https://hdl.handle.net/2123/2225 2026-06-04T18:13:30Z 2026-06-04T18:13:30Z Nip, Joyce Y. M. Su, Ting https://hdl.handle.net/2123/35355 2026-05-25T04:33:08Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

News Practices in Deep Media Convergence in China Nip, Joyce Y. M.; Su, Ting This chapter examines China’s state-led push for media convergence as a response to both the commercial pressures facing legacy media and the political challenges created by digital communication. It argues that convergence is not simply a technological or industrial reform, but part of a broader restructuring of the news sector around integrated digital platforms that combine information, services, and governance functions. Drawing on two cases, the chapter shows how this process blurs the boundary between journalism and other sectors, while reshaping market-oriented media’s relationship with the Party-state. One major consequence is the further weakening of critical journalism, as commercially oriented news organizations increasingly depend on collaboration with official institutions and state-aligned service provision.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Nip, Joyce Y. M. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/35341 2026-05-22T03:54:08Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

From mainstream to the margins: Regime-driven delegitimisation of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy critical journalistic norms Nip, Joyce Y. M. The enactment of the Hong Kong National Security Law on 30 June 2020 provides a case for examining how state power seeks to reconfigure journalistic norms and media legitimacy. Following the NSL, multiple pro-democracy critical news outlets, including Apple Daily and Stand News, ceased operations or were restructured, and senior staff members were prosecuted under national security-related charges. Soon after, former staff launched new, small-scale news outlets. Drawing on the concepts of legitimacy and delegitimisation, this article examines how legal and discursive power is deployed to redefine the boundary between mainstream and alternative journalism, relegating previously recognised pro-democracy critical journalistic norms to the margins. The analysis demonstrates how news media legitimacy is actively constructed through state intervention, and how “alternative media” emerges as an outcome of delegitimisation rather than oppositional intent. By conceptualising media closure and marginalisation as processes of legitimacy reordering, the article contributes to theoretical debates on alternative media and journalistic norms.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Potter, David https://hdl.handle.net/2123/35277 2026-05-06T04:22:37Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadows From the Land Down Under (Dark Shadows in Australia) Potter, David This book chapter reconstructs a strange, formative encounter with Dark Shadows (1966-1971) in early-1990s Australia, when fragments of a cult gothic soap opera lodged themselves in a child’s imagination long before they could be named, contextualised, or fully understood. Moving between archival traces, remembered images, and literary echoes, it treats the show not as a text recalled after the fact but as a lived imaginative environment—one that quietly trained a sense of time, recurrence, parallel worlds, and haunted houses from the inside out. What emerges is an account of how a piece of mass television, encountered too early and half-accidentally, can hard-wire a lifelong way of thinking about narrative, memory, and other possible worlds.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Resnik, Tamar Maalsen, Sophia Nicholls, Rob Nolan, Ellissa https://hdl.handle.net/2123/35036 2026-04-28T02:26:06Z 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Submission to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Data Centres Resnik, Tamar; Maalsen, Sophia; Nicholls, Rob; Nolan, Ellissa The University of Sydney, through the Net Zero Institute (NZI) and the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance (CAITG), welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the NSW Legislative Council Public Accountability and Works Committee inquiry into data centres in New South Wales. The University’s contribution focuses on how data centre development intersects with energy systems, water and land use, governance, urban planning, and Australia’s emerging AI and digital infrastructure landscape. Data centres, particularly those supporting AI workloads are rapidly becoming a defining infrastructure class. Their scale, intensity of electricity and water demand, locational impacts, and governance implications mean they now sit at the intersection of energy transition policy, planning systems, community outcomes, and national capability. The University of Sydney brings interdisciplinary expertise across engineering, energy systems, urban planning, environmental science, law, governance, and AI to inform evidence based policy responses. This submission outlines priority areas where research capability at the University of Sydney can support government to better understand cumulative impacts, manage risks, and design policy and regulatory frameworks that align data centre growth with emissions reduction, resource stewardship, social license, and long-term public value.

2026-01-01T00:00:00Z Nantsou, Izabella https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34762 2026-01-23T04:57:24Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

A 1980s cost-of-living crisis gave Australia a thriving arts program – could we do it again? Nantsou, Izabella The cost-of-living crisis is hitting the arts hard. Artists struggle to survive on poverty wages and audiences are getting priced out. This challenge is not unprecedented. In the 1980s, another cost-of-living crisis sparked a bold and imaginative model for embedding artists into the everyday rhythms of working life. This article reflects on the Art and Working Life program, an historic community arts program managed by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. It examines how the program responded to a previous cost of living crisis and the conditions necessary to revive such a program today.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Edwards, Michael https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34661 2026-01-06T02:26:37Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wheels Turning: Anthropological Solidarity, Engaged Buddhism, and a Return to the 1990s Edwards, Michael In the conventional histories of anthropology that we tend to tell, certain decades loom large: the 1920s, for example, or the 1980s. This article experiments with a comparative reading of a decade closer to our fraught present: the 1990s. With an eye to the discipline's current impasses, and with the benefit of some three decades' distance, I join others in beginning to historicize ’90s sociocultural anthropology, tracking its turns amid the cultural moods and political conditions of that moment. I do so by rereading this history obliquely, alongside the history of an adjacent intellectual and social formation, that of engaged Buddhism. Considering how anthropologists and engaged Buddhists grappled, through the 1990s, with a set of related questions—about interdependence, suffering, and engagement—reveals ethical ambitions and political shortcomings that continue to shape pressing debates in both fields today, not least about the promises and practices of solidarity.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Tseris, Emma Bright Hart, Eva Franks, Scarlett https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34511 2025-11-13T04:03:00Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My Voice Was Discounted the Whole Way Through”: A Gendered Analysis of Women’s Experiences of Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Tseris, Emma; Bright Hart, Eva; Franks, Scarlett Although it is well established that women experience significant gendered oppressions when accessing mental health services, research exploring the impacts of involuntary mental health services is frequently conducted without attending specifically to gender. This article reports on a qualitative study that explored women's experiences of compulsory mental health treatment in Australia. In-depth interviews revealed substantial gendered harms experienced by women within involuntary mental health treatment settings. Themes identified were: involuntary treatment replicates the dynamics and tactics of gendered violence; treatment involves profound deprivation and losses, with potential implications across the lifecourse; mental health services disrupt and undermine mothering; and recovery is found outside of coercive mental health systems. The study reveals the heightened harms experienced by women within involuntary mental health contexts, as well as women's strategic resistances to psychiatric oppression. It demonstrates the relevance of a conceptual lens that is attuned to gender, in order to develop a deeper understanding of women's experiences of intersecting oppressions within involuntary mental health settings. Implications include the need for alliance-building across feminist and critical mental health movements, and the need for a much more robust engagement by the social work profession in challenging the widespread acceptance of involuntary mental health treatment.

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Fitzpatrick, Tim https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34455 2026-04-28T02:26:09Z 2025-10-31T00:00:00Z

Discovery scenes without a Discovery Space on the Early Modern stage Fitzpatrick, Tim Dataset of all instances of 'discovery scenes' in Elizabethan, Jacobean and Carolingian plays. The data is searchable in terms of the characteristics of discoveries and the practicalities of staging them with only two entrance-points (one of which houses the discovery). The data is summarised (sheet 3) to elucidate the principal staging patterns.

2025-10-31T00:00:00Z Barrett, Jennifer Alba, Avril Moses, Dirk https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34410 2025-10-17T04:50:26Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

INTRODUCTION The Holocaust and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorial Museums Barrett, Jennifer; Alba, Avril; Moses, Dirk Interrogates the global, and often controversial, phenomenon of Holocaust and human rights museums Spanning six continents—Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America—this edited collection offers a comparative, transnational study of Holocaust and human rights museums that foregrounds the overlapping and often contested work these institutions do in narrating and memorializing histories of genocide and human rights abuses for a public audience. Museums that link the Holocaust with social justice, human rights, and genocide prevention have been founded in many countries—for example, the Kazerne Dossin Memorial Museum in Belgium, the Anne Frank House in the Netherlands, and the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre in South Africa—making Holocaust and human rights museums a global phenomenon. It is not uncommon for these institutions to court controversy by linking the Holocaust to human rights issues in their locales and abroad. Some begin from a “Holocaust core” and extrapolate from this history to address broader concerns, while others integrate the Holocaust as “a” or, at times, “the” case study par excellence of human rights abuses. Other institutions that may not explicitly focus on the Holocaust continue to engage these representational practices to highlight other instances of genocide and human rights abuses. The case studies in this book illuminate the convergences between Holocaust and human rights museums in their demands for social justice and reparation, educational and activist purpose, design principles, and curatorial choices. But it also shows how these museums can also be sites of contestation around how stories of suffering, courage, and survival are told; whose stories are prioritized; and who is consulted. Although Holocaust museums were once the most influential form of representation of human rights issues in the international museum and heritage fields, they are now in dialogue—visually, spatially, methodologically—with museums and memorial sites concerned with human rights more broadly. Interrogating debates in both museology and Holocaust memory studies, this volume reveals how institutions dedicated to these concerns have become active and influential contributors to local, national, and transnational dialogues about human rights.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Ford, Michele https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34336 2025-09-26T00:38:59Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bucking the trend: Union renewal in democratic Indonesia Ford, Michele This chapter examines the strategies for union renewal that have underpinned the dramatic transformation in Indonesia’s labour movement since Suharto’s New Order regime ended in 1998. The chapter argues that neither the Varieties of Capitalism framework nor its Varieties of Unionism corrective adequately theorises the potential impact of a dramatic shift in opportunity structures on union strategy. Having outlined Indonesian unions’ advances since 1998, and the challenges they continue to face, this chapter assess the risks and benefits associated with the different strategies that have contributed to their growing influence. It concludes by reflecting on the fragility of those gains in the face of further volatility in their institutional context.

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Ford, Michele https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34335 2025-09-26T00:56:13Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Politics of Cross-border Mobility in Southeast Asia Ford, Michele This Element explains how cross-border mobility defines diplomatic relationships between Southeast Asian states and social and political dynamics within the region's key destination countries. It begins by providing an historically situated discussion of bordering processes within the region, examining evolving historical conceptions of power and sovereignty, and processes of bordering in colonial and post-colonial times. It then turns to the political, environmental, and economic drivers of contemporary cross-border mobility before examining governments' efforts to manage different kinds of border-crossers and the tensions that these efforts give rise to. Having discussed the politics of cross-border mobility in host communities, the Element returns to the question of why consideration of bordering practices and cross-border mobility is necessary in understanding contemporary Southeast Asia.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Ford, Michele Lyons, Lenore https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34334 2025-09-25T22:27:52Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Illegal as Mundane: Researching Border-crossing Practices in Indonesia's Riau Islands Ford, Michele; Lyons, Lenore Ways of studying illegal behaviour are important in the context of Indonesia, a country well known for its failure to deal adequately with the corruption that permeates every level of society. They are perhaps even more salient at the peripheries of the nation-state where government agencies struggle to contain the illegal practices that necessarily emerge where nation-states meet. This article reflects on our experiences conducting a decade-long study of an Indonesian borderlands that, while not initially focused on illegality, came – as a consequence of its ubiquity – to include it as a key construct. This experience led us to grapple not only with methodological questions about how to research illegality but also with assumptions about what illegality is and does. We argue that the only way to recognise and account for the quotidian nature of many kinds of illegal activity in the borderlands is to eschew an ethnography of exception in favour of an ethnography of the mundane.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Alù, Giorgia https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34333 2025-09-25T22:14:36Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘A Rustling Sound’: Voices of WWII Italian Detainees from The Multilingual Archive of Australia Alù, Giorgia National archives, libraries, and museums both expose and, directly or indirectly, collude with the military, legal, political, and rhetorical processes of exclusion that tend to obfuscate people’s subjectivities. In this article, official spaces assigned to preserve national memory are placed into dialogue with other archival sites of memory preservation and retrieval of family and community past. By looking at the connections between diverse documents related to Italian-speaking individuals who were prisoners of war and civilian internees in Australia, during World War II, the article investigates how this material can be used to question hegemonic discourses and counters the ‘monolingual paradigm’. Letters, diaries, and memoirs that account captivity and marginalisation during wartime offer cases of polyvocal texts as both creative and privileged sites of speech acts, discursive and material interactions where we can locate spaces of agency, connection and affect.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Palmer, Wayne Ford, Michele Hasbiyalloh, Benni https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34332 2025-09-25T22:11:14Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regulating Recruitment and Contracting of Migrant Fishers from Indonesia Palmer, Wayne; Ford, Michele; Hasbiyalloh, Benni Historically, the processes in place to govern the recruitment and contracting of Indonesian migrant fishers have fostered situations of labor abuse and exploitation. The Indonesian government has introduced a new regulatory framework designed to meet international expectations that it creates rules and systems for recruiting migrant fishers in its territory. This article analyzes the state of play immediately before this new regulatory framework was operationalized, generating insights into practices around recruitment and contracting, and providing a baseline for future analysis of the new framework’s impact.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Hill, Elizabeth Ford, Michele Baird, Marian https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34331 2025-09-25T06:26:15Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Work/Care Regimes in the Asia-Pacific: A Feminist Framework Hill, Elizabeth; Ford, Michele; Baird, Marian This chapter illustrates surveys of the contemporary work/care regimes of countries in the Asia-Pacific. It highlights the role and importance of women in providing care for children and the elderly, whether it be in their place of origin or in the places to which they migrate. Economists use a U-shaped curve to hypothesise the relationship between women's labour force participation and stages of economic development. Women in the Asia-Pacific bear major responsibility for reproductive labour. In addition to measuring women's labour force participation, it is also important to evaluate the employment outcomes for women who enter the paid workforce. The majority of the literature on work/care regimes, particularly in a comparative perspective, is based on OECD economies. The dominance of the family as the locus of care reflects the ideology of gendered familialism that prevails in all countries of the Asia-Pacific. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Ward, Kristy Ford, Michele https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34330 2025-09-25T06:19:07Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Labour and Electoral Politics in Cambodia Ward, Kristy; Ford, Michele In 2013, the Cambodian People’s Party faced two major threats: a near loss at the ballot box in the national election and large-scale demonstrations by garment workers dissatisfied with the minimum wage. Unsurprisingly, the government responded by cracking down on the opposition, the independent media and civil society groups. Labour leaders were persecuted and legislation passed that undermined unions’ ability to organise and register. Less predictably, this crackdown was accompanied by an attempt to woo garment workers through policies that delivered tangible benefits to them as individuals. There was a marked shift in the party’s focus from its traditional rural constituency to the urban working class. In this article we examine how labour acts collectively to shape politics within authoritarian regimes. We do this by interrogating labour’s role at a time when the state was clearly shifting towards hegemonic authoritarianism. By re-assessing the 2013 and 2018 national elections through this lens, we demonstrate the bidirectional nature of state–labour relations even in authoritarian regimes. We conclude that, even where election results are largely predetermined, elections can provide opportunities for workers to strengthen their position by prompting shifts in not only in patronage but in policy.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Ford, Michele Gillan, Michael https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34329 2026-04-22T01:50:32Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Power resources and supranational mechanisms: The global unions and the OECD Guidelines Ford, Michele; Gillan, Michael This article uses the power resources approach to analyse the Global Union Federations’ (GUFs) use of the specific instances mechanism associated with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. While this mechanism has serious limitations, it has proved to be a useful tool when combined with public campaigns and the exercise of other power resources at multiple scales. This is so, we argue, because the fact that multi-national enterprises themselves operate across national boundaries creates an incentive to engage power resources at a supranational level, as well as within the countries where they, or their suppliers, are present. As this finding suggests, consideration of unions’ power resources benefits from deeper consideration of the multi-scalar and interrelated character of union action and of the role that intermediary coordinating organizations like GUFs play in supporting the exercise of power at the supranational level.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Loy-Wilson, Sophie Vickers, Adrian Alù, Giorgia https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34328 2025-09-25T05:06:53Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive Loy-Wilson, Sophie; Vickers, Adrian; Alù, Giorgia This special issue asks what difference language and translation make to Australian history-making.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Caraway, Teri L. Ford, Michele Nguyen, Oanh K. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34246 2025-08-22T01:41:49Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Politicizing the Minimum Wage: Wage Councils, Worker Mobilization, and Local Elections in Indonesia Caraway, Teri L.; Ford, Michele; Nguyen, Oanh K. Indonesia’s weak labor movement transformed local wage councils from institutions of wage restraint into institutions that delivered generous wage increases. This article argues that the arrival of direct elections created an opportunity for unions to leverage elections to alter the balance of power on the wage councils. Activating that leverage required increased contentiousness and coordination among unions. As unions mobilized around wages, conflict with capital intensified and produced disruptive protests that led incumbents to side with workers. Unions also developed innovative tactics to sustain momentum in nonelection years. As unions turned the wage councils in their favor, employers fought back by shifting the scale of the conflict to the national level; the result was the recentralization of wage setting and more modest increases. In a global context of ever weakening organized labor, the Indonesian case shows how weak unions can gain power by mobilizing politically at the local level.

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Ford, Michele Gillan, Michael Ward, Kristy https://hdl.handle.net/2123/34245 2025-08-22T01:25:42Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Authoritarian Innovations in Labor Governance: The Case of Cambodia Ford, Michele; Gillan, Michael; Ward, Kristy Authoritarian states face a fundamental tension in managing labor conflict. Too much repression can be read as a violation of workers' human rights, but too little undermines their structures of control. In this article, we shift focus from the overt repression of workers and unions to consider how states manage labor dissent through governance reform. Using Cambodia as our case, we examine the government's use of a series of “authoritarian innovations” to reassert control over labor governance mechanisms once dominated by international actors. Through an analysis of the shifting terrain of reform in the areas of labor legislation, minimum wage-setting, and disputes resolution, we show how institutional pacification has contained labor in ways that have served to defend state legitimacy and protect accumulation. We conclude by discussing the implications of these novel tactics—which signal the state is neither static nor predictable—for our understanding of labor governance under authoritarianism.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Stavros, Matthew https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33972 2026-04-28T02:26:08Z 2025-06-06T00:00:00Z

A Parallel Translation of Chiteiki (982) Stavros, Matthew This publication includes a complete and annotated English translation of Chiteiki 池亭記, presented in parallel with the original text. Chiteiki is a literary memoir written in 982 by Yoshishige no Yasutane 慶滋保胤 (c. 933–1002), a mid–level court official and celebrated member of the Kyoto literati. This brief text, written is Sino-Japanese (hentai kanbun 変体漢文), includes a rare, first-person account of the tectonic changes that were transforming Kyoto’s urban landscape during the late Heian period (794–1185). The narrative explains how the master-planned city, established in 794 and modeled on the great Chinese capitals of Luoyang and Chang’an, was undergoing a fundamental spatial reorganization. The western half of Kyoto’s urban grid had begun to deteriorate while the population clustered with dangerous and stifling density in the northeast. Development beyond the city’s northern and eastern boundaries threatened the natural environment and exacerbated the danger of perennial floods.

2025-06-06T00:00:00Z Hastings, Justin V Stulberg, Adam N Baxter, Philip https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33960 2025-06-01T22:42:42Z 2025-06-02T00:00:00Z

Technology, Materials, and Knowledge Transfer in Nuclear Proliferation Networks: Findings and Implications Hastings, Justin V; Stulberg, Adam N; Baxter, Philip This White Paper explicates policy analytical puzzles associated with illicit nuclear trafficking. Despite widespread appreciation of and research into the diffusion of sensitive nuclear materials, technology, and information, we lack systematic understanding of how different proliferation rings are organized and poised to leverage open logistical, political, and practical knowledge contexts to greater or lesser effect. Accordingly, this report presents a single framework for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of different types of logistical and knowledge networks for spreading sensitive nuclear-related material and practical know-how among state and non-state actors. Specifically, alternative logistical and social network approaches are applied to conceptualize different levels of operation among nuclear proliferation rings. This provides quantitative and qualitative methods to extract and operationalize variables— e.g. characteristics of the personnel within the networks, the structure of nodes and characteristics of the links between them, and nature of the landscape in which they operated -- that correlate with trends in illicit nuclear trafficking and nuclear weapons development. These insights are probed in critical cases of North Korean, Iranian, and Pakistani proliferation networks to account for the mixed pathways, timing, and overall effectiveness of acquiring nuclear-related technology from abroad and absorbing/diffusing experiential knowledge within respective national contexts.

2025-06-02T00:00:00Z Collyer, Fran Williams Veazey, Leah https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33890 2025-07-18T02:01:35Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

The state of the discipline: Australian sociology and its future Collyer, Fran; Williams Veazey, Leah Debates about the state of Australian sociology have raged for as long as sociology has existed in Australia. Concerns about the discipline’s future may be inevitable for a critical, reflexive discipline, but to those entering the discipline, it is neither instructive nor productive to be subjected to lingering disciplinary anxieties. After more than fifty years, it is time to take stock of the differing visions of sociology, and examine the arguments about the health, or otherwise, of Australian sociology. To advance this debate, we consider the signs and benchmarks of a ‘successful’ sociology as expressed in The Australian Sociological Association magazine, NEXUS, and key writings from Australian sociologists. We suggest that much of the disagreement over the status of sociology derives from the way ‘disciplines’ and ‘success’ are defined. Regarding sociology to be an heterogeneous, multi-modal, social institution and practice, we propose a way forward in our efforts to represent ourselves.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Potter, David https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33828 2025-04-22T22:36:39Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Man Who Dreamed Tomorrow: The Life and Times of J W Dunne (Review-Essay) Potter, David A review-essay for Nabokov Online Journal about 'The Man Who Dreamed Tomorrow: The Life of J. W. Dunne' (2024) by Guy Inchbald, the first full-length book on the influential British aeronaut and time philosopher John William Dunne (1875–1949). It explores Vladimir Nabokov’s engagement with Dunne’s books—especially 'An Experiment with Time' and 'The Serial Universe'—in both his dream diary and fiction. Dunne emerges as a feverish prophet of multidimensional time, whose unique blend of pseudoscience, prophetic vision, and imaginative brilliance clearly informed the writing of Nabokov’s 'Ada, or Ardor' (1969).

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Burgess, Cathie Golledge, Claire Smallwood, Reakeeta Clough, Belinda Harwood, Valerie https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33798 2025-04-08T00:26:22Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Transforming Professional Practice: Learning From Country Burgess, Cathie; Golledge, Claire; Smallwood, Reakeeta; Clough, Belinda; Harwood, Valerie For some time, the Learning from Country (LFC) framework has been successfully implemented in teacher education at the University of Sydney. Evidence from a longitudinal study (2018-2022) on the transformative impact of LFC on preservice teachers in developing culturally responsive teaching practices is contained in various academic and non-academic reports (cf. Burgess et al., 2022a,2022b; Coombes et al, 2024; Thorpe et al. 2021; Thorpe et al, 2024 , and Appendix AARE Blogpost, Centre for Professional Learning). This project allowed an interdisciplinary team from the Sydney School of Education and Social Work (SSESW), Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery (Sydney Nursing School [SNS]), and the Sydney Business School to apply the framework within nursing degrees to see if it was transferable to other professional education and training contexts. This is a report into the findings of that project.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Weatherall, Kimberlee Flew, Terry https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33653 2026-04-22T01:50:38Z 2025-02-20T00:00:00Z

Submission to the UK Copyright and AI Consultation Weatherall, Kimberlee; Flew, Terry This submission by Professors Kimberlee Weatherall and Terry Flew of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance at the University of Sydney responds to the UK Copyright and AI Consultation, highlighting key challenges and opportunities in balancing copyright law and AI innovation. The authors commend the Consultation Paper’s recognition of complex conundrums, including the global nature of AI training and the tension between creators’ rights and technological advancement. The submission identifies three main areas of concern: 1. Protection of Individual Creators: The authors emphasize that creators’ interests are often distinct from those of rights holders, advocating for measures such as rights retention for academic authors and inclusion of creator representatives in licensing negotiations. 2. Practical Challenges of Rights Reservation: The authors highlight complexities in the proposed rights reservation mechanism, noting issues arising from multiple ownership structures and the role of online intermediaries. They call for consideration of collective licensing models to streamline negotiations. 3. Transparency Requirements: While supporting transparency obligations for AI developers, the authors stress the importance of reciprocal transparency from rights holders. They also caution against potential legal risks, including exposure to international copyright lawsuits. The submission urges the UK government to adopt a balanced, globally informed approach to copyright and AI regulation, ensuring both the protection of creative industries and the promotion of innovation.

2025-02-20T00:00:00Z McKay, Carolyn Macintosh, Kristin https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33477 2024-12-16T23:19:58Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Digital criminal courts: The place or space of (post-)pandemic justice McKay, Carolyn; Macintosh, Kristin The COVID-19 pandemic forced criminal courts to suspend jury trials, adjourn hearings and 'pivot' to remote procedures. Integral to this sudden change has been an array of digital communication technologies: audio and audio-visual links as well as third-party proprietary platforms. COVID-19 outbreaks continue to impact criminal courts with intermittent lockdowns necessitating the ongoing use of digital technologies to keep the wheels of justice turning. The era of digital criminal justice has, undoubtedly, begun. The situation has prompted judicial commentary on the 'place' or 'space' of the remote, dispersed or virtual courtroom. For legislative purposes, does a 'courtroom' include a network of diverse remote access technologies? This chapter adopts Castell’s (2010) network approach to draw a distinction between 'place' and 'space' and question whether virtual courtrooms are perhaps a 'space', not a 'place'.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Ferracioli, Luara https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33379 2024-12-05T01:59:08Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stepparenting and Moral Parenthood Ferracioli, Luara At what point do stepparents become moral parents to the children under their care? What are their rights and duties prior to that point? What are their rights and duties once moral parenthood has been established? In this paper, I argue that we must fundamentally re-think the role of stepparents in children’s lives. More specifically, I argue that our social norms around romantic and familial relationships make it very difficult for stepparents and their children to have their core interests simultaneously protected. The upshot of my discussion is not only that we must rethink what stepparents owe children under their care, but that stepparents are often morally entitled to shared custody of a child irrespective of the status of the romantic relationship she enjoys with the child's biological or adoptive parent.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Stevenson, Toner Lomb, Nick https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33310 2026-04-22T01:50:31Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gender diversity in Australian astronomy: the Astronomical Society of Australia 1966–2023 Stevenson, Toner; Lomb, Nick In this paper we examine the changes in the diversity of astronomers working in Australia, particularly the ratio of women compared to men, from 1966, when the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) was formed, to 2023. This was a pivotal time, as there was a significant change to workplace law that enabled women who worked for Commonwealth departments to retain their permanent position once they married. We consider the impact on gender diversity and other marginalised groups in astronomy due to this and other changes in the law, through the membership records of the ASA. We focus on the experiences of female astronomers who have been at the leading edge of change, and women and men who have instigated strategies to increase the percentage of women employed in astronomy. The successes of two Australian Research Council (ARC) centres of excellence in achieving gender balance are considered as providing best practice models.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Potter, David https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33251 2026-05-07T02:24:32Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jöttkandt Effect: Reading Nabokov Imaginatively Potter, David To mark the occasion of the first major book-length study on Nabokov by an Australian since Andrew Field's 'VN: The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov' (New York: Crown, 1986), I've written a longish review essay about Sigi Jöttkandt's 'The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame' (London: Open Humanities Press, 2024) for Affirmations: of the modern, the flagship journal of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network. The essay explores Jöttkandt's vibrant and imaginative approach to reading Nabokov, and contextualizes her book against the wider history of the field.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Banki, Susan Karki, Ram https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33144 2026-04-28T02:26:06Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bhutan's Democratic Growing Pains Banki, Susan; Karki, Ram For those who are starry-eyed about Bhutan, "Gross National Happiness" (GNH) is a means by which to confirm the country’s accomplishments, embodied by a revered royal family that willingly transitioned the country to democracy and a careful approach to development. For those who are more critical, GNH is viewed as an effective propaganda tool that has helped to “Shangri-lize” Bhutan and shield it from harder scrutiny, particularly in the areas of human rights and social justice. In light of this binary, it is worth examining the most important issues that Bhutan faces at this current moment, 15 years after its democratic transition.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Carter, Marcus Egliston, Ben Clark, Kate Goggin, Gerard Zhuang, Victor Ellis, Katie Hawkins, Wayne Tan, Wenqi https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33120 2024-09-30T22:37:01Z 2024-09-30T00:00:00Z

Disability in the Metaverse Carter, Marcus; Egliston, Ben; Clark, Kate; Goggin, Gerard; Zhuang, Victor; Ellis, Katie; Hawkins, Wayne; Tan, Wenqi This research investigates the accessibility challenges and opportunities for people with disabilities in Virtual Reality (VR) environments. Conducted from June 2023 to June 2024, the study involved 102 survey respondents and 21 in-depth interviews with VR users with disabilities, alongside 20 VR industry experts. Key findings highlight the ways current VR systems are designed around normative assumptions about bodies, often excluding those with physical, visual, neurological, and cognitive impairments. The research also notes the underrepresentation of complex care needs in existing accessibility research and the limited efforts to incorporate assistive devices in VR design. The report suggests that a more inclusive approach to VR development—one that integrates feedback from disabled users during the design process—would benefit not only disabled but also non-disabled users. The study concludes with six key recommendations for improving VR accessibility, including fostering direct communication with disabled users, providing flexible interaction options, and ensuring that VR hardware and software are designed with a wide spectrum of disabilities in mind.

2024-09-30T00:00:00Z Nickl, Benjamin Müller, Christopher John Wolfenden, Helen https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33118 2024-09-27T01:04:12Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real is Not Real Enough. Season 2: Research Companion podcast-Unpacking the Real Nickl, Benjamin; Müller, Christopher John; Wolfenden, Helen Unpacking the Real is season two of Real is Not Real Enough. Here we introduce you to a range of guests who help us 'unpack' and explore the ideas that emerge from season one's podcast audio diary Real is Not Real Enough.

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Nickl, Benjamin Müller, Christopher John Wolfenden, Helen Eckert, Edgar Craig, Jacob https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33117 2026-04-28T02:26:05Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real is Not Real Enough. Podcast. Season 1 Nickl, Benjamin; Müller, Christopher John; Wolfenden, Helen; Eckert, Edgar; Craig, Jacob Real is not Real Enough is a podcast movie based on the work of the writer and philosopher Günther Anders. California 1941: real war in Europe, fake blood in Los Angeles. Join us as we enter the HOLLYWOOD COSTUME PALACE, where movie magic is made. This audio work is an adaptation of Günther Anders’ remarkable diary “Washing the Corpses of History”. Season Two, Unpacking the Real, introduces you to special guests who take us into conversations that emerge from the podcast audio diary Real is Not Real Enough. Join us as we wonder longer and question further. And remember, always keep it real. Brought to you by Chris Müller, Benjamin Nickl, Helen Wolfenden. Performed by Edgar Eckert. Sound design by Jacob Craig. Visuals by Eric Löbbecke. Find out more: https://www.goethe.de/ins/au/en/kul/lok/gap.html

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Nickl, Benjamin Müller, Christopher John https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33113 2026-04-28T02:26:09Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real is not Real Enough Script for an Audio Adaptation of the Californian Exile Diary by Günther Anders Nickl, Benjamin; Müller, Christopher John This script is a (to varying degrees) “free” adaptation of the English translation of Günther Anders’ diary “Der Leichenwäscher der Geschichte” published in Modernism / modernity in February 2021. It was created in the context of a recording with the actor Edgar Eckert and was specifically prepared for a native German speaker reading the text in English. This adaptation was inspired and guided by Anders’ own writings and his extensive reflections on language, style, and sound. Recommended Citation: Müller, Christopher J and Benjamin Nickl (2021): Real is Not Real Enough: Script for an Audio Adaptation of the Californian Exile Diary by Günther Anders. In: Günther Anders-Journal, hg. von der Internationalen Günther Anders-Gesellschaft. URL: https://www.guenther-anders-gesellschaft.org/s/anders-journal-muller-nickl-2021.pdf

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Brophy, David https://hdl.handle.net/2123/33033 2026-04-22T01:50:31Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enslavement and Forced Marriage in Uyghur Literature Brophy, David n/a

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Stenberg, Josh https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32827 2026-04-22T01:50:32Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wayang Potehi: Hokkien Origins, Indonesian Contexts Stenberg, Josh Places the Indonesian puppet practice of wayang potehi, which is of Hokkien origin, in national and regional context.

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Flew, Terry Humphry, Justine Gray, Joanne Hutchinson, Jonathon Page Jeffery, Catherine Johnson, Mark McKee, Alan Nicholls, Rob https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32808 2026-04-22T01:50:39Z 2024-07-05T00:00:00Z

Submission to the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society Flew, Terry; Humphry, Justine; Gray, Joanne; Hutchinson, Jonathon; Page Jeffery, Catherine; Johnson, Mark; McKee, Alan; Nicholls, Rob University of Sydney Discipline of Media and Communications Submission to the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Society.

2024-07-05T00:00:00Z Brophy, David https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32780 2026-04-22T01:50:35Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abdülaziz Kolcalı and His Evolving Vision of Sino-Turkish Solidarity Brophy, David n/a

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z Brophy, David https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32779 2026-05-07T02:24:13Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Qing Extermination of the Junghars: An Early-Modern Genocide? Brophy, David n/a

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Brophy, David https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32774 2024-07-10T05:16:15Z 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

Confusing Black and White: Naqshbandi Sufi Affiliations and the Transition to Qing Rule in the Tarim Basin Brophy, David This article offers a critique of the prevailing framework for the analysis of Naqshbandi Sufism in Xinjiang, or Eastern Turkistan, from the late seventeenth century onwards: one that describes a division into dynastic Sufi lineages of Isḥaqiyya and Afaqiyya, and treats these terms as equivalent to the factional designations “Black Mountain” and “White Mountain.” I argue that the scholarly tradition has misconstrued key terms in this lexicon, leading to distortions in our accounts of the nature, strength, and political significance of the major Naqshbandi Sufi affiliations of Qing Xinjiang. I begin by describing this scholarly tradition, before turning to an analysis of internal divisions in the Afaqiyya in the eighteenth century, drawing on a wider range of sources than have previously been applied to this question. In the concluding section I show how this new reading will require us to revise episodes in the history of Qing Xinjiang, and confront new questions on the place of Sufism in the politics of the Tarim Basin.

2018-01-01T00:00:00Z Brophy, David https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32772 2024-07-10T05:17:04Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He Causes a Ruckus Wherever He Goes’: Saʿid Muḥammad al-ʿAsali as a Missionary of Modernism in North-West China Brophy, David This article examines the activities of the Syrian hadith scholar Saʿid Muḥammad al-ʿAsali al-Ṭarabulsi al-Shami (1870–1932?), better known as Shami Damulla, as a window onto the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Muslims of Xinjiang, or Eastern Turkistan. Scholars of Islam in the Soviet Union have identified al-ʿAsali as an influential figure in Soviet Turkistan in the 1920s, but much remains to be clarified about his formative years, and his multiple sojourns in China prior to the Russian Revolution. Here I seek to fill some of these gaps by tracing al-ʿAsali’s connections to modernist and revivalist scholarly circles in India and the Middle East, his activities in Xinjiang, and the strategies he adopted to insert himself into the relationship between the Ottoman court and China. These strategies were both political and intellectual. While moving within Muslim communities across Eurasia, al-ʿAsali also sought to engage the Chinese tradition on its own terms, authoring a 1905 study of Qing institutions entitled The Law of China (Qanun al-Sin), a rare example of intellectual exchange between late-Ottoman Islamic reformism, and the revitalised Confucianism of the late-Qing. From a diverse range of sources a picture emerges of a figure much more complicated, though no less controversial, than can be found in existing characterisations of al-ʿAsali.

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Liyanage, Tilani https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32754 2024-07-05T06:55:52Z 2024-07-05T00:00:00Z

Adapting Amidst Crisis: Analysing the Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats in Mitigating the Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka Liyanage, Tilani The data set of the online survey of the above research

2024-07-05T00:00:00Z Potter, David https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32720 2024-06-26T05:33:10Z

Nested Revelations: Bely Translations and Misplaced Pages in 'After Blok' Potter, David As it turns out, Nabokov wrote a lecture about and also translated some of Andrei Bely's 'Petersburg'. In the very same unpublished lecture we can also find three stray pages missing from another.

Stenberg, Josh https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32704 2026-04-22T01:50:31Z 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vengeful Marionettes and Strategies of Reform: A Quanzhou Marionette Production of the Orphan Of Zhao Stenberg, Josh In 2012, the Quanzhou Marionette Company premiered their production of The Orphan of Zhao. It went on to feature in prominent festivals, including the World Minnan Cultural Festival in June 2013 and the 10th China Arts Festival in Shandong in October of the same year, where it was the only puppet performance. These successes culminated in a prestigious Wenhua Prize—the third time the troupe had won it with a new production. Nevertheless, the choice of this material for a marionette play is for a number of reasons a novel decision: though The Orphan of Zhao and the Quanzhou marionette tradition share a considerable antiquity, this is not the sort of text generally associated with either the marionette genre or the region. The choice of such a plot, drawn from the national literary canon and grave in subject matter, for production by Quanzhou marionettes, instantiates a recent general tendency in the official practice of traditional Chinese theatre, including puppet troupes, towards grand narratives, told at a single sitting, and intended for prize competition and festivals.

2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Heath, Ekaterina https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32658 2024-06-17T01:35:28Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grand tour memories In Maria Feodorovna’s Pavlovsk Park, St Petersburg, 1782–1825 Heath, Ekaterina The gardens surrounding Pavlovsk Palace, just outside St Petersburg, at the turn of the nineteenth century were recognized by contemporaries as the most visually appealing in the Russian Empire. This status was largely due to the efforts of its patron from 1777 to 1828: Maria Feodorovna. During this period, she was daughter-in-law to Empress Catherine II, wife of Paul I, and mother to Alexander I and Nicolas I. Her tenuous status as a non-ruling monarch did not prevent her from achieving a position of significant power at the Russian court. This paper reveals Maria’s ability to influence her husband and the court during this period, a time when Russia was at the centre of many European events. Her manipulation of Catherine II and Paul I has been downplayed in history, and the use of Pavlovsk Park as the main tool in achieving relevance and influence has been overlooked. The Grand Tour was a major source of inspiration for Maria’s decisions of patronage and directions in design, and she turned Pavlovsk into a memory device to recall her travels. By implementing these ideas, she was able to maintain her relevance at court by successfully appealing to people in power.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Heath, Ekaterina https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32657 2024-06-17T00:26:56Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sowing the Seeds for Strong Relations: Seeds and Plants as Diplomatic Gifts for the Russian Empress Maria Fedorovna Heath, Ekaterina The article examines the role of botany in diplomatic relationships between Britain and Russia around the turn of the nineteenth century by looking at three gifts of exotic seeds and plants sent by different British diplomats and officials to the Russian Empress Maria Fedorovna, wife of Tsar Paul I. Gifts of live plants were a new category of diplomatic presents fuelled by the rapidly growing popularity of botany across Europe. These gifts represented British imperial ambitions and desire to build a self-sufficient economy. They also indicated an element of Britain’s anxiety about its navy’s dependence on Russian natural resources and later on about Russia’s successes in the exploration of the Antarctic regions. Empress Maria Fedorovna displayed these plants in a prominent part of her garden at Pavlovsk, next to the plants from North America that she had procured independently. This was a deliberate strategy that worked to boost her prestige at court by showcasing her international relationships.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Milner Davis, Jessica Hofmann, Jennifer https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32650 2024-06-12T23:43:20Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glossary to "The humor transaction schema: a conceptual framework for researching the nature and effects of humor". Milner Davis, Jessica; Hofmann, Jennifer This is an annotated compilation of humour research-related terms. Complete with references and examples of usage, it supplements the article by J. Milner Davis and J. Hofmann, "The humor transaction schema: A conceptual framework for researching the nature and effects of humor", published open access in Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 36(2), 2023. The Glossary is not however included in the published article.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Broom, Alex Parker, Rhiannon Kenny, Katherine https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32612 2025-01-15T05:55:43Z 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z

Authenticity, ambivalence and recognition in caring at the end of life and beyond Broom, Alex; Parker, Rhiannon; Kenny, Katherine Informal caring at the end of life is often a fraught experience that extends well beyond the death of the person receiving care. However, analyses of informal carers' experiences are frequently demarcated relative to death, for example in relation to anticipatory grief (pre-death) or grief in bereavement (post-death). In contrast to this tendency to epistemologically split pre- and post-death experiences, we analyse informal caring across two separate qualitative interviews with 15 informal carers in one metropolitan city in Australia—one before and one after the death of the person for whom they cared. In doing so, we focus on accounts of care across dying and bereavement including: the evolving ambivalence of carers’ social relations at the end of life and beyond; dying and death as a challenge to the ideal of authenticity; and, the potential for misrecognition and social estrangement in caring relations at the end of life. We draw on social theory addressing the themes of ambivalence, authenticity and recognition to enhance our understanding of caring as a social practice that occurs across dying and bereavement, rather than as structured primarily by the context of one or the other.

2019-01-01T00:00:00Z Broom, Alex Kenny, Katherine Kirby, Emma Davis, Mark Dodds, Susan Post, Jeffrey Broom, Jennifer https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32611 2025-01-15T05:54:48Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

The modern hospital executive, micro improvements, and the rise of antimicrobial resistance Broom, Alex; Kenny, Katherine; Kirby, Emma; Davis, Mark; Dodds, Susan; Post, Jeffrey; Broom, Jennifer Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognised as a social, cultural, economic and political phenomenon, positioning the social sciences as central in responding to this global health threat. Yet efforts to address AMR within hospital settings, for example through antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs, continue to focus primarily on the prescribing practices of individual clinicians, often with little effect. There has been less attention to the role of healthcare administration, and managerialism therein, in explaining the limited progress to date in reining in antimicrobial misuse. To explore this, drawing on interviews with senior executives and managers from two Australian hospitals, we examine how these stakeholders navigate between management practice and AMR solutions, revealing that antimicrobial optimisation is frequently obscured by accountability structures attuned to other agendas. This has led, we argue, to the institutionalisation of micro-improvements that frequently ‘tick the box’ of having an AMS program, yet do little to effectively counteract rising AMR. Our analysis illustrates how sociological attention to the structural and ideological settings within which prescribing behaviour is carried out will be crucial to any attempts to successfully rein in AMR.

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