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Troy, Jakelin Fleur. "Melaleuka : a history and description of New South Wales pidgin." Phd thesis, Australian National University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112648.
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This thesis is about the genesis and development of the first pidgin English in
Australia, called here New South Wales Pidgin. It presents a detailed analysis of the
history of the language and a diachronic analysis of developments in the grammar
and lexicon of the language. 'Melaleuka' refers to the model devised for the purposes
of this thesis to explain the hypothesis on which the work is premised—that NSW
Pidgin existed in two dialect forms.
The time frame addressed is from the late eighteenth century when the language had
its inception to the middle of the nineteenth century when it was consolidated. The
geographical area of study encompasses the states of New South Wales and Victoria.
The area was known as the colony of New South Wales until the middle of the
nineteenth century.
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Troy, Jakelin Fleur. "Melaleuka : a history and description of New South Wales pidgin." Thesis, Australian National University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17240.
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This thesis is about the genesis and development of the first Pidgin English in Australia, called here New South Wales Pidgin. It presents a detailed analysis of the history of the language and a diachronic analysis of developments in the grammar and lexicon of the language. 'Melaleuka' refers to the model devised for the purposes of this thesis to explain the hypothesis on which the work is premised—that NSW Pidgin existed in two dialect forms. The time frame addressed is from the late eighteenth century when the language had its inception to the middle of the nineteenth century when it was consolidated. The geographical area of study encompasses the states of New South Wales and Victoria. The area was known as the colony of New South Wales until the middle of the nineteenth century.
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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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White, Richard Trathen. "A History of General Hospital Psychiatry in New South Wales." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29590.
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This dissertation offers a narrative account of the evolution of psychiatric services in the general hospitals of New South Wales (NSW) and then compares that account with published accounts concerning the evolution of psychiatric services in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA). At the start of the twentieth century, to improve the early identification and treatment of mental symptoms and to prevent their advancement to overt insanity, some leading psychiatrists proposed that persons who had incipient mental disorders and who wished to avoid legal certification to mental hospitals, should be admitted to general hospitals.
It will be demonstrated in this dissertation that, in NSW, between 1900 and 1960, psychiatry gained a small but significant foothold in the general hospitals. The advent of powerful new biological treatments for psychosis between 1938 and 1955, made possible the commencement of a second phase of general hospital psychiatry (GHP) in the 1960s, during which there was a massive migration of acute psychiatric services into the general hospitals. In the 1970s, public psychiatric services in NSW split into community-oriented services and consultation-liaison services, each of which had a secure base in the general hospitals.
The evolution of GHP followed similar but non-identical pathways in NSW, in the UK, and in the USA. The pathway adopted in NSW was initially like that followed in the UK but started to diverge from it after 1948. After 1960, psychiatry in NSW became even less reliant on British influences and more open to ideas from the USA concerning preventive psychiatry, community psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry. By 1994, psychiatric services in NSW were following a trajectory that was determined by local experience and expertise and were no longer greatly dependent on influences beyond the Australian shores.
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Mosely, Philip Alan. "A social history of soccer in New South Wales 1880-1957." Phd thesis, Department of History, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8951.
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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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Wolterding, Martin R. "The life history strategy of the temperate seagrass Posidonia australis (Brown) Hook. f. in South Eastern NSW." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2000. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27764.
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An intensive study was conducted on Posidonia australis (Brown) Hook f in south east
Australia. Three sites were studied intensively (16 times a year for two years) these
being in Quibray Bay (sites 1 & 2) and Port Hacking (Site 3). Site 4 in Jervis Bay and
site 5 at Bonna Point in Quibray Bay were studied less intensively (four times a year for
two and one year respectively). Variables examined included shoot density, leafing rate,
leaf number, unit leaf weight, leaf biomass per shoot as well as biomass production of
leaf, sheath, rhizome, root and reprod'u'ctive structures. Correlations between seasonal
variations in these parameters were established with water temperature, light intensity
and rainfall. A procedure was developed and employed which estimated net leaf
production without causing major damage to the study populations. This procedure also
allowed estimation of several leaf production variables for the first time. The effects of
stress and disturbance on meristem activity were examined. The correlation between
leaf production and standing stock was established and the suitability of using seasonal
changes in leaf standing stock or biomass values to estimate production seasonality was
examined. The applicability to P. australis of two procedures that indirectly estimate the
plastochron was also investigated.
Among the P. australis studied, significant seasonal variation occurred in unit leaf
weight (mg * cm'l), total leaf biomass, leaf and rhizome biomass production,
plastochron interval, and leaf and non-leaf production. The rates of most production
variables peaked in late spring with minimal values recorded in early to mid-winter.
Seasonal changes in relative leaf growth rate, leaf and rhizome production of P.
australis shoots, highly correlated with changes in water temperature and light intensity.
Mean total shoot biomass production ranged from 2.33 to 4.74 g * m'2 * day".
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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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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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Watson, Peter Stuart. "The palaeoecological history of a Hawkesbury sandstone shale lens : the Glendale Quarry, Somersby, New South Wales." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1991. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26433.
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The fossil fish-bearing lens at Somersby is a 2.5m thick lens in the Hawkesbury Sandstone, less than 25m above the contact with the Narrabeen Group, both of Triassic age. It has been exposed in the workings of the Glendale Quarry, Reservoir Road, Somersby, west of Gosford, New South Wales.
Evidence from the sedimentology suggests that the lens occupies the position of one of a sequence of small lakes which formed on a sandy plain, the result of the kind of fluctuating hydrodynamic regime evident throughout the rock profile of the area.
Six horizons of fish mortality and at least two horizons of plant mortality were recognised and each of these was excavated to some extent and the components mapped. Mortality Horizon 4 was the most notable of these and on this level 1200 fish were mapped over an area of 1500 square metres and throughouta vertical interval of about 15cm.
The presence of mortality horizons alternating with barren phases indicated open and closed basin conditions which, in turn, reflected on the geometry of the lake and on regional fluctuations in precipitation, temperature and even climate. Mortality horizons indicated shallow water depth, and hence closed basin conditions, concentration of the fish population, deoxygenation of the water and asphyxiation of the fish; in short, a Summerkill mechanism. Rapid burial of carcases ensured preservation and fossilization.
The lens gives considerable palaeoecological information about an interval of earth history which probably lasted no more than a few hundred or, at the most, thousands of years during the Middle Triassic period.
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O'Donnell, M. A. (Margaret Anne). "The ecology and early life history of the intertidal tubeworm Galeolaria caespitosa." Phd thesis, Faculty of Arts, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12045.
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White, Cameron Frazer. "Pleasure seekers : a history of the male body on the beach in Sydney, 1811-1914 / Cameron Frazer White." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28026.
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In this thesis I analyse the transformation of the exposed male body on the beach in Sydney in terms of the struggle of the middle-class male to maintain his cultural hegemony in the face of a number of changes in Australian society. While nationalism and gender are often perceived to be the principle aspects in the social construction of masculinity, this analysis illustrates the importance of class.
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Walker, Lesley. "From old Wales to New South Wales : locating Welsh immigrants in colonial records 1875-1885." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1995. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26824.
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The history of immigration into Australia is central to the history of European Australia itself. This thesis presents the results of a study of migration from Wales to New South Wales in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The primary data for this study are New South Wales colonial immigration, shipping and census records. The records from the years 1875 to 1885 have proved to be a rich source of information about the migration of people from counties in Wales to New South Wales. A major purpose of this study has been to determine what sort of information about patterns of migration is recoverable and what questions can be asked and answered using the data retrieved.
This thesis challenges the assumption, implicit or explicit in previously published work on the Welsh in Australia, that little in the way of useful statistical data was recoverable due to the historic and official submergence of Wales into England. It has been shown that accurate and detailed data on assisted immigrants from Wales can be recovered from the colonial records. Significant findings are presented regarding counties of origin, occupations, places of settlement, evidence of chain and stage migration, family group and individual male and female migration patterns and evidence of links between communities in Wales and New South Wales.
Interpretation of these findings provides valuable evidence relevant to long-standing debates about whether Welsh migration patterns were distinctly different from the rest of the British Isles. The urban and industrial background of the majority of immigrants from Wales argues against widely accepted views about factors influencing internal movement from rural to industrial areas and the conclusion that there was little emigration overseas from industrial Wales. The recovered data about the Welsh immigrants to New South Wales demonstrate a need to re-examine traditional assumptions about Welsh migration in general and to Australia in particular.
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Wilson, Pete. "The politics of history within New South Wales schools : the contentious nature of history courses from 1880 to the present." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2010. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27707.
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This thesis studies the politicised and contested nature of history within New South Wales’ Schools. History emerged into New South Wales schools in the 18805, amidst extensive criticism that the course would inflame sectarian division between Protestants and Catholics. The type of history that was eventually instated in the Public Instruction Act of 1880 was a triumphant appraisal of British and Australian colonial achievements and has been described as the ‘drum and trumpet’ approach. In the first decade of the
twentieth century there was an extensive reform movement in education that was termed at the time the ‘new education’. Central to these reforms was the first Director of Education in New South Wales, Peter Board. Board published the first Syllabus of Instruction in 1904, which placed history at the centre of the curriculum and titled the primary school history course ‘civics and morals’. The purpose of history in schools at this time was to disseminate a loyalty to Empire and nation and to inculcate Protestant moral values for the benefit of society in general.
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Picton, Phillipps Christina J. V. "Convicts, communication and authority : Britain and New South Wales, 1810-1830." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1568.
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Knowledge of the convict period in New South Wales has been substantially expanded and enriched through a number of revisionist scholarly studies in the last quarter of the twentieth century. The cumulative result has been the establishment of a number of new orthodoxies. These studies have drawn on a number of analytic frameworks including feminism and cliometrics, successfully challenging the previous historiography. The rich archival sources in New South Wales have been utilised to reformulate the convict period by a number of scholars, demonstrating the complexity of life in the penal colony. Academic divisions between what are regarded as “Australian” history and “British” history have imposed their own agendas on writing about transportation. This study challenges this imposition through an examination of petitioners’ approaches to the home and colonial administrations. A lacuna in the scholarly studies has been a lack of attention to transportation’s consequences for married couples and their children. This study seeks to narrow that gap through these petitions. The findings of the study demonstrate the continuation of links between those who were transported and those who remained in Britain. It is argued that these findings have important implications for future research within Britain, and that what is disclosed by these petitions and the individuals who were involved in on-going communications cannot be restricted either to Australian or convict histories. Our knowledge of what transportation meant to individuals in the periphery as well as those in the metropole is diminished if the focus remains firmly on the settler community. Supplementary material from contemporary sources as well as the official records passing between the two administrations has been utilised and these supplementary sources suggest that there was a broad division between official publicly stated policy and practice in respect of transportees’ family circumstances. Chapter One establishes the architecture of the thesis and explains the methodology adopted. Chapter Two offers a reinterpretation of the colony’s formation in 1788 and inserts the “convict audience” of that day into the historiography . Chapter Three examines two petitioners writing from different gaols in Britain prior to their expected transportation. A resolution of the division between cliometrics and this more qualitative humanist approach is proposed. Chapter Four is a study of petitioners in Britain and a study of the process required for a reunion and reconstitution of family units in New South Wales. Chapter Five seeks to a resiting of male convicts as family members through an examination of a number of contemporary sources. Chapter Six examines the petitions raised by husbands and fathers for their wives and families to be given free passages to the colony. Chapter Seven provides case studies of three transportees and their experiences of the petitioning process. In Chapter Eight the focus broadens out from married men to examine and provide a revision of convicts’ correspondence with their relatives and friends in Britain. Such correspondence has previously provided the basis for nationalist interpretations; the revision here suggests that such interpretations are anachronistic. Chapter Nine is an extended metaphor drawing the material together to the conclusions of the study.
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Bubacz, Beryl M. "The Female and Male Orphan Schools in New South Wales, 1801-1850." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2474.
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This thesis is concerned with an examination and re-assessment of the establishment, operation and management of the Female and Male Orphan Schools, in the first half of the nineteenth century in New South Wales. The chaplains and governors in the early penal settlement were faced with a dilemma, as they beheld the number of children who were ‘orphaned’, neglected, abandoned and destitute. In order to understand the reasons why these children were in necessitous circumstances, the thesis seeks to examine the situations of the convict women, who were the mothers of these children. Governors Philip Gidley King and Lachlan Macquarie respectively in 1801 and 1819 established the Schools, which provided elementary education, training and residential care within a religious setting. Researching the motives underlying the actions of these men has been an important part of the thesis. An examination of the social backgrounds of some of the children admitted to these Schools has been undertaken, in order to provide a greater understanding of the conditions under which the children were living prior to their admissions. Information about family situations, and the social problems encountered by parents that led them to place their children in the Schools, have been explored. The avenues open to the girls and boys when they left the Schools, has formed part of the study. Some children were able to be reunited with family members, but the majority of them were apprenticed. A study of the nature of these apprenticeships, has led to a greater understanding of employment opportunities for girls and boys at that time. In 1850 the Schools were amalgamated into the Protestant Orphan School at Parramatta. By examining the governance and operation of the Schools during their last two decades as separate entities, we have more knowledge about and understanding of these two colonial institutions. It is the conclusion of this thesis that some of the harsher judgements of revisionist social historians need to be modified. It was the perception that more social disorder would occur if action was not taken to ‘rescue’ the ‘orphaned’ children, usually of convict parentage. However genuine charity, philanthropy and concern was displayed for the children in grave physical and moral danger. The goals of the founders were not always reached in the Orphan Schools, nevertheless they performed an invaluable service in the lives of many children.
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Bubacz, Beryl M. "The Female and Male Orphan Schools in New South Wales, 1801-1850." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2474.
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Doctor of PhilosophyThis thesis is concerned with an examination and re-assessment of the establishment, operation and management of the Female and Male Orphan Schools, in the first half of the nineteenth century in New South Wales. The chaplains and governors in the early penal settlement were faced with a dilemma, as they beheld the number of children who were ‘orphaned’, neglected, abandoned and destitute. In order to understand the reasons why these children were in necessitous circumstances, the thesis seeks to examine the situations of the convict women, who were the mothers of these children. Governors Philip Gidley King and Lachlan Macquarie respectively in 1801 and 1819 established the Schools, which provided elementary education, training and residential care within a religious setting. Researching the motives underlying the actions of these men has been an important part of the thesis. An examination of the social backgrounds of some of the children admitted to these Schools has been undertaken, in order to provide a greater understanding of the conditions under which the children were living prior to their admissions. Information about family situations, and the social problems encountered by parents that led them to place their children in the Schools, have been explored. The avenues open to the girls and boys when they left the Schools, has formed part of the study. Some children were able to be reunited with family members, but the majority of them were apprenticed. A study of the nature of these apprenticeships, has led to a greater understanding of employment opportunities for girls and boys at that time. In 1850 the Schools were amalgamated into the Protestant Orphan School at Parramatta. By examining the governance and operation of the Schools during their last two decades as separate entities, we have more knowledge about and understanding of these two colonial institutions. It is the conclusion of this thesis that some of the harsher judgements of revisionist social historians need to be modified. It was the perception that more social disorder would occur if action was not taken to ‘rescue’ the ‘orphaned’ children, usually of convict parentage. However genuine charity, philanthropy and concern was displayed for the children in grave physical and moral danger. The goals of the founders were not always reached in the Orphan Schools, nevertheless they performed an invaluable service in the lives of many children.
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Wesson, Sue C. 1955. "The Aborigines of eastern Victoria and far south-eastern New South Wales, 1830-1910 : an historical geography." Monash University, School of Geography and Environmental Science, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8708.
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Jayawickrema, Jacintha, University of Western Sydney, of Science Technology and Environment College, and School of Environment and Agriculture. "A reconstruction of the ecological history of Longneck Lagoon New South Wales, Australia." THESIS_CSTE_EAG_Jayawickrema_J.xml, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/702.
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The environmental history of Longneck Lagoon was reconstructed by analysing 15 sediment cores collected between 22 April, 1992 and 29 August, 1995. Longneck Lagoon is a shallow, man-modified lake situated in the north-western part of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, in the Hawkesbury River floodplain. It has undergone a considerable change over recent years and at the end of the study was reported to have turbid water and no floating leaved plants or submerged aquatic plants. The hypothesis of this study was that vertical patterns in sediment characteristics can be related to biological, physical or chemical changes that have taken place within Longneck Lagoon and its catchment area. Assessment of inter-core variation within one area of the lagoon and between different areas was carried out and is highly recommended to others who may wish to conduct similar studies elsewhere. Restoration/regeneration of the previous diverse aquatic plant flora, associated with variable water depth in the pre-weir condition, would require the removal/modification of the weir, possibly reduction in the nutrient income to the lake, and, potentially, addressing mobilisation and internal cycling of accumulated nutrients which have accreted within the system.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Jayawickrema, Jacintha. "A reconstruction of the ecological history of Longneck Lagoon New South Wales, Australia." Thesis, View thesis, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/702.
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The environmental history of Longneck Lagoon was reconstructed by analysing 15 sediment cores collected between 22 April, 1992 and 29 August, 1995. Longneck Lagoon is a shallow, man-modified lake situated in the north-western part of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, in the Hawkesbury River floodplain. It has undergone a considerable change over recent years and at the end of the study was reported to have turbid water and no floating leaved plants or submerged aquatic plants. The hypothesis of this study was that vertical patterns in sediment characteristics can be related to biological, physical or chemical changes that have taken place within Longneck Lagoon and its catchment area. Assessment of inter-core variation within one area of the lagoon and between different areas was carried out and is highly recommended to others who may wish to conduct similar studies elsewhere. Restoration/regeneration of the previous diverse aquatic plant flora, associated with variable water depth in the pre-weir condition, would require the removal/modification of the weir, possibly reduction in the nutrient income to the lake, and, potentially, addressing mobilisation and internal cycling of accumulated nutrients which have accreted within the system.
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Jayawickrema, Jacintha. "A reconstruction of the ecological history of Longneck Lagoon New South Wales, Australia /." View thesis, 2000. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20050720.135957/index.html.
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Ford, Caroline. "The first wave : the making of a beach culture in Sydney, 1810-1920." Thesis, Department of History, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8980.
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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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Murray, Lisa Anne. "Cemeteries in nineteenth-century New South Wales : landscapes of memory and identity." Thesis, Faculty of Arts, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16784.
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Murray, Maree Kathleen. "Working children a social history of children's work in New South Wales, 1860-1916 /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/42754.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, School of History, Philosophy and Politics, 1995.Bibliography: leaves 427-449.
In the 1860s work performed by children was reflected the wider labour market. Children undertook paid employment in formal situations and work of a more casual nature on city streets. They also performed unpaid work at households and farmsites. Children working at the homesite contributed to home based production and service, and also, through domestic duties, to the daily reproduction of labour. Children's participation in the workforce was significant in the three main sectors of the economy. Small-scale farming, most commonly on selections, made significant use of children's labour. Selection, and its appropriation of children's labour power, continued throughout the entire period. The colony's infant industrialisation utilised cheap, child labour in its development from craft-based to more intensive, larger-scale industry. Children's labour power was usually of financial import to their households and usually allocated with regard to age and gender. In times of intensive demand or financial difficulty, the need for children's labour could lessen gender strictures. Demand for children's labour power was, at times, in conflict with the expanding liberal state, which was extending its training and supervision of future citizens through primary education. Mass education was generally accepted, although many families used schools on a casual basis so that children could alternate work and schoolwork. The 1880 Public Instruction Act pragmatically reflected common practice by making some schooling compulsory. -- By 1916 patterns of children's work participation which held for much of the twentieth century were set. Children were virtually excluded, through attitudinal and legislative change, from the paid main-stream workforce. Their effective, and permanent, removal from the urban, industrial workforce had been closely controlled. Their use as casual labour, was circumscribed by adherence to daily, all-day compulsory schooling. Children's work on city streets was limited and regulated. Their work at the home site and in the rural sector continued, now fitted around demanding schooling requirements. -- Pressure on the state, from organised labour and other concerned interests, to remove children from employment in factories and streets had intensified from the 1890s. These demands were echoed by educational authorities, who, since the beginning of the period, had called for strict adherence to their full-time ideal model of school. The state, reflecting and consolidating attitudinal change, responded in an incremental fashion with increasing regulation and control. State action included the 1916 Education Act which could enforce adherence to the ideal school model. The withdrawal of children from mainstream labour was accompanied by an increasingly widespread, accepted and entrenched ideology of protected, nurturant and dependant childhood.
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Barnett-Spies, Pamela. "The early years of the preservation movement in New South Wales 1900-1939." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16062.
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Lofthouse, Pamela. "THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF SEMI-DETACHED DWELLINGS IN NEW SOUTH WALES 1788-1980." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15797.
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The semi-detached house (colloquially known as a semi) is a common, yet ordinary dwelling type in New South Wales. Buildings containing a pair of dwellings attached by a party wall have generally been overlooked by Australian architectural historians, and semis are poorly represented in the statutory heritage registers within New South Wales. Many semis which are listed appear to have heritage significance arising only from their aesthetics – their resemblance to two attached Victorian terraced houses. This study seeks to show that semis are a dwelling type which is distinct from both terraced houses and detached dwellings. It traces the development of the semi from its roots as a rural double cottage in Britain to its place within the colonial dwelling hierarchy. By analysing the social, economic and political factors which have influenced the development of housing in New South Wales, the study shows how the semi became the ideal vehicle for the speculative builders who provided private rental housing for lower middle class tenants in the suburbs and towns of the state after Federation. The form fell from favour during the interwar period, but during the latter part of the twentieth century semis once again became a pragmatic use of residential land, and a popular dwelling type. The role of architects in this development is examined, and the way in which the garden city movement facilitated the transition of the semi down the social scale into working class public housing. The attitudes towards semis and terraced houses between the wars are compared, with new evidence provided for why no new terraces were constructed in New South Wales after the First World War. The post-Second World War regulatory framework, including rent control and de facto subdivision, is shown to have transformed the stock of semis from being respectable investments for widows and spinsters into a way for lower middle class tenants to participate in the Great Australian Dream of home ownership. Based on the evidence of the social and historical factors underpinning the development of semis in New South Wales, the study challenges the view that semis have no heritage or cultural value other than some limited aesthetic value. An assessment of significance gives rise to a discussion about how the community and heritage professionals perceive the heritage value of modest, suburban buildings. The vexed question of whether semis are worthy of conservation is considered, as well as the threats posed by unsympathetic alterations and additions. While change is inevitable, it is hoped that if the history and heritage of their semis is better understood, owners may make more appropriate choices when implementing those changes.
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Vanovac, Tihomir. "Conservation of Federation hotels in central Sydney." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1989. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26258.
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In the last two decades Sydney's traditional hotels have been subjected to increasing pressure of rising land values and diminishing returns and many hotels have been either
demolished or adapted for other uses. At the close of the 19th Century, there were about 300 hotels in Central sydney. By the late 1920s this number was almost halved and from 1969 to 1989 a further 46 hotels in Central Sydney have ceased trading. In 1989, there are fewer than 75 hotels in continuing use in the Central Business District, according to the Australian Hotels Association. If the rate of closure and demolition over the last ninety years is extrapolated, Sydney will lose nearly all its traditional hotels within 40 years and many of those that remain are at risk of being altered and emasculated to a point at which their cultural significance is greatly diminished. Many journalists over the years have lamented the loss of their favourite boozer, or bloodhouse, prompting the Heritage Council to commission a survey, in 1985, of all existing, adapted and demolished hotels in the Sydney Central Business District.
This thesis continues the Heritage Council's initiative and documents and analyses a clearly identifiable group of hotels within a defined geographical area.
The historical research and the documentation of demolished, adapted and threatened hotels leads to a statement of the hotels' cultural significance with respect to social, historic, architectural, urban, technological and associated values.
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Proctor, Helen. "Gender and merit: A history of coeducation and gender relations at an academically-selective public secondary school, Parramatta High, New South Wales, 1913-1958." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20126.
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Hilferty, Fiona M. "Teacher professionalism defined and enacted : a comparative case study of two subject teaching associations." Phd thesis, School of Policy and Practice, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7908.
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Wright, Michael Andrew. "Contested firegrounds: paid and unpaid labour in NSW firefighting between 1850 and 1955." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6764.
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This thesis examines the development of firefighting in NSW from its establishment as an organised activity in the 1850s to the mid 1950s, when the origins of the contemporary arrangements of firefighting first emerged. In particular, it focuses on the dynamics at play in the relationship between different ‘forms’ of labour in the industry over that period, namely, paid, quasi-volunteer and volunteer firefighters. Whilst independent volunteer fire companies, largely based in Sydney started off strongly in NSW in the mid nineteenth century, by 1910 they had disappeared from urban firefighting. Following the lead of the Fire Brigades Board (Sydney) [1884-1909], the Board of Fire Commissioners of NSW [1910-] adopted a more British approach to firefighting with unified command and control, with rigid structures and discipline applied across the State. Eventually, its large jurisdiction and financial constraints led to its inability to cope with post WWII urban expansion. This opened the way for volunteers to re-emerge in urban firefighting in the form of bush fire brigades. Throughout the period studied, there were a myriad of tensions and, at times, sharp conflict between the different forms of firefighters. This manifested itself both on the fireground and in the relationship that the various groups had with their respective ‘managements’. Paid, quasi-volunteer and volunteer brigades used a range of strategies to legitimate their positions as the ‘protectors’ of their communities. Localism was a crucial factor in this context, as tension between centralised and local control was often the root of their differences. The importance of community and localism cannot be overstated, given the spatially embedded nature of firefighting.
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Foley, Meredith Anne. "The women's movement in New South Wales and Victoria, 1918-1938." Phd thesis, Department of History, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6084.
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Pettingell, Judith Ann. "Panics and Principles: A History of Drug Education Policy in New South Wales 1965-1999." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4150.
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When the problem of young people using illegal drugs for recreation emerged in New South Wales in the 1960s drug education was promoted by governments and experts as a humane alternative to policing. It developed during the 1970s and 1980s as the main hope for preventing drug problems amongst young people in the future. By the 1990s drug policy experts, like their temperance forbears, had become disillusioned with drug education, turning to legislative action for the prevention of alcohol and other drug problems. However, politicians and the community still believed that education was the best solution. Education Departments, reluctant to expose schools to public controversy, met minimal requirements. This thesis examines the ideas about drugs, education and youth that influenced the construction and implementation of policies about drug education in New South Wales between 1965 and 1999. It also explores the processes that resulted in the defining of drug problems and beliefs about solutions, identifying their contribution to policy and the way in which this policy was implemented. The thesis argues that the development of drug education over the last fifty years has been marked by three main cycles of moral panic about youth drug use. It finds that each panic was triggered by the discovery of the use of a new illegal substance by a youth subculture. Panics continued, however, because of the tension between two competing notions of young people’s drug use. In the traditional dominant view ‘drug’ meant illegal drugs, young people’s recreational drug use was considered to be qualitatively different to that of adults, and illegal drugs were the most serious and concerning problem. In the newer alternative ‘public health’ view which began developing in the 1960s, illicit drug use was constructed as part of normal experimentation, alcohol, tobacco and prescribed medicines were all drugs, and those who developed problems with their use were sick, not bad. These public health principles were formulated in policy documents on many occasions. The cycles of drug panic were often an expression of anxiety about the new approach and they had the effect of reasserting the dominant view. The thesis also finds that the most significant difference between the two discourses lies in the way that alcohol is defined, either as a relatively harmless beverage or as a drug that is a major cause of harm. Public health experts have concluded that alcohol poses a much greater threat to the health and safety of young people than illegal drugs. However, parents, many politicians and members of the general community have believed for the last fifty years that alcohol is relatively safe. Successive governments have been influenced by the economic power of the alcohol industry to support the latter view. Thus the role of alcohol and its importance to the economy in Australian society is a significant hindrance in reconciling opposing views of the drug problem and developing effective drug education. The thesis concludes that well justified drug education programs have not been implemented fully because the rational approaches to drug education developed by experts have not been supported by the dominant discourse about the drug problem. Politicians have used drug education as a populist strategy to placate fear but the actual programs that have been developed attempt to inform young people and the community about the harms and benefits of all drugs. When young people take up the use of a new mood altering drug, the rational approach developed by public health experts provokes intense anxiety in the community and the idea that legal substances such as alcohol, tobacco and prescribed drugs can cause serious harm to young people is rejected in favour of an approach that emphasizes the danger of illegal drug use.
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Pettingell, Judith Ann. "Panics and Principles: A History of Drug Education Policy in New South Wales 1965-1999." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4150.
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PhDWhen the problem of young people using illegal drugs for recreation emerged in New South Wales in the 1960s drug education was promoted by governments and experts as a humane alternative to policing. It developed during the 1970s and 1980s as the main hope for preventing drug problems amongst young people in the future. By the 1990s drug policy experts, like their temperance forbears, had become disillusioned with drug education, turning to legislative action for the prevention of alcohol and other drug problems. However, politicians and the community still believed that education was the best solution. Education Departments, reluctant to expose schools to public controversy, met minimal requirements. This thesis examines the ideas about drugs, education and youth that influenced the construction and implementation of policies about drug education in New South Wales between 1965 and 1999. It also explores the processes that resulted in the defining of drug problems and beliefs about solutions, identifying their contribution to policy and the way in which this policy was implemented. The thesis argues that the development of drug education over the last fifty years has been marked by three main cycles of moral panic about youth drug use. It finds that each panic was triggered by the discovery of the use of a new illegal substance by a youth subculture. Panics continued, however, because of the tension between two competing notions of young people’s drug use. In the traditional dominant view ‘drug’ meant illegal drugs, young people’s recreational drug use was considered to be qualitatively different to that of adults, and illegal drugs were the most serious and concerning problem. In the newer alternative ‘public health’ view which began developing in the 1960s, illicit drug use was constructed as part of normal experimentation, alcohol, tobacco and prescribed medicines were all drugs, and those who developed problems with their use were sick, not bad. These public health principles were formulated in policy documents on many occasions. The cycles of drug panic were often an expression of anxiety about the new approach and they had the effect of reasserting the dominant view. The thesis also finds that the most significant difference between the two discourses lies in the way that alcohol is defined, either as a relatively harmless beverage or as a drug that is a major cause of harm. Public health experts have concluded that alcohol poses a much greater threat to the health and safety of young people than illegal drugs. However, parents, many politicians and members of the general community have believed for the last fifty years that alcohol is relatively safe. Successive governments have been influenced by the economic power of the alcohol industry to support the latter view. Thus the role of alcohol and its importance to the economy in Australian society is a significant hindrance in reconciling opposing views of the drug problem and developing effective drug education. The thesis concludes that well justified drug education programs have not been implemented fully because the rational approaches to drug education developed by experts have not been supported by the dominant discourse about the drug problem. Politicians have used drug education as a populist strategy to placate fear but the actual programs that have been developed attempt to inform young people and the community about the harms and benefits of all drugs. When young people take up the use of a new mood altering drug, the rational approach developed by public health experts provokes intense anxiety in the community and the idea that legal substances such as alcohol, tobacco and prescribed drugs can cause serious harm to young people is rejected in favour of an approach that emphasizes the danger of illegal drug use.
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Trimingham, Jack Christine. "Kerever Park : a history of the experience of teachers and children in a Catholic girls' preparatory boarding school 1944-1965." Phd thesis, School of Social and Policy Studies in Education, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6641.
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Curtis, Jennifer May. "Defining Asian Social Studies in New South Wales’ secondary schools : a curriculum history, 1967−2002." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366902.
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In the 21st century, Australia is an integral part of the Asian region. Knowledge and understanding about Asia, and Australia’s relationship with Asia, is crucial for all young Australians. The close proximity to Australia of this diverse region, together with its rich history and culture, increasing economic power and trade relationships, issues of security, and affordable air travel for many, means that to know about and communicate with our Asian neighbours is a reality. However, for well over a century Australia’s relationship with Asia has been contentious, continually debated and always uncertain. The impact that such discourse has on students is immeasurably great. It is evidenced in significant education policy and curriculum changes and developments. Asian Social Studies, the New South Wales (NSW) secondary school elective subject at the centre of this research, is a key example of such evidence. The study presents a rich, detailed account of the history of Asian Social Studies, a secondary school subject in NSW, from its beginnings in 1967 through an era of changing political, social, and economic contexts for Australia. The research is, for this reason, a significant part of Australian curriculum history. Asian Social Studies represented the beginnings of a movement toward intercultural understanding for NSW students. For teachers, Asian Social Studies was also a significant curriculum development. To teach about Asia through curriculum that required flexibility and inter-disciplinality, teachers needed leadership and collaboration. Accounts of these form part of this case study: a case study which is timely in the 21st century, and in NSW in particular. The subject, Asian Social Studies, was not renewed by the Board of Studies NSW in 2002 and, therefore, ceased to exist as a subject beyond 2005. The importance of the construction and development of curricula has only taken prominence in research recently. Informed by Goodson’s social constructionist approach (1988, 1994), this research builds on the increased attention to subject-specific histories. A multi-level qualitative approach to analysis is used for this curriculum history research. Through a methodology that combines historical research with ethnographic dimensions, this research presents a case study is presented that gives insight into the people and processes of a subject’s development. The thesis firstly examines the “written” curriculum, using a “slices of time” strategy. This strategy promotes depth of analysis at key junction points. A comparative analysis of the processes and prescription of the three Asian Social Studies syllabus documents of 1967, 1976 and 1985 is provided. Indeed, the history of Asian Social Studies is a key example where the “written” curriculum has reinforced Goodson’s concept that curriculum construction is both contested and complex. Insights arising from this research include the degree to which significant players in Asian Social Studies, both individual as well as members of a professional teaching association, present a collective commitment to establish, and then to continue to revise and update, the subject for students in NSW secondary schools. This research shows that this was accomplished in a context of intense debate over the pedagogical approaches to the enactment of Asian Social Studies. Secondly, the research values life history as an important source of curriculum history. Thus a single biographical inquiry, using an open-ended interview with a key educator who was intimately involved in the three syllabus documents at the pre-enacted and enacted stages of development, is a major part of the study. Finally, an examination of the Asia Education Teachers’ Association reaffirms the key role that professional teaching associations of a subject, such as Asian Social Studies, have.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Education and Professional Studies
Arts, Education and Law
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Hobbs, Roger, and n/a. "The builders of Shoalhaven 1840s-1890s : a social history and cultural geography." University of Canberra. Design & Architecture, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20070122.163159.
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According to architect Robin Boyd (1952 rev. ed. 1968), ʹthe Australian country house took its pattern, not directly from the English countryside, but second‐hand from the Australian cityʹ in the nineteenth century. This thesis explores the introduction of domestic architectural ideas in the Shoalhaven Local Government Area (LGA) from the 1840s to the 1890s, and concludes that Boydʹs premise, including his five principal plan types, applied in general, subject to regional geographical parameters.
The Illawarra and South Coast districts dominated New South Wales dairy farming by the 1860s. The transfer of architectural ideas to the Shoalhaven LGA was facilitated by steam shipping lines from 1855, as the dominant vector, which provided access to the Sydney markets. Architectural development began with a masonry construction boom during the 1860s and 1870s, followed by a timber construction boom in the 1880s and 1890s. In the Ulladulla District development was influenced by local stonemasons and Sydney architects from the 1860s‐1870s, as well as regional developments in the Illawarra, which also influenced Kangaroo Valley in the 1870s. The Nowra Area, the administrative and commercial focus of the Shoalhaven District from 1870, was where architectural developments in timber and masonry were greatest, influenced by regional developments, Sydney architects and carpenters and builders of German origin and training. A local architectural grammar and style began to develop in the 1880s and 1890s, assisted by the railway, which arrived at Bomaderry near Nowra in 1893. However, the depression and drought of the 1890s resulted in a hiatus in construction, exacerbated by the First World War 1914‐1918, in common with the rest of New South Wales.
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Fifer, D. E. (Donald Edward). "The Sydney merchants and seaborne trade, 1821-1851." Phd thesis, Department of History, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13716.
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Thomas, David Gervaise. "The Rise and Recession of Medical Peer Review in New South Wales, 1856-1994." University of Sydney. Policy and Practice, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/480.
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The exercise of autonomy and self-regulation is seen in the literature as one of the basic criteria of professionalism. Since in modern states Medicine has generally been the occupational grouping which has most completely attained that status, it is seen as the model or archetype of professionalism. This study focuses on just one aspect of medical autonomy, that relating to the right of medical professionals to be accountable only to their fellow professionals as far as the maintenance of practice standards are concerned. In this thesis, the theory underlying this system of "peer review" is examined and then its application during the course of the 20th century is traced in one particular jurisdiction, that of the State of New South Wales in Australia. The reason for the focus on NSW is that in this jurisdiction, medical autonomy existed and was exercised in a particularly pure and powerful form after it was instituted in 1900. However, it was also in NSW that for the first time anywhere in the world, an institutional challenge to medical disciplinary autonomy emerged with the establishment in 1984 of the "Complaints Unit" of the Department for Health. The thesis of this study is that as a result of this development, which within a comparatively short space of time led to the emergence of a system of "co-regulation" of medical discipline, medical disciplinary autonomy and peer review had within a decade, been so severely challenged as to be almost extinct in this State. In the light of theoretical frameworks provided by Weber, Habermas and the American scholar Robert Alford, the study examines the long drawn out struggle to institute medical autonomy in NSW in the 19th century, its entrenchment by subsequent legislation over the next eight decades and the "counter-attack" staged by the emergent forces of consumerism, supported by the forces of the ideology of "Public Interest Law" in the last two decades of the century. The study concludes with a discussion of the implications for definitions of professionalism which might result from the loss by Medicine in NSW, of its right to exclusive control of medical discipline and the consequent disappearance of medical peer review.
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Wilkenfeld, George. "The electrification of the Sydney energy system, 1881-1986." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/33547.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Centre for Environmental and Urban Studies, 1989.Bibliography: leaves 360-379.
Electrification: an historical process -- A prehistory of electrification: the Sydney energy system to1881 -- Slow dawn of the electric light, 1881-1904 -- The momentum of growth, 1904-1932 -- The state takes charge, 1932-1950 -- Triumph of the grid, 1950-1986 -- The limits to electrification.
All technological systems require energy. The concentration of human population and economic activity in cities has relied on the development of urban energy systems, which bring energy to the city and distribute it to points of end use within it. Over the past century, electro-technology has come to dominate urban energy systems throughout the developed world. This process has been imperfectly documented and analysed, because the relationships between electricity and the energy service markets and local political frameworks within which each instance of urban electrificaiton has taken place have generally been neglected. -- This thesis presents electrification as an historical change in the urban energy system. It identifies the most important influences on urban energy demand and on the organisation of energy supply, and traces their interaction before the introduction of electro-technology, then from the beginning of electrification in the 1880s to its completion in the 1980s. -- Urban electrification is best observed and understood by following its course within a single city. Sydney is well suited to such an analysis, since it is highly electrified and encompasses within its two hundred year history all the major energy technologies of the past millenium. During the first century of its existence, it developed distinctively urban markets for transportation, street lighting, commercial, industrial and residential energy services. These were revolutionised by steam and by gas, the first specifically urban energy technology. -- The thesis examines how each energy form in turn gained a foothold in the Sydney energy system, diffused through it and spread beyond it to the rest of the state of New South Wales. It analyses long term trends in each of the various urban energy markets, and draws parallels in the pattern of succession of supply technologies. It demonstrates that these patterns were repeated with the introduction of electricity and, in the 1970s, by its emerging successors. -- During Sydney's second century each of its energy markets was electrified in turn, while its separate electricity supply systems coalesced into a unified grid serving the entire metropolis, and extending later into the rest of the state. Largely as a result of political circumstances in the 1880s, when electric lighting was first introduced, the municipal electricity supply organisations acquired considerable influence and autonomy, and resisted the later attempts of state governments to co-ordinate their development. --The electrification of the Sydney and NSW energy systems had largely run its course by the late 1970s. Electricity supply had exhausted the economies of scale and technological development which had given it an advantage over other fuels. It had saturated the urban energy markets, and was facing new competitors in the form of natural gas and more efficient utilisation technologies. These changes in the energy system exacerbated the inherent problems in the organisation of electricity supply, which was predicated on unlimited growth and slow to adapt to the end of electrification.
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Scrivener, Gladys, University of Western Sydney, and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. "Rescuing the rising generation : industrial schools in New South Wales, 1850-1910." THESIS_FARSS_XXX_Scrivener_G.xml, 1996. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/376.
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The Industrial Schools Act introduced State coercion into the ‘childcare’ of the colony, and industrial schools became legal enforcers for other welfare institutions. This thesis provides an account of two industrial schools in nineteenth and early twentieth century New South Wales, focusing on the children and the lives they lived within the institutions and relying heavily upon primary sources. NSS Vernon enrolled destitute, neglected and delinquent boys. The curriculum, combined with an elaborate system of rewards, proved effective as reformative agents and after 1911 the ship’s coercive function was taken over by other reformatory schools and by a system of probation. About one third of girls admitted to ISG Newcastle were older, sexually delinquent girls. Inappropriate site, inadequate preparation, insufficient and untrained staff, lack of suitable curriculum and denial of support from the Colonial Secretary led to total failure of the school. Physical and verbal abuse was in evidence at Newcastle and resurfaced after the change of enrollments to mostly older girls about the time of the school’s transfer to Parramatta in 1887. After 1905 committals were aimed at maintaining street order and parental authority, to house the ‘uncontrollables’ and ‘incompetents’ and to provide a lock hospital for the control of venereal disease. The expressed purpose of the school to provide ‘good useful women’ dovetailed neatly with the introduction of probation, mostly for boys, which was enforced ‘through the mother’Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Elliott, Jane E. "The colonies clothed : a survey of consumer interests in New South Wales and Victoria, 1787-1887 /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phe462.pdf.
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Selden, Oscar. "Chilly Relationships: The use of history and memory in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales." Thesis, Department of History, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7992.
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Jindabyne is a town that has undergone dramatic structural change over the past 60 years. From a small pastoral community, Jindabyne has grown to become a premier tourist destination due to its close proximity to New South Wales’ ski resorts. This growth has been a product of the introduction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme, the Kosciusko National Park and the tourism industry along with the career opportunities provided by these industries. This growth has resulted in a shift of power from the traditional grazing community to other sections of the community. History is used by these sections of the community to legitimise their position in society. This thesis explores how and why this history has been used.
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McIntyre, Julie Ann. "A 'civilized' drink and a 'civilizing' industry: wine growing and cultural imagining in colonial New South Wales." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5763.
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My starting point for this thesis was the absence of a foundation history of Australian wine growing conducted by an historian rather than researchers in other disciplines or the media. I have used existing work on wine history in New South Wales from 1788 to 1901 alongside a significant body of new research to create an historical argument suitable for incorporation into more broadly-themed narratives of Australian history and to inform studies of wine growing in other academic fields. My main argument is that although wine growing proved of little economic value in colonial primary production compared with nation-building commodities - such as pastoralism, wheat growing and gold - advocates of the cultivation of wine grapes believed wine growing embodied beneficial, even transformative, cultural value so they persisted in attempting to create a ‘civilizing’ industry producing a ‘civilized’ drink despite lacklustre consumption of their product and very modest profits. Several times, from 1788 to 1901, these advocates spoke out or wrote about wine and wine growing as capable of creating order in a wild or ‘savage’ landscape and within a settler society shaped culturally by shifting adaptations to both imported and ‘native’ influences in agriculture as well as alcohol production, consumption and distribution. While the methodological framework employed here falls mainly within cultural and economic history, sociological theories have contributed to findings on causation. The result is a comprehensive narrative of colonial wine growing in New South Wales enriched by links to key developments in Australian colonial history and with reference to wine growing in other British colonies or former territories.
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McIntyre, Julie Ann. "A 'civilized' drink and a 'civilizing' industry: wine growing and cultural imagining in colonial New South Wales." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5763.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)My starting point for this thesis was the absence of a foundation history of Australian wine growing conducted by an historian rather than researchers in other disciplines or the media. I have used existing work on wine history in New South Wales from 1788 to 1901 alongside a significant body of new research to create an historical argument suitable for incorporation into more broadly-themed narratives of Australian history and to inform studies of wine growing in other academic fields. My main argument is that although wine growing proved of little economic value in colonial primary production compared with nation-building commodities - such as pastoralism, wheat growing and gold - advocates of the cultivation of wine grapes believed wine growing embodied beneficial, even transformative, cultural value so they persisted in attempting to create a ‘civilizing’ industry producing a ‘civilized’ drink despite lacklustre consumption of their product and very modest profits. Several times, from 1788 to 1901, these advocates spoke out or wrote about wine and wine growing as capable of creating order in a wild or ‘savage’ landscape and within a settler society shaped culturally by shifting adaptations to both imported and ‘native’ influences in agriculture as well as alcohol production, consumption and distribution. While the methodological framework employed here falls mainly within cultural and economic history, sociological theories have contributed to findings on causation. The result is a comprehensive narrative of colonial wine growing in New South Wales enriched by links to key developments in Australian colonial history and with reference to wine growing in other British colonies or former territories.
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Vick, Malcolm John. "Schools, school communities and the state in mid-nineteenth century New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phv636.pdf.
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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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Hanna, Bronwyn Planning UNSW. "Absence and presence: a historiography of early women architects in New South Wales." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Planning, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18217.
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Women architects are effectively absent from architectural history in Australia. Consulting first the archival record, this thesis establishes the presence of 230 women architects qualified and/or practising in NSW between 1900 and 1960. It then analyses some of these early women architects' achievements and difficulties in the profession, drawing on interviews with 70 practitioners or their friends and family. Finally it offers brief biographical accounts of eight leading early women architects, arguing that their achievements deserve more widespread historical attention in an adjusted canon of architectural merit. There are also 152 illustrations evidencing their design contributions. Thus the research draws on quantitative, qualitative, biographical and visual modes of representation in establishing a historical presence for these early women architects. The thesis forms part of the widespread political project of feminist historical recovery of women forebears, while also interrogating the ends and means of such historiography. The various threads describing women's absence and presence in the architectural profession are woven together throughout the thesis using three feminist approaches which sometimes harmonise and sometimes debate with each other. Described as "liberal feminism", "socialist feminism" and "postmodern feminism", they each put into play distinct patterns of questioning, method and interpretation, but all analyse historiography as a strategy for understanding society and effecting social change.
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Attard, Karen Patricia. "Lost and found : a literary cultural history of the Blue Mountains /." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040420.110911/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2003.A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, School of Humanities, 2003. Includes bibliographical references.