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Philosophy Of History: Change, Stability And The Tragic Human Condition, Gregory C. Melleuish, Susanna G. Rizzo Jan 2017

Philosophy Of History: Change, Stability And The Tragic Human Condition, Gregory C. Melleuish, Susanna G. Rizzo

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This paper contends that the role of a philosophy of history in the twenty first century is as a meta-discourse which explains and attempts to understand the role of history as part of human being-in-the-world. Such a philosophy of history will not, as in the past, take the form of a universal history. Instead it will take a phenomenological approach which seeks to explore the historical enterprise as a means through which human beings attempt to come to terms with the fact that, despite their craving for being, they live in a world which is marked by becoming. Change and …


A New Horizon On Sydney's Urban Frontier: The St Elmo Land Releases, Ian C. Willis Jan 2017

A New Horizon On Sydney's Urban Frontier: The St Elmo Land Releases, Ian C. Willis

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The paper examines a series of land releases by land developer Neil McLean on his farm St Elmo at Campbelltown between 1949 and 1961, which eventually formed a concentric ring around the old town centre. McLean was prescient in his understanding of the needs of Sydney's growth well before the Cumberland County Council designated Campbelltown as a satellite city in 1960. His vision and foresight put into action what the founders of the county plan envisaged as part of Sydney's metropolitan rural-urban fringe well before it happened on the city's urban frontier.


Measures To Increase Cycling In Australia Are Predicated On Failure, Glen Fuller, Ian M. Buchanan, Gordon R. Waitt Jan 2017

Measures To Increase Cycling In Australia Are Predicated On Failure, Glen Fuller, Ian M. Buchanan, Gordon R. Waitt

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Cycling bodies Bicycle NSW and the Victorian-based Bicycle Network want laws changed so that people over the age of 12 can cycle on footpaths. We think this call is a symptom of the spectacular failure of Australia's governing bodies (at every level from local through state and federal) to make our roads safe for cyclists.


The Narrative Sense Of Others, Shaun Gallagher Jan 2017

The Narrative Sense Of Others, Shaun Gallagher

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Comment on Duranti, Alessandro. 2015. The anthropology of intentions: Language in a world of others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


Encrypted Jihad: Investigating The Role Of Telegram App In Lone Wolf Attacks In The West, Ahmad Shehabat, Teodor E. Mitew, Yehia Alzoubi Jan 2017

Encrypted Jihad: Investigating The Role Of Telegram App In Lone Wolf Attacks In The West, Ahmad Shehabat, Teodor E. Mitew, Yehia Alzoubi

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No abstract provided.


Truth To Power: How Podcasts Are Getting Political, Siobhan Mchugh Jan 2017

Truth To Power: How Podcasts Are Getting Political, Siobhan Mchugh

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Podcasts are becoming a powerful socio-political force: from crime to social justice, they are changing the debate on some of the key issues of our times.


Old Sites, New Visions: Art And Archaeology Collide In Cyrus, Christopher J. Barker, Diana Wood Conroy Jan 2017

Old Sites, New Visions: Art And Archaeology Collide In Cyrus, Christopher J. Barker, Diana Wood Conroy

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Over the past two decades Australian archaeologists have been slowly uncovering the World Heritagelisted ancient theatre site at Paphos in Cyprus. The Hellenistic-Roman period theatre was used for performance for over six centuries from around 300 BC to the late fourth century AD. There is also considerable evidence of activity on the site after the theatre was destroyed, particularly during the Crusader era.


Early Challenges To Multilingualism On The Internet: The Case Of Han Character-Based Scripts, Mark J. Mclelland Jan 2017

Early Challenges To Multilingualism On The Internet: The Case Of Han Character-Based Scripts, Mark J. Mclelland

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In today's hyper-mediated world where computer software can deal seamlessly with a variety of the world's languages and scripts, it is difficult to recall the seemingly insurmountable computing problems raised by "Han" character-based scripts such as Chinese, Japanese (and to a lesser extent, Korean). In the early days of networked computing, some commentators even argued that the continued use of Han characters was a lost cause, and could only result in "intolerable inefficiencies" when used to communicate digital information. In this paper, I consider the orthographic factors that delayed the implementation of cross-platform protocols allowing for the input, display and …


Asian Servants For The Imperial Telegraph: Imagining North Australia As An Indian Ocean Colony Before 1914, Julia T. Martinez Jan 2017

Asian Servants For The Imperial Telegraph: Imagining North Australia As An Indian Ocean Colony Before 1914, Julia T. Martinez

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In the late nineteenth century, the officers of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company provided north Australia with a cable connection to London via Java, Singapore, and India. The telegraph project prompted a new era of colonisation in tropical north Australia and the officers of the company sought to ensure that the north would be shaped according to their notions of Indian Ocean colonial culture. They insisted on employing Asian domestic servants in opposition to White Australian nationalists who advocated restrictions on Asian migration. Like the pearling industry, which was permitted ongoing access to Asian labour, the telegraph …


A Brush With Weimer, Rowan Cahill Jan 2017

A Brush With Weimer, Rowan Cahill

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Forty-eight years ago tonight, it was the night before Pam (1948-2015) and I married, and we were amongst the small number of guests invited to a function to farewell Associate Professor Ernest K. Bramsted (1901-1978) as he retired from Sydney University and prepared to return to the UK where he had citizenship. He had come to Sydney University in 1952, but was now deemed to have reached his use-by date. As it turned out, he still had a couple of books in him, and some teaching gigs.


The Disappearance Of Boredom, Ian M. Buchanan Jan 2017

The Disappearance Of Boredom, Ian M. Buchanan

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As Baudrillard's essay on the hypermarket makes clear, the mall is the true face of Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality. It is not merely the simulation of reality; it is, in fact, a vast, multilayered consumerist dreamscape in which everything you can imagine yourself wanting can be had in commodity form, even if that wasn't what you originally wished for. Today, though, Baudrillard's hyperreal hypermarket is to be found online and thanks to the smartphone it is constantly in reach. Smartphones are not just re-shaping space; they're also transforming time, most noticeably in our apparent loss of the ability to wait. …


Governmentality And Fan Resistance In The Japan Pop Culture Sphere, Mark J. Mclelland Jan 2017

Governmentality And Fan Resistance In The Japan Pop Culture Sphere, Mark J. Mclelland

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This essay looks at the mismatch between how ratings authorities and other 'juridical' bodies have authority to fix the meaning of a text in a manner that often opposes the understandings that circulate among a text's intended community of use. I look at a specific case - the banning in New Zealand of the popular anime Puni Puni Poemy due to the perception that it was liable to promote child abuse. I look at how the perception that manga, anime and other genres of Japanese popular culture are rated negatively by these juridical bodies as well as the press and …


The Phonetics And Phonology Of Eastern Andalusian Spanish: A Review Of Literature From 1881 To 2016, Alfredo Herrero De Haro Jan 2017

The Phonetics And Phonology Of Eastern Andalusian Spanish: A Review Of Literature From 1881 To 2016, Alfredo Herrero De Haro

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Despite previous studies on Eastern Andalusian Spanish, interest in this geolect boomed only after the theory of vowel doubling was posited for this variety of Spanish. According to this theory, in Eastern Andalusian Spanish, vowels preceding /s/ aspiration or deletion change their quality and, as a result, carry the semantic function of /s/. Since then, many researchers have studied the vowel and consonant systems of this variety of Spanish and the phoneticphonological debate is still ongoing. This article reviews the main studies on Eastern Andalusian Spanish pronunciation between 1881 and 2016, comparing the different findings in that period and summarising …


Is The Montreal Protocol A Model That Can Help Solve The Global Marine Plastic Debris Problem?, Karen Raubenheimer, Alistair Mcilgorm Jan 2017

Is The Montreal Protocol A Model That Can Help Solve The Global Marine Plastic Debris Problem?, Karen Raubenheimer, Alistair Mcilgorm

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The impacts of plastic debris on the marine environment have gained the attention of the global community. Although the plastic debris problem presents in the oceans, the failure to control land-based plastic waste is the primary cause of these marine environmental impacts. Plastics in the ocean are mainly a land policy issue, yet the regulation of marine plastic debris from land-based sources is a substantial gap within the international policy framework. Regulating different plastics at the final product level is difficult to implement. Instead, the Montreal Protocol may serve as a model to protect the global ocean common, by reducing …


Stella Brennan: Archaeologist Of Suburbia, Su Ballard Jan 2017

Stella Brennan: Archaeologist Of Suburbia, Su Ballard

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Stella Brennan's early works began from the birth pangs of the Internet age and the messianic phase of neo-liberalism. They mark the decade when the world changed. By 1990 New Zealand, Japan and Australia had joined the magical mystical tour named the Internet, and packets of data were flying through deep underground cables and across starlit southern skies. A Labour government was well along the path of a neoliberal reformation of the country's economic and social policies. The market had won out over equality and solidarity, and we were immersed in a new language of "return on investment," "choice," and …


Neither A Discipline Nor A Colony: Renaissance And Re-Imagination In Economic History, Simon Ville, Claire Wright Jan 2017

Neither A Discipline Nor A Colony: Renaissance And Re-Imagination In Economic History, Simon Ville, Claire Wright

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After years in the wilderness, economic history is becoming fashionable once more. Intellectual shifts by its parent disciplines of history and economics, the failed experiment of economic history as a separate discipline, and the impact of major economic events have conspired to produce a renaissance in the field of study in the last decade and a half. We explain these changes and show that economic history derives its main strength from its role as an interdisciplinary research field that draws upon and integrates with its closest disciplines. We analyse the nature and recent progress of economic history in Australia and …


Four Mid Back Vowels In Eastern Andalusian Spanish : The Effect Of /S/, /R/, And /Θ/ Deletion On Preceding /O/ In The Town Of El Ejido, Alfredo Herrero De Haro Jan 2017

Four Mid Back Vowels In Eastern Andalusian Spanish : The Effect Of /S/, /R/, And /Θ/ Deletion On Preceding /O/ In The Town Of El Ejido, Alfredo Herrero De Haro

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The deletion of syllable-final consonants in Eastern Andalusian Spanish has been extensively documented; however, there is no consensus about its effect on neighbouring vowels. Researchers have focused on the effects of/s/deletion on vowels to analyse how its semantic value is conveyed, while other consonants which are also deleted have been ignored. This paper examines the effects of word-final/s/, /r/, and /θ/ deletion on preceding /o/ from the point of view of production and perception. Regarding production, acoustic analyses of data from El Ejido (Eastern Andalusia), show specific changes to the F1 and F2 of/o/depending on the underlying consonant it precedes …


Neonatal Imitation: Theory, Experimental Design, And Significance For The Field Of Social Cognition, S Vincini, Yuna Jhang, Eugene Buder, Shaun Gallagher Jan 2017

Neonatal Imitation: Theory, Experimental Design, And Significance For The Field Of Social Cognition, S Vincini, Yuna Jhang, Eugene Buder, Shaun Gallagher

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Neonatal imitation has rich implications for neuroscience, developmental psychology, and social cognition, but there is little consensus about this phenomenon. The primary empirical question, whether or not neonatal imitation exists, is not settled. Is it possible to give a balanced evaluation of the theories and methodologies at stake so as to facilitate real progress with respect to the primary empirical question? In this paper, we address this question. We present the operational definition of differential imitation and discuss why it is important to keep it in mind. The operational definition indicates that neonatal imitation may not look like prototypical imitation …


Australian Law To Combat Illegal Logging In Indonesia: A Gossamer Chain For Transnational Enforcement Of Environmental Law, Gregory L. Rose Jan 2017

Australian Law To Combat Illegal Logging In Indonesia: A Gossamer Chain For Transnational Enforcement Of Environmental Law, Gregory L. Rose

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Two countries' combined crime-fighting ability might be greater than the sum of their individual capacities where their capabilities complement each other. This article investigates transnational coordination against environmental crime. Australian utilization of mutual legal assistance and anti-money laundering mechanisms to prosecute offences related to illegal logging in Indonesia are examined as a case study. In theory, interrupting the transfer of proceeds of environmental crime across national borders enhances transnational law enforcement. The case study demonstrates that difficult legal obstacles can obstruct practical cooperation between neighbouring countries combating transnational environmental crime in the timber sector. Therefore, international harmonization of environmental crime …


'Fear' And 'Hope' In Graphic Fiction: The Schismatic Role Of Law In An Australian Dystopian Comic, Cassandra E. Sharp Jan 2017

'Fear' And 'Hope' In Graphic Fiction: The Schismatic Role Of Law In An Australian Dystopian Comic, Cassandra E. Sharp

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The rise in popularity in recent times of dystopian fiction (particularly among young adults) is reflective of contemporary anxieties about law: the inhumanity of judicial-coercive machinery; the influence of corporate power; the lack of democratic imagination despite the desperate need for political reform; and the threat of order imposed through violence and victimisation. These dystopian texts often tell fear-inducing stories of law's failure to protect; or of law's unsuccessful struggle against unbridled power; or even sometimes of law's 'bastardised' reconstruction. Indeed comics, with their visual and narrative intricacies, thrive on dystopia as a key vehicle for contributing to collective notions …


Funding Our Farmers, Simon Ville Jan 2017

Funding Our Farmers, Simon Ville

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While we may think of the energy and manufacturing industries as the capital intensive consumers of financial markets funds, farmers have required extensive financial assistance since the earliest days of colonial settlement.


Fighting Back Against Prolific Online Harassment In The Philippines, Julie N. Posetti Jan 2017

Fighting Back Against Prolific Online Harassment In The Philippines, Julie N. Posetti

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No abstract provided.


Connections Or Conflict? A Social And Economic Analysis Of The Interconnections Between The Professional Fishing Industry, Recreational Fishing And Marine Tourism In Coastal Communities In Nsw, Australia, Michelle A. Voyer, Kate Barclay, Alistair Mcilgorm, Nicole Mazur Jan 2017

Connections Or Conflict? A Social And Economic Analysis Of The Interconnections Between The Professional Fishing Industry, Recreational Fishing And Marine Tourism In Coastal Communities In Nsw, Australia, Michelle A. Voyer, Kate Barclay, Alistair Mcilgorm, Nicole Mazur

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Resource conflict is a common feature of coastal management. This conflict is often managed by using spatial planning tools to segregate uses, with access decisions made through a comparison of the economic costs and benefits of the competing sectors. These comparisons rarely include an in-depth analysis of the extent or nature of the conflict. One commonly experienced form of resource conflict in coastal communities involves professional fishing, recreational fishing and broader coastal tourism. In New South Wales, Australia the professional fishing industry is often seen as being in conflict with recreational fishing and tourism, and there are frequent calls to …


Is The Us Really Ready To End Its Drug War?, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2017

Is The Us Really Ready To End Its Drug War?, Luis Gomez Romero

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In recent years an international movement to reform global narcotics policies has been growing, with activists and presidents alike declaring that the United States' "war on drugs" has failed. Now it seems the US has finally gotten the message - from Latin America, at least, whose nations have long borne the brunt of international drug prohibition.


Model United Nations And Deep Learning: Theoretical And Professional Learning, Susan Engel, Josh Pallas, Sarah Lambert Jan 2017

Model United Nations And Deep Learning: Theoretical And Professional Learning, Susan Engel, Josh Pallas, Sarah Lambert

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This article demonstrates that the purposeful subject design, incorporating a Model United Nations (MUN), facilitated deep learning and professional skills attainment in the field of International Relations. Deep learning was promoted in subject design by linking learning objectives to Anderson and Krathwohl's (2001) four levels of knowledge or cognition: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive. Students demonstrated improvement in all four areas; however, this article focuses on outcomes in the conceptual and metacognitive realms as these were where students showed the most growth. In the conceptual realm, the subject aimed to increase students' capacity to apply international relations theories. Students tended …


Circumstantiation: Taking A Broader Look At Circumstantial Meanings, Shoshana J. Dreyfus, Isabelle Bennett Jan 2017

Circumstantiation: Taking A Broader Look At Circumstantial Meanings, Shoshana J. Dreyfus, Isabelle Bennett

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This paper argues for a view of circumstantial meaning as a region of ideational meaning that is instantiated across a range of lexicogrammatical structures: from the rank of the clausal constituent of circumstance in both directions: up to clause rank and down to below or within constituent rank (eg as Qualifier). This paper brings together and extends the work of Halliday & Matthiessen (An Introduction to Functional Grammar, 2004) on expansion and circumstantiation, and the work of Martin (English Text: System and Structure, 1992) within the discourse semantic system of ideation. Each type of circumstantial meaning is defined structurally, that …


In Mexico, Gas Is Fueling The Flames Of Revolt, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2017

In Mexico, Gas Is Fueling The Flames Of Revolt, Luis Gomez Romero

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It is already clear that 2017 will be a difficult year for Mexico - and not just because it will (or won't) have to pay for a "big, beautiful wall".


What Does Donald Trump Think About Drugs?, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2017

What Does Donald Trump Think About Drugs?, Luis Gomez Romero

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In recent years, many countries - with the conspicuous exception of Indonesia and the Philippines - have been rethinking the international war on drugs. The world, it seems, has grown tired of mass incarceration, militarised law enforcement and endless interdiction of drug shipments that nonetheless keep arriving at borders.


Governors Gone Wild: Mexico Faces A "Lost Generation" Of Corrupt Leaders, Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2017

Governors Gone Wild: Mexico Faces A "Lost Generation" Of Corrupt Leaders, Luis Gomez Romero

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Three Mexican governors have been arrested in 2017 abroad after fleeing justice, and nearly 90% of the country's citizens see the government as deeply corrupt.


Justice For All? Spanish Lessons On Corruption And 'Draining The Swamp', Luis Gomez Romero Jan 2017

Justice For All? Spanish Lessons On Corruption And 'Draining The Swamp', Luis Gomez Romero

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Can Spain learn from a decade marked by high-profile political corruption scandals involving money embezzled from regional governments and mismanagement in urban planning and construction?