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Rutland, Suzanne D. "The Jewish Community In New South Wales 1914-1939." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6536.
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Rutland, Suzanne D. "The Jewish Community In New South Wales 1914-1939." University of Sydney, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6536.
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Huf, Benjamin. "Making Things Economic: Theory and Government in New South Wales, 1788-1863." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/154253.
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This thesis is a study of the invention and
consolidation of a domain of knowledge and government we today
denominate as the ‘economic’ in the particular context of the
British colonisation of New South Wales. Two lines of argument
are pursued. The first recovers the idea of British imperialism
in New South Wales as an ‘economic’ project, in which
phenomena that have been typically assumed as essential to
colonial development – convict work, land settlement, wool
growing, migration and their impact on Aboriginal societies –
came to be classified, organised and administered as distinctly
economic problems. As imperial and colonial authorities
increasingly appropriated the ‘constitutive metaphors’ of
Ricardian political economy in their reports, inquiries and
correspondence, they re-narrated these phenomena from discrete
problems of state to integrated dynamics of production,
distribution and wealth-accumulation. This economic project is
studied in distinction from, even as it intersected with, the
paradigms of democratisation, settler colonialism and
legal-positivist statism with which historians have tended to
frame the colony’s political and intellectual history in the
first half of the nineteenth century. Its legacies, in the
identities it forged and projects it legitimated, have been as
enduring as the colonial constitution but less closely assessed.
The second line of argument, arising from this reading of
colonial history, revises the significance of nineteenth-century
political economy as an emergent political vocabulary in a
nascent Australian political culture, and in English-speaking
Anglophone culture more generally. In appropriating political
economy as an official discourse, imperial authorities not only
helped insulate the ‘economic’ as a domain of knowledge, but
consolidated a new, reductive framework for interpreting,
governing and debating social interaction, regulated by the
imperatives of supply and demand, profits and wages. Together,
these two lines of argument are offered as a critical exercise in
recovering and recognising the historical functioning of economic
language in official, public and everyday speech. They provide a
fresh perspective on aspects of the colonial past, and recover
legacies which continue to shape our world today.
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Johnson, Andrew, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, Faculty of Social Inquiry, and School of Ecology. "Crime, governance and numbers : a genealogy of counting crime in New South Wales." THESIS_FSI_SEL_Johnson_A.xml, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/535.
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This thesis is an intellectual genealogy of counting crime in New South Wales. It is a history of a system of thought which is one of the contemporary foundations of the way we interpret the nature and extent of crime today. It argues that the incitement to annually record crime statistics in New South Wales, and internationally, is immediately connected with a will to govern crime. This thesis traces this bonding of the technology of crime statistics with mentalities of government, and maintains that although the connection of these two discourses has been highly effective, it has not been one of universal domination. This is a history of the continuous state practice of compiling and publishing crime statistics. But it is also a history of discontinuities. This thesis regularly investigates shifts in the categories of recording. It locates changes in what is recorded by broadening its discussion to include localised and international debates on crime that are contemporaneous to these changes. This is not a thesis with a project to improve the way in which we record or utilise crime statistics. Its project is to write a history of how we came to record crime statistics and how we have intended to utilise these crime statistics in our practices of government. It traces the rise of counting crime and interrogates it as one of the key technologies deployed in the government of crimeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Brady, Wendy. "Indigenous Australians and non-indigenous education in New South Wales, 1788-1968." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12822.
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Wannan, Alison. "Public policies and the construction of domestic life in western Sydney, 1974-1984: women, suburbia, community and the state." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1988. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26231.
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The issue of how selected public policies of the NSW Government impacted on the everyday lives of women in Western Sydney during the period 1974-1984 is examined here in terms of class and gender inequalities. Using data from official departmental reports and the empirical investigation of public expenditure on community services, the thesis demonstrates that most often public policies maintained the inequalities of women living in suburban Western Sydney. The sexual division of labour was central to public policies and maintained women as dependent mothers, wives and low paid workers. The home and the local neighbourhood were seen as the 'natural' location of suburban women. Further, the analysis indicates how the dominance of community- as-localit y in urban and social policies obscured the class, gender and racial/ethn ic divisions of suburban women. In contrast, a few 'community ' policies and services provided evidence of the possibilities for public policies to redistribute services explicitly to working class women and not to inevitably support existing inequalities.
In conclusion, it is argued that the concept of community-as -locality needs to be reconsidered and reconstructe d and a range of housing and social policies developed that redistribute resources in favour of women and their families living in working class suburbs.
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Volke, Harvey. "The politics of state rental housing in New South Wales, 1900 - 1939 : three case studies." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28059.
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The history of housing policy in New South Wales has been one of consistent disengagement
of government from issues of low-income housing provision. Characteristically, until the
19405, government responses were dictated from within a laissez-faire liberal framework in
which housing provision was best left to the operations of market forces. This impacted
severely on the availability of appropriate and affordable housing for low-income people.
Insofar as low-income housing policy was addressed at all, it was usually in terms of
encouraging people into home ownership. Nevertheless, the period from around 1900 to
1940 saw the beginnings of deliberate government intervention in the housing market in
piecemeal attempts to address the issue. A range of factors combined to produce this
outcome, including outbreaks of contagious disease in badly drained and unsewered slum
precincts, and increasing pressure from a range of disparate groups. These included the
nascent town planning lobby, church and charity bodies, and not least, working class
organisations and working class people themselves. Business interest in redeveloping prime
commercial sites also played a role in the moves for slum clearance.
The period was characterised by a series of attempts to resolve low-income housing
problems in Sydney, or at least, the problems of slum clearance. These ranged from State
resumption of The Rocks area, to attempts by both city governments and State governments
to provide minimal amounts of public housing for some of those displaced by resumptions,
and included attempts at encouraging self-help and self- reliance by church and charitable
agencies, as well as State bodies. They also included attempts to address the problems of
low—income tenants in the private rental market by legislative means: for example, by
introducing rent control and some limited efforts to control the rate of evictions during the
Depression era. The fact remains, that the period is characterised by a marked failure to
undertake any substantive initiatives that would make a serious contribution to resolving the
manifest problems. The reasons for this failure are complex, but include a policy
commitment to home ownership (and to separate homes on separate sites at that), a
prevailing ideology of laissez faire liberalism, and a shifting of responsibility for dealing with
the problems between local and State authorities. It was only at the end of the period that
the State Government accepted the responsibility for ensuring some attempt at meeting the
needs of low—income people.
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Foley, Daniel Joseph. "The British Government decision to found a colony at Botany Bay, New South Wales in 1786." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2004. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-british-government-decision-to-found-a-colony-at-botany-bay-new-south-wales-in-1786(559b2bd5-c796-4ef2-9cbc-b28a6ad601f1).html.
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It is a common misconception that the colony at Botany Bay was founded purely so that Britain could rid herself of her convicts. This would have made the alleged convict crisis in Britain a first order consideration for the Pitt Government. It was not. Pitt had two major problems on coming to office - finance and trade - and the solutions to them were not mutually exclusive. Each depended on his skill at filling Treasury coffers and on the successful completion of the complicated trade treaties with France, Holland and Spain after the American War of Independence. Numerically speaking there was no convict crisis, rather a prison problem. The towns and cities in England and Wales refused to build the expensive prisons required under legislation passed in 1778-9; instead seeking a resumption of transportation. Pressure was brought on Government by the merchants in the House of Commons. They dominated the Beauchamp Committee of 1785, which recommended a resumption of that punishment. Pitt saw the advantages to be gained from having an armed settlement in the Far East. During his commercial treaty negotiations in 1786-7 he did not wish to arouse the suspicion of his European rivals, but still saw the opportunity a colony would present in case there was a resumption of hostilities. New South Wales helped solve a number of Pitt's problems. Most importantly, the swing to the east helped him financially. Next it secured the southern trade route to China and placed a strategic base at the rear of the French, Dutch and Spanish possessions. And, as a matter of relatively minor detail, it also salved the conscience of the Enlightenment lobby by solving his prison problem. Unfortunately a generation of war intervened shortly after the settlement was founded and not until 1815 did it start to achieve what Pitt originally envisaged.
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Davis, Edward R. "Ethnicity and diversity : politics and the Aboriginal community /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phd2613.pdf.
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Johnson, Andrew. "Crime, governance and numbers : a genealogy of counting crime in New South Wales." Thesis, View thesis, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/535.
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This thesis is an intellectual genealogy of counting crime in New South Wales. It is a history of a system of thought which is one of the contemporary foundations of the way we interpret the nature and extent of crime today. It argues that the incitement to annually record crime statistics in New South Wales, and internationally, is immediately connected with a will to govern crime. This thesis traces this bonding of the technology of crime statistics with mentalities of government, and maintains that although the connection of these two discourses has been highly effective, it has not been one of universal domination. This is a history of the continuous state practice of compiling and publishing crime statistics. But it is also a history of discontinuities. This thesis regularly investigates shifts in the categories of recording. It locates changes in what is recorded by broadening its discussion to include localised and international debates on crime that are contemporaneous to these changes. This is not a thesis with a project to improve the way in which we record or utilise crime statistics. Its project is to write a history of how we came to record crime statistics and how we have intended to utilise these crime statistics in our practices of government. It traces the rise of counting crime and interrogates it as one of the key technologies deployed in the government of crime
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McQueen, Kelvin, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "The state aid struggle and the New South Wales Teachers Federation 1995 to 1999." THESIS_CAESS_HUM_McQueen_K.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/619.
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This thesis examines from an historical perspective the series of events between 1995 and 1999 in which the public school teachers’ union, the New South Wales Teachers federation, challenged the NSW and Australian government’s provision of funding to private schools. Such funding is known colloquially as state aid. The state aid struggle is conceived in this thesis as an industrial relations contest that went beyond issues simply of state aid. The state aid struggle was a centrepiece of the Teachers Federation’s broader challenge to government’s intensification of efforts to reduce the federation’s effectiveness in shaping the public school system’s priorities. This thesis contends that the decisive importance of the state aid struggle arose from the fundamental strategy used by governments to lower the cost of schooling over time. To achieve this they undertook the state aid strategy – cost reductions would flow from residualising public schools, de-unionising teachers and deregulating wages and conditions. The state aid strategy was implemented through those areas of policy and funding over which the Federation had negligible control or where the Federation’s membership was disunited. The Federation was undermined by governments using policy initiatives to fragment teacher unity. By the end of 1999, governments’ prosecution of the state aid strategy did not seem to have been diverted from the main thrust of its course by the federation’s struggle.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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McQueen, Kelvin. "The state aid struggle and the New South Wales Teachers Federation 1995 to 1999." Thesis, View thesis, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/619.
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This thesis examines from an historical perspective the series of events between 1995 and 1999 in which the public school teachers’ union, the New South Wales Teachers federation, challenged the NSW and Australian government’s provision of funding to private schools. Such funding is known colloquially as state aid. The state aid struggle is conceived in this thesis as an industrial relations contest that went beyond issues simply of state aid. The state aid struggle was a centrepiece of the Teachers Federation’s broader challenge to government’s intensification of efforts to reduce the federation’s effectiveness in shaping the public school system’s priorities. This thesis contends that the decisive importance of the state aid struggle arose from the fundamental strategy used by governments to lower the cost of schooling over time. To achieve this they undertook the state aid strategy – cost reductions would flow from residualising public schools, de-unionising teachers and deregulating wages and conditions. The state aid strategy was implemented through those areas of policy and funding over which the Federation had negligible control or where the Federation’s membership was disunited. The Federation was undermined by governments using policy initiatives to fragment teacher unity. By the end of 1999, governments’ prosecution of the state aid strategy did not seem to have been diverted from the main thrust of its course by the federation’s struggle.
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McQueen, Kelvin. "The state aid struggle and the New South Wales Teachers Federation 1995 to 1999." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20050714.144022/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2003.A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliography.
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Allen, Matthew Richard. "The temperance shift : drunkenness, responsibility and the regulation of alcohol in NSW, 1788-1856." Phd thesis, Department of History, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9521.
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Burridge, Nina. "The implementation of the policy of Reconciliation in NSW schools." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/25954.
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"November 2003".Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Australian Centre for Educational Studies, School of Education, 2004.
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Introduction -- Literature review -- Meanings and perspectives of Reconciliation in the Australian socio-political context -- An explanation of the research method -- Meanings of Reconciliation in the school context -- Survey results -- The role of education in the Reconciliation process -- Obstacles and barriers to Reconciliation -- Teaching for Reconciliation: best practice in teaching resources -- Conclusion.
The research detailed in this thesis investigated how schools in NSW responded to the social and political project of Reconciliation at the end of the 1990s. -- The research used a multi-method research approach which included a survey instrument, focus group interviews and key informants interviews with Aboriginal and non Aboriginal teachers, elders and educators, to gather qualitative as well as quantitative data. Differing research methodologies, including Indigenous research paradigms, are presented and discussed within the context of this research. From the initial research questions a number of sub-questions emerged which included: -The exploration of meanings and perspectives of Reconciliation evident in both the school and wider communities contexts and the extent to which these meanings and perspectives were transposed from the community to the school sector. -The perceived level of support for Reconciliation in school communities and what factors impacted on this level of support. -Responses of school communities to Reconciliation in terms of school programs and teaching strategies including factors which enhanced the teaching of Reconciliation issues in the classroom and factors which acted as barriers. -- Firstly in order to provide the context for the research study, the thesis provides a brief historical overview of the creation of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. It then builds a framework through which the discourses of Reconciliation are presented and deconstructed. These various meanings and perspectives of Reconciliation are placed within a linear spectrum of typologies, from 'hard', 'genuine' or 'substantive' Reconciliation advocated by the Left, comprising a strong social justice agenda, first nation rights and compensation for past injustices, to the assimiliationist typologies desired by members of the Right which suggest that Reconciliation is best achieved through the total integration of Aboriginal people into the mainstream community, with Aboriginal people accepting the reality of their dispossession. -- In between these two extremes lie degrees of interpretations of what constitutes Reconciliation, including John Howard's current Federal Government interpretation of 'practical' Reconciliation. In this context "Left" and "Right" are defined less by political ideological lines of the Labor and Liberal parties than by attitudes to human rights and social justice. Secondly, and within the socio-political context presented above, the thesis reports on research conducted with Indigenous and non Indigenous educators, students and elders in the context of the NSW school system to decipher meanings and perspectives on Reconciliation as reflected in that sector. It then makes comparisons with research conducted on behalf of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation during the 1990s on attitudes to Reconciliation in the community. Perceived differences are analysed and discussed.
The research further explores how schools approached the teaching of Reconciliation through a series of survey questions designed to document the types of activities undertaken by the schools with Reconciliation as the main aim. -- Research findings indicated that while both the community at large and the education community are overwhelmingly supportive of Reconciliation, both as a concept and as a government policy, when questioned further as to the depth and details of this commitment to Reconciliation and the extent to which they may be supportive of the 'hard' issues of Reconciliation, their views and level of support were more wide ranging and deflective. -- Findings indicated that, in general, educators have a more multi-layered understanding of the issues related to Reconciliation than the general community, and a proportion of them do articulate more clearly those harder, more controversial aspects of the Reconciliation process (eg just compensation, land and sea rights, customary laws). However, they are in the main, unsure of its meaning beyond the 'soft' symbolic acts and gatherings which occur in schools. In the late 1990s, when Reconciliation was at the forefront of the national agenda, research findings indicate that while schools were organising cultural and curriculum activities in their teaching of Indigenous history or Aboriginal studies - they did not specifically focus on Reconciliation in their teaching programs as an issue in the community. Teachers did not have a clearly defined view of what Reconciliation entailed and schools were not teaching about Reconciliation directly within their curriculum programs. -- The research also sought to identify facotrs which acted as enhancers of a Reconciliation program in schools and factors which were seen as barriers. Research findings clearly pointed to community and parental attitudes as important barriers with time and an overcrowded curriculum as further barriers to the implementation of teaching programs. Factors which promoted Reconciliation in schools often related to human agency and human relationships such as supportive executive leadership, the work of committed teachers and a responsive staff and community.
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Sollorz, Peter Lawrence. "The history of computer use in senior school mathematics teaching in the government school system of New South Wales: 1971 – 1992." Thesis, Curtin University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2016.
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In Australia, there is a paucity of information regarding the introduction of computers into school education, especially school mathematics education, in particular for NSW. This thesis studies the history of computers in education in NSW, from its beginning in 1971, to when communications technology became influential in both society and government policy in 1992. This study uses a historical method, integrated with quantitative and qualitative variables, combined with a grounded theory approach.
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Robinson, Geoffrey 1963. "How Labor governed : social structures and the formation of public policy during the New South Wales Lang government of November 1930 to May 1932." Monash University, Dept. of History, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9164.
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Fischer, Imke. "Years of silent control : the influence of the Commonwealth in state physical education in Victoria and New South Wales." Phd thesis, School of Social, Policy and Curriculum Studies, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4031.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--School of Social, Policy and Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney, 2001.Title from title screen (viewed 12th February, 2009) Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Foggett, Albert Colin Sydney, and n/a. "How children view schooling: a study of the views of schooling held by year 6 pupils in selected government schools in New South Wales." University of Canberra. Education, 1986. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050711.160431.
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The purpose of this study was twofold. First,
it aimed to present an argument for the inclusion of
primary-age children's views in the decision-making
process in primary schools. Second, it aimed to
explore the potential of primary-age children to
contribute to better decisions about their own
schooling. The hypothesis is that primary-age
children have worthwhile views of schooling that
should be introduced into both classroom and school
decision-making processes. Authoritarianism, moral
development, childrenqs rights and active learning
were explored in relation to child participation in
decision-making.
This study attempted to explore children's views
of schooling from the viewpoints of the children
themselves. Children kept diaries of school for one
week and from these diaries an interview schedule
was constructed to allow the exploration of their
views.
The study shows that primary-age children have
views that can contribute legitimately and valuably
to decision-making at both the classroom and school
levels.
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Ravindran, Subahari. "A critical comparison of the similarities and differences in the conceptualisation of disability between Indigenous people in Australia and New South Wales disability service agencies." Thesis, Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14210.
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This thesis critically compares the conceptualisation of disability in the public discourse between Indigenous people and New South Wales (NSW) government and non-government disability service agencies. This study explores intersections of the conceptualisations of disability at the Cultural Interface using the Occupational Justice Framework (Gilroy, 2009; Durocher, Gibson and Rappolt, 2014). This thesis consists of two sections. Section 1: Literature Review Section 2: Journal manuscript The first section of this thesis is the literature review. The literature review examines the low participation rate of indigenous people in disability services and the need for culturally appropriate disability services for Indigenous people. In order to ensure culturally appropriate services are provided for Indigenous people, the Western and Indigenous perspectives of disability need to be understood and each are discussed in turn in the literature review. The review initially discusses the Western conceptualisation of disability, followed by the Indigenous conceptualisation of disability. The review also explores how both Indigenous and Western perspectives on disability influence each other. The developments in disability conceptualisation throughout history are also discussed, followed by the current literature that led to the development of this study. The second section of this thesis is a journal manuscript. The journal manuscript explores the intersections and tensions between Indigenous people and NSW government and non- government disability service agencies regarding the conceptualisation of disability. The journal manuscript also examines the outcomes and implications of the findings.
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Ramsay, Janet. "The making of domestic violence policy by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the Government of the State of New South Wales between 1970 and 1985 an analytical narrative of feminist policy activism /." Connect to full text, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/724.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2005.Title from title screen (viewed 21 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Discipline of Government and International Relations, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2005; thesis submitted 2004. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Ramsay, Janet Kay. "The Making of Domestic Violence Policy by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the Government of the State of New South Wales between 1970 and 1985: An Analytical Narrative of Feminist Policy Activism." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/724.
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This thesis is a study of the processes by which domestic violence, as framed by Australian feminists from the early 1970s, was inserted into the policy agenda of governments, and developed into a comprehensive body of policy. The thesis covers the period between 1970 and 1985. Acknowledging the federal nature of the Australian polity, it examines these processes that unfolded within both the Australian Commonwealth government and the government of New South Wales. The thesis provides a political history of domestic violence policy making in the identified period. It shows that policy responses to women escaping violent partners included both immediate measures (such as protection and justice strategies) and more long-term measures to attempt to secure the conditions for women's financial, legal and personal autonomy. The elements found to have been most significant in shaping the development of such policies were the roles and identities of the participant players, including the driving role of the women suffering partner violence; the lack of contest in the early stages of policy achievement with established professionals in related fields; the uniquely 'hybrid' role and positioning of refuge feminists; and the degree of integration and continuity which characterised the domestic violence policy process. The thesis also investigates the relationship between domestic violence policy making and the broader women's policy enterprise. It demonstrates the care with which those involved avoided the dangers of sensationalism and tokenism while striving for an appropriate policy response. The thesis pays particular attention to the circumstances in which feminists in the early 1970s experienced their 'discovery' of domestic violence. It demonstrates the significance of social and economic circumstances in shaping the political options of feminists in the thesis period and those preceding it, and the extent to which policy possibilities are shaped by representations of the nature and functions of policy itself. Finally, the thesis investigates the relationship between the strategic processes undertaken and the policy outcomes produced, finding that policies achieved in the thesis period complemented and in some ways transcended accepted policy practice in the relevant period.
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Ramsay, Janet Kay. "The Making of Domestic Violence Policy by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the Government of the State of New South Wales between 1970 and 1985: An Analytical Narrative of Feminist Policy Activism." University of Sydney. Discipline of Government and International Relations, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/724.
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This thesis is a study of the processes by which domestic violence, as framed by Australian feminists from the early 1970s, was inserted into the policy agenda of governments, and developed into a comprehensive body of policy. The thesis covers the period between 1970 and 1985. Acknowledging the federal nature of the Australian polity, it examines these processes that unfolded within both the Australian Commonwealth government and the government of New South Wales. The thesis provides a political history of domestic violence policy making in the identified period. It shows that policy responses to women escaping violent partners included both immediate measures (such as protection and justice strategies) and more long-term measures to attempt to secure the conditions for women�s financial, legal and personal autonomy. The elements found to have been most significant in shaping the development of such policies were the roles and identities of the participant players, including the driving role of the women suffering partner violence; the lack of contest in the early stages of policy achievement with established professionals in related fields; the uniquely �hybrid� role and positioning of refuge feminists; and the degree of integration and continuity which characterised the domestic violence policy process. The thesis also investigates the relationship between domestic violence policy making and the broader women�s policy enterprise. It demonstrates the care with which those involved avoided the dangers of sensationalism and tokenism while striving for an appropriate policy response. The thesis pays particular attention to the circumstances in which feminists in the early 1970s experienced their �discovery� of domestic violence. It demonstrates the significance of social and economic circumstances in shaping the political options of feminists in the thesis period and those preceding it, and the extent to which policy possibilities are shaped by representations of the nature and functions of policy itself. Finally, the thesis investigates the relationship between the strategic processes undertaken and the policy outcomes produced, finding that policies achieved in the thesis period complemented and in some ways transcended accepted policy practice in the relevant period.
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Binnie, Anna-Eugenia. "From atomic energy to nuclear science : a history of the Australian Atomic Energy Commission." [Sydney] : Macquarie University Physics Department, 2003. http://www.ansto.gov.au/libsite/Fulltext/Binnie_atomic-energy.pdf.
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Turton, David James. "Australia's Coal Seam Gas Debate: Perspectives across Time, Space, Law and Selected Professions." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/142834.
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Coal seam gas (CSG) extraction is a source of ongoing controversy
in the Australian States of New South Wales and Queensland.
Primarily composed of methane, CSG has evolved from a gas
extracted in the interests of coal miner safety, to a profitable
concern, source of electricity generation and, arguably, a
transition fuel in a carbon-constrained future. Efforts to
develop Australia’s CSG industry since the early 2000s has
brought the sector into increased geographical proximity with
existing land uses. Arguments over CSG and its potential risks
and benefits remain ongoing, yet the nation’s CSG debate often
lacks historical context, geographical insights, justice research
perspectives and viewpoints from key professionals associated
with this resource. This thesis therefore poses the overarching
question: how can environmental history, legal geography,
procedural and distributive justice, and profession-specific
insights from lawyers, judges and planners, shed light upon this
controversial resource?
Drawing on a typology of relevance for environmental history,
current CSG land access conflicts in Queensland are
contextualised within past efforts in that State to promote
coexistence between grain growers and coal miners, comparing the
State’s statutorily enshrined Land Access Code 2010 with a
voluntary Explorer-Landholder Procedures Guide produced in 1982
by agricultural and mining stakeholders. Building on this
temporal aspect of formal and informal land access agreements, a
legal geography lens is taken to unconventional gas in Australia,
highlighting its value as a tool for investigating CSG –
particularly for investigating the involvement of lawyers and
judges in land use disputes.
Acknowledging that lawyers are multifaceted participants in
Australia’s CSG discussion, an extended study of their
participation in recorded community forums in Queensland and New
South Wales demonstrates this profession’s significant role in
informing community forum audiences about land access laws
concerning CSG, while also critiquing these laws by referring to
personal experiences with the legal process. Viewpoints from
judges associated with CSG-related litigation were also sought
out and framed by both legal geography and procedural and
distributive justice. An examination of a selection of court
judgments concerning CSG revealed that procedural and
distributive justice issues have arisen in New South Wales and
Queensland. These judgments attend to the place of Australian
local governments in negotiations with CSG operators, the
provision of accurate mapping information to landholders by CSG
companies and the nature of effective engagement in community
consultation. Judges were also shown to engage with geographical
concepts in their rulings, namely scale.
Finally, this thesis examines planners in Australia’s CSG
controversy. Advancing research into the roles and
self-perceptions of planners through interviews with planners in
New South Wales and Queensland and related documentary sources,
these professionals were found to be flexible in their approach
to the industry, adopting community advocate, facilitator of
development and social gatekeeper roles as needed. The discussion
and findings of this research pose important questions about CSG
and the multifaceted impacts of this unconventional fossil fuel
– stressing the utility of analysis that is informed by space,
law, history, justice and the expertise of professionals.
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Rowling, Jill. "Cave Aragonites of New South Wales." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/694.
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Abstract Aragonite is a minor secondary mineral in many limestone caves throughout the world. It has been claimed that it is the second-most common cave mineral after calcite (Hill & Forti 1997). Aragonite occurs as a secondary mineral in the vadose zone of some caves in New South Wales. Aragonite is unstable in fresh water and usually reverts to calcite, but it is actively depositing in some NSW caves. A review of current literature on the cave aragonite problem showed that chemical inhibitors to calcite deposition assist in the precipitation of calcium carbonate as aragonite instead of calcite. Chemical inhibitors work by physically blocking the positions on the calcite crystal lattice which would have otherwise allowed calcite to develop into a larger crystal. Often an inhibitor for calcite has no effect on the aragonite crystal lattice, thus aragonite may deposit where calcite deposition is inhibited. Another association with aragonite in some NSW caves appears to be high evaporation rates allowing calcite, aragonite and vaterite to deposit. Vaterite is another unstable polymorph of calcium carbonate, which reverts to aragonite and calcite over time. Vaterite, aragonite and calcite were found together in cave sediments in areas with low humidity in Wollondilly Cave, Wombeyan. Several factors were found to be associated with the deposition of aragonite instead of calcite speleothems in NSW caves. They included the presence of ferroan dolomite, calcite-inhibitors (in particular ions of magnesium, manganese, phosphate, sulfate and heavy metals), and both air movement and humidity. Aragonite deposits in several NSW caves were examined to determine whether the material is or is not aragonite. Substrates to the aragonite were examined, as was the nature of the bedrock. The work concentrated on Contact Cave and Wiburds Lake Cave at Jenolan, Sigma Cave, Wollondilly Cave and Cow Pit at Wombeyan and Piano Cave and Deep Hole (Cave) at Walli. Comparisons are made with other caves. The study sites are all located in Palaeozoic rocks within the Lachlan Fold Belt tectonic region. Two of the sites, Jenolan and Wombeyan, are close to the western edge of the Sydney Basin. The third site, Walli, is close to a warm spring. The physical, climatic, chemical and mineralogical influences on calcium carbonate deposition in the caves were investigated. Where cave maps were unavailable, they were prepared on site as part of the study. %At Jenolan Caves, Contact Cave and Wiburds Lake Cave were examined in detail, %and other sites were compared with these. Contact Cave is located near the eastern boundary of the Late Silurian Jenolan Caves Limestone, in an area of steeply bedded and partially dolomitised limestone very close to its eastern boundary with the Jenolan volcanics. Aragonite in Contact Cave is precipitated on the ceiling as anthodites, helictites and coatings. The substrate for the aragonite is porous, altered, dolomitised limestone which is wedged apart by aragonite crystals. Aragonite deposition in Contact Cave is associated with a concentration of calcite-inhibiting ions, mainly minerals containing ions of magnesium, manganese and to a lesser extent, phosphates. Aragonite, dolomite and rhodochrosite are being actively deposited where these minerals are present. Calcite is being deposited where minerals containing magnesium ions are not present. The inhibitors appear to be mobilised by fresh water entering the cave as seepage along the steep bedding and jointing. During winter, cold dry air pooling in the lower part of the cave may concentrate minerals by evaporation and is most likely associated with the ``popcorn line'' seen in the cave. Wiburds Lake Cave is located near the western boundary of the Jenolan Caves Limestone, very close to its faulted western boundary with Ordovician cherts. Aragonite at Wiburds Lake Cave is associated with weathered pyritic dolomitised limestone, an altered, dolomitised mafic dyke in a fault shear zone, and also with bat guano minerals. Aragonite speleothems include a spathite, cavity fills, vughs, surface coatings and anthodites. Calcite occurs in small quantities at the aragonite sites. Calcite-inhibitors associated with aragonite include ions of magnesium, manganese and sulfate. Phosphate is significant in some areas. Low humidity is significant in two areas. Other sites briefly examined at Jenolan include Glass Cave, Mammoth Cave, Spider Cave and the show caves. Aragonite in Glass Cave may be associated with both weathering of dolomitised limestone (resulting in anthodites) and with bat guano (resulting in small cryptic forms). Aragonite in the show caves, and possibly in Mammoth and Spider Cave is associated with weathering of pyritic dolomitised limestone. Wombeyan Caves are developed in saccharoidal marble, metamorphosed Silurian Wombeyan Caves Limestone. Three sites were examined in detail at Wombeyan Caves: Sigma Cave, Wollondilly Cave and Cow Pit (a steep sided doline with a dark zone). Sigma Cave is close to the south east boundary of the Wombeyan marble, close to its unconformable boundary with effusive hypersthene porphyry and intrusive gabbro, and contains some unmarmorised limestone. Aragonite occurs mainly in a canyon at the southern extremity of the cave and in some other sites. In Sigma Cave, aragonite deposition is mainly associated with minerals containing calcite-inhibitors, as well as some air movement in the cave. Calcite-inhibitors at Sigma Cave include ions of magnesium, manganese, sulfate and phosphate (possibly bat origin), partly from bedrock veins and partly from breakdown of minerals in sediments sourced from mafic igneous rocks. Substrates to aragonite speleothems include corroded speleothem, bedrock, ochres, mud and clastics. There is air movement at times in the canyon, it has higher levels of CO2 than other parts of the cave and humidity is high. Air movement may assist in the rapid exchange of CO2 at speleothem surfaces. Wollondilly Cave is located in the eastern part of the Wombeyan marble. At Wollondilly Cave, anthodites and helictites were seen in an inaccessible area of the cave. Paramorphs of calcite after aragonite were found at Jacobs Ladder and the Pantheon. Aragonite at Star Chamber is associated with huntite and hydromagnesite. In The Loft, speleothem corrosion is characteristic of bat guano deposits. Aragonite, vaterite and calcite were detected in surface coatings in this area. Air movement between the two entrances of this cave has a drying effect which may serve to concentrate minerals by evaporation in some parts of the cave. The presence of vaterite and aragonite in fluffy coatings infers that vaterite may be inverting to aragonite. Calcite-inhibitors in the sediments include ions of phosphate, sulphate, magnesium and manganese. Cave sediment includes material sourced from detrital mafic rocks. Cow Pit is located near Wollondilly Cave, and cave W43 is located near the northern boundary of the Wombeyan marble. At Cow Pit, paramorphs of calcite after aragonite occur in the walls as spheroids with minor huntite. Aragonite is a minor mineral in white wall coatings and red phosphatic sediments with minor hydromagnesite and huntite. At cave W43, aragonite was detected in the base of a coralloid speleothem. Paramorphs of calcite after aragonite were observed in the same speleothem. Dolomite in the bedrock may be a source of magnesium-rich minerals at cave W43. Walli Caves are developed in the massive Belubula Limestone of the Ordovician Cliefden Caves Limestone Subgroup (Barrajin Group). At the caves, the limestone is steeply bedded and contains chert nodules with dolomite inclusions. Gypsum and barite occur in veins in the limestone. At Walli Caves, Piano Cave and Deep Hole (Deep Cave) were examined for aragonite. Gypsum occurs both as a surface coating and as fine selenite needles on chert nodules in areas with low humidity in the caves. Aragonite at Walli caves was associated with vein minerals and coatings containing calcite-inhibitors and, in some areas, low humidity. Calcite-inhibitors include sulfate (mostly as gypsum), magnesium, manganese and barium. Other caves which contain aragonite are mentioned. Although these were not major study sites, sufficient information is available on them to make a preliminary assessment as to why they may contain aragonite. These other caves include Flying Fortress Cave and the B4-5 Extension at Bungonia near Goulburn, and Wyanbene Cave south of Braidwood. Aragonite deposition at Bungonia has some similarities with that at Jenolan in that dolomitisation of the bedrock has occurred, and the bedding or jointing is steep allowing seepage of water into the cave, with possible oxidation of pyrite. Aragonite is also associated with a mafic dyke. Wyanbene cave features some bedrock dolomitisation, and also features low grade ore bodies which include several known calcite-inhibitors. Aragonite appears to be associated with both features. Finally, brief notes are made of aragonite-like speleothems at Colong Caves (between Jenolan and Wombeyan), a cave at Jaunter (west of Jenolan) and Wellington (240\,km NW of Sydney).
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Rowling, Jill. "Cave Aragonites of New South Wales." University of Sydney. Geosciences, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/694.
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Abstract Aragonite is a minor secondary mineral in many limestone caves throughout the world. It has been claimed that it is the second-most common cave mineral after calcite (Hill & Forti 1997). Aragonite occurs as a secondary mineral in the vadose zone of some caves in New South Wales. Aragonite is unstable in fresh water and usually reverts to calcite, but it is actively depositing in some NSW caves. A review of current literature on the cave aragonite problem showed that chemical inhibitors to calcite deposition assist in the precipitation of calcium carbonate as aragonite instead of calcite. Chemical inhibitors work by physically blocking the positions on the calcite crystal lattice which would have otherwise allowed calcite to develop into a larger crystal. Often an inhibitor for calcite has no effect on the aragonite crystal lattice, thus aragonite may deposit where calcite deposition is inhibited. Another association with aragonite in some NSW caves appears to be high evaporation rates allowing calcite, aragonite and vaterite to deposit. Vaterite is another unstable polymorph of calcium carbonate, which reverts to aragonite and calcite over time. Vaterite, aragonite and calcite were found together in cave sediments in areas with low humidity in Wollondilly Cave, Wombeyan. Several factors were found to be associated with the deposition of aragonite instead of calcite speleothems in NSW caves. They included the presence of ferroan dolomite, calcite-inhibitors (in particular ions of magnesium, manganese, phosphate, sulfate and heavy metals), and both air movement and humidity. Aragonite deposits in several NSW caves were examined to determine whether the material is or is not aragonite. Substrates to the aragonite were examined, as was the nature of the bedrock. The work concentrated on Contact Cave and Wiburds Lake Cave at Jenolan, Sigma Cave, Wollondilly Cave and Cow Pit at Wombeyan and Piano Cave and Deep Hole (Cave) at Walli. Comparisons are made with other caves. The study sites are all located in Palaeozoic rocks within the Lachlan Fold Belt tectonic region. Two of the sites, Jenolan and Wombeyan, are close to the western edge of the Sydney Basin. The third site, Walli, is close to a warm spring. The physical, climatic, chemical and mineralogical influences on calcium carbonate deposition in the caves were investigated. Where cave maps were unavailable, they were prepared on site as part of the study. %At Jenolan Caves, Contact Cave and Wiburds Lake Cave were examined in detail, %and other sites were compared with these. Contact Cave is located near the eastern boundary of the Late Silurian Jenolan Caves Limestone, in an area of steeply bedded and partially dolomitised limestone very close to its eastern boundary with the Jenolan volcanics. Aragonite in Contact Cave is precipitated on the ceiling as anthodites, helictites and coatings. The substrate for the aragonite is porous, altered, dolomitised limestone which is wedged apart by aragonite crystals. Aragonite deposition in Contact Cave is associated with a concentration of calcite-inhibiting ions, mainly minerals containing ions of magnesium, manganese and to a lesser extent, phosphates. Aragonite, dolomite and rhodochrosite are being actively deposited where these minerals are present. Calcite is being deposited where minerals containing magnesium ions are not present. The inhibitors appear to be mobilised by fresh water entering the cave as seepage along the steep bedding and jointing. During winter, cold dry air pooling in the lower part of the cave may concentrate minerals by evaporation and is most likely associated with the ``popcorn line'' seen in the cave. Wiburds Lake Cave is located near the western boundary of the Jenolan Caves Limestone, very close to its faulted western boundary with Ordovician cherts. Aragonite at Wiburds Lake Cave is associated with weathered pyritic dolomitised limestone, an altered, dolomitised mafic dyke in a fault shear zone, and also with bat guano minerals. Aragonite speleothems include a spathite, cavity fills, vughs, surface coatings and anthodites. Calcite occurs in small quantities at the aragonite sites. Calcite-inhibitors associated with aragonite include ions of magnesium, manganese and sulfate. Phosphate is significant in some areas. Low humidity is significant in two areas. Other sites briefly examined at Jenolan include Glass Cave, Mammoth Cave, Spider Cave and the show caves. Aragonite in Glass Cave may be associated with both weathering of dolomitised limestone (resulting in anthodites) and with bat guano (resulting in small cryptic forms). Aragonite in the show caves, and possibly in Mammoth and Spider Cave is associated with weathering of pyritic dolomitised limestone. Wombeyan Caves are developed in saccharoidal marble, metamorphosed Silurian Wombeyan Caves Limestone. Three sites were examined in detail at Wombeyan Caves: Sigma Cave, Wollondilly Cave and Cow Pit (a steep sided doline with a dark zone). Sigma Cave is close to the south east boundary of the Wombeyan marble, close to its unconformable boundary with effusive hypersthene porphyry and intrusive gabbro, and contains some unmarmorised limestone. Aragonite occurs mainly in a canyon at the southern extremity of the cave and in some other sites. In Sigma Cave, aragonite deposition is mainly associated with minerals containing calcite-inhibitors, as well as some air movement in the cave. Calcite-inhibitors at Sigma Cave include ions of magnesium, manganese, sulfate and phosphate (possibly bat origin), partly from bedrock veins and partly from breakdown of minerals in sediments sourced from mafic igneous rocks. Substrates to aragonite speleothems include corroded speleothem, bedrock, ochres, mud and clastics. There is air movement at times in the canyon, it has higher levels of CO2 than other parts of the cave and humidity is high. Air movement may assist in the rapid exchange of CO2 at speleothem surfaces. Wollondilly Cave is located in the eastern part of the Wombeyan marble. At Wollondilly Cave, anthodites and helictites were seen in an inaccessible area of the cave. Paramorphs of calcite after aragonite were found at Jacobs Ladder and the Pantheon. Aragonite at Star Chamber is associated with huntite and hydromagnesite. In The Loft, speleothem corrosion is characteristic of bat guano deposits. Aragonite, vaterite and calcite were detected in surface coatings in this area. Air movement between the two entrances of this cave has a drying effect which may serve to concentrate minerals by evaporation in some parts of the cave. The presence of vaterite and aragonite in fluffy coatings infers that vaterite may be inverting to aragonite. Calcite-inhibitors in the sediments include ions of phosphate, sulphate, magnesium and manganese. Cave sediment includes material sourced from detrital mafic rocks. Cow Pit is located near Wollondilly Cave, and cave W43 is located near the northern boundary of the Wombeyan marble. At Cow Pit, paramorphs of calcite after aragonite occur in the walls as spheroids with minor huntite. Aragonite is a minor mineral in white wall coatings and red phosphatic sediments with minor hydromagnesite and huntite. At cave W43, aragonite was detected in the base of a coralloid speleothem. Paramorphs of calcite after aragonite were observed in the same speleothem. Dolomite in the bedrock may be a source of magnesium-rich minerals at cave W43. Walli Caves are developed in the massive Belubula Limestone of the Ordovician Cliefden Caves Limestone Subgroup (Barrajin Group). At the caves, the limestone is steeply bedded and contains chert nodules with dolomite inclusions. Gypsum and barite occur in veins in the limestone. At Walli Caves, Piano Cave and Deep Hole (Deep Cave) were examined for aragonite. Gypsum occurs both as a surface coating and as fine selenite needles on chert nodules in areas with low humidity in the caves. Aragonite at Walli caves was associated with vein minerals and coatings containing calcite-inhibitors and, in some areas, low humidity. Calcite-inhibitors include sulfate (mostly as gypsum), magnesium, manganese and barium. Other caves which contain aragonite are mentioned. Although these were not major study sites, sufficient information is available on them to make a preliminary assessment as to why they may contain aragonite. These other caves include Flying Fortress Cave and the B4-5 Extension at Bungonia near Goulburn, and Wyanbene Cave south of Braidwood. Aragonite deposition at Bungonia has some similarities with that at Jenolan in that dolomitisation of the bedrock has occurred, and the bedding or jointing is steep allowing seepage of water into the cave, with possible oxidation of pyrite. Aragonite is also associated with a mafic dyke. Wyanbene cave features some bedrock dolomitisation, and also features low grade ore bodies which include several known calcite-inhibitors. Aragonite appears to be associated with both features. Finally, brief notes are made of aragonite-like speleothems at Colong Caves (between Jenolan and Wombeyan), a cave at Jaunter (west of Jenolan) and Wellington (240\,km NW of Sydney).
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Abjorensen, Norman, and norman abjorensen@anu edu au. "Leadership in the Liberal Party: Bolte, Askin and the Post-War Ascendancy." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 2005. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20070320.122842.
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The formation of the Liberal Party of Australia in the mid-1940s heralded a new effort to stem the tide of government regulation that had grown with Labor Party rule in the latter years of World War II and immediately after. It was not until 1949 that the party gained office at Federal level, beginning what was to be a record unbroken term of 23 years, but its efforts faltered at State level in Victoria, where the party was divided, and in New South Wales, where Labor was seemingly entrenched. The fortunes were reversed with the rise to leadership of men who bore a different stamp to their predecessors, and were in many ways atypical Liberals: Henry Bolte in Victoria and Robin Askin in New South Wales. Bolte, a farmer, and Askin, a bank officer, had served as non-commissioned officers in World War II and rose to lead parties whose members who had served in the war were predominantly of the officer class. In each case, their man management skills put an end to division and destabilisation in their parties, and they went on to serve record terms as Liberal leaders in their respective States, Bolte 1955-72 and Askin 1965-75. Neither was ever challenged in their leadership and each chose the time and nature of his departure from politics, a rarity among Australian political leaders. Their careers are traced here in the context of the Liberal revival and the heightened expectations of the post-war years when the Liberal Party reached an ascendancy, governing for a brief time in 1969-70 in all Australian States as well as the Commonwealth. Their leadership is also examined in the broader context of leadership in the Liberal Party, and also in the ways in which the new party sought to engage with and appeal to a wider range of voters than had traditionally been attracted to the non-Labor parties.
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Keogh, Andrew James, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, Faculty of Science and Technology, and School of Applied and Environmental Sciences. "Systems management of Glenbrook Lagoon, New South Wales." THESIS_FST_AES_Keogh_A.xml, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/423.
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Glenbrook Lagoon, an 8 hectare lake receiving rainfall runoff from a residential catchment, is experiencing nutrient enrichment problems expressed as excessive aquatic plant presence. This study aims to assess the relative nutrient contribution of the total system compartments, including catchment loading, water column, aquatic plants and surface sediment. This information is utilised in the formulation of management strategies which may produce a sustainable nutrient reduction and general improvement in the system. The total nutrient content of the aquatic system was determined to be high in comparison with the present nutrient loading from the catchment. The ideal management case considers nutrient reduction of the surface sediment compartment firstly, followed by the aquatic plant community, with the water column and catchment influence as relatively low priority compartments. Various strategies for managing these are proposed. The total system benefits of the ideal management case are reductions in nutrients, aquatic plant biovolume and suspended solid loading. Unavoidable constraints placed upon the ideal management case include the excessive aquatic plant presence restricting accessability to the surface sediment for dredging. The resulting best management case requires aquatic plant eradication prior to sediment management, with the total system benefits associated with the ideal management case being retained.Master of Science (Hons)
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Elliott, Malcolm Gordon, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, and Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture. "Grass tetany of cattle in New South Wales." THESIS_FEMA_xxx_Elliott_M.xml, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/7.
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Over the last 60 years, grass tetany has been recognised as a significant lethal condition in sheep and cattle.Outcomes from this study include documentation of the likely precursors to grass tetany, ways to recognise these precursors, and long term practices that will enable producers to minimise livestock deaths. The benefit of this research to beef producers is that the environmental circumstances thought to be associated with outbreaks of grass tetany have been identified, along with remedial action that can be taken to prevent deaths occurring.Recommendations to industry on best practice to be adopted by leading producers to minimise outbreaks of grass tetany are made.This study provides an alternate strategy for the management of grass tetany in beef cattle, to the more clinical approaches previously recommended. It is suggested that losses from this economically important metabolic disease can be minimised if management practices of beef cattle producers in eastern Australia can incorporate a more holistic approach to farm management, which takes account of the soil/plant/animal/climate inter-relationships.Master of Science (Hons)
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Wood, Susan, and s2000093@student rmit edu au. "Creative embroidery in New South Wales, 1960 - 1975." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070206.160246.
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In the years between 1960 and 1975 in NSW there emerged a loosely connected network of women interested in modern or creative embroidery. The Embroiderers' Guild of NSW served as a focus for many of these women, providing opportunities for them to exhibit their work, and to engage in embroidery education as teachers or as learners. Others worked independently, exhibited in commercial galleries and endeavoured to establish reputations as professional artists. Some of these women were trained artists and wanted embroidery to be seen as 'art'; others were enthusiastic amateurs, engaged in embroidery as a form of 'serious leisure'. They played a significant role in the development of creative embroidery and textile art in NSW and yet, for the most part, their story is absent from the narratives of Australian art and craft history. These women were involved in a network of interactions which displayed many of the characteristics of more organised art worlds, as posite d by sociologist Howard Becker. They produced work according to shared conventions, they established co-operative links with each other and with other organisations, they organised educational opportunities to encourage others to take up creative embroidery and they mounted exhibitions to facilitate engagement with a public audience. Although their absence from the literature suggests that they operated in isolation, my research indicates that there were many points of contact between the embroidery world, the broader craft world and the fine art community in NSW. This thesis examines the context in which creative embroiderers worked, discusses the careers of key individuals working at this time, explores the interactions between them, and evaluates the influence that they had on later practice in embroidery and textiles in NSW.
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Keogh, Andrew James. "Systems management of Glenbrook Lagoon, New South Wales /." View thesis View thesis, 1996. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030519.153643/index.html.
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Elliott, Malcolm Gordon. "Grass tetany of cattle in New South Wales /." View thesis View thesis, 2000. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030424.150628/index.html.
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Franklin, Richard Charles. "Epidemiology of Farm Injuries in New South Wales." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1930.
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Injuries to people living and working on farms in New South Wales continue to be a significant burden on the health system, Workers’ Compensation system, agricultural industries and farming families. Strategies to reduce the number and severity of injuries suffered by farmers and people working on farms rely on accurate information. Unfortunately there is no one dataset available to describe the circumstances surrounding farm injuries and the size of this burden in Australia. Hence, a number of different data sources are required to provide a picture of farm injuries. To date, there has been very little critical examination of what value each of these datasets provides to describing farm injuries. This Thesis aimed to: • Undertake surveillance of injuries occurring to people on farms or during agricultural production in NSW using data from an Emergency Department, NSW Hospital Separations information, NSW Workers’ Compensation Claims, and ABS Deaths data. • Critically examine the utility of Emergency Department, Hospital, Workers’ Compensation, and ABS Deaths Data for the surveillance of farm injuries in NSW. • Critically examine data classification systems used in Emergency Department, Hospital, Workers’ Compensation, and ABS Deaths data collections to describe the breadth of farm injuries in NSW. • Define the priority areas for farm injury prevention initiatives in NSW based on the information obtained from the examination of the data from Emergency Department, Hospital, Workers’ Compensation, and ABS Deaths. • Evaluate the effectiveness of the NSW Rollover Protective Structure (ROPS) rebate scheme and examine the utility of the data currently available in NSW to measure the performance of the program. Four datasets, Tamworth Emergency Department, Hospital Separations, Workers’ Compensation and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Deaths data were used to provide information on the surveillance of farm injuries, describe the breadth of classifications used to describe farm injuries, and define priorities for the prevention of farm injuries. There were 384 farm-related injuries which presented to the Emergency Department at the Tamworth Base Hospital between 1 September 1997 and 31 August 1998. Emergency Department data collected in this study used the Farm Injury Optimal Dataset (FIOD) for classification, which allowed for a comprehensive picture of the circumstances surrounding the injury event. The three most common external causes of injury were related to horses, motorcycles, and animals. Commonly people were working at the time of injury. Children represented 21% of the people injured. The average number of injuries per 100 farms per annum was 34.7. An examination of hospital discharge data for NSW was undertaken for the period 1 July 1992 to 30 June 2000 where the location of the injury was a farm. Classification of cases in this dataset conformed to the International Classification of Disease (ICD) versions 9 and 10. There were 14,490 people who were injured on a farm during the study period. The three most common external causes of injury were motorcycles, animals being ridden and agricultural machinery. Children represented 17% of all farm injury cases. The rate per 1,000 farms ranged from 19 to 42 per annum. An examination of Workers’ Compensation claims for agricultural industries in NSW between 1 July 1992 and 30 June 2001 was undertaken. The ‘Type of Occurrence’ classification system was used to code the claims. There were 24,332 claims of which the majority were males (82%). The incidence of injury / disease in agriculture per annum varied from 37 per 1,000 workers to 73 per 1,000 workers. The rate per 1,000 agricultural establishments varied from 54 to 76. The average cost of a claim was $10,880 and the average time lost per claims was 9.2 weeks. There were 81 deaths and 3,158 permanent disabilities. The three most common agents were sheep / goats (5%), ferrous and non-ferrous metals (5%), crates / cartons / boxes / etc (5%). Using ABS deaths data to examine the deaths of people working and living on farms was limited to males whose occupation was recorded as ‘farmer and farm manager’ and ‘agricultural labourer and related worker’. There were 952 deaths over the period 1 January 1991 and 31 December 2000. The information provided a consistent series of cases over time. Areas where prevention should be directed included motor vehicle accidents; falls; agricultural machinery; other machinery; firearms; poisoning; and drowning. Using any one of the datasets alone to examine people injured on farms not only underestimates the number of people injured, but also misses particular types of agents involved in farm injuries. Each of the datasets used in this Thesis provides a different perspective of farm injury in NSW. By examining the information together, there are a number of areas which are consistently represented in each dataset such as falls and agricultural machinery. While no one dataset provided all the information that would be useful for the prevention of injuries, the available information does provide direction for the development of prevention strategies. The overall weakness of the information provided is that it misses a number of risk factors that contribute to farm injuries such as fatigue and training. The lack of appropriate denominator information also makes it difficult to directly compare the datasets and estimate the size of the problem. There are a number of additional coding categories that could be included in each dataset that would provide a better understanding of the different groups at risk of sustaining an injury on a farm or during agricultural work. These coding categories include activity at time of injury, admission to hospital, and occupation. An example of the use of data to determine the effectiveness of a farm injury prevention program is the ‘NSW Rollover Protective Structure (ROPS) Rebate Scheme’ evaluation. Tractor rollover deaths have been identified as an issue for prevention by Farmsafe Australia; however, such deaths were not identified in any of the datasets used in this Thesis due to coding limitations in the ABS data. In this Thesis information about the evaluation of the ‘NSW ROPS Rebate Scheme’ is presented. The scheme was successful in fitting 10,449 ROPS to tractors and the following lessons were learnt: when providing a rebate, the administration (i.e. sending the cheque) needs to be done well; advertising is important and should be co-ordinated, increase the awareness of the risk(s) the intervention is aiming to prevent and effectiveness of subsequent solution (s); the program should ensure there is an increased awareness of the outcome the intervention is aiming to prevent; if regulation is part of the program, enforcement needs to undertaken; and should address any barriers to uptake. The information provided in this Thesis highlights the substantial burden that farm injury places on the agricultural and rural sector of NSW. While there is no one data source that can describe the circumstances and the burden of farm injuries, the currently available datasets do provide an insight into the circumstances of farm injuries and the burden these injuries place on health, Workers’ Compensation, agricultural industries and farming families.
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Franklin, Richard Charles. "Epidemiology of Farm Injuries in New South Wales." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1930.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Injuries to people living and working on farms in New South Wales continue to be a significant burden on the health system, Workers’ Compensation system, agricultural industries and farming families. Strategies to reduce the number and severity of injuries suffered by farmers and people working on farms rely on accurate information. Unfortunately there is no one dataset available to describe the circumstances surrounding farm injuries and the size of this burden in Australia. Hence, a number of different data sources are required to provide a picture of farm injuries. To date, there has been very little critical examination of what value each of these datasets provides to describing farm injuries. This Thesis aimed to: • Undertake surveillance of injuries occurring to people on farms or during agricultural production in NSW using data from an Emergency Department, NSW Hospital Separations information, NSW Workers’ Compensation Claims, and ABS Deaths data. • Critically examine the utility of Emergency Department, Hospital, Workers’ Compensation, and ABS Deaths Data for the surveillance of farm injuries in NSW. • Critically examine data classification systems used in Emergency Department, Hospital, Workers’ Compensation, and ABS Deaths data collections to describe the breadth of farm injuries in NSW. • Define the priority areas for farm injury prevention initiatives in NSW based on the information obtained from the examination of the data from Emergency Department, Hospital, Workers’ Compensation, and ABS Deaths. • Evaluate the effectiveness of the NSW Rollover Protective Structure (ROPS) rebate scheme and examine the utility of the data currently available in NSW to measure the performance of the program. Four datasets, Tamworth Emergency Department, Hospital Separations, Workers’ Compensation and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Deaths data were used to provide information on the surveillance of farm injuries, describe the breadth of classifications used to describe farm injuries, and define priorities for the prevention of farm injuries. There were 384 farm-related injuries which presented to the Emergency Department at the Tamworth Base Hospital between 1 September 1997 and 31 August 1998. Emergency Department data collected in this study used the Farm Injury Optimal Dataset (FIOD) for classification, which allowed for a comprehensive picture of the circumstances surrounding the injury event. The three most common external causes of injury were related to horses, motorcycles, and animals. Commonly people were working at the time of injury. Children represented 21% of the people injured. The average number of injuries per 100 farms per annum was 34.7. An examination of hospital discharge data for NSW was undertaken for the period 1 July 1992 to 30 June 2000 where the location of the injury was a farm. Classification of cases in this dataset conformed to the International Classification of Disease (ICD) versions 9 and 10. There were 14,490 people who were injured on a farm during the study period. The three most common external causes of injury were motorcycles, animals being ridden and agricultural machinery. Children represented 17% of all farm injury cases. The rate per 1,000 farms ranged from 19 to 42 per annum. An examination of Workers’ Compensation claims for agricultural industries in NSW between 1 July 1992 and 30 June 2001 was undertaken. The ‘Type of Occurrence’ classification system was used to code the claims. There were 24,332 claims of which the majority were males (82%). The incidence of injury / disease in agriculture per annum varied from 37 per 1,000 workers to 73 per 1,000 workers. The rate per 1,000 agricultural establishments varied from 54 to 76. The average cost of a claim was $10,880 and the average time lost per claims was 9.2 weeks. There were 81 deaths and 3,158 permanent disabilities. The three most common agents were sheep / goats (5%), ferrous and non-ferrous metals (5%), crates / cartons / boxes / etc (5%). Using ABS deaths data to examine the deaths of people working and living on farms was limited to males whose occupation was recorded as ‘farmer and farm manager’ and ‘agricultural labourer and related worker’. There were 952 deaths over the period 1 January 1991 and 31 December 2000. The information provided a consistent series of cases over time. Areas where prevention should be directed included motor vehicle accidents; falls; agricultural machinery; other machinery; firearms; poisoning; and drowning. Using any one of the datasets alone to examine people injured on farms not only underestimates the number of people injured, but also misses particular types of agents involved in farm injuries. Each of the datasets used in this Thesis provides a different perspective of farm injury in NSW. By examining the information together, there are a number of areas which are consistently represented in each dataset such as falls and agricultural machinery. While no one dataset provided all the information that would be useful for the prevention of injuries, the available information does provide direction for the development of prevention strategies. The overall weakness of the information provided is that it misses a number of risk factors that contribute to farm injuries such as fatigue and training. The lack of appropriate denominator information also makes it difficult to directly compare the datasets and estimate the size of the problem. There are a number of additional coding categories that could be included in each dataset that would provide a better understanding of the different groups at risk of sustaining an injury on a farm or during agricultural work. These coding categories include activity at time of injury, admission to hospital, and occupation. An example of the use of data to determine the effectiveness of a farm injury prevention program is the ‘NSW Rollover Protective Structure (ROPS) Rebate Scheme’ evaluation. Tractor rollover deaths have been identified as an issue for prevention by Farmsafe Australia; however, such deaths were not identified in any of the datasets used in this Thesis due to coding limitations in the ABS data. In this Thesis information about the evaluation of the ‘NSW ROPS Rebate Scheme’ is presented. The scheme was successful in fitting 10,449 ROPS to tractors and the following lessons were learnt: when providing a rebate, the administration (i.e. sending the cheque) needs to be done well; advertising is important and should be co-ordinated, increase the awareness of the risk(s) the intervention is aiming to prevent and effectiveness of subsequent solution (s); the program should ensure there is an increased awareness of the outcome the intervention is aiming to prevent; if regulation is part of the program, enforcement needs to undertaken; and should address any barriers to uptake. The information provided in this Thesis highlights the substantial burden that farm injury places on the agricultural and rural sector of NSW. While there is no one data source that can describe the circumstances and the burden of farm injuries, the currently available datasets do provide an insight into the circumstances of farm injuries and the burden these injuries place on health, Workers’ Compensation, agricultural industries and farming families.
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Kerr, Melissa. "New South Wales Public Employment Services 1887-1942." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8645.
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Australian historical scholarship has traditionally neglected public employment services as an area of research. However, in recent years as the State has repositioned itself in the labour market the role of public employment services has become a popular area of debate. While contemporary scholars have contributed to these debates, their historical counterparts have been slower to follow suit. In overcoming this neglect, this thesis provides an historical examination of one of the earliest forms of state intervention into the Australian labour market: public employment services. This study examined the establishment and operations of public employment services in NSW from 1887 until 1942, when they were transferred across to the Federal Department of Labour and National Service, to comply with Commonwealth Wartime legislation. Within the Australian contemporary scholarship, public employment services have been conceptualised according to three dominant economic traditions: neo-classical economics, Keynesian economics and the writings of W.H. Beveridge. However, these traditions are predicated on inherent assumptions and predetermined outcomes, all of which fail to identify the origins and development of public employment services in Australia. Neo-classical economists have been the most critical arguing that the public provision of employments services is both inefficient and ineffective. Within the historical literature, Institutional economists in the United States have been influential in identifying the socio-economic factors that led to the development of the public employment services: asymmetrical labour market information and fraudulent acts perpetrated by private employment registries, all of which distorted the functioning of the labour market. By adopting the institutional economic approach, this thesis found that it was these socio-economic concerns that led to the introduction of the public employment service in NSW. This thesis disputes the claims of the neo-classical economists that the public employment services were both inefficient and ineffective, instead it argues that the public employment service played a pivotal role in the development of the NSW economy performing the role of labour market intermediary: channelling information and bringing together those wishing to buy and sell labour; while safeguarding those vulnerable in the labour market: the unemployed.
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Madronio, Christine Michelle. "Melanoma Patterns of Care Study New South Wales." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14896.
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The MPOC Study was a population-based study of the clinical management of melanoma patients in NSW. It included data on all melanoma diagnoses notified to the cancer registry during a 12-month period, and questionnaire data from treating doctors. Data were analysed for 1,889 patients with invasive, localised melanoma to determine doctors’ knowledge of patients’ melanoma risk and to identify factors associated with better identification and clinical management of this risk. Three-quarters of patients had doctors who were aware of their risk factor status with respect to personal and family history of melanoma and the presence of many moles. Doctors working in general practice, skin cancer clinics and dermatology settings had better knowledge of patients’ risk factors than plastic surgeons. Doctors were 15% more likely to know the family history of younger patients (<40 years) than of those ≥80 years. Early detection-related follow-up advice was more likely to be given to younger patients, by doctors aware of their patients’ risk status, by doctors practising in plastic surgery, dermatology and skin cancer clinic settings, and by female doctors. Patient-related and doctor-related factors were associated with doctors’ recognition and management of patients’ risk and could be the focus of strategies for improving care.
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Decker, Frank. "The emergence of money in convict New South Wales." Marburg Metropolis-Verl, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1001248597/04.
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Smith, A. R. "Gender in the Fifty-first New South Wales Parliament." Connect to full text, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2562.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2003.Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 8, 2009) Degree awarded 2003; thesis submitted 2002. Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Government and International Relations, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Altenburg, Kirsty. "Strathallan, near Braidwood, New South Wales : an historical investigation." Phd thesis, Department of History, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9088.
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Pham, Thai H. "Infrastructure reporting by New South Wales local government authorities." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:36060.
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Infrastructure assets are very important for the functioning of a society or community. In Australia, local government authorities (LGAs) have responsibility for the provision and maintenance of their community public assets such as public buildings, local roads, bridges, footpaths, recreation facilities, parks, water and sewerage assets. As at the end of financial year 2012, LGAs in New South Wales (NSW) are the custodians of approximately $81 billion in net value of infrastructure assets. The Australian accounting profession has encouraged local governments to account for and report on infrastructure using written-down current cost in order to provide stakeholders with relevant information. While the accounting standards have been focusing on asset valuation, the NSW Government has gone further by promulgating reporting requirements anchored in the NSW Local Government Act 1993 and Local Government Amendment (Planning and Reporting) Act 2009. The former requires LGAs to disclose information about asset condition, calculate the projected amount of money to bring the assets to a satisfactory condition and calculate the amount of annual cost to maintain assets at that condition, while the latter requires LGAs to follow the new Integrated Planning and Reporting Framework (IPRF) when planning for and reporting on infrastructure assets. NSW LGAs have recently reported on infrastructure assets in compliance with local government statutes. However, such compliance does not resolve some uncertainties and anomalies in the concept of satisfactory condition, does not affect the poor quality of councils‟ infrastructure reports and does not prescribe a standard format for infrastructure asset disclosure. Accordingly, annual asset reporting continues to be problematic.
The purpose of this thesis in its first part is to provide evidence on the quantity and quality of infrastructure asset disclosure under the new IPRF recently introduced by the NSW Government. In the second part, the thesis is aimed at proposing a definition of ‘satisfactory condition’ of infrastructure and examining the different factors influencing the contents of asset reporting. It then evaluates the adequacy and effectiveness of current asset disclosure in serving the information needs of local communities and proposes a list of the most important criteria for infrastructure asset disclosure in councils’ annual reports. Finally, the thesis discusses and presents a proposed model of infrastructure maintenance for NSW local governments.
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McCormack, Patrick Martin. "The popular movement to federation in New South Wales 1897-1899." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150553.
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Clune, David. "Labor government in New South Wales, 1941 to 1965 : a study in longevity in government." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2229.
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Davis, Edward R. "Ethnicity and diversity : politics and the Aboriginal community / Edward R. Davis." Thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19654.
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Qian, Wei. "Environmental accounting for local government waste management : an assessment of institutional and contingency theory explanations." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110003.
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Over the past 10 years, with Australia's urban population ,growth there has been an
increasing pressure on land, resource and waste management throughout the States and
Territories. Local government, one of the public sectors traditionally responsible for
waste services, is being required to take more environmental issues into account in
order to develop a sustainable community. The purpose of this study is to investigate
current practices of environmental accounting for local government waste management
and to explore possible explanations for these environmental accounting practices.
This study applies a mixed method design to achieve the research objectives, starting
with the case studies of 12 local councils in New South Wales (NSW) Australia, and
extending them to a mail survey of all councils in NSW. The case studies allow the
researcher to explore the practices of environmental accounting for waste management
in a real-life context. The case study findings indicate that contingency theory and
institutional theory are most likely to provide insightful explanations for current
environmental accounting practices in local government waste management.
Contingency theory views organisations as technically devised instruments aiming for
effective and efficient control of their work processes. Based on this theory,
environmental uncertainty, environmental strategy and task complexity are proposed as
explanatory variables. Institutional theory views organisations as social actors and the
"carriers" of social structures aiming for legitimacy from a wide range of social
institutions. Based on this theory, regulatory pressures, cognitive pressures, community
expectations, and inter-professional communication, are proposed as explanatory
variables. The mail survey assesses the effectiveness of the two theoretical explanations.
The results reveal that the use of environmental accounting in local government waste
management is generally moderate rather than little or none as previously suggested.
However, the variance in environmental accounting practices in local government waste
management is significant. When the scope of environmental accounting information
becomes broader, from direct to indirect, from internal to external, lower levels of
accounting are found. Among the local councils investigated, accounting for external
environmental costs and impacts in waste management has always drawn the least
attention. The assessment of theoretical explanations reveals that current environmental
accounting practices in local government waste management arc significantly driven by
proactive environmental strategics, complex waste operation tasks, a high level of interprofessional
communication, and uncertain waste management environments. Task
complexity, inter-professional communication, environmental uncertainty, community
expectations and environmental strategy are all significantly associated with the level of
direct waste flow and activity accounting. However, only environmental strategy, task
complexity and inter-professional communication, play a significant role in explaining
the levels of accounting for indirect/hidden and external costs and impacts in waste
management. It appears that community's environmental expectations and uncertain
waste management environments cannot provide a significant incentive for local
government to account for indirect/hidden and external environmental costs and impacts.
Two institutional factors, regulatory pressures and environmental cognitive pressures do
not significantly contribute to any aspect of environmental accounting practices in local
government waste management. When testing the effects of type and size of local
councils, it is found that urban councils have a significantly higher level of direct waste
flow and activity accounting than rural councils, but the differences in the levels of
indirect/hidden and external cost and impact accounting are not statistically significant.
Size of local councils does not explain any aspect of environmental accounting practices
in local government waste management.
The results of this thesis indicate that contingency theory provides better explanations
for environmental accounting practices in local government waste management than
institutional theory. The weaker role of institutional theory explanations implies that the
development and institutionalisation of environmental accounting for local government
waste management may take a longer time than expected. The explanations for current
development of environmental accounting are mainly related to pursuing efficiency and
effectiveness of working processes.
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Mellor, R. "Local government : tales of creativity and innovation." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/24157.
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University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Business.Local government in Australia (as in many countries) has been urged to be more 'creative and innovative', but with little clear definition of what the two terms mean. In the context of the 'New Public Management' (NPM) reforms of local government in recent years, local Councils have often turned to the private sector models of 'entrepreneurialism' and 'innovation' for guidance, but in a number of cases this has not been satisfactory nor overly successful. There has been little work on a model of public sector innovation that integrates the principles of good local governance and produces real public value and a tangible result in the local community. This thesis contributes to our knowledge of creativity and innovation at work and how they are understood in local Councils in particular. It also contributes towards a model of 'local governance innovation'. The research uses an 'Expert Panel' to discuss and develop criteria for selecting 'innovative' local Councils. The thesis then examines three case study Councils in NSW, Australia, utilising an 'ethnonarrative' methodology that borrows from the practices of ethnography, autoethnography, and uses narrative as an exploratory tool and a style for describing results. Observations are made, artefacts are examined, key staff are interviewed and their stories of creativity and innovation are collected and analysed. Scott's (2001) Professional Capabilities Framework is used to guide questions about the professional capabilities being used by staff to be creative and generate innovation in the Councils. The research methodology also uses the process of 'story-building' between the researcher and the participants, and this is discussed. This thesis shows that there are professional staff working in NSW Councils, who are committed to generating innovation for the benefit of their communities. Their understanding of creativity and innovation are shared through their stories and these shape their meanings. The thesis finds, that whilst precise definitions of the terms 'creativity' and 'innovation' are not evident, there is a generally understood meaning of the concepts – at that it is one that produces community benefit. There is an understanding of 'appropriate risk' and organisational cultures that support "learning from mistakes". The key capabilities used for implementing 'innovation' are those that involve communication', and 'story-building'. Fundamentally, these people understand and pursue innovation not only to promote efficiency and effectiveness but also as part of what they believe is 'good local governance'.
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Yates, Allan. "Hidden in plain sight: Perceptions and experiences of corruption in New South Wales local government." Phd thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/202222.
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This thesis explores the relationship between perceptions and experiences of corruption within local government entities (councils) in New South Wales (NSW) from a social policy perspective. The literature on corruption and anti-corruption has evolved exponentially in the past three decades, with much focus on how to define, measure and regulate this complex phenomenon. Yet, limited attention has been paid to corruption within the administration of local government, where day-to-day services affect the lives of all residents within Australia's most populous state. The thesis shows how local council practices, cultures and structures impact on the visibility and subsequent management of corruption in its different guises. While some forms of corruption are outwardly visible, others take place in plain sight, but are very much hidden.
This research took the form of a mixed methods study undertaken between 2015 and 2016. Through synthesisation of data gleaned from an attitudinal survey completed by frontline workers across ten different council entities in NSW, and from semi-structured interviews held with a small sample of individuals who have experience and expertise in governing corruption, the research identified divergences between perceptions and experiences of, and regulatory responses to, corruption. It highlighted the ambivalent outcomes of corruption management strategies, both in terms of their comparative successes and unintended consequences. The research identified that the discourse of corruption is largely informed and mediated by external influencers, such as the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and tabloid media, the former focusing on the investigation and exposure of high-profile matters, and the latter representing such examples in sensationalised ways. This has created something of a disconnect between how corruption is popularly understood (in terms of what it is and is not) and how it is then situationally encountered and interpreted in the workplace. When first-hand experiences of corrupt practices were explored with participants, it was revealed that certain lower threshold practices (termed as 'mundane corruption') have been frequently observed. Such practices have become institutionalised as normal, in spite of the different modes of regulatory management that are deemed to be effective, and a broad view that the level of corruption in local government is low. Many suspicions of corruption have not been raised or pursued. Of those that have, many have been met with an inadequate or unconvincing response, attributed to the organisational architecture and culture, and perceptions that certain corrupt practices must breach a given threshold of severity to be reportable and then actioned.
Overall, this thesis makes a significant contribution to corruption studies by showing how popular, if reductionist, frameworks of corruption, shaped by key institutions in society, mediate everyday perceptions, understandings and practices of corruption. These frameworks can, and do, affect the prevention and management of this complex social activity.
A more holistic approach to understanding organisational corruption is recommended across the domains of research, education, regulation and policy, so that optimal strategies of prevention and management can be co-designed and co-delivered.
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Stein, JA. "Precarious printers : labour, technology & material culture at the NSW Government Printing Office 1959-1989." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/30393.
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University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.From 1959 to 1989 the NSW Government Printing Office (hereafter ‘the Gov’) was a government-run printing establishment that operated from a centralised factory in Ultimo, Sydney. Over a 30-year period marked by dramatic technological change and political transitions, the Gov was pulled in conflicting directions by traditionalists, unionists, economic rationalists and those somewhere in between. It was also one of the first Australian factories to open printing apprenticeships to women. This combination – technological change, the rising influence of neo-liberal economics and gender-labour tensions – made for an unsettled institution. In mid-1989 the state government abruptly closed down the Gov and 700 people lost their jobs. This thesis operates on two levels: it offers both an historical and a methodological contribution to knowledge. At an historical level Precarious Printers is an exploration of how the Gov’s workers – from labourers to managers – coped with technological, social and political change. This has brought to light many aspects of the Gov’s culture of working life (everyday practices and unofficial stories) and it indicates the important presence of objects, technologies and spaces as they exist in memories of working life. Two central coping practices are identified: building alliances and unofficial creative production. Firstly, the Gov’s employees came to grips with their circumstances by developing alliances with people and/or technologies. This involved staking out territories spatially or by developing their skills. Some workers clung to their skills, traditional tools and collective practices. Others enthusiastically embraced new technologies with an individualistic drive for self-improvement. Secondly, many of the Gov’s employees enacted their own narratives – of resilience, belonging and of industrial decline – through unsanctioned creative practices. This came in the form of photographs, film, pranks and the unofficial production of printed materials (foreign orders). The key theoretical and methodological contribution of this dissertation is a demonstration of how labour history can be effectively drawn together with considerations of material culture. As a case study, the Gov reveals how the politics of work is intertwined with the physical and designed world. This dissertation provides a method for analysing labour, technology and industrial history that retains the voices of the workers and adds a relevant consideration of spaces, objects and embodied experience. Correspondingly, this research draws upon a number of disciplines: labour history, sociology, the history of technology and studies of material culture and design. Primary source materials include oral history, photographs and archives. Rather than simply aestheticising past technologies and industrial spaces, Precarious Printers finds that material culture, technology and spatial dynamics are significant elements in an analysis of working life and in developing an understanding of people’s adaptive responses to technological change and workplace upheaval.
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Marshall, Penelope Margaret. "Playing for sheep stations : a discourse analysis of wild dog management and control policy in New South Wales, Australia." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132127.
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This thesis challenges the constitutive and taken-for-granted assumptions of the current dominant administrative rationalist discourse of wild dog management and control (WMDC) in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. It asks: To what extent can conflicts over WDMC in NSW be understood in terms of contending discourses and what does that imply for policy legitimacy? It isolates the storylines that emerged from substantial empirical research and examines, if and how, these storylines contributed to the dominant discourse of administrative rationalism. From the beginning of white settlement of NSW, the State and farm families worked in concert to achieve the eradication of wild dogs and dingoes. From the 1960s, however, a significant discursive turn occurred in WDMC. This occurred as a result of the contending discourses of environmentalism, ecological science, animal welfare and biosecurity. These discourses collectively afforded new meanings to dingoes, wild dogs and WDMC. Concurrently, the State drove this discursive turn through a discourse of administrative rationalism. From 1995 until 2011, a period of successive NSW Labor Governments, the State further consolidated this discursive approach. It reified 'experts' and legislatively empowered public land managers to inform, shape and promulgate the dominant discourse of WDMC through the promotion of a 'best practice' model. Within this model the individual knowledges and experiences of farm families of WDMC were subject to empirical measurement, the interpretations of public land managers and the corroboration of continuing ecological studies. The entry of new social actors closely linked to Government who actively promoted 'new' innovations and technologies in WDMC further distilled the dominance of the administrative rationalist discourse. However, the legitimacy of this approach was forcefully challenged by a growing sense of crisis in the 'Bush.' This was driven by farm families who were directly affected by the lack of WDMC on public lands, the increasing numbers of wild dogs and the devastating effect this was having on the lives of farm families. This reality was exploited mercilessly for its political capital by all political parties. Successive NSW Labor Governments consistently reiterated in storylines its financial largesse in WDMC to give legitimacy to its discursive approach. These storylines of financial expenditures in real terms however are difficult to substantiate. Ironically, the success of the administrative rationalist discourse was dependent on the continued involvement of farm families in a public planning process which pivoted on their acquiescence to a discourse that subordinated their concerns and, at the same time, relied on the widespread adoption of this model by farm families across NSW. This has proved deeply problematic. Overwhelmingly, at public WDMC meetings farm families rejected the State's reliance on administrative rationalism and a chorus of voices reflected the significant gap that existed between the political and policy rhetoric of WDMC and the lived reality. Nevertheless, successive attempts by farm families have so far failed to dislodge the dominant discourse of WDMC.
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Deacon, Desley. "The naturalisation of dependence : the state, the new middle class and women workers 1830-1930." Phd thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/130332.
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This thesis challenges current neo-Marxist, feminist and neo-Weberian theories of
the state which ignore or underestimate the role of state bureaucrats in the construction
of state institutions and the formulation and implementation of state policies. Drawing
on theories of the new middle class and intellectuals which emphasise the potential of
educated workers for autonomous and united action, the thesis examines the role of
public servants, doctors and lawyers in determining the form of the New South Wales
state and some of its major institutions and policies between 1830 and 1930.
The thesis focuses in particular on the influence of new middle class men on state
labour market and family policies concerning women. Using the New South Wales
public service as a case study, it explores aspects of the development of the new middle
class during this period, and documents the strategies by which three groups within this
class - male public servants, doctors and lawyers - attempted to extend and control their
labour markets through the agency of the state, and the effect of those strategies on educated
women workers.
The study finds a contrast between an early period of relative tolerance of labour
market competition from women and a later period of exclusion, domination and marginalisation
in which women were confined to a secondary labour market. It relates
these changes to variations in the labour market conditions and political power of new
middle class men and women. Arguing that the economic and political conditions of the
period after 1882 gave new middle class men the motivation and power to use the coercive
and ideological resources of the state to protect their own labour market position, it
shows, through a study of the interpretation of occupational statistics, public personnel
policies, the infant welfare program and the arbitration system, how new middle class
men contributed to the intensification of gender differentiation, the exclusion of women
from the primary labour market, and to the institutionalisation of dependence as the
natural status of women.