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Alec Campbell, 1899-2002, Rowan Cahill

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When Alec Campbell died in May 2002, he was accorded a nationally televised state funeral. Powerful forces, including media organisations, the Returned Services League, the Department of Veterans Affairs, had long been preparing for this death. Campbell was dubbed The Last Anzac. A flood of media stories and government press releases followed Campbell’s death. These tended to be fulsome in their elaboration of Anzac mythology, and general in reference to his military career and to his long life after World War I. On the subject of Campbell the political activist, there was silence. One year in the life of the …

Marlboro''S Marketing In Western Europe: Is It Ethical?, Sandra C. Jones

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

There has been considerable publicity in the United States and Australia opposing the cigarette marketing efforts of British and U.S. tobacco companies in Eastern Europe. However, little attention has been paid to the marketing campaigns ofthe same companies in Western Europe, perhaps on the assumption that Western Europeans are too sophisticated to fall for the marketing tricks that have worked elsewhere over the last several decades. However, smoking rates are on the increase in many Western European countries, where tobacco advertising is largely unregulated. This paper analyzes magazine advertising for the Marlboro brand targeted at young adults in The Netherlands …

Promotion Of Prescription Medicines: A Critical Review And Research Agenda, Janet Hoek, Philip Gendall, Judith Holdershaw, Sandra C. Jones, John Rossiter

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Direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription medicines has generated considerable controversy in both New Zealand and the United States, the only two countries that currently permit promotion ofrestricted medicines. Arguments against DTCA include the effect this may have on doctor-patient relationships, its implications for drug costs, and the extent to which it fully informs potential patients. Conversely, proponents of DTCA claim that it increases knowledge of a variety of common medical conditions, thus fostering earlier diagnosis and better compliance with treatments. However, although arguments for and against DTCA have merit, neither side has supported its position with empirical evidence. …

Profiles Of Underreporting In Healthy Adults And Adults With Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus Participating In A Dietary Intervention Trial, Gina Martin, Linda C. Tapsell, Marijka Batterham

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Abstract from The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society of Australia, 2002.

Fat In Food And The Obesity Epidemic, Linda C. Tapsell

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Dietary fat is strongly implicated in the development of insulin resistance and obesity, both major public health problems today. While the amount of dietary fat is relevant, the type of fat is important in fuel utilisation, storage and appetite regulatory mechanisms. Human calorimetry research confirms the importance of dietary fat in energy balance, but more work needs to be done to uncover the impact of type of dietary fat in weight control. Population and intervention research confirm the importance of fat in dietary interventions, bearing in mind the contribution of physical activity to energy balance. The food industry has an …

Common Ground - Exploring The Royal National Park - The Dramatic Common Ground Shared By Southern Sydney And The Illawarra, Glenn P. Barkley, Tom Sear, Jelle Van Den Berg, Susan Blanchfield, Ian Gentle, Gardon Hockey, Liz Jeneid, Idris Murphy, Jacky Redgate, John Wolseley, Diana Wood Conroy

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The University of Wollongong is renowned as a centre of excellence in research and education. It also has an important public role in developing strategic partnerships within the cultural sphere and this exhibition at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts centre is an example of the type of initiative that reflects the diverse roles of a contemporary University. The agenda of 'Common Ground' is to explore the physical place that unites the communities of southern Sydney and Illawarra, the Royal Nalional Park. The University of Woliongong has for many years undertaken projects in the scientific realms that seek to bring a …

"Genocide And Colonialism", Lorenzo Veracini

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In conversation with Lorenzo Veracini, Ann Curthoys and John Docker discuss some of the issues at stake for Australian Aboriginal history in current international debates about the definitions of genocide.

'Aboriginality And Australian Cinematography: Engaging With History': Review Of One Night The Moon, Lorenzo Veracini

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'Aboriginality and Australian Cinematography: Engaging with History': Review of One Night the Moon, Rachel Perkins, dir., John Romeril sc., MusicArtsDance Films Pty Ltd, film released on 08/11/2001.

Conjectures And Exhumations: Citations Of History, Philosophy And Sociology Of Science In Us Federal Courts, Gary Edmond, David Mercer

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This article examines the circumstances in which a version of Sir Karl Popper's philosophy of science became US law. Among historians, philosophers and sociologists of science, as well as legal commentators, the US Supreme Court's Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, .Inc. (1993) decision has received considerable attention. The case is significant because America's most senior court produced a definition of science (for legal purposes). This definition was authorized by the symbolic exhumation, celebration and appropriation of key elements of the philosophy of science developed decades earlier by Popper. Significantly, it was not just Popper's philosophy that was exhumed and resurrected …

Funding The Ideological Struggle, Damien Cahill

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Over the past twenty-five years a radical neo-liberal movement, more commonly known as the 'new right', has launched a sustained assault upon the welfare state, social justice and defenders of these institutions and ideas. In Australia, the organisational backbone of this movement is provided by think tanks such as the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), and the Tasman Institute; and forums such as the H.R. Nicholls Society. Central to the movement's efficacy and longevity has been financial support from Australia's corporate sector and industry interest groups. Activists and scholars have produced many articles and …

Still Moving: Bush Mechanics In The Central Desert, Georgine W. Clarsen Dr

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Brake fluid made from washing powder mixed in water? Welding a muffler with jumper leads, fencing wire and a car battery? Replacement brake pads carved from mulga-wood with a tomahawk, or an emergency clutch plate shaped out of an old boomerang? Spare parts filed in collective memory, and scattered in old car wrecks along dirt tracks? Strips of blanket wound into windscreen-wiper blades? Such is the car repair advice offered in Bush Mechanics, the series recently screened on ABC Television.1 Presented with humour and enthusiasm, as well as a large dose of self-parody, this is mechanical advice unlike any other. …

The Making Of A Communist Journalist: Rupert Lockwook, 1908-1940, Rowan Cahill

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The journalist/publicist Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997) was one of Australia’s best known Cold War communists, his name synonymous with the Royal Commission into Espionage in Australia, 1954-1955, as author of the notorious Document J. However the communist journalist did not spring fully formed into history. He joined the Australian Communist Party in 1939. This article traces Lockwood’s development as a journalist and his evolution as a communist between the wars. It is a story that ranges from small-town Western Victoria, and the West Wimmera Mail, to Melbourne and Sir Keith Murdoch’s Herald. In between, much of the world is traversed--significantly, South …

La Intervención En Las Comunicaciones Privadas En El Supuesto De La Delincuencia Organizada, Luis Gomez Romero

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Quisiera comenzar estas lineas recordando una de las escasas epopeyas que fue capaz de producir la imaginacion humana durante el siglo XX. Extrana saga, sin dud a alguna, es aquella que ahora acude a mi memoria, toda vez que el heroe que la encarna es, segun Ie describe la pluma de quien Ie diera vida, "un muchacho pequeno y francamente gordo, de unos diez u once anos". Me refiero, como algunos de ustedes habnin adivinado, a La Historia Interminable, del escritor y cuentista aleman Michael Ende' .

Bastian Baltasar Bux, segun cuenta Ende, es un muchacho comun y corriente a …

A Principled Basis For Psychological Research: Book Review Of Praetorius On Cognition-Action, Daniel Hutto

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Praetorius' book advocates a healthy review and reform of the basic assumptions of much general theorising in psychology. Her central concern is to supply reasons of principle to demarcate the psychological and stave off reductionism. She seeks to derive these results from a handful of principles that she holds must be accepted since they form the very grounds for engaging in any inquiry at all. She employs these to good effect by showing that a number of prominent targets engaged in psychological theorising, including Gibson, Marr, Saussure, Stich and Fodor, are prey to deep-seated confusions about the general relation between …

The New Millennium: Facades And Duplicities, Anthony Macris

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Its second year not even finished, the third millennium has already revealed one of its greatest fracture points in the form of a spectacular catastrophe: the destruction of one of capitalism's most powerful architectural symbol, the World Trade Centre in New York.

Issues In Transatlantic Police Cooperation, Clive Harfield

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Research from a Fulbright Police Fellowship conducted in summer 2001 studying US attitudes and policies to inter- national law enforcement cooperation is presented. Differences between UK police and the multitude of US federal agencies in approaches to investigating transnational organised crime are identified, along with the implications for conducting evidence- gathering abroad and joint operations. No one approach is either right or wrong: the key to successful investigations lies in accommodating, rather than bemoaning, political and cultural differences in attitudes to law enforcement. This article alerts investigators to some of the issues they may encounter in transatlantic cooperation. Although researched …

Review Of Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandaranji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842-1852 By Patrick Collins, Lorenzo Veracini

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Book review of: Patrick Collins. Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandaranji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842-1852. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2002. 305 + XV pp. $34.00

Tampering With Border Protection: The Legal And Policy Implications Of The Voyage Of The Mv Tampa, Stuart B. Kaye

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While the events of 11 September 200 1 and the "children overboard incident" have overshadowed it in the popular press, the voyage of the MV Tampa in August and September 2001 has had a significant impact upon Australian law and policy. The Tampa incident has seen both a substantial change in Australian law, with alterations to customs and migration legislation, and a dramatic change in Australian policy towards unauthorised boat arrivals. This chapter will consider the incident in some detail, and examine its long-term consequences for Australian offshore law enforcement and policy.

Hurray For Pusan And The Korean New Wave!, Brian M. Yecies, Aegyung Shim Yecies

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For nine days in November 2001 (9th-17th), the 6th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) rocked the seaside city of Pusan. A record 659 industry guests from 30 countries, 3100 official Korean guests, and more than a hundred thousand moviegoers filled the seats of 332 completely sold-out, or near sell-out screenings in 15 different theatres. Thousands and thousands of curious festival fans filled the small streets and alleyways in the Downtown-Nampodong festival area, enjoying the stars, lights, cameras, and all of the promotional PIFF booths and kiosks. A total of 126,613 paid tickets were sold to 201 films from 60 countries, …

Is Any Body Home? - Rewriting The Crisis Ofbelonging In Margaret Sommerville's Body/Landscape Journals, Lisa Slater

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Whilst attempting to write a paper about relationships to place, Margaret Somerville suffered from what she calls 'a crisis of the body.'. She was in the early stages of a collaborative writing project with four Aboriginal women in which she was recording their oral histories of their connection to place. She says of the proiect: The women gave me multiple selves, the different I's I want in the text: the pencil as opposed to the mouth, archaeologist, historian, oral historian, and so on, but the new question was how to write a bodily presence?

Bp: Beyond Petroleum?, Sharon Beder

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[Extract] In 2000 the transnational oil giant BP Amoco rebranded itself as "bp: beyond petroleum." The rebranding was part of an effort to portray BP as an energy company, not just an oil company: one that incorporated solar energy in its portfolio and was willing to move away from oil. BP replaced its logo with a vibrant green-white-and-yellow sunburst named after Helios, the ancient Greek sun god. The logo was meant to connote "commitment to the environment and solar power" and promote the new bp "as the supermajor of choice for the environmentally-aware motorist." The lower-case letters were chosen "because …

"A Fearful Calligraphy": De/Scribing The Uncanny Nation In Joy Kogawa’S Obasan, Gerry Turcotte

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[Extract] This paper takes as its starting point Joy Kogawa’s 1981 novel Obasan, a story which revolves around what McFarlane has called “arguably the most documented instance of ethnic civil rights abuse in Canadian history” (“Covering Obasan” 401): the internment of the Japanese Canadians during and after the Second World War and their subsequent dispossession and exile. It also takes as one point of intersection the Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement—the decision of the Mulroney Government on 22 September 1988 to offer an apology and restitution to the Japanese Canadians for their suffering and unjust treatment. More specifically, this reading is …

Nonviolence Versus Terrorism, Brian Martin

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The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 were an enormous setback for the cause of nonviolence. They provided a stimulus and ostensible justification for a spiral of violence in which nonviolent alternatives are marginalised. Nonviolence offers numerous ways to oppose and prevent terrorism, but such responses are totally at odds with the way government leaders conceive the world.

The Difficulty With Alternatives, Brian Martin

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Criticising the existing system seems pretty easy. Lots of people do it. Why is it so difficult, in comparison, to promote alternatives? Whether the topic is the military, the nuclear family, the market or the prison system, there is little attention to alternatives compared to criticism of the current system. For example, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman (1979) in their classic book The Political Economy of Human Rights document US government sponsorship of repressive regimes. But they don’t discuss how to promote change in these policies. In his book The Credential Society, Randall Collins (1979) offers a devastating critique of …

Of Dragons And Devils: Chinese-Australian Life Stories, Wenche Ommundsen

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This article is about Chinese-Australian life stories.

Korean Post New Wave Film Director Series: Kim Ki-Duk, Brian M. Yecies, Aegyung Shim Yecies

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Shortly after the release of his new film Bad Guy (Korea 2001), KIM Ki-Duk announced that he was not giving any more interviews. He took a vow of silence, because many of his critics had been criticizing him. I decided to ask him for an interview anyway. He accepted my invitation right away. I reviewed his website (www.kimkiduk.com), which includes my harsh criticism about his films, and I read his past interviews. There were 21 interviews and 37 reviews about his new film Bad Guy. I printed 184 articles written by his fans and harsh opponents and read them randomly.

Intersections: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Media, Identity, And Place, Tanja Dreher

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This paper explores ongoing projects and research focused on themes of media, community, identity, and place in Sydney's westem suburbs. Fairfield is promoted as Australia's most culturally diverse local-Govermment area. Many community organisations and the local Council are involved in cultural productions that aim to both challenge the misrepresentations of mainstream media and to provide positive self-representations. My research examines media representations as a cultural resource for identity construction and for negotiations of community and place. My approach draws on media studies, cultural studies, geography, and sociology to conceptualise Fairfield as the site of as ymbolic struggle to define the …

Collaboration And Resistance In Indigenous Life Writing, Michael Jacklin

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Collaboration is marked by indeterminacy. It is, by nature, intermediary, interposing, intervening. In Australia, collaboration between Aboriginal and invader/settler subjects in the unfolding of colonial engagement is a topic that has received limited scholarly attention. Some studies have dealt with native police and Black trackers; others have examined local negotiations of power and discourse; but the only broad survey of collaboration is Henry Reynolds's With the White People (1990). In this work Reynolds traces the varied modes of collaboration existing between the Aborigines and the European colonists of Australia from first contact and early settlement through ro the First World …

Conclusion: Maritime Border Protection After The Tampa And 9/11, Anthony Bergin, Ben M. Tsamenyi, Christopher Rahman

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The objective of these proceedings has been to review current arrangements for national maritime border protection and to canvass some fresh approaches. The book (and preceding conference) have been designed to avoid getting bogged down in any great detail on sectoral issues, instead taking a more holistic view of the overall maritime border protection regime. The issue is timely in view of the public and political interest in developments regarding maritime security and border protection following the controversy surrounding the MV Tampa incident of August 2001 and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

On …