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As A Peace Loving Warrior, Might Wonder Woman Unite Feminists?, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
As A Peace Loving Warrior, Might Wonder Woman Unite Feminists?, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
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Wonder Woman is a film about a superbly violent woman who uses her physical prowess to help end "the war to end all wars". She kills countless German soldiers - dispatching one officer in hand-to-hand combat. She helps British and American soldiers eliminate German manufacturers of poison gas. When enraged, she destroys all around her, life and property. But her aims are pacifist - she wants to bring peace to the world.
Skills, Training, And Activism, Brian Martin, Patrick G. Coy
Skills, Training, And Activism, Brian Martin, Patrick G. Coy
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Most studies of activism and social movements give more attention to methods and strategies than to the development of skills. Yet skills are crucially important to the success of campaigns. Research on expert performance provides insights into what is required to become highly proficient at a well-defined set of skills. These insights are potentially relevant to activists, as shown by the example of training for lunch-counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tennessee in 1960. Skill development needs to be given greater attention by activists and scholars.
'Mum, The Pot Broke': Taking Responsibility (Or Not) In Language, Shoshana J. Dreyfus
'Mum, The Pot Broke': Taking Responsibility (Or Not) In Language, Shoshana J. Dreyfus
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This article explores how we take responsibility for our past actions in language, using an ideational perspective. It focuses on the way we construe actions in transitive and ergative language patterns and from this develop a cline of responsibility, which has maximum responsibility at the one end and minimum responsibility at the other. The article examines a number of instances of language use from different genres and registers with this cline to determine the extent to which language users take responsibility (or not) for their actions through language.
Listen To The Sound Of The Quiet American: John Williams's Stoner, Maureen Clark
Listen To The Sound Of The Quiet American: John Williams's Stoner, Maureen Clark
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Stoner (1965), John Williams's third novel, questions and complicates mythologised versions of modern American identity and way of life. The story moves through two World Wars, the Great Depression following the Wall Street crash, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New-Deal America, a prolonged time of social upheaval throughout the world.
Voices Of Sydney's Chinese Furniture Factory Workers, 1890-1920, Peter Gibson
Voices Of Sydney's Chinese Furniture Factory Workers, 1890-1920, Peter Gibson
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Chinese furniture factory workers were the focus of a heated debate that helped shape "White Australia." Often considered a threat to the "European," or "white," working class, they were vigorously campaigned against by labour activists and staunchly defended by Chinese merchant elites, the outcome of this contest being the institution of a range of anti-Chinese legislation from the 1880s. While labour activists' claims about Chinese furniture factory workers - and to a certain extent the counterclaims of Chinese elites - have been scrutinised in historical scholarship, workers' own reflections on their lives have not been examined. Drawing for the most …
The Effects Of World War Ii Military Service: Evidence From Australia, Alex Cousley, Peter M. Siminski, Simon Ville
The Effects Of World War Ii Military Service: Evidence From Australia, Alex Cousley, Peter M. Siminski, Simon Ville
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Outside of the United States, few studies have estimated the effects of World War II service. In Australia, general war-time conscription and minimal involvement in the Korean War led to large cohort differences in military service rates, which we use for identification. We find a small, temporary negative effect on employment and a substantial positive effect on post-school qualifications, but not at the university level. While service increased home ownership slightly, it greatly reduced outright home ownership, consistent with the incentives provided by veterans' housing benefits. We also find a positive effect on marriage, but only from 1971.
Using A Well-Being Approach To Develop A Framework For An Integrated Socio-Economic Evaluation Of Professional Fishing, Michelle A. Voyer, Kate Barclay, Alistair Mcilgorm, Nicole Mazur
Using A Well-Being Approach To Develop A Framework For An Integrated Socio-Economic Evaluation Of Professional Fishing, Michelle A. Voyer, Kate Barclay, Alistair Mcilgorm, Nicole Mazur
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The principles of Ecologically Sustainable Development and Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management require that fisheries be managed for social as well as environmental and economic objectives. Comprehensive assessments of the success of fisheries in achieving all three objectives are, however, rare. There are three main barriers to achieving integrated assessments of fisheries. Firstly, disciplinary divides can be considered "too hard" to bridge with inherent conflicts between the predominately empirical and deductive traditions of economics and biophysical sciences and the inductive and interpretative approach of much of the social sciences. Secondly, understanding of the social pillar of sustainability is less well developed. …
Submission To Alrc, Incarceration Rates Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Russell G. Hogg, Julia Quilter
Submission To Alrc, Incarceration Rates Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Russell G. Hogg, Julia Quilter
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The case for reform to address the massively disproportionate incarceration rates of ATSI peoples can and should be made on the basis that it can bring about a more effective, as well as a fairer, system of criminal justice, one that engages with the legacy of historical injustice rather than perpetuating it. A realisable aim is to make communities safer as well as reducing reliance upon costly and damaging criminal justice policies and practices. ATSI people have the greatest investment in this as the principal victims of crime within their communities. With thoughtful, evidence-based reforms, there need be no necessary …
Greens Motorcade Museum Park Leppington, Ian C. Willis
Greens Motorcade Museum Park Leppington, Ian C. Willis
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One of the icons of the local area that has long disappeared was the car museum and picnic ground know as Greens Motorcade Museum Park at Leppington on the Old Hume Highway.
Examining The Chinese-Australian Post-Production Relationship Through Chinese Audiences' Cinema Experience, Kai Ruo Soh
Examining The Chinese-Australian Post-Production Relationship Through Chinese Audiences' Cinema Experience, Kai Ruo Soh
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Self-Defense: Deflecting Deflationary And Eliminativist Critiques Of The Sense Of Ownership, Shaun Gallagher
Self-Defense: Deflecting Deflationary And Eliminativist Critiques Of The Sense Of Ownership, Shaun Gallagher
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I defend a phenomenological account of the sense of ownership as part of a minimal sense of self from those critics who propose either a deflationary or eliminativist critique. Specifically, I block the deflationary critique by showing that in fact the phenomenological account is itself a deflationary account insofar as it takes the sense of ownership to be implicit or intrinsic to experience and bodily action. I address the eliminativist view by considering empirical evidence that supports the concept of pre-reflective selfawareness, which underpins the sense of ownership. Finally, I respond to claims that phenomenology does not offer a positive …
Challenges For Sustainable Communities In Solomon Islands: Food Production, Market Sale And Livelihoods On Savo Island, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley
Challenges For Sustainable Communities In Solomon Islands: Food Production, Market Sale And Livelihoods On Savo Island, Nichole Georgeou, Charles Hawksley
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This article highlights the challenges of community sustainability in the emerging market economy of Solomon Islands. It examines the ways in which Solomon Islanders from Savo Island engage with the Honiara Central Market (HCM), the largest fresh food and vegetable market in Solomon Islands. We focus on the produce sold and income earned by the farmers from Savo Island. Data from five focus groups from three villages on Savo Island reveals the critical importance of cash income from market sales at the HCM. The article also demonstrates the mix of logistical and environmental challenges for long-term community sustainability on Savo …
A Case For A Pan-Indian Ocean Information Grid For Improved Maritime Domain Awareness, Shishir Upadhyaya
A Case For A Pan-Indian Ocean Information Grid For Improved Maritime Domain Awareness, Shishir Upadhyaya
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The Indian Ocean region, in recent years, has witnessed a proliferation of information centers which have emerged in response to various sub-regional requirements and sometimes representing diverse interest groups. This paper highlights the gaps in regional maritime domain awareness (MDA) and argues that the multiple disparate information systems have not contributed to improving overall maritime safety and security in the Indian Ocean region. It puts forward a case for a pan-Indian Ocean information grid that could integrate the various information sources to provide comprehensive MDA for the region.
Microfinance: Is It Really Such A Good Thing?, Susan N. Engel
Microfinance: Is It Really Such A Good Thing?, Susan N. Engel
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Did you see Muhammad Yunus on Q&A on 3 April? Yunus was the founder of the Grameen Bank he and the Bank jointly won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2006 for their work on microcredit. Maybe you have wondered why indigo foundation has not taken up microfinance? After all, it claims to be an incredibly powerful tool for the empowerment of women, which is one of our key focus areas. Like many things though, when you scratch the surface, microcredit is not all it is made out to be.
Combatting Counterfeit Drugs: Case Studies Of Cambodia, Vietnam And Thailand, Jakkrit Kuanpoth
Combatting Counterfeit Drugs: Case Studies Of Cambodia, Vietnam And Thailand, Jakkrit Kuanpoth
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Medicines can save lives only if they are safe, efficacious, of good quality and affordable. The use of unsafe, substandard, ineffective and counterfeit drugs can be harmful to the health of the users and the public. Governments have an obligation to ensure the safety, efficacy and quality of the drugs available to the public by regulating the manufacturing and distribution of drugs and by exercising legal power to control the proliferation of unsafe counterfeit medicines. This article surveys the factual and legal issues surrounding counterfeit drugs in three countries, namely Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand, in order to determine the magnitude …
It's Unrealistic To Expect Mps To Follow The View Of The People Who Elected Them Every Time, Gregory C. Melleuish
It's Unrealistic To Expect Mps To Follow The View Of The People Who Elected Them Every Time, Gregory C. Melleuish
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The same-sex marriage survey results showed up which members of parliament voted in a starkly opposite fashion to those in their electorates. The electorate of Blaxland had a strong "no" vote, while their MP Jason Clare voted yes, and in prominent "no" campaigner Tony Abbott's seat of Warringah there was a strong "yes" vote.
Queensland Liberals And Nationals Have Long Had An Uneasy Cohabitation, And Now Should Consider Divorce, Gregory C. Melleuish
Queensland Liberals And Nationals Have Long Had An Uneasy Cohabitation, And Now Should Consider Divorce, Gregory C. Melleuish
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There can be no doubt that in matters political Queensland is different from the rest of Australia. It is the only state that has a single house of parliament. It is the only state that has a single council for its capital city. It is the only state in which the Country (and later National) Party has been the dominant force on the non-Labor side of politics and, for a time in the 1980s, held government in its own right. The rhythm of Queensland politics has been for one party to hold power for long stretches of time. Labor was …
The Law Of The Sea Convention And Sea Level Rise In The Light Of The South China Sea Arbitration, Stuart B. Kaye
The Law Of The Sea Convention And Sea Level Rise In The Light Of The South China Sea Arbitration, Stuart B. Kaye
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Sea level rise from anthropogenic climate change is an increasing concern for the international community and especially for coastal States. The prospect of whole islands disappearing under rising waters raises serious questions as to the impact upon maritime jurisdiction and the ability of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to deal with the inundation of large areas of territory. The South China Sea Arbitration Tribunal recently considered these questions. Here, the Tribunal relied on a high standard for what constituted human habitability under Article 121 of the Law of the Sea Convention, which likely will have …
The Arbitral Award In The Matter Of The South China Sea Between The Philippines And China What Are The Implications For Freedom Of Navigation And The Use Of Force?, Cameron Moore
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This article considers the implications of the Award for freedom of navigation and the use of force in the South China Sea, identifying the conclusions that can be drawn from the Award and the questions that remain. The Award also indirectly raised the question of the use of force to defend navigational rights. This article therefore revisits the Corfu Channel Case for the light it may shed on the use of force and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. This leads to questions of the danger of miscalculation and the potential importance of the Code for Unplanned Encounters …