This article examines cultural industries in Broken Hill - the iconic 'Silver City' of Australian mining in far western NSW¿and comes from research funded by arts and regional development agencies during 2006 and 2007. In ...

The paper takes examples from two decades of toxic risk management in Australia in order to examine the challenges that the conditions of the 'risk society' pose for the chemicals industry in this country. These issues ...

The maritime industry operates in a dynamic global environment subject to a great number of variables. In this context, the investment challenge facing shipowners is correctly to value alternate mutually exclusive ...

We argue that consistent decision making in judging a patent’s validity and basing this on its underlying technological quality are important elements of patent office service (“assessment”) quality. To understand which ...

The development of medical practices in the non-public sector in the People¿s Republic of China has undergone three major periods of reform since 1978. The first period between 1980 and 1988 saw the reappearance of private ...

The Australian government claims that its emphasis on skills in the migration program has paid off, with recent migrants achieving superior labour market outcomes to previous cohorts, and contributing more to the 'productive ...

In recent decades, the size and diversity of the minority population of contemporary western societies has increased significantly. To the critics of immigration, minority youth have been increasingly linked to crime, ...

This paper takes its title from the oil painting by George Pitt Morison held in the collection of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, called '12 August 1829. The Foundation of Perth. Mrs Dance strikes the first cut to ...

The possibility that nanotechnology will turn into an instrument to aid development or alleviate poverty has been discussed explicitly in academic circles, at meetings held by international bodies, and in non-governmental ...

This paper considers the rise across acute care settings in the industrialized world of techniques that encourage clinicians to record their experiences about adverse events they are personally involved in; that is, to ...