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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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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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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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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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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 /." View thesis, 2000. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20050720.135957/index.html.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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McQueen, Kelvin, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "The state aid struggle and the New South Wales Teachers Federation 1995 to 1999." THESIS_CAESS_HUM_McQueen_K.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/619.
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This thesis examines from an historical perspective the series of events between 1995 and 1999 in which the public school teachers’ union, the New South Wales Teachers federation, challenged the NSW and Australian government’s provision of funding to private schools. Such funding is known colloquially as state aid. The state aid struggle is conceived in this thesis as an industrial relations contest that went beyond issues simply of state aid. The state aid struggle was a centrepiece of the Teachers Federation’s broader challenge to government’s intensification of efforts to reduce the federation’s effectiveness in shaping the public school system’s priorities. This thesis contends that the decisive importance of the state aid struggle arose from the fundamental strategy used by governments to lower the cost of schooling over time. To achieve this they undertook the state aid strategy – cost reductions would flow from residualising public schools, de-unionising teachers and deregulating wages and conditions. The state aid strategy was implemented through those areas of policy and funding over which the Federation had negligible control or where the Federation’s membership was disunited. The Federation was undermined by governments using policy initiatives to fragment teacher unity. By the end of 1999, governments’ prosecution of the state aid strategy did not seem to have been diverted from the main thrust of its course by the federation’s struggle.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Elder, John Richard. "THE AUSTRALIAN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEES & BUILDERS LABOURERS FEDERATION AND THE NEW SOUTH WALES BUILDING INDUSTRY." University of Sydney, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2155.
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Master of Industrial RelationsAustralia, during the twenty five years that followed the end of the Second World War, experienced increased prosperity and a stable industrial relations system in which the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (the federal commission) played a dominant and authoritative role. The NSW building boom which began in the latter part of the 1950s introduced new technology, concentrated building workers in the central business district of Sydney, and broadened the range of skills required of builders' labourers. The major NSW building tradesmen's union, the Building Workers' Industrial Union (NSW/BWIU), had a communist leadership. The national body of that union lost its federal industrial registration in 1948, and the NSW/BWIU moderated its behaviour after it nearly lost its own, NSW state, registration in 1957. The Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders' Labourers Federation (ABLF) had a federal award under which most of the members of its NSW branch (NSW/BLF) were employed. The leadership of both the ABLF and of the NSW/BLF were communist. The Communist Party of Australia (CPA) suffered a defection by the ABLF leadership in the early 1960s to a communist party which endorsed Marxist- Leninist policies. The BWIU leadership also left the CPA (and formed the Socialist Party of Australia) following an announced shift in policy direction by the CPA in 1969. That shift in policy abandoned the `united front' concept and adopted ultra-left policies which advocated vanguard action by small groups. The announcement by the CPA of its new policies occurred after the gaoling of a Victorian union leader which signalled the virtual collapse of the previously authoritative, and punitive, role of the federal commission. The structure and politics of society underwent enormous change during the 1960s and early 1970s which was an era of protest during which various social movements were formed. The NSW/BLF became a major participant in those protests and movements, and conducted various industrial and social campaigns during the first half of the 1970s. Those campaigns were conducted in line with the ultra-left policies of the CPA, and this isolated the NSW/BLF from its federal body and from the trade union movement generally. This thesis analyses some of the campaigns conducted by the NSW/BLF during the period 1970-1974 and the various responses by the Master Builders Association of NSW (MBA/NSW) to those campaigns. The MBA/NSW broadened its membership base during the 1950s, and the effect that its new membership structure had on its decision-making processes is also considered.
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Carew, Roberta Ann History & Philosophy Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "A landscape of compliance, conflict and invention - an administrative history of the New South Wales Treasury, 1824??1976." Publisher:University of New South Wales. History & Philosophy, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41452.
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Ministerial responsibility is a corollary of the democratic process. An administrative component of that democratic expression is the Treasury. Federal, state or national treasuries have always played pivotal roles in the political, economic, social, technical and cultural evolution of the political arenas within which they function. This thesis presents, for the first time, an institutional history of the New South Wales Treasury. It includes an analysis of its British antecedents, its establishment in the penal colony of New South Wales, by way of the Commissariat and Colonial Funds, and its subsequent development into one of the most influential State government departments. What is fundamental to the successful and efficient administration of a Treasury in the twenty-first century was also true five thousand years ago. There is a universality of constant principles applying to the administration of the public purse and those principles have not altered over the millennia: security, accountability, transparency, efficiency and control. A component of a modern Treasury is its advisory capacity in financial matters. This thesis, therefore, examines the application of those constants in the context of New South Wales over the previous one hundred and fifty years, 1824 to 1976. The New South Wales Treasury is examined specifically, as the vehicle for the adaptation and application of those constant principles attaching to the financial administration of the public purse. An examination is also made of the growth of Treasury??s internal structure, leadership, modus operandi, its response to administrative reform and its role in the public service. The inter-play between Treasury, Governors, Colonial Treasurers, and the public service are all vial elements in this exposition of Treasury. This history, therefore, analyses and dissects the influences that provided the impetus for a government agency to develop successfully, from a modest office of three in 1824, into the present day department of state.
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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.
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Crickmore, Barbara Lee. "An historical perspective on the academic education of deaf children in New South Wales 1860s - 1990s." Diss., Connect to this title online, 2000. http://www.newcastle.edu.au/services/library/adt/public/adt-NNCU20030228.130002/index.html.
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Sawyer, Wayne, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Education and Early Childhood Studies. "Simply growth? : a study of selected episodes in the history of Years 7-10 English in New South Wales." THESIS_CAESS_EEC_Sawyer_W.xml, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/379.
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Calls for increased attention to subject-specific histories have been somewhat insistent in the last two decades. An important emphasis in these calls has been for attention to the history of the 'preactive curriculum' as represented, for example, in Syllabus documents. English has been a particular case in these arguments- a case which often revolves around defining the subject itself. Others have argued further that subject-specific history is usually centred in detailed local, historical studies of the recent past. In attempting to address these issues, this study sets out to answer the questions: 1/. How was Years 7-10 English defined from the early 1970s to the early 1990s in NSW? 2/. What was the relationship between the concepts 'English' and 'literacy' in NSW in the given period? The study focuses specifically on constructions of English in Syllabus documents, professional journals, textbooks and examinations. The particular methodology used to address the study questions is an in-depth study of two selected years during, viz. 1977 and 1992, accompanied by detailed discussion of contextual aspects of these years.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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James, Pamela J., University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "The lion in the frame : the art practices of the national art galleries of New South Wales and New Zealand, 1918-1939." THESIS_CAESS_HUM_James_P.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/567.
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This study examines the art practices and management of the National Art Galleries of Australia and New Zealand in the period between the wars, 1918-1939.It does so in part to account for the pervading conservatism and narrow corridors of aesthetic acceptability evident in their acquisitions and in many of their dealings. It aims to explore the role of Britishness, through an examination of the influence of the London Royal Academy of Art, within theses emerging official art institutions. This study argues that the dominant artistic ideology illustrated in these National Gallery collections was determined by a social elite, which was, at its heart, British. Its collective taste was predicated on models established in Great Britain and on traditions and on connoisseurship. This visual instruction in the British ideal of culture, as seen through the Academy, was regarded as a worthy aspiration, one that was at once both highly nationalistic and also a tool of Empire unity. This ideal was nationalistic in the sense that it marked the desire of these Boards to claim for the nation membership of the world's civil society, whilst also acknowleging that the vehicle to do so was through an enhanced alliance with British art and culture. The ramifications of an Empire-first aesthetic model were tremendous. The model severely constrained taste in domestic art, limited the participation of indigenous peoples and shaped the reception of modernism.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Steele, Jeremy Macdonald. "The aboriginal language of Sydney a partial reconstruction of the indigenous language of Sydney based on the notebooks of William Dawes of 1790-91, informed by other records of the Sydney and surrounding languages to c.1905 /." Master's thesis, Electronic version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/738.
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Thesis (MA)--Macquarie University (Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy. Warawara - Dept. of Indigenous Studies), 2005.Bibliography: p. 327-333.
Introduction -- Sources and literature -- The notebooks -- Manuscripts and databases -- Neighbouring languages -- Phonology -- Pronouns -- Verbs -- Nouns -- Other word classes -- Retrospect and prospect.
'Wara wara!" - 'go away' - the first indigenous words heard by Europeans at the time of the social upheaval that began in 1788, were part of the language spoken by the inhabitants around the shores of Port Jackson from time immemorial. Traces of this language, funtionally lost in two generations, remain in words such as 'dingo' and 'woomera' that entered the English language, and in placenames such as 'Cammeray' and 'Parramatta'. Various First Fleeters, and others, compiled limited wordlists in the vicinity of the harbour and further afield, and in the early 1900s the surveyor R.H. Mathews documented the remnants of the Dharug language. Only as recently as 1972 were the language notebooks of William Dawes, who was noted by Watkin Tench as having advanced his studies 'beyond the reach of competition', uncovered in a London university library. The jottings made by Dawes, who was learning as he went along, are incomplete and parts defy analysis. Nevertheless much of his work has been confirmed, clarified and corrected by reference to records of the surrounding languages, which have similar grammatical forms and substantial cognate vocabulary, and his verbatim sentences and model verbs have permitted a limited attempt at reconstructing the grammar.
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Sollorz, Peter Lawrence. "The history of computer use in senior school mathematics teaching in the government school system of New South Wales: 1971 – 1992." Thesis, Curtin University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2016.
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In Australia, there is a paucity of information regarding the introduction of computers into school education, especially school mathematics education, in particular for NSW. This thesis studies the history of computers in education in NSW, from its beginning in 1971, to when communications technology became influential in both society and government policy in 1992. This study uses a historical method, integrated with quantitative and qualitative variables, combined with a grounded theory approach.
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Jarrett, Jennifer Ann. "Catholic bodies a history of the training and daily life of three religious teaching orders in New South Wales, 1860 to 1930 /." Connect to full text, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5673.
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Fallon, Wayne John, and w. fallon@uws edu au. "Stakeholder Participation and Corporate Social Responsibility: A Critical Study of Problem Gambling in the New South Wales Registered Club Sector." RMIT University. Management, 2009. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20090501.161849.
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McPherson, Ailsa School of Theatre Film & Dance UNSW. "Diversions in a tented field : theatricality and the images and perceptions of warfare in Sydney entertainments 1879-1902." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Theatre, Film and Dance, 2001. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18264.
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This thesis examines the theatricality which accompanied the establishment, development and deployment of the colonial army in New South Wales during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. It investigates the transfer to the colony of the military ethos of the Imperial power, and explores the ways in which performances of military spectacle, in both theatrical and paratheatrical contexts, were interpreted by the colonists. The primary sources for the research are the Sydney press and the Mitchell `Australiana' collection of the State Library of New South Wales. The framework of the argument is presented in five chapters. The first, Displaying, investigates the relationship between civilians and the military forces at training camps, and then the performances of sham fights. The second, Committing, explores the attitudes of civilians and soldiers at the departures of New South Wales troops to the Soudan and Boer Wars. Informing, thirdly, investigates how the Imperial military ideology was conveyed through performance, and how this information was interpreted in the colony. Accommodating analyses songs and theatre performances which first reflected colonial anticipations at the commitment to conflict and then attempted to accommodate the actuality of the experience. Lastly, Desiring, explores the colonists' endeavours to invent traditions which satisfied the discrepancy between their hopes and their experiences of Imperial war. This thesis asserts that the colonial reinterpretation of military ideology was influenced by concepts both of service to the Imperial power and of national identity. The interplay between these influences led to the colonists' idealising the Imperial association. This ideal was not demonstrated in the practice of association. The result of this experience was a defining of the differences between colonial and Imperial perceptions, rather than a reinforcement of their similarities. Much of the exploration of thesis also prepares the ground for a fuller cultural understanding of the issues at play in the final emergence of the Anzac tradition at the engagement of colonial soldiers against Turkish troops at Gallipoli in April, 1915.
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Sawyer, Wayne. "Simply growth? : a study of selected episodes in the history of years 7-10 English in New South Wales from 1970s to the 1990s /." View thesis, 2002. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030623.111035/index.html.
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Robinson, Geoffrey 1963. "How Labor governed : social structures and the formation of public policy during the New South Wales Lang government of November 1930 to May 1932." Monash University, Dept. of History, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9164.
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Mouat, Jeremy. "Mining in the settler dominions : a comparative study of the industry in three communities from the 1880s to the First World War." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29037.
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This dissertation examines the evolution of the mining industry in three British dominions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Adopting a case study approach, it describes the establishment and growth of mining in Rossland, British Columbia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; and Waihi, New Zealand.
Separate chapters trace developments in each area, focussing on the emergence of organised labour, the growth of mining companies and the sophistication of mining operations. These underline the need to consider diverse themes, maintaining that the mining industry's pattern of growth can be understood only by adopting such a broad approach. Following the three case studies, the final chapters of the dissertation offer a comparative analysis of Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill. The study emphasises the similarities of these three communities, especially the cycle of growth, and identifies a crucial common denominator.
Despite differences in climate, in the type and nature of the ore deposit and in the scale of mining activity, all three areas experienced a common trajectory of initial boom followed by subsequent retrenchment. The changing character of the resource base forced this fundamental alteration of productive relations. In each region, the mineral content of the ore declined as the mines went deeper. In addition, with depth the ore tended to become more difficult to treat. Faced with a decline in the value of the product of their mines, companies had to adopt sweeping changes in order to maintain profitable operations. This re-structuring was accomplished in a variety of ways, but the most significant factors, common to Rossland, Broken Hill and Waihi, were the heightened importance of applied science and economies of scale. Both developments underlined the growing importance of the mining engineer and technological innovations, principally in milling and smelting operations. In addition, new non-selective extractive techniques reduced the significance of skilled underground labour.
The re-structuring of the industry not only had similar causes but also had a similar effect. The comparative chapter on labour relations, for example, argues that these managerial initiatives were closely associated with militant episodes in each community. While the leading companies in Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill successfully reduced their working costs, they all faced the same ultimate end. Their long-term success or failure reflected the skill with which they coped with the inevitable depletion of their ore body.
The common experience of Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill demonstrates the importance of placing colonial development within a larger context. Regional historians should make greater use of the comparative approach, rather than continuing to focus on the unique and the particular.Arts, Faculty of
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Evans, Robert George. "Paediatrics in New South Wales, 1945 TO 1965." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24901.
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Paediatrics became a viable medical specialty in Australia and New South Wales between 1945 and 1965. Paediatricians took possession of occupational spaces previously claimed by other medical groups and created their own new spaces. They argued that children were still growing and differed physically and emotionally from adults. Their special needs warranted the formation of a new division in medicine. Paediatricians adopted the new knowledge, technology and therapeutics that became available in the post-war period and demonstrated that they were capable of following the scientific medicine paradigm, the prevailing standard in internal medicine. Access to the children's hospital was essential for paediatricians as a workshop for their professional development, to treat their seriously ill patients, to support their claims for occupational space and for their authority and status as specialists in medicine.. Scientific medicine demanded more of the time of the paediatricians and in RAHC they elected to continue working in an honorary capacity. In another children's hospital, RCH in Melbourne, paediatricians were employed in a version of the full-time system. The different approaches to staffing illustrate the conflicts of interest found in specialty development in Australia and the pervasive influence of medico-political issues. As members of a privileged autonomous profession paediatricians in RAHC owed a duty to the people of NSW, and in their honorary positions, to the hospital. They had responsibilities to their patients, both private and public. They were committed to their own professional development and they had to make a living in private practice. By retaining the honorary system paediatricians in RAHC were obliged to give priority to their interests outside the hospital so that scientific medicine expanded only slowly. In RCH service development and research were enhanced because the conflicts of interest were reduced and paediatricians could devote more of their time to the hospital without compromising their other roles. The development of a new specialty required the acquisition by members of professional power, authority and status. This process was assisted by the formation of a professional association, but paediatricians had difficulty in creating an independent body that they controlled. For professional authority and status paediatricians in RAHC were strongly dependent on maintaining their dominant position in the hierarchy of the hospital. Although children were central to the development of paediatrics, their place at the bottom of the institutional hierarchy meant they were disempowered and unable to influence the development of the specialty.PhD Doctorate
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Evans, Robert George. "Paediatrics in New South Wales, 1945 TO 1965." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24901.
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Paediatrics became a viable medical specialty in Australia and New South Wales between 1945 and 1965. Paediatricians took possession of occupational spaces previously claimed by other medical groups and created their own new spaces. They argued that children were still growing and differed physically and emotionally from adults. Their special needs warranted the formation of a new division in medicine. Paediatricians adopted the new knowledge, technology and therapeutics that became available in the post-war period and demonstrated that they were capable of following the scientific medicine paradigm, the prevailing standard in internal medicine. Access to the children's hospital was essential for paediatricians as a workshop for their professional development, to treat their seriously ill patients, to support their claims for occupational space and for their authority and status as specialists in medicine.. Scientific medicine demanded more of the time of the paediatricians and in RAHC they elected to continue working in an honorary capacity. In another children's hospital, RCH in Melbourne, paediatricians were employed in a version of the full-time system. The different approaches to staffing illustrate the conflicts of interest found in specialty development in Australia and the pervasive influence of medico-political issues. As members of a privileged autonomous profession paediatricians in RAHC owed a duty to the people of NSW, and in their honorary positions, to the hospital. They had responsibilities to their patients, both private and public. They were committed to their own professional development and they had to make a living in private practice. By retaining the honorary system paediatricians in RAHC were obliged to give priority to their interests outside the hospital so that scientific medicine expanded only slowly. In RCH service development and research were enhanced because the conflicts of interest were reduced and paediatricians could devote more of their time to the hospital without compromising their other roles. The development of a new specialty required the acquisition by members of professional power, authority and status. This process was assisted by the formation of a professional association, but paediatricians had difficulty in creating an independent body that they controlled. For professional authority and status paediatricians in RAHC were strongly dependent on maintaining their dominant position in the hierarchy of the hospital. Although children were central to the development of paediatrics, their place at the bottom of the institutional hierarchy meant they were disempowered and unable to influence the development of the specialty.PhD Doctorate
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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
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Taylor, Louise Westall. "Recovering lives : 15 convicts in New South Wales." Phd thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110682.
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While individual biographies of convict lives have appeared in the literature of Australian colonial history - albeit in truncated form - an aggregate study of convicts selected from a homogeneous group has appeared less often. Thus an opportunity has been missed to examine the commonalities as well as differences of such individuals over time - both before and after their punishment. My thesis examines the lives of 15 convicts who had worked during their bondage at the Australian Agricultural Company in New South Wales. Although the primary purpose is to use the method of micro-prosopography to seek the commonalities, differences and idiosyncrasies of these convicts' experiences, as well as their aggregate, the biographies are important in themselves. By compiling portraits of their lives I have sought to rescue them from what E.P. Thompson famously called 'the enormous condescension of posterity'. Although gaps in the biographies inevitably appear, and more information about some than others has been found, all biographies reveal enough information to highlight broader themes in colonial history - criminality and punishment, alcohol, and economic outcomes - which have been explored extensively. By tracing, where possible, the trajectory of the lives of their families I have also examined the legacy of convicts in the later history of Australia.
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Ripley, Stuart Bruce, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "A social history of New South Wales professional sculling 1876-1927." 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/28936.
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This thesis examines the meaning and significance that professional sculling was created for Australian, and particularly New South Wales, society and it analyses the critical components that changed its meaning for that society and contributed to the sport’s decline. Some major themes examined include organisation, capital, regionalism, patriotism, nationalism, amateurism, professionalism, and social class. The thesis is a chronological study of the period between 1876 and 1927. It examines the fortunes of the world and national champions and the various organisational methods used to sustain the sport as a national symbol and mass spectacle. In the analysis of the sport’s post-war fortunes, specific focus is given to the sport’s prolonged apathy towards organisational and structural concerns, how imperialism and self-interest came to dominate the sport and why professional sculling lost its meaning and significance within a progressive and increasingly erudite society. Among the many findings of this thesis, the traditional belief that gambling and corruption destroyed professional sculling is refuted. The failure of the sport to endure and prosper was of its own making, as it failed to adapt to the increasingly sophisticated organisational demands, institutionalisation and commodification of twentieth-century society.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (History)
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Mitchell, Marjorie Anne. "Central West New South Wales 1891-1893 'A Regional History from Below'." Phd thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/212002.
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The last decade of the nineteenth century is widely viewed as one of the most momentous in Australian history. There are many studies which focus on the period, thematically or as broad historical narratives of the Australian colonies. There are none that explore how the events and themes were manifested in rural NSW, nor are there any analyses which reveal the experiences of ordinary people. This thesis explores the suppositions about the early years of the 1890s in Central West NSW through the lens of ordinary people. What is evident in this study is that it was day-to-day affairs that dominated the lives of most people who were concerned that the stability, trust, cohesiveness and prosperity of their communities, characteristics associated with Tönnies’ concept of gemeinschaft, were not undermined. This is an account of the Central West during this period. As a regional history, a genre that has been largely ignored in recent years, it is a worthwhile narrative on its own account but it also enables an analysis of larger themes and their impact on daily life. In addition to concentrating on a specific area, I have focussed on a short span or a ‘slice’ of time – 1891 to 1893 – as a means of more effectively dealing with a multifaceted and almost overwhelming eventful decade. It is a history ‘as lived’ highlighting everyday experiences without the benefit of hindsight, but without neglecting a full historical analysis. Ordinary people are habitually overlooked in most traditional and social histories of colonial NSW. Biographers have chronicled individual lives but there are few collective biographies, the study of which could shed light on wider historical issues. Hundreds of individuals appear in and are pivotal to this study. They come from a broad range of occupations and different socio-economic backgrounds and represent diverse communities of interest. Hitherto many have been chiefly anonymous and often there are scant personal details. Nonetheless, it is their stories that enrich and enlighten this study.
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Magee, John W. "Chemical and clastic sediments and late quaternary history, Prungle Lakes, New South Wales." Master's thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/140923.
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McCormack, Patrick Martin. "The popular movement to federation in New South Wales 1897-1899." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150553.
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Francis, Karen 1959. "Poverty, chastity and obedience : the foundations of community nursing in New South Wales / Karen Francis." 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19350.
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Examines why community nursing is undervalued in New South Wales compared with Britain, and suggests strategies to improve the profile of community nursing in New South Wales.
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Francis, Karen 1959. "Poverty, chastity and obedience : the foundations of community nursing in New South Wales / Karen Francis." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19350.
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Bibliography: leaves 251-260.viii, 260 leaves ; 30 cm.
Examines why community nursing is undervalued in New South Wales compared with Britain, and suggests strategies to improve the profile of community nursing in New South Wales.
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McGowan, Barry. "Dust and dreams : a regional history of mining and community in south east New South Wales 1850-1914." Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/8030.
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Until recently the focus of interest in gold mining history had been Victoria, and to a lesser extent Western Australia. The New South Wales story has, in contrast, attracted relatively little research or interest, the Lambing Flat race riots often being the only instance in which the New South Wales gold fields are specifically mentioned. Furthermore, mining history has tended to emphasise the unusual, dramatic, and colourful aspects of the gold rushes at the expense of an investigation of what mining was like most of the time.
Recent scholarship produced especially for the sesquicentennial anniversary has helped broaden the focus of gold mining history beyond it’s traditionally rather narrow focus. This thesis is part of the new scholarship. Not only does it have a New South Wales focus, but also it places gold mining in a broad context, discussing other forms of mineral exploitation and examining the effects of mining generally within a regional setting. It also uses material evidence such as field surveys, photographs and maps, extensively, demonstrating its importance to the historian. The thesis contributes to this growing body of work with new questions and new research, and helps broaden the focus of Australian mining history.
The thesis is a regional history of mining on the southeast New South Wales in the years between 1850 and 1914. It differs from most regional histories in that the focus is on one industry and from most mining histories in that all the mining fields within the region are discussed, large and small, gold and base metals. The region is large and includes a number of contiguous and representative fields in the Southern Tablelands, the Braidwood and Shoalhaven, Monaro and South West Slopes districts of New South Wales.
There are several themes to the thesis.
One is the history of mining itself, focussing on mining technology, and the ebb and flow of particular fields as a result of factors such as resource discovery and depletion, changed economic conditions, technological change, mining regulations, and weather patterns. The thesis examines in depth the changing value of mineral production in the fields, a task of considerable difficulty, since before 1875 there were no official statistics of any real value. There is attention to the environmental effects of mining.
A second theme is the contribution of mining to regional development through the settlement of towns and villages and the encouragement given to ancillary industries and infrastructure. It is in this discussion that the material evidence is particularly useful.
A third theme concerns the cultural development of the communities, with attention given to the relationships between working miners, their wage based colleagues, the Chinese miners, and the nature of everyday life in the communities. The thesis argues that there is a culture which embraces most forms of mining.
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Allen, Laurence Paul. "A history of the Aboriginal People of the Central Coast of New South Wales to 1874." Thesis, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439191.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)In contrast to the large amount of research published on the Aboriginal history of early Sydney, the Aboriginal history of the Central Coast just to the north has received little scholarly attention. Possible perceptions that the region is and was of little importance, or that relevant documentation is lacking, are not supported by the evidence. Examination of a wide variety of recent botanical, geological and archaeological findings reveals that the Central Coast held a significant place in the Aboriginal world, possibly eclipsing that of Sydney, and that it provided an environment with abundant resources in which Aboriginal people flourished. Further, analysis of the large number of newspaper reports, government documents and settler reminiscences from the colonial period which make reference to the traditional Aboriginal owners of the region, now known as the Central Coast Darkinjung, allows a well-informed account of their recent history. These various sources show that the initially numerous Darkinjung people were almost certainly decimated by the waves of disease which followed the arrival of the British in 1788, and that the spirit of those who survived was then all but broken by the capture, trial and incarceration of key leaders in a unique, allegedly humanitarian experiment overseen by Governor Sir Richard Bourke in the 1830s. Although a few of those imprisoned eventually returned home, disease, exposure and despair led to the supposed extinction of the Aboriginal people of the Central Coast in 1874. However, several women had survived and produced children so that the Central Coast Darkinjung continue to the present day. This thesis fills a gap in the story of the colonisation of Australia, acknowledges the role of the Central Coast as pivotal in Aboriginal economy and spirituality, and creates a much-needed narrative framework for further, more specific research on the region’s Aboriginal history.
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Deacon, Desley. "The naturalisation of dependence : the state, the new middle class and women workers 1830-1930." Phd thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/130332.
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This thesis challenges current neo-Marxist, feminist and neo-Weberian theories of
the state which ignore or underestimate the role of state bureaucrats in the construction
of state institutions and the formulation and implementation of state policies. Drawing
on theories of the new middle class and intellectuals which emphasise the potential of
educated workers for autonomous and united action, the thesis examines the role of
public servants, doctors and lawyers in determining the form of the New South Wales
state and some of its major institutions and policies between 1830 and 1930.
The thesis focuses in particular on the influence of new middle class men on state
labour market and family policies concerning women. Using the New South Wales
public service as a case study, it explores aspects of the development of the new middle
class during this period, and documents the strategies by which three groups within this
class - male public servants, doctors and lawyers - attempted to extend and control their
labour markets through the agency of the state, and the effect of those strategies on educated
women workers.
The study finds a contrast between an early period of relative tolerance of labour
market competition from women and a later period of exclusion, domination and marginalisation
in which women were confined to a secondary labour market. It relates
these changes to variations in the labour market conditions and political power of new
middle class men and women. Arguing that the economic and political conditions of the
period after 1882 gave new middle class men the motivation and power to use the coercive
and ideological resources of the state to protect their own labour market position, it
shows, through a study of the interpretation of occupational statistics, public personnel
policies, the infant welfare program and the arbitration system, how new middle class
men contributed to the intensification of gender differentiation, the exclusion of women
from the primary labour market, and to the institutionalisation of dependence as the
natural status of women.
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Edwards, Benjamin History UNSW. "Proddy-dogs, cattleticks and ecumaniacs: aspects of sectarianism in New South Wales, 1945-1981." 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/40707.
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This thesis studies sectarianism in New South Wales from 1947 through to 1981. This was a period of intense change in Australian socio-cultural history, as well as in the history of religious cultures, both within Australia and internationally. Sectarianism, traditionally a significant force in Australian socio-cultural life, was significantly affected by the many changes of this period: the religious revival of the 1950s, the rise of ecumenism and the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, as well as postwar mass-immigration, the politics of education, increasing secularism in Australian society and the Goulburn schools closure of 1962, which was both a symptom of the diminishing significance of sectarianism as well as a force that accelerated its demise. While the main study of sectarianism in this thesis ends with the 1981 High Court judgment upholding the constitutionality of state aid to non-government schools, this thesis also traces the lingering significance of sectarianism in Australian society through to the early twenty-first century through oral history and memoir. This thesis offers a contribution to historical understanding of sectarianism, examining the significance of sectarianism as a discursive force in Australian society in the context of social, political and religious cultures of the period. It argues that while the significant social and religious changes of the period eroded the discursive power of sectarianism in Australian society, this does not mean sectarianism simply vanished from Australian society. While sectarianism became increasingly insignificant in mainstream Australian socio-political life in this period, sectarianism -- both as a discourse and ideology -- lingered in social memory and in some religious cultures.
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Elliott, Jane E. "The colonies clothed : a survey of consumer interests in New South Wales and Victoria, 1787-1887 / J. Elliott." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18785.
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Vick, Malcolm John. "Schools, school communities and the state in mid-nineteenth century New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria / Malcolm John Vick." Thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19413.
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Cooper, Janice Elizabeth. "When fully improved : closer pastoral settlement in the western division of New South Wales." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149737.
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This is a study of government sponsored closer settlement in the semi-arid and arid far west of New South Wales (NSW) since 1884. That year, the region was named the 'Western Division' for NSW land administration purposes. The study was inspired by disjuncture. First, disjuncture between the little that has been written about closer settlement in NSW and what I felt was its reality in the Division, in particular its acceptance of closer settlement without freeholding and commercial agriculture, hence my phrase 'closer pastoral settlement'. This was redistribution of land from one white person to another without expectation of a 'higher use'. Second, disjuncture between popular beliefs about the unpredictability of the western natural resource and the tough independence of landholders on the one hand, and evidence of bureaucratic controls and equity concepts, rural socialism, on the other. Third, between what varying government historical accounts of closer settlement there said, and what I knew to be the case, and finally, between what landholders and a Western Lands Commissioner in the 1980s argued to be the case and what I argue here. I trace the actions and motivations of political, legislative and bureaucratic actors prominent in the process from 1884 to 1985 and argue that closer settlement in the Division developed and displayed the characteristics of a 'policy paradigm', a deeply shared and accepted collection of concepts and tools wielded by politicians, bureaucrats, landholders, and courts, and particularly bureaucrats. All shared a vocabulary peculiar to it, each seeking benefit from it, hence its strength and persistence. Given the frequency with which land was redistributed to those already with land, the study suggests ways general descriptions of closer settlement in Australia warrant elaboration. The last two chapters examine the problems of what would replace the paradigm once the irrelevance of these controls and concepts became obvious when there was no more land to redistribute, and when there were wide concerns about over-allocation of land and loss of the natural resource. Concerns about the natural resource were raised throughout the period and though usually overwhelmed by the power of the closer settlement paradigm and the politics surrounding it, it is important to trace them. I argue that when bureaucrats and politicians finally responded, they simply tried to convert the tools of closer settlement into tools of conservation. These attempts to give old tools a green tinge were a failure. A completely new paradigm had to be created before landholders could drop old images and vocabulary and speak in new ways that encompassed grazing management for conservation. I identify the factors bringing about the change and show that they share features of policy paradigm change identified in political science theory. Necessary to it was the overturning of the 'research-extension' model of dissemination of scientific knowledge and technique to landholders, a model closely associated with colonialism. Necessary also was the creation of new ways for scientific personnel both inside and outside bureaucracy to engage with landholders, daring even to enter and influence day to day management. In clarifying the history, the study may assist in showing ways forward for rehabilitation and further encouragement of grazing management for conservation of pastures.