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Europe And Refugees: A Sparrow's Eye View, Alastair Davidson
Europe And Refugees: A Sparrow's Eye View, Alastair Davidson
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This chapter contrasts Australian and European policies and attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers, and suggests that underlying European attitudes there is a stronger sense of social decency, based on a longer and deeper historical perspective. A detailed examination of European treatment of refugees and asylum seekers would be more critical of European treatment, but compared with Australia's, European refugee policy does not appear so bad. While it is easy to point at figures like Le Pen or the late Pym Forteyn as examples of European failure, the difference between Australia and Europe is summed up in the Human Rights …
When Wages Were Clothes: Dressing Down Aboriginal Workers In The Northern Territory, Julia Martinez
When Wages Were Clothes: Dressing Down Aboriginal Workers In The Northern Territory, Julia Martinez
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Prior to the introduction of equal wages in the 1960s, it was not unusual for Aboriginal workers in the Northern Territory to be paid in kind; in basic food, clothing and tobacco. Some workers received a few shillings a week, but even this wage could be withheld. In keeping with the protectionist ethos, clothing was encouraged as a substitute for cash wages, but in practice employers rarely equated clothing with wages. This paper explores the perspectives of pastoralists, employers of domestic servants, and the Army, considering how clothing primarily catered for the employers' needs.
Fatal Attraction? A Non-Indigenous Feminist's Exploration Of Masculinities In Indigenous Literature, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman
Fatal Attraction? A Non-Indigenous Feminist's Exploration Of Masculinities In Indigenous Literature, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman
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“Diaporic literature” is a term frequently used to discuss writers who have written about transculturation and disjunction. Hence some literature can be classified as belonging to a sub-class of “Indigenous Diaspora,” where the authors’ work is informed by their people’s histories of transplantation, dispossession and alienation at the hands of colonial regimes. The Murri writer Sam Watson and Nyoongar author Kim Scott both fit into this category. The work of both novelists also shares a focus on shamanism and traditional magic, allowing for an exploration of spirituality and power from two cultural sources—that of the colonised and of the coloniser. …
The Limits Of Solidarity: The North Australian Workers Union As Advocate Of Aboriginal Assimilation, Julia Martinez
The Limits Of Solidarity: The North Australian Workers Union As Advocate Of Aboriginal Assimilation, Julia Martinez
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This chapter considers the role of the North Australian Workers' Union (NAWU) in shaping Aboriginal assimilation policies in the Northern Territory during the 1920s and 1930s. Their contribution to the government's policy directions was wide-ranging, covering diverse issues including the removal of children, calls for a non-discriminatory football code and a suggestion that so-called 'half-castes' be granted their own parliamentary representative. At each step, for better or worse, the NAWU was consistently in the frontline of the promotion of assimilation policy. Assimilation was important to the NAWU primarily as a means to achieve economic security. It was understood that Aboriginal …
Commonising The Enclosure: Online Games And Reforming Intellectual Property Regimes, Christopher L. Moore Dr
Commonising The Enclosure: Online Games And Reforming Intellectual Property Regimes, Christopher L. Moore Dr
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Online computer gamers are a creative bunch, from the mayhem of first-person shooters (FPS) to the more social experiences of massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG), gamers are producing new content for their favourite titles at an amazing rate. This paper explores the rewriting of the boundaries in the production and ownership of intellectual property in the computer games industry. The purpose is to examine the potential for computer game studies to contribute to an understanding of an alternative intellectual property regime known as the commons. This paper will explore how computer games users establish commons-like formations, specific to the …
Indigenous Diaspora And Literature, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman
Indigenous Diaspora And Literature, Kimberley Mcmahon-Coleman
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Alootook Ipellie is an Inuk writer whose work can be read as diasporic, dealing as it does with issues of transculturation. Diaspora is fundamentally concerned with complex notions of home, belonging and exile. Within the Indigenous context, the situation becomes even more complicated, for when Indigenous peoples were forcibly removed from their familial locations, they crossed traditional borders, even whilst remaining within the modern nation-state. As Noelene Brasche argues, the forced displacements of Indigenous peoples "infringed traditional boundaries ... Territorial or national groups who previously had little or nothing in common now shared experiences of dispersal and loss of sovereignty, …
If The Unemployment Rate Is So Low: Why Do I Feel So Insecure?, G. Vogl
If The Unemployment Rate Is So Low: Why Do I Feel So Insecure?, G. Vogl
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Changes which have occurred in the labour market over the last two decades have resulted in high levels of hidden unemployment. Many people are becoming increasingly aware of the chasm between the official employment statistics and the real extent of unemployment as those around them find it more and more difficult to find work. Those who are employed feel increasingly insecure about their jobs and are often employed in jobs which are casual, parttime or for which they are over-qualified. Certain groups, which will be highlighted in this paper, are more likely to become part of the hidden unemployed. In …
Globalisation And Gendered Displacement, G. Vogl
Globalisation And Gendered Displacement, G. Vogl
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It will be argued within this paper, that women’s experiences of displacement and exclusion need to be situated in the relationship between globalisation, neo conservatism and neo liberalism. Neo liberal globalisation diminishes all human pursuits into buying and selling. It is elites in the North who have implemented neoliberal policies into both the North and South over the past twenty five years. These policies have resulted in the eradication of social safeguards which have led to massive gendered displacement. While globalisation may conjure up a vision of a borderless world, as a result of the free flow of goods, it …
Globalisation Of The Powerless - A Zone Of Instability And The Disabled State, Andrew Wells
Globalisation Of The Powerless - A Zone Of Instability And The Disabled State, Andrew Wells
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Much of the debate on refugee issues has been concentrated in either the morality or the effectiveness of the treatment meted out to refugees as they attempt to enter Australia and are incarcerated as illegal migrants by an unyielding government. This debate is very important, and is comprehensively discussed elsewhere in this book. The principal themes are how Australia treats people once they seek protection as refugees, and what impact specific policies will have on future asylum seekers.
Environmental Decision Making: Emerging Conceptualisations Of Uncertainty And Precaution, Fern Wickson
Environmental Decision Making: Emerging Conceptualisations Of Uncertainty And Precaution, Fern Wickson
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In contrast to traditional 'risk-based' approaches to environmental decision making, this paper identifies the emergence of approaches based around the process of negotiating uncertainties. I begin by presenting different typologies of uncertainty before offering a synthesis conceptualisation of 'incertitude'. I then consider the theoretical literature on how decision making processes can develop to confront the challenges of different forms of incertitude and highlight the distinction between applying a precautionary principle and adopting a precautionary approach. Through doing so, this paper presents some emerging trends in the conceptualisation and stance adopted towards the uncertainties inherent in environmental decision making.
Australia's Environmental Regulation Of Genetically Modified Organisms: Risk And Uncertainty, Science And Precaution, Fern Wickson
Australia's Environmental Regulation Of Genetically Modified Organisms: Risk And Uncertainty, Science And Precaution, Fern Wickson
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Any organisation or institution charged with the objective of regulating the deliberate environmental release of genetically modified organisms so as to ‘protect the environment’ will face the difficult task of decision making in the face of a debate where the meaning of ‘the environment’ and what it takes to ‘protect it’ are contested. While the tool of risk analysis has traditionally been employed as an aid for environmental decision making in regards to new technologies, through a review of the social science literature on risk and uncertainty in environmental decision making this paper highlights the limitations associated with adopting this …
Playing With Race: The Ethics Of Racialized Representations In E-Games, Dean Chan
Playing With Race: The Ethics Of Racialized Representations In E-Games, Dean Chan
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Questions about the meanings of racialized representations must be included as part of developing an ethical game design practice. This paper examines the various ways in which race and racial contexts are represented in a selected range of commercially available e-games, namely war, sports and action-adventure games. The analysis focuses on the use of racial slurs and the contingencies of historical re-representation in war games; the limited representation of black masculinity in sports games and the romanticization of ‘ghetto play’ in urban street games; and the pathologization and fetishization of race in ‘crime sim’ action-adventure games such as True Crime: …
Introduction - A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movement And The Labour Movement, 1965-1975, Rowan Cahill
Introduction - A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movement And The Labour Movement, 1965-1975, Rowan Cahill
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The Conference, 'Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965-1975', was held in Sydney on September 22-23, 2001. It took place eleven days after Muslim militants crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and into the Pentagon, and nine days after the Australian government, in consultation with the United States government, invoked relevant provisions of the ANZUS treaty equating an attack on the US as an attack on Australia's peace and safety. Australia was heading for military involvement in a war against the hapless, impoverished nation of Mghanistan - a war that US President George W. …
The Beating Of Rodney King: The Dynamics Of Backfire, Brian Martin
The Beating Of Rodney King: The Dynamics Of Backfire, Brian Martin
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The 1991 beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police provides rich case material in how an attack perceived as unjust can backfire. Drawing on nonviolence theory, an original framework is developed to analyze attacks as potential backfires that are usually, but not always, inhibited. Attackers can use a variety of methods to inhibit backfires, including covering up the attack, devaluing the target, reinterpreting the events, using official channels, and using intimidation and bribery. Writings on the Rodney King beating include evidence on the use of each of these methods. Studying the backfire process offers improved understanding on how to …
The Student And New Left Movements, Anthony Ashbolt
The Student And New Left Movements, Anthony Ashbolt
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For some years now, the 1960s have been contested terrain. Many-commentators have rushed to specious judgements about the radical politics of the era, while others have struggled valiantly to keep memories alive. Much of the politics of the contemporary epoch is being played out through the lens of the sixties. This seems like a grand and perhaps foolish claim but it needs to be understood that the neo-liberal and/or neoconservative agenda (and I will include hawkish foreign policy in this) is substantially directed at burying the sixties, the radical sixties. The gains of the various social movements, in particular the …
Death, Decline Or Atrophy? The Necessity Of Politics, Anthony Ashbolt
Death, Decline Or Atrophy? The Necessity Of Politics, Anthony Ashbolt
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While thinking about the contemporary state of politics, it is very difficult to shake off a recurring image from the brilliant television series A Very Peculiar Practice. In that show, a wonderful aging character was writing a book about the parlous state of higher education in Great Britain. 'Death of the University' muttered Jock into a portable tape recorder, between swigs of Scotch, as he wandered around campus despairing at the shattered values and distorted priorities of the new university. Jock spoke for all of us who care about education. I hope to be speaking to all of us who …
Art And Advocacy: Mary Alice Evatt In The 1930s And '40s, Melissa Boyde
Art And Advocacy: Mary Alice Evatt In The 1930s And '40s, Melissa Boyde
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On her return to Australia from Europe in 1939, Mary Alice Evatt remarked in an interview for the Australian Women s Weekly that paintings devoted to gum trees, sheep, koalas and misty seascapes were the only Australian works selected to hang in World Fair Art Exhibitions. In addition she derided the decision makers who overlooked Australia's modernist, experimental artists, many of whom were women: 'if only those in authority were to select the paintings of Australian artists who prefer creation to photography, and were less overawed by official selection bodies, Australia might find a worthy place on the art map …
Review: A Time For Choosing: The Rise Of Modern American Conservatism, Anthony Ashbolt
Review: A Time For Choosing: The Rise Of Modern American Conservatism, Anthony Ashbolt
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The steady rise of the radical Republican right as an electoral force since the mid 1960s is an intriguing, albeit chilling, feature of contemporary politics. What was once considered fringe and unacceptable, to the point where Goldwater was decimated by Johnson in 1964, has now become mainstream. We now have an administration that compels National Parks bookstores to stock a book which argues that the Grand Canyon is only 4500 years old, being the result of the global flood described in Genesis. This reflects both the persistence of fundamentalist beliefs in ordinary Americans and a dramatic transformation in American political …
Transformative Soundscapes: Innovating De Forest Phonofilms Talkies In Australia, Brian M. Yecies
Transformative Soundscapes: Innovating De Forest Phonofilms Talkies In Australia, Brian M. Yecies
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The coming of sound to cinemas around the world traditionally has been included in the writings about great men and all-powerful companies and how their visions and integrated industry connections helped them maintain a dominating monopoly of the motion picture industry. Important and canonical reports of these business histories have been documented and offered by Tino Balio (1976; 1985; 1993), David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson (1985), Douglas Gomery (1986), Thomas Schatz (1988), John Belton (1994), Robert Sklar (1994), Donald Crafton (1997) and Ruth Vasey (1997) in the US and by Sally Stockbridge (1979), Susan Dermody (1981), John Tulloch …
Challenges In Understanding Public Responses And Providing Effective Public Consultation On Water Reuse, Stewart Russell, Gregory R. Hampton
Challenges In Understanding Public Responses And Providing Effective Public Consultation On Water Reuse, Stewart Russell, Gregory R. Hampton
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This paper suggests key challenges facing our understanding of public responses to water recycling and our efforts to provide effective public consultation. The current understanding of public reactions to water recycling is insufficient to predict support in general or for specific schemes, and cannot obviate a thorough investigation and engagement for each proposal. Such support as is evident may not be robust. We need to provide better opportunities and mechanisms, and a wider scope, for community involvement. These entail a broader conception of the information needs of participants, and careful integration of education and consultation processes. Our discussion forms the …
Researching The Australian New Right: A Glimpse At The Process Of Discovery, Damien Cahill
Researching The Australian New Right: A Glimpse At The Process Of Discovery, Damien Cahill
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When asked to contribute an article to this inaugural edition of Rhizome I felt a certain hesitancy. What, I wondered, would be an appropriate offering to a postgraduate journal from someone who has already graduated? This led me to decide upon an approach which is unusual for a scholarly journal. What follows is an outline of the central findings of my recently completed PhD thesis. This is done by guiding the reader through the process of discovery I underwent during my candidature. My hope is that students and educators will recognise the messy, uneven and often unpredictable process of academic …
Alternative Solutions: Multiculturalism And The Struggle For Hegemony In Australian Community Broadcasting, Robert Carr
Alternative Solutions: Multiculturalism And The Struggle For Hegemony In Australian Community Broadcasting, Robert Carr
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‘Who listens to community radio anyway?’ This has undeniably been the most common response to my investigations of the history of community radio in Australia. However, for those involved in the establishment of 3ZZ Radio in Melbourne, their struggle was about more than broadcasting to their own cultural and linguistic communities. It had a greater social significance, and would change the nature of the Australian broadcasting sector. The history of 3ZZ Radio is an indicator of the social context in which it is set; that is, 1970s Australia. Its rise and plummet out of existence between 1974 and 1977 reflects …
Infiltrators, Illegals And Undesirables : Gender And Forced Migration In South Asia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
Infiltrators, Illegals And Undesirables : Gender And Forced Migration In South Asia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
It will be argued within this paper, that women’s experiences of displacement and exclusion need to be situated in the relationship between globalisation and neoliberalism. I argue that forced and economic migrations are closely related and are often interchangeable expressions of global inequality. Neo liberal globalisation diminishes all human pursuits into buying and selling. It is elites in the North who have implemented neo-liberal policies into both the North and South over the past twenty five years. These policies have resulted in the eradication of social safeguards which have led to massive gendered displacement. While globalisation may conjure up a …
Benjamin Constant: From The Age Of War To The Age Of Commerce, Gregory C. Melleuish
Benjamin Constant: From The Age Of War To The Age Of Commerce, Gregory C. Melleuish
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Benjamin Constant was a distinguished liberal thinker whose continuing fame rests on his differentiation between ancient and modern liberty. In making this distinction Constant was attempting to demonstrate that the values which had actuated the ancient Greeks and Romans, and which many of the most extreme players in the French Revolution had attempted to emulate, were no longer relevant in the modern world. For Constant the Revolution had demonstrated that the values of ancient liberty were positively harmful when applied to modern politics. In this Constant was following Montesquieu and his view that 'sweet commerce', as manifested in the regime …
Kim Scott's Benang: An Ethics Of Uncertainty, Lisa Slater
Kim Scott's Benang: An Ethics Of Uncertainty, Lisa Slater
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The narrator, Harley, of Kim Scott’s novel Benang, suggests that he is writing “the most local of histories” (10). However, he also questions what it is that he is writing—“What was it? A family history? A local history? An experiment? A fantasy?” (33). Furthermore, throughout the novel, Harley worries that his “little history” might be resuscitating racist discourse. The questions that Harley raises regarding what it is he is writing parallel Scott’s concerns with problems of style, genre and frame. The colonial ideology of assimilation was disseminated through writing, which informed non-Indigenous people’s knowledge of and relationships to Indigenous people …
Gramsci, Hegemony And Globalisation, Alastair Davidson
Gramsci, Hegemony And Globalisation, Alastair Davidson
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Antonio Gramsci’s point that battles are won and lost on the terrain of ideology is a much earlier and more complex explanation of the mediations between objective economic and social conditions and politics. It accounts generally for the fact that the continuation of contradiction—as must ever be the case under capitalism—and the worsening conditions for the majority of the world’s population do not mean the emergence of a political opposition to capitalism. Put simply, the great traditional workforces cannot strike at capitalism in its new heart. On the other hand, the two percent might be able to do so if …
Report On The International Conference: 'Mobile Communications And Health: Medical, Biological And Social Problems', Sept 20-22 2004, Moscow, Russia, Donald Maisch
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This conference report summarizes the research, views, disagreements, recommendations and conclusions of the above conference, with the author's comments on the apparent editing and changing of the final press release compared to what was stated or agreed at the conference.
Unlocking Global Memory, James Hagan, Andrew Wells, Gavan Mccarthy, Bruce Smith
Unlocking Global Memory, James Hagan, Andrew Wells, Gavan Mccarthy, Bruce Smith
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Theory and method courses in the humanities and social sciences have for many years stressed the importance of the primary source. The best evidence is the original evidence, and oral sources apart, it is documentary. 1 Some of it finds its way into archives where it may become a check, via footnotes, on the ways in which scholars have interpreted events and evolved causal explanations. In its own right it may, with the aid of a scholar’s imagination, pose questions, suggest causes and lead to the evolution of theories.