Theses: Recent submissions
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Studies on new tumour active platinum compounds
Published 2008Four mononuclear /ram-planaramineplatinum complexes code named JH1, JH2, JH3, and JH4, and two trinuclear complexes code named JH5 and JH6 have been prepared and characterised based on elemental analyses, IR, mass and ...Open AccessThesis -
"It's more than pieces of paper": Understanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lived experiences of kidney health
Published 2026This thesis explores the lived experiences of a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with kidney health challenges. It explores their interaction with health information, clinical education and health ...Open AccessThesis -
Public Value, Private Interest: Can quality management address the challenges to government performance identified by Public Choice Theory?
Published 2025Governments spend billions in tax revenue each year in pursuit of public value. However income is determined via legislation not performance and the integrity of resource allocation decisions is undermined by lack of ...Open AccessThesis -
Beheading the Roman body politic: Decapitation as a political metaphor in early imperial Latin literature
Published 2025This thesis analyses the development of beheading as a political metaphor in Latin literature from c. 20s CE – 120s CE. It aims to explore the addition of decapitation to the range of corporeal metaphors that existed for ...USyd AccessThesis -
Body Irony and Identity: The Trauma Narrative in the Fiction of Wang Xiaobo Yu Hua and Mo Yan
Published 2025The thesis develops a three-dimensional theoretical framework of trauma, body and irony to study the novelistic writings of three writers—Wang Xiaobo, Yu Hua and Mo Yan—and how they utilise narratives of trauma in response ...USyd AccessThesis