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 ...
Clerke Christeena; Lee Alison(Quality in Postgraduate Research, 2008)
The doctoral research portfolio has come to be considered a viable form of doctoral output in a graduate education field that has experienced spectacular growth and diversification since the early 1990s. It is often argued ...
The word 'makeover' is dotted through popular culture and is applied to a range of activities including home renovation, gardening, urban renewal and business invigoration. Makeover culture is part of a sociocultural ...
This article presents a qualitative study of men who do traditionally female dominated and feminized work (specifically nursing and primary school teaching). Men are often seen as not only a minority to women in these ...
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 ...
Bendall Helen; Stent Alan F(Triangle Journals, 2002)
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 ...
Introduction:
Telecommunication infrastructure is being rolled out across Australia with little
knowledge about the uptake by health professionals in remote areas. Computer
mediated communication has the potential to ...
Wanganeen Rosemary; Day Andrew; Howells Kevin; Davey Linda; De Santolo Jason; Nakata Nicholas(Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 2002)
The problem of overrepresentation of Indigenous offenders in Australian prisons
highlights the need for effective tertiary intervention programs within correctional settings
as a way of reducing Indigenous reincarceration. ...
The policy of national reconciliation between Indigenous and non Indigenous peoples has been on the social and
political agenda for decades, yet progress on this issue of Australian’s ‘unfinished business’, seems to have ...
King Madeleine; Kenny Patsy; Marks Guy(Springer, 2009)
Purpose To further our understanding of the relationships between asthma control and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and provide insights into the relative usefulness of various measures in different research ...
In most countries (Australia is an exception) the term `civil society¿ is widely used by social researchers, activists and government officials. However its analytical value is limited by its great variety of meanings. The ...
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 ...
A study of natural radionuclides in zooplankton collected during 1990-1992 from the low productivity waters of French Polynesia has demonstrated the presence of enhanced uptake of Po-210 by zooplankton when zooplankton ...
Yang Jingqing(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2008)
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 ...
Unger Jonathan; Chan Anita(Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2007)
A very large number of Chinese workers are caught today in circumstances similar to those faced by the workers in rust belt cities interviewed by Ching Kwan Lee for chapter 7 in this volume. Such workers have grievances ...