Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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'A cultured English public in Italy' : Expatriates, cultural propoganda and the British Institute of Florence, 1900-1940
Published 2012This thesis examines the history of the British expatriate community in Florence in the early twentieth century through the cultural institution that they established during the First World War as part of the British ...Open AccessThesis -
Walk over weighing in Poll Dorset sheep: ewe and lamb liveweight, growth rate, and lamb survival across reproductive stages
Published 2026The thesis investigated walk-over-weighing (WOW) technology as a precision livestock farming tool to improve monitoring and management in grazing Australian sheep systems. It integrated technological validation with ...Open AccessThesis -
Novel Metrics and Regenerative Pathways for Securing Soil
Published 2026Soil is a complex, dynamic, self-organising system that underpins life on Earth. It is under increasing pressure as more food must be produced from less land, driving widespread human-induced degradation. Soil erosion ...Open AccessThesis -
At the cutting edge: the political economy of wage suppression in the Australian meat industry
Published 2025Once a well remunerated and respected trade, processing animals for meat now attracts low wages and is performed by those on the margins of Australian society. The position of meat workers sits in stark contrast with the ...Open AccessThesis -
The lives of stories : Making histories of aboriginal-settler friendship
Published 2012This thesis explores the dynamics of popular, public, local and family history making around Aboriginal-settler friendship, adoption, mediation and alliance. Narrating the lives of four stories, it examines the ways in ...Open AccessThesis