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Australian Politics Explainer: Robert Menzies And The Birth Of The Liberal-National Coalition, Gregory C. Melleuish
Australian Politics Explainer: Robert Menzies And The Birth Of The Liberal-National Coalition, Gregory C. Melleuish
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
It has become an established fact of Australian politics that when the non-Labor side of politics is in power, the government will be a coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party. This has been the case for almost 100 years, since the formation of the Country Party in 1920. Even on those occasions when the Liberals have won a House of Representatives majority in their own right, the Coalition has held
Evidence Of Intoxication In Australian Criminal Courts: A Complex Variable With Multiple Effects, Luke J. Mcnamara, Julia Quilter, Kate Seear, Robin Room
Evidence Of Intoxication In Australian Criminal Courts: A Complex Variable With Multiple Effects, Luke J. Mcnamara, Julia Quilter, Kate Seear, Robin Room
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This article reports on the second stage of a national study of how the effects of alcohol and other drugs are treated by criminal laws and the criminal justice system. Based on a mixed methods analysis of more than 300 appellate court decisions from all Australian jurisdictions handed down in the period 2010-2014, we identify the multiple points at which legal significance is attached to evidence that the accused, the victim or a witness was 'intoxicated' at the time of the alleged commission of a criminal offence. Focusing on the rules and principles endorsed by appellate courts in relation to …
E G Whitlam: Reclaiming The Initiative In Australian History, Gregory C. Melleuish
E G Whitlam: Reclaiming The Initiative In Australian History, Gregory C. Melleuish
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
How are we to understand the place of the Whitlam government in Australian history? My starting point is an observation that history is not only contingent but our understanding of it is nominalist. That is to say that it does not have a necessary, or natural, structure. We make, and re-make, narratives according to the way in which we arrange and re-arrange what we know about what has happened in the past. Human beings crave a satisfactory narrative to explain the past as a means of understanding the present but, in so doing, they usually have to make use of …
Chinese As A Foreign Language: Cultural Components In An Australian Classroom, Xiaoping Gao
Chinese As A Foreign Language: Cultural Components In An Australian Classroom, Xiaoping Gao
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Culture and language are intertwined with each other. Understanding the target language culture has long been one of the central goals of foreign language teaching and learning. However, there remains considerable scope for exploring how to integrate cultural components into second language teaching practice. This paper first reinforces the role of culture in foreign language education and language pedagogy in the international arena. It focuses on Chinese language education and the cultural components in Chinese as a foreign language class in Australia. Surveys with Chinese teachers and their students in Australian schools and universities show that the explicit explanation of …