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Gatekeeper Training For Youth Workers: Impact On Mental Health Help-Seeking And Referral Skill, Tania Cartmill, Frank P. Deane, Coralie J. Wilson

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Adults who act as gatekeepers for young people may have the same barriers to help-seeking for mental health issues as young people. This study investigated the personal help-seeking practices of 47 Australian youth workers prior to and after a training workshop on youth mental health issues. Pre-post workshop evaluation revealed some increases in behaviour, intentions and problemsolving capacity but no changes in belief-based barriers} intentions to seek help for suicidal thoughts, or referral skills. The relationships between help-seeking variables and referral skills were explored to investigate the impact that personal help··seeking may have on professional practice.

"She Ensample Was By Good Techynge": Hermiene Ulrich And Chaucer Under Capricorn, Louise D'Arcens

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Hermiene Frederica Ulrich (later Parnell) is a significant but now largely forgotten figure in early Australian academic history, who is especially notable for her brief but vital contribution to the tradition of early female readership of Chaucer in Australia. Despite her exclusion from university teaching after a promising and vital early career, Ulrich/Parnell continued to figure in her contribution as a public medievalist. This essay argues that Ulrich/Parnell's contribution as an early woman reader of Chaucer has been overlooked because of three-fold feminization in which her gender, teaching career, and colonial status have all rendered her the antithesis of the …

Iraq, The Prequel(S): Historicising Military Occupation And Withdrawal In Kingdom Of Heaven And 300, Louise D'Arcens

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

As well as being historical films, Zack Snyder’s 300 and Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven both reflect on the value and the danger of historical commemoration and amnesia. The films’ opposing stances on the ‘righteous’ use of history directly link to their differing uses of historical East-West clashes (Thermopylae and the Crusades) as allegorical commentaries on current East-West tensions, specifically the Western occupation of Iraq. Examining these films together, however, illuminates the cross-historical heroic idiom they both share, and thus exposes the drawbacks of the historical periodisation that persists in current approaches to film in medieval and classical studies.

Re-Presenting Urban Aboriginal Identities: Self-Representation In "Children Of The Sun", Colleen Mcgloin, Bronwyn Lumby

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Teaching Aboriginal Studies to a diverse student cohort presents challenges in the pursuit of developing a critical pedagogy. In this paper, we present Children of the Sun, a local film made by Indigenous Youth in the Illawarra region south of Sydney, New South Wales. We outline the film's genesis and its utilisation in our praxis. The film is a useful resource in the teaching of urban Aboriginal identity to primarily non-Indigenous students in the discipline of Aboriginal Studies. It contributes to the development of critical thinking, and our own critical practice as educators and offers a starting point to address …

Marie Corelli's British New Woman: A Threat To Empire?, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

At the height of the British Empire, England was in the midst of major social, economic and moral upheaval. The roles and status of middle-class women were particularly affected by many of these changes. In turn, as the gap between idealism and ‘reality’ grew, the validity or usefulness of Victorian notions or ideals of womanhood increasingly came under attack. Arising from this commotion was the figure of the late Victorian and Edwardian ‘New Woman.’ Her appearance provoked further confusion and ambiguity about gender that had repercussions for empire. This paper addresses the way in which the role of English women …

'Acting Sovereign' In The Face Of Gendered Protectionism, Goldie Osuri, Tanja Dreher, Elaine Laforteza

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

The papers in this volume arise from a politics of ‘acting sovereign’ in the face of discourses of gendered protectionism focused on Indigenous and Muslim women in Australia. Discourses of ‘protection’ have been deployed to legitimize ongoing colonial relations, particularly in terms of the Intervention into Northern Territory Indigenous communities and the policing of Muslim communities during the ‘war on terror’. In this editorial we outline the contemporary politics of gendered protection and the possibilities for ‘acting sovereign’, as well as introducing a series of workshops convened in order to explore possibilities for alliances and interventions around these themes. The …

The "Amen" Breakbeat As Fratriarchal Totem, Andrew M. Whelan

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

It is generally accepted that music signifies'. "that it can sound happy, sad, sexy, funky, silly, 'American,' religious, or whatever" (McClary 20- 21). Notably, music is engendered; it is read as signifying specific embodied subjectivities, and also hails an audience it constitutes as so positioned: it "inscribes subject positions" (Irving 107). Thus rock music in the West is invariably considered a "male culture comprising male activities and styles" (Cohen l7). Musical genres and gestures, however, a.re not inherently "male" or "female"; they are produced as such, or more precisely, coproduced (Lohan and Faulkner 322). Music is a key resource …

Folksonomy With Practical Taxonomy, A Design For Social Metadata Of The Virtual Museum Of The Pacific, Peter W. Eklund, Peter Goodall, Timothy Wray, Vinod Daniels, Melanie Van Olffen

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is a Digital Ecosystem that engages members of several communities, each with their own ontological relationships with the Pacific Collection of the Australian Museum. The Virtual Museum of the Pacific is intended to support on-line community interaction using social-media technologies to extend the annotation of objects to suit the stakeholder’s own needs. The success of the system depends on leveraging the diffusion of language and encouraging a conversation between on-line communities. In this paper we explore the relationships between stakeholders, folksonomy and taxonomy, to reveal the design forces on our digital ecosystem. Our analysis …

Dramaturgy For My Darling Patricia Production "Africa.", Christopher M. Ryan

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

Africa from My Darling Patricia, a company renowned for their unique approach to design and performance. Africa is a work for adults told from the perspective of children

The following link is a description of the production in which Christopher Ryan participated as Dramaturgist http://www.mydarlingpatricia.com/2010/africa/

"The Magicians Hat", Ian A. Mclean

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

With 30% of its population Aboriginal, the Northern Territory (NT) is a significantly different place to the southern coastal regions where most Australians live. So it should be no surprise that large numbers of Aboriginal artists are in the NT's newest contemporary art prize, the 'Togart Contemporary Art Award'. Last year they made up about 60% of the artists, this year 50% - which is the generally accepted estimate of the proportion of Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal artists in Australia.