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Among the diverse national varieties of Postcolonial English (Schneider 2007), Australian English is an interesting example of the potential a non-dominant variety of English can have nationally and inter¬nationally. After only having... more
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      Australian StudiesEnglish languageEnglishPluricentric Languages
Aboriginal incarceration rates are much higher than the general Australian population. Moreover, indigenous women represent 34% of the total number of inmates. As if this wasn't enough, the legal and welfare systems are removing... more
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      Criminal JusticeIndigenous StudiesAustralian StudiesAustralia
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      Cultural StudiesAustralian StudiesMultidisciplinary
Australia and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology is a multi-disciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex relationship that existed, and exists, between the Great War, the British Empire, and Australia. These... more
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      Australian StudiesAustraliaGreat WarBritish Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - )
This appendix lists New Zealand plant species stocked and available in Australian nurseries, over time. Raised in a large New Zealand garden full of native trees, plant lover Stuart Read was perhaps hard-wired to notice kiwi plants in... more
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      Cultural StudiesHorticultureAustralian StudiesCultural Heritage
Dutch characteristics in culture and attitude of Dutch migrants in Victoria. Paper presented at DACA conference 1993
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      Australian StudiesMigration StudiesLinguisticsAntropología
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      EngineeringSociologyAustralian StudiesMultidisciplinary
CHAPTER•••• 14 Soccer and social capital in Australia: Social networks in transition Daniel Lock, Tracy Taylor and Simon Darcy ... For example, sporting clubs have been found to promote mas-culine aggression, tensions (Kerr, 2005) and... more
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      Australian StudiesRace and EthnicitySocial CapitalPhysical Education
As tensions mount with China and polarization widens the gap between Beijing and the four members of the Quad, the Foreign Ministers of Australia, India and Japan and the Secretary of State of the United States met in Melbourne on Friday,... more
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      Japanese StudiesAustralian StudiesMichel FoucaultChina
This paper examines the north-north migration of care workers within the industrialised world. While care migration has traditionally been conceptualised as a phenomenon of women moving from the global south to the global north, a growing... more
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      Gender StudiesAustralian StudiesMigrationInternational Migration
Everybody is born into a family. Each has its own history, therefore, 'our history' is not made by us, but by previous generations. The rise of International migration and the crumbling of family structures, however, only make it harder... more
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      Asian StudiesSelf and IdentitySocial NetworksFamily studies
The UN and Australian government organised a vote, by which, in 1984, Cocos Malays chose to become Australians.
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      Southeast Asian StudiesAustralian StudiesAustraliaSoutheast Asia
Special issue of Hecate: Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation
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      Gender StudiesFeminist TheoryAustralian StudiesAustralian society
The price penalty for genetically modified (GM)canola (compared to non-GM canola) is 7.2% based on the past five years of price data from two receival depots (Albany and Kwinana) in Western Australia. The average annual price penalty for... more
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      MarketingGeneticsQuality ManagementAustralian Studies
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      Social PolicyAustralian StudiesIndonesiaDecolonialization
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      Australian StudiesAustraliaPakistanPakistan Studies
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      Australian StudiesMultidisciplinary
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      Australian StudiesAnimal StudiesCritical Animal StudiesEnvironmental Humanities
Ascolta Women is a collective of creative multi-generation Italian Australian, and Italian affiliated, women. They formed from the forum ASCOLTA! Listening to unheard stories: Italian Australian Multi-generation Women? s Experiences and... more
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      Australian StudiesItalian StudiesItalian LiteratureWomen and Culture
While nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public museums have been implicated in the nation-state’s inculcating agenda, debate exists as to whether the contemporary museum persists in such a role. Using the Museum of Sydney as a case... more
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      Australian StudiesNational IdentityMultidisciplinaryCase Study
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      Australian StudiesAustralian societyAustralian LiteratureBeaches
In: ›And there'll be NO dancing‹. Perspectives on Policies Impacting Indigenous Australia since 2007, ed. by Elisabeth Bähr, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishing 2017.
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      Intellectual HistoryCultural HistoryCultural StudiesArt History
The Shakespeare Tercentenary Memorial Fund was established in Sydney in 1912, with the intention of raising money to erect a local memorial to Shakespeare on the three hundredth anniversary of his death. The fundraising events became in... more
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In this surprising and revelatory history of the Bible in Australia, Meredith Lake gets under the skin of a text that’s been read, wrestled with, preached and tattooed, and believed to be everything from a resented imposition to the very... more
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      Australian StudiesHistory of ChristianityReligion and PoliticsReligion and Colonialism
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      American PoliticsComparative PoliticsAustralian StudiesPolitical Science
The nature of historical knowledge is complex, involving oral history, archaeology and (less often than is generally supposed) wri en documents, many of which begin with some sort of oral telling. Here we outline the historical knowledge... more
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      HistoryAustralian StudiesOral historyFrontier Studies
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      SociologyPublishingAustralian StudiesSociology of Food and Eating
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      SociologyAustralian StudiesMultidisciplinary
Este artigo oferece uma visão panorâmica da evolução das políticas de prevenção primária, secundária e terciária no Brasil relacionadas à prevenção da violência baseada no gênero contra as mulheres e meninas, trazendo insumos de uma visão... more
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      Australian StudiesBrazilian StudiesPolíticas PúblicasViolencia De Género
In 1932, the respected anthropologist Raymond Firth wrote that the Aboriginal Australian manifested a strange trait, one unlike their indigenous counterparts elsewhere in the colonised Pacific. The Indigenous person, Firth said, ‘mutely... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural HistoryCultural StudiesIndigenous Studies
While the stereotype of Australian culture is one of relentless secularism, this essay examines the persistence of visions of the sacred in literary writing. From Makarand Paranjape ed. Sacred Australia Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan,... more
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      ReligionAustralian StudiesPostcolonial StudiesSecularisms and Secularities
This work engages in a Critical Discourse Analysis of the legitimatory discourse of the governing Australian Labor Party in relation to the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory policy 2012. The policy effectively prolonged central... more
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      Indigenous or Aboriginal StudiesAustralian StudiesSocial ActivismCritical Discourse Analysis
... Journal of Australian Studies. Issue 77 (2003). I Knit Water [Book Review]. Bond, Sue (Reviewed by). Full Text PDF (85kb). To cite this article: Bond, Sue. ... [cited 20 Oct 10]. Personal Author: Bond, Sue. Source: Journal of... more
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      Computer SciencePublishingAustralian StudiesAcademic research
Chinatown, as a distinctive urban space, exists in almost all major cities in Western countries. As a richly storied place, Chinatown has been the focus of successive generations of social science ...
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      Cultural StudiesGeographyHuman GeographyCultural Geography
This paper proposes the enactment of an ex gratia compensation scheme for loss of Indigenous languages in Australia. Although some Australian states have enacted ex gratia compensation schemes for the victims of the Stolen Generation... more
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      SociologyPolitical SociologyLawCriminal Law
"Women have had a long history of participation in modern sporting activities though they have faced countless barriers to sporting competition, particularly in ‘contact’ sports. As we move into the twenty-first century, many more doors... more
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      Sociology of SportGender StudiesWomen's StudiesAustralian Studies
In a time when a white labour-force was lacking and fear for the survival of the white man in Tropical Australia was widespread, when a cultural and economic hegemony in the Tropical North was still to be achieved, and slavery in the... more
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      Australian StudiesCritical Race TheoryIndentured Labour
In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women since the 1970s, including growing awareness and action... more
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      Gender StudiesWomen's StudiesWomen's HistoryAustralian Studies
This article uses a newly developed theoretical concept – the 'uncommodified blackness' image, to accentuate the discursive methods in which the humanness of Africans is denied in subtle and commonplace ways in Australia. In other words,... more
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesAfrican StudiesMulticulturalismAustralian Studies
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      Indigenous StudiesAustralian StudiesPostcolonial Studies
Editors: Cristina Rocha, Mark P. Hutchinson and Kathleen Openshaw In Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements: Arguments from the Margins, Rocha, Hutchinson and Openshaw argue that Australia has made and still makes important... more
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      ReligionChristianitySociology of ReligionGlobalization
The Dalgaranga meteorite crater, 100 km northeast of Yalgoo, Western Australia, was the first impact structure identified in Australia, the smallest isolated crater found in Australia, and the only confirmed crater in the world associated... more
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      HistoryEarth SciencesGeologyGeophysics
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      Gender StudiesAustralian StudiesIndigenous FilmAustralian Indigenous Studies
The removal of Aboriginal children from their parents has been a policy in all states at different times. In Australia, the argument of the Aborigines Protection Board rested on the supposed ‘idleness and immorality’ of the Aborigines... more
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      Australian StudiesThe Stolen Generations
The Lebanese Rugby League was formed in 1997 in Sydney when a team comprised of Australian-based players of Lebanese descent participated in an international tournament. The Lebanese national team later qualified for two rugby league... more
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      Australian StudiesDiasporasSports HistoryAustralia
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      Information TechnologyAustralian StudiesMultidisciplinaryTechnological change
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      Historical LinguisticsAustralian StudiesOnomasticsLinguistics