Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Phylogenetic relationships and horizontal gene transfer in panesthiine and geoscapheine cockroaches
Published 2026Cockroaches are a highly diverse and adaptable group. This thesis focuses on the wood- and soil-dwelling subfamilies Panesthiinae and Geoscapheinae, investigating their phylogeny, biogeography, morphological evolution, and ...Open AccessThesis -
Singular domain perturbation in stationary p-Laplace equations
Published 2026We aim to investigate non-linear diffusion problems on domains with shrinking holes, and study the continuous dependence of the weak solutions.Open AccessThesis -
Ill with History: Pathologising and Policing Gender Transgression in Late Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Century Australia
Published 2025This is a trans history, but not necessarily a history of trans people. This thesis examines gender crossing in Australia between the 1860s and 1940s, focussing on medical and carceral interactions, economic life, community ...Open AccessThesis -
Investigating receptive bilingualism through a family language policy lens: The case of Arabic-English speaking families in Australia
Published 2026Maintaining a heritage language in a monolingual society presents ongoing challenges for immigrant families, particularly when children develop receptive bilingualism—understanding the heritage language but with limited ...Open AccessThesis -
Metabolic investigations into dairy cow longevity
Published 2026Dairy cow longevity is a determined by health, reproduction, production, management, and chance events. Optimising longevity can reduce replacement demands, enable beef diversification, lower lifetime emissions, improve ...Open AccessThesis