Browsing by Subject "Australia."

Alice in WWOOFerLand: exploring symbiotic worlds beyond tourism

Deville, Adrian Mark (2011)

Willing Workers on Organic Farms’ (WWOOFing) emerged in the UK in the early 1970s as a means of supporting the organic farming movement and fostering knowledge about its practices, but since that time has steadily become ...

Australian Citizenship: a genealogy tracing the descent of discourse 1946 - 2007.

Briggs, Justin (2009)

This thesis is a genealogy which traces changes to the discourse of Australian citizenship. These changes were traced in the Australia Day (i.e., January 26) and January 27 editions of The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and ...

Can codes of ethics really produce consistent behaviour?

Farrell Brian; Cobbin Deirdre; Farrell Helen (Emerald Group Publishing, 2001)

The paper investigates the effectiveness of codes of ethics to influence the behaviour of employees. Vignettes are not part of the methodology as the core data come from the direct observations of behaviours reported by ...

Continuous disclosure

Russell, Mark (2011)

This thesis evaluates the operation of Continuous Disclosure Regulation (CDR) in Australia and considers whether it is effective in reducing uncertainty about the value of the firm. A feature of the CDR is that it adopts ...

Countertrade and the internationalisation of the Australian firm.

Fletcher, Richard (1996)

This thesis seeks to broaden our understanding of the nature, causes and consquences of countertrade in the context of the internationalisation of the firm. A comprehensive review and assessment of previous research is ...

The diffusion of sustainable practices within the Australian housing industry : implications for future change management

Reardon, Christopher Charles (2009)

A substantial barrier to sustainable change arises from reliance on positivist, disciplinary science and neo-classical economic theory to create the new knowledge that underpins policies intended to deliver such change. ...

Electricity industry reform in Australia : rationale, impacts, challenges

Fathollahzadeh Aghdam, Reza (2006)

The Australian electricity industry has undergone significant reform in the past decade. The industry has been functionally unbundled into competitive and monopoly segments, several segments of the industry have been ...

Evaluating human factors associated with fatigue: Implications for development of train driver vigilance system

Jap, Budi Thomas (2012)

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Everyday practices of agile software developers

Prior, Julia (2011)

The theory and practice of software engineering is largely represented in the literature by discrete rational models, methodologies, tools and techniques for producing software and for describing work processes as ...

Exploring the key elements required for midwives to develop a new model of postnatal care within an acute care setting

Passant, Lyn (2012)

Aim This research aimed to explore the key elements to improve the quality of postnatal care provided to women in a public hospital postnatal ward in Sydney and to attempt to implement a new model of postnatal ...

The extent to which unconscionability at general law, the special equity in Garcia and part IVA of the trade practices Act 1974 (CTH) are available to a debtor or guarantor when a finance provider seeks to enforce a security

O'Shea, Geoffrey Nigel (2010)

AIM AND FIELD OF RESEARCH Debtors and guarantors of loans by finance providers often endeavour to escape liability by relying on disentitling conduct on the part of their finance provider. Over the last twenty-six years, ...

Gang rape and the 'nasty migrant': a comparative Analysis of French and Australian public discourses

Grewal, Kiran Kaur (2009)

This thesis is a comparative analysis of the public discourses in France and Australia on a series of highly mediatised gang rapes. In the context of Australia, the ‘Sydney gang rapes’ attracted intense media and political ...

The graphic gift: a study of the map of Australia's visual qualities

Dilanchian, Kathryn (2011)

This thesis examines the shape of the map of Australia, and analyses how its inherent visual qualities contribute to its recognition and ubiquity as a symbol. It is argued that the effectiveness of the map of Australia ...

The Impact of institutional ownership: a study of the Australian equity market

Yeung, Danny Chun Sing (2012)

Institutional investors are now the predominant type of investor in global financial markets. Institutional investors now own more than 64% of the equity in the US stock markets (Federal Reserve Board 2011). In Australia, ...

Improving the quality and quantity of sleep for the intensive care patient

Elliott, Rosalind May (2011)

Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) frequently experience sleep disruption. Few recent sleep studies using polysomnography (PSG) conducted in ICU are available. Interventional studies to improve sleep in ICU are rare ...

International student expectations : undergraduate student voices in an Australian university

Howlett, Stephen Neil (2011)

The education of full-fee paying international students is a multi-billion dollar business in Australia. One consequence of global market growth is the entry of new and increasingly aggressive competitors in the international ...

Is case management rhetorical or reality? A survey on the use of case management in Australian residential aged care facilities

Brooke, Nicole Jane (2010)

Case management is an integrative and collaborative process of coordinating individual care through assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. The practice of case management within the residential aged care ...

Isolation and creativity: Ian Fairweather's 1952 raft journey

Allison, Dael (2012)

Scottish-born Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) is acclaimed as one of Australia?s greatest modernist artists. A recluse and wanderer, he substantially refused to engage with society and the art world. At the age of sixty he ...

Language and Power in Nonprofit/For-Profit Relationships: A Grounded Theory of Inter-sectoral Collaboration

McQueen, Meryl (University of Technology, Sydney. School of Management, 2002)

Concerns over the future of the nonprofit sector due to increasing resource pressures and an economic rationalist political climate in Australia have led to increasing public and private interest in partnerships between ...

Making better choices — an investigation of collaborative stakeholder dialogue as catalyst for consensus building and learning in the transport policy process

Baumann, Christiane (2012)

This research investigates strategies to achieve a broader focus in urban transport development that better integrates environmental, social and economic considerations. In the past, the primary objective of urban transport ...

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