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Rivett, Mary I. "Yilpinji art 'love magic' : changes in representation of yilpinji 'love magic' objects in the visual arts at Yuendumu /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2005. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARAH.M/09arah.mr624.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.(St.Art.Hist.)) -- University of Adelaide, Master of Arts (Studies in Art History), School of History and Politics, Discipline of History, 2005.Coursework. "January, 2005" Bibliography: leaves 108-112.
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Stotz, Gertrude, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Kurdungurlu got to drive Toyota: Differential colonizing process among the Warlpiri." Deakin University, 1993. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051110.142617.
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This thesis is based on fieldwork I carried out between December 1987 and June 1989 while living with the residents of a small Warlpiri Outstation Community situated ca. 75 km north-west of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Colonialism is a process whereby incommensurate gender regimes impact differently on women and men and this is reflected in the indigenous response which affects the socialization of Western things.
The notion of the indigenous KIRDA-KURDUNGURLU reciprocity is shown to be consistent with a gender system and to articulate all exchange relations as pro-creative social relationships. This contrasts with the Western capitalist system of production and social reproduction of gendered individuals in that it does not ascribe gender to biological differences between women and men but is derived from a land based social division between Sister-Brother.
Social relationships are put under great strain in an effort to socialize Western things for Warlpiri internal use,
I argue that the colonization of Aboriginal societies is an ongoing process. Despite the historical shift from a physical all-male frontier to the present day cross-cultural negotiations between Aborigines and Non-Aborigines, men still privilege men. The negotiation process for ownership of a Community Toyota is the most recent phenomenon where this can be observed. Male privilege is established by linking control over the access to the Community Toyota with traditional rights to land.
However, the Toyota as Western object has a Western gender identity as well. By pitting women against men it engages people in social conflict which is brought into existence through an organisation of Western concepts based on an alien gender regime.
But Western things, especially the Community Toyota, resist socialization because the Warlpiri do not produce these things. Warlpiri people know this and, to satisfy their need for Western things, they engage them in a process of social differentiation. By this process they can be seen actively to maintain the Western system in an effort to maintain themselves as Warlpiri and to secure the production of Western things.
This investigation of the cultural response to Western influences shows that indigenous gender relations are only maintained through a socially stressful process of socializing Western things.
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Chung, Mei Ling, and res cand@acu edu au. "Chinese Young People and Spirituality: an Australian study." Australian Catholic University. School of Religious Education, 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp121.25102006.
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The research reported in this thesis is concerned with the spirituality of Chinese young people who attended a Chinese evangelical church in Melbourne, Australia. This research is a case study conducted in the framework of a qualitative approach using ethnographic methods, including fieldwork methods with data triangulation through participant observation, individual interviews and focus group interviews. Grounded theory was used to analyse data collected. The particular group of young people were Chinese in race, and Australian born, or had been living in Australia since early childhood. They attended the English speaking fellowship and services of a Chinese evangelical church in Melbourne, and their ages were between fifteen and eighteen years. They were born or had grown up in Australia, and had been exposed at least to two cultures, the Australian culture in the society, and the Chinese traditional culture in their family, in which the parents were the first generation in Australia. This research aimed to find out the characteristics of the spirituality of the Chinese young people through acknowledging the multicultural context in which they lived. Thus, it began with a cultural perspective and sought to study the cultural contexts that account for their distinctive Christian spirituality. In summary, the research reported in this thesis describes the young participants’ spirituality from their own perspectives, discusses their construction of identity that led to their distinctive spirituality, and studies their parents’ worldviews and the role of cultural institutions that have affected their spirituality. Finally, it concludes with development of theories of spirituality related to Chinese young people in a multicultural society, and proposes ways in which churches and families may encourage the development of spirituality for Chinese young people in a multicultural society.
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Fleming, Brian James. "The social gradient in health : trends in C20th ideas, Australian Health Policy 1970-1998, and a health equity policy evaluation of Australian aged care planning /." Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phf5971.pdf.
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Cuevas, Marianela. "Perceptions of elder abuse among Australian elderly individuals and general practitioners." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/994.
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Research available on elder abuse is limited. There continues to be a lack of uniformity in how to define and identify the problem, as well as how to intervene. One group which continues to be excluded from the process of gaining knowledge on the issue of elder abuse is the elderly themselves. As general practitioners are the primary source of health care for older people, their perspectives on elder mistreatment should be explored as well. The first objective of this study was to examine whether differences existed in the perceived severity of potentially abusive situations between three groups of older people and general practitioners. The second objective was to determine if gender differences existed in perceptions of severity of abuse. The sample consisted of 48 general practitioners, 40 independent elderly, 38 elderly caregivers and 36 elderly care-receivers. The participants' perceptions of elder abuse were assessed using a modified version of a questionnaire developed by Moon and Williams (1993). The questionnaire described 10 potential elder abuse scenarios which covered five categories of abuse: physical, psychological, sexual, financial and neglect. Participants were asked to indicate whether or not they perceived each situation to represent an example of elder abuse and, if they answered affirmatively, to rate the severity of the abusive behaviour and identify which aspect of the scenario they considered abusive. Data were analysed using split-plot analysis of variance, as well as contingency tables. The results suggested that significant differences existed in the perceptions of severity of elder abuse scenarios across groups and gender. General practitioners tended to view the scenarios as less severe examples of elder abuse than the older-aged groups. There were similarities within the elderly groups in that all groups perceived the sexual abuse scenarios as examples of more severe forms of abuse than the financial abuse scenarios. Within the elderly groups, caregivers generally perceived the scenarios as less abusive. With regard to gender differences, females generally perceived the sexual abuse scenarios as more severe than males. This was particularly so for female independent elders and female care-receivers. Both the symbolic interaction theory and social exchange theory were adopted to explain why there were differences in the perceived severity of the scenarios. It was argued that how the participants viewed the interactions between the characters in the scenarios, and whether they perceived the interactions as being rewarding or unrewarding for particular characters, would affect participants' perceptions of severity. To conclude, with such differences in views found, the development of effective assessment and intervention strategies will be difficult. However, both the public and professionals alike need to increase their understanding on the topic of elder abuse, lest the abuse continues.
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Macdonald, Gaynor. "The Koori way the dynamics of cultural distinctiveness in settled Australia /." Connect to full text, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5433.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1988.Title from title screen (viewed October 8, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 1988; thesis submitted 1986. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Suggit, Daniel Richard. "A Clever People: Indigenous healing traditions and Australian mental health futures." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12051.
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Indigenous Australians are currently hospitalised for mental health disorders at significantly higher rates than members of the non-Indigenous population. In this context, the development of effective Indigenous mental health service delivery models in remote, rural and urban areas continues to be a national priority.
Traditional forms of healing are fundamental to Indigenous societies across Australia. Anthropologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, psycho-analysists and Indigenous healers themselves have recorded and discussed many localised traditions of healing over the last 100 years.
This paper presents an overview of this significant Australian heritage and proposes that the challenges which face mental health service delivery within many Indigenous communities may be addressed in part through the recognition of the intellectual, religious and therapeutic bases of Indigenous healing traditions.
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Bedells, Stephen J. "Incarcerating Indigenous people of the Wongatha lands in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia : Indigenous leaders’ perspectives." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2010. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/137.
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The Wongi
people are Indigenous to the Goldfields region and account for just 10 per cent of the population; yet they make up 90 per cent of the prisoners. With Indigenous incarceration rates above 8,000 per 100,000 adult male population in Western Australia, imprisonment is clearly a common experience for Indigenous men and women that profoundly affect the lives of their families. Gaols are meant to be used as a sentence of last resort when the severity of the offence requires severe punishment and prevention of further offences requires close confinement. For this research, Wongi leaders were interviewed about their perceptions of the incarceration system. They indicated that prison is being applied too frequently for minor offences, does little to prevent further offences and has a profound negative socio-economic impact on inmates’ partners and children. The negative impact was also exacerbated when Wongi prisoners are transferred 600 kilometres out of their country to Perth because the local prison is overcrowded. The Wongi leaders who were interviewed believe that the criminal justice system lacks the moral authority to deal with their people fairly and punishes inmates’ families more so than the offender. According to the Wongi leaders, the incarceration system could be improved by using the cultural practice of shaming and targeting training more effectively so that prisoner skill sets were identified and enhanced to improve employment chances and a reduction in recidivism. By using these strategies, the criminal justice system would increase the deterrent effect of incarceration, decrease the rate of recidivism, and improve the Wongi perception of the system.
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Kato, Megumi Humanities & Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Representations of Japan and Japanese people in Australian literature." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38718.
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This thesis is a broadly chronological study of representations of Japan and the Japanese in Australian novels, stories and memoirs from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. Adopting Edward Said???s Orientalist notion of the `Other???, it attempts to elaborate patterns in which Australian authors describe and evaluate the Japanese. As well as examining these patterns of representation, this thesis outlines the course of their development and change over the years, how they relate to the context in which they occur, and how they contribute to the formation of wider Australian views on Japan and the Japanese. The thesis considers the role of certain Australian authors in formulating images and ideas of the Japanese ???Other???. These authors, ranging from fiction writers to journalists, scholars and war memoirists, act as observers, interpreters, translators, and sometimes ???traitors??? in their cross-cultural interactions. The thesis includes work from within and outside ???mainstream??? writings, thus expanding the contexts of Australian literary history. The major ???periods??? of Australian literature discussed in this thesis include: the 1880s to World War II; the Pacific War; the post-war period; and the multicultural period (1980s to 2000). While a comprehensive examination of available literature reveals the powerful and continuing influence of the Pacific War, images of ???the stranger???, ???the enemy??? and later ???the ally??? or ???partner??? are shown to vary according to authors, situations and wider international relations. This thesis also examines gender issues, which are often brought into sharp relief in cross-cultural representations. While typical East-West power-relationships are reflected in gender relations, more complex approaches are also taken by some authors. This thesis argues that, while certain patterns recur, such as versions of the ???Cho-Cho-San??? or ???Madame Butterfly??? story, Japan-related works have given some Australian authors, especially women, opportunities to reveal more ???liberated??? viewpoints than seemed possible in their own cultural context. As the first extensive study of Japan in Australian literary consciousness, this thesis brings to the surface many neglected texts. It shows a pattern of changing interests and interactions between two nations whose economic interactions have usually been explored more deeply than their literary and cultural relations.
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Robinson, Michael V. "Change and adjustment among the Bardi of Sunday Island, North-Western Australia." Master's thesis, University of Western Australia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/280368.
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Cunningham, Helen. "A review of the policy development processes that relate to the inclusion of people with a disability in sport : some Western Australian evidence." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/600.
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In the late 1960s, there was a major change in social policy and legislation in developed countries that improved the rights and opportunities for people with a disability in all aspects of society, including sport. In 1992, in concert with the general acceptance of the social model of disability, Australia enacted legislation making it illegal to discriminate against a person with a disability; this encouraged their inclusion into the community (Australian Sports Commission, 2005; Doll-Tepper, 1999; Thomas & Smith, 2009).
In order to meet the obligations of anti-discrimination legislation, Australian sport organisations became active in preparing policy frameworks to guide and develop programs to improve access and hence participation by people with a disability. Much of the literature has focussed on constraints to sport participation, but few studies have reported the influence on, or outcome of, these policy development processes on sport generally, or on the inclusion of people with a disability at a club level. By examining those Western Australian sport organisations identified as active in providing opportunities in their respective sports for people with a disability, this study aimed to address this gap in inclusion research.
This study reviewed the process of policy development used by Western Australian State Sport Associations (SSA) and investigated the influence this process had on the inclusion of people with a disability in sport at a club level. A qualitative methodological approach was chosen with semistructured interviews (with SSA and club representatives) and document analyses of state and national sport organisation (NSO) policies that related to the inclusion of people with a disability. Purposive selection of the initial study participants, SSAs, was used to identify those actively attempting to include people with disabilities in their sports. Representatives from clubs which were known to be inclusive were also identified during the semi-structured interviews with the SSA cohort. This approach focused on the experiences of those who were actively involved in the policy development process, as well as those active in the delivery of programs for people with a disability. The personal knowledge and experience revealed by all who were interviewed, was analysed using content analysis, and the relevant policy documents from the national and state sport organisations were analysed by matrix analysis.
The findings reveal that the SSA and NSO policy documents that relate to the inclusion of people with a disability in sport have similar content; however, the policy development processes vary, and do not follow the theoretical policy development frameworks suggested in the literature. There are many variables, both ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ that influence the process of policy development, such as the incentive of government funding and direction provided by NSOs; and there being individuals in the sport organisations who are prepared to drive the policy process and its implementation process forward. This study found that although SSA policy development processes result in limited outcomes at a club level, when a sport organisation goes through a process it makes a commitment to include people with a disability. This in turn raises the organisation’s awareness of ways and means to include them into mainstream sport or specific programs. While several of the sports were active in conducting separate programs, specifically for people with a disability, the flow down of the influence of the policy development to clubs from the national and state level appeared negligible. There was also little coordination and engagement of SSAs and their affiliated clubs when planning and conducting programs for people with a disability. This study proposes a modified approach whereby sport organisations can follow a realistic policy development pathway to create desired change. Moreover, this study reveals the complex environment and stakeholders involved with the inclusion of people with a disability in sport.
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Wos, Nathaniel. "Australian Mateship and Imperialistic Encounters with the United States in the Vietnam War." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1703328/.
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This thesis attempts to prove the significance of the relationship between the United States and Australia, and how their similar cultures and experiences assisted creating that shared bond throughout the twentieth century. Chapter 2 examines the effects of the Cold War on both the United States and Australia, as well as their growing relationship during that period. There is some backtracking chronologically in order to make connections to important historical legacies such as the ANZAC Legend and settlement on the periphery of their respective societies. Then the first half of chapter 3 delves into the Vietnam War by examining the interactions of the American support unit, the 11th Combat Aviation Battalion, a helicopter unit that includes transports and gunships. Afterwards, the latter half of chapter 3 examines the Australians' after-action reports to better understand their tactical and operational methods. Finally, chapter 4 provides an overview of Australian and American interactions between the advisers and the Vietnamese, as well as their attitudes towards the end of the war and the withdrawal from Vietnam. The conclusion summarizes the significance of the thesis by reemphasizing the significance of US-Australian interactions in the twentieth century and the importance of continued studies on this topic between US and Australian historians.
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Petz, Christina M. "What sexuality? : An exploratory study examining sexual activity and affectionate sexual expression in a Western Australian sample of older adults." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1206.
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Sexuality later in life has been receiving increased research interest, however, a large majority of research investigates a narrow range of sexual behaviours, primarily frequency of sexual intercourse. There is limited information regarding other forms of sexual expression, specifically affectionate sexual expression that are relevant to older adults. The present day study explores what affectionate sexual behaviours constitute affectionate sexual expression and compares sexual intercourse with affectionate expression. The sample consisted of 77 married men (n=35) and women (n=42) aged 60-89 years who came from various senior groups and organisations in the Perth metropolitan area. A survey was developed that investigated what constituted affectionate expression, and interest and changes in affectionate sexual expression and sexual intercourse.
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Liddle, Lynette Elizabeth. "Traditional obligations to country : landscape governance, land conservation and ethics in Central Australia." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151581.
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Carroll, Peter J. "The old people told us: verbal art in Western Arnhem Land." Phd thesis, University of Queensland, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/268560.
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This thesis is based on a collection of stories (most of which relate to bark paintings), that were told to me by speakers of the Kunwinjku language of the Northern Territory of Australia. My objective is to show that these particular stories have an important role in the transmission of Kunwinjku culture. I do this by seeking to understand the stories and how they are used by Kunwinjku people. I first consider the stories in the original
Kunwinjku language; secondly I relate the stories to the western Arnhem Land artistic traditions; and thirdly I examine their social context. The important role of such stories in cultural transmission is reflected in the phrases daborrabolk kandimarneyolyolmeng "the old people told us stories" and kandimarneyolyolmi "they used to tell us stories" which occur in many stories. I have included one of these phrases as part of my thesis title.
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Ward, David Jefford. "People, fire, forest and water in Wungong: the landscape ecology of a West Australian water catchment." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2006.
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Bushfire is, in terms of human lives lost, property destroyed, and damage to natural systems, by far the most urgent environmental problem in Australia. This thesis tries to answer a number of questions about bushfire behaviour, history, effects, and management, in the Wungong Catchment of Western Australia. It does so by an overtly cross-disciplinary approach, involving a mixture of the three main streams of human knowledge, namely the humanities, natural science, and social science.First, I offer a literature review of several hundred books and papers drawn from the three main streams of knowledge mentioned above. The review includes some discussion of ‘bushfire epistemology’, a currently vague and neglected matter.The concept of ‘place’ is important to humans, so I then give a straightforward geographical description of Wungong Catchment, with some mention of the history of bushfire. To describe the vegetation, I use inductive statistics, and a method developed by me from the ideas of Delaunay (1929) and Dirichlet (1850). Given that there are hundreds of plant species within the catchment, I use a landscape approach, and only sketch the main tree species, and two iconic plants, the balga and the djiridji, both of which are important to the original custodians of the catchment, the Nyoongar people. There is discussion of other people’s research into the effect of bushfire on seed banks, and the flowering intervals of some plants of the jarrah forest.To see if Western Australia is anomalous, or fits into the worldwide pattern of humans using fire as a landscape management tool, I then examine some records of bushfire in other lands, including Africa, Madagascar, India, and Europe. The thesis then looks at the history of fire in the jarrah forest of Western Australia, based on observations by early European explorers and settlers from 1826 onward, the views of various foresters, and some opinions of current Nyoongar Elders.Using a mixture of natural science, applied mathematics, and archaeology, I give the results of cleaning the stems of those ancient plants called grasstrees, or balga (Xanthorrhoea spp.). These carry the marks of former bushfires, stretching back to 1750. They confirm historical reports of frequent fire in the jarrah forest, at 2-4 year intervals, and a recent decline in fire frequency. This contradicts the view, held by some, that European arrival increased the frequency of fire.As support for the balga findings, I present a simple mathematical model of self-organization in bushfire mosaics. It shows how lengthy bushfire exclusion can lead to disastrous situations, in which large areas of landscape become flammable and unstable. It shows how frequent, patchy burning can maintain a stable bushfire mosaic, with mild, beneficial fires. In the next chapter, I offer mathematical suggestions on how current unstable mosaics can be restabilized, by careful reintroduction of such burning.In dry, south-western Australia, water supply is an important topic, and a better understanding of the hydrological effects of bushfire may help with both bushfire and water management. I draw upon the natural science of forest hydrology, and the effects of fire in catchments. The evidence comes not only from Australia, but also from the United States, and South Africa.Turning to social science, I introduce Professor Peter Checkland’s ‘Soft Systems Methodology’, and suggest how it could be applied in resolving complicated conflict about bushfire management. I finish in legal style, with a summing up, and a verdict on the use of bushfire as a land management tool in Wungong Catchment, and possibly in other flammable landscapes.
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Holloway, Donell Joy. "Grey nomads: Retirement, leisure and travel in the Australian context." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1828.
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Largely ignored over the years as a group worthy of serious academic research, grey nomads have recently become a topic of interest, in part due to Australia’s ageing population and resultant increases in the number of retirees with the time available to tour Australia and its regions in this manner. Tourism bodies now view grey nomads as an important market niche and caravan and motorhome manufacturers foresee ongoing growth in their industry. This thesis investigates how grey nomads make sense of their peripatetic lifestyle. It uses an ethnographic approach to uncover how the grey nomad lifestyle is defined by respondents themselves. Through analysis of field interviews, as well as field observations, the meanings and perspectives made by grey nomads are revealed and contextualised.
Drive tourism has been a feature of Australia’s domestic travel industry for many decades and the drive industry is nowadays driven by grey nomads. Grey nomads are defined in this thesis as retirees who tour Australia in caravans, motorhomes and sometimes tents. They have been a part of prevailing Australian culture for at least four decades. A highly visible group, these retirees tow their caravans behind their large four wheel drives, or drive their motorhomes, along the city roads and regional highways of Australia. Many form part of a seasonal migration route travelling north at the beginning of winter and returning south with the onset of spring. Others do not return home, however. They are the fulltimers who tour for years at a time.
The themes and issues which emerged from this qualitative research process are varied. Grey nomads are a large, heterogeneous cohort of retirees who are little different from many other retired Australians in that they engage in the routines of quotidian life—domestic tasks and everyday relationships—even while touring. They also have similar health outcomes to other Australian retirees but are seemingly resilient, adapting to the ongoing frailties of their ageing bodies in order to carry on touring for as long as possible. Grey nomads have a desire to articulate territory through travel and, consequently, many of them hold a sense of stewardship over the landscape, and are sometimes censorious of those tourists who transgress (what some grey nomads conceive to be) environmentally sound touring practices.
This thesis also addresses changing discourses about grey nomads and how these reflect a change in the discursive context in which ageing—in general—is discussed. In addition to this the research considers the future of the grey nomad lifestyle which, despite the predicted influx of grey nomads into regional Australia in the near future, and the ongoing economic boost this will give these regions, is under threat due to the declining number of caravan parks and caravan sites within Australia.
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Batorowicz, Krzysztof. "An investigation of the maintenance of minority cultures and equal opportunity with special reference to Australian young people of Slavonic origin." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb334.pdf.
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Coulehan, Kerin Maureen. "Sitting down in Darwin: Yolngu women from northeast Arnhem Land and family life in the city." Phd thesis, Northern Territory University, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/268621.
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Hemmers, Carina. "Nyungar wiring boodja : Aboriginality in urban Australia." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3448.
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The present thesis examines the themes of ‘shared history,' ‘place-making,' and ‘reconciliation' to assess how these come together in the establishment of an Aboriginal identity in Perth, Western Australia. Focusing on individuals who do not represent the common stereotypes associated with Aboriginal Australians, it will be demonstrated that these individuals are forced into an in-between place where they have to continually negotiate what Aboriginality means in the twenty-first century. Taking on this responsibility they become mediators, stressing a ‘shared history' in order to create a place for themselves in the non-Aboriginal landscape and to advance reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia by fighting the dominant discourse from within. Beginning with the State and Government's Native Title appeal premiss that Nyungar never existed, this thesis will examine this claim by first presenting an account of the history of southwest Western Australia to establish the place Aboriginal people have been forced into by the colonists during early settlement, and the processes of which extend into the present day. From there on in the focus will be on individual Aboriginal people and their careers and businesses, examining how they attempt to redefine what is perceived and accepted as Aboriginality through different interaction and mediation ‘tactics' with non-Aboriginal Australians. Finally, this thesis will take a closer look at the reconciliation movement in Australia and the people involved in it. It will determine different approaches to reconciliation and assess their possibility and meaning for the construction of a twenty-first century Aboriginal identity. The thesis will conclude that although Nyungar are forced into the dominant discourse, their resistance from within credits a new kind of Aboriginality that is just as valid as the ‘traditional' and ‘authentic' Aboriginality imagined by non-Aboriginal Australia.
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Shibish, Lori-Ann. "The evolution of joint management in Western Australia parks and the indigenous tourism nexus." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1694.
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Since the early 2000s, park management approaches to protected area governance have undergone a significant transformation, driven by the realisation that long-term conservation outcomes depend on participation in decision-making by stakeholders. To meet these challenges one of the measures being adopted by park managers is to engage in joint management arrangements. Recent changes to the conservation legislation in Western Australia provides the capacity for the Department of Parks and Wildlife (Parks and Wildlife) to enter into joint management arrangements with Aboriginal traditional owners and others for the management of protected areas, regardless of the land vesting or tenure. Joint management activities provide both formal and informal opportunities for mentoring, skills building, resource sharing, and knowledge mobilisation.
Aboriginal traditional owners, through native title settlements, are regaining rights and control over land and resources. Successful native title claims have the potential to contribute to the advancement of social and economic wellbeing of Aboriginal communities. One compatible type of economic development occurring in parks is sustainable tourism - specifically ecotourism and cultural tourism. It is argued that tourism can assist in achieving conservation goals, as the need for ecological sustainability and biological conservation becomes greater due to habitat loss, population increases, hunting wildlife and poverty. Some specialists advocate for the resource management process to fully integrate tourism, since the base of the parks-tourism partnership is resource sustainability.
This qualitative study used multi-method triangulation (participant observation, interviews, document analysis, case study) with the intent of identifying the place of Aboriginal tourism development within the shared governance structure of joint management. The research highlighted successful Aboriginal tourism development outcomes brought about through the capacity building that occurs within strong working relationships, forged over many years between Parks and Wildlife staff and local Aboriginal communities.
One important research finding is the emergence of a parks - tourism – Aboriginal people – joint management nexus, as revealed by those directly involved in joint management strongly viewing Aboriginal tourism development as an important outcome. However, the research found that government, tourism professionals and the public had difficulty in understanding the concept of joint management and its value in facilitating Aboriginal tourism. Evidence of the disconnect is seen in the government’s failure to provide adequate funding for these activities and highlights an opportunity for educating the tourism industry and government about joint management’s potential to assist with Aboriginal tourism development. The State Government could do more to support the important component of capacity building facilitated through joint management, which fosters cross-cultural awareness, skill enhancement, and economic and social development amongst the stakeholders.
An equally important finding is the ability of the Conservation and Land Management Regulations 2002 to provide a mechanism for Aboriginal joint management partners to adequately manage visitors and tour operators on their lands, as Aboriginal communities currently have very limited powers to regulate access.
Joint management provides a vehicle to achieve sustainable benefits for conservation, communities and country including supporting Aboriginal tourism development. Therefore it is paramount that joint management partners are cognitive of the important role of tourism when they undertake the task of preparing management plans for protected areas, and Governments provide adequate funding to sustain joint management activities.
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McBride, Gerald F. "Are there lessons to be learned by ecological economics from the wisdom of the Kaurna people?" Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envm119.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 64-66. Argues that the sustainable lifestyle of traditional Aboriginal communities acheived the teleological harmony suggested as a possible conceptual framework for the emerging area of study known as ecological economics.
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Jewell, Trevor. "Martu tjitji pakani : Martu child rearing and its implications for the child welfare system." University of Western Australia. Social Work and Social Policy Discipline Group, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0147.
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In this research, I explore my belief that one the reasons for the continuing poor outcomes for Indigenous people was that State-wide and national programs ignored unique local Indigenous culture and did not actively involve local Indigenous people in the development of programs for their area. I chose to examine this perception through investigation of the tension between Indigenous culture and worldview and the dominant White values of the child welfare system (broadly defined), through description of Martu child rearing practices and beliefs in the remote Western Australian town of Wiluna. The Martu live in a remote environment of material poverty, high levels of unemployment, low levels of educational achievement and poor health outcomes. The research sponsored by the Ngangganawili Aboriginal Health Service and located in its Early Childhood Centre, uses an Indigenous research approach based on Brayboy's (2005) TribalCrit to explore Martu child rearing practices, beliefs and values. It uses the stories told by the Martu in Wiluna about the way they and their families were brought up and observations of Martu families to answer research questions around Martu definitions of children and families, their concerns for their children, ways of ensuring the well being of their children, and whether there is a Martu child welfare approach. The research then considers the implications of these Martu practices for the broadly defined child welfare system. The stories told by the Martu show that they have a unique way of bringing up their children that is different to those in the dominant White culture. This uniqueness is derived from a combination of the recent colonisation of the Martu, their culture and their post colonisation experiences. The implications of Martu child rearing for the child welfare system are based on the assumption that Martu are wholly dependent on poorly designed and targeted government provided or funded services, and the current ways of delivering these services is failing the Martu. The research concludes that the key to improving outcomes for Martu children and their families is for the agencies delivering these services to form close working relationships with the Martu; operate within, understand, appreciate, and respect Martu Law and culture; understand their (personal and agency) and Martu post colonisation histories; and allow for Martu control, definition of priorities and development of strategies to address the problems.
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Robertson, Pixi. "Steel Riders : a novel for young adult readers and, An hermeneutical examination of Steel Riders." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2006. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/326.
Abstract:
This project consists of two parts, Section One: Steel Riders, a novel for young adult readers, and Section Two: An Hermeneutical Examination q(Steel Riders. Section One: Steel Riders is a hybrid text based largely on the conventions of the detective novel. The protagonist of Steel Riders is a nineteen-year-old university student, Bella Buchanan, who returns to her home in a small industrial town in regional Western Australia. Bella is disillusioned with her life in the city, but finds that she has become alienated from the life of her peers in her home town of Sandon. This distancing of Bella allows her to observe the manners of the townspeople from the perspective of an outsider/insider. Bella's quiet life is interrupted by the arrival of her ex-boyfriend, Tallis McGuin, local Nyungah football hero who has recently joined the police force as an Aboriginal Police Aid. Bella's life is thrown into further turmoil when she begins work as a security guard at the local sand mining plant. It is here at the plant that Bella discovers a plot to conceal an important anthropological report relating to a local Nyungah burial ground. The resulting 'investigation' undertaken by Bella and Tallis into this situation results in their uncovering of local government corruption and a large, commercial marijuana plantation. This simple plot allows for a complex investigation of many issues and situations that confront young people living in regional and remote areas and at the same time celebrates the beauty of the Australian bush and the importance of community. Section Two: An Hermeneutical Examination of Steel Riders is a circular investigation of the journey to creativity which investigates the ways in which the lived experience feeds the creative impulse. The fictional town of Sandon, where Steel Riders is set, is based on the real-life coal-mining town of Collie in Western Australia where I have lived for a number of years. My experiences before I came to Collie and my "life-relation" (Bultmann, 1986, p. 243) to that town, my researches into the history of the town, and my friendships with the local residents, both Nyungah and Wadgela, are interrogated within the context of the Hermeneutic Circle and the work of Johann Martin Chladenius (1742/1986) and Johann Gustav Droysen (1858/J 986). Steel Riders features a number of Indigenous characters and I have contextualised my position as a white, female writer within a discourse of Aboriginalism as propounded by Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra (1991 ).
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Truscott, Keith. "Research problem: What are the differences between Wadjela and Nyungar criteria when assessing organisational effectiveness of non-government human service organisations?" Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2000. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1368.
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Wadjela and Nyungar experts (of managerial, administrative, service staff), from the same South-West city location in Western Australia were randomly chosen from the non-government human service field for separate workshops and asked the question “what makes a non-government human service organisation effective?" The purpose was to compare the group consensus answer between the two separate workshop groups. The Nyungars are the Indigenous people in the South-West of Western Australia and the Wadjelas are the Non-Indigenous people living in the same area. The results listed five criteria, in order of priority that made non-government human service organisations effective. For the Wadjela community these were: I. A clear and shared vision of its task 2. Clear organisational structure which promotes strategic thinking and practice 3. Experienced and dedicated staff 4. Clear and client-based focus and strategies 5, Clarity of and relevant mission or goals. For the Nyungar community the results were: 1. A vision shared of Aboriginal culture and values 2. Appropriate management and finance incorporating Aboriginal culture and values 3. Recognition and identification of need 4. Diverse representation on Committee 5. Community involvement. Analysis and discussion of the findings were attempted from an Australian Indigenous perspective of people, place and parable. The conclusion is that the difference between Wadjela and Nyungar criteria in assessing organisational effectiveness in non-government organisations is that the former utilise a mechanical efficiency model and the latter a commitment to the whole community model. These differences were seen to be a contest between two world-views, that of a continuity of pragmatic relationships versus that of continuity of stewardship relationships.
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Merkes, Monika, and monika@melbpc org au. "A longer working life for Australian women of the baby boom generation? � Women�s voices and the social policy implications of an ageing female workforce." La Trobe University. School of Public Health, 2003. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20051103.104704.
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With an increasing proportion of older people in the Australian population and increasing health and longevity, paid work after the age of 65 years may become an option or a necessity in the future. The focus of this research is on Australian women of the baby boom generation, their working futures, and the work-retirement decision. This is explored both from the viewpoint of women and from a social policy perspective. The research draws on Considine�s model of public policy, futures studies, and Beck�s concept of risk society. The research comprises three studies. Using focus group research, Study 1 explored the views of Australian women of the baby boom generation on work after the age of 65 years. Study 2 aimed to explore current thinking on the research topic in Australia and overseas. Computer-mediated communication involving an Internet website and four scenarios for the year 2020 were used for this study. Study 3 consists of the analysis of quantitative data from the Healthy Retirement Project, focusing on attitudes towards retirement, retirement plans, and the preferred and expected age of retirement. The importance of choice and a work � life balance emerged throughout the research. Women in high-status occupations were found to be more likely to be open to the option of continuing paid work beyond age 65 than women in low-status jobs. However, the women were equally likely to embrace future volunteering. The research findings suggest that policies for an ageing female workforce should be based on the values of inclusiveness, fairness, self-determination, and social justice, and address issues of workplace flexibility, equality in the workplace, recognition for unpaid community and caring work, opportunities for life-long learning, complexity and inequities of the superannuation system, and planning for retirement. Further, providing a guaranteed minimum income for all Australians should be explored as a viable alternative to the current social security system.
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Notley, Tanya M. "The role of online networks in supporting young people's digital inclusion and the implications for Australian government policies." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/19097/2/Tanya_Notley_Citation.pdf.
Abstract:
This study examines young people’s internet access and use in nine locations in Queensland, Australia. The primary aim of the research is to assess if internet use supports young people’s social inclusion: that is, if internet use supports young people to participate in society in ways they have most reason to value.
The research findings demonstrate that the digital divide in Queensland – the gap between citizens with and without access to ICTs – continues to inhibit young people’s ability to participate online. This divide is embedded within historic, economic, social and cultural inequalities. To address this, this study proposes that a digital inclusion framework, founded on the concept of social inclusion, offers the Australian federal and state governments an opportunity to extend digital divide policies so that they connect with and complement broader social policy goals.
The research outcomes also illustrate that creative uses of online networks provide a powerful means through which young people can participate in a networked society. While young people’s access to a range of ICTs impacts on their ability to use online networks, gradations of use, social networks and informal learning contexts frequently act as mediators to support effective internet use. This study contends that by understanding the social benefits of young people’s online network use and the role that mediators play in different environments, we can move towards a policy framework that supports equitable opportunities for young people’s digital inclusion.
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Notley, Tanya M. "The role of online networks in supporting young people's digital inclusion and the implications for Australian government policies." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19097/.
Abstract:
This study examines young people’s internet access and use in nine locations in Queensland, Australia. The primary aim of the research is to assess if internet use supports young people’s social inclusion: that is, if internet use supports young people to participate in society in ways they have most reason to value.
The research findings demonstrate that the digital divide in Queensland – the gap between citizens with and without access to ICTs – continues to inhibit young people’s ability to participate online. This divide is embedded within historic, economic, social and cultural inequalities. To address this, this study proposes that a digital inclusion framework, founded on the concept of social inclusion, offers the Australian federal and state governments an opportunity to extend digital divide policies so that they connect with and complement broader social policy goals.
The research outcomes also illustrate that creative uses of online networks provide a powerful means through which young people can participate in a networked society. While young people’s access to a range of ICTs impacts on their ability to use online networks, gradations of use, social networks and informal learning contexts frequently act as mediators to support effective internet use. This study contends that by understanding the social benefits of young people’s online network use and the role that mediators play in different environments, we can move towards a policy framework that supports equitable opportunities for young people’s digital inclusion.
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Walsh, Fiona Jane. "To hunt and to hold : Martu Aboriginal people's uses and knowledge of their country, with implications for co-management in Karlamilyi (Rudall River) National Park and the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia." University of Western Australia. School of Plant Biology, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0127.
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[Truncated abstract] This ethnoecological study examines land uses by modern Martu Aboriginal people on their country. They occupy very remote settlementsParnngurr, Punmu and Kunawarritjiin the Great and Little Sandy Deserts. In 1990, their country included Crown Lands and Rudall River National Park. The study investigated the proposition that the knowledge and practices of Martu were of direct relevance to ecosystem processes and national park management. This research commenced in the wider Australian research context of the late 1980s early 90s when prevailing questions were about the role of customary harvest within contemporary Aboriginal society (Altman 1987; Devitt 1988) and the sustainability of species-specific harvests by Australian indigenous people (Bomford & Caughley 1996). Separately, there was a national line of enquiry into Aboriginal roles in natural resource and protected area management (Williams & Hunn 1986; Birckhead et al. 1992). The field work underpinning this study was done in 19861988 and quantitative data collected in 1990 whilst the researcher lived on Martu settlements. Ethnographic information was gathered from informal discussions, semi-structured interviews and participant observation on trips undertaken by Martu. A variety of parameters was recorded for each trip in 1990. On trips accompanied by the researcher, details on the plant and animal species collected were quantified. Martu knowledge and observations of Martu behaviour are interpreted in terms of the variety of land uses conducted and transport strategies including vehicle use; the significance of different species collected; socio-economic features of bush food collection; spatio-temporal patterns of foraging; and, the 'management' of species and lands by Martu. The research found that in 1990, hunting and gathering were major activities within the suite of land uses practiced by Martu. At least 40% of trips from the settlements were principally to hunt. More than 43 animal species and 37 plant food species were reported to be collected during the study; additionally, species were gathered for firewood, medicines and timber artefacts. Customary harvesting persisted because of the need for sustenance, particularly when there were low store supplies, as well as other reasons. The weight of bush meats hunted at least equalled and, occasionally, was three times greater than the weights of store meats available to Parnngurr residents. ... Paradoxically, hunting was a subject of significant difference despite it being the principal activity driving Martu expertise and practice. There is potential for comanagement in the National Park but it remains contingent on many factors between both Martu and DEC as well as external to them. The dissertation suggests practical strategies to enhance co-management.
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Lang, Ian William, and n/a. "Conditional Truths: Remapping Paths To Documentary 'Independence'." Griffith University. Queensland College of Art, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20031112.105737.
Abstract:
(Synopsis to introductory statement): An introductory statement to five documentary films made by Ian Lang in Australia between 1981 and 1997 exemplifying a 'democratising' model of sustainable and ethical documentary film production. This document critically reflects on the production process of these films to accompany their submission for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Publication at Griffith University. It finds that a contemporary tendency towards 'post-industrial' conditions allows an observational film-maker to negotiate a critical inter-dependence rather than a romantically conceived 'independence' traditional to the genre. [Full thesis consists of introductory statement plus six DVD videodiscs.]
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Stotz, Gertrude. ""Kurdungurlu got to drive Toyota": differential colonizing process among the Warlpiri." Phd thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/268808.
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Dussart, Francoise. "Warlpiri women's yawulyu ceremonies : a forum for socialization and innovation." Phd thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112716.
Abstract:
This thesis examines the ritual life of Warlpiri women in the Central
Desert community of Yuendumu. Though there is now a growing literature on the
ritual life of Aboriginal women, these works present generalized accounts of women as a
category in their ritual activity which obscures the social dynamics and processes that
are central to women's religious life. I argue that a fuller understanding of
women's ritual life in Warlpiri society in particular and of Aboriginal women's
lives more generally is dependent on seeing women as individual social actors. The
thesis therefore concentrates on the activities and motivations of individual women in
the most common form of women's ceremony at Yuendumu, the yawulyu. The analysis provides
access to the complex issues of power and competition among Aboriginal women, and goes
a long way to defining the role of women in the ritual life of the community at
large.
The introductory chapter reviews the literature on women and their religious
lives. Chapter two provides an overview of the main Warlpiri religious
concepts, in particular of the principal features of the Dreaming and its
manifestations and the formal aspects of women's rights and duties that
fulfil in the ritual domain. The third chapter describes women's life
cycle in terms of their ritual career and argues that women continue their
role as nurturers beyond the end of their reproductive life by
redirecting their energies into ritual activities. Chapter four examines the
acquisition and transmission of knowledge. Chapter five defines the ritual
domain of yawulyu, and distinguishes this ceremony from others performed by
women. The sixth chapter provides a detailed case study of the
organization and performance of yawulyu ceremonies. And chapter seven describes
the integration of 'new' Dreams and dances into an existing ceremony. I
conclude by recapitulating some of the major points made in the
thesis and by making some suggestions concerning the future of Warlpiri
women's acquisition of status and prestige in the social and ritual spheres.
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Sathre, Eric L. "Everyday illness : discourse, action, and experience in the Australian desert." Phd thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148617.
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Niblett, Michael. "Text and context : some issues in Warlpiri ethnography." Master's thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112873.
Abstract:
This thesis is concerned with the way in which particular aspects of Warlpiri ethnography have been
inescapably contextualised by intellectual, institutional and political conditions of
anthropological practice. Recent literature has opened up new perspectives on the relation between
ethnography and its subjects. These concerns do not, however, address the broader political
implications of anthropological representation, nor the means by which one form or style of
ethnographic writing and analysis rather than another becomes dominant and accepted as valid.
Certain conventions developed internationally were decisive in constraining the means by which
anthropological knowledge could be constructed and communicated. This situation went largely
unrecognised by anthropologists, participating as they were within unquestioned historically and
politically determined parameters "authorised" by the Anglophone interpretive community. The
dominance of this paradigm was transferred to Australia, where national considerations too shaped
the acceptable canons of ethnographic writing.
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Musharbash, Yasmine. "Warlpiri sociality : an ethnography of the spatial and temporal dimensions of everyday life in a Central Australian aboriginal settlement." Phd thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/8041.
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This thesis is an ethnography of contemporary Warlpiri sociality that focuses on the everyday life in a women’s camp (jilimi) at Yuendumu 300kms northwest of Alice Springs.
As a result of sedentisation and institutionalisation in the 1940’s, subsequent integration into the cash economy from 1969, with the full cash payment of social security benefits directly to individual Warlpiri, and the deinstitutionalisation of Yuendumu in 1970 through the introduction of an elected Council, Warlpiri life has undergone many changes. In respect of the family, promised marriage arrangements have virtually disappeared and marriage relationships are frequently unstable and short-lived until people reach middle age. Young mothers now often have children from a succession of husbands. Shifts in the constitution of the nuclear family have led to an increase in individuals’ residential mobility and to women’s camps, or jilimi, taking on an increased significance. Jilimi, and their older female residents, have become a central social focus for young mothers, children and as well as to men currently unmarried. Life in the jilimi is intensely social not least since the great majority of people who pass through are unemployed and live on social security payments. People’s lives are almost entirely taken up with socialising both in the jilimi or in visiting close relatives elsewhere in Yuendumu and in other communities. The intensity of this social life leads, among other things, to outbreaks of conflict from time to time and at others is transformed by participation in ceremonial life, particularly mourning ceremonies (sorry business).
My consideration of everyday life at Yuendumu begins with a formal analysis of the spatial organisations of Warlpiri residences, outlining the residential flux throughout Yuendumu’s ‘suburbs’, ideas of private-public space within individual residences, and their gendered nature, as well as indicating the daily cycle of sociality within them. I then examine the nature of contemporary marriage arrangements to underline crucial changes as well as some continuities that are a feature of life today. Contemporary marriage arrangements are shown to simultaneously be the cause and the effect of an intensification of residential mobility and ensuing living situations for both children and adults. This leads to a discussion of the emergent centrality of jilimi within the contemporary settlement context as manifested in their increased number and size and complexity of residential composition. Singling out one particular jilimi as the ethnographic centre of the thesis, I introduce its spatiality and some of its main residents as protagonists for the ensuing chapters. I then analyse the flow of people through the jilimi, categorising different types of residents, by their varied lengths and reasons for their stays, which underscores the extreme mobility that is a paramount feature of contemporary everyday life. A detailed analysis of sleeping arrangements is shown to be a sensitive index of the state of interpersonal relations within the jilimi and to provide insights into Warlpiri personhood. I then look at the activities that take place during the day outlining the movements of people in and out of the jilimi with an emphasis on those aspects to do with provisioning around the sharing of food and other resources. The contrast between the restedness of the night and intensified social engagement during the day is brought to the fore by examining the criss-crossing paths of social engagements during the day. The intensity of interaction, along with boredom, leads to frequent outbreaks of fighting which are considered in the context of a discussion of the various temporal dimensions within which everyday life happens. These incorporate both the mundane everyday and those occasions when social life us broadened out to encompass people from other kinship networks and communities. The thesis concludes with a reflection on the reasons for and impact of this intensified sociality on Walpiri people’s contemporary lives.
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Fleming, Brian James. "The social gradient in health : trends in C20th ideas, Australian Health Policy 1970-1998, and a health equity policy evaluation of Australian aged care planning / Brian James Fleming." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/22062.
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Dowling, Peter J. ""A great deal of sickness": Introduced diseases among the Aboriginal people of colonial Southeast Australia." Phd thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/7529.
Abstract:
Previous palaeopathological studies have sought to build up a picture of Australian Aboriginal health before European settlement in 1788 and epidemiological studies of Aboriginal health in the twentieth century are now legion. But, despite a growing body of literature on Aboriginal history set in the intervening colonial period, our knowledge of Aboriginal health following European colonisation remains understudied. This thesis is a contribution to filling that gap through an examination of documentary and skeletal evidence in the changing bio-chemical situation experienced by Aboriginal populations of Southeast Australia from 1788 to 1900.
This thesis examines one of the major biological components of this change – disease that were introduced unto Australian Aboriginal populations during the process of colonisation. The epidemiology, timing, diffusion of diseases are considered with specific attention given to infectious and respiratory diseases that were responsible for causing major epidemics of morbidity and mortality.
The medical model for the contact period in the late 18th and 19th centuries is proposed. This model considers three major stages in the disease environment of Aboriginal populations in Southeast Australia; a pre-contact stage with endemic pathogens causing chronic diseases and limited epidemics, an early contact stage where introduced exotic human diseases cause severe epidemics of infectious and respiratory diseases among Aboriginal populations, and a third stage where remaining Aboriginal populations were institutionalised on government and mission settlements and were subjected to a high level of morbidity and mortality form the introduced diseases.
The major epidemic diseases during the early stage were smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, influenza, and measles. Each of these diseases was responsible for excessive morbidity and mortality. During the period of institutionalisation infectious and respiratory diseases were responsible for over 50% of recorded deaths on 8 separate Aboriginal settlements in Southeast Australia. The major diseases recorded as causes of death were tuberculosis, bronchitis, pneumonia, diarrhoea and dysentery.
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian infant mortality rates are calculated to provide an indicator to compare the state of health of the two populations. Aboriginal rates were high when compared to the non-Aboriginal populations of Victoria and South Australia. The rates reveal a substantial health differential between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations. Aboriginal infant mortality improved into the latter quarter of the twentieth century but the corresponding improvement in non-Aboriginal infant mortality has been at a much higher rate. The gap between the health status of each has widened rather than narrowed over the last one hundred years.
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Hickman, Damien. "Winning friends and influencing people: a study of political influence in Australian policy-making." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1043901.
Abstract:
Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)The Howard government’s family law reforms presented a unique set of power relations that Non-Government Community Service Organisations (NGCSOs) had to negotiate in the policy process. How NGCSOs negotiated networks of power through their participation in this reform process offered a fruitful area of enquiry for the study of political influence in policy development. A governmentality approach framed the conceptualisation of power and power relations and the strategies and tactics used by NGCSOs to negotiate the policy process and influence government decision-making. The analysis of NGCSO participation was based on data collected from policy submissions and public hearing evidence given to a House of Representatives Standing Committee Inquiry into custodial arrangements following family separation. In addition, questionnaires and interviews with government officials and NGCSOs involved in the reform process provided further insights into the negotiation of power relations. A key factor in the participation of NGCSOs was the need to work within a system of gender politics that governed the policy-making process to favour the ideological and political objectives sought by the Howard government. The analysis of policy participation in this context found that political influence correlated with the ability to accurately assess the political environment and apply this knowledge to influence government officials. The NGCSOs able to apply their understanding of the policy environment to create supportive and sympathetic political relations were also found to have exerted higher levels of political influence that helped them achieve policy gains. A set of identifiable skills relating to the assessment and management of the gendered political environment by the NGCSOs that more successfully negotiated power relations was framed as demonstrating political acumen. This thesis offers a conceptualisation of political acumen that, through the skills it entails, provides an innovative framework for the analysis of interest group policy participation and political influence.
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Ono, Akiko. "Pentecostalism among the Bundjalund revisited : the rejection of culture by aboriginal Christians in northern New South Wales, Australia." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147081.
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O'Halloran, Michael. "Working conditions of Vietnamese-Australian people with limited English language skills." Thesis, 1999. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/32976/.
Abstract:
This dissertation examines a number of aspects of the Vietnamese-Australian community
and traces their progress from the mid-1970s when the bulk of these migrants were
refugees. The rates of unemployment over the past two decades for this group are the
focus of much research and the results of this research are discussed at length. Similarly,
the types of employment that these people entered are studied in depth by eminent
researchers, and these results are also discussed.
The main focus of this study, however, concerns the working conditions of members of
the Vietnamese-Australian community who are not very proficient in the English
language. A number of these people were interviewed for this project and produced some
very important data. The interviewees talked of their working conditions, which included
their rates of pay, and the entitlements that they should legally receive, but do not. There
are a perceived number of reasons for the plight of these workers, and the people who
endure such pay and conditions discuss these reasons.
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Harrison, Lindsey Jean. "Diet and nutrition in a Tiwi Community : a study of factors affecting the health status of under threes at Milikapiti, North Australia." Phd thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/141215.
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Keller, Christiane. "'Nane Narduk Kunkodjgurlu Namarnbom' : 'This is my idea' : innovation and creativity in contemporary Rembarrnga sculpture from the Maningrida region." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151065.
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Taylor, Luke. "'The same but different' : social reproduction and innovation in the art of the Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land." Phd thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132451.
Abstract:
This thesis presents an analysis of the artistic systern of the Kunwinjku of western
Arnhen1 Land, Australia. The analysis focusses on the n1eanings encoded in Kunwinjku
bark paintings and how the operation of the artistic system develops the sernantic
productivity of paintings. The theoretical basis of this analysis is semiological in the
n1anner outlined by Saussure.
The thesis begins with a historical analysis of the development of the market for
K unwinjku paintings. I argue that the production of bark paintings for sale has largely
replaced the traditional contexts of secular painting and also some forms of ceremonial
painting. I show how bark painting now has a very in1portant role in the transmission
of culturally constituted sets of rneanings between generations of Kunwinjku.
After this general introduction, the analysis shifts to the way that bark paintings are
integrated with the Kunwinjku social systen1. I consider the dynamics of the way
Kunwinjku men compete to acquire knowledge of Ancestral subjects, and how paintings
are used as a public display of the knowledgeable status of individual artists. I show
how the acquisition of knowledge is organised in respect of the ceremonial systen1 and
how paintings used in ceren1ony are an important means by which such knowledge is
comn1unicated. The analysis of the rneanings encoded in ceremonial paintings provides
th~ introductory background for a rnore detailed exarnination of the way bark paintings
encode both rnundane and 111ore esoteric ceren1onial references.
The 111ain body of the thesis identifies different types of Kunwinjku bark paintings
and the specific way n1eaning is encoded in each type. It begins with paintings that
Kunwinjka consider to be naturalistic representations. This analysis distinguishes the
variety of ways that Kunwinjku see components of the outline form of their figures
to be iconically motivated. The succeeding chapter investigates the way that paintings
which show more an1biguous figurative forms depict the transformational characteristics
of the Ancestral Beings. The innovative potential of such paintings is discussed. The
next chapter shows how the composition of the figurative forms of some bark paintings
can be n1odified to resernble the composition of ceremonial paintings as a means of
incorporating more esoteric references in the work. The final chapter of this analysis reveals how different types of x-ray infill of figurative motifs associates the figures with
distinct reahns of 1neaning. Different paintings can refer to the reahns of food division,
the nature of death. social grouping or the organisation of landscape. I describe the
way that. senior K unwinjku artists 1nay develop new types of x-ray infill i.o create new
n1ean1ngs.
In the conclusion I consider the way Kunwinjku are progressively socialised to understand
the n1eanings of different types of paintings , and how the artistic systen1 is
organised to create the se111antic productivity of paintings. I show that Kunwinjku
not. only learn t.he 1neanings of different paintings , but also learn to abstract stuctures
that organise their understanding of the relationships between paintings. By showing
how the artistic systen1 works to condense many reahns of Kunwinjku experience of the
world I show how this sytem is involved in the n1aintenance of the continued coherence
and vitality of K unwinjku belief. I relate innovation in K unwinjku art to the sen1antic
productivity developed within the system.
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Hemmingsen, Sarah Ann. "Indigenous coastal resource management : an Australian and New Zealand comparison." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151420.
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Hoff, Jennifer. "Gifts for the dead : a stylistic analysis of Tiwi graveposts illuminated by a case study of their manufacture." Phd thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117362.
Abstract:
Introduction - an outline of deficiencies in previous
research, scholarly and popular interest in the Tiwi people
and their funeral ceremonies; my reasons for attempting
the project. The theoretical context for this research and
methodologies for the stylistic analysis and fieldwork
project are outlined. Difficulties in completing the
project are reviewed together with a summary of the major
fieldwork commission which narrowed the focus of research.
The setting - an historical survey of Bathurst and Melville
Islands comprising the formation of landforms, the arrival
of the first people and their relations with indigenous
species. The death of the ancestral leader Purukupali is
recounted and his instructions which have formed the basis
for Tiwi funeral ceremonies. The influence of contact with
outsiders - Portugese, Dutch, Indonesians, etc. - is
recorded as well as British contact beginning with the
settlement of Ford Dundas. Changes brought about by
occupation of the islands by buffalo shooters and the
establishment of the Bathurst Island Mission are outlined.
Hostility between the Tiwi and adjacent mainland Aborigines
is described also. Graveposts as ceremonial markers - descriptions by the
first field researchers - Klaatsch, Basedow, Spencer - are
compared with findings by Mountford and Goodale of the
National Geographic Expedition in 1954. This chapter
concludes with descriptions of earlier ceremonies given to
me by contemporary carvers and of events at a pukumani
(funeral) ceremony for Nelson Mungatopi's uncle in 1986.
Classification of sculptural elements - major and minor
features from a core sample of fifty eight graveposts plus
additional examples are identified and classified with a
summary of significant findings.
Classification of painted motifs - a systemic grouping of
painted elements comprising the use of materials,
distribution of design elements, technical processes and
the skills of Tiwi artists, together with a summary of
their incidence and temporal distribution.
Conception and design - differing levels of ability among
artists, how they acquire their skills and forms of
training. Sources for ideas are surveyed along with
motivating factors, value judgments and the rights of
commissioning families, conceptual preparation and the
stages of manufacture for tutinis (graveposts). VGenerative
processes - Purukupali's instructions to tutini
carvers are reviewed along with seasonal influences, the
selection of materials, acceptable work methods and
conventional stages for a ritual commission (scorching
techniques, obtaining pigments, the use of fixatives,
etc.)* This chapter concludes with a detailed comparison of
preparations for a pukumani ceremony by the carvers Paddy
Freddy and Holder Adams.
Aesthetic criteria and assessment - artists' responses to
the requirements of a commission are described as well as
the resulting evaluation of graveposts by bereaved
relatives or patrons. The significance of the contract for
all parties including the 'bosses' and 'workers' is
reviewed. Criteria for acceptability and criteria for
excellence are factors regarded by artists as indicators of
the level of positive response and payment for commissioned
graveposts. Included in this classification is a
discussion of the limits of acceptable innovation in tutini
carving.
Meanings and symbolism - graveposts as symbolic human
images and examples of innovation including small carved
human figures. Meanings for carved motifs and the symbolism
of painted patterns are outlined, and comparisons made
between scarification designs and painted elements.
Categories of painted patterns, including pukumani designs,
are assessed in terms of their context and symbolism. Conclusion - a review of stylistic evolution in graveposts,
major determining factors of style, and the role of artists
as innovators and exponents of traditional ideas. Evidence
of stylistic variation during successive historic periods
is summarised and important traits compared with painting
styles of the Yolngu (Aborigines) in Arnhem Land. The study
ends with comments by Tiwi artists on the future of tutini
carving.
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Keast, Sam. "Neoliberal Wellbeing: Exploring the Culture of Psychological Meritocracy in Australian Schooling and Education." Thesis, 2021. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42289/.
Abstract:
The recent rise in wellbeing discourses in education can be situated more broadly in the rise generally of psychological and therapeutic interventions into schools in Australia. It also comes against the background of rising public concern about youth mental health. The heightened public concern, coupled with government, economic and departmental imperatives has led to a feverish rollout of wellbeing interventions, teaching strategies, documents, and research to tackle the problem of wellbeing. Within an educational context increasingly under pressure from neoliberalism, government funded secondary schooling also has often been held to democratic ideals about its purpose to produce certain kinds of young people. Wellbeing discourses have emerged in education policy, reports, and research and indicative of these discourses is a heightened focus on personal responsibility, individualised monitoring, and regulation of emotions and behaviours. Often these neoliberal forms of wellbeing subjectivity are sustained by mainstream psychological epistemologies and discourse. This project investigated the historical contingency and conditions of possibility that have given rise to neoliberal wellbeing subjectivities. Informed by historical thinking (Teo, 2015) and a critical community psychology focus (Fox et al., 2009; Kagan et al., 2011; Sloan, 2000) the project investigated the ways in which psychology as an epistemic institution co-constructs neoliberal wellbeing subjectivities that move beyond disciplinary boundaries and into policy and the Australian social imaginary to create certain human kinds (Hacking, 1986). Specifically, through post-structural critical policy analysis (Bacchi, 2009) of the key ministerial education declarations in Australia from 1989 to 2019, it is shown that certain kinds of young people are problematised as being risky citizens. It is demonstrated that wellbeing, as a problem representation in education policy, operates to individualise and responsibilise risk and to bifurcate educational success and failure according to a psychological meritocracy. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that neoliberal wellbeing obscures factors such as social class which have long been indicators of educational marginalisation and inequity. For critical community psychology to be invested in a wellbeing which is responsive to notions of fairness, inclusion and agency, it is proposed that epistemic justice needs to also be included in research and praxis. An example of enacting critical praxis is detailed through an evaluation of a student engagement program for young people from the African-Australian diaspora. Centring the young people as epistemic agents was seen to be an important way to counter the majoritarian stories (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002) of them being at-risk. Their stories offer important insights that disrupt the homogenising, acultural, class-blind neoliberal subjectivities which currently dominate and constrain the space of possibility for young people.
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Wilson, Leah Ruth. "Resident and resident-related committees and meetings in South Australian aged care hostels / Leah Ruth Wilson." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21959.
Abstract:
"February 20, 2003"Includes bibliographical references (leaves 586-603)
xvii, 603 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Investigates the level of resident participation in decision-making in aged care hostels in South Australia.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Psychology, 2003
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Kleebpung, Nonthasruang. "Advertising and media literacy : young people and their understanding of the world of advertising in Australia and Thailand." Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19411/.
Abstract:
This thesis demonstrates that Thai, Thai-Australian, and Asian international participants have a stronger knowledge of advertising industry operation compared with Australian participants. Thai and Thai-Australian participants were more sceptical of the rhetorical claims of advertising and aware of global branding techniques. Differences are also apparent in readings of gender and sexuality in advertising. Australian participants focused more on questions of gender inequality, while Thai participants moralised more about sexuality. Thai participants were also more concerned with the ethics of over-consumption. Australian participants exhibited characteristics of low-context cultures and often used a direct style to demonstrate their knowledge of the media. Thai participants used characteristically elaborate and indirect styles, typical of high-context readings of the media.
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Kaplan-Myrth, Nili. "Hard Yakka : a study of the community-government relations that shape Australian Aboriginal health policy and politics /." 2003. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=765029031&Fmt=7&clientId%20=43258&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Abstract:
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2004.Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Includes bibliography. Preview available online at: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=765029031&Fmt=7&clientId%20=43258&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Clarke, P. A. (Philip Allan). "Contact conflict and regeneration : aboriginal cultural geography of the Lower Murray, South Australia / Philip Allan Clarke." 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21559.
Abstract:
Bibliography: leaves 361-390.425, [50] leaves : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, 1995