School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Let the Lunatics Run their Own Asylum Participatory Democracy at the University of Sydney, 1960–1979
Published 2011-01-01Participatory democracy lay at the heart of the student movements that erupted around the world in the 1960s. ‘Let the Lunatics Run their Own Asylum’ seeks to understand this defining aspect of student movements through ...Open AccessThesis -
The Anarcho-Syndicalist Platform for Indigenous Rights: A Trans-National study of Settler-colonialism, White Labourism and the International Worker‟s of the World in Australia and South Africa
Published 2011-01-01This thesis considers the legal stasis triggered by the 2007 "Northern Territory National Emergency Response‟ and suggests clarification can be found in the historical precedent of settler-colonialism. Through a trans-national ...Open AccessThesis -
‘A KIND OF LOVE’: Supergirls, Scapegoats and Sexual Liberation The response to Junie Morosi, Jim Cairns, and the scandal that rocked the Australian Government, 1975.
Published 2011-01-01The ‘Morosi affair’ captured the fascination of the public in 1975 during the turbulent political atmosphere of the Whitlam government. The Treasurer of the government, Dr Jim Cairns, hired the beautiful and controversial ...Open AccessThesis -
Messianic Ideas: Historical Sources, and some Contemporary Expectations of Fulfilment
Published 2004-01-01The aim of this work is to provide basic historical insights into the origins of the messianic myth and its future developments within various world religions (see our Table of contents). Issues of millenarian ideas in ...Open AccessThesis -
Knowledge and Multisemiosis in Undergraduate Physics
Published 2010-01-01Physics is arguably the most fundamental of the sciences, yet many students disengage with it at a very early level. This thesis lays the groundwork to understanding why this is the case by using Systemic Functional theory ...Open AccessThesis