Honours theses: Recent submissions
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Streetcars Across America: An Analysis of the Growth and Decline of Electric Urban Railways in the United States from Directory Data
Published 2021-12-03This thesis report describes the extraction of records from the McGraw Electric Railway Manuals to rectify the lack of documentation around streetcar systems through technological means, and discusses the appropriateness ...Open AccessThesis -
Anchorage testing of rock bolts.
Published 1964This thesis deals with the results of over 80 anchorage tests performed in various strength mortars and three different rock types, with two different rock anchores.Open AccessThesis -
The Failure to Establish Codetermination in Australia: A Comparative Political Economic Analysis
Published 2021-09-29Codetermination has entered the Australian public conversation in the last 4 years with commentators arguing it could reduce labour market inequality. Yet this is not the first-time it has surfaced in Australian debates – ...Open AccessThesis -
Bacchic Echoes: Dionysus as Metaphor in Apollonius' Argonautica
Published 2020This thesis argues that an interpretation of Apollonius’ Argonautica must take account of a Dionysiac schema mobilising the epic’s meanings: this schema operates as an organising principle for understanding the epic’s ...Open AccessThesis -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in Australian print news: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis
Published 2021-08-23This thesis investigates the representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in mainstream Australian newspapers. It combines approaches from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine ...Open AccessThesis