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Lion Or Mouse? The Circus Worlds Of Salman Rushdie And Peter Carey, Paul Sharrad
Lion Or Mouse? The Circus Worlds Of Salman Rushdie And Peter Carey, Paul Sharrad
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A reading of Rushdie's 'Shalimar the Clown' and Carey's 'The Unusual Life of Tristram Smith' as fictional uses of the circus, dramatising the writer's role and allegorising political dynamics of terrorism and postcolonial liberation.
The Occupiers And The Occupied: A Nexus Of Memories, Christine M. De Matos
The Occupiers And The Occupied: A Nexus Of Memories, Christine M. De Matos
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This paper explores the cultural dimensions of the interactions between the Japanese occupied and Australian occupiers in the Hiroshima prefecture between 1946 and 1952.
Bioethics And Democracy: Competing Roles Of National Bioethics Organisations, Susan M. Dodds, Colin Thomson
Bioethics And Democracy: Competing Roles Of National Bioethics Organisations, Susan M. Dodds, Colin Thomson
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In establishing National Bioethics Organisations (NBOs), liberal democracies seek to acknowledge the diversity of strongly held ethical positions and the imperative to engage in public debate about important bioethical decisions. NBOs are typically given a range of responsibilities, including contributing to and stimulating public debate; providing expert opinion on relevant issues for policy deliberations; and developing public policy. The state is now found to have an interest in areas previously thought to be a matter of individual choice. NBOs can provide one way of opening up public debate to allow the diversity of views to be heard in a manner …
Japan’S Original Gay Boom, Mark J. Mclelland
Japan’S Original Gay Boom, Mark J. Mclelland
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This paper looks at the rise of the category gei boi (gay boy) in postwar Japanese media.
Human Resource Development: For Enterprise And Human Development , Diana J. Kelly
Human Resource Development: For Enterprise And Human Development , Diana J. Kelly
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The term human resource development, or more commonly HRD, is widely used. Yet it has ambiguous connotations, since it may refer to increase in human capacities, rights and entitlements from a business or an economic perspective, or as an instrument of human development, particularly in developing countries, which enables personal and societal advancement toward economic progress and democratic self-determination. It is important to distinguish the forms and varieties of HRD if human development is to be balanced. Moreover, HRD may be delivered by public organisations such as governments, NGOs and supranational organisations, such as the United Nations, or by private …
The Role Of “Economic Education” In Achieving Capitalist Hegemony, Sharon Beder
The Role Of “Economic Education” In Achieving Capitalist Hegemony, Sharon Beder
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Free enterprise has become the prevailing idea of our times, an idea without serious rival although not without critics. This paper examines two major campaigns during the 20th Century that were aimed at maintaining capitalist hegemony by promoting free enterprise values. The first was after the second world war when American business interests felt threatened by government intervention and controls on the one hand, and union activity on the other. They responded with a massive ‘economic education’ program, aimed at school students and employees, which taught the fundamentals of free enterprise economics. Business values, such as the rewards of hard …
Publicly Shared Intelligence, G. De Valk, Brian Martin
Publicly Shared Intelligence, G. De Valk, Brian Martin
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Publicly shared intelligence is the gathering and analysis of information of political value that is openly available to the public and able to be tested. This is a potential alternative to the sort of secret intelligence normally carried out by government agencies. Desirable features of publicly shared intelligence can be determined by analogy to other open knowledge production systems, including science and open source software. The case of the Shipping Research Bureau illustrates the potential of publicly shared intelligence. We outline features of a publicly shared intelligence system, including implications for public education.
Perceptions Of Kanji Learning By Non-Native Learners Of Japanese As A Foreign Language: Data From Sri Lankan Learners, G. Haththotuwa Gamage
Perceptions Of Kanji Learning By Non-Native Learners Of Japanese As A Foreign Language: Data From Sri Lankan Learners, G. Haththotuwa Gamage
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The present study examines the attitudes of learning kanji outside Japan based on the data from Sri Lankan learners of Japanese. This study also provides empirical evidence concerning perceived difficulties of reading and writing kanji by these learners. This was examined by a questionnaire, which was analyzed in terms of learners and Institution. The questionnaire revealed that the majority of learners had positive attitudes for learning kanji. However, they lacked the motivation for independent, self-directed learning. Learners in private institutions were significantly more enthusiastic in learning kanji than learners of secondary or tertiary institutions. The results also revealed that positive …
Regulation Of Hesc Research In Australia: Promises And Pitfalls For Deliberative Democratic Approaches, Susan M. Dodds, R. A. Ankeny
Regulation Of Hesc Research In Australia: Promises And Pitfalls For Deliberative Democratic Approaches, Susan M. Dodds, R. A. Ankeny
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This paper considers the legislative debates in Australia that led to the passage of the Research Involving Human Embryos Act (Cth 2002) and the Prohibition of Human Cloning Act (Cth 2002). In the first part of the paper, we discuss the debate surrounding the legislation with particular emphasis on the ways in which demands for public consultation, public debate and the education of Australians about the potential ethical and scientific impact of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) research were deployed, and the explicit and implicit framing of the scope of public consultation. We then ask whether, given the calls for …
Workplace Bullying, Women And Workchoices, Diana J. Kelly
Workplace Bullying, Women And Workchoices, Diana J. Kelly
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Considerable evidence points to an increase in workplace bullying, in large part as a consequence of competitive pressures, the predominance of business values, and concomitantly, the declining legitimacy ascribed to fairness and social justice. This paper examines workplace bullying in the context of the recent employment relations legislation in Australia (WorkChoices). It is shown that the legislation will enhance and extend women’s labour market disadvantage by shifting the employment relationship to the private sphere, together with informalisation of workplace relations, reduced access to formal procedures and reduced accountability and transparency. Moreover, overt government support of business wishes will enable managers …
Film Censorship As A Good Business In Colonial Korea: Profiteering From Hollywood's First Golden Age, 1926-36, Brian M. Yecies
Film Censorship As A Good Business In Colonial Korea: Profiteering From Hollywood's First Golden Age, 1926-36, Brian M. Yecies
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Between 1926 and 1936, cinema in colonial Korea was a vibrant business, involving the production of domestic films and the distribution and exhibition of American, British, Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Russian films. During this decade, the first golden age of American cinema in Korea, Hollywood films overwhelmingly dominated the Korean market. Korea was an important territory that Hollywood used in its overall global expansion campaign. Amid this globalization operation, the Government-General of Chosen’s film censorship apparatus was a financially self-sustaining operation. It paid for its operation by profiteering from the application of more than 6,700 American and 630 other …
Mapping The Factual Genres Of The Japanese Workplace, Elizabeth A. Thomson, Motoki Sano
Mapping The Factual Genres Of The Japanese Workplace, Elizabeth A. Thomson, Motoki Sano
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This paper reports on the research project, Mapping the written genres of the Japanese workplace which set out to identify, taxonomise and describe the kinds of factual genres used in the Japanese-speaking workplace. The motivation behind this study originates from a desire to know, understand and ultimately, teach authentic genres which have vocational significance for students of Japanese as a second and or foreign language. The study interviewed and surveyed 21 non-Japanese speaking background employees in Japanese speaking workplaces both in Japan and Australia and collected over 127 workplace documents. This paper will report on the kinds of Japanese language …
Comparative Masculinities: Why Islamic Indonesian Men Are Great Mates And Australian Men Are Girls , Mike Donaldson, P. Nilan, R. Howson
Comparative Masculinities: Why Islamic Indonesian Men Are Great Mates And Australian Men Are Girls , Mike Donaldson, P. Nilan, R. Howson
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There may well be no known human societies in which some form of masculinity has not emerged as dominant, more socially central, more associated with power, in which a pattern of practices embodying the currently most honoured way of being male legitimates the superordination of men over women. This paper shows what a small sample of Indonesian men living in Australia thought of Australian masculinity, revealing much about hegemonic masculinity in Indonesia in the process, and disclosing some uncomfortable uniformities concerning men in both countries.
Italian Australian Poetry By First Generation Writers: An Overview, Gaetano Rando
Italian Australian Poetry By First Generation Writers: An Overview, Gaetano Rando
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This paper focuses on the way in which first generation Italian Australian writers express the experience of the diaspora in their poetry. The paper highlights the more prominent first generation Italian Australian poets — Luigi Strano (who was awarded an honorary MA from the University of Wollongong in 1985), Enoe Di Stefano, Mariano Coreno and Lino Concas. The quantitative and qualitative parameters of their published writings represent not only continuity in terms of the historical and contemporary aspects of the Italian Australian migration experience but also subjective expressions of personal sentiments relating to the meaning of life, love, nature and …
The Changing Face Of Conservation: Commodification, Privatisation And The Free Market, Sharon Beder
The Changing Face Of Conservation: Commodification, Privatisation And The Free Market, Sharon Beder
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Environmentalists in the late 1960s and 1970s argued that the exponential growth of populations and industrial activity could not be sustained without seriously depleting the planet’s resources and overloading the planet’s ability to deal with pollution and waste materials. They argued that new technologies and industrial products, such as pesticides and plastics, also threatened the environment. Following the protest mood of the times, they did not hesitate to blame industry, western culture, economic growth and technology for environmental problems. They questioned western paradigms of development and industrialisation, and criticising the inequitable distribution of wealth and resource use.
Diplomacy Interrupted?: Macmahon Ball, Evatt And Labor’S Policies In Occupied Japan, Christine M. De Matos
Diplomacy Interrupted?: Macmahon Ball, Evatt And Labor’S Policies In Occupied Japan, Christine M. De Matos
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Historiography on the Australian political and diplomatic role in the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) gives disproportionate attention to the meetings between the Australian Minister for External Affairs, H.V. Evatt, and the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan (SCAP), General Douglas MacArthur, in Tokyo during 1947. These meetings are then linked to the subsequent resignation from the Allied Council for Japan (ACJ) of William Macmahon Ball, an Australian academic representing the British Commonwealth, and used to justify the claim that Australian policy towards Occupied Japan was unpredictable and ad hoc. This attention to Ball’s resignation has distorted analysis …
Double Take On Vengeance: Journey Through The Syncopic Editing Style Of Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Brian M. Yecies, D. Chambers
Double Take On Vengeance: Journey Through The Syncopic Editing Style Of Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance, Brian M. Yecies, D. Chambers
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For foreigners who did not grow up speaking the Korean language, filmic images in contemporary Korean cinema texts speak louder than words. Visiting the “land of morning calm” in person and floating on the surface of Korean society has inspired us to gain a deeper understanding of these images and their puzzling place in Korean culture. Truly experiencing the Korean cinema revolves around heart-felt journeys into solving some of these puzzles. We have begun another sojourn with this reading of the editing style in Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002).
The Working Class, Mike Donaldson
The Working Class, Mike Donaldson
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Globalisation has, if anything, made the inequality between classes even more obvious over the last two decades, and class has again become a the topic of lively discussion. Inequalities between classes are accelerating and class has come to play a greater role in the life of ordinary people over the last three decades. With this increasing polarisation have come changes in the composition of the working class itself. This paper traces the origins of the concept and uses some of the ideas of Karl Marx and Antonio Gramsci to define the working class today and to elucidate its size, dimensions, …
The Right Way To Go? Earth Sanctuaries And Market-Based Conservation, J. Sydee, Sharon Beder
The Right Way To Go? Earth Sanctuaries And Market-Based Conservation, J. Sydee, Sharon Beder
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Australia's Earth Sanctuaries Limited (ESL) is an internationally acclaimed organisation that uses private property as a way to achieve conservation objectives, thereby demonstrating a commitment to using free market principles to create sustainable futures. This private approach to conservation clearly resonates with the agenda of conservative think tanks and is ideologically motivated. The environmental credentials of this organisation obscure this motivation and also the far-reaching ethical and political consequences of private conservation. By suggesting that all that is required to protect the environment is good management by private owners, ESL deflects attention away from the 'socio-economic crisis' and confines debate …
Un Poeta Partenopeo In Australia: Paolo Totaro, Gitano Rando
Un Poeta Partenopeo In Australia: Paolo Totaro, Gitano Rando
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Tra i vari centinaia di Italiani d’Australia che si sono dedicati alla scrittura di testi poetici vi è un gruppo esiguo me non insignificante di scrittori di origine partenopea tra cui risulta, come figura di spiccato rilievo, Paolo Totaro, da annoverare tra i maggiori poeti italoaustraliani. La sua produzione poetica, purtroppo rimasta in gran parte inedita, simultaneamente rispecchia e trascende le sue origini e abbraccia temi di ampia portata quali i traumi infantili della guerra, le scelte intellettuali, l’emigrazione, la tensione fra culture.
Role Of The Precautionary Principle In Water Recycling, A. I. Schäfer, Sharon Beder
Role Of The Precautionary Principle In Water Recycling, A. I. Schäfer, Sharon Beder
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In an engineering context the precautionary principle is often perceived as an excuse to do nothing or a substantial barrier to technical progress. The precautionary principle requires that remedial measures be taken in situations of scientific uncertainty where evidence of harm cannot be proven but potential damage to human or environmental health is significant. In this paper the scope of the precautionary principle in water recycling is discussed. It is clear that uncertainties and risks exist in many areas of water recycling. These risks are closely linked to the risks of sewage discharge. Hence, water recycling has two main areas …
Japanese Technology Policy For Aged Care, N. Dethlefs, Brian Martin
Japanese Technology Policy For Aged Care, N. Dethlefs, Brian Martin
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Aged care provision is a burning issue in Japan due to the country's unparalleled longevity and a fraying tradition of children caring for parents. Use of technology offers one approach to helping ease the increasing burden of aged care. Ways of using technology can be conveniently classified into three options. The first is to rely on well-tested technologies developed outside Japan. The second option is for significant Japanese investment in high-technology aged care supports, including robotics. The third option is for significant Japanese development in barrier-free technology, a low-technology direction. Articulating these options and spelling out their likely consequences helps …
Convicts, Call Centres And Cochin Kangaroos: South Asian Globalising Of The Australian Imagination., Paul Sharrad
Convicts, Call Centres And Cochin Kangaroos: South Asian Globalising Of The Australian Imagination., Paul Sharrad
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This paper considers a history of imaginative links between Australia and India, offering readings of Suneeta Perez da Costa's 'Homework' and Christopher Cyrill's 'The Tributaries of the Ganges'.
Workplace Bullying - A Complex Issue Neeing Ir/Hrm Research?, Diana J. Kelly
Workplace Bullying - A Complex Issue Neeing Ir/Hrm Research?, Diana J. Kelly
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Workplace bullying encompasses a wide array of targeted, persistent and destructive behaviours, usually by managers towards their subordinates. It is an extensive and seemingly growing phenomenon which is costly to individuals, workplaces and organisations. The costs for organisations include productivity loss, turnover, and increased legal and insurance costs. There are also considerable costs to individuals and the ethical capital of organisations, but this is more difficult to measure. Curiously IR and HRM scholars have rarely undertaken systematic investigation or analysis of the issue, despite the fact that it appears to be an issue squarely within the purview of these disciplines. …
The New Age Hydra: India's Experiences With Terrorism And Counter Terrorism, Swati Parashar
The New Age Hydra: India's Experiences With Terrorism And Counter Terrorism, Swati Parashar
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
India’s experiences with terrorism, insurgency and violence date back to 1947, when the nation as a distinct political, national and geographic entity was realized. Ironically, after being home to a non–violent resistance against the British colonial rule, the new nation woke up to its ‘tryst with destiny’1 amidst unprecedented violence and terror resulting out of the partition of the country on religious grounds. Worse still, Mahatma Gandhi, the greatest apostle of peace and non–violence who had led the Indian struggle for freedom, was a victim of brutal political assassination carried out by a religious fanatic! Terror as strategy to settle …
Raffaello Carboni's Perception Of Australia And Australian Identity, Gitano Rando
Raffaello Carboni's Perception Of Australia And Australian Identity, Gitano Rando
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Carboni’s role both as participant in and chronicler of the Ballaarat uprising had historically been the subject of some controversial debate. Although the controversy regarding the veracity of Carboni’s account has long been settled, controversy regarding his competence as a writer is still relatively recent. Geoffrey Serle in the introduction to his edition of The Eureka Stockade claims that the book is unusual and unsusceptible to most canons of criticism although he also admits that Carboni does rise here and there to great narrative heights. Serle and others who have commented on Carboni’s work have however tended to relegate it …
Electricity: The Global Impact Of Power Reforms, Sharon Beder
Electricity: The Global Impact Of Power Reforms, Sharon Beder
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Dozens of governments have embarked on the pathway to electricity deregulation and privatisation since the mid-1990s. It has become the accepted wisdom amongst governments and opinion leaders despite the consequent price rises and disasters that have followed in its wake: the series of blackouts that have been experienced from Buenos Aires to Auckland; the government bailouts of electricity companies that have been necessary in California and Britain; the need for electricity rationing in Brazil; and the fact that it has become too expensive for millions of people from India to South Africa.
The Emperor’S New Scar: The Ethics Of Placebo Surgery, D. A. Neil
The Emperor’S New Scar: The Ethics Of Placebo Surgery, D. A. Neil
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[Extract] Surgical innovation is something of a grey area in medical research. Relative to other doctors, surgeons exercise a high degree of discretion in the trialing of new techniques with their patients. The first patients to undergo a new procedure are, in a real sense, subjects in an experiment. It is always hoped that a new procedure will deliver a clinical benefit but, as often as not, trial means error. The front-line patients bear a higher burden of risk, with lower expectation of success than subsequent patients, who benefit from the experience gained in the early attempts. ..... I will …
Instead Of Repression, Brian Martin
Instead Of Repression, Brian Martin
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When confronted by terrorism, governments normally respond with repression, which can aggravate the problem. But there are alternatives for dealing with terrorism, including social justice, technological resilience, communication choking, civilian counterterrorism and nonviolent action.
The Case Of Nikko Jiken: Occupation, Reform, Power And Conflict, Christine M. De Matos
The Case Of Nikko Jiken: Occupation, Reform, Power And Conflict, Christine M. De Matos
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This paper explores a labour dispute in Occupied Japan in Hiroshima during the so-called 'reverse course', and the role of Australia occupation soldiers in the events.