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Sydney's Creative Economy: Social And Spatial Challenges, Christopher R. Gibson Sep 2012

Sydney's Creative Economy: Social And Spatial Challenges, Christopher R. Gibson

Chris Gibson

The recent popularity of Richard Florida's work on the rise of the 'creative class' invites attention not only on the size and impact of the creative economy in Australia, but on its geography as well." At the core of Florida's approach is the premise that places compete with each other for a new kind of economic development, fuelled not by the availability of raw materials, cheap labour, or state investment in infrastructure, but by the decisions of producers in creative industries such as film, music, design and advertising to live and work in particular localities. Such creative producers constitute a …

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Chilling Out In The Country? Interrogating Daylesford As A 'Gay/Lesbian Rural Idyll', Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

Chilling Out In The Country? Interrogating Daylesford As A 'Gay/Lesbian Rural Idyll', Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson

Chris Gibson

Recent scholarship suggests that the gay/lesbian idyllisation of rural places is an urban construct, constituted through metropolitan sensibilities, communities and imaginaries. We extend this work through examining the construction of Daylesford, Victoria, as a ‘gay/lesbian rural idyll’. Daylesford annually hosts ChillOut, Australia’s largest rural gay/lesbian festival, which underpins its idyllisation. Utilising data drawn from fieldwork conducted at the 2006 festival and commentaries circulated in the gay/lesbian media, we argue that not only is Daylesford idyllised in the Australian gay/lesbian imaginary, but that rurality and urbanity are hybridised in its framing as a ‘gay/lesbian rural idyll’. This is manifested in several …

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The Cultural Dimension Of Urban Planning Strategies: An Historical Perspective, Christopher Gibson, Robert Freestone Sep 2012

The Cultural Dimension Of Urban Planning Strategies: An Historical Perspective, Christopher Gibson, Robert Freestone

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

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Get Into The Groove: The Role Of Sound In Generating A Sense Of Belonging In Street Parades, Michelle Duffy, Gordon R. Waitt, Christopher R. Gibson Sep 2012

Get Into The Groove: The Role Of Sound In Generating A Sense Of Belonging In Street Parades, Michelle Duffy, Gordon R. Waitt, Christopher R. Gibson

Chris Gibson

Research undertaken in a range of fields has sought to understand the significance of sound and the processes of listening in making sense of social worlds. This inherently interdisciplinary pursuit has particularly emerged in sociology cultural geography, cultural studies, musicology and music therapy. Yet, a great deal is still not known about the interplays between music, sounds, spaces, bodies and our sense of self

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(Putting) Mobile Technologies In Their Place: A Geographical Perspective, Chris Gibson, Susan Luckman, Chris Brennan-Horley Sep 2012

(Putting) Mobile Technologies In Their Place: A Geographical Perspective, Chris Gibson, Susan Luckman, Chris Brennan-Horley

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

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Goodbye Pram City: Beyond Inner/Outer Zone Binaries In Creative City Research, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley Sep 2012

Goodbye Pram City: Beyond Inner/Outer Zone Binaries In Creative City Research, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

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New Dawn Or New Dusk? Beyond The Binary Of Day And Night, Christopher Gibson, Ben Gallan Sep 2012

New Dawn Or New Dusk? Beyond The Binary Of Day And Night, Christopher Gibson, Ben Gallan

Chris Gibson

In the first week of April 2011 The International Dark-Sky Association celebrated International Dark Sky Week, an annual event raising awareness of how artificial lighting is rapidly destroying the dark sky at night. In the same week, in post-tsunami Japan, debate emerged about whether to introduce unusual daylight-savings regula- tions and force companies to shift operating hours for workers to relieve the stress on the country's crippled power plants.

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Shifting Welfare, Shifting People: Rural Development, Housing And Population Mobility In Australia, Rae Dufty, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

Shifting Welfare, Shifting People: Rural Development, Housing And Population Mobility In Australia, Rae Dufty, Christopher Gibson

Chris Gibson

Rural welfare is more than addressing problems of ‘poverty’. As we argue here, social policy initiatives are also conceived by governments as solutions to geographical problems about uneven regional development and population distribution. What these problems were, and how welfare provision could solve them, has varied from generation to generation and takes shape in place-specific ways. That welfare provision has operated as de facto geographical development and population policy is particularly the case in Australia, in its context of massive continental size and heterogeneous rural places. In Australia, the ‘rural’ means much more than just the ‘countryside’ surrounding or between …

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Life In A Northern (Australian) Town: Darwin's Mercurial Music Scene, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Julie Willoughby-Smith, Susan Luckman Sep 2012

Life In A Northern (Australian) Town: Darwin's Mercurial Music Scene, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Julie Willoughby-Smith, Susan Luckman

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

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Chilling Out In 'Cosmopolitan Country': Urban/Rural Hybridity And The Construction Of Daylesford As A 'Lesbian And Gay Rural Idyll', Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Chris Gibson Sep 2012

Chilling Out In 'Cosmopolitan Country': Urban/Rural Hybridity And The Construction Of Daylesford As A 'Lesbian And Gay Rural Idyll', Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Chris Gibson

Chris Gibson

This paper advances scholarship on 'lesbian and gay rural idylls'. A growing literature examines how 'lesbian and gay rural idylls' are not only produced in opposition to the urban, but are themselves urban constructs. We extend these contentions by exploring the processes of idyllisation suffusing lesbian and gay festival tourism in Daylesford, a town in non-metropolitan Victoria, Australia. We find that Daylesford's idyllisation by the lesbian and gay tourism industry blurs the urban/rural binary, and instead hybridises rurality and urbanity in the tourism images and practices of 'cosmopolitan country' associated with the town. Research findings from Daylesford are analysed to …

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Geography In Higher Education In Australia, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

Geography In Higher Education In Australia, Christopher Gibson

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

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Interrogating The Politics Of Gay/Lesbian Belonging In An Australian Country Town: A Case Study Of Daylesford, Victoria, And Local Responses To The Chillout Festival, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

Interrogating The Politics Of Gay/Lesbian Belonging In An Australian Country Town: A Case Study Of Daylesford, Victoria, And Local Responses To The Chillout Festival, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Gordon Waitt, Christopher Gibson

Chris Gibson

This paper examines the nature of gasy/lesbian belonging in Daylesford, an Australian country town, contributing to work on both gay/lesbian rural geographies and the politics of belonging. Daylesford hosts ChillOut, Australia's largest rural gay/lesbian festival, thus providing an apt lens for investigating gay/lesbian belonging in rural Australia. The festival, per se, is not analyzed, but instead local responses to ChillOut are interrogated below, particularly certain outcomes and debates following the 2006 festival. This paper begins with a discussion of the notions of belonging and the politics of belonging, and how these relate to gay/lesbian lives. This is followed by …

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Music Festivals And Regional Development In Australia, Christopher Gibson, John Connell Sep 2012

Music Festivals And Regional Development In Australia, Christopher Gibson, John Connell

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

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Resident Attitudes To Farmland Protection Measures In The Northern Rivers Region, New South Wales, Christopher Gibson, R. Dufty, D. Drozdzewski Sep 2012

Resident Attitudes To Farmland Protection Measures In The Northern Rivers Region, New South Wales, Christopher Gibson, R. Dufty, D. Drozdzewski

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

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Creative Arts, People And Places: Which Policy Directions?, Christopher Gibson Sep 2012

Creative Arts, People And Places: Which Policy Directions?, Christopher Gibson

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

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Place And Music: Performing "The Region" On The New South Wales Far North Coast, Christopher R. Gibson Sep 2012

Place And Music: Performing "The Region" On The New South Wales Far North Coast, Christopher R. Gibson

Chris Gibson

This paper draws on research conducted for over a decade on the musical cultures of the New South Wales Far North Coast, as a contribution to debates in geography and popular music studies on the links between music, place and articulations of cultural identities. Patterns of migration and economic restructuring over the last 20 years have transformed the Far North Coast region, with associated changes in the images conjured to describe the region – from those centred on dairying, fishing and sugar harvesting to those of a ‘lifestyle’ or ‘alternative’ region, with growth in employment in tourism, recreational services, ‘gourmet’ …

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Ambient Australia: Music, Meditation And Tourist Places, Christopher Gibson, John Connell Sep 2012

Ambient Australia: Music, Meditation And Tourist Places, Christopher Gibson, John Connell

Chris Gibson

This chapter examines how music informs the creation of tourist places in Australia. It discusses one genre-ambient music-and the way it is related to geography both symbolically (in terms of cultural representations), and literally (in terms of links to musical and touristic activities in particular towns). The rise of ambient music has contributed to the imaginative representation of a touristic Australia of "natural" physical and cultural landscapes, where indigenous people are particularly significant. Designed to encourage relaxation and even sleep, in its cover art, its sounds and lyrics (where they exist), ambient music has emphasized "special" places both generic and …

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Cultural Economy: Achievements, Divergences, Future Prospects, Chris Gibson Sep 2012

Cultural Economy: Achievements, Divergences, Future Prospects, Chris Gibson

Chris Gibson

This paper reflects on two decades’ scholarship in geography on cultural economy, assessing strides made against some of the expectations of early proponents. Cultural economy continues to be a polysemic term. In some quarters, it refers to a type of economic geography into which matters of ‘culture’ are absorbed. This work frequently focuses on the empirics of the so-called ‘cultural and creative industries’. Others see cultural economic research as an opportunity to move beyond the epistemological constraints of ‘culture’ and ‘economy’, questioning their status as foundational categories. This latter approach has been used in a broader set of empirical projects …

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Mosquitoes In The Mix: How Transferable Is Creative City Thinking?, Christopher Gibson, Susan Luckman, Tess Lea Sep 2012

Mosquitoes In The Mix: How Transferable Is Creative City Thinking?, Christopher Gibson, Susan Luckman, Tess Lea

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

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Predicting Clinically Signficant Change In An Inpatient Program For People With Severe Mental Illness, Talia Gonda, Frank P. Deane, Ganapathi A. Murugesan Sep 2012

Predicting Clinically Signficant Change In An Inpatient Program For People With Severe Mental Illness, Talia Gonda, Frank P. Deane, Ganapathi A. Murugesan

Frank Deane

Objective: The first aim of this study was to assess the proportion of patients who achieved reliable and clinically significant change over the course of treatment in an inpatient psychosocial rehabilitation program. The second aim was to determine whether age, gender, length of stay, and diagnosis and co-morbid diagnosis predicted those who were classified as improved or not improved, using clinical significance criteria. Method: Three hundred and thirty-seven patients from inpatient units at Bloomfield Hospital, Orange, New South Wales, Australia were assessed at admission, 3-month reviews and discharge using the expanded Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, the Health of the Nation …

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Dietary (N-3) Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Inhibit Ischemia And Reperfusion Arrhythmias And Infarction In Rat Heart Not Enhanced By Ischemic Preconditioning, G. G. Abdukeyum, A. J. Owen, P. L. Mclennan Sep 2012

Dietary (N-3) Long Chain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Inhibit Ischemia And Reperfusion Arrhythmias And Infarction In Rat Heart Not Enhanced By Ischemic Preconditioning, G. G. Abdukeyum, A. J. Owen, P. L. Mclennan

P. L. McLennan

Ischaemic preconditioning is a powerful cardioprotective phenomenon. Cardioprotection afforded by (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) also suggests preconditioning-like effects. This study examined the effects of dietary fish oil on heart function and injury during myocardial ischemia and reperfusion and interactions between diet and ischemic preconditioning (IP). Male Wistar rats were fed diets containing 10% fat by weight including either 7% fish oil + 3% olive oil (n-3) PUFA); 5% sunflower seed oil + 5% olive oil ((n-6) PUFA); or 7% saturated fat-rich beef tallow + 3% olive oil (SF) for 6 weeks. Isolated perfused hearts subjected to 30min regional ischemia …

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A Petrological, Mineralogical And Geochemical Analysis Of Listwaenite Alteration At Spring Creek Bingara In The Great Serpentinite Belt, New England, Nsw, E Holcroft, Solomon Buckman, I Neuss Sep 2012

A Petrological, Mineralogical And Geochemical Analysis Of Listwaenite Alteration At Spring Creek Bingara In The Great Serpentinite Belt, New England, Nsw, E Holcroft, Solomon Buckman, I Neuss

Solomon Buckman Dr.

No abstract provided.

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Silica-Carbonate (Listwanites) Related Gold Mineralisation Associated With Epithermal Alteration Of Serpentinite Bodies, Solomon Buckman, P Ashley Sep 2012

Silica-Carbonate (Listwanites) Related Gold Mineralisation Associated With Epithermal Alteration Of Serpentinite Bodies, Solomon Buckman, P Ashley

Solomon Buckman Dr.

No abstract provided.

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Using Lidar To Assess The Effect Of Fire And Floods On Upland Peat Bogs, Waterfall Gully, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Javier Leon Patino, Solomon Buckman, Robert P. Bourman, Rowena Morris, Katherine C. Brownlie Sep 2012

Using Lidar To Assess The Effect Of Fire And Floods On Upland Peat Bogs, Waterfall Gully, Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Javier Leon Patino, Solomon Buckman, Robert P. Bourman, Rowena Morris, Katherine C. Brownlie

Solomon Buckman Dr.

A flood exceeding the 100 year average recurrence interval in November 2005 led to the failure of an upland peat bog in Waterfall Gully. The area is prone to severe bushfire and flood events and the control dam at the base of First Falls was filled with sediment sourced from Wilson Bog. A resistant quartzite bar at Fourth Falls has formed a natural constriction point against which burnt logs and debris have collected following previous fire events forming a natural dam resulting in sediment/peat accumulation upstream. The failure of the bog was inevitable as the vegetative material in the log-jam …

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Age And Origin Of Alluvial Sediments Within And Flanking The Mt Lofty Ranges, Southern South Australia: A Late Quaternary Archive Of Climate And Environmental Change, D Banerjee, N F. Alley, R P. Bourman, S Buckman, J R. Prescott Sep 2012

Age And Origin Of Alluvial Sediments Within And Flanking The Mt Lofty Ranges, Southern South Australia: A Late Quaternary Archive Of Climate And Environmental Change, D Banerjee, N F. Alley, R P. Bourman, S Buckman, J R. Prescott

Solomon Buckman Dr.

No abstract provided.

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The Dirt On Assessing Post-Fire Erosion In The Mount Lofty Ranges: Comparing Methods, Rowena H. Morris, Solomon Buckman, Paul Connelly, Deirdre Dragovich, Bertram Ostendorf, Ross A. Bradstock Sep 2012

The Dirt On Assessing Post-Fire Erosion In The Mount Lofty Ranges: Comparing Methods, Rowena H. Morris, Solomon Buckman, Paul Connelly, Deirdre Dragovich, Bertram Ostendorf, Ross A. Bradstock

Solomon Buckman Dr.

Land managers are required to assess a range of environmental attributes prior to and after prescribed burning. Current environmental assessments vary depending on the organisation involved and the existing information about localised soil erosion. Auditing successful environmental assessments requires ongoing field monitoring to evaluate whether the magnitude and extent of predicted post-fire impacts are comparable. The impacts of post-fire erosion were assessed by the authors using the techniques of water sampling, sediment traps, erosion pins, laser scanning, photogrammetry and visual field assessment. Each data collecting method varies in its spatial and temporal reach in terms of monitoring landscape changes in …

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Soil Geochemistry And Pathfinder Element Distribution Associated With The Hillgrove Antimony-Gold-Tungsten Deposit, New England Orogen, Nsw, R Ellsmore, Solomon Buckman, C Simpson Sep 2012

Soil Geochemistry And Pathfinder Element Distribution Associated With The Hillgrove Antimony-Gold-Tungsten Deposit, New England Orogen, Nsw, R Ellsmore, Solomon Buckman, C Simpson

Solomon Buckman Dr.

No abstract provided.

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Accordion Vs. Quantum Tectonics: Insights Into Continental Growth Processes From The Paleozoic Of Eastern Gondwanan, Jonathan C. Aitchison, Solomon Buckman Sep 2012

Accordion Vs. Quantum Tectonics: Insights Into Continental Growth Processes From The Paleozoic Of Eastern Gondwanan, Jonathan C. Aitchison, Solomon Buckman

Solomon Buckman Dr.

The Early Paleozoic Lachlan Fold Belt of eastern Australia is widely regarded as an ancient convergent plate margin beneath which paleo-Pacific (Panthalassic) oceanic lithosphere was continuously subducted. It is cited as the type example of a retreating accretionary orogeny. However, sandstone compositions, the sedimentological nature and timing of chert accumulation and overall stratigraphic architecture are not necessarily consistent with this model. We suggest an alternative explanation for growth of Gondwanan continental margin. Oceanic lithosphere outboard of the passive Gondwana continental margin was subducted beneath an extensive intra-oceanic island arc that now crops out as an allochthonous element (Macquarie arc) within …

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Do Spirituality And Religiosity Help In The Management Of Cravings In Substance Abuse Treatment?, Sarah J. Mason, Frank P. Deane, Peter Kelly, Trevor P. Crowe Sep 2012

Do Spirituality And Religiosity Help In The Management Of Cravings In Substance Abuse Treatment?, Sarah J. Mason, Frank P. Deane, Peter Kelly, Trevor P. Crowe

Frank Deane

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of spirituality, religiosity and self-efficacy with drug and/or alcohol cravings. A cross-sectional survey was completed by 77 male participants at an Australian Salvation Army residential rehabilitation service in 2007. The survey included questions relating to the participants’ drug and/or alcohol use and also measures for spirituality, religiosity, cravings, and self-efficacy. The sample included participants aged between 19 and 74 years, with more than 57% reporting a diagnosis for a mental disorder and 78% reporting polysubstance misuse with alcohol most frequently endorsed as the primary drug of concern (71%). Seventy-five percent …

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Serotyping Group B Streptococci In A Small Community Hospital: An Analysis Of Distribution And Site Of Isolation, Jennifer M. Smith, Jason A. Rexroth, David G. Chaffin, Susan H. Jackman Sep 2012

Serotyping Group B Streptococci In A Small Community Hospital: An Analysis Of Distribution And Site Of Isolation, Jennifer M. Smith, Jason A. Rexroth, David G. Chaffin, Susan H. Jackman

David G. Chaffin

Objective: To determine the prevalence and site of isolation of different serotypes of group B streptococcus (GBS) colonization or infection at a small community hospital. Methods: GBS isolates were obtained from a small community hospital and were then serotyped as la, Ib, II, III, IV, V or non-typeable. Hospital records were reviewed for patient sex, age and pregnancy status as well as the site of GBS isolation. Results: GBS serotypes Ia, III and V were most common and accounted for over 60% of the total number of isolates. Serotype Ia was most prevalent in reproductive-age females, while serotypes V and …

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