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The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature

The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature

This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field. It unprecedentedly showcases a wide variety of the latest research at the intersection of Australian literary studies and cognitive literary studies in a single volume. It takes Australian fiction on the leading edge by paving the way for a new direction in Australian literary criticism. | The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature

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Being Australian Narratives of national identity

Being Australian Narratives of national identity

After a century of speculation by writers filmmakers travelers and scholars being Australian' has become a recognisable shorthand for a group of national characteristics. Now in an era of international terrorism being seen as un-Australian' has become a potent rhetorical weapon for some and a badge of honour for others. Catriona Elder explores the origins meaning and effects of the many stories we tell about ourselves and how they have changed over time. She outlines some of the traditional stories and their role in Australian nationalism and she shows how concepts of egalitarianism peaceful settlement and sporting prowess have been used to create a national identity. Elder also investigates the cultural and social perspectives that have been used to critique dominant accounts of Australian identity including ideas of class gender sexuality ethnicity and race. She shows how these critiques have been in turn queried in recent years. Being Australian is an ideal introduction to studying Australia for anyone interested in understanding Australian society culture and history. | Being Australian Narratives of national identity

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The Present in Linguistic Expressions of Temporality Case Studies from Australian English and Indigenous Australian Languages

The Present in Linguistic Expressions of Temporality Case Studies from Australian English and Indigenous Australian Languages

This book offers a comprehensive examination of Present Time Expressions (PTEs) illustrating how a more informed understanding of their semantic and pragmatic representations can offer unique insights into the temporal systems of languages. The volume takes as its point of departure the notion that tenses aspectual viewpoint markers and temporal expressions have a semantic meaning which is further pragmatically enriched and manipulated in use by speakers. Building on this foundation the book introduces current theories on the linguistic expression of temporality toward better highlighting the need for further understanding of PTEs encompassing tenses of the present and words such as ‘now. ’ The volume draws on data from Australian English and Indigenous Australian languages to support its goal of arriving at a theory of the flexibility of uses of PTEs and their centrality in language and highlight the implications for future research on pragmatic and semantic change. This book will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers in semantics pragmatics discourse analysis and philosophy of language as well as those interested in research on Indigenous Australian Languages and Australian English. | The Present in Linguistic Expressions of Temporality Case Studies from Australian English and Indigenous Australian Languages

GBP 130.00
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The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

In recent years Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas heightened through television and film adaptation as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan and the development of new high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with produces and is produced by its context provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures cultures and histories and the social function of literary texts. | The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

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National Fictions Literature film and the construction of Australian narrative

National Fictions Literature film and the construction of Australian narrative

National Fictions is a study of Australian literature and film. It is also a study of Australian culture viewing the novels and films as products of a specific culture - as narratives with similar structures functions forms and meanings. It covers a wide range of texts offering both close analysis and an account of their place within the system of meanings the book proposes as dominant in Australian culture. The second edition of this influential work includes a new Afterword which traces recent changes in Australian literature and film examining the growth of women's writing and popular fiction as well as current trends in Australian cinema. Turner asks whether these developments really mark a shift in the Australian narrative and whether it is still possible to speak in terms of a national culture. '. a ground-clearing book. a seminal work setting an agenda for cultural studies beyond the stockyards and croquet lawns of literary criticism. ' - David Carter Australian Literary Studies'As a global syncretist Turner is without peer. ' - Stuart Cunningham Media Information Australia | National Fictions Literature film and the construction of Australian narrative

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Global Percussion Innovations The Australian Perspective

Global Percussion Innovations The Australian Perspective

First emerging in North America and Europe in the late 1920s contemporary percussion practices have transitioned from the fringes of contemporary music to the forefront over the past 90 years. In the 1960s contemporary percussion practices reached Australian shores and a new generation of artists added their voices to this narrative. The role of Australian activity is not yet embedded in the wider narrative of international contemporary percussion nor is the significance of developments in contemporary percussion practices fully realised in the context of Australian music history. In this monograph political social and cultural influences on this art form will be examined for the first time in a historical survey of contemporary percussion music in Australia over a 50-year period from 1960 to 2010. The rise of the percussion ensemble in the twentieth century to a standard chamber music ensemble is now recognised as one of the major advances in western art music practice internationally. A focus will be placed on ensemble activity via definitive documentation and analysis of ensembles that are amongst the most pioneering and longest established of Australian contemporary music organisations including the Australian Percussion Ensemble Synergy Percussion Adelaide Percussions Nova Ensemble Tetrafide Percussion Taikoz Clocked Out and Speak Percussion amongst others. Closing with a discussion of influences and identity this historical narrative will expand our understanding of the impact of Australian contributions to the international contemporary music scene while simultaneously examining how developments in contemporary percussion have contributed to Australia’s cultural identity. | Global Percussion Innovations The Australian Perspective

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The Migrant Presence Australian Responses 1947-1977

The Migrant Presence Australian Responses 1947-1977

This classic work in Australian sociology examines the way in which Australian institutions have responded to the influx of migrants of non-Anglo-Saxon origin. Until the end of the sixties the typical Australian reaction was that these migrants could be and were being assimilated into the mainstream of British-Australian society and culture. At the end of the sixties both the assimilationist philosophy and the claim of successful and effortless absorption came into question and migrants of non-English speaking background began to be defined as problems. Now in a third phase migrants themselves are rejecting the notion that they are above all problems or people with problems. Instead they are asserting their rights and dignity as legitimate minorities in an ethnically plural society. The author goes on to trace in detail the response of the institutions of education health and the trade unions to 'the migrant presence'. 'Well written well presented well documented and challenging. ' - C. A. Price The National Times'Well written sympathetic to the point of anger and should be included in any course on Australian society or public policy. an invaluable contribution. ' - James Jupp Politics | The Migrant Presence Australian Responses 1947-1977

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Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness

Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness

This unique book on neurocognitive interpretations of Australian literature covers a wide range of analyses by discussing Australian Literary Studies Aboriginal literary texts women writers ethnic writing bestsellers neurodivergence fiction emerging as well as high- profile writers literary hoaxes and controversies book culture and LGBTIQA+ authors to name a few. It eclectically brings together a wide gamut of cognitive concepts and literary genres at the intersection of Australian literary studies and cognitive literary studies in the first single-author volume of its kind. It takes Australian Literary Studies into the age of neuroawareness and provides new pathways in contemporary criticism. | Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness

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Myths of Oz Reading Australian Popular Culture

Myths of Oz Reading Australian Popular Culture

This book first published in 1987 sets out to examine and extend our understanding of Australian popular culture and to counter the long-established traditional criticism bewailing its lack. The authors argue that the 'knocker's' view started from an elitist viewpoint yearning for Australia to aspire to a European culture in art music literature and other traditional cultural fields. They argue however that there are other definitions of culture that are more populist more comprehensive and which represent a vitality and dynamism which is a true reflection of the lives and aspirations of Australians. Myths of Oz offers no comprehensive definition of Australian culture but rather a way of interpreting its various aspects. The barbeque or the pub an expedition to the shops or a day at the beach the home the workplace or the job queue; all these intrinsic parts of Australian life are examined and conclusions drawn as to how they shape or are shaped by what we call popular culture. The authors look too at monuments and symbols from Ayers Rock to the Sydney Opera House which both shape and reflect Australian culture while a chapter on the Australian accent shows how language and terminology play a powerful role in establishing cultural standpoints. A particular strength of this book is that while delivering a provocative and stimulating series of viewpoints on popular culture it also makes use of current academic tools and methodology to ensure that we gain new insights into the meanings and pleasures we derive from our everyday experiences. | Myths of Oz Reading Australian Popular Culture

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Indigenous Research into Mainstream Australian Culture Shifting the Lens

Indigenous Research into Mainstream Australian Culture Shifting the Lens

Informed by original ground-breaking research this book “shifts the lens” of study identifying how Indigenous Australian values and principles have influenced and contributed to an evolving non-Indigenous mainstream Australian culture. Based on the Indigenous principle of respect Muller presents a solid research framework to break down the barriers of social differences in a culturally safe space. The text offers an insight into the cultural aspects of modern Australian society that contributed to its globally acclaimed handling of the current coronavirus pandemic. During the preparation for dealing with the pandemic Muller’s research was validated as the world witnessed the Australian culture undergoing major change shifting away from the original colonialist culture based on individuality and social stratification to a community collective-based culture. It will be a valuable read for scholars in the area of community and allied health humanities social policy social sciences and political studies. People seeking alternative lifestyles a decolonised future and social change will also find this book useful. | Indigenous Research into Mainstream Australian Culture Shifting the Lens

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Global Heating and the Australian Far Right

Global Heating and the Australian Far Right

Global Heating and the Australian Far Right examines the environmental politics of far-right actors and movements in Australia exploring their broader political context and responses to climate change. The book traces the development of far-right pseudo-environmentalism and territorial politics from colonial genocide and Australian nationalism to extreme-right political violence. Through a critical analysis of news and social media it reveals how denialist and resignatory attitudes towards climate change operate alongside extreme right accelerationism in a wider Australian political context characterised by reactionary fossil fuel politics and neoliberal New Right climate change agendas. The authors scrutinise the manipulation of environmental politics by contemporary Australian far- and extreme-right actors in cross-national online media. They also assess the political-ideological context of the contemporary far right addressing intergovernmental approaches to security threats connected to the far right and climate change and the emergence of radical environmentalist traditions in ‘New Catastrophism’ literature. The conclusion synthesises key insights analysing the mainstreaming of ethnonationalist and authoritarian responses to global heating and potential future trajectories of far-right movements exploiting the climate crisis. It also emphasises the necessity for radical political alternatives to counter the far right’s exploitation of climate change. This book will be of interest to researchers of climate change the far right neoliberal capitalism extremism and Australian politics.

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Australian Native Plants Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries

Australian Native Plants Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries

Australian Native Plants: Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries provides a comprehensive overview of native food crops commercially grown in Australia that possess nutritional and health properties largely unknown on a global basis. These native foods have been consumed traditionally have a unique flavor diversity offer significant health promoting effects and contain useful functional properties. Australian native plant foods have also been identified for their promising antioxidant and antimicrobial properties that have considerable commercial potential. This book is divided into three parts: The first part reviews the cultivation and production of many Australian native plants (ANP) including Anise Myrtle Bush Tomato Desert Raisin Davidson’s Plum Desert Limes Australian Finger Lime Kakadu Plum Lemon Aspen Lemon Myrtle Muntries Native Pepper Quandong Riberry and Wattle Seed. It then examines the food and health applications of ANP and discusses alternative medicines based on aboriginal traditional knowledge and culture nutritional characteristics and bioactive compounds in ANP. In addition it reviews the anti-obesity and anti-inflammatory properties of ANP and discusses food preservation antimicrobial activity of ANP and unique flavors from Australian native plants. The third section covers the commercial applications of ANP. It focuses on native Australian plant extracts and cosmetic applications processing of native plant foods and ingredients quality changes during packaging and storage of Australian native herbs. The final few chapters look into the importance of value chains that connect producers and consumers of native plant foods new market opportunities for Australian indigenous food plants and the safety of using native foods as ingredients in the health and food sectors. | Australian Native Plants Cultivation and Uses in the Health and Food Industries

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Australian Overseas Aid

Australian Overseas Aid

Originally published in 1986 this book evaluated the review of the Australian Overseas Aid Program (the 1984 Jackson Report) and discusses the significance of Australia’s contribution to overseas aid for the future. The book focusses on the overall context of the Jackson report; discusses the geographical distribution of aid proposed by the report and examines aid administration in its more specific bureaucratic context and with broader questions of community participation in developmental processes.

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School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support The Australian Handbook

School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support The Australian Handbook

Drawing upon twenty years of experience putting the Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) framework into practice this is the first definitive handbook to document the ways in which Australian schools have embraced and applied school-wide PBS and to provide guidance on implementation. Written by key Australian researchers and implementers with extensive expertise School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support: The Australian Handbook is an important contribution to the work of school leaders and teachers. This book illustrates the significant contribution of PBS to improving schools and the potential for its systems approach to be expanded across education systems. The book’s structure corresponds to the theme of a continuum of supports addressing the key conceptual foundations of PBS and its representation within school-wide implementation. Each chapter comprises a mix of research practical case studies and examples and features learning intentions keywords further reading advice on applying your ideas and links to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. PBS has gained significant attention in Australia over the past two decades and its principles now underpin many successful systems and practices in schools and community and disability services. This book will be a foundational resource for implementers and coaches of PBS educational leaders and policy advisors pre- and in-service teachers as well as researchers. | School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support The Australian Handbook

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Routledge Revivals: Understanding Interaction in Central Australia (1985) An Ethnomethodological Study of Australian Aboriginal People

Routledge Revivals: Understanding Interaction in Central Australia (1985) An Ethnomethodological Study of Australian Aboriginal People

First published in 1985 this book gives an intimate account of the cultural-political conflict between Australian Aboriginal people and Anglo-Australians presenting the Australian social world from the perspective of the Aboriginal person. Adopting a rigorous ethnomethodological analysis and the techniques of ethnolinguistics Liberman looks at the interactional detail of the everyday life of traditionally oriented Australian Aboriginals. He uses tape transcripts of actual interaction to identify chief characteristics of Aboriginal social life. Liberman goes on to show how differences in systems of interaction have influenced relations between Australian Aboriginals and Anglo-Australians. With its account of the politics of cultural conflict in a multi-cultural environment this book is an apt extension of ethnomethodological issues to political concerns. It also exposes Aboriginal perceptions of Anglo-Australian/Aboriginal interaction to a degree not previously achieved in any sociological or anthropological study. As such this book will be a valuable case study to students of social anthropology race relations intercultural communication and sociolinguistics. | Routledge Revivals: Understanding Interaction in Central Australia (1985) An Ethnomethodological Study of Australian Aboriginal People

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Intersectional Lives Chinese Australian Women in White Australia

Intersectional Lives Chinese Australian Women in White Australia

Intersectional Lives explores the varied experiences of Chinese Australian females across time and place during the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973). Chinese Australian women’s personal reflections are examined alongside postcolonial feminist readings of official records to illustrate how their everyday lives were influenced by multiple and fluid identities and subject positions including migrant mother daughter wife student worker entrepreneur and cultural custodian. This book provides new ways to conceptualise Chinese females in the diaspora as gendered classed culturally varied and racialised individuals with multiple forms of oppression agency and mobility. It offers a revision of patriarchal understandings of Chinese Australian history and broader understandings of overseas Chinese migrations and settlement experiences. It also demonstrates how historical geography informed by postcolonial feminist approaches can facilitate more nuanced understandings of past (and present) times and places that include women’s diverse experiences at the domestic local national and international scale. This book will appeal to social and cultural geographers with additional audiences of interest in history and historical geography ethnic and racial studies gender studies diaspora studies migration studies and gender and feminist studies. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Intersectional Lives Chinese Australian Women in White Australia

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Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature Unsettling the Anthropocene

Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature Unsettling the Anthropocene

This book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact of British colonial rule yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of ‘cosmos’—the order of the world—to foreground ideas of a good order and chaos reciprocity and more-than-human agency this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia focusing on notions of colonisation farming mining bioethics technology environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers ‘cosmological readings’ of a diverse range of authors—Indigenous and non-Indigenous—as a challenge to the Anthropocene’s decline-narrative. As a result it reactivates ‘cosmos’ as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts can help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the planet and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Ecocriticism Environmental Humanities and postcolonial transcultural and Indigenous studies with a primary focus on Australian New Zealand Oceanic and Pacific area studies. | Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature Unsettling the Anthropocene

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Australian Women's Justice Settler Colonisation and the Queensland Vote

Australian Women's Justice Settler Colonisation and the Queensland Vote

This book explores how women spearheaded the democratic suffrage campaign in colonial Queensland engaging with international debates on women’s activism leadership advocacy print culture and social movements. Australian Women's Justice provides a nuanced reading of the diversity and differences of the women’s movement in Queensland from the time of first white colonisation federation to World War 1 by new research on key women’s organisations: notably the Women’s Equal Franchise Association and the Women’s Peace Army. Framed through the lives of women suffrage participants including their encounters with First Nations women it also looks beyond microhistory to explore broader themes of the intersection of race gender property war and empire in the colonial context. Campaigns for enfranchisement and property rights and against conscription connect this story with larger international movements for women and labour and organisations such as the League of Nations. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of Australian feminism and suffragism as well as historians of feminist labour and peace movements both in Australia and internationally. | Australian Women's Justice Settler Colonisation and the Queensland Vote

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Youth Cultures and Subcultures Australian Perspectives

Youth Cultures and Subcultures Australian Perspectives

This volume critically examines ’subculture’ in a variety of Australian contexts exploring the ways in which the terrain of youth cultures and subcultures has changed over the past two decades and considering whether ’subculture’ still works as a viable conceptual framework for studying youth culture. Richly illustrated with concrete case studies the book is thematically organised into four sections addressing i) theoretical concerns and global debates over the continued usefulness of subculture as a concept; ii) the important place of ’belonging’ in subcultural experience and the ways in which belonging is played out across an array of youth cultures; iii) the gendered experiences of young men and women and their ways of navigating subcultural participation; and iv) the ethical and methodological considerations that arise in relation to researching and teaching youth culture and subculture. Bringing together the latest interdisciplinary research to combine theoretical considerations with recent empirical studies of subcultural experience Youth Cultures and Subcultures will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences. | Youth Cultures and Subcultures Australian Perspectives

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Digital Dawn in Adland Transforming Australian Agencies

Digital Dawn in Adland Transforming Australian Agencies

Drawing on a unique study of Australian advertising agencies at the dawn of the digital era this book provides a hitherto unexplored study of the advertising industry at a point of its disruption. By exploring the dynamic interaction between this established but complacent industry and a radically new communication medium this book reveals how advertising agencies were forced to change fundamentally yet as an industry helped shape the digital economy and the platforms that dominate it. Based on contemporary reports company archives personal archives and over 50 interviews with past and current advertising practitioners across the range of agency departments this unique historical narrative reveals how power shifts between agencies advertisers and other media platforms forged the current models of advertiser-funded digital media. For scholars of marketing media communication and contemporary history this is an illuminating perspective on the early impact of the digital revolution and its relevance to the media landscape today. | Digital Dawn in Adland Transforming Australian Agencies

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The Making and Breaking of the Australian Family

The Making and Breaking of the Australian Family

Once everyone knew what the family was. It was something natural and without a history - mum dad and the kids. Divorce women in the workforce de facto relationships and the sexual liberation movements have fractured the old certainties. Nowadays there is more talk about the family than ever even if no-one is quite sure what it is anymore. The making and breaking of the Australian family looks at the family in history. It traces the shift from the household economy of the late nineteenth century to the child-centred nuclear family of the mid-twentieth century to the recent proliferation of households. The book argues that the so-called traditional family was a quite recent creation and that its fragmentation is obscured by new redefinitions of the family. The making and breaking of the Australian family addresses the changing experiences of childhood parenting home neighbourhood work birth and sexuality. It examines the expansion of the market and the state patterns of class mobilisation the reconstruction of masculinity and femininity and the creative strategies of ordinary people in everyday life. This is a lively and accessible book which will prove a valuable reference for students of history sociology women's studies and Australian studies and will generate wide discussion amongst people concerned with family policy welfare and contemporary social issues.

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Reorienting a Nation: Consultants and Australian Public Policy

Reorienting a Nation: Consultants and Australian Public Policy

First published in 1998 this volume examines how in the 1980s Australian governments experienced dramatic change in the policy-making environment. The use of consultants by successive Hawke Labour governments in the mid-to-late 1980s to facilitate reviews of public policy was a strategy important to dealing with the complexity of these issues. This book shows how the use of policy consultants complements traditional policy-making processes and the management of public policy change by government. In the 1980s Australian governments experienced dramatic and often unprecedented change in policy-making environment. Moves towards market-orientated 'small' government in a context of worlds economic liberalisation created new and challenging issues for national governments. The use of consultants by successive Hawke Labour governments in the mid-to-late 1980s to facilitate reviews of public policy was a strategy important to dealing with the complexity of these issues. Using insights from a range of public policy literatures the research investigated the hypothesis that the use of consultants to review important policy areas could be an effective strategy for devising major new directions needed in a context of economic turbulence. In this situation the book suggests use of policy consultants complements traditional policy-making processes and the management of public policy change by government. | Reorienting a Nation: Consultants and Australian Public Policy

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Reason Religion and the Australian Polity A Secular State?

Reason Religion and the Australian Polity A Secular State?

How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions? This is the most comprehensive study to date on the relationship between religion and the state in Australian history focusing on the meaning of political secularity in a society that was from the beginning marked by a high degree of religious plurality. This book tracks the rise and fall of the established Church of England the transition to plural establishments the struggle for a public Christian-secular education system and the eventual separation of church and state throughout the colonies. The study is unique in that it does not restrict its concern with religion to the churches but also examines how religious concepts and ideals infused apparently secular political and social thought and movements making the case that much Australian thought and institution building has had a sacral-secular quality. Social welfare reform nationalism and emerging conceptions of citizenship and civilization were heavily influenced by religious ideals rendering problematic traditional linear narratives of secularisation as the decline of religion. Finally the book considers present day pluralist Australia and new understandings of state secularity in light of massive social changes over recent generations. | Reason Religion and the Australian Polity A Secular State?

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The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film Jung Story and Playing Beneath the Past

The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film Jung Story and Playing Beneath the Past

The mythologising of lost and abandoned children significantly influences Australian storytelling. In The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film Terrie Waddell looks at the concept of the ‘lost child’ from a psychological and cultural perspective. Taking an interdisciplinary Jungian approach she re-evaluates this cyclic storytelling motif in history literature and the creative arts as the nucleus of a cultural complex – a group obsession that as Jung argued of all complexes has us. Waddell explores ‘the lost child’ in its many manifestations as an element of the individual and collective psyche historically related to the trauma of colonisation and war and as key theme in Australian cinema from the industry’s formative years to the present day. The films discussed in textual depth transcend literal lost in the bush mythologies or actual cases of displaced children to focus on vulnerable children rendered lost through government and institutional practices and adult/parental characters developmentally arrested by comforting or traumatic childhood memories. The victory/winning fixation governing the USA – diametrically opposed to the lost child motif – is also discussed as a comparative example of the mesmerising nature of the cultural complex. Examining iconic characters and events such as the Gallipoli Campaign and Trump’s presidency and films such as The Babadook Lion and Predestination this book scrutinises the way in which a culture talks to itself about itself. This analysis looks beyond the melancholy traditionally ascribed to the lost child by arguing that the repetitive and prolific imagery that this theme stimulates can be positive and inspiring. The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film is a unique and compelling work which will be highly relevant for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas cultural studies screen and media studies. It will also appeal to Jungian psychotherapists and analytical psychologists as well as readers with a broader interest in Australian history and politics. | The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film Jung Story and Playing Beneath the Past

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Law in Australian Society An introduction to principles and process

Law in Australian Society An introduction to principles and process

What is 'the rule of law'? How do laws get made? Does our legal and political system achieve justice for all Australians equally?Designed for beginners as well as non-law students this text provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding Australia's system of law and government. Dr Keiran Hardy describes how legislation is made the nature of case law the hierarchy of courts and the doctrine of precedent. He looks at the role played by politics and the media in shaping law and he describes founding principles including democracy liberalism the separation of powers and federalism. The criminal justice system is explained including criminal offences police powers sentencing and punishment and there is a special emphasis on Indigenous peoples and the law. The book concludes with case studies of cybercrime and counterterrorism legislation to illustrate law reform in action. Each chapter features practical examples chapter summaries and review questions together with a glossary of key terms. Concise accessible and up-to-the-minute this is a vital guide for anyone seeking to understand the complexity of Australian law and government. 'This is an excellent book for a wide audience . equally useful for law students legal studies students in high school and anyone seeking an understanding of how and why the law is as it is. And how things might be improved. ' - Nicholas Cowdery AM QC former Director of Public Prosecutions NSW'A wonderful text . The overall structure and the inclusion of comprehension questions glossaries and a curated reference list ensure that students can build on their understanding over the course of the book. ' - Jackie Charles Rule of Law Institute of Australia'This introduction to Australian law is comprehensive contemporary and accessible. It is a perfect primer for new students requiring a broad understanding of Australia's legal system. From cybercrime to the workings of Australia's parliament this book has it all. ' - George Williams AO Dean Anthony Mason Professor Scientia Professor University of New South Wales'Law in Australian Society' is an ideal text for first year students in criminology legal studies policing and related fields. Its easy-to-read format aids students in understanding the complexities and subtleties of the Australian legal system. ' - Emma Colvin Centre for Law and Justice Charles Sturt University | Law in Australian Society An introduction to principles and process

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