The University of Sydney: Recent submissions
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A 1980s cost-of-living crisis gave Australia a thriving arts program – could we do it again?
Published 2025The 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 ...Open AccessArticle -
Big Sister: Advanced Mentoring SA/WA Rapid Literature Review
Published 2026-01-23Women remain significantly underrepresented in Australia’s skilled trades, including the electrical trades. Gendered expectations, limited exposure to trade pathways, and constrained access to relevant information from ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Ekphrasis // Ekphrasis The Early Modernism of Art, Post-Internet
Published 2026The thesis is an initial attempt toward recontextualisation of contemporary art according to its historiological, theological and ideological underpinnings, taking a longer view of history than is currently countenanced ...Open AccessThesis -
Austin Dobson: A Reappraisal of his Poetry
Published 2026Austin Dobson (1840-1921), the English poet and essayist, was well regarded during his lifetime as an author of vers de société and a leading figure of the English Parnassian Movement in poetry, although later his reputation ...USyd AccessThesis -
Historical GTFS Dataset for Sydney 1855-2015
Published 2026-01-22These files represent digitised Sydney’s historic public transport networks and constructed General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) datasets covering a period from 1855 to 2015. The complementary paper presents the ...Open AccessDataset