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Kneebush, Trent. "Hi-tech place, Melbourne : technology precincts and the development of high technology industry in metropolitan Melbourne." Thesis, 1994. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/17933/.
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In essence, the following thesis examines the development of high technology industry
(HTI) in metropolitan Melbourne. The thesis focuses on an assessment of the Victorian
Government's spatially-focussed HTI development policy known as the 'Technology
Precincts Policy" (TPP) which was adopted in 1988. Under this policy, five technology
precincts have been established in Melbourne to encourage the development of HTI.
Two main approaches were employed to evaluate the TPP, namely, a review of relevant
literature and an analysis of unpublished data obtained from and produced by the ABS
specifically for this thesis. The primary analysis involved determining the geographical
orientation and locational preferences of HTI in Melbourne compared to the location of the
five designated technology precincts.
From the findings of the two research approaches, it is concluded that the TPP is not relevant, accurate or successful policy in terms of the development of HTI in Melbourne.
This is primarily because the policy is too spatially-focussed and the designated
technology precincts do not reflect the actual factors that influence the location and
development of HTI in Melbourne.
Given the thesis findings, an alternative HTI development policy for Melbourne is
recommended. The recommended policy focuses on the Melbourne metropolitan area as
a whole and would involve a range of integrated and co-ordinated State Government
initiatives and measures. Its goal would be an economic and urban environment in
Melbourne which encourages innovation and HTI development throughout the metropolis,
rather than seek a specific outcome in a particular spatial order.
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Cook, Marie. "Australian stories of coffee in Melbourne and environs: a selective cultural history." Thesis, 2005. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18154/.
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It is difficult to locate the genesis of any subject of creative and critical inquiry.
However, I consider I embarked on this MA research project because having a decent
coffee was important to me, and I did not know why. I recall the precise moment I
realised I was attaching special meaning to coffee. I was in a new cafe at Airey's Inlet, seaside town on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, my home State, and I had ordered a
cafe latte:
The woman serving me was in her sixties and appeared to be out of her depth;
she was most likely helping her daughter set up the cafe and trying to be useful.
I imagined she lived on one of the surrounding farms - she reminded me of my
mother. Her hands had probably made a thousand morning teas for shearers
with big pots of tea, the best china for the jug of milk and tea cups, and big
baskets of scones with cream and jam. But using an espresso machine had
baffled her. I, on the other hand, no longer wanted the life of tea and demanded a
decent coffee (Cook, 2005:15).
At that moment I realised there were a number of reasons for me wanting that coffee to
be 'decent'. They related to my growing up in the country and wanting to live in the
city, to my experience of cafe life in Europe, and finally to personal rebellion - against certain conservatism of the 1970s in Australia, and ultimately against a colonial English
custom of tea.
This project is located in food and social history and focuses particularly on the
introduction of espresso coffee to Melbourne in the 1950s and '60s, as in my view the
Italian cafes of that period had the greatest influence upon present cafe culture.
However, this project is not pure social or food history, as it synthesises my own
personal experience, and that of my interviewees, with archival, scholarly and more
journalistic/literary research, and with a particular approach to the writing of non-fiction
narrative, known as 'creative non-fiction'. The final thesis can be seen therefore as a
fusion of qualitative and scholarly research, with memoir and oral history - or, in
summary, as what I have termed a 'selective cultural history'.
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Nelli, Adriana. "1954, Addio Trieste ... the Triestine community of Melbourne." Thesis, 2000. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15651/.
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Triestine migration to Australia is the direct consequence of numerous disputations over the city's political boundaries in the immediate post-World War II period. As such the triestini themselves are not simply part
of an overall migratory movement of Italians who took advantage of Australia's post-war immigration program, but their migration is also the reflection of an important period in the history of what today is known as the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. By examining the migrant experience of both first and subsequent generations of Triestines in the Australian city of Melbourne in a historical context, this study highlights the importance of both the past and the present experience in the process of migrant settlement and identity construction.
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Katis, Jenny. "The Dynamics of Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Vietnamese Small Business in Victoria." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32618/.
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Small businesses represent by far the largest proportion of business entities within Australian business, and as such represent a vital component of the country’s economic structure (ABS, 2016). There has been a significant increase in the Australian population due to immigration from a range of countries. In fact, Australia is now very diverse, with migrants arriving from more than 200 countries across the world. There are approximately 5.3% of all small businesses that are run by Vietnamese entrepreneurs in Australia (ABS, 2016). It is clear from this figure that Vietnamese small businesses make up a significant proportion of this sector in Australia. This thesis examines the dynamics of Vietnamese migrants in small business in Victoria. The consideration of environmental and personal factors in understanding Vietnamese migrant business start-ups, survival and Ethnic Entrepreneurship theories has been the focus of discussion for this study. Firstly, there is a general consensus of what contributing environmental and personal factors influence the Vietnamese migrant in business start-up. Secondly, the thesis looks at how these factors are associated with the Ethnic Entrepreneurship theories identified in the literature. Lastly, the work identifies what factors have contributed to the Vietnamese migrant in sustaining their small business.
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Seymour, Jenny. "The process and diversity of mentoring at Victoria University." Thesis, 2004. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15686/.
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This project analysed the development of a selection of international and national mentoring programmes in higher education institutions and specifically at Victoria
University. Based on the analysis of successful international and national mentoring programmes, the performance of past Victoria University mentoring programmes and research on current mentoring programmes at the University, this thesis has developed
core principles of a standardised mentoring programme.
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Waugh, John. "Diploma privilege: legal education at the University of Melbourne 1857-1946." 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/5710.
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When Australian law teaching began in 1857, few lawyers in common-law systems had studied law at university. The University of Melbourne's new course joined the early stages of a dual transformation, of legal training into university study and of contemporary common law into an academic discipline. Victoria's Supreme Court immediately gave the law school what was known in America as 'diploma privilege': its students could enter legal practice without passing a separate admission exam. Soon university study became mandatory for locally trained lawyers, ensuring the law school's survival but placing it at the centre of disputes over the kind of education the profession should receive. Friction between practitioners and academics hinted at the negotiation of new roles as university study shifted legal training further from its apprenticeship origins. The structure of the university (linked to the judiciary through membership of its governing council) and the profession (whose organisations did not control the admission of new practitioners) aided the law school's efforts to defend both its training role and its curriculum against outside attack.Legal academics turned increasingly to the social sciences to maintain law's claim to be not only a professional skill, but an academic discipline. A research-based and reform-oriented theory of law appealed to the nascent academic profession, linking it to legal practice and the development of public policy but at the same time marking out for the law school a domain of its own. American ideas informed thinking about research and, in particular, pedagogy, although the university's slender financial resources, dependent on government grants, limited change until after World War II. In other ways the law school consciously departed from American models. It taught undergraduate, not graduate, students, and its curriculum included history, jurisprudence and non-legal subjects alongside legal doctrine. Its few professors specialised in public law and jurisprudence, leaving private law to a corps of part-time practitioner-teachers. The result was a distinctive model of state-certified compulsory education in both legal doctrine and the history and social meanings of law.
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Hartley, Peter Ross. "Paramedic practice and the cultural and religious needs of pre‐hospital patients in Victoria." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21301/.
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Religion and culture can impact profoundly on healthcare practices and health
outcomes. The Australian community is rich and diverse in differing cultures and
religions, and at times of medical emergency the paramedic increasingly will be required
to respond to healthcare needs of this diverse community. This study is designed to
investigate current paramedic practices as they relate to an awareness of the cultural
and religious needs of community groups as a holistic approach. It also incorporates the
voices of these community groups from their experiences with emergency paramedics
during pre‐hospital health care for those living in Melbourne, Australia.
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Pantzopoulos, Kerry. "The employers' perspective of vocational education work placement programs." Thesis, 2005. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15796/.
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This study is an evaluation of Victoria University’s Workplace Learning Melbourne West (WLMW) work placement service to employers. Local Community Partnership’s (LCPs) like Workplace Learning (WLMW) are funded to coordinate work placements for vocational students and enable them to integrate about 10 days on-the-job learning in industry with classroom study.
To keep enterprises engaged in the program the study canvasses employers’ perspectives on the work placement service with a view to improving program effectiveness. Work placements constitute a growing element in the senior
secondary curriculum and the demand on employers to provide or grow opportunities for students is intense. The study sought to identify the changes required to manage the increased demand for work placements more effectively taking into account the needs of enterprises to improve the quality of the work placement service delivered and employer satisfaction with it.
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Bull, Helen Tongmoy. "Tourism potential of Yarra Bend Park with emphasis on international tourism." Thesis, 1992. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15577/.
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Yarra Bend Park means different things to different users. To the city and urban dwellers that surround it, the Park is a bush haven, a picnic area and a source for both formal and informal recreational activities supported by its lawned areas, its many ovals and two golf courses. To the developer, it represents a piece of potentially extremely valuable real estate, however unattainable. To State and Local Governments, it has been used as a place to locate freeways, hospitals, a prison and other institutes, and to the Yarra Bend Park Trust, a place for recreation, conservation, research, education and appreciation of natural beauty. This minor thesis attributes to Yarra Bend Park considerable potential for tourism development and concludes that Yarra Bend Park has the capacity to serve as a unique tourist attraction for Victoria.
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Kizinska, Rose. "Dead cars in Westall: a narrative exploration of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity culture in cosmopolitan Melbourne." Thesis, 2003. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18184/.
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Dead Cars in Westall is a collection of interlocking narratives, examining the
everyday practices of multicultural migrancy, postcolonial sexuality and commodity
culture in the cosmopolitan global/local nexus of Melbourne. These narratives are
supported by postmodern and poststructuralist theoretical underpinnings pertaining to
gender, sexuality, class, race/ethnicity and popular culture. Utilizing a bricolage of
qualitative methodology, the stories are autoethnographic and automobilic and
describe mobile subject positions, which traverse time and space. The 'dead car way'
of resistance, influenced by Chela Sandoval's Methodology of the Oppressed and
explicated throughout the text, produces a third space of cultural possibility, that of
the Uiminal' or the space in-between, whereby the subject is constantly in flux.
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Williams, Vivienne J. "Why do students choose to study traditional Chinese medicine at Victoria University? : an analysis of the course in TCM and its students." Thesis, 2002. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/33027/.
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Yang, Lin. "An investigation of volatile organic compounds in landfill gas." Thesis, 2002. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15253/.
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Work described in this thesis contains the results on the study of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in landfill gas from seven landfill sites in the western region of
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Sampling methods including sampling with adsorption tubes, tedlar bags and cryogenic trapping were investigated and analytical systems were developed using adsorption tubes with solvent or thermal desorption followed by analysis of VOCs using gas chromatography with mass selective detection (GC/MS).
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Kay, Pandora. "Determinants of cultural event tourist motivation." Thesis, 2007. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15615/.
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This thesis investigates the determinants of tourist motivation to ascertain the new audience potential of Western and Asian tourists for locally-based, cultural attractions and events, and the associated effective marketing strategies necessary to attract these tourism markets.
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Glanville, Louise. "Women going places : women and transport in a competitive environment." Thesis, 1996. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/17935/.
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The place of women in transport planning and development has been marginal if not
invisible. This has resulted in a lack of recognition of their needs and of the distributional
impacts that current transport policy and directions have on women. It has also led to limited
attention being paid to women and women's experiences in their use of both cars and public
transport: their travel patterns and mobility issues remain largely unexplored. In addition,
the current policy environment of privatisation and competition in the transport arena
contributes to the exacerbation of women's disadvantaged status, and does little to
encourage gender sensitivity in transport policies and practice.
The thesis explores these issues with particular reference to the travel experiences of fifteen
different w o m e n living in various parts of Melbourne and Victoria. It also uses material
collected from a number of transport policy makers and service providers to ascertain the
dimensions of the new competitive environment.
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Higgins, Suzanne Joy. "Combining parenting and paid work." Thesis, 2004. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15362/.
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First time parent couples are more likely to be a dual income family now than ever before. In Australia, 65% of employed women in couple families have dependant children, and in couple families with children under five years of age, 52% of mothers are in paid employment. Research consistently shows that women still take on responsibility for family chores, those unpaid jobs which are essential for
maintenance of society.
The aim of this study was to examine the experience of first-time parent couples when the mother returned to the paid workforce. An Australian community based sample of 141 participants (69 couples plus 3 women whose partners failed to return questionnaire booklets) were recruited into this longitudinal study for the purpose of comparing single and two-income first-time parent couples.
Recruitment occurred prior to the two-income mother returning to paid work and participants were followed for ten months to determine how men and women negotiated the transition from single to two-income status. A number of variables were measured on four occasions over a ten-month period to examine the effects of the transition on each partner and compare the results between the two groups
of parents. These variables included marital satisfaction, worker spillover, stress levels, parenting satisfaction, division of household labour and emotional status.
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Hinwood, Marian. "A study of influences and experiences contributing to the attitudes of a group of vocational students towards science." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/24442/.
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This research project examines perceptions and attitudes towards science of a group of Technical and Further Education students studying Beauty Therapy at Victoria University. Many members of this group displayed a high level of science anxiety as described by Mallow, (1978). They lacked confidence in their science ability and were very anxious about passing the science units in their Beauty Therapy courses, despite having successfully passed science subjects at school. Previous observations on Beauty Therapy students showed that most succeeded in their science units but still lacked confidence in their ability to apply their knowledge. The science units in Beauty Therapy are complex and require a detailed knowledge of Human Biology, Anatomy, Physiology, Skin Biology, Cosmetic Chemistry, and Microbiology. The participants in the study were interviewed using a semi-structured interview working together with a questionnaire to establish background information. The probes covered the participants’ experiences in science at school together with their attitudes towards science and influences from other areas. The aim was to identify factors which undermined the confidence of these participants. The interviews were recorded and the transcripts were analysed for themes using a progressive coding process. The themes were grouped into clusters. The study showed clearly that the participants’ confidence in their science ability was undermined by their school experiences in science. It related to attitudes and pedagogies employed by a particular science teacher in their secondary school. Participants described enjoying science previously. Particular aspects identified were an inability to get help when they needed it; the use of sarcasm or derogatory remarks to discourage questions; boring lessons mostly composed of copying notes from the board or textbooks; lack of relevance and a lack of enthusiasm displayed by the teacher. This led to a situation where participants dreaded their science lessons and in some cases truancy.
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Brown, Elvira. "Understanding childbirth education: a phenomenological case study." Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21318/.
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This study investigated childbirth education programs in Victoria from the
perspective of the educators themselves. Prior to the study the Ministerial
Review of Birthing Services in Victoria (1990) entitled “Having a Baby in
Victoria” identified shortcomings in the childbirth education programs offered to
expectant women and their partners. The study sought to interpret the
experiences of the childbirth educators with regard to the development,
implementation, delivery and evaluation of their programs.
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Ingleby, Julie. "Participation, action research and the politics of change in working class schools: a view from the inside." Thesis, 1985. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18181/.
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Fundamental educational change is necessarily an
outcome of authentic participation confirmed in
community struggle against defined forms of oppression:
this is the proposition explored in the course of the
three case study experiences presented here.
Similarly, the contexts, conditions and terms of
participation are considered with regard to defining
the character of authentic 'political' success.
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Deighton, Nikki. "Defining the future: creating and sustaining e-confident schooling." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/24332/.
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This thesis seeks to make a contribution to the debate about the role of ICT in education, by exploring schooling and pedagogical perspectives, identifying elements demanding systemic attention and defining a vision that is relevant and challenging to Australian education. Examining the notion of what e-confidence means for students, teachers, school leaders and schools enables a consideration of what strategies can be deployed for achieving this in all Australian schools.
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Seyers, Lawrence Robert. "Understanding outer-urban governance: a case study of local government administration in Melbourne's north-west." Thesis, 2009. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15495/.
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The research aims to provide an understanding of local governance in an outer metropolitan area of Melbourne. Through the examination of the policy framework that
has established and maintained community governance in Victoria by the State Government from the period of local government amalgamations in 1994 to the present day and the use of a case study, Hume City Council, the thesis has descriptive and analytical elements drawing on empirical inquiry using case study methodology. The case study method has been chosen because it is most suitable for discovering how the community participants perceive their level of governance and their desires for future governance structures.
Since the dramatic reforms of local government in Victoria, there have only been two governance reviews; at Hume City Council in 2000 and at Delatite Shire in 2002. In
addition, minor boundary realignments were made to the Cities of Melbourne and Moonee Valley in 2007. These are the only attempts at a review of the structure of local
Understanding Outer-Urban Governance: A case study of local
government in Victoria since the Kennett Government reforms. This thesis reaches the conclusion that the concept of wicked problems is applicable to the management of the case study and other complex problems created as a result of amalgamation. The wicked problem context of this thesis cites decision making as the major focus. Through
decisions about authority, governance, identity and community consultation the key concept of trust is questioned which has led to the inherent unsatisfactory resolution of the selected local government wicked problems.
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Wong, Lily. "The e-Learning Experience in First-Year Introductory Accounting and its Impact on Learning Outcomes." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/28779/.
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The primary objective of this thesis was to improve the learning experience and academic outcomes in Victoria University’s first-year introductory accounting unit; specifically in relation to the use of technology to augment traditional modes of teaching and learning. To achieve this, the Blended Learning Assessment Framework was devised and tested in the first year accounting unit. The application of this conceptual framework identified the extent to which e-Learning is currently used in this unit and its effectiveness in supporting the diverse needs of this student cohort.
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Smee, Cameron. "“If we were all, like, learning at the same time, we might have, like, the same experience”: an investigation into the development of physical subjectivities in early primary education." Thesis, 2019. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/40597/.
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There is growing consensus about the importance of physical activity and regular engagement is known to have a number of health and developmental benefits. Accordingly, research across a variety of fields has argued for the importance of laying the foundations for lifelong physical activity engagement in the early years. The school plays a central role in this effort by impacting children’s initial relationships with physical culture. Within the school, PE is often the primary vehicle for the promotion of physical activity. However, the problems with PE and its failure to connect with all children has been widely reported. Concurrently, there has been a significant physical activity dropout rate in adolescence for girls, and some boys. Scholarly attempts to address these concerns have focused mainly on late primary or high school settings, specifically curriculum and pedagogy. To date, very little research has focused on the early (Year One/Two) years of PE, when many children are developing their initial physical subjectivities. Rather than a period which all children enter as a ‘blank slate’, early PE is defined by the differing levels of experience that children bring to class. How these differing levels of embodied experiences are valued mean the children are constantly engaging in a range of stratified interactions. The outcomes of these interactions can have a profound impact on how students engage in physical activity, both in PE and on the playground. To examine how children are embodying and developing their physical subjectivities in these two spaces, a six- month ethnographic project was conducted at a primary school in Victoria. This allowed for the examination of the experiences of a Year 1/2 cohort through the implementation a variety of ethnographic and child-centred methods. Drawing on a theoretical approach, combining Bourdieu (1998) and Collins (2004), this thesis shows how the outcomes of PE activities, impacted the types of activities that children chose to engage in on the playground. Additionally, the findings show how the children play a key role in reproducing the dominant elements of the field (including the ‘naturalized’ gender order inherent in sport/PE) and the hierarchies that contextualized each activity. This research offers an in-depth focus into the complex social processes, in the playground and PE, which continue to usher children along seemingly pre-determined physical paths. This thesis concludes with a call for a critical approach to early PE that incorporates the different experiences of the children to create
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curricula, with a particular focus on teaching children to be reflective of the impact of their embodied experiences. This also incorporates changes to the playground as a continuation of the PE space.
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Robinson, Alice. "Landfall: reading and writing Australia through climate change." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/24440/.
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This creative writing thesis begins with the premise that climate change poses critical outcomes for the Australian continent, and asks what the consequences of this are as the precariousness of Australia’s future in relation to climate change continues to gather pace.
Comprising a novel (70%) and exegesis (30%), the thesis as a whole seeks to explore the connections between climate change, land and culture in Australia, and to investigate settler Australian understandings regarding ‘place’, ‘belonging’ and ‘home’ in relation to both settlement and unsettledness in contemporary times.
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Te, Wierik Alicia. "Taking a fast track to the demise of democracy?" Thesis, 1995. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32986/.
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This thesis investigates different styles of government which accord different
opportunities for participation of 'power to the people'. An understanding of
democratic theory is thus essential as perspectives on democracy illustrate numerous
styles of democratic practice and opportunities for citizen involvement. While an
object of this theses is to locate styles of democracy used by modern liberal
governments, the focus of the research explores the exercise of responsible
citizenship. Democratic behavioural techniques of the citizen are carefully examined
both in theory and practice. The case being made is that citizens, accustomed to a
participatory style of democratic government, have been trained in the 'arts of
participation' to act as a caretaker of both their lives and environment. With a shift in
the style of government towards an elitist democratic approach, practised by the
Kennett Government, the responsible citizen, as caretaker, is excluded from
government decision-making processes. In response to the closing off of participatory
mechanisms in favour of the elitist style of government, the responsible citizen, is
turned into a person engaging in acts of civil disobedience in order to maintain his or
her vigilance over the lives and environment of his or her community.