Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Improving the efficacy and efficiency of the legal and regulatory framework for protection of retail investors investing in collective investment schemes CIS
Published 2026The history of collective investment schemes (‘CIS’) in Australia is replete with examples of failures of the legal and regulatory regime to the detriment of retail investors. Billions of dollars have been lost by retail ...Open AccessThesis -
Ageing Bodies, Rural Places, Precarious Times: A Qualitative Investigation of Successful Ageing in Country New South Wales
Published 2026Since the late 1990s successive Australian governments have drawn on the successful ageing model, first developed by John Rowe and Robert Kahn, to refigure population ageing as a dilemma hinging on the choices of responsible, ...Open AccessThesis -
Effect of Barium Promoter in Carbon-Supported Ruthenium Catalyst for Nitrogen Activation
Published 2026Ammonia is essential for fertilisers and a promising carbon-free fuel, yet its industrial synthesis through the Haber-Bosch process remains highly energy-intensive and CO2-emitting. In response, carbon-supported ruthenium ...USyd AccessThesis -
Challenging Hierarchies through Minimalist Music: A Human Experience of Recording and Re-Composing Australian Wildlife Sounds
Published 2026For centuries, human survival depended on the categorisation of other-than-human animals into hierarchies of importance and value. Today, however, these human constructed hierarchies drive the degradation of the environment, ...Open AccessThesis -
Surface Evolution of Mountains and Drainage Basins under Climatic and Tectonic Forcings
Published 2026The landscape records the interplay between climatic and tectonic events. However, the landscape signals generated by tectonic uplift and climate change often overlap, making it difficult to separate and quantify the ...Open AccessThesis