanding health service utilisation by community groups can be used to enhance cost-effective service delivery planning. In an inquiry into general health needs, and experiences with health service utilisation by Chinese living in Melbourne, we conducted a series of focus group discussions to explore community health-seeking behaviour. Seven focus groups were drawn from community groups and bilingual health workers in the period September-October 1999. Discussions were carried out in dialect familiar to the participants, facilitated by trained multilingual researchers, tape recorded and transcribed in Chinese and then translated into English. Cross validation was carried out by an independent researcher. Themes that emerged from these discussions included common pathways to care seeking, barriers to the use of health care services, general health concerns, and perceived validity of health information sources. Participants opt for self care when feeling unwell if the condition is perceived as ?not severe?. Use of over-the-counter medication is usually the first course of action. There is a tendency to ?wait and see? when feeling unwell. The use of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners (TCMP) is common, while continuing to see Orthodox Western Medicine practitioners. There are, however, common concerns about the quality of care provided by TCM practitioners and their qualifications. Language, transport, and cost are among other barriers that undermine the use of health care services. Participants reported diabetes, heart disease risk factors, peptic ulcer, hay fever and asthma, poor vision, dental problems, social isolation, and gambling among the most common health concerns. Participants accepted health information from a wide range of sources and placed greater trust in material disseminated by SBS Chinese Radio Programs and the Chinese Health Foundation; an established community organisation run by voluntary health professionals. In conclusion, the study confirmed a number of patterns by which the Chinese community sought and utilised health services and associated factors.
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Callister, Valerie, and Julie Geilman. "Getting it Together: A Rural Health Promotion Program." Australian Journal of Primary Health 6, no. 4 (2000): 194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py00053.
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The Getting It Together Rural Health Promotion project was established by a group of community health providers in Gippsland, Victoria. The overall aim of Getting It Together was to extend and improve health promotion practice amongst participating organisations. This was achieved through collaboration around health promotion training and planning. Complementary strategies addressing Cardio-Vascular Disease (CVD) were developed across four Local Government Areas (LGAs). Central resourcing was provided for coordination of the project, and for marketing and network support tasks. The project was based on an integrated and coordinated health promotion model, which contained overlapping strategies combining to create a broadly based partnership of action. At the commencement of the project, health promotion workers from each LGA were provided with a three-day training course conducted by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT). Participants developed Action Plans based around the three driving strategies of community wide-strategies, targeted strategies and marketing. A special feature of Getting It Together was a common media strategy, to support and reinforce action at the local level. An overall slogan was adopted, 'Slicker Ticker - A Gippsland Healthy Heart Project'. Uniting themes included 'Stress Less Week' and 'Gippsland Get Up and Go'. Latrobe Community Health Service facilitated the project and senior managers from the partnering agencies formed a Steering Committee, which met at key intervals to monitor the project.
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Wilkinson, Sara, Dulani Halvitigala, and Hera Antoniades. "Educators, professional bodies and the future of the valuation profession." Property Management 36, no. 4 (August 20, 2018): 389–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pm-04-2017-0027.
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Purpose Valuers face significant challenges as valuation becomes automated and the role evolves from economic analysis to data handling and processing. The purpose of this paper is to identify new knowledge and skills Valuers will need in the future and the role of professional bodies and educators in meeting future challenges in Australia, although the issues are considered global. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative research sought a deeper understanding of the issues, threats, challenges, opportunities, new areas of practice and knowledge that Valuers were experiencing with a view to identifying the role of professional bodies, industry and educators to meet the challenges. A focus group approach was adopted to collect data from practitioners in Sydney and Melbourne. Findings The roles of the professional body the Australian Property Institute, industry/employers and educators to meet these future challenges were identified. Changes are required to degree programme content in respect of digital technologies and statistical knowledge and skills. Continuing professional development programmes are required to address knowledge and skills gaps in existing practitioners. Research limitations/implications In this study, key limitations were that focus group participants were from Melbourne and Sydney only, and the focus is NSW and Victoria centric, although many participants have international work experience. Overall there was under representation of rural Valuers, of small valuation firms, of young, recently joined or qualified Valuers and females. Originality/value This is original research and highlights some real threats, issues and challenges facing the Australian Valuers. It complements work undertaken by legal and accounting professional bodies who perceive change and uncertainty affecting membership and services. To address and where, appropriate, embrace the changes that are coming and those already here, a manifesto for action for educators and the professional body is established.
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Buccino, Giovanni, Anna Molinaro, Claudia Ambrosi, Daniele Arisi, Lorella Mascaro, Chiara Pinardi, Andrea Rossi, Roberto Gasparotti, Elisa Fazzi, and Jessica Galli. "Action Observation Treatment Improves Upper Limb Motor Functions in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Combined Clinical and Brain Imaging Study." Neural Plasticity 2018 (July 4, 2018): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4843985.
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The aim of the present study was to assess the role of action observation treatment (AOT) in the rehabilitation of upper limb motor functions in children with cerebral palsy. We carried out a two-group, parallel randomized controlled trial. Eighteen children (aged 5–11 yr) entered the study: 11 were treated children, and 7 served as controls. Outcome measures were scores on two functional scales: Melbourne Assessment of Unilateral Upper Limb Function Scale (MUUL) and the Assisting Hand Assessment (AHA). We collected functional scores before treatment (T1), at the end of treatment (T2), and at two months of follow-up (T3). As compared to controls, treated children improved significantly in both scales at T2 and this improvement persisted at T3. AOT has therefore the potential to become a routine rehabilitation practice in children with CP. Twelve out of 18 enrolled children also underwent a functional magnetic resonance study at T1 and T2. As compared to controls, at T2, treated children showed stronger activation in a parieto-premotor circuit for hand-object interactions. These findings support the notion that AOT contributes to reorganize brain circuits subserving the impaired function rather than activating supplementary or vicariating ones.
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Opel-Reading, Helen, Sylvia Luckner, Ruth Schaller, Donald Kurtz, and Kurt Krause. "Rubrerythrin from Trichomonas vaginalis- structural insights into its mechanism of action." Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances 70, a1 (August 5, 2014): C821. http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/s2053273314091785.
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Trichomoniasis is a common STD with an estimated prevalence of 4 million infections in the United States. The organism that causes trichomoniasis, Trichomonas vaginalis, is essentially anaerobic and contains proteins such as peroxidases that help detoxify reactive oxygen species in its environment. A unique non-heme peroxidase called rubrerythrin, found in this organism, is homologous to bacterial peroxidases, and is markedly upregulated during oxidative stress. It could represent a target for therapeutic intervention given the importance of an anaerobic environment for this organism's survival. Using protein crystallography, we have determined the three-dimensional structure of two forms of this enzyme, the wild-type rubrerythrin which is reddish in colour and a mutant protein, T48A, which is purple. The genes were cloned and expressed in E. coli and purified using liquid chromatography. Crystallization was carried out using vapor diffusion methods. Following optimization, data sets were collected to 2.2Å at the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne. The phase problem was solved using molecular replacement. Subsequent refinement in Space Group P21212 has yielded a structure with an Rwork/Rfree of 20.6 and 27.3 respectively. The resulting rubrerythrin structure is a dimer of four-helix bundles each containing two metal centers in a geometry and fold very similar to bacterial orthologs. Kinetic studies indicate that it can function as an efficient peroxidase, but only if all sites are occupied by iron. The key to the purple color of the T48A mutant rubrerythrin appears to involve the serendipitous formation of a charge-transfer complex involving the diiron site and a tyrosine, which is facilitated by this mutation. This is the first structure reported of a eukaryotic non-haem iron peroxidase. It is a potentially important virulence factor in T. vaginalis and will serve as a basis for further work to characterize its function within the organism.
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Kertesz, Margaret, Cathy Humphreys, Lisa Young Larance, Dave Vicary, Anneliese Spiteri-Staines, and Georgia Ovenden. "Working with women who use force: a feasibility study protocol of the Positive (+)SHIFT group work programme in Australia." BMJ Open 9, no. 5 (May 2019): e027496. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027496.
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IntroductionThis study assesses the feasibility of the Positive Shift (+SHIFT) programme in the context of legal responses and social welfare provision in the state of Victoria, Australia.The +SHIFT programme, adapted from the Vista curriculum, is a group work and case management programme for women who use force. Building on traditional survivor support group strengths, the programme facilitates participants’ engagement with viable alternatives to force while promoting healing. The study also aims to increase understanding about the characteristics and needs of women who use force in Australia.Methods and analysisThis feasibility study will assess the +SHIFT programme’s appropriateness in addressing women’s use of force in the Victorian context. Process evaluation will be undertaken to identify recruitment, retention, women’s participation, barriers to implementation, the appropriateness of proposed outcome measures and other issues. The feasibility of an outcome evaluation which would employ a longitudinal mixed methods design with measures administered at preprogramme, programme completion and 3 months postprogramme time points, along with semistructured interviews with participants, programme staff and referring professionals, will also be assessed.Ethics and disseminationResearch ethics approval was obtained from the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee. Results of the study will be communicated to the programme providers as part of the action research process evaluation methodology. On completion, final results will be reported to programme providers and funding bodies, and published in academic journals and presented at national and international conferences.
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Elliott, Rohan A., Cik Yin Lee, Christine Beanland, Dianne P. Goeman, Neil Petrie, Barbara Petrie, Felicity Vise, and June Gray. "Development of a clinical pharmacy model within an Australian home nursing service using co-creation and participatory action research: theVisitingPharmacist (ViP) study." BMJ Open 7, no. 11 (November 2017): e018722. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018722.
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ObjectiveTo develop a collaborative, person-centred model of clinical pharmacy support for community nurses and their medication management clients.DesignCo-creation and participatory action research, based on reflection, data collection, interaction and feedback from participants and other stakeholders.SettingA large, non-profit home nursing service in Melbourne, Australia.ParticipantsOlder people referred to the home nursing service for medication management, their carers, community nurses, general practitioners (GPs) and pharmacists, a multidisciplinary stakeholder reference group (including consumer representation) and the project team.Data collection and analysisFeedback and reflections from minutes, notes and transcripts from: project team meetings, clinical pharmacists’ reflective diaries and interviews, meetings with community nurses, reference group meetings and interviews and focus groups with 27 older people, 18 carers, 53 nurses, 15 GPs and seven community pharmacists.ResultsThe model was based on best practice medication management standards and designed to address key medication management issues raised by stakeholders. Pharmacist roles included direct client care and indirect care. Direct care included home visits, medication reconciliation, medication review, medication regimen simplification, preparation of medication lists for clients and nurses, liaison and information sharing with prescribers and pharmacies and patient/carer education. Indirect care included providing medicines information and education for nurses and assisting with review and implementation of organisational medication policies and procedures. The model allowed nurses to refer directly to the pharmacist, enabling timely resolution of medication issues. Direct care was provided to 84 older people over a 15-month implementation period. Ongoing feedback and consultation, in line with participatory action research principles, informed the development and refinement of the model and identification of enablers and challenges.ConclusionsA collaborative, person-centred clinical pharmacy model that addressed the needs of clients, carers, nurses and other stakeholders was successfully developed. The model is likely to have applicability to home nursing services nationally and internationally.