Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by title
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Objects, objectivity and idealism: Robert Brandom's analytic Hegelianism
Published 2011-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Ochlos and Auletes: Alexandrian Autonomy in the First Century BCE
Published 2020This thesis aims to place Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos Philopator Philadelphos, best known by his derogatory (if convenient) nickname Auletes, within an Egyptian context. Largely overshadowed by his daughter, Cleopatra VII, ...Open AccessThesis -
Off the Ball: Ethnicity, Commercialism and Australian Football, 1974-2004
Published 2012-11-01Despite its seemingly marginal role in Australian sport, football (soccer) contributed significantly to public debates regarding multiculturalism and imagined Australian national identity. This thesis explores the relationship ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
An offer you can't (rationally) refuse: systematically exploiting utility-maximisers with malicious gambles.
Published 2017-01-10Decision theory aims to provide mathematical analysis of which choice one should rationally make in a given situation. Our current decision theory norms have been very successful, however, several problems (such as Pascal’s ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Old Traditions new Perspectives
Published 2007-12-14This thesis looks at the discord between asymmetric warfare and just war theory. Specifically, it looks at the place of just war theory in political science, and the competing theories that analyse war. Consequently, it ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
On Moral Hedging, the Problem of Intertheoretic Value Comparisons, and Vagueness
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): When we are confronted with decisions of moral significance, the ideal course of action, at least according to most moral philosophers, is to look to the moral ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
On the Compatibility of Presentism and our most fundamental Physics.
Published 2013-01-01It has been alleged that Presentism is incompatible with our most fundamental physics. More specifically, it is argued that this follows from the fact that Presentism and The Special Theory of Relativity are incompatible. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
'On the top of a mountain I saw the figure of a man': An analysis of the relationship between visual perception and the engraved art of the Sydney-Hawkesbury region using GIS and the concept of affordances.
Published 2020The last 2 decades have seen intensifying interest in rock art and the senses. This perspective stems from the recognition that sensory perception is at the core of human experience and is culturally variable. GIS ...Open AccessThesis -
Order Placement and Performance: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional and Retail Traders
Published 2009-02-26This thesis seeks to identify systematic differences in the order placement of institutional and retail traders in the Australian market. With institutions exhibiting a greater awareness of market conditions, this analysis ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Organised Crime and State Sovereignty - The conflict between the Mexican state and drug cartels 2006-2011
Published 2011-01-01Since December 2006, the government of Mexico has been embroiled in a battle against numerous criminal organisations seeking to control territory and assure continued flow of revenue through the production and trafficking ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Pacifist’s Point: William Warder Cadbury, His Mission in Canton, and Public Health Initiatives 1909–1937
Published 2017-01-12This paper examines the mission of William Warder Cadbury (1877–1959) to Canton from 1909 to 1937. As a Quaker medical missionary, Cadbury had the freedom to move around Canton and engage himself in the projects that ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Pairs Trading: A Cointegration Approach
Published 2009-02-26This study uses the Johansen test for cointegration to select trading pairs for use within a pairs trading framework. A long-run equilibrium price relationship is then estimated for the identified trading pairs, and the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Parables Of Mass Atrocity: A Comparative Analysis Of The Nigerian And Liberian
Published 2012-01-01In the aftermath of conflict, the demand for societies to acknowledge the existence and impact of political violence has instigated creative policy developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Truth and ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
PASSING BY: THE LEGACY OF ROBERT MENZIES IN THE LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA A study of John Gorton, Malcolm Fraser and John Howard
Published 2012-11-01This thesis considers the legacy of Robert Menzies in the Liberal Party of Australia, as articulated by Liberal party prime ministers, John Gorton, Malcolm Fraser and John Howard. It challenges the prevailing assumption ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The perceptions of adolescent boys regarding music participation and social behaviour
Published 2008-05-25This study is an exploration of adolescent boys’ perceptions of the relationship between music participation and social behaviour. Adolescent boys have been identified by the literature as a social group in particular need ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Perfect Storm: How Australia Managed to Weather the Global Financial Crisis
Published 2017-01-01Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Performance of Active Extension Strategies in the Australian Equities Market
Published 2009-02-26This dissertation examines the performance of active extension strategies, also known as ‘130/30’, in the Australian equities market. This strategy involves introducing short positions to 30% of the value of a fund while ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Perfume Vessels in South-East Italy: A comparative analysis of Perfume Vessels in Greek and Indigenous Italian Burials from the 6th to 4th Centuries B.C.
Published 2013-01-01To date there has been a broad range of research investigating both perfume use in the Mediterranean and the cultural development of south-east Italy. The use of perfume was clearly an important practice in the broader ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“Petticoat Government”: The Eaton Affair and Jacksonian Political Cultures
Published 2012-11-01Though typically trivialised by historians, the Eaton Affair preoccupied Andrew Jackson throughout his first presidency and lived on in nineteenth-century popular memory. This thesis sets aside dismissive, partisan and ...Open AccessThesis, Honours