Concern for livestock welfare, including animals subject to the live export industry, is significantly increasing in Australia ( Buddle et al. 2018 ; Coleman et al. 2015 ; RSPCA 2018b ). In October 2018, legislation to ban live sheep exports
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Indigenous Australia
Enduring Civilisation—A Personal Reflection
Howard Morphy
Over the past few years I have been fortunate to be part of a team of people working on an exhibition at the British Museum. The curator of the exhibition is Gaye Sculthorpe, Curator of Oceania at the Museum. Lissant Bolton, Keeper of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, came up with the exhibition title, Indigenous Australia: enduring civilisation. The word civilization had been part of our discussions all along and her wording resolved any doubt we might have had. Civilization came to mind because it was the British Museum, because of Ancient Greece and Rome, because of Oriental Civilization, because of Kenneth Clarke, and in my case because of the title of the book A Black Civilization by the anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner.
From India to Australia and Back Again
An Alternative Genealogy of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Sondra L. Hausner
from Baldwin Spencer and Francis Gillen's ethnographic texts about Australian tribes. Many students rightly dispute Durkheim's armchair methods; both sociology and anthropology as disciplines would soon graduate to extensive field study as unparalleled
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- Research Article
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- 128–144 (17 total)
Hannah Swee
In Far North Queensland (FNQ), a region in the northeast of Australia, cyclones occur annually as a season of weather. As a result of this frequency of cyclonic activity, the majority of the people who inhabit this region have experienced a cyclone
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- Research Article
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- 8–26 (19 total)
Investigating Australians' Trust
Findings from a National Survey
Samantha B. Meyer, Tini C. N. Luong, Paul R. Ward, George Tsourtos, and Tiffany K. Gill
Trust has been identified as an indicator within Social Quality theory. As an important component of social quality, trust has become increasingly important in modern society because literature suggests that trust in a number of democratic countries is declining. Modern technologies and specialties are often beyond the understanding of lay individuals and thus, the need for trusting relations between lay individuals and organizations/individuals has grown. The purpose of the study was to examine the extent to which Australians (dis)trust individuals and organizations/institutions. A national postal survey was conducted with 1,044 respondents recruited using the electronic white pages directory. Findings from multivariate analyses suggest that income, age, sex, and health status are associated with trust in groups of individuals and trust in organizations/institutions. The findings highlight populations where trust needs to be (re)built. Future government policy and practice should utilize these findings as a means of facilitating social quality.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2012
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- Research Article
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- 3–23 (21 total)
Constructing Aboriginal Australians, 1930-1960
Projecting False Memories
Keith Crawford
This article offers a critical exploration of social studies textbooks and allied curriculum materials used in New South Wales primary schools between 1930 and 1960, and of the way in which these texts positioned, discussed, and assessed Aboriginal Australians. With reference to European commitments to Enlightenment philosophies and social Darwinian views of race and culture, the author argues that Aboriginal peoples were essentialized via a discourse of paternalism and cultural and biological inferiority. Thus othered in narratives of Australian identity and national progress, Aboriginal Australians were ascribed a role as marginalized spectators or as a primitive and disappearing anachronism.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2013
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- Research Article
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- 90–107 (18 total)
A Journey to Australia
Travel, Media, and the Politics of Representation
Helen Bones
In November 2013 an international symposium was held at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney, Australia called “Travel and the Media” (co-hosted by the National Film and Sound Archive and the Centre for Media History at Macquarie University and
Raymond Apple
For a long period Australia was a British colonial offshoot and its Jewish community followed the dictates of the Chief Rabbi of Britain, Nathan Marcus Adler, who, with his son and successor Hermann Adler, brought the German rabbinic outlook to his religious leadership. Over the decades many Australian ministers (not all were fully qualified rabbis) were German or trained in the German rabbinic style, though there was often an anti-German reaction on the part of Eastern European rabbis and laymen. Though many of the ministers were quintessentially British, they were mostly trained under German Jewish scholars at Jews' College in London and displayed the German synthesis of Jewish and Western culture. Since the Second World War Australian Jewry has changed radically both as a result of post-Holocaust immigration and because of the growing diversity of the community. There is a strong Eastern European flavour and the British chief rabbinate is no longer the community's automatic authority.
In European Judaism
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- 01 Sep 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 21–31 (10 total)
Gender Policy in Australian Schools
A Missed Opportunity?
Deborah Hartman
This paper describes the rise of boys’ education as a substantial social and educational issue in Australia in the 1990s, mapping the changes in Australian discourses on boys’ education in this period. Ideas and authors informed by the men’s movement entered the discourses about boys’ education, contributing to a wave of teacher experimentation and new ways of thinking about gender policies in schools. The author suggests that there is currently a policy impasse, and proposes a new multi-disciplinary approach bringing together academic, practitioner, policy, and public discourses on boys’ education.
The Case of Australia
Trust During Pandemic Uncertainty—A Qualitative Study of Midlife Women in South Australia
Paul R. Ward, Belinda Lunnay, Kristen Foley, Samantha B. Meyer, Jessica Thomas, Ian Olver, and Emma R. Miller
understanding the foundations of social life and indeed the social quality of daily circumstances. Our data comes from a larger study using in-depth interviews with midlife women (aged 45–64 years) in South Australia (SA). While this study was not undertaken
In The International Journal of Social Quality
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 289–308 (20 total)