Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by title
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“HAIR IS IT, FOR AFRICANS:” African-Australian Hair Stories
Published 2013-01-01This thesis examines the relationship African-Australian men and women have with their hair. Through open-ended interviews with seven African-Australian men and women, aged 22-63, this thesis analyses the cultural significance ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Harbouring Discontent: World Heritage, the Great Barrier Reef and the Gladstone Port Development
Published 2012-01-01The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is facing unprecedented pressures from a range of inputs– one of the most prominent being industrial coastal development. Of these developments, none has more current significance than the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Harm of a Label: The effect of Party Affiliation upon Criminal Sentencing in the United States
Published 2012-01-01This thesis examines why sentencing disparity between partisan elected and non-partisan elected judiciaries exists. I contend that partisan elected judiciaries produce harsher sentences. The theoretical reasoning provided, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Harry Crawford v History: Problem Bodies, Queertrans Cosmogonies, and Historiographical Ethics in Cases of Gender Transgression in Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century Australia
Published 2018-01-01The predominant cultural metanarrative of transgender existence is that we sprang fully formed into being sometime in the 1960s, like Athena stepping out of Zeus’s skull. And yet in every corner of human history we find ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
'Harry the Ninth (The Uncrowned King of Scotland) Henry Dundas and the Politics of Self-Interest, 1790-1802
Published 2012-01-01The career of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville underscores the importance of individual self-interest in British public life during the 1790-1802 Revolutionary Wars with France. Examining the political intrigue surrounding ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Heir to the Empire: Robert Menzies and The United States of America
Published 2018-05-29Open AccessThesis, Honours -
HILARY PUTNAM AND CONCEPTUAL RELATIVITY
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): In The Many Faces of Realism, Hilary Putnam suggests that although the phenomenon of conceptual relativity has become pervasive in contemporary scientific practice, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Hold-up Problem in the Presence of Free Trade Agreement Negotiations
Published 2010-01-01This paper examines how the underinvestment that results from the hold-up problem is affected when there is some probability of reaching a free trade agreement (FTA). This paper examines the canonical domestic hold-up ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Housing the Worker
Published 2011-01-01The industrialization of Sydney and the increasing prevalence of factories in the city centre and outer suburbs from the mid-nineteenth century meant that worker housing was in high demand. The opportunity to capitalize ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“How cavemen did social media”: A comparative case study of social movement organisations using Twitter to mobilise on climate change
Published 2010-01-01In the face of widespread public disillusionment with traditional politics the internet is emerging as a popular tool for increasing public participation in social and political activism. Little research has been performed, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
"How far will Miley go next?”: Miley Cyrus and the news in celebrity gossip magazines
Published 2014-01-01This thesis examines news values in celebrity news. News values have been thoroughly analysed with regard to “serious” news, but little has been done to see how useful existing conceptions of news values are for celebrity ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
How much volume will an illegal insider trade? Evidence from options markets
Published 2009-02-26Modelling the volume traded by illegal inside traders is a fairly new area of research. Previous research into insider trading has focused not a comprehensive study on the determinants of volume, but empirical and theoretical ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Human Life in Early Bronze Age I Jericho: A Study of the Fragmented Human Skeletal Remains from Tomb A61
Published 2018-03-07This Honours research thesis takes an in-depth look at the human skeletal remains from an Early Bronze Age I Jericho tomb, excavated by Kathleen Kenyon in the 1950’s. Tomb A61 contains highly fragmented and commingled human ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction
Published 2009-01-01This thesis uses slash fan fiction produced for the CW television series Supernatural to suggest two new slash typologies. While existing frameworks — romantopia (concerned with sex) and intimatopia (concerned with intimacy) ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
I HUNG OUT HIS WASHING AND IT MADE ME FEEL GUILTY: CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM, EMPOWERMENT AND CONFUSION
Published 2019-03-06Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The idea of ‘genocide’ in the Australian context 1959-1978
Published 2015-01-01This study attempts to trace the meaning of the word ‘genocide’ in its use in the Australian context. Adopting an historical contextualist approach. the study finds that ‘genocide’ emerged in 1959, in the assimilation ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Identity and Interests: Understanding the Meltdown in Israeli-Turkish Relations 2002-2012
Published 2012-01-01The recent deterioration of the strong bilateral alliance between Israel and Turkey has significant affects on the balance of power within the Middle East. As such, it is important that scholars determine why this meltdown ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Identity Politics - A Case Study of Afghanistan
Published 2011-01-01Identity politics is a complex concept. However, it is rarely studied in the context of weak non-Western states. This study seeks to study identity politics in Afghanistan with a focus on ethnic and sectarian identities. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Ill-conceived History: An Analysis of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Pill
Published 2012-01-01The fiftieth anniversary of the pill was an international commemorative event celebrated in 2010, and this thesis is an analysis of the use of history within this anniversary literature. Within the fiftieth anniversary, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours