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Darian-Smith, Kate, and Paula Hamilton. "Memory and history in twenty-first century Australia: A survey of the field." Memory Studies 6, no. 3 (June 28, 2013): 370–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698013482868.
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This essay surveys the fields of oral history and memory studies in Australia since the publication of the landmark volume Memory and History in Twentieth-Century Australia in 1994. It argues that the practice of oral history has been central to memory studies in Australia, and explores key texts relating to the memory and commemoration of war, colonialism, Indigenous histories, trauma and witnessing in Australian society.
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Crawford, Robert, and Matthew Bailey. "Speaking of research: oral history and marketing history." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 10, no. 1 (February 19, 2018): 107–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhrm-02-2017-0007.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the value of oral history for marketing historians and provide case studies from projects in the Australian context to demonstrate its utility. These case studies are framed within a theme of market research and its historical development in two industries: advertising and retail property. Design/methodology/approach This study examines oral histories from two marketing history projects. The first, a study of the advertising industry, examines the globalisation of the advertising agency in Australia over the period spanning the 1950s to the 1980s, through 120 interviews. The second, a history of the retail property industry in Australia, included 25 interviews with executives from Australia’s largest retail property firms whose careers spanned from the mid-1960s through to the present day. Findings The research demonstrates that oral histories provide a valuable entry port through which histories of marketing, shifts in approaches to market research and changing attitudes within industries can be examined. Interviews provided insights into firm culture and practices; demonstrated the variability of individual approaches within firms and across industries; created a record of the ways that market research has been conducted over time; and revealed the ways that some experienced operators continued to rely on traditional practices despite technological advances in research methods. Originality/value Despite their ubiquity, both the advertising and retail property industries in Australia have received limited scholarly attention. Recent scholarship is redressing this gap, but more needs to be understood about the inner workings of firms in an historical context. Oral histories provide an avenue for developing such understandings. The paper also contributes to broader debates about the role of oral history in business and marketing history.
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Thomson, Alistair. "Australian Generations? Memory, Oral History and Generational Identity in Postwar Australia." Australian Historical Studies 47, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 41–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2015.1120335.
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Clark, Anna. "Talking About History: A Case for Oral Historiography." Public History Review 17 (December 22, 2010): 62–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v17i0.1792.
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The history wars are far from over—the question is, do they resonate beyond the limited public sphere in which they play out? What do Australians think of their history in light of these politicised historical debates? By way of answer, this paper examines the enduring public contest over the past and then investigates more elusive, but no less significant, everyday conversations about Australian history around the country. By proposing a method of ‘oral historiography’ to gauge contemporary historical understandings in Australia, it brings a critical new perspective to these ongoing debates. It offers ordinary people a chance to contribute to national discussions about Australian history and it challenges some of the more simplistic and troubling assumptions of the history wars.
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Wolff, Helen A., Terence J. Healy, and Thomas H. Spurling. "Corrigendum to: An introduction to the CSIRO Oral History Collection." Historical Records of Australian Science 30, no. 2 (2019): 198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr18026_co.
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This paper describes a project to record specialised oral histories of key individuals involved with Australia's principal scientific research organisation, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The oral histories are intended to complement official governance documents in a larger project to write a history of CSIRO. Oral histories typically include perspectives on family backgrounds and childhood, professional training and career histories. Of particular interest in these interviews is the involvement of interviewees in the management of CSIRO and their reflections on the place of CSIRO in the Australian and international scientific environments. The interviews were conducted mainly by two of the authors (Spurling and Healy), both of whom were well known to the interviewees because they were themselves senior managers in CSIRO and familiar with the topics discussed. These histories are intended to illuminate important personal factors that have influenced decision-making in CSIRO. Also covered are plans to use other collections of interview materials in the CSIRO History Project (CHP), including those conducted by CSIRO historian Boris Schedvin, the Australian Academy of Science and the National Library of Australia. Details are provided of preparations for interviews, recording and transcription and preparation of materials for public access through CSIROpedia.
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Bailey, Matthew. "Written testimony, oral history and retail environments." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 7, no. 3 (August 17, 2015): 356–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhrm-10-2014-0032.
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Purpose – This paper aims to join a growing movement in marketing history to include the voices of consumers in historical research on retail environments. It aims to show that consumer perspectives offer new insights to the emergence and reception of large-scale, pre-planned shopping centers in Australia during the 1960s, and allow one to write a history of this retail form from below, in contrast to the top-down approach that is characteristic of the broader literature on shopping mall development. Design/methodology/approach – Written testimonies by consumers were gathered using a qualitative online questionnaire. The methodology is related to oral history, in that it seeks to capture the subjective experiences of participants, has the capacity to create new archives, to fill or explain gaps in existing repositories and provide a voice to those frequently lost to the historical record. Findings – The written testimonies gathered for this project provide an important contribution to the understanding of shopping centers in Australia and, particularly Sydney, during the 1960s, the ways that they were envisaged and used and insights into their reception and success. Research limitations/implications – As with oral history, written testimony has limitations as a methodology due to its reliance on memory, requiring both sophisticated and cautious readings of the data. Originality/value – The methodology used in this paper is unique in this context and provides new understandings of Australian retail property development. For current marketers, the historically constituted relationship between people and place offers potential for community targeted promotional campaigns.
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Giese, Diana. "Chinese Australian oral history: a project of the National Library of Australia." Asian Libraries 8, no. 3 (March 1999): 92–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10176749910267857.
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Wolff, Helen A., Terence J. Healy, and Thomas H. Spurling. "An introduction to the CSIRO Oral History Collection." Historical Records of Australian Science 30, no. 2 (2019): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr18026.
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This paper describes a project to record specialised oral histories of key individuals involved with Australia’s principal scientific research organisation, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). The oral histories are intended to complement official governance documents in a larger project to write a history of CSIRO. Oral histories typically include perspectives on family backgrounds and childhood, professional training and career histories. Of particular interest in these interviews is the involvement of interviewees in the management of CSIRO and their reflections on the place of CSIRO in the Australian and international scientific environments. The interviews were conducted mainly by two of the authors (Spurling and Healy), both of whom were well known to the interviewees because they were themselves senior managers in CSIRO and familiar with the topics discussed. These histories are intended to illuminate important personal factors that have influenced decision-making in CSIRO. Also covered are plans to use other collections of interview materials in the CSIRO History Project (CHP), including those conducted by CSIRO historian Boris Schedvin, the Australian Academy of Science and the National Library of Australia. Details are provided of preparations for interviews, recording and transcription and preparation of materials for public access through CSIROpedia.
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Cook, Abu Bakr Sirajuddin. "Tasawwuf ‘Usturaliya." Australian Journal of Islamic Studies 3, no. 3 (February 14, 2019): 60–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.55831/ajis.v3i3.119.
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Tracing the history of Sufism in Australia is a challenging task. The reasons for this are varied and include, but not limited to, the wide dispersal of source materials, the primarily oral transmission of Sufism, and diversity of the manifestation of Sufism. Detailing a history of Sufism in Australia is not possible in a short article. Rather than attempting to do so, this paper will emphasise that it is a neglected area that deserves significant scholarly attention. This paper will show that Australia has a rich and diverse heritage of Sufism. This is not without some challenges and raising these will support any study that attempts to engage Australia’s Sufi heritage, especially those that attempt to detail the earlier emergences of Sufism within Australia. Some solutions to the challenges of studying the history of Sufism in Australia will be proposed. In this light, Sufism in Australia can be seen to make an important contribution to the development of Australia generally and Australian Islam specifically.
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Pullan, Nicola. "Anastasia's Journeys: Two Voices in a Limited Space." Public History Review 20 (December 31, 2013): 104–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v20i0.2719.
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Anastasia’s Journeys was a temporary exhibition in the Australian History Museum, Macquarie University, Australia. Developed from the oral history of a post-World War Two Russian immigrant who survived Stalin’s policies of forced collectivisation and engineered famine, the display communicated primarily through audio tracks, supported by text panels and objects. This article articulates the creative tensions between theory and practice of public history which were encountered when planning the target audience, content, and design of the exhibition. It describes the process by which the oral history was placed at the centre of the presentation while objects were used both to illustrate changing social situations and introduce an opposing interpretation. The attributes of the oral history which made it suitable for an audio presentation are then discussed.
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Piperoglou, Andonis. "Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia." Australian Historical Studies 51, no. 4 (September 28, 2020): 496–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2020.1823589.
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Thomson, Alistair. "Biography of an Archive: ‘Australia 1938’ and the Vexed Development of Australian Oral History." Australian Historical Studies 45, no. 3 (September 2, 2014): 425–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2014.946522.
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Choo, Christine. "The Impact of Asian - Aboriginal Australian Contacts in Northern Australia." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 3, no. 2-3 (June 1994): 295–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/011719689400300218.
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The long history of Asian contact with Australian Aborigines began with the early links with seafarers, Makassan trepang gatherers and even Chinese contact, which occurred in northern Australia. Later contact through the pearling industry in the Northern Territory and Kimberley, Western Australia, involved Filipinos (Manilamen), Malays, Indonesians, Chinese and Japanese. Europeans on the coastal areas of northern Australia depended on the work of indentured Asians and local Aborigines for the development and success of these industries. The birth of the Australian Federation also marked the beginning of the “White Australia Policy” designed to keep non-Europeans from settling in Australia. The presence of Asians in the north had a significant impact on state legislation controlling Aborigines in Western Australia in the first half of the 20th century, with implications to the present. Oral and archival evidence bears testimony to the brutality with which this legislation was pursued and its impact on the lives of Aboriginal people.
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Stevens, Rachel, and Seamus O’Hanlon. "Intimate Oral Histories: Intercultural Romantic Relationships in Postwar Australia." Australian Historical Studies 49, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 359–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2018.1486444.
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Riseman, Noah. "‘Japan Fight. Aboriginal People Fight. European People Fight’: Yolngu Stories from World War II." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 37, S1 (2008): 65–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/s1326011100000387.
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Abstract Did you know that a Bathurst Islander captured the first Japanese prisoner of war on Australian soil? Or that a crucifix saved the life of a crashed American pilot in the Gulf of Carpentaria? These are excerpts from the rich array of oral histories of Aboriginal participation in World War II. This paper presents “highlights” from Yolngu oral histories of World War II in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Using these stories, the paper begins to explore some of the following questions: Why did Yolngu participate in the war effort? How did Yolngu see their role in relation to white Australia? In what ways did Yolngu contribute to the security of Australia? How integral was Yolngu assistance to defence of Australia? Although the answers to these questions are not finite, this paper aims to survey some of the Yolngu history of World War II.
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Goodall, Heather. "Aboriginal history, narration and new media." History and Computing 9, no. 1-3 (October 1997): 134–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/hac.1997.9.1-3.134.
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‘Angledool Stories’ is an ongoing collaboration in public history between an academic and a community historian in a rural Australian indigenous community. The goal has been to investigate whether interactive multi-media offered a means to make oral history recordings, family photos and research materials more accessible to the communities within which such research had been originally undertaken. The research and drafting process has already demonstrated that decisions about the design of the CD-ROM cannot be limited to technical or aesthetic considerations. This paper analyses three aspects of that design process: interface design; oral narrative selection and editing; and image selection and contextualisation. Each of these has required a sensitivity to the continuing tensions arising from colonialism and racial conflict over land and civil rights in Australia. The design decisions have had to be taken at the intersection of the technical, the political and the analytical. An essential and creative ingredient in the design process has proven to be close and continuing consultation with the rural Aboriginal community, which has allowed the political aspects of design questions to become apparent andhas generated options for constructive approaches to their solution.
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Trevitt, Chris. "Making a place: an oral history of academic development in Australia." Teaching in Higher Education 14, no. 6 (December 2009): 693–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562510903378561.
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Martyr, Philippa. "A brief history of forensic mental health services in Western Australia." Australasian Psychiatry 25, no. 3 (January 31, 2017): 297–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856217689914.
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Objective: To scope the history of forensic mental health services in Western Australia since colonisation. Method: A range of primary sources, including archives, reports, and oral histories was consulted. Results: Forensic mental health services were identified as historically poorly managed, under-resourced, and inconsistently delivered. Conclusions: Current problems with forensic mental health services may be linked to historical factors.
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Maynard, John. "Circles in the Sand: an Indigenous Framework of Historical Practice." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 36, S1 (2007): 117–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1326011100004786.
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AbstractThis paper seeks to identify and explore the differences of Indigenous approaches to historical practice. Why is history so important to Indigenous Australia? History is of crucial importance across the full spectrum of Indigenous understanding and knowledge. History belongs to all cultures and they have differing means of recording and recalling it. In essence, the paper explores the undercurrents of Australian history and the absence for so long of an Aboriginal place in that history, and the process over the past 40 years in correcting that imbalance. During the 1960s and 1970s the Aboriginal place in Australian history for so long erased, overlooked or ignored was suddenly a topic worthy of wider attention and importance. But despite all that has been published since, we have not realistically even touched the surface of what is buried within both the archives and oral memory. And quite clearly what has been recovered remains largely embedded within a white viewpoint of the past.
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Ip, Christopher Chi Kit, Khrisna Tumali, Ivan M. Hoh, and Arun Arunasalam. "Acute epididymo-orchitis frombrucellosis melitensisin Australia." BMJ Case Reports 12, no. 7 (July 9, 2019): e230007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-230007.
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Brucellosis epididymo-orchitis (BEO) is extremely rare in non-endemic areas such as Australia. While epididymo-orchitis is relatively common in adolescent men, when presented with a significant travel history, consideration should be given to rare causes such as this. Here, we present a case of BEO in a young 18-year-old man who recently migrated from Greece, with symptoms of acute scrotal pain, swelling and persistent fever.Brucella melitensiswas isolated in the blood culture and confirmed with PCR. We suspect transmission was related to ingestion of unpasteurised goat dairy products. He made a full recovery after 7 days of intravenous gentamicin and 6 weeks of oral doxycycline. BEO should be considered in those who present with acute scrotal pain and fever after a recent history of travel to or from a brucellosis- endemic area.
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Hunt, Jane E. "In Search of a Meaningful Story: Oral History and Triathlon Memory in Australia." International Journal of the History of Sport 36, no. 13-14 (September 22, 2019): 1218–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2019.1691534.
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Klaebe, Helen. "FACILITATING LOCAL STORIES IN POST-DISASTER REGIONAL COMMUNITIES: EVALUATION IN NARRATIVE-DRIVEN ORAL HISTORY PROJECTS." Oral History Journal of South Africa 1, no. 1 (September 23, 2016): 125–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2309-5792/1599.
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Cyclone Yasi struck the Cassowary Coast of Northern Queensland, Australia, in the early hours of 3 February 2011, destroying many homes and property, including the destruction of the Cardwell and District Historical Society’s (CDHS) premises. With their own homes flattened, many residents were forced to live in mobile accommodation, with extended family, or leave the area altogether. The historical society members seemed, however, particularly devastated by their flattened foreshore museum and loss of their precious collection of material. A call for assistance was made through the Oral History Association of Australia’s Queensland branch (OHAA-Qld), which, along with a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) research team, sponsored a trip to best plan how they could start to pick up the pieces to rebuild the museum. This article highlights the need for communities to gather, preserve and present their own stories, in a way that is sustainable and meaningful to them – whether it is because of a disaster, or as they go about life in their contemporary communities – the key being that good advice, professional support and embedded evaluation practices at crucial moments along the way can be critically important.
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Garaty, Janice, Lesley Hughes, and Megan Brock. "Seeking the voices of Catholic Teaching Sisters: challenges in the research process." History of Education Review 44, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-03-2014-0022.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to encourage historical research on the educational work of Catholic Sisters in Australia which includes the Sisters’ perspectives. Design/methodology/approach – Reflecting on the experiences of research projects which sought Sisters’ perspectives on their lives and work – from archival, oral and narrative sources – the authors discuss challenges, limitations and ethical considerations. The projects on which the paper is based include: a contextual history of a girls’ school; a narrative history of Sisters in remote areas; an exploration of Sisters’ social welfare work in the nineteenth century, and a history of one section of a teaching order from Ireland. Findings – After discussing difficulties and constraints in accessing convent archives, issues in working with archival documents and undertaking a narrative history through interviews the authors suggest strategies for research which includes the Sisters’ voices. Originality/value – No one has written about the processes of researching the role of Catholic Sisters in Australian education. Whilst Sisters have been significant providers of schooling since the late nineteenth century there is a paucity of research on the topic. Even rarer is research which seeks the Sisters’ voices on their work. As membership of Catholic women’s religious orders is diminishing in Australia there is an urgent need to explore and analyse their endeavours. The paper will assist researchers to do so.
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Taksa, Lucy. "Toil, Struggle and Repose: Oral History and the Exploration of Labour Culture in Australia." Labour History, no. 67 (1994): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27509279.
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Wilton, Janis. "Belongings: Oral History, Objects and an Online Exhibition." Public History Review 16 (November 8, 2009): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/phrj.v16i0.845.
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The New South Wales Migration Heritage Centre was established in 1998. Since 2003 its physical presence has been located within Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum and it has had the strategic brief to record the memories of ageing migrants before their stories are lost. The Centre is, however, a museum without a collection; a heritage authority without heritage sites; a cultural institution whose main presence is in cyberspace. Among its high profile projects is one entitled Objects through time and another Belongings. Both focus on the ways in which objects can convey aspects of the migration experience. Belongings, the focus of this article, presents the remembered experiences of people who migrated to Australia after World War II, and seeks to highlight significant features of their experiences through asking them to share their memories and to nominate and talk about significant objects. As a project it grew out of movable heritage policy work within state government agencies, and its initiators – John Petersen, Kylie Winkworth and Meredith Walker – were central players in this development. It was also inspired by the National Quilt Register of the Pioneer Women’s Hut at Tumbarumba.
With its object-centred approach and accompanying edited interview transcripts, Belongings provides a focus for exploring the messages and emphases that emerge when oral history interviews concerned with migration have the specific brief to ask about material culture and its significance. Belongings also enables an exploration of the layering of those messages that emerges when object captions are located back in the context of the oral history interviews from which they were extracted. As a virtual exhibition, Belongings also provides the opportunity to consider the challenges for museums (virtual and real) when they need to condense the richness of migrant oral histories and life stories to captioned objects that can be put on display.
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Harris, Rachel. "“Armed with Glamour and Collection Tins”: Femininity and Voluntary Work in Wartime South Australia, 1939–45." Labour History: Volume 117, Issue 1 117, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 109–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlh.2019.20.
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Between 1939 and 1945, more than 500 voluntary organisations operated across South Australia, the largest with a membership of more than 30,000 women. Focusing on the voluntary activities of these South Australian women – which ranged from providing material comforts for servicemen to fundraising as participants in beauty and pin-up competitions – this article reveals that female voluntarism was a highly visible and ubiquitous part of the home front experience in Australia during World War II. Oral histories, press reports and archival sources show that female voluntary work was considered crucial to the upkeep of male morale, and thus functioned to ease concerns regarding the war’s impact on traditional gender relations. In practice, however, the close relationship between paid and unpaid work meant voluntarism did not necessarily limit the wartime gains of South Australian women. Instead the rhetoric used to describe women’s voluntary work obscured the social and economic benefits it often provided.
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David, Bruno, Ian McNiven, Louise Manas, John Manas, Saila Savage, Joe Crouch, Guy Neliman, and Liam Brady. "Goba of Mua: archaeology working with oral tradition." Antiquity 78, no. 299 (March 2004): 158–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00093005.
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A team of Elders and community officials from the island of Mua in the Torres Straits got together with archaeologists from Australia to study an episode which occurred on the island before the coming of Christianity in 1871. Oral tradition located the burial place of the father of an ancestral islander named Goba, and the investigation of a rock shelter nearby gave a dated sequence of occupation and a fresh sighting of rock paintings, all relating to the period. Each type of evidence gave context to the other, and the project offered a vivid example of how history is fashioned.
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HUSTON, DANIEL C., SCOTT C. CUTMORE, and THOMAS H. CRIBB. "Enenterum kyphosi Yamaguti, 1970 and Enenterum petrae n. sp. (Digenea: Enenteridae) from kyphosid fishes (Centrarchiformes: Kyphosidae) collected in marine waters off eastern Australia." Zootaxa 5154, no. 3 (June 15, 2022): 271–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5154.3.2.
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Species of the digenean genus Enenterum Linton, 1910 (Lepocreadioidea: Enenteridae) are characterised primarily by their elaborate oral suckers, which are divided into varying numbers of anteriorly directed lobes, and their host-restriction to herbivorous marine fishes of the family Kyphosidae. We describe Enenterum petrae n. sp. from the brassy chub Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard) collected off Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Enenterum petrae n. sp. is readily differentiated from congeners by its unique oral sucker morphology, in having a minute pharynx, and the combination of a genital cap and accessory sucker. We also provide the first record of Enenterum kyphosi Yamaguti, 1970 from Australia based on material obtained from the blue sea chub Kyphosus cinerascens (Forsskål) collected off Lizard Island and North Stradbroke Island, Queensland. Morphologically, our specimens of E. kyphosi agree closely with descriptions of this species from Hawaii and South Africa, and despite lack of molecular data from outside of Australian waters, we consider all three reports to represent a single, widespread species. The first ITS2 and COI mtDNA gene sequences for species of Enenterum are provided and molecular phylogenetic analyses of 28S rDNA gene sequences place these species in a strongly-supported clade with the type-species of the genus, Enenterum aureum Linton, 1910. The oral suckers of both E. kyphosi and E. petrae n. sp. can be interpreted as having varying numbers of lobes depending on the particular specimen and how the division between lobes is defined. Scanning electron microscopical images improves understanding of the morphology of the enenterid oral sucker, and permits speculation regarding the evolutionary history leading to its specialisation in this lineage.
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Robertson, Hugh A., and Tara K. McGee. "Applying local knowledge: the contribution of oral history to wetland rehabilitation at Kanyapella Basin, Australia." Journal of Environmental Management 69, no. 3 (November 2003): 275–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0301-4797(03)00155-5.
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Spry, Caroline, Jillian Garvey, and Emmy Frost. "The role of oral history in archiving archaeology: a case study from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia." Historical Records of Australian Science 31, no. 2 (2020): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr19014.
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Warning Aboriginal and Torres Strait readers of this article are warned that it may contain images of ancestral remains. Compiling a history of archaeology is critical for evaluating, understanding and contextualising the current state of the discipline. While oral histories provide vivid accounts of people, events and decisions from sources with direct relationships to these moments in time, they have played a limited role in building historical narratives of archaeology as a discipline. A moderated conversation between Emeritus Professors David Frankel and Jim Allen and Professor Susan Lawrence on the early and more recent history of archaeology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, held during the university’s 50th anniversary celebrations in 2017, provides a glimpse of the discipline’s past, present and future in Australia. This paper presents the key themes and topics from this conversation with accompanying excerpts, providing an important case study of how oral history can assist with archiving this discipline.
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Silverstein, Jordana. "The ballad of Leah and Amanda: Ritual and history at the wedding of a Jewish lesbian couple in Melbourne, Australia." Sexualities 23, no. 3 (November 22, 2018): 422–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718811055.
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At the beginning of 2014, Leah and Amanda became one of the first pairs of Jewish lesbians to have a Jewish wedding in Melbourne, Australia. Held in a secular reception venue and officiated by a Reform rabbi, this ceremony was a Jewish religious ceremony that had no relationship to the Australian state. In this ceremonial search for a ritual that would be true to themselves, would express their love, and would engage with communal and familial cultures and histories, dominant discourses of both Jewish and Australian weddings were simultaneously challenged and reinforced.In this article, utilizing oral history methodologies, I will explore some of the ways that Leah and Amanda articulated and enacted their relationships, histories and futures. In particular, I suggest that their utterances make visible the production of historically specific iterations of normativity. Through an exploration of this intimate relationship, this article thus works to come to an understanding of some of the ways in which Australian Jewish lesbian practices and ideas of assimilation, normativity and difference, come to exist. How can these relationships be both normative and transgressive, as lesbian relationships and as Jewish ones? By inquiring into the Jewish character, as well as the lesbian character, of this wedding and this intimate relationship between these two women, this article proposes an intervention into historical understandings of homonormativity.
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Darian-Smith, Kate. "The ‘girls’: women press photographers and the representation of women in Australian newspapers." Media International Australia 161, no. 1 (September 26, 2016): 48–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x16665002.
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In 1975, Fairfax News commemorated International Women’s Year by appointing Lorrie Graham as its first female cadet photographer. Women only joined the photographic staff of newspapers in significant numbers from the 1980s and were more likely to be employed on regional newspapers than the metropolitan dailies. This article draws on interviews with male and female press photographers collected for the National Library of Australia’s oral history programme. It provides an overview of the history of women press photographers in Australia, situating their working lives within an overtly masculine newspaper culture where gender inequity was entrenched. It also examines the gendered and evolving photographic representations of women in the Australian press, including those of women in positions of social and political leadership. Although women press photographers have achieved greater recognition in the 2000s, the transformation of the media industry has impacted the working practices and employment of press photographers.
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Evans, Tanya. "How Do Family Historians Work with Memory?" Journal of Family History 46, no. 1 (October 27, 2020): 92–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199020967384.
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Drawing on survey data and oral history interviews undertaken with family historians in Australia,England, and Canada this article will explore how family historians construct memories using diverse sources in their research. It will show how they utilize oral history, archival documents, material culture, and explorations of space to construct and reconstruct family stories and to make meaning of the past, inserting their familial microhistories into global macrohistories. It will ask whether they undertake critical readings of these sources when piecing together their families’ stories and reveal the impact of that work on individual subjectivities, the construction of historical consciousness, and the broader social value of family history scholarship. How might family historians join with social historians of the family to reshape our scholarly and “everyday” knowledge of the history of the family in the twenty-first century?
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Tomsic, Mary. "Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia ed. by Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton." Biography 44, no. 4 (2021): 661–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2021.0033.
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Tuncer, Eren, and Ivan Darby. "Knowledge and attitudes towards periodontal health among Australians diagnosed with diabetes." Australian Journal of Primary Health 27, no. 6 (2021): 509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py20311.
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Diabetes and periodontitis are two major diseases affecting the Australian population. Despite the established interrelationship between the diseases, the knowledge of people with diabetes about this interrelationship is limited. This study investigated the knowledge of individuals with diabetes towards periodontal health in Australia. Adults diagnosed with diabetes participated in a survey asking about demographics, medical history, symptoms in the oral cavity, oral hygiene, attendance at the dentist and their knowledge of the interactions between periodontal disease and diabetes. The survey was completed by 113 participants, most of whom thought their diabetes was well controlled. Over half reported bleeding on brushing and one-third reported swollen gums. More than half (53.6%) the respondents were unaware of any complications of diabetes associated with the oral cavity, especially periodontal disease. Most respondents did not talk to their dentist about diabetes (53.6%), yet most wanted to know more about the effects of diabetes on gum health (75.3%). These findings demonstrate that, in this survey, adult Australians diagnosed with diabetes have limited knowledge about how periodontal disease affects them. These individuals, who are at a higher risk of periodontal disease, need to be better informed of the established bidirectional relationship between diabetes and oral health by all health professionals.
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Hudoshnyk, Oksana, and Liliia Temchenko. "Discussion aspects of interdisciplinary interaction of journalism and oral history." Synopsis: Text Context Media 28, no. 2 (2022): 95–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2022.2.7.
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The article presents the context of modern scientific debates on the boundaries of interdisciplinarity. The subject of the study is the common procedure of the use of oral history practices in the mass media space. The oral history itself is changing rapidly under the pressure of digital platforms such as StoryCorps (USA), Listening Project (UK), The Story Project (Australia), and The Tale of a Town (Canada). Another key thing is the fact that the changes affected not only the technological process of archiving and dissemination of information but also the basic foundations of oral history, which is its methodology. The in-depth interview is replaced by the “rapid response collecting” method and historical storytelling. The purpose of the article is to outline the discussion field of the modern scientific discourse of the problem, to present the most significant interdisciplinary interaction using the example of world and Ukrainian media, namely: coverage of contradictory and ambiguous interpretations of historical facts; narrative; prolonged communication; multimedia and multiplatform. The research methods are traditional empirical methods of observation and description, as well as paradigmatic analysis of the functional features of oral history practices in journalism. Results of the research. Basic characterological directions proposed in the study allowed us to present the main points of discussion in various aspects: the use of oral historical materials, especially “hidden history” through the eyes of eyewitnesses, become an additional source of journalistic clarifications, investigations and expansion of the information agenda; addressing marginal themes of history, giving a voice to terrorist groups and participants in genocides poses extremely complex and ethically controversial questions to the audience; multimedia and multiplatform give new life to oral history information, while performance, theatre and participation are added to the usual practices of new media. The most expressive manifestation of changes in this interdisciplinary discourse is the practice of digital storytelling; its media use is illustrated by the BBC’s Capture Wales digital storytelling project. As part of the scientific discussion that has continued for the last few years, the issues of democratization of history, mass inclusion in digital archives, the creation of powerful social projects, and attempts to distance oral history as a separate discipline have been actualized. Moreover, it is recognized that, like any creative practice, interdisciplinarity remains a wide field for experimentation and creativity.
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Briedis, Tim. "“The NOSCA Mafia”: overseas student activism in Australia, 1985–1994." History of Education Review 49, no. 2 (March 18, 2020): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/her-08-2019-0030.
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PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to explore and analyse the history of the predominantly Malaysian Network of Overseas Students Collectives in Australia (NOSCA), that existed from 1985–1994.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on extensive archival research in the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Archives. It makes particular use of the UNSW student newspaper Tharunka and the NOSCA publications Truganini and Default. It also draws upon nine oral history interviews with former members of NOSCA.FindingsThe NOSCA was particularly prominent at the UNSW, building a base there and engaging substantially in the student union. Informed by anarchism, its activists were interested in an array of issues–especially opposition to student fees and in solidarity with struggles for democracy and national liberation in Southeast Asia, especially around East Timor. Moreover, the group would serve as a training ground for a layer of activists, dissidents and opposition politicians throughout Southeast Asia, with a milieu of ex-NOSCA figures sometimes disparagingly referred to as “the NOSCA Mafia.”Originality/valueWhile there has been much research on overseas students, there has been far less on overseas students as protestors and activists. This paper is the first case study to specifically hone in on NOSCA, one of the most substantial and left wing overseas student groups. Tracing the group's history helps us to reframe and rethink the landscape of student activism in Australia, as less white, less middle class and less privileged.
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Ikin, Catherine, Leanne Johns, and Colleen Hayes. "Field, capital and habitus: An oral history of women in accounting in Australia during World War II." Accounting History 17, no. 2 (May 2012): 175–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1032373211434421.
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Kirkby, Diane. "Connecting work identity and politics in the internationalism of ‘seafarers … who share the seas’." International Journal of Maritime History 29, no. 2 (May 2017): 307–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0843871417692965.
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‘We seafarers … who share the seas’ is the expression of a collective identity and mutual responsibility. This article examines that collective identity among members of the Seamen’s Union of Australia and asks, what did internationalism mean in practice to seafarers themselves? Employing an oral history method, coupled with a reading of the union’s own printed media, it explores the seafarers’ understanding of internationalism that they claimed was ‘the language of seafarers’. It was grounded in the nature and reality of their work, and became their politics. The article takes as a case study the campaigns to restore democracy in Greece and Chile after military coups in 1967 and 1973 respectively, and the longer campaign against apartheid in South Africa, which began earlier, before 1960, and ended later, in 1990. These campaigns were conducted alongside many other trade unions, both in Australia and overseas, but maritime workers brought a unique inflection to activism as their internationalism expressed their connectedness across the oceans on which they sailed.
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BAILEY, MATTHEW. "Snowball Sampling in Business Oral History: Accessing and Analyzing Professional Networks in the Australian Property Industry." Enterprise & Society 20, no. 1 (January 30, 2019): 74–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eso.2018.110.
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This article reports on the methodology for recruiting oral history interviewees for a project on the history of shopping center development in Australia. Snowball sampling produced a data set that added value to extant archival and media sources, rendering detailed information about firm operations, strategies, and innovations. The construction of the sample was also revealing of the industry itself, with interviewee referral chains connecting individuals across firms, industry sectors, and generations. These links marked not only social connections but also paths through which knowledge was transferred via mentoring or shared experience, personal friendships that developed in workplaces, and professional contacts that evolved within a complex and constantly changing industry. Snowball sampling, though, also proved to be selective and contingent on the social networks of interviewees, requiring ongoing management of the chain referral process.
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Black, Joshua. "“Our Side of the Story”: The Political Memoirs of the Rudd-Gillard Labor Cabinet." Labour History 120, no. 1 (May 1, 2021): 69–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlh.2021.5.
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Political memoirs and autobiographies are an increasingly prolific form of political and historiographical communication. Few attempts have been made to explain why Australian politicians have written these books, beyond the observation that they can be self-serving narratives. This paper identifies some of the major causes of and motivations for political memoir writing in Australia, adopting the Rudd-Gillard Labor cabinet as a collective case study. Using a combination of empirical, literary and oral research methodologies, I argue that political memoirs are manifestations of political and historiographical purpose, written in response to and enabled by particular political and market environments. This case study explains the rapid proliferation of political memoirs at a particular moment in the mid-2010s, but also leads toward a more structural explanation as to why these books have been published prolifically in Australia since the mid-1990s. Politicians have considered themselves antagonised by hostile political and media narratives and, following internal and electoral defeat, have been presented with publishing opportunities with which to tell their side of the story or, as they see it, to “set the record straight.”
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Goodall, Heather. "Writing a Life with Isabel Flick: An Exploration in Cross-cultural Collaboration." Public Historian 27, no. 4 (2005): 65–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2005.27.4.65.
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Public historians work with the explosive content of contested histories when they research collaboratively at community level, where class, cultural, and racial divides intersect. The naïve optimism of the 1970s, which held that oral history methodologies would allow a transparent and unmediated path for minority voices to be heard, has been rightly challenged. In Australia, Indigenous historians rejected the underlying racism of much Anglo-authored work, producing a rich flowering of Indigenous-authored narratives as they reclaimed the right to tell their own stories. Yet the realities of "in-real-life" activism and community work continue to be cross-cultural and multi-racial. How then can the narratives of such cross-cultural experience be written? This essay reviews one collaboration, the life story of Isabel Flick, Indigenous activist and educator, as Isabel co-authored it with Heather Goodall, white Australian academic and activist. Drawing on the work of Michael Frisch and Linda Tuhawai Smith, Goodall argues that the tensions in the process opened up many questions, and perhaps suggested some answers, about the dilemmas of doing and retelling cross-cultural work.
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Bennett, Elaine, Selma Alliex, and Caroline Bulsara. "The nursing history of Ngala since 1890: an early parenting organisation in Western Australia." Australian Journal of Child and Family Health Nursing 16, no. 1 (July 2019): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.33235/ajcfhn.16.1.24-32.
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Background: This study was the first phase of a larger study which explored the past, present and future of nursing in early parenting services in Australia. Aim: The aim of this paper is to describe the history of nursing within an early parenting service in Western Australia (WA). Methods: Triangulation of multiple data sources was used to summarise the nursing role over 120 years. The history was discovered through a document analysis of archives, including oral histories, organisational documents, focus groups, nurses’ diaries and interviews with nurses. Findings: The nursing role and context is described over three time periods: 1890–1960; 1960–1990 and 1990–2010. Nursing during the 20th century was influenced by societal and policy changes, but the essence of nursing remained the same with a focus on providing support and education to parents during pregnancy and caring for their babies and young children. Nursing within early parenting up to the 1980s was reasonably static until the move from hospital-based training to the university sector, which was the turning point of change to a new era of professionalisation and ultimately working within an interdisciplinary team. Conclusion: This description of nursing history within one early parenting service has provided insight into this specialist area of nursing.
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Chan, Ying-kit. "Who, or What, is Lost: Singapore’s Impressions of Christmas Island, c. 1960–1990." MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities 25, no. 1 (June 9, 2022): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-24030009.
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Abstract Although Singapore no longer governs Christmas Island, either on behalf of its British colonial administrators or for itself, some Singaporeans continue to regard it as a lost territory and have false impressions that it once belonged and should again belong to Singapore. By examining this complexity related to Christmas Island and its possible implications for Singapore’s national psyche, this paper surveys the newspapers of Singapore and oral history records of Singaporean ministers and officials for accounts of Christmas Island. It suggests that Singaporean newspapers’ portrayal of Christmas Island as a neglected Australian overseas territory contributed to some Singaporeans’ perception that Christmas Island might actually be better off with Singapore; others even had a misconception of Christmas Island as a lost territory. Such opinions have never really dissipated because the government has never publicly clarified the transfer of Christmas Island and rejected claims about its “sale” to Australia.
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Wheatley, Nadia, and Wendy Lowenstein. "Weevils at Work: What's Happening to Work in Australia: An Oral Record." Labour History, no. 79 (2000): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516752.
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Nguyen, Nathalie Huynh Chau. "'My Husband was also a Refugee': Cross-Cultural Love in the Postwar Narratives of Vietnamese Women." PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 15, no. 1-2 (June 12, 2018): 53–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/portal.v15i1-2.5848.
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This article explores the representation of cross-cultural love in the postwar narratives of Vietnamese women. The end of the Vietnam War in 1975 and Vietnam’s reunification under a communist regime led to one of the most visible diasporas of the late twentieth century, in which more than two million Vietnamese left their homeland in order to seek refuge overseas. The main countries of resettlement were the United States, Australia, Canada and France. Vietnamese women in Australia who chose to marry outside their culture constitute a minority not only within the diaspora but also within Australian society and the Vietnamese Australian community. In contrast to the largely negative representations of cross-cultural relationships in novels and memoirs of colonial and wartime Vietnam, these women’s accounts highlight underlying commonalities between themselves and their European partners such as a shared understanding of political asylum or war. The narratives of these women illustrate cross-cultural rencontres that were made possible by the refugee or migration experience, and that signify a distinct shift in the representation of exogamous relationships for Vietnamese women. Oral history provides these women with the opportunity to narrate not only the self but also the interaction between the self and the other, and to frame and structure their experiences of intermarriage in a positive light.
Cet article explore la représentation de l’amour interculturel dans les récits de l’après-guerre des femmes vietnamiennes. La fin de la guerre du Vietnam en 1975 et la réunification du Vietnam sous un régime communiste mena à une des diasporas les plus visibles de la fin du vingtième siècle, pendant laquelle plus de deux millions de Vietnamiens quittèrent leur pays pour se réfugier à l’étranger. Les pays principaux de réinstallation furent les Etats-Unis, l’Australie, le Canada et la France. Les femmes vietnamiennes en Australie qui ont choisi de se marier à l’extérieur de leur culture constituent une minorité non seulement dans la diaspora mais aussi en Australie ainsi que la communité vietnamienne en Australie. Contrairement à la représentation largement négative des relations interculturelles dans les romans et les mémoires du Vietnam colonial et en temps de guerre, les récits de ces femmes surlignent les points communs entre elles et leurs compagnons européens telle une compréhension mutuelle de l’asile politique ou de la guerre. Les récits de ces femmes illustrent des rencontres interculturelles rendues possible par l’expérience d’être réfugié ou migrant, et qui signalent un changement net de position dans la représentation des relations exogames concernant les femmes vietnamiennes. L’histoire orale permet à ces femmes de raconter non seulement le moi mais aussi l’interaction entre le moi et l’autre, et de structurer et d’encadrer leurs expériences de mariage interculturel de manière positive.
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Akirav, Osnat. "The Frequency of Use of Legislative and Non-Legislative Tools in Five Countries." Review of European Studies 13, no. 3 (July 12, 2021): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/res.v13n3p14.
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This study analyzes the use of legislative and non-legislative tools, which has rarely been done simultaneously. I collected data about the frequency of use of legislative tools (presenting and passing legislation) and non-legislative tools (making one-minute speeches, written and oral parliamentary questions and motions for the agenda) in five countries: the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and Israel. The results confirm my three hypotheses. Legislators from Australia, the UK and Canada use fewer legislative tools because their use is more constrained than in the US and Israel. Legislators use more semi or unconstrained tools that involve publicity than those that simply appear on the record. Finally, opposition members use more non-legislative tools while government members use more legislative tools. However, the degree of constraint on the use of the tool moderates this finding. The study provides a comprehensive understanding of the legislators' strategic use of legislative and non-legislative tools.
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Witt, Bradd. "Century-scale environmental reconstruction by using stable carbon isotopes: just one method from the big bag of tricks." Australian Journal of Botany 50, no. 4 (2002): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/bt02006.
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The field of 'historical ecology' is coming to maturity at a time when we, in Australia, are reflecting on our relationship with, and place in, the land. After an essentially ahistorical approach to land use we are now attempting to place land management into the context of environmental change since and immediately preceding Western European settlement. This volume reflects an emerging concern that, collectively, non-indigenous Australians have no 'environmental history'. One component of 'living in' rather than 'battling against' the land is developing a sense of our history. Without an oral narrative that is commonly shared, attempts to develop the story of environmental change have to be based on retrospective and reconstructive research. This volume captures part of this movement to develop an environmental narrative and context for our future relationship with the land. There are many methodological approaches to reconstructing a story of the past, from local knowledge and oral history to the 'high-tech' and hard sciences. This paper reviews methods that apply stable carbon isotope techniques to reconstruct environmental change. Although well suited to environmental history, carbon isotope techniques remain under-utilised in the Australian context. Here I review applications to highlight the strengths and limitations of carbon isotope techniques in the reconstruction of century-scale vegetation change. There have been two dominant applications of carbon isotope techniques to environmental reconstruction. These applications fall broadly into either stable carbon isotope analysis of organic matter in soils and sediments, or inferences of environmental states have been drawn from carbon isotope analysis of animal tissues and residues. The main strength of stable carbon isotope techniques is that they can be spatially precise while integrating a range of environmental information into one isotopic signal. This integrative strength is at the same time one of the major limitations of carbon isotope techniques because floristic (taxonomic) resolution is low.
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Poirier, Brianna F., Joanne Hedges, Lisa G. Smithers, Megan Moskos, and Lisa M. Jamieson. "Aspirations and Worries: The Role of Parental Intrinsic Motivation in Establishing Oral Health Practices for Indigenous Children." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 21 (November 7, 2021): 11695. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111695.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (respectfully, subsequently referred to as Indigenous) children in Australia experience oral disease at a higher rate than non-Indigenous children. A history of colonisation, government-enforced assimilation, racism, and cultural annihilation has had profound impacts on Indigenous health, reflected in oral health inequities sustained by Indigenous communities. Motivational interviewing was one of four components utilised in this project, which aimed to identify factors related to the increased occurrence of early childhood caries in Indigenous children. This qualitative analysis represents motivational interviews with 226 participants and explores parents’ motivations for establishing oral health and nutrition practices for their children. Findings suggest that parental aspirations and worries underscored motivations to establish oral health and nutrition behaviours for children in this project. Within aspirations, parents desired for children to ‘keep their teeth’ and avoid false teeth, have a positive appearance, and preserve self-esteem. Parental worries related to child pain, negative appearance, sugar consumption, poor community oral health and rotten teeth. A discussion of findings results in the following recommendations: (1) consideration of the whole self, including mental health, in future oral health programming and research; (2) implementation of community-wide oral health programming, beyond parent-child dyads; and (3) prioritisation of community knowledge and traditions in oral health programming.
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Reynolds, Robert, and Shirleene Robinson. "Marriage as a Marker of Secular Inclusion? Oral History and Lesbian and Gay Narratives on Marriage in Contemporary Australia." Journal of Religious History 43, no. 2 (June 2019): 269–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12591.
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