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Mobile Encounters: Bicycles, Cars And Australian Settler Colonialism, Georgine W. Clarsen
Mobile Encounters: Bicycles, Cars And Australian Settler Colonialism, Georgine W. Clarsen
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At the turn of the twentieth century bicycles and motorcars constituted a significant break from organic modes of mobility, such as walking, horses and camels. In Australia, such mechanical modes of personal transport were settler imports that generated local meanings and practices as they were integrated into the material, cultural and political conditions of the settler nation-in-the-making. For settlers, new technologies confirmed their racial superiority and reinforced a collective sense of their own modernity. Aboriginal people frequently expressed fear and epistemological confusion when they first encountered the strange vehicles. Contrary to settler investments in Aboriginal people as outside of the …
The Bitter Taste Of Payback: The Pathologising Effect Of Tv Revengendas, Cassandra E. Sharp
The Bitter Taste Of Payback: The Pathologising Effect Of Tv Revengendas, Cassandra E. Sharp
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The thirst for vengeance is a timeless subject in popular entertainment. One need only think of Old Testament scripture; Shakespeare's Hamlet; Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill or the TV series Revenge, and we immediately conjure up images of a protagonist striving to seek justice to avenge a heinous wrong committed against them. These texts, and others like it, speak to that which is ingrained in our human spirit about not only holding others responsible for their actions, but also about retaliation as payback. This article seeks to problematise the way the popular revenge narrative effectively constructs the vendetta as a guilty …
The Moral Choice Of Infamous: Law And Morality In Video Games, Michael Barnett, Cassandra E. Sharp
The Moral Choice Of Infamous: Law And Morality In Video Games, Michael Barnett, Cassandra E. Sharp
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With increasing capacity for real-life simulation, high definition graphics, and complex interactive narrativity, video games now offer a high level of sophisticated engagement for players, which contribute significantly to their widespread popular support. As an extremely prevalent sub-culture of new media, they also provoke jurisprudential investigations. This article acknowledges the culturally constructed nature of playing video games, and helps to explore the normative expectations of law that might be facilitated by the narrative structures inherent within the game itself. It does so by exploring one game series within this framework and asks what meaning can be transformed about issues of …
Through The Looking Glass: The Framing Of Law Through Popular Imagination, Cassandra E. Sharp
Through The Looking Glass: The Framing Of Law Through Popular Imagination, Cassandra E. Sharp
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It has been 150 years since the first publication of Lewis Carroll’s acclaimed children’s fiction Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,2 and it remains a book that is appreciated widely across culture for its unique representation of the world. Indeed, the enduring quality of both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass,3 is evident in the way they have inspired creations of art, theatrical performances,4 judicial decision-making,5 cinematic portrayals,6 videogame plot development,7 and of course, the desire for adventure.
Men And Gender Equality, Michael G. Flood
Men And Gender Equality, Michael G. Flood
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Our world is a deeply unequal one. Systemic inequalities which disadvantage women and advantage men are visible around the globe. Whether on looks at political power and authority, economic resources and decision-making, sexual and family relations, or media and culture, one finds gender inequalities. These are sustained in part by constructions of masculinity-by the cultural meanings associated with being a man, the practices which men adopt, and the collective and institutional organisation of men's lives and relations.
Professional Misconduct: The Case Of The Medical Board Of Australia V Tausif (Occupational Discipline), Caroline Colton
Professional Misconduct: The Case Of The Medical Board Of Australia V Tausif (Occupational Discipline), Caroline Colton
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In 2014, the Australian Capital Territory Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal (ACAT) made a finding of professional misconduct against a Canberra general practitioner working in two bulk-billing medical practices established by a corporate medical practice service company, Primary Health Care Limited (Medical Board of Australia v Tausif (Occupational Discipline) [2015] ACAT 4). This column analyses that case, particularly in relation to the ACAT finding that the practitioner's professional misconduct was substantially contributed to by an unsafe system of care, specifically, the failure of Primary Health Care to provide supervision and mentoring for clinicians working at its medical centres. The case …
Apportionment Of Damages For Contributory Negligence: A Fixed Or Discretionary Approach, James Goudkamp
Apportionment Of Damages For Contributory Negligence: A Fixed Or Discretionary Approach, James Goudkamp
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In most of the common-law world, legislation provides for damages to be apportioned where the claimant is guilty of contributory negligence. This legislation gives judges considerable latitude to determine the extent to which damages should be diminished for contributory negligence. It imposes what will be called a system of 'discretionary appor- tionment'. This paper draws attention to the fact that, although most common-law juris- dictions are, by virtue of their apportionment legislation, in the thrall of the paradigm of discretionary apportionment, there are many, varied departures from this paradigm. This paper classifies these departures (which will be called 'fixed apportionment …
Alterity And The Maternal In Adoptee Phenomenology, Jane M. Lymer
Alterity And The Maternal In Adoptee Phenomenology, Jane M. Lymer
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The project that I embark upon in this paper is an enquiry into the role of the maternal body in the development of alterity in the child. I begin by drawing on a previous publication in Parrhesia, where I explore the phenomenology of the maternal-foetal affective relation through the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, outlining how the foetal body schema develops through maternally structured movement while in utero.
Professional Misconduct: The Case Of The Medical Board Of Australia V Tausif (Occupational Discipline), Caroline Colton
Professional Misconduct: The Case Of The Medical Board Of Australia V Tausif (Occupational Discipline), Caroline Colton
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In 2014, the Australian Capital Territory Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal (ACAT) made a finding of professional misconduct against a Canberra general practitioner working in two bulk-billing medical practices established by a corporate medical practice service company, Primary Health Care Limited (Medical Board of Australia v Tausif (Occupational Discipline) [2015] ACAT 4).
Community Gardens And Farmers' Markets: Exploring Representations Of Food Culture In The Illawarra, Paula Arvela
Community Gardens And Farmers' Markets: Exploring Representations Of Food Culture In The Illawarra, Paula Arvela
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Over recent years, farmers' markets and community gardens have increasingly become a feature of the urban landscape and a popular representation of food culture. In endorsing the increasingly popular paddock-to-plate ethos, they purportedly promote sustainable food systems thus contributing to the reduction of food miles, increase of food security and building of strong communities. For these reasons, farmers' markets and community gardens have become significant mechanisms for the expansion of local food systems, regional socio-cultural development, and local economic revitalisation. The Illawarra, in regional NSW, has embraced them wholeheartedly. Since the 1980s the region has experienced a transition to a …
Blue Garden, Madeleine T. Kelly
Blue Garden, Madeleine T. Kelly
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These vestiges of statues denote both destruction and permanence - any resemblance is obscured by a visual and tactile aesthetic.
The Threatened, Madeleine T. Kelly
The Threatened, Madeleine T. Kelly
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Drawing upon the traditions of natural history illustration, painting and tapestry, this work represents threatened birds of the Illawarra, NSW.
No Man's Land: Migration, Masculinity And Ouyang Yu's The Eastern Slope Chronicle, Huang Zhong, Wenche Ommundsen
No Man's Land: Migration, Masculinity And Ouyang Yu's The Eastern Slope Chronicle, Huang Zhong, Wenche Ommundsen
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The Eastern Slope Chronicle is a novel about migration, focusing on Dao Zhuang, a male Chinese migrant who seems unable to belong anywhere. It is also about the protagonist’s self-discovery and discovery of his home and host countries. This paper examines the impact of migration on gender norms and how tensions between different gender norms, particularly models for masculinity, play out in the novel. While previous criticism has addressed The Eastern Slope Chronicle from the perspective of cultural, ethnic, or national identity,1 issues surrounding the impact of migration on gender identity remain virtually unexplored.
Barren Grounds, Madeleine T. Kelly
Barren Grounds, Madeleine T. Kelly
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Snapshots Of The Past, Ian C. Willis
Snapshots Of The Past, Ian C. Willis
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When photography was still in its infancy it was used as a tool to capture moments that would become a chronology of the past for future gen- erations. Here is a snapshot of special moments from the Perkins family album of Cawdor. Harold E. Perkins was a smallholder dairy farmer at Cawdor living on the family farm of Verdundale. One of his pastimes was photography.
Cobbitty Sports Day Benefited The War Effort, Ian C. Willis
Cobbitty Sports Day Benefited The War Effort, Ian C. Willis
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major event on the social calendar of a number of picturesque villages in the Camden district was the annual New Year's Day Sports Carnivals. They were part of the English traditions brought to the area by colonial immigrants, and in 1915 they were held in the villages of Cobbitty and The Oaks. Sports carnivals were wonderful community events that included all classes of villagers regardless of their station in life and during the First World War they held special appeal for patriotic fundraising. These social and cultural traditions were not isolated to the Camden district and have been held in …
The Early Days Of Elderslie, Ian C. Willis
The Early Days Of Elderslie, Ian C. Willis
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In 1929 Madeline Buck the granddaughter of Elderslie pioneer James Hawdon published a series of letters written in 1828 to friends in England. Hawdon had lived in Elderslie for five years from 1828. Hawdon's letters surfaced in England in 1929 amongst old family papers and have many interesting insights into life in the early days of the colony.
Camden Bibliography A Biography Of A Country Town, Ian C. Willis
Camden Bibliography A Biography Of A Country Town, Ian C. Willis
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The Camden Bibliography is an attempt to highlight some of the research that addresses the notion of Camden as a country town and the subsequent urbanisation of the Local Government Area. The sources listed in the bibliography cover the geographic area of the Camden district as defined by this author in his thesis, War and Community: The Red Cross in Camden, 1939-1945 (pp. 22-24) and the current Camden LGA. This area includes a number of villages to the west of Camden and the Burragorang Valley, which are all integral to the town's history and any interpretations drawn from it.
Making Camden History, Ian C. Willis
Making Camden History, Ian C. Willis
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The story of the construction of the history of the Camden area. There are many versions and they are all correct. They all put their own spin on the way they want to tell the Camden story. Some good, some indifferent, some just plain awful (Facebook, 23 November 2015. https://www.facebook.com/CamdenHistoryNotes1433284970226274/)
Toasting An Honorary Jet And Okay Son-Of-A-Bitch', Luke M. Johnson
Toasting An Honorary Jet And Okay Son-Of-A-Bitch', Luke M. Johnson
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No abstract provided.
Dumpster Diving: A Family Excursion, Shady E. Cosgrove
Dumpster Diving: A Family Excursion, Shady E. Cosgrove
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No abstract provided.
Clocks And Clouds Live Performance Ears Have Ears: Unexplored Territories In Sound, Kraig Grady, Terumi Narushima
Clocks And Clouds Live Performance Ears Have Ears: Unexplored Territories In Sound, Kraig Grady, Terumi Narushima
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No abstract provided.
Forward! But Not Too Fast!, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Forward! But Not Too Fast!, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
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In 1920 Arnold Bennett wrote Our Women, sub-titled Chapters on the Sex- Discord. The nine chapters on the 'sex-discord' surveyed various aspects of relations between the sexes in the immediate post-war years, drawing on contemporary understandings about the changing position of women as it did so. The general conclusion reached by Bennett was that many changes had occurred in the era following the close of the Victorian period that he viewed as fruitful and desirable. Not least of these was a breakdown of the old wasteful gender idealisation that characterised women as helpless and dependent and men as useful and …