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Morrison, Fiona Clare, i n/a. "Altitudinal Variation in the Life History of Anurans in Southeast Queensland". Griffith University. School of Environmental and Applied Science, 2002. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20031125.120847.

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Global declines and disappearances of amphibians from high altitude, pristine habitats have been reported in recent years. To date the cause of many of these declines and/or disappearances has not been identified. Although it is well documented that life history characteristics of temperate amphibians are influenced by altitude (due to systematic variation of temperature with altitude), little work has been carried out on the effects of altitude on Australian anurans. This lack of ecological data is a major impediment to identifying the causal factors responsible for amphibian declines. Due to differences in life history characteristics, high altitude populations may be less resilient than their lowland counterparts and subsequently may be more vulnerable to extinction. Consequently, the main aim of this study was to determine whether altitude influenced life history characteristics and ultimately population resilience of anurans in the southeast Queensland region. Six anuran species; Litoria chloris, L. lesueuri, L. pearsoniana (Anura: Hylidae), Mixophyes fasciolatus, M. fleayi and M. iteratus (Anura: Myobatrachidae) were studied over three field seasons (1997-1999) in 18 sites of varying altitude (100-950m) in the southeast Queensland region. The life history characteristics examined were: activity and breeding season length, fecundity and egg size, number of clutches produced per season, tadpole growth and development rates, longevity, age at maturity, reproductive life span, average lifetime fecundity, survival and recapture rates. The data were collected using a combination of field-based surveys (body sizes, clutch sizes, and survival and recapture rates), museum specimen dissections (clutch and egg sizes), reciprocal transplant field experiments (tadpole growth and development rates) and skeletochronology (longevity, age at maturity, reproductive lifespan and average lifetime fecundity). On average, high altitude populations of all species had shorter breeding and activity seasons than low altitude populations (up to 10 weeks less in some cases). The magnitude of the difference in breeding season length varied among years depending on the average temperature and rainfall for the year; i.e. differences appeared greater in warmer and wetter years. Within a population males had longer breeding and activity seasons than females. Although breeding season length varied with altitude, the number of nights that individuals were active within the breeding season did not vary; i.e. low altitude populations were not active for more nights despite having a longer breeding season. This result was attributed to the absence of a relationship between individual activity and environmental variables (air temperature, rainfall, etc.) in many of the populations. Generally, intraspecific clutch size did not vary significantly with altitude. This result was due to the absence of a significant relationship between female body size and altitude (as clutch size is proportional to female body size). Egg size also did not vary with altitude however, suggesting egg size may be canalized (i.e. fixed) in these species. Results also suggest that females of these species only produce one clutch of eggs per season. Interspecific differences in reproductive characteristics largely reflected differences in reproductive mode, larval habitat and female body size. Altitude negatively influenced growth and development rates in L. chloris and development rates in L. pearsoniana. Tadpoles raised at high altitudes were also generally larger at each Gosner Development Stage in both species. The results of the reciprocal transplant experiments suggested that most of the variation in growth and development rates was due to environmental factors (water temperature) rather than genetic or maternal factors. Altitude or genetic factors did not significantly affect tadpole survival in either species. The results suggest that tadpoles occurring at high altitudes take longer to reach metamorphosis and do so at a larger size than their lowland counterparts. With the exception of L. lesueuri, skeletochronology was suitable for age estimation in the study species. Altitude had a significant effect on the age at maturity or longevity in some of the species, however there were trends toward older individuals and older ages at maturity in high altitude populations for the remaining species. Females were generally older than males for all species and in the case of longer-lived species (i.e. Mixophyes spp.) also tended to be older when breeding for the first time. The large overlap of body sizes of individuals of different ages demonstrates that body size is a poor indicator of age in these species. This is the first study to estimate average lifetime fecundity for more than one amphibian species and/or population. The results suggest that the absence of significant altitudinal variation in the average lifetime fecundity of different populations is due to tradeoffs made by females (current reproduction vs. survival). There was no significant altitudinal variation in annual survival and recapture rates in any of the species, and generally there was no difference in the survival and recapture rates of males and females in each population. Within a year, monthly survival and recapture rates were more variable at low than high altitudes and this was attributed to the longer breeding season of low altitude populations. The results did not support previous studies that suggested there was a size bias in survival and recapture rates. The shorter breeding seasons, slower growth and development rates, older age at maturity and greater longevity found in the high altitude study populations will result in increased generation time in those populations. In turn, increased generation time can cause high altitude populations to be less resilient (i.e. population takes longer to return to equilibrium after a disturbance away from equilibrium) (Pimm et al. 1988, Pimm 1991) and ultimately more vulnerable or prone to extinction or decline. The majority of unexplained global amphibian declines have occurred at high altitudes in tropical and subtropical areas. These latitudinal patterns may be explained by the narrow range of environmental tolerances exhibited by tropical organisms resulting in mountains being effectively higher in the tropics. Consequently, high altitude tropical species are likely to be even more vulnerable than temperate species occurring at similar altitudes. Further work on the effects of geographic variation, especially interactions between altitude and latitude are needed to evaluate the hypotheses for the causes of these declines and disappearances.

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Morrison, Fiona Clare. "Altitudinal Variation in the Life History of Anurans in Southeast Queensland". Thesis, Griffith University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366730.

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Global declines and disappearances of amphibians from high altitude, pristine habitats have been reported in recent years. To date the cause of many of these declines and/or disappearances has not been identified. Although it is well documented that life history characteristics of temperate amphibians are influenced by altitude (due to systematic variation of temperature with altitude), little work has been carried out on the effects of altitude on Australian anurans. This lack of ecological data is a major impediment to identifying the causal factors responsible for amphibian declines. Due to differences in life history characteristics, high altitude populations may be less resilient than their lowland counterparts and subsequently may be more vulnerable to extinction. Consequently, the main aim of this study was to determine whether altitude influenced life history characteristics and ultimately population resilience of anurans in the southeast Queensland region. Six anuran species; Litoria chloris, L. lesueuri, L. pearsoniana (Anura: Hylidae), Mixophyes fasciolatus, M. fleayi and M. iteratus (Anura: Myobatrachidae) were studied over three field seasons (1997-1999) in 18 sites of varying altitude (100-950m) in the southeast Queensland region. The life history characteristics examined were: activity and breeding season length, fecundity and egg size, number of clutches produced per season, tadpole growth and development rates, longevity, age at maturity, reproductive life span, average lifetime fecundity, survival and recapture rates. The data were collected using a combination of field-based surveys (body sizes, clutch sizes, and survival and recapture rates), museum specimen dissections (clutch and egg sizes), reciprocal transplant field experiments (tadpole growth and development rates) and skeletochronology (longevity, age at maturity, reproductive lifespan and average lifetime fecundity). On average, high altitude populations of all species had shorter breeding and activity seasons than low altitude populations (up to 10 weeks less in some cases). The magnitude of the difference in breeding season length varied among years depending on the average temperature and rainfall for the year; i.e. differences appeared greater in warmer and wetter years. Within a population males had longer breeding and activity seasons than females. Although breeding season length varied with altitude, the number of nights that individuals were active within the breeding season did not vary; i.e. low altitude populations were not active for more nights despite having a longer breeding season. This result was attributed to the absence of a relationship between individual activity and environmental variables (air temperature, rainfall, etc.) in many of the populations. Generally, intraspecific clutch size did not vary significantly with altitude. This result was due to the absence of a significant relationship between female body size and altitude (as clutch size is proportional to female body size). Egg size also did not vary with altitude however, suggesting egg size may be canalized (i.e. fixed) in these species. Results also suggest that females of these species only produce one clutch of eggs per season. Interspecific differences in reproductive characteristics largely reflected differences in reproductive mode, larval habitat and female body size. Altitude negatively influenced growth and development rates in L. chloris and development rates in L. pearsoniana. Tadpoles raised at high altitudes were also generally larger at each Gosner Development Stage in both species. The results of the reciprocal transplant experiments suggested that most of the variation in growth and development rates was due to environmental factors (water temperature) rather than genetic or maternal factors. Altitude or genetic factors did not significantly affect tadpole survival in either species. The results suggest that tadpoles occurring at high altitudes take longer to reach metamorphosis and do so at a larger size than their lowland counterparts. With the exception of L. lesueuri, skeletochronology was suitable for age estimation in the study species. Altitude had a significant effect on the age at maturity or longevity in some of the species, however there were trends toward older individuals and older ages at maturity in high altitude populations for the remaining species. Females were generally older than males for all species and in the case of longer-lived species (i.e. Mixophyes spp.) also tended to be older when breeding for the first time. The large overlap of body sizes of individuals of different ages demonstrates that body size is a poor indicator of age in these species. This is the first study to estimate average lifetime fecundity for more than one amphibian species and/or population. The results suggest that the absence of significant altitudinal variation in the average lifetime fecundity of different populations is due to tradeoffs made by females (current reproduction vs. survival). There was no significant altitudinal variation in annual survival and recapture rates in any of the species, and generally there was no difference in the survival and recapture rates of males and females in each population. Within a year, monthly survival and recapture rates were more variable at low than high altitudes and this was attributed to the longer breeding season of low altitude populations. The results did not support previous studies that suggested there was a size bias in survival and recapture rates. The shorter breeding seasons, slower growth and development rates, older age at maturity and greater longevity found in the high altitude study populations will result in increased generation time in those populations. In turn, increased generation time can cause high altitude populations to be less resilient (i.e. population takes longer to return to equilibrium after a disturbance away from equilibrium) (Pimm et al. 1988, Pimm 1991) and ultimately more vulnerable or prone to extinction or decline. The majority of unexplained global amphibian declines have occurred at high altitudes in tropical and subtropical areas. These latitudinal patterns may be explained by the narrow range of environmental tolerances exhibited by tropical organisms resulting in mountains being effectively “higher” in the tropics. Consequently, high altitude tropical species are likely to be even more vulnerable than temperate species occurring at similar altitudes. Further work on the effects of geographic variation, especially interactions between altitude and latitude are needed to evaluate the hypotheses for the causes of these declines and disappearances.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Environmental and Applied Science
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Sim, J. C. R. "Designed landscapes in Queensland, 1859-1939 : experimentation - adaptation - innovation". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.

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Sim, Jean C. R. "Designed Landscapes in Queensland, 1859-1939: experimentation - adaptation - innovation". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/10835/1/wholePHDsim1999.pdf.

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The conservation of historic cultural landscapes in Queensland is in its infancy. Effective conservation practice, however is based on sound historical information, and no previous study has investigated the historical development of local parks, gardens and other landscapes. The objectives of this research were to examine the factors which influenced landscape design in Queensland, to identify the forms and expressions of design derived from these influences, and to identify any distinctive aspects related to local landscape character. The timeframe chosen for this investigation was from the beginning of the separate colony of Queensland (1859) to the outbreak of World War 2 (1939). Using historical method, the research began with an exploration of published primary sources (particularly garden literature from the 1860s to 1930s) related to Queensland and other 'tropical' areas. A series of hypotheses was proposed to explain the findings, and these were tested by further analysis and data gathering. There followed a triple-layered central proposition, suggesting that: (i) in Queensland, the traditional delineation of styles to describe landscape design is of limited application because of the lack of elite professional designers and wealthy clients; (ii) there developed a discernible 'tropical landscape design character' in suitable climatic areas, which included two distinct visual aspects expressed in the landscape (the 'exotic' and the 'prosaic'); and, (iii) these design outcomes were the result of a design process of 'acclimatisation' experienced by early settlers (gardeners and designers) working in unfamiliar lands and climates, and includes the stages of experimentation, adaptation and innovation.

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Richards, Jonathan. ""A Question of Necessity" : The Native Police in Queensland". Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365772.

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Frontier issues are an inevitable part of Australian historiography, and have often been dealt with in either an indifferent or a moralistic manner. Specifically, it has been widely argued that records of officially condoned frontier violence have been destroyed or lost. This thesis, which deals with the Native Police in Queensland from 1860 to 1905, attempts to move the discussion on to firmer ground. It is driven by a passionate commitment to the rights of Indigenous Australians, and shows that detailed archival research does not support those who deny the violence that accompanied the colonisation of Australia. Apologists for dispossession will find no comfort in the archival records. The Native Police force was widely reputed to have been the most violent police force on the Australian frontier. Long-standing and widely cited references about the lack of Native Police records have been tied into arguments about the kind of force it was. This dissertation is the first significant archival work on the Native Police force after Separation. The force was part of broader colonial settler-society, and I analyse the Native Police in that context. The problem with existing literature is that the archives have not been adequately consulted, and historians have neglected vital contextual aspects of the force in Queensland. The sociology of policing has not been integrated with a model of military force in the Queensland case, even though in colonial Queensland the same men formed the dual function of soldiers and police. The aim of the thesis is to provide an integrated model documented by detailed research in the archives. The research hypothesis is that the Native Police played a central role in the dispossession and punitive treatment of Indigenous people. Chapter 1 sets up the research problem in the context of the existing scholarship on native policing. Chapter 2 looks at the officers. Chapter 3 is concerned with the Aboriginal troopers of the force, and Chapter 4 examines the operations of the Native Police in Queensland. The thesis is very detailed, as the topic requires, but it still only opens up essential avenues of research. In particular, more work needs to be done on the experiences of the troopers and on the records of frontier violence in general.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Arts, Media and Culture
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Gardiner, Duncan. "Sounding a History of the Guitar in Queensland: the First 100 Years and More". Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/401447.

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This project examines the history of the guitar in Queensland from the start of European settlement in 1842 to the late 1940s, a research topic that has been hardly explored until recently. Therefore, it is not generally known that activities involving guitars and other fretted instruments were a significant element of musical life during this period. Rather than appearing in its soloistic capacity, the guitar was predominantly used in fretted instrument and plucked string ensemble contexts, and also to accompany other instruments and voices. It was an element in a musical culture that encouraged and fostered all types of small and large ensemble music. The outcomes of this project are presented in two parts: a dissertation and a creative portfolio. The dissertation is a foundational account of the guitar in Queensland, based on my thorough research into historical newspapers and related sources—sheet music, concert ephemera, photographs, maps, books, and journals—held in the National Library of Australia’s digital database, Trove. The creative portfolio expresses my artistic responses to the findings, and shows how I coalesced the research findings with processes of interpretation and activation to generate both new knowledge and continuing traditions around the instrument. A synthesis of historical research, historical musicology, and practice-based artistic research, the two parts constitute worded and sounded documentations of local guitar history. This project is significant because it is the first of its kind to document the history of the guitar in the state, particularly during the early period. In addition to enlivening the history of the guitar—highlighting the performers and the teachers, the instruments and the repertoire, and the many contexts and venues in which performances took place—this project demonstrates how an artistic practice can be substantiated and inspired by historical research. The overarching motivation for embarking on this investigation was to recover and reactivate what I felt was a neglected and, in many cases, much forgotten repertoire. Second to this was the desire to utilise the research findings to inform, influence, and inspire my artistic practices. I did this by adding recovered works to my repertoire; by creating historically influenced arrangements and original compositions; and by engaging instrumentalist partners to project a tradition into my contemporary context. This project is aimed to provide musicians—especially guitarists—and historians a source of information and also inspiration. It shows how the investigation of historical repertoire can nurture the practice of contemporary performer-composers and support the expression and significance of their work.
Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)
Queensland Conservatorium
Arts, Education and Law
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Meadmore, Peter J. "Examining reformist discourses: Queensland state primary education, 1900-30". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2000. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36643/1/36643_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.

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This is a study of Queensland's response to the reformist educational discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Usually referred to as 'the New Education' or 'progressive education', these discourses originated in industrialised Northern Hemisphere countries as a response to social and economic conditions during the final decades of the nineteenth century. The study investigates the impact of these discourses on Queensland's educational history, noting the uneven effects of these imported ideas on local policies and practices, in particular the implementation of new syllabuses of instruction for primary schools. Queensland was selected as the site for this study for several reasons. First, it is acknowledged by scholars in the field of Australian education history that the history of education in that state is under-researched in comparison with other Australian jurisdictions. Second, Queensland's educational history poses a unique problem in terms of the means by which the reformist 1905 Syllabus was produced. The problem is that the Herbartian ideals which were the central tenets of the New Education were anathema to the creators of the syllabus-the long-serving senior administrators of the Department of Public Instruction, Gerard Anderson and David Ewart. The study asks how their jointly shared conservative belief in the efficacy of the moral-intellectual discourse of education and its associated faculty psychology and mental discipline theory could be rationalised in the process of introducing the 1905 Syllabus and later developments. The investigation has three key components: a background study of Northern Hemisphere reforms; a study of Queensland's educational history from 1860; and, an analysis of the implementation of the 1905 Syllabus in terms of pedagogical and nonpedagogical outcomes. The first component documents the wide ranging and at times conflicting discourses that made up these constructs and examines a number of practices that were transported to Australian colonies/states at the tum of the twentieth century. In considering Australian responses to educational reform, the introduction and implementation of reformist practices in several Australian states are examined. This analysis identifies the contingencies that allowed for their adoption, particularly through the introduction of a primary school syllabus that embraced the principles of these reformist discourses. The second component considers Queensland's response to reformist educational agendas. To do so, an examination is made of education in the colony and state of Queensland over the period from 1860 when the first educational legislation came into practice in the new colony until the events which led to the production of the 1905 Syllabus. In contextualising education in Queensland, an analysis of the dominant pedagogical, institutional and administrative discourses that constituted the operation of the state education bureaucracy in this period is presented. The paucity of provisions for teacher preparation is noted. It is concluded that the disposition of senior bureaucrats made the possibility of improvement unlikely. As demonstrated in the third component of the study, the implementation of the pedagogical reforms of the 1905 Syllabus was more difficult than its introduction. While the logistics of its introduction were made simple by the highly centralised bureaucracy of the Queensland Department of Public Instruction, the pedagogical principles underpinning the document were problematic. With no attempt being made to reform teacher training, together with the conservative influence of the school inspectors and the limiting effect of the State Scholarship examination on the syllabus, the probability of the new syllabus being successfully implemented was seriously diminished. In contrast to curricula and pedagogical reform, the 'non-pedagogical' discourses of physical wellbeing and scientific testing and measurement were more readily implemented. The wellbeing of the pupil population was achieved through the appointment of medical and dental professionals who examined every school child on a regular basis. Operating as part of a pastoral bureaucracy, this service did not depend on a major change in the disposition of the teaching service for its success. While scientific testing was not taken up by state education in Queensland for several decades, its failure to be readily adopted was due to the State Scholarship examination which, it was believed provided a similar service at a far lower cost. The study concludes that the transportation to Queensland of the educational ideas and practices of Northern Hemisphere was problematic philosophically and pedagogically. At the same time, they were readily appropriated by educational authorities seeking bureaucratic simplicity as well as legitimation of their programs of pastoral care.

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McGuire, John. "Punishment and colonial society : a history of penal change in Queensland, 1859-1930s /". St. Lucia, Qld, 2001. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16500.pdf.

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Jacobsen, Trudy Anne. "Threads in a sampot : a history of women and power in Cambodia /". St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18023.pdf.

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Brady, Tony James. "The rural school experiment : creating a Queensland yeoman". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60802/3/Tony_Brady_Thesis.pdf.

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Using historical narrative and extensive archival research, this thesis portrays the story of the twentieth century Queensland Rural Schools. The initiative started at Nambour Primary School in 1917, and extended over the next four decades to encompass thirty primary schools that functioned as centralized institutions training children in agricultural science, domestic science, and manual trade training. The Rural Schools formed the foundation of a systemised approach to agricultural education intended to facilitate the State’s closer settlement ideology. The purpose of the Rural Schools was to mitigate urbanisation, circumvent foreign incursion and increase Queensland’s productivity by turning boys into farmers, or the tradesmen required to support them, and girls into the homemakers that these farmers needed as wives and mothers for the next generation. Effectively Queensland took rural boys and girls and created a new yeomanry to aid the State’s development.

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Philp, Robert Henry Haldon, i randj@cqnet com au. "Steel all Through The Church of England in Central Queensland Transplantation and Adaptation 1892-1942". Central Queensland University. School of Humanities, 2002. http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au./thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20031117.164918.

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The thesis is concerned with the establishment of the Anglican presence in Central Queensland and the history of the first fifty years of the Diocese of Rockhampton. The historical method employed examined the attitudes and mentalities of the Anglicans during that fifty years and attempted to determine how the process of transplantation and adaptation of the English social institution was, or was not, achieved in the new physical and social environment. Various aspects of Anglican Diocesan administration such as recruitment of clergy, financial shortages, cultural isolation, racial issues, episcopal appointments and ecumenical relationships, are taken as units and analysed in the overall context of transplantation and adaptation. It is argued that Australianisation came gradually and without conscious manipulation. Where change from the English model was attempted, it was often initiated by the English clergy rather than the Australian laity.

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Carden, Clarissa. "Turning Points: Christian and Secular Battlelines in the History and Present of Queensland Education". Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380298.

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This thesis answers the question: to what extent is the history of education in Queensland, Australia, a history of secularisation? Through a Foucauldian history of the present, it explores the shifting relationship between Christian and secular ideals in Queensland education from the early twentieth century through to 2017. It focuses on a series of six case studies, each of which examines a moment during which the existing relationship between Christian and secular ideals was challenged. This thesis offers a revised definition of secularisation. This definition holds that secularisation should be understood as (1) historically, culturally, and spatially specific; (2) changing and recursive; (3) situated in power relations; (4) multi-faceted and multi-scalar and (5) existing in the context of multiple modernities. Using this definition, the thesis finds that secularisation has occurred through the history of education in Queensland, despite legislative changes which continue to privilege Christianity. The key data this thesis relies upon are archival sources including letters, reports, and cabinet minutes. Other significant forms of data include newspaper sources, Census data, legislation, and Hansard reports.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc
Arts, Education and Law
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Hatherell, William. "A cultural history of Brisbane 1940-1970 /". [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17644.pdf.

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Costin, Victoria A. "Conceptions of 'history' held by a group of seventeen-year-old students in a Queensland school". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36613/1/36613_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.

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This study began as a teacher's search for greater understanding about history. It was triggered by a cluster of concerns about the discipline of history, the role of history in Australian society, and a sense of confusion about the current role of history. After nearly thirty years of enjoyable involvement in history, why was it that I was now more confused than ever about the nature of history? Within what I perceived as my 'middle Australia' social context there appears to be a 'big picture' view of history that has become more complex and fragmented. Both professional and research literature on 'history' and history education reflects a wide and complex range of concerns and issues: with many different meanings being ascribed to 'history'. In particular, over the past forty years academic debate and discussion has illuminated many complex and problematic philosophical, epistemological, ontological and ideological aspects to the processes, outcomes and social purposes ascribed to discourses of history. Had students at school also constructed a similarly complex range of understandings about 'history'? If so, what were they and did they have any links to the issues evident in the hotly contested academic debates about 'history'? The research focus of this study emerged: what conceptions of the phenomenon of 'history' had been constructed by a group of Year Twelve students in a Queensland school. The site chosen for the study was the researcher's professional 'home territory': a coeducational independent Christian School, with a humble self-image, and whose students (over 800) may be regarded as representing the wide social context of Queensland's 'middle Australia'. Over a two-year period, a group of twenty-two participants was selected from those who had volunteered, to be involved in an open and discursive interview process. The resultant open, frank and often startling conversations about 'history', 'the past' and Australian society were recorded, transcribed and analysed. The research orientation of phenomenography was chosen because it provided a means of discovering and constructing the range of different understandings and awarenesses that were held about the phenomenon of 'history'. The outcome of this study was the construction of an Outcome Space, which provides a 'map' of the collectively held awarenesses about the phenomenon of 'history'. Central to the construction of this Outcome Space was the discovery and identification of the different variant conceptions that emerged from the participants' verbalised understandings. The different images creating these conceptions were then constructed into Eight Categories of Description. The construction of these two outcomes gives new insights into a number of aspects of understanding the phenomenon of 'history'. Individually the eight different Categories of Description illuminate a complex range of possible understandings held about the phenomenon of 'history': conceptions that resonate with the awarenesses evident in academic literature. For history educators the Outcome Space suggests a simple reference framework to use in discussion, and exploration, of the complex concerns and issues about the phenomenon of 'history'. In the classroom, this framework could be used to help students explore and understand the socially constructed awarenesses of the phenomenon of 'history' that they have and that may influence their academic performance. For the wider context of Australian society the conceptions of these young Australians highlight some issues in need of intense reflection and discussion. The decline in support for the critical milieu of academic History, is paradoxically paralleled by an increasing interest in issues relating to 'heritage', 'remembrance', 'the past', 'memory', written and oral interpretations of 'history' in both the Australian media and the Australian political arena. As Queensland historian and educator, Professor Reynolds comments: events outside the academy reaffirm the moral authority and political potency of history. While it has always been used by the rich and powerful, it is a weapon within the reach of the poor, the oppressed and the disregarded (Reynolds, 1998:84). Reflection on the participants' emotional and cognitive awarenesses about the phenomenon of 'history', raise to a critical point the need to address the question: Who will construct the interpretations of Australia's 'past' and 'history' that will educate the present generation, about past generations, in order to empower future generations?

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Palmer, Alison Elizabeth. "Colonial genocides : Aborigines in Queensland, 1840-1897, and Hereros in South West Africa, 1884-1906". Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339879.

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Studies of genocide rarely move beyond the Holocaust (1939-1945) and the Aimenian genocide (1915-1917), and few make comparative analyses ofdifferentcases. This study seeks to develop understanding of which economic, political and social conditions give rise to a specific type of genocide - colonial genocides. An in depth study is made of the genocide of Aborigines in Queensland (1840-1897) and this is systematically compared to a briefer study of the genocide of the Hereros in South West Africa (1884-1906). Of the factors compared, four are verified by both cases, albeit with certain modifications. A common argument is made that genocide is preempted where the victim group is needed as labour for the perpetrator society. Neither case supported this factor: rather, it was found that the genocide continued despite this need. Whilst these factors provided necessary conditions for genocide, they were not sufficient to explain why genocide had been pursued rather than policies of assimilation or expulsion. Hence the role of ideologies and popular perceptions in Britain and Germany, and their colonial purposes, were examined to explain their different roles in the genocides. The particular forms of ideologies and popular perceptions were found to be significant as were changing international relations within Europe. The seventh factor - that genocide might be preempted where the church or state of the perpetrator homeland intervened, was also invalidated by the case studies. The problem of defining genocide is also addressed. The thesis demonstrates that the issue of perpetrator intention to commit genocide can be measured. It draws distinctions between overt and covert perpetrator intention; genocides in which the state is an active perpetrator and those where it has a complicit, less obvious role; and between a piecemeal form of genocide occurring over a long period, and a systematic genocide in a shorter time spell. The conclusions drawn from the case studies are briefly contrasted to explanations arising from the main European cases of genocide. By underlining the differences, the thesis demonstrates that colonial genocides are a distinct type of genocide and point to a non- Eurocentric approach to understanding genocide.

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Lloyd, Margaret. "Enacted cultural myth: Computer education in Queensland (1983-1997)". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36678/7/36678_Digitised%20Thesis-1_Redacted.pdf.

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The need to address cultural myth is critical in any human association with technology but acquires a particular imperative for consideration where that association is extended to education. This thesis will contend that the presence of the computer in the classroom is primarily an enactment of the cultural myth. The computer in education is more than an artefact of Western technology, it is an icon, representative of a mythology forged and sustained by cultural forces. That such a powerful device as the personal computer is in the hands of many rather than the technocratic few epitomises first-world democracy and affluence. That such a machine is put in the hands of children, making it the means for educating the young, is a powerful commitment to the future satisfying the sociological, political, economic, pedagogical and technological goals of our culture. Putting the (iconic) computer in the classroom legitimises and reinforces cultural beliefs of technology and progress, of education and power. This thesis will take the history of educational computing in Queensland (1983-1997) as its organising system with a particular focus on state secondary schools. This history is not an end in itself, but the means to an end. A meta-theory of computer education will be drawn from (and illustrated by) the history. It will be based on: (i) the critical cultural framework which underpins the history and which can be described in terms of its inherent pressures and agencies; and, (ii) the cultural myth embedded in and engendered by the events of the history. This thesis, through its view of history as enacted cultural myth and its identification of a critical cultural framework, will directly address a hitherto neglected area of educational research. This thesis will not argue for or against the use of computers in teaching and learning. It will alternately investigate the motives and actions of those who have been instrumental in putting computers into classrooms, into the hands of teachers and children.

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Aland, Rachel Claire. "Aspects of olfaction in the life history of antechinus subtropicus /". [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2004. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18147.pdf.

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Manson, Fiona J. "Life history traits, social mating system and genetic variation in the buff-banded rail Gallirallus philippensis on Heron island /". St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17757.pdf.

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Timbrell, Gregory Thomas. "A meta-study of SAP financials in the Queensland Government". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35769/1/Greg_Timbrell_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis consists of three related studies: an ERP Major Issues Study; an Historical Study of the Queensland Government Financial Management System; and a Meta-Study that integrates these and other related studies conducted under the umbrella of the Cooperative ERP Lifecycle Knowledge Management research program. This research provides a comprehensive view of ERP lifecycle issues encountered in SAP R/3 projects across the Queensland Government. This study follows a preliminary ERP issues study (Chang, 2002) conducted in five Queensland Government agencies. The Major Issues Study aims to achieve the following: (1) identify / explicate major issues in relation to the ES life-cycle in the public sector; (2) rank the importance of these issues; and, (3) highlight areas of consensus and dissent among stakeholder groups. To provide a rich context for this study, this thesis includes an historical recount of the Queensland Government Financial Management System (QGFMS). This recount tells of its inception as a centralised system; the selection of SAP and subsequent decentralisation; and, its eventual recentralisation under the Shared Services Initiative and CorpTech. This historical recount gives an insight into the conditions that affected the selection and ongoing management and support of QGFMS. This research forms part of a program entitled Cooperative ERP Lifecycle Knowledge Management. This thesis provides a concluding report for this research program by summarising related studies conducted in the Queensland Government SAP context: Chan (2003); Vayo et al (2002); Ng (2003); Timbrell et al (2001); Timbrell et al (2002); Chang (2002); Putra (1998); and, Niehus et al (1998). A study of Oracle in the United Arab Emirates by Dhaheri (2002) is also included. The thesis then integrates the findings from these studies in an overarching Meta-Study. The Meta-Study discusses key themes across all of these studies, creating an holistic report for the research program. Themes discussed in the meta-study include common issues found across the related studies; knowledge dynamics of the ERP lifecycle; ERP maintenance and support; and, the relationship between the key players in the ERP lifecycle.

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Foster, Gary Alan. "Male rape and the government of bodies : an unnatural history of the present /". [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20070105.111612/index.html.

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Beattie, Debra. "The wrong crowd : an online documentary and analytical contextualisation". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15874/1/Debra_Beattie_Thesis.pdf.

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This doctoral study comprises two parts. 75 per cent of the total weight of the submission consists of the creative component, the writing, directing and producing of a moving-image documentary in an online environment (supplementary material includes the script). Cutting edge technology (QTVR 'movies' and Live Stage Professional software) was used to create an immersive cinematic experience on the net. The Wrong Crowd can be viewed either online at www.abc.net.au/wrongcrowd or offline via a CD Rom (the latter includes the radio play 'Death of a Prostitute' which was excised from the version published via ABC Online because of legal concerns on the part of the ABC lawyers). The second part of the doctorate is the analytical contextualisation, comprising 25 per cent of the submission. This part examines the critical literature on the nature of the documentary form, documentary as history, cultural memory and the autobiography as history. Documentary exists as a truth-claim. History also embraces the search for evidence. The history documentary has a television form from which the online version is derived. The nature of the internet as a delivery platform for the moving image is discussed with reference to he truth claim as founded in the visible evidence - the news coverage - the 'this really happened'. The evidence however is open to interpretation for the historical record and is retold to suit the present power relations (the funding bodies, the commissioning editors, etc). In a CD Rom and more so online, this tendency towards individual interpretation is amplified to the point where the viewer can participate in the construction of the argument via a navigable database. Visually, the change from the temporal montage of the linear television documentary to spatial montage of the windows interface has led us to reconnect with computer-based moving images as a form of animated painting. Conventional screen theories of engagement and reception are invoked to aid in the discussion of modified cinematic conventions of editing and framing within the online form. The case-study of one of the inaugural Australian Film Commission funded online documentaries, The Wrong Crowd: Inside the Family Outside the Law, is a personal history narrative that intersects with Queensland police history from the 1950s to the late 1970s at the moments of inquiries into issues of police brutality and corruption.

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Beattie, Debra. "THE WRONG CROWD : An online documentary and Analytical contextualisation". Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15874/.

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This doctoral study comprises two parts. 75 per cent of the total weight of the submission consists of the creative component, the writing, directing and producing of a moving-image documentary in an online environment (supplementary material includes the script). Cutting edge technology (QTVR 'movies' and Live Stage Professional software) was used to create an immersive cinematic experience on the net. The Wrong Crowd can be viewed either online at www.abc.net.au/wrongcrowd or offline via a CD Rom (the latter includes the radio play 'Death of a Prostitute' which was excised from the version published via ABC Online because of legal concerns on the part of the ABC lawyers). The second part of the doctorate is the analytical contextualisation, comprising 25 per cent of the submission. This part examines the critical literature on the nature of the documentary form, documentary as history, cultural memory and the autobiography as history. Documentary exists as a truth-claim. History also embraces the search for evidence. The history documentary has a television form from which the online version is derived. The nature of the internet as a delivery platform for the moving image is discussed with reference to he truth claim as founded in the visible evidence - the news coverage - the 'this really happened'. The evidence however is open to interpretation for the historical record and is retold to suit the present power relations (the funding bodies, the commissioning editors, etc). In a CD Rom and more so online, this tendency towards individual interpretation is amplified to the point where the viewer can participate in the construction of the argument via a navigable database. Visually, the change from the temporal montage of the linear television documentary to spatial montage of the windows interface has led us to reconnect with computer-based moving images as a form of animated painting. Conventional screen theories of engagement and reception are invoked to aid in the discussion of modified cinematic conventions of editing and framing within the online form. The case-study of one of the inaugural Australian Film Commission funded online documentaries, The Wrong Crowd: Inside the Family Outside the Law, is a personal history narrative that intersects with Queensland police history from the 1950s to the late 1970s at the moments of inquiries into issues of police brutality and corruption.

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Stewart, Nathan John. "An investigation of asymmetical trunk and hip function in 'highly trained' unilateral arm function athletes with no history of LBP /". [St Lucia, Qld], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17442.pdf.

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Parsons, Meg. "Spaces of Disease: the creation and management of Aboriginal health and disease in Queensland 1900-1970". University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5572.

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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)
Indigenous health is one of the most pressing issues confronting contemporary Australian society. In recent years government officials, medical practitioners, and media commentators have repeatedly drawn attention to the vast discrepancies in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. However a comprehensive discussion of Aboriginal health is often hampered by a lack of historical analysis. Accordingly this thesis is a historical response to the current Aboriginal health crisis and examines the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal bodies in Queensland during the early to mid twentieth century. Drawing upon a wide range of archival sources, including government correspondence, medical records, personal diaries and letters, maps and photographs, I examine how the exclusion of Aboriginal people from white society contributed to the creation of racially segregated medical institutions. I examine four such government-run institutions, which catered for Aboriginal health and disease during the period 1900-1970. The four institutions I examine – Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, Peel Island Lazaret, Fantome Island lock hospital and Fantome Island leprosarium – constituted the essence of the Queensland Government’s Aboriginal health policies throughout this time period. The Queensland Government’s health policies and procedures signified more than a benevolent interest in Aboriginal health, and were linked with Aboriginal (racial) management strategies. Popular perceptions of Aborigines as immoral and diseased directly affected the nature and focus of government health services to Aboriginal people. In particular the Chief Protector of Aboriginals Office’s uneven allocation of resources to medical segregation facilities and disease controls, at the expense of other more pressing health issues, specifically nutrition, sanitation, and maternal and child health, materially contributed to Aboriginal ill health. This thesis explores the purpose and rationales, which informed the provision of health services to Aboriginal people. The Queensland Government officials responsible for Aboriginal health, unlike the medical authorities involved in the management of white health, did not labour under the task of ensuring the liberty of their subjects but rather were empowered to employ coercive technologies long since abandoned in the wider medical culture. This particularly evident in the Queensland Government’s unwillingness to relinquish or lessen its control over diseased Aboriginal bodies and the continuation of its Aboriginal-only medical isolation facilities in the second half of the twentieth century. At a time when medical professionals and government officials throughout Australia were almost universally renouncing institutional medical solutions in favour of more community-based approaches to ill health and diseases, the Queensland Government was pushing for the creation of new, and the continuation of existing, medical segregation facilities for Aboriginal patients. In Queensland the management of health involved inherently spatialised and racialised practices. However spaces of Aboriginal segregation did not arise out of an uncomplicated or consistent rationale of racial segregation. Rather the micro-histories of Fantome Island leprosarium, Peel Island Lazaret, Fantome Island lock hospital and Barambah Aboriginal Settlement demonstrate that competing logics of disease quarantine, reform, punishment and race management all influenced the ways in which the Government chose to categorise, situate and manage Aboriginal people (their bodies, health and diseases). Evidence that the enterprise of public health was, and still is, closely aligned with the governance of populations.

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Slack, Michael Jon. "Between the desert and the Gulf : evolutionary anthropology and Aboriginal prehistory in the Riversleigh/Lawn Hill region, Northern Australia". Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2748.

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Close, Kathryn. "The history and development of violin and violoncello duets /". St. Lucia, Qld, 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17486.pdf.

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Keyworth, Godon David. "The undead : an unnatural history of vampires and troublesome corpses in Western Europe from the medieval period to the twentieth century /". [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:158192.

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Lauchs, Mark Adam. "Rational avoidance of accountability by Queensland governments". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16368/1/Mark_Lauchs_Thesis.pdf.

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Anthony Downs public choice theory proposes that every rational person would try to meet their own desires in preference to those of others, and that such rational persons would attempt to obtain these desires in the most efficient manner possible. This thesis submits that the application of this theory would mean that public servants and politicians would perform acts of corruption and maladministration in order to efficiently meet their desires. As such action is unavoidable, political parties must appear to meet the public demand for accountability systems, but must not make these systems viable lest they expose the corruption and maladministration that would threaten the government’s chance or re-election. The thesis demonstrates this hypothesis through a study of the history of the public sector in Queensland. It shows that all governments have displayed a commitment for accountability whilst simultaneously ensuring the systems would not be able to interfere with government control or expose its flaws.

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Lauchs, Mark Adam. "Rational avoidance of accountability by Queensland governments". Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16368/.

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Anthony Downs public choice theory proposes that every rational person would try to meet their own desires in preference to those of others, and that such rational persons would attempt to obtain these desires in the most efficient manner possible. This thesis submits that the application of this theory would mean that public servants and politicians would perform acts of corruption and maladministration in order to efficiently meet their desires. As such action is unavoidable, political parties must appear to meet the public demand for accountability systems, but must not make these systems viable lest they expose the corruption and maladministration that would threaten the government’s chance or re-election. The thesis demonstrates this hypothesis through a study of the history of the public sector in Queensland. It shows that all governments have displayed a commitment for accountability whilst simultaneously ensuring the systems would not be able to interfere with government control or expose its flaws.

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Crow, Rebekah, i n/a. "Colonialism's Paradox: White Women, 'Race' and Gender in the Contact Zone 1850-1910". Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20061009.115837.

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This thesis is both an empirical history of white women in Queensland colonialism and a theoretical history of colonialism and imperialism in the late nineteenth century. It is a feminist history which seeks to fill the gap in our understanding of white women and 'race' in the contact zone in Queensland in the nineteenth century. At this level the thesis restores historical agency to women and reveals women's history as a powerful alternative to traditional colonial histories. It also positions this Queensland history within a global discourse of critical imperial histories that has emerged over the past decade, seeking to understand how British imperialism and Queensland colonialism shaped and informed each other in a two way process. The central themes of the thesis are 'race' and gender. I examine the ways in which white women deploy imperial ideologies of 'race' in the contact zone to position themselves as white women. 'Race' and gender are explored through the ways in which white women negotiated, in their writing, their relationships with Indigenous people and Pacific Islanders on the frontier and in the contact zone. The white women whose texts are examined in this thesis engaged with 'race' difference in their autobiographical accounts and these accounts, on many levels, allow us to rethink colonial history. I argue that colonialism is paradoxical and that white women experienced this colonial paradox in their daily lives and negotiated it in their writing. The white women whose writing is studied here were decent people with good intentions. They were simultaneously humanitarians (to differing degrees) and colonists. They were dependant for their livelihoods upon a violent colonisation and yet they were sympathetic to the Aboriginal people they interacted with. Often they were silenced in their opinions on the violence they witnessed. Writing was a means of navigating these contradictions. White women were in a relatively powerless position in the contact zone and there was little they could do to mitigate the violence that they saw. The tensions that resulted from living in the colonial paradox on frontiers and in the contact zone, of being a colonists and humanitarians, and of living in an uncontrollable existential situation is expressed in the writing of these women. This history offers us a more holistic understanding of the complexity of colonialism in Australia.

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Crow, Rebekah. "Colonialism's Paradox: White Women, 'Race' and Gender in the Contact Zone 1850-1910". Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366606.

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This thesis is both an empirical history of white women in Queensland colonialism and a theoretical history of colonialism and imperialism in the late nineteenth century. It is a feminist history which seeks to fill the gap in our understanding of white women and 'race' in the contact zone in Queensland in the nineteenth century. At this level the thesis restores historical agency to women and reveals women's history as a powerful alternative to traditional colonial histories. It also positions this Queensland history within a global discourse of critical imperial histories that has emerged over the past decade, seeking to understand how British imperialism and Queensland colonialism shaped and informed each other in a two way process. The central themes of the thesis are 'race' and gender. I examine the ways in which white women deploy imperial ideologies of 'race' in the contact zone to position themselves as white women. 'Race' and gender are explored through the ways in which white women negotiated, in their writing, their relationships with Indigenous people and Pacific Islanders on the frontier and in the contact zone. The white women whose texts are examined in this thesis engaged with 'race' difference in their autobiographical accounts and these accounts, on many levels, allow us to rethink colonial history. I argue that colonialism is paradoxical and that white women experienced this colonial paradox in their daily lives and negotiated it in their writing. The white women whose writing is studied here were decent people with good intentions. They were simultaneously humanitarians (to differing degrees) and colonists. They were dependant for their livelihoods upon a violent colonisation and yet they were sympathetic to the Aboriginal people they interacted with. Often they were silenced in their opinions on the violence they witnessed. Writing was a means of navigating these contradictions. White women were in a relatively powerless position in the contact zone and there was little they could do to mitigate the violence that they saw. The tensions that resulted from living in the colonial paradox on frontiers and in the contact zone, of being a colonists and humanitarians, and of living in an uncontrollable existential situation is expressed in the writing of these women. This history offers us a more holistic understanding of the complexity of colonialism in Australia.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Chapple, Simon James History &amp Philosophy Faculty of Arts &amp Social Sciences UNSW. "Law and society across the Pacific: Nevada County, California 1849-1860 and Gympie, Queensland 1867-1880". Awarded by:University of New South Wales. History & Philosophy, 2010. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44815.

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This thesis explores the connection between legal history and social history through an analysis of commercial, property and criminal laws, and their practical operation, in Nevada County, California from 1849 to 1860 and the Gympie region, Queensland from 1867 to 1880. By explaining the operation of a broad range of laws in a local context, this thesis seeks to provide a more complete picture of the operation of law in each community and identify the ways in which the law influenced social, political and economic life. The history of law cannot be separate from its social, economic, geographic, and political context. Each of these factors influenced both the text of the laws, and their practical application. In the Gympie region and Nevada County, the law had the effect of, in various guises, safeguarding private property, promoting short term productivity, and enforcing public morality. This was often at the expense of individual autonomy, the physical environment and the rights of minority groups. This was not a result of the operation of one dominant force in the lawmaking process. Instead, government regulation, government inactivity, informal customs, and judicial lawmaking worked together to create a legal order on either side of the Pacific. The comparison reveals that the same pattern of tensions gave the legal regime in each region a substantially similar shape. At another level, this thesis demonstrates that two regions, although on different continents and separated by a 20 year time gap, were nevertheless linked across time and space. By comparing the regions, this thesis demonstrates the possibilities of a more international legal history. While there were certainly differences between each region, these differences should not obscure the substantial similarities, and the fact that an analysis of these similarities illuminates the shared influences between the regions. By conceiving of legal regimes as being shaped by shifting patterns tensions, defining the pattern of those tensions, and then connecting those patterns across national borders it is possible to write a more complex, interesting, and transnational version of legal history.

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Morrison, Christopher S. "A regional investigation of the thermal and fluid flow history of the Drummond Basin, Central Queensland, Australia /". St. Lucia, Qld, 2002. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20030526.073825/index.html.

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Davies, Rita Ann. ""She did what she could" ... A history of the regulation of midwifery practice in Queensland 1859-1912". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15819/1/Rita_Davies_Thesis.pdf.

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The role of midwife has been an integral part of the culture of childbirth in Queensland throughout its history, but it is a role that has been modified and reshaped over time. This thesis explores the factors that underpinned a crucial aspect of that modification and reshaping. Specifically, the thesis examines the factors that contributed to the statutory regulation of midwives that began in 1912 and argues that it was that event that etched the development of midwifery practice for the remainder of the twentieth century. In 1859, when Queensland seceded from New South Wales, childbirth was very much a private event that took place predominantly in the home attended by a woman who acted as midwife. In the fifty-threeyears that followed, childbirth became a medical event that was the subject of scrutiny by the medical profession and the state. The thesis argues that, the year 1912 marks the point at which the practice of midwifery by midwives in Queensland began a transition from lay practice in the home to qualified status in the hospital. In 1912, through the combined efforts of the medical profession, senior nurses and the state, midwives in Queensland were brought under the jurisdiction of the Nurses' Registration Board as "midwifery nurses". The Nurses' Registration Board was established as part of the Health Act Amendment Act of 1911. The inclusion of midwives within a regulatory authority for nurses represented the beginning of the end of midwifery practice as a discrete occupational role and marked its redefinition as a nursing specialty. It was a redefinition that suited the three major stakeholders. The medical profession perceived lay midwives to be a disjointed and uncoordinated body of women whose practice contributed to needless loss of life in childbirth. Further, lay midwives inhibited the generalist medical practitioners' access to family practice. Trained nurses looked upon midwifery as an extension of nursing and one which offered them an area in which they might specialise in order to enhance their occupational status and career prospects. The state was keen to improve birth rates and to reduce infant mortality. It was prepared to accept that the regulation of midwives under the auspices of nursing was a reasonable and proper strategy and one that might assist it to meet its objectives. It was these separate, but complementary, agendas that prompted the medical profession and the state to debate the culture of childbirth, to examine the role of midwives within it, and to support the amalgamation of nursing and midwifery practice. This thesis argues that the medical profession was the most active and persistent protagonist in the moves to limit the scope of midwives and to claim midwifery practice as a medical specialty. Through a campaign to defame midwives and to reduce their credibility as birth attendants, the medical profession enlisted the help of senior nurses and the state in order to redefine midwifery practice as a nursing role and to cultivate the notion of the midwife as a subordinate to the medical practitioner. While this thesis contests the intervention of the medical profession in the reproductive lives of women and the occupational territory of midwives, it concedes that there was a need to initiate change. Drawing on evidence submitted at Inquests into deaths associated with childbirth, the thesis illuminates a childbirth culture that was characterised by anguish and suffering and it depicts the lay midwife as a further peril to an already hazardous event that helps to explain medical intervention in childbirth and, in part, to excuse it. The strategies developed by the medical profession and the state to bring about the occupational transition of midwives from lay to qualified were based upon a conceptual unity between the work of midwives and nurses. That conceptualisation was reinforced by a practical training schedule that deployed midwives within the institution of the lying-in hospital in order to receive the formal instruction that underpinned their entitlement to inclusion on the Register of Midwifery Nurses held by the Nurses' Registration Board. The structure that was put in place in Queensland in 1912 to control and monitor the practice of midwives was consistent with the policies of other Australian states at that time. It was an arrangement that gained acceptance and strength over time so that by the end of the twentieth century, throughout Australia, the practice of midwifery by midwives was, generally, consequent upon prior qualification as a Registered Nurse. In Queensland, in the opening years of the twenty-first century, the role of midwife remains tied to that of the nurse but the balance of power has shifted from the medical profession to the nursing profession. At this time, with the exception of a small number of midwives who have acquired their qualification in midwifery from an overseas country that recognises midwifery practice as a discipline independent of nursing, the vast majority of midwives practising in Queensland do so on the basis of their registration as a nurse. Methodology This thesis explores the factors that influenced the decision to regulate midwifery practice in Queensland in 1912 and the means by which that regulation was achieved. The historical approach underpins this research. The historical approach is an inductive process that is an appropriate method to employ for several reasons. First, it assists in identifying the origins of midwifery as a social role performed by women. Second, it presents a systematic way of analysing the evidence concerning the development of the midwifery role and the status of the midwife in society. Third, it highlights the political, social and economic influences which have impacted on midwifery in the past and which have had a bearing on subsequent midwifery practice in Queensland. Fourth, the historical approach exposes important chronological elements pertaining to the research question. Finally, it assists the exposure of themes in the sources that demonstrate the behaviour of key individuals and governing authorities and their connection to the transition of midwifery from lay to qualified. Consequently, through analysing the sources and collating the emerging evidence, a cogent account of interpretations of midwifery history in Queensland may be constructed. Data collection and analysis The data collection began with secondary source material in the formative stages of the research and this provided direction for the primary sources that were later accessed. The primary source material that is employed includes testimonies submitted at Inquests into maternal and neonatal deaths; parliamentary records; legislation, government gazettes, and medical journals. The data has been analysed through an inductive process and its presentation has combined exploration and narration to produce an accurate and plausible account. The story that unfolds is complex and confusing. Its primary focus lies in ascertaining why and how midwifery practice was regulated in Queensland. The thesis therefore explores the factors that influenced the decision to regulate midwifery practice in Queensland in 1912 and the means by which that regulation was achieved. Limitations of the study The limitations of the study relate to the documentary evidence and to the cultural group that form the basis of the study. It is acknowledged that historical accounts rely upon the integrity of the historian to select and interpret the data in a fair and plausible manner. In the case of this thesis, one of its limitations is that midwives did not speak for themselves but were, instead, spoken for by medical practitioners and parliamentarians. As a consequence, the coronial and magisterial testimonies that are employed constitute a limitation in that while they reveal the ways in which lay midwifery occurred, they relate only to those childbirth events that resulted in death. Thus, they may be said to represent the minority of cases involving the lay midwife rather than to offer a broader and perhaps more balanced picture. A second limitation is that the accounts are recorded by an official such as a member of the police or of the Coroner's Office and are sanctioned by the witness with a signature or, more often, a cross. It is therefore possible that the recorder has guided these accounts and that they are not the spontaneous evidence of the witness. Those witnesses and the culture they represent are drawn predominantly from non- Indigenous working class. Thus, a third limitation is that the principal ethnic group featured in this thesis has been women of European descent who were born in Queensland or other parts of Australia. This focus has originated from the data itself and has not been contrived. However, it does impose a restriction to the scope of the study.

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Davies, Rita Ann. ""She did what she could" ... A history of the regulation of midwifery practice in Queensland 1859-1912". Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15819/.

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The role of midwife has been an integral part of the culture of childbirth in Queensland throughout its history, but it is a role that has been modified and reshaped over time. This thesis explores the factors that underpinned a crucial aspect of that modification and reshaping. Specifically, the thesis examines the factors that contributed to the statutory regulation of midwives that began in 1912 and argues that it was that event that etched the development of midwifery practice for the remainder of the twentieth century. In 1859, when Queensland seceded from New South Wales, childbirth was very much a private event that took place predominantly in the home attended by a woman who acted as midwife. In the fifty-threeyears that followed, childbirth became a medical event that was the subject of scrutiny by the medical profession and the state. The thesis argues that, the year 1912 marks the point at which the practice of midwifery by midwives in Queensland began a transition from lay practice in the home to qualified status in the hospital. In 1912, through the combined efforts of the medical profession, senior nurses and the state, midwives in Queensland were brought under the jurisdiction of the Nurses' Registration Board as "midwifery nurses". The Nurses' Registration Board was established as part of the Health Act Amendment Act of 1911. The inclusion of midwives within a regulatory authority for nurses represented the beginning of the end of midwifery practice as a discrete occupational role and marked its redefinition as a nursing specialty. It was a redefinition that suited the three major stakeholders. The medical profession perceived lay midwives to be a disjointed and uncoordinated body of women whose practice contributed to needless loss of life in childbirth. Further, lay midwives inhibited the generalist medical practitioners' access to family practice. Trained nurses looked upon midwifery as an extension of nursing and one which offered them an area in which they might specialise in order to enhance their occupational status and career prospects. The state was keen to improve birth rates and to reduce infant mortality. It was prepared to accept that the regulation of midwives under the auspices of nursing was a reasonable and proper strategy and one that might assist it to meet its objectives. It was these separate, but complementary, agendas that prompted the medical profession and the state to debate the culture of childbirth, to examine the role of midwives within it, and to support the amalgamation of nursing and midwifery practice. This thesis argues that the medical profession was the most active and persistent protagonist in the moves to limit the scope of midwives and to claim midwifery practice as a medical specialty. Through a campaign to defame midwives and to reduce their credibility as birth attendants, the medical profession enlisted the help of senior nurses and the state in order to redefine midwifery practice as a nursing role and to cultivate the notion of the midwife as a subordinate to the medical practitioner. While this thesis contests the intervention of the medical profession in the reproductive lives of women and the occupational territory of midwives, it concedes that there was a need to initiate change. Drawing on evidence submitted at Inquests into deaths associated with childbirth, the thesis illuminates a childbirth culture that was characterised by anguish and suffering and it depicts the lay midwife as a further peril to an already hazardous event that helps to explain medical intervention in childbirth and, in part, to excuse it. The strategies developed by the medical profession and the state to bring about the occupational transition of midwives from lay to qualified were based upon a conceptual unity between the work of midwives and nurses. That conceptualisation was reinforced by a practical training schedule that deployed midwives within the institution of the lying-in hospital in order to receive the formal instruction that underpinned their entitlement to inclusion on the Register of Midwifery Nurses held by the Nurses' Registration Board. The structure that was put in place in Queensland in 1912 to control and monitor the practice of midwives was consistent with the policies of other Australian states at that time. It was an arrangement that gained acceptance and strength over time so that by the end of the twentieth century, throughout Australia, the practice of midwifery by midwives was, generally, consequent upon prior qualification as a Registered Nurse. In Queensland, in the opening years of the twenty-first century, the role of midwife remains tied to that of the nurse but the balance of power has shifted from the medical profession to the nursing profession. At this time, with the exception of a small number of midwives who have acquired their qualification in midwifery from an overseas country that recognises midwifery practice as a discipline independent of nursing, the vast majority of midwives practising in Queensland do so on the basis of their registration as a nurse. Methodology This thesis explores the factors that influenced the decision to regulate midwifery practice in Queensland in 1912 and the means by which that regulation was achieved. The historical approach underpins this research. The historical approach is an inductive process that is an appropriate method to employ for several reasons. First, it assists in identifying the origins of midwifery as a social role performed by women. Second, it presents a systematic way of analysing the evidence concerning the development of the midwifery role and the status of the midwife in society. Third, it highlights the political, social and economic influences which have impacted on midwifery in the past and which have had a bearing on subsequent midwifery practice in Queensland. Fourth, the historical approach exposes important chronological elements pertaining to the research question. Finally, it assists the exposure of themes in the sources that demonstrate the behaviour of key individuals and governing authorities and their connection to the transition of midwifery from lay to qualified. Consequently, through analysing the sources and collating the emerging evidence, a cogent account of interpretations of midwifery history in Queensland may be constructed. Data collection and analysis The data collection began with secondary source material in the formative stages of the research and this provided direction for the primary sources that were later accessed. The primary source material that is employed includes testimonies submitted at Inquests into maternal and neonatal deaths; parliamentary records; legislation, government gazettes, and medical journals. The data has been analysed through an inductive process and its presentation has combined exploration and narration to produce an accurate and plausible account. The story that unfolds is complex and confusing. Its primary focus lies in ascertaining why and how midwifery practice was regulated in Queensland. The thesis therefore explores the factors that influenced the decision to regulate midwifery practice in Queensland in 1912 and the means by which that regulation was achieved. Limitations of the study The limitations of the study relate to the documentary evidence and to the cultural group that form the basis of the study. It is acknowledged that historical accounts rely upon the integrity of the historian to select and interpret the data in a fair and plausible manner. In the case of this thesis, one of its limitations is that midwives did not speak for themselves but were, instead, spoken for by medical practitioners and parliamentarians. As a consequence, the coronial and magisterial testimonies that are employed constitute a limitation in that while they reveal the ways in which lay midwifery occurred, they relate only to those childbirth events that resulted in death. Thus, they may be said to represent the minority of cases involving the lay midwife rather than to offer a broader and perhaps more balanced picture. A second limitation is that the accounts are recorded by an official such as a member of the police or of the Coroner's Office and are sanctioned by the witness with a signature or, more often, a cross. It is therefore possible that the recorder has guided these accounts and that they are not the spontaneous evidence of the witness. Those witnesses and the culture they represent are drawn predominantly from non- Indigenous working class. Thus, a third limitation is that the principal ethnic group featured in this thesis has been women of European descent who were born in Queensland or other parts of Australia. This focus has originated from the data itself and has not been contrived. However, it does impose a restriction to the scope of the study.

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Hutton, Laurie James. "Petrogenesis of I- and S-type Granites in the Cape River - Lolworth area, northeastern Queensland - Their contribution to an understanding of the Early Palaeozoic Geological History of northeastern Queensland". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15858/1/Laurie_Hutton_Thesis.pdf.

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The geological history of the Early Palaeozoic in eastern Australia is not known precisely. The eastern margin of the outcropping Precambrian Craton 'Tasman Line' is poorly understood. The Thomson Orogen, which underlies much of eastern Queensland, lies to the east of the Tasman Line. Basement to the Tasman Orogenic Zone is poorly understood, but knowledge of this basement is critical to our understanding to the processes that formed the eastern margin of the Precambrian craton. The Lolworth-Ravenswood Province lies to the east of the Tasman Line in northeast Queensland. A study of basement terranes in the Lolworth-Ravenswood Province will therefore provide some insights as to the nature of crust beneath this area, and therefore to the basement to the Thomson Orogen. The Fat Hen Creek Complex comprises para-authchthonous bodies of granitoid within middle to upper amphibolite facies metamorphic rocks. Data contained herein demonstrate that the composition and geochemistry of the granitoid are compatible with the generation of the granitoid by partial anatexis of the metamorphic rocks that are part of the Cape River Metamorphics. Temperature and pressure of anatexis is determined to be between 800-850OC and 5-9kb. Under these conditions, experimental data indicate that meta-pelite and meta-greywacke will produce between 5-10% melt coexisting with biotite, cordierite, garnet and plagioclase. The mineralogy of the granitoid bodies in the Fat Hen Creek Complex is consistent with partial anatexis of meta-greywacke at these temperatures and pressures. 5-10% melt is generally insufficient to allow efficient separation of melt and restite. The granitoids of the Fat Hen Creek Complex are interpreted as being a closed system with melt generated during high-grade metamorphism not separating from the residium. U/Pb dating of zircon from the Fat Hen Creek Complex indicate two distinct periods of zircon growth. The older episode occurred during the Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician. A second episode is dated as Middle Ordovician. This younger age coincides with the onset of regional compression, and may be related to exhumation of a mid-crustal layer during thrusting. The Lolworth Batholith is one of three granite batholiths in the Lolworth-Ravenswood Province. It comprises mainly muscovite-biotite granite, with smaller areas of hornblende-biotite granite to granodiorite. Sills and dykes of muscovite and garnet-muscovite leucogranite extensively intrude both of these types. The hornblende-biotite granite to granodiorite is metaluminous, with petrographic and geochemical characteristics similar to the adjacent Ravenswood Batholith. U-Pb SHRIMP ages also overlap with those from the Ravenswood Batholith. ENd(tc) values of ~-3 suggest a significant crustal contribution in the magma. Zircon populations determined using the SHRIMP suggest some inheritance from a Neoproterozoic source. The two-mica granites make up over 80% of the batholith and show little variation throughout. Aluminium Saturation indices range dominantly from 1-1.1, in keeping with the muscovite-bearing nature of the granites. U-Pb ages are significantly younger than the hornblende-biotite granitoids. ENd(tc) is ~-10, suggesting a greater role for crustal material in these granites than in the hornblende-bearing varieties. Previously, these granites were interpreted as S-types, mainly on the basis of the presence of muscovite. Low Na/Ca and Na greater than K are both considered as indicators of source compositions and both are characteristic of a mafic igneous rather than a meta-sedimentary source. Anatexis of mafic igneous rocks at temperatures less than~1000OC are found experimentally to produce peraluminous melts similar to those which produced the two-mica granites. The third major rock-type in the Lolworth Batholith is muscovite leucogranite, which occurs as sills and dykes intruding older granites and basement. The age of the leucogranite was not determined, but it has sharp contacts with the two-mica granite suggesting that the latter had cooled prior to intrusion of the former. The leucogranite is strongly peraluminous and is deemed to have been derived from anatexis of a supra-crustal (meta-sedimentary) source. The batholith is therefore deemed to comprise three different elements. The hornblende-biotite granitoids are the western extension of the adjacent Ravenswood Batholith. The two-mica granite and muscovite leucogranite are derived from different sources, but may be part of the same crustal anatexis event. During the Early Palaeozoic, the Lolworth-Ravenswood Province saw the intrusion of three granite batholiths into a basement of Late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian meta-sedimentary rocks. Also, Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician and Middle Ordovician high-grade metamorphism accompanied by partial anatexis is recorded at several sites across northeast Queensland. Although this metamorphism is restricted to these sites, they are widespread across the area suggestive of a widespread metamorphic event at these times. Similar metamorphism is recorded in the Arunta Inlier in Central Australia increasing the possible extent of this event. The geochemistry, isotopic characteristics and zircon populations of granites in the Lolworth-Ravenswood Province are used to characterise their source rocks; and thus the basement to the Province. Precambrian basement is indicated to underlie the entire province. However, the source rocks for the eastern part of the Province (Ravenswood and into the Lolworth Batholiths) are different to source rocks for the western part of the Province. Georgetown-type crust extends eastwards from the outcropping area, extending under the western Lolworth-Ravenswood Province. Late Mesoproterozoic rocks are recorded from the Cape River area adjacent to the Lolworth Batholith. They are also indicated as source-rocks for granites in the Ravenswood Batholith. Rocks of this age are characteristic of Grenvillian-age mobile belts in the United States. Their presence in north Qeensland has implications for the breakup of Rodinia, the Mesoproterozoic-age super continent that broke up during the Neoproterozoic.

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Hutton, Laurie James. "Petrogenesis of I- and S-type Granites in the Cape River - Lolworth area, northeastern Queensland - Their contribution to an understanding of the Early Palaeozoic Geological History of northeastern Queensland". Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15858/.

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The geological history of the Early Palaeozoic in eastern Australia is not known precisely. The eastern margin of the outcropping Precambrian Craton 'Tasman Line' is poorly understood. The Thomson Orogen, which underlies much of eastern Queensland, lies to the east of the Tasman Line. Basement to the Tasman Orogenic Zone is poorly understood, but knowledge of this basement is critical to our understanding to the processes that formed the eastern margin of the Precambrian craton. The Lolworth-Ravenswood Province lies to the east of the Tasman Line in northeast Queensland. A study of basement terranes in the Lolworth-Ravenswood Province will therefore provide some insights as to the nature of crust beneath this area, and therefore to the basement to the Thomson Orogen. The Fat Hen Creek Complex comprises para-authchthonous bodies of granitoid within middle to upper amphibolite facies metamorphic rocks. Data contained herein demonstrate that the composition and geochemistry of the granitoid are compatible with the generation of the granitoid by partial anatexis of the metamorphic rocks that are part of the Cape River Metamorphics. Temperature and pressure of anatexis is determined to be between 800-850OC and 5-9kb. Under these conditions, experimental data indicate that meta-pelite and meta-greywacke will produce between 5-10% melt coexisting with biotite, cordierite, garnet and plagioclase. The mineralogy of the granitoid bodies in the Fat Hen Creek Complex is consistent with partial anatexis of meta-greywacke at these temperatures and pressures. 5-10% melt is generally insufficient to allow efficient separation of melt and restite. The granitoids of the Fat Hen Creek Complex are interpreted as being a closed system with melt generated during high-grade metamorphism not separating from the residium. U/Pb dating of zircon from the Fat Hen Creek Complex indicate two distinct periods of zircon growth. The older episode occurred during the Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician. A second episode is dated as Middle Ordovician. This younger age coincides with the onset of regional compression, and may be related to exhumation of a mid-crustal layer during thrusting. The Lolworth Batholith is one of three granite batholiths in the Lolworth-Ravenswood Province. It comprises mainly muscovite-biotite granite, with smaller areas of hornblende-biotite granite to granodiorite. Sills and dykes of muscovite and garnet-muscovite leucogranite extensively intrude both of these types. The hornblende-biotite granite to granodiorite is metaluminous, with petrographic and geochemical characteristics similar to the adjacent Ravenswood Batholith. U-Pb SHRIMP ages also overlap with those from the Ravenswood Batholith. ENd(tc) values of ~-3 suggest a significant crustal contribution in the magma. Zircon populations determined using the SHRIMP suggest some inheritance from a Neoproterozoic source. The two-mica granites make up over 80% of the batholith and show little variation throughout. Aluminium Saturation indices range dominantly from 1-1.1, in keeping with the muscovite-bearing nature of the granites. U-Pb ages are significantly younger than the hornblende-biotite granitoids. ENd(tc) is ~-10, suggesting a greater role for crustal material in these granites than in the hornblende-bearing varieties. Previously, these granites were interpreted as S-types, mainly on the basis of the presence of muscovite. Low Na/Ca and Na greater than K are both considered as indicators of source compositions and both are characteristic of a mafic igneous rather than a meta-sedimentary source. Anatexis of mafic igneous rocks at temperatures less than~1000OC are found experimentally to produce peraluminous melts similar to those which produced the two-mica granites. The third major rock-type in the Lolworth Batholith is muscovite leucogranite, which occurs as sills and dykes intruding older granites and basement. The age of the leucogranite was not determined, but it has sharp contacts with the two-mica granite suggesting that the latter had cooled prior to intrusion of the former. The leucogranite is strongly peraluminous and is deemed to have been derived from anatexis of a supra-crustal (meta-sedimentary) source. The batholith is therefore deemed to comprise three different elements. The hornblende-biotite granitoids are the western extension of the adjacent Ravenswood Batholith. The two-mica granite and muscovite leucogranite are derived from different sources, but may be part of the same crustal anatexis event. During the Early Palaeozoic, the Lolworth-Ravenswood Province saw the intrusion of three granite batholiths into a basement of Late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian meta-sedimentary rocks. Also, Late Cambrian to Early Ordovician and Middle Ordovician high-grade metamorphism accompanied by partial anatexis is recorded at several sites across northeast Queensland. Although this metamorphism is restricted to these sites, they are widespread across the area suggestive of a widespread metamorphic event at these times. Similar metamorphism is recorded in the Arunta Inlier in Central Australia increasing the possible extent of this event. The geochemistry, isotopic characteristics and zircon populations of granites in the Lolworth-Ravenswood Province are used to characterise their source rocks; and thus the basement to the Province. Precambrian basement is indicated to underlie the entire province. However, the source rocks for the eastern part of the Province (Ravenswood and into the Lolworth Batholiths) are different to source rocks for the western part of the Province. Georgetown-type crust extends eastwards from the outcropping area, extending under the western Lolworth-Ravenswood Province. Late Mesoproterozoic rocks are recorded from the Cape River area adjacent to the Lolworth Batholith. They are also indicated as source-rocks for granites in the Ravenswood Batholith. Rocks of this age are characteristic of Grenvillian-age mobile belts in the United States. Their presence in north Qeensland has implications for the breakup of Rodinia, the Mesoproterozoic-age super continent that broke up during the Neoproterozoic.

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Upfal, Annette. "Jane Austen's hidden portrait gallery : a study of the images and text of the juvenilia's History of England /". [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19059.pdf.

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Burridge, Christopher Alan. "An alternative approach to the teaching of Baptist history and principles at the Queensland Baptist College of Ministries". Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Durnian, Lisa. "The Rise of the Guilty Plea in Australian Supreme Courts: A History". Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380293.

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The contemporary Australian criminal prosecution process functions as a guilty plea system. The guilty plea is critical to the efficient running of criminal courts and the criminal justice system. Statutory provisions and case law almost guarantee that defendants prosecuted for serious criminal offences receive sentence reductions in exchange for guilty pleas. Whilst guilty pleas are arguably the most important mitigating factor that contemporary judges consider in their sentencing deliberations, this was not always the case. Historically, most defendants pleaded ‘not guilty’ and jury trials were the dominant mode of case disposition. Yet defendants began pleading guilty in increasingly greater proportions in some US and English courts from around the mid-nineteenth century. The ‘rise of the guilty plea’ triggered system transformation from jury trial to a guilty plea system of prosecution. This thesis is the first research to examine the rise of the guilty plea in the Australian context. It departs from previous scholarship by arguing a theoretical framework that positions the ‘guilty plea’ rather than ‘plea bargaining’ as the focus of study. The historical plea bargaining scholarship hypothesises that the guilty plea phenomenon was the outcome of emerging plea bargaining practices between prosecuting and defence counsel. However the precursors to bargaining, including public prosecution and centralised policing, were extant in the Australian criminal justice system long before guilty pleas began accelerating. This thesis argues that a plea bargaining framework is unsuited to explaining system transformation in Australian courts. This thesis employs a mixed methods research methodology to investigate guilty pleas at both a macro and micro-level of analysis. The quantitative study employs large scale data from the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, ‘The Prosecution Project’. It tracks the acceleration of defendants’ guilty pleas in more than 10,000 cases prosecuted in the Queensland, Western Australian and Victorian Supreme Courts between 1901 and 1961. It identifies the mid-twentieth century as the period when system transformation occurred in Australian courts, significantly later than hypothesised in the current scholarship. The significant mechanism driving this acceleration was the rapid increase in guilty pleas to property theft prosecutions, specifically burglary and stealing. The qualitative component of the study provides micro-level, in-depth analysis of the practices of police, lawyers, and the judiciary that influenced defendants’ guilty pleas. The analysis focuses on 60 property theft cases prosecuted in the Queensland Supreme Court, but also synthesises a range of archival sources including reported decisions, administrative records, and newspapers. This analysis identifies the key role of police practices in the pre-trial stage of the prosecution process. These practices focused on convictions obtained through confessional material, rather than investigation, but increasingly included problematic practices such as inducing confessions and guilty pleas. However, crown prosecutors and the judiciary failed to acknowledge the extent of these practices until the transformation to a guilty plea system was complete. Police practices were thus the central cog in a series of linked gears of practice involving lawyers and the judiciary that influenced defendants’ decisions to plead guilty and established the origins of the contemporary guilty plea system.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Crim & Crim Justice
Arts, Education and Law
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Feng, Yuexing. "40Ar/39Ar dating of young supergene Mn-Oxides : implication for late Cainozoic weathering history and landscape evolution, Mary Valley, Southeast Queensland, Australia /". [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19080.pdf.

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Copland, Mark Stephen. "Calculating Lives: The Numbers and Narratives of Forced Removals in Queensland 1859 - 1972". Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367813.

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European expansion caused dramatic dislocation for Aboriginal populations in the landmass that became the state of Queensland. On the frontiers, violence, abductions and forced relocations occurred on a largely informal basis condoned by colonial governments. The introduction of protective legislation in the late nineteenth century created a formal state-directed legal and administrative framework for the forcible removal and institutionalisation of Aboriginal people. This became the cornerstone for policy direction in Queensland and remained so into the mid-twentieth century. This thesis traces the development of policies and practices of removal in Queensland from their beginnings in the nineteenth century through to their dismantling in the mid-twentieth century. There has been much historical research into frontier violence and processes of dispossession in Queensland. The focus of this study is the systematic analysis of archival data relating to the forced removals of the twentieth century. The study has its genesis in an Australian Research Council Strategic Partnership with Industry — Research and Training Scheme (SPIRT) grant. This grant enabled the construction of a Removals Database, which provides a powerful tool with which to interrogate available records pertaining to removals of Aboriginal people in Queensland. Removals were a crucial element in the gathering and exploitation of Aboriginal labourers during the twentieth century. They also constituted a major form of control for the departments responsible for Aboriginal affairs within the Queensland administration. Tensions between a policy of complete segregation and the demand for Aboriginal labour in the wider community existed throughout the period of study. While segregation was implemented to an extent in relation to targeted sections of the Aboriginal population, such as “half-caste” females, employer insistence on access to reliable, cheap Aboriginal labour invariably took precedence. Detailed analysis of recorded reasons for removals demonstrates that they are unreliable in explaining why individuals were actually removed. They show a changing focus over time. Fluctuations in numbers of removals for different years reflect reasons not officially acknowledged in the records, such as the need to populate newly created reserves and establish institutional communities. They tell us little about the situation of Aboriginal people, but much about the racial thinking of the time. This study contributes to our knowledge base about the implementation and extent of Aboriginal child separation in Queensland. A comprehensive estimate of the number of separations concludes that one in six Aboriginal children in Queensland were separated from their natural families as a result of past policies. Local Aboriginal Protectors (usually police officers) played a major role in the way that the policy of removals was implemented. Local factors often determined the extent of removals as much as policy direction in the centralised Office of the Chief Protector of Aborigines. Removals took place across vast distances, and the Chief Protector was often totally reliant on local protectors for information and advice. This meant that employers and local protectors could have a major impact on the rate of removals in a given location. Responses of both Protectors and Aboriginal people to the policy of removals were not always compliant. Some Protectors worked to ensure that local Aboriginal people could remain in their own community and geographical location. Aboriginal people demonstrated a degree of resistance to the policy and there are a numerous recorded examples of extraordinary human endurance where they travelled large distances in difficult circumstances to return to their original locations and communities. The policy of removals impacted on virtually every Aboriginal family in the state of Queensland and the effects of the dislocations continue to be experienced to this day.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Arts, Media and Culture
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Gahan, Deborah. "In Search of a Childhood Landscape : Historical Narratives From a Queensland Kindergarten 1940-1965". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16288/1/Deborah_Gahan_Thesis.pdf.

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This dissertation details the study of the influences of historical discourses of early childhood on the recalled experiences of children, parents and teachers in a Queensland kindergarten between 1940 and 1965. The study investigates the interweaving of discourses of childhood and recounted experiences of kindergarten, drawing on the view that "different discursive practices produce different childhoods, each and all of which are 'real' within their own regime of truth" (James & Prout, 1997, p.26). The study builds a case for using an interpretive/constructionist historical approach to reframe the recounted narratives of those present in an historical kindergarten landscape, particularly the narratives of those who were children in that landscape. To date, historical studies of early childhood education in Australia have largely focused on "big picture" issues of policy, practice and training, rather than on investigating and documenting the lived experiences of children and adults in particular early childhood contexts and historical eras. In contrast, this study takes a micro-history approach, focusing on one early childhood setting in a way that Mills & Mills (2000, p.165) argue enables the "complexity and richness of the big picture to be understood". Reiger (1993) suggests that growing interest in the social construction of childhood has increased awareness of "the agency of children as contributors to interpretations ... of their development" (p.4).While participants in my study look back on childhoods lived in a past era, their interpretations and feelings about events and practices that they observed and experienced as children at kindergarten provide a valuable perspective on the discourses which framed their childhoods. Findings from this study have the potential to broaden understandings of the impact on children of pedagogical approaches to early childhood education, and deepen awareness of the meaning of childhood at particular points in time.

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Gahan, Deborah. "In Search of a Childhood Landscape : Historical Narratives From a Queensland Kindergarten 1940-1965". Queensland University of Technology, 2005. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16288/.

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This dissertation details the study of the influences of historical discourses of early childhood on the recalled experiences of children, parents and teachers in a Queensland kindergarten between 1940 and 1965. The study investigates the interweaving of discourses of childhood and recounted experiences of kindergarten, drawing on the view that "different discursive practices produce different childhoods, each and all of which are 'real' within their own regime of truth" (James & Prout, 1997, p.26). The study builds a case for using an interpretive/constructionist historical approach to reframe the recounted narratives of those present in an historical kindergarten landscape, particularly the narratives of those who were children in that landscape. To date, historical studies of early childhood education in Australia have largely focused on "big picture" issues of policy, practice and training, rather than on investigating and documenting the lived experiences of children and adults in particular early childhood contexts and historical eras. In contrast, this study takes a micro-history approach, focusing on one early childhood setting in a way that Mills & Mills (2000, p.165) argue enables the "complexity and richness of the big picture to be understood". Reiger (1993) suggests that growing interest in the social construction of childhood has increased awareness of "the agency of children as contributors to interpretations ... of their development" (p.4).While participants in my study look back on childhoods lived in a past era, their interpretations and feelings about events and practices that they observed and experienced as children at kindergarten provide a valuable perspective on the discourses which framed their childhoods. Findings from this study have the potential to broaden understandings of the impact on children of pedagogical approaches to early childhood education, and deepen awareness of the meaning of childhood at particular points in time.

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Manawaduge, Chapa Gimhani. "Conservation biology of threatened native olives (Notelaea Spp., Oleaceae) in Southern Queensland". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/208105/1/Chapa%20Gimhani_Manawaduge_Thesis.pdf.

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Due to the limited resources available, it is necessary to prioritise the conservation action for taxa most at risk of extinction. This study investigated the systematics, population genetics and life-history traits of the two least studied threatened native olive species (Notelaea ipsviciensis and N. lloydii) in Australia, to improve our knowledge of their conservation biology. The results obtained from the genome wide molecular, morphological and comparative life-history trait analysis between rare and common Notelaea spp. in southern Queensland revealed that the taxonomic status of these two species should be re-evaluated and conservation priorities should be revised accordingly.

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Hodes, Jeremy Martin, i hodes@tpg com au. "John Douglas 1828-1904: The Uncompromising Liberal". Central Queensland University. Humanities, 2006. http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au./thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20070228.145456.

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Douglas was born in London in 1828 and migrated to New South Wales in 1851 where he represented both the Darling Downs and Camden districts in the New South Wales parliament before embarking on a lengthy parliamentary career in Queensland, one that culminated in the premiership from 1877 to 1879. He was subsequently appointed government resident for Thursday Island in 1885, a position he held until his death, nearly 20 years later, aged 76, in 1904. During this period he also served as special commissioner for the protectorate of British New Guinea, administering the territory prior to it being formally proclaimed a crown colony. Douglass involvement in Queensland public life was significant and encompassed the entire period from the colonys formation in 1859 to the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901. In this respect, his career allows, through a study of his long, eventful and varied life, for this thesis to examine aspects of the development and progression of Queenslands political system as a nascent yet robust, representative democracy, through most of the second half of the nineteenth century until the colonys incorporation in the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia. This thesis argues that John Douglas was an uncompromising Liberal in an age of Liberalism, a principled politician in an era of pragmatic factionalism and shifting political allegiances. Perhapsbecause of this he was more popular with his electorate than with his parliamentary colleagues. Douglass contribution to Queensland life was in large measure shaped by his character and the formative influences on it. This included his aristocratic upbringing, his public school and university education, his abiding religious faith, a profound sense of fair play, and a desire to participate fully and selflessly in the life of the community he lived in, despite the vicissitudes of his personal life. As this thesis further demonstrates, an examination of Douglass life affords us an insight into an energetic, accomplished, erudite, and compassionate man. Yet while his intellectual curiosity, thirst for knowledge and wide-ranging interests marked him as a Renaissance man, he also had many failings, most noticeably that of extreme obstinacy. Therefore, this thesis will analyse Douglass convictions and beliefs while examining the strengths and flaws inherent in his character. It is because Douglas lived a life characterised by complexity and contradiction, leavened by a mixture of accomplishment and failure, that his life, and the times he lived in, are worthy of examination.

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Kelk, Michael John. "A history of the factors involved in decisions on the adoption of computers to the Queensland government and the subsequent initial problems, 1956-1984". Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36410/1/36410_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis examines the introduction of computers into Queensland Government from the late 1950s. It examines the extent to which there was an awareness of the problems of information technology that emerged over the next forty years and in particular the decision-making processes and arguments that determined major outcomes. It reveals that many Government Departments were overloaded with paper-work bottlenecks and the coming of decimal currency posed a significant problem due to the mammoth task of currency conversion. These pressures, when combined with the increasing costs of labour, became the justification for the introduction of computers. The decision to introduce computers was considered an inevitable business decision that stemmed from installing earlier punched card technologies. Some years later the problems of unemployment and privacy were realised but it was too late to turn back. Computers were here to stay. Thus, this thesis highlights some key issues relating to government decision-making processes surrounding significant new technology applications. It also provides an opportunity to examine Cabinet minutes, submissions and decisions in relation to technological innovation. In essence it is a study of decision-making, which aims to develop a better understanding of how governments deal with possible future ethical and policy dilemmas associated with major technological innovation.

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Mercer, Douglas. "Thor's hammer deflected : a history of the protection of power systems from lightning, with special reference to Queensland, 1950 to 1995 /". [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2001. http://adt.library.uq.edu.au/public/adt-QU20020712.164134/index.html.

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Islam, R. "Genetic structure and life history variation in a cryptic fish species complex, Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni) across south-east Queensland, Australia". Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/379294.

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Generally freshwater fish exhibit higher levels of genetic structuring between spatially distinct populations than marine species due to the presence of natural and artificial barriers to dispersal in freshwater ecosystems. In addition, freshwater species are not able to move between populations that are separated by either terrestrial or marine habitat. Diadromy constrains the development of genetic structuring, even among geographically isolated populations due to potential connectivity via movement through the sea. As a result, higher levels of gene flow and lower population structuring tend to be observed in diadromous fishes than freshwater species. The Australian smelt (Retropinna semoni) is a native fish species complex widely distributed across coastal and inland drainages of south-eastern Australia. Recently, a complex of five or more cryptic species of Australian smelt has been recognized throughout their geographic range based on genetic studies. Variation in life history strategies has been observed in many cryptic fish species and multiple life history patterns were also found in southern smelt lineages (Retropinna sp.) where mainland Australian populations contain diadromous and wholly freshwater individuals and Tasmanian populations contain estuarine individuals. Despite the populations of southern smelt containing diadromous individuals, strong genetic structuring and low levels of connectivity were reported in at least some populations, which were suggested to result from apparently diadromous individuals being retained in the estuaries. It is possible that the different cryptic species may differ in life history. In the present study, I examine the genetic structure and life history variation of the South-east Queensland (SEQ) lineage of Australian smelt which was further subdivided into northern and southern lineages (SEQ-N, SEQ-S). I used both molecular and ecological approaches to understand the pattern of genetic structure and life history variation in this species to compare with other members of the species complex. Prior to this task, twenty one polymorphic microsatellite primers were developed (Chapter 2), which were then used for species delimitation and population structure analysis. In chapter 3, I used one mitochondrial gene (cyt b) and ten microsatellite loci to investigate patterns of genetic structuring in Australian smelt (R. semoni) and describe the genetic differences between these two cryptic lineages (SEQ-N and SEQ-S). These two lineages formed monophyletic clades in the mtDNA gene tree and among river phylogeographic structure was also evident within each clade. There was clear genetic divergence between the two lineages, suggesting that they have been separated historically by a hard barrier. Strong genetic structuring was observed from microsatellite analysis in both lineages (SEQ-S FST = 0.13; SEQ-N FST = 0.23) suggesting limited dispersal among rivers. Slightly lower levels of genetic structuring were observed in the SEQ-S lineage than the SEQ-N lineage. This might be the result of different microhabitat preferences between these two cryptic lineages (SEQ-N and SEQ-S), for example intolerance to water quality parameters. Another plausible explanation is that SEQ-S catchments may have been connected more recently and /or more often than those in the SEQ-N group during flood events. Contemporary movement of individuals only occurred between nearby sites within a river, but not between rivers, suggesting that if local extinctions occur in one or more of these rivers, then recolonization from elsewhere is unlikely to occur rapidly. Similarly, extinctions within a site are only likely to be recolonised from nearby sites in the same river. In chapter 4, I used otolith micro-chemistry analysis to examine the life history patterns of smelt at the northern extent of their range and to identify any differences in migratory behaviour of the two lineages (SEQ-N and SEQ-S) in this region. Based on otolith core-to-edge transects of Sr:Ca and Ba:Ca, there was no evidence of marine residence for either lineage suggesting that both are non-diadromous. This contrasts with the two southern smelt species, in which both exhibit evidence of diadromous movement of individuals within some populations. Significant differences in multi-elemental otolith chemistry signatures were observed among rivers and between paired sites within some rivers, suggesting no exchange of individuals among catchments and limited dispersal of individuals over large spatial scales within a river. This is almost certainly the result of the marine habitat conditions along the coastal drainages which isolate rivers and restrict movement of fish between them, combined with some limited dispersal within a river. In addition, movement of fish may also be precluded due to anthropogenic migration barriers within river catchments. This study has presented a holistic view of population structure using ecological and genetic markers and revealed that R. semoni is highly structured across south-east Queensland from the Mary River to Currumbin Creek. Genetic analysis delivers the general framework for applying ecological methods and substantial information regarding exchange between populations. Sensitive ecological methods such as otolith chemistry provide resolution of the fine-scale spatial separation within and between sample collection locations because movements within an individual lifetime can be inferred. The results of the present study emphasise the advantages of using complementary methods to evaluate the connectivity of fish populations. The combination of otolith chemistry and molecular markers provided insights into the role of migration in structuring smelt populations over a range of temporal and spatial scales. Overall, the current study furnished new insights into the population genetic structure and life history patterns of Australian smelt, which has significant implications for the sustainable management and conservation of this ecologically variable species along coastal drainages in south-east Queensland.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Environment and Sc
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Delbridge, Nadine. "The viola concerto, Opus posthumous by Bela Bartok : the conerto's history and a systematic comparison of the solo viola part, as interpreted from the original manuscript, by Tibor Serly & William Primrose; Peter Bartok & Nelson Dellamaggiore and Csaba Erdelyi /". [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17616.pdf.

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