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Expressions Of The Calabrian Diaspora In Calabrian Australian Writing, Gaetano Rando
Expressions Of The Calabrian Diaspora In Calabrian Australian Writing, Gaetano Rando
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This chapter is an exhaustive study of literary works, memoirs, theatre and film produced by first and second generation Calabrian Australians.
Introduction - The Italian Diaspora After The Second World War, James Hagan, Gitano Rando
Introduction - The Italian Diaspora After The Second World War, James Hagan, Gitano Rando
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper provides a critical introduction to the English section of the edited volume La Diaspora italiana dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. The Italian Diaspora after the Second World War, Bivongi [RC], International AM Edizioni, 2007.
Dalle Bicilette Alle Mercede. Gli Italiani Nel New South Wales: Scelte Politiche A Griffith 1947-1984, James Hagan
Dalle Bicilette Alle Mercede. Gli Italiani Nel New South Wales: Scelte Politiche A Griffith 1947-1984, James Hagan
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
There were a few Italians in Griffith when the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Scheme began in 1913, but they did not arrive in large numbers until after the Second World War. They joined over a thousand people of Italian birth or direct descent who had succeeded at small-scale farming and displaced the majority of Australians who had been the original block-holders. This produced some resentment and discrimination, which led to Italians setting up their own economic and social networks. They did not however act as a single community ; fundamental divisions between Northern and Southern immigrants remained and persisted, and so …
Introduzione - La Diaspora Italiana Dopo La Seconda Guerra Mondiale, James Hagan, Gitano Rando
Introduzione - La Diaspora Italiana Dopo La Seconda Guerra Mondiale, James Hagan, Gitano Rando
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper provides a critical introduction to the Italian section of the edited volume La Diaspora italiana dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale. The Italian Diaspora after the Second World War, Bivongi [RC], International AM Edizioni, 2007.
From Bicycles To Mercedes. Italians In Rural Nsw And Political Choice: Griffith 1947-1984, James Hagan
From Bicycles To Mercedes. Italians In Rural Nsw And Political Choice: Griffith 1947-1984, James Hagan
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
There were a few Italians in Griffith when the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Scheme began in 1913, but they did not arrive in large numbers until after the Second World War. They joined over a thousand people of Italian birth or direct descent who had succeeded at small-scale farming and displaced the majority of Australians who had been the original block-holders. This produced some resentment and discrimination, which led to Italians setting up their own economic and social networks. They did not however act as a single community ; fundamental divisions between Northern and Southern immigrants remained and persisted, and so …
The Triple Helix And Institutional Change: Reward, Risk And Response In Australian Cooperative Research Centres, Samuel E. Garrett-Jones, T. Turpin
The Triple Helix And Institutional Change: Reward, Risk And Response In Australian Cooperative Research Centres, Samuel E. Garrett-Jones, T. Turpin
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The paper examines 370 participants’ experience with one well-established organizational embodiment of the ‘triple helix’ - the Australian Cooperative Research Centres program - considers its effect on researchers and organizations in the public research system and draws management and policy implications.
Cosmogenic Mega-Tsunami In The Australia Region: Are They Supported By Aboriginal And Maori Legends?, Edward A. Bryant, G. Walsh, D. Abbott
Cosmogenic Mega-Tsunami In The Australia Region: Are They Supported By Aboriginal And Maori Legends?, Edward A. Bryant, G. Walsh, D. Abbott
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Mega-tsunami have affected much of the coastline of Australia over the past millennium. Such catastrophic waves have left an imprint consisting predominently of bedrock sculpturing of the rocky coastline and deposition of marine sediments to elevations reaching 130 mabove sea level. One of the largest of these events occurred in eastern Australia in the fifteenth century. This event may be related to the Mahuika impact crater found at 48.38 S, 166.48 E on the continental shelf 250 km south of New Zealand. A comet at least 500 m in diameter formed the crater. Maori and Aboriginal legends allude to significant …
The Cultural Context Of Youth Suicide In Australia: Unemployment, Identity And Gender, Heidi E. Gilchrist, Glennys Howarth, Gerard Sullivan
The Cultural Context Of Youth Suicide In Australia: Unemployment, Identity And Gender, Heidi E. Gilchrist, Glennys Howarth, Gerard Sullivan
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This article considers the impact, in terms of life and death choices, of the economicexclusion of young people in Australia, where suicide is the leading cause of deathby injury. In the two decades from 1980 there was a dramatic increase in suiciderates for young males. Research demonstrates a correlation between youth suicideand unemployment but the complex relationship between the two has not been fullyinvestigated. This article explores the perceptions of young people, parents and serviceproviders of the cultural context of suicide and how it comes to be constructed as anoption for young people experiencing economic marginalisation.I n
Tariffs, Subsidies And Profits: A Re-Assessment Of Structural Change In Australia 1901-1939, David Merrett, Simon Ville
Tariffs, Subsidies And Profits: A Re-Assessment Of Structural Change In Australia 1901-1939, David Merrett, Simon Ville
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper offers a re-interpretation of the drivers of structural change in Australia from federation until the outbreak of World War II. The broad story of structural change is that manufacturing increased its relative share of both output and employment while the share of the farm sector and mining contracted. The large tertiary sector, including construction, oscillated around its mean. The conventional wisdom is that these shifts were largely the result of government policy, particularly the increase in trade barriers that stimulated import substitution by manufacturers. However, if the unit of analysis is the firm rather than the economy then …
Structural Changes In Australia's Monetary Aggregates And Interest Rates, Abbas Valadkhani, Mosayeb Pahlavani
Structural Changes In Australia's Monetary Aggregates And Interest Rates, Abbas Valadkhani, Mosayeb Pahlavani
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper employs all quarterly time series currently available to determine endogenously the time of structural breaks for three monetary aggregates—the long- and short-term interest rates as well as the consumer price index—in Australia using the ZA (Zivot and Andrews, 1992) test and the LP (Lumsdaine and Papell, 1997) test. After accounting for the single most significant structural break, the results from the ZA test (model C) provide no evidence against the unit root null hypothesis for all series examined. However, when two structural breaks are incorporated in the testing procedure within the framework proposed by LP (i.e., model CC) …
Spatial And Temporal Patterns Of Abundance And Recruitment Of Ghost Shrimp Trypaea Australiensis Across Hierarchical Scales In South-Eastern Australia, Douglas Rotherham, R. J. West
Spatial And Temporal Patterns Of Abundance And Recruitment Of Ghost Shrimp Trypaea Australiensis Across Hierarchical Scales In South-Eastern Australia, Douglas Rotherham, R. J. West
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Spatial and temporal variation in abundance and recruitment of burrowing ghost shrimp Trypaea australiensis was examined across 3 south-eastern Australian estuaries using a hierarchical sampling design, over a 2 yr period. We tested the hypothesis that abundances of shrimp were different between plots (10s to 100s of metres apart), sites within estuaries (kilometres apart), estuaries (100s of kilometres apart) and through time. More frequent sampling at 1 site also examined temporal variation at scales of months, seasons and years. Another aim was to investigate the reliability of using counts of burrow openings to indirectly measure the relative abundance of T, …
Water Quality In The Illawarra-South Coast Region Of New South Wales, Australia, Robert John Morrison, Mark R. O'Donnell
Water Quality In The Illawarra-South Coast Region Of New South Wales, Australia, Robert John Morrison, Mark R. O'Donnell
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Water quality is a serious environmental concern in the South Coast region of New South Wales as many aspects of human ecology and the economy are dependant on good water quality. Apart from drinking water for residents and visitors, tourism and agricultural productivity rely on good quality water. This paper presents an overview of general issues with regard to the development of water quality assessment procedures and programs, and discusses a number of issues considered important for the region. These include the impacts of increasing urbanisation, industrial activity (including mining), the potential wider use of groundwater and the improved management …
Structural, Metamorphic, And Geochronological Constraints On Alternating Compression And Extension In The Early Paleozoic Gondwanan Pacific Margin, Northeastern Australia, Christopher L. Fergusson, R A Henderson, I. W. Withnall, C M Fanning, D. Phillips, K. J. Lewthwaite
Structural, Metamorphic, And Geochronological Constraints On Alternating Compression And Extension In The Early Paleozoic Gondwanan Pacific Margin, Northeastern Australia, Christopher L. Fergusson, R A Henderson, I. W. Withnall, C M Fanning, D. Phillips, K. J. Lewthwaite
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
The Ross-Delamerian orogenic belt formed along the early Paleozoic active Pacific margin of the newly merged Gondwana supercontinent. In its northern-most segment in the Townsville region of northeastern Australia, we have identified a short contractional phase of the Delamerian orogeny in the Argentine Metamorphics postdating formation of a mafic breccia with a U-Pb zircon age of 500 ± 4 Ma. Contraction was followed by widespread inferred extensional deformation with formation of flat-lying foliation, domal features, and amphibolite grade and greenschist retrograde metamorphism all synchronous with latest Cambrian to Early Ordovician extensional backarc volcanism, sedimentation and intrusions. One of these intrusions …
The Development And Use Of Mental Health Triage Scales In Australia, Marc Broadbent, Lorna Moxham, Trudy Dwyer
The Development And Use Of Mental Health Triage Scales In Australia, Marc Broadbent, Lorna Moxham, Trudy Dwyer
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
In Australian emergency departments, the triage of people with physical illness and injury is well developed and supported by the Australasian Triage Scale. The Australasian Triage Scale contains brief descriptors of mental illness and it is unknown if these provide the same reliability in triage decision-making for emergency triage nurses assessing people with a mental illness. Specialist mental health triage scales have been developed to cater for this deficit and to aid emergency staff who have lacked training in the assessment and management of people with a mental illness. A review of the development of mental health triage scales and …
When Wages Were Clothes: Dressing Down Aboriginal Workers In Australia's Northern Territory, Julia T. Martinez
When Wages Were Clothes: Dressing Down Aboriginal Workers In Australia's Northern Territory, Julia T. Martinez
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Prior to the introduction of equal wages for Aboriginal Australians in 1968, it was not unusual for Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory to be paid in kind; in basic food, clothing and tobacco. Some workers received a few shillings a week, but even this wage could be withheld completely or placed in a trust fund. In keeping with a supposedly humanitarian protectionist ethos, clothing was encouraged as a substitute for cash wages. But in practice employers rarely equated clothing with wages. Within the exploitative colonial context of Northern Territory few employers believed that any form of payment was owed …
My Island Home: Indigenous Festivals And Archipelago Australia, Lisa Slater
My Island Home: Indigenous Festivals And Archipelago Australia, Lisa Slater
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
It’s raining in sunny Queensland. Rain wasn’t on my mind when I left wintry Sydney; then I was wondering: why so many Indigenous festivals now? What are they doing? Where did they come from? To what effect? Having fled a chilly Sydney mid-morning, I arrive Friday afternoon (Day 1 of the Dreaming Festival): after an easy one-hour flight to Brisbane, a clean and surprisingly on-time train to Caboolture, a local school bus toWoodford, I shareWoodford’s only taxi to the festival grounds.My companions are a motley crew; only later do I appreciate that they are somewhat representative of the festivalgoer. John …
Intimate Australia: Body/Landscape Journals & The Paradox Of Belonging, Lisa Slater
Intimate Australia: Body/Landscape Journals & The Paradox Of Belonging, Lisa Slater
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Early in Body/Landscape Journals Margaret Somerville poses the question '[h]ow do I represent myself and the landscape?'. Throughout the heterogeneous textual topography that is Body/Landscape Journals she attempts to represent, indeed perform, her embodied relationship to place. As a historian, Somerville has collaborated with Aboriginal women to record their oral histories. These collaborative and intimate working processes have seemingly realigned Somerville's desires and writing practices toward Aboriginality. Body/Landscape Journals is an exploration and working through of her desire to write an embodied sense of belonging in Australia. Somerville suggests, citing Elizabeth Ferrier, that 'colonisation is primarily a spatial conquest and …
Detrital Zircon Ages In Neoproterozoic To Ordovician Siliciclastic Rocks, Northeastern Australia: Implications For The Tectonic History Of The East Gondwana Continental Margin, Christopher L. Fergusson, Robert A. Henderson, C Mark Fanning, Ian W. Withnall
Detrital Zircon Ages In Neoproterozoic To Ordovician Siliciclastic Rocks, Northeastern Australia: Implications For The Tectonic History Of The East Gondwana Continental Margin, Christopher L. Fergusson, Robert A. Henderson, C Mark Fanning, Ian W. Withnall
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
U–Pb detrital zircon ages in variably metamorphosed, dominantly fine-grained clastic successions are used in northeastern Australia to identify two major successions along the East Gondwana margin. The older succession is of probable Late Neoproterozoic age and is considered part of a passive margin associated with rifting at c. 600 Ma. Most detrital zircons have ages in the range 1000–1300 Ma and were probably derived from an extension of a Late Mesoproterozoic (1050–1200 Ma) orogenic belt from the central Australian Musgrave Complex located 1500 km to the west. No evidence has been found for 600–800 Ma rifting of a Rodinian supercontinent …
An Assessment Of The Research Performance Of Commerce Faculties In Australia, Abbas Valadkhani, Simon Ville
An Assessment Of The Research Performance Of Commerce Faculties In Australia, Abbas Valadkhani, Simon Ville
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
There is a growing policy focus in Australian higher education on quantitative research performance assessment. However, most of the analysis has addressed aggregate performance at the institutional level, an approach inconsistent with recent policy emphasis on diversity among universities, and one that ignores performance variations across disciplines. We use cluster analysis to classify one of the ten broad fields of education, that is, management and commerce. Using averaged and available data for 2000-2004 on various research measures, partial rankings are provided. Factor analysis is utilised to generate full-multidimensional rankings within the resulting clusters. Our results show that low total research …
The Paradoxical Food Buying Behaviour Of Parents: Insights From The Uk And Australia, Gary I. Noble, Sandra C. Jones, Danielle Mcvie, Laura Mcdermott, Martine Stead
The Paradoxical Food Buying Behaviour Of Parents: Insights From The Uk And Australia, Gary I. Noble, Sandra C. Jones, Danielle Mcvie, Laura Mcdermott, Martine Stead
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
AbstractPurpose - This article aims to explore the apparent paradox between the nutritional knowledge ofparents of pre-school children and their actual food purchase and preparation behaviour.Design/methodology/approach - Two separate qualitative data collection exercises wereconducted, an exploratory focus group study in the UK and a projective technique study in Australia.Findings - The UK study found that, despite believing that vegetables were good for children'shealth, mothers also perceived that it was extremely difficult to encourage children to eat them. Theresults of Australian study suggest that the purchase of unhealthy "treats" or "bribes" is explainedthrough the concept of "expediency" whereas what this study …