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Floods In Dapto - So What's New, Michael Organ
What's The Point? The Failure Of Community Activism, Michael Organ
What's The Point? The Failure Of Community Activism, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
Australians are rightly proud of their democratic traditions. They are also inclined to raise their voice in protest when faced with government, bureaucratic, or civil injustice. Environmental activists have been particularly noisy. But community activism can have unforeseen consequences, resulting in worse outcomes for the environment in the long run.
Ye Olden Inn (By The Old Pioneer), Michael Organ
Illawarra - The Garden Of New South Wales, Wollongong City Art Gallery, 25 November 1994 - 8 January 1995, Michael Organ
Illawarra - The Garden Of New South Wales, Wollongong City Art Gallery, 25 November 1994 - 8 January 1995, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
No abstract provided.
New Tactics See Coal Seam Gas Protests Gain The Upper Hand , Michael Organ
New Tactics See Coal Seam Gas Protests Gain The Upper Hand , Michael Organ
Michael Organ
Community coal seam gas campaigns have had some big wins lately, most recently in the suspension of the drilling licence for CSG company Metgasco in New South Wales. Referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), the decision was partly attributed to lack of community consultation.
The Andrews Family Of Wollongong And Trooper Frank Andrews - A Boer War Casualty, Michael Organ
The Andrews Family Of Wollongong And Trooper Frank Andrews - A Boer War Casualty, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
No abstract provided.
Trooper Frank Andrews (1880-1900) Of Wollongong: A Boer War Casualty, Michael Organ
Trooper Frank Andrews (1880-1900) Of Wollongong: A Boer War Casualty, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
No abstract provided.
Simpson Of Gallipoli In Illawarra 1910, Michael Organ
Simpson Of Gallipoli In Illawarra 1910, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
No abstract provided.
Oz Magazine Goes Digital - And The Party Continues , Michael Organ, Rebecca Daly
Oz Magazine Goes Digital - And The Party Continues , Michael Organ, Rebecca Daly
Michael Organ
Earlier this month, the University of Wollongong announced that it would house the digital archive of OZ magazine, meaning the iconic counterculture magazine will be available to a new audience - some 50 years after it first hit the streets of Sydney on April Fool's Day 1963.
One Million Downloads For Uow's Research Online, Kate Mcilwain, Michael K. Organ, Katina Michael, M. G. Michael
One Million Downloads For Uow's Research Online, Kate Mcilwain, Michael K. Organ, Katina Michael, M. G. Michael
Michael Organ
UOW’s open access research repository, Research Online, has reached one million full text article downloads since the site went live in 2006. Research Online allows anyone to download papers and articles by UOW academics, including student theses and research papers from a wide range of areas. Manager of Repository Services, Michael Organ said the millionth download is quite a landmark for the university. “One million downloads is a lot of people accessing our papers,” he said. The millionth paper to be accessed was a 2006 conference paper by Faculty of Informatics academics Katina Michael, A. McNamee and MG Michael entitled …
Tolkien’S Japonisme: Prints, Dragons, And A Great Wave, Michael Organ
Tolkien’S Japonisme: Prints, Dragons, And A Great Wave, Michael Organ
Michael Organ
The original September 1937 George Allen & Unwin edition of The Hobbit features artwork by J.R.R. Tolkien along with an accompanying dust jacket. This latter work is a modern, stylized graphic design composed of a not entirely symmetrical view of a Middle-earth landscape (night to the left, day to the right), with the Lonely Mountain rising in the distant center, flanked by steeply sloped, snow-covered Misty Mountains and in the foreground Mirkwood’s dense, impenetrable forests. Additional features include a crescent moon, the sun, a dragon, eagles, a lake village, and a rapier-like path—a straight road— heading toward a darkened, megalithic …
'Please Mr Frodo, Is This New Zealand? Or Australia?'... 'No Sam, It's Middle-Earth.', Michael K. Organ
'Please Mr Frodo, Is This New Zealand? Or Australia?'... 'No Sam, It's Middle-Earth.', Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The exploitation of JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth by Tourism New Zealand following the success of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films and the release of the first part of The Hobbit has been met with accusations of cultural racism by Maori, misrepresentation by Pakeha and re-appropriation by independent British filmmakers, writes Michael Organ.
Alice In Oz - 'Please, Ma'am, Is This New Zealand? Or Australia?': The Lewis Carroll Alice In Wonderland Books In Australia, Michael K. Organ
Alice In Oz - 'Please, Ma'am, Is This New Zealand? Or Australia?': The Lewis Carroll Alice In Wonderland Books In Australia, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
There is no obvious connection between Australia and the very English Alice in Wonderland stories written by the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in the latter half of the nineteenth century, apart from a few brief words uttered by Alice at the beginning of her adventures - 'Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand? Or Australia?' - suggesting that, upon falling down a rabbit hole, she had been transported to the Antipodes ('Antipathies'), just as Lemuel Gulliver had found himself lost in Lilliput a century earlier. Yet the ongoing popularity and influence of these works in the former British colony is …
Bibliographic Notes On Captain R.M. Westmacott's "Sketches In Australia", Michael K. Organ
Bibliographic Notes On Captain R.M. Westmacott's "Sketches In Australia", Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
During my investigations into the life and times of Robert Marsh Westmacott (Aide-de-Camp to Governor Bourke from 1832 to 1837; artist and settler in Illawarra from 1837 to 1847), a somewhat mysterious figure like so many of our early colonial artists, I have encountered a number of variations of his published collection of eighteen tinted lithographs plus descriptive text, entitled Sketches in Australia. The question arose: is the work a true 'book' or merely a collection of lithographs? The bibliographic details for this work are described by Ferguson, 4955. However my studies have revealed a number of important variations of …
The Sixties At Wollongong: Student Affairs In A Regional Australian University, Michael K. Organ
The Sixties At Wollongong: Student Affairs In A Regional Australian University, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The sixties were a time of revolution – sexual, cultural, spiritual, political and musical. The Beatles rose and fell, humankind reached the moon, the horrors of the Vietnam war were exposed amidst the threat of nuclear holocaust, millions died silently in China from starvation and Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and Woodstock revealed the power of this new ‘pop’ music. The United States largely took the lead in driving western societal change, and Australia followed, though in a somewhat muted and delayed manner. A snapshot of events during the sixties at the University of Wollongong – then the Wollongong University College – …
One Million Downloads For Uow’S Research Online, Kate Mcilwain, Michael Organ, K. Michael, M. Michael
One Million Downloads For Uow’S Research Online, Kate Mcilwain, Michael Organ, K. Michael, M. Michael
Michael Organ
No abstract provided.
One-Stop Repository Shop For University Of Wollongong, Michael K. Organ
One-Stop Repository Shop For University Of Wollongong, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The library's extensive collaboration with the UOW Research and Innovation Division is making possible a 'one-stop shop' for the collection of publications used for both the university's HERDC (research data collection for DEEWR) and ERA (Excellence in Research Australia) processes, as well as for deposit within Research Online, the UOW institutional repository.
Research Online: Digital Commons As A Publishing Platform At The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Rebecca Daly, Michael K. Organ
Research Online: Digital Commons As A Publishing Platform At The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Rebecca Daly, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
Since 2006, Research Online, the University of Wollongong's open access institutional repository has utilised Bepress' Digital Commons software to make available published research outputs and digital theses. This article discusses the outcomes of recent academic demand for its use as a publishing tool of university journals and conference proceedings. The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice is provided as an example. Digital Commons includes the editorial management software, EdiKit, which assists in managing submissions, editorial functions, and peer review. Also considered are changes to scholarly communication patterns arising out of the new open access, electronic only, publication regimes.
W.B. Clarke As Scientific Journalist, Michael K. Organ
W.B. Clarke As Scientific Journalist, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
This paper comments on W.B. Clarke's role as a scientific journalist in Sydney, 1839-1878. It also argues that Clarke has been misrepresented over time because large sections of his published work - specifically anonymous and signed newspaper articles - have not been considered in analyses of his life and assessments of his place in the history of Australian science.
The Battle Of Bulli: Women, Children & Striking Coalminers Repel Blacklegs, Police & A Steam Locomotive At Bulli, New South Wales, Australia: Monday, 17th January 1887, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
A little known incident in the annals of Australia’s industrial history occurred in the small New South Wales coastal mining village of Bulli on the morning of Monday, 17 January 1887, when a group of some 400 or 500 townsfolk, with over 150 women to the fore, confronted and stood down a group of scab labourers sent from Sydney to break a long-running strike. This incident is cited as perhaps the first united feminist action in Australian history. Its background lay in outstanding industrial issues going back to the previous year.
Research Assistants In The Clever Country, Michael K. Organ, S. Svensen
Research Assistants In The Clever Country, Michael K. Organ, S. Svensen
Michael Organ
In this paper, we outline some of the problems facing research workers in Australian universities, with an emphasis on research assistants, the lowest classification of paid research worker. It is concluded that, while conditions have improved slightly since 1978, research assistants are still among the most marginalised public sector employees, and subjected to employment conditions which should be considered unacceptable in a society which values the benefits accruing from research activities.
A Conspiracy Of Silence - The Nsw National Parks And Wildlife Service And Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Sites, Michael K. Organ
A Conspiracy Of Silence - The Nsw National Parks And Wildlife Service And Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Sites, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (NP&WS), under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW) ('the Act'), is responsible for the 'care, control. and management' of Aboriginal cultural hentage sites (middens, burial sites, rock art sites, etc.) throughout NSW.2 Section 90 of the Act states that it is an offence to destroy, deface or disturb an Aboriginal site, and that consent to do so must be sought from the Director of the Service. It is questionable not only whether it is appropriate that the Service should wield such power, but also if it is adequately carrying …
Research Assistants In The Clever Country, Michael K. Organ, S. Svensen
Research Assistants In The Clever Country, Michael K. Organ, S. Svensen
Michael Organ
This paper examines the employment conditions of research assistants in universities in the context of the stated intention of the Australian government to transfonn Australia into the 'clever country'. Research assistants have played an important role in Australia's research efforts. The growing teaching and administrative workloads of academic staff. and the increasing sophistication and complexity of research methodologies. have increased the demands on research assistants and the importance of their contribution. Despite this. there has been little improvement in the employment conditions of research assistants. These conditions include the absence of any job security; lack of career structure and development: …
The Battle Of Bulli: Women, Children & Striking Coalminers Repel Blacklegs, Police & A Steam Locomotive At Bulli, New South Wales, Australia: Monday, 17th January 1887, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
A little known incident in the annals of Australia’s industrial history occurred in the small New South Wales coastal mining village of Bulli on the morning of Monday, 17 January 1887, when a group of some 400 or 500 townsfolk, with over 150 women to the fore, confronted and stood down a group of scab labourers sent from Sydney to break a long-running strike. This incident is cited as perhaps the first united feminist action in Australian history. Its background lay in outstanding industrial issues going back to the previous year.
'Osterreich In Australien': Ferdinand Von Hochstetter And The Austrian Novara Scientific Expedition 1858-9, Michael K. Organ
'Osterreich In Australien': Ferdinand Von Hochstetter And The Austrian Novara Scientific Expedition 1858-9, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
During 1858 and 1859 the Austrian geologist Ferdinand Hochstetter visited Australia in connection with the Novara round-the-world scientific expedition. While much of significance was published as a result of Hochstetter's researches in New Zealand during 1859, the same cannot be said for his time in New South Wales and Victoria. With the aid of recently uncovered manuscript geological notebooks and contemporary material originally issued in German-language scientific journals, a preliminary assessment can be made of his visit to the Australian colonies. Aspects of the reception Hochstetter and his fellow Novara scientists received, and in turn his views on the state …
Academic Library Seating: A Survey Of Usage, With Implications For Space Utilisation, Michael K. Organ, Margie H. Jantti
Academic Library Seating: A Survey Of Usage, With Implications For Space Utilisation, Michael K. Organ, Margie H. Jantti
Michael Organ
Between June and October 1996 the University of Wollongong Library conducted a survey of patron seating usage with the aim of a) quantifying such use; and b) identifying areas where seats could be removed to accommodate the growth of the collection. The survey indicated that maximum usage of the 648 seats available for study was 66%. This supported a conservative reduction of seating numbers by 12%, resulting in minimal impact on patron usage. The removal of seats enabled the installation of additional shelving and a compactus. The findings have facilitated collection expansion for a further five year period.
Australian Aboriginal Dreaming Stories: A Chronological Bibliography Of Published Works 1789-1991, Michael K. Organ
Australian Aboriginal Dreaming Stories: A Chronological Bibliography Of Published Works 1789-1991, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
The bibliography lists published works relating to Aboriginal stories which have been labelled by non-Aboriginal Australians with a variety of terms: myths or mythology, legends, fairy tales, superstitions, fables, traditions, stories, dreamtime stories, narratives or even ghost stories. Preference is now given to the use of the term ‘dreaming stories’. For a discussion of the various definitions and classifications of such material by Australian anthropologists and ethnologists refer Hiatt (1975). Interpretation by local and overseas researchers and academics has not been addressed in detail within this bibliography as such a topic covers a vast field, but some such items have …
Light From The Tunnel: Collecting The Archives Of Business And Labour At The Australian National University, 1953-2003 (Review), Michael K. Organ
Light From The Tunnel: Collecting The Archives Of Business And Labour At The Australian National University, 1953-2003 (Review), Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
In May 1986 I was one of a group of 20 University of New South Wales archive diploma students who travelled from Sydney to Canberra for a three day tour of facilities in the nation’s capital. Memorably, the bus pulled up outside the National Film and Sound Archive, an art deco building formerly housing the Institute of Anatomy, but now with yellowing posters of Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch and Dad n’ Dave lining its walls. Next stop was the suitably imposing Australian War Memorial, where we enjoyed an encounter with original war-related maps, diaries, photographs and memorabilia. The National Library …
Download Statistics - What Do They Tell Us? The Example Of Research Online, The Open Access Institutional Repository At The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Michael K. Organ
Download Statistics - What Do They Tell Us? The Example Of Research Online, The Open Access Institutional Repository At The University Of Wollongong, Australia, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
A study was undertaken of download and usage statistics for the institutional repository at the University of Wollongong, Australia, over the six-month period January-June 2006. The degree to which research output was made available, via open access, on Internet search engines was quantified. Google was identified as the primary access and referral point, generating 95.8% of the measurable full text downloads of repository content. Further long-term studies need to be carried out to more precisely identify factors affecting download rates of repository content. This data will assist institutions and faculty in measuring research impact and performance, as an adjunct to …
The Battle Of Bulli: Women, Children & Striking Coalminers Repel Blacklegs, Police & A Steam Locomotive At Bulli, New South Wales, Australia: Monday, 17th January 1887, Michael K. Organ
Michael Organ
A little known incident in the annals of Australia’s industrial history occurred in the small New South Wales coastal mining village of Bulli on the morning of Monday, 17 January 1887, when a group of some 400 or 500 townsfolk, with over 150 women to the fore, confronted and stood down a group of scab labourers sent from Sydney to break a long-running strike. This incident is cited as perhaps the first united feminist action in Australian history. Its background lay in outstanding industrial issues going back to the previous year.