Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Creole/superstrate code-switching : analysing the dynamic relationship between Tok Pisin and English in Papua New Guinea
Published 2012Investigating variation in Tok Pisin a generation after Papua New Guinean Independence has found bilingualism with English the most significant factor in the development of this pidgin/creole (Romaine 1992; Smith, G ...Open AccessThesis -
Measurement of Upper Motor Neuron Abnormalities with Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Published 2008Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that produces weakness and ultimately death from respiratory failure. ALS results in the death of nearly 400 Australians per year, with a ...Open AccessThesis -
Going forward and looking back : Sydney, abstraction & the fifties
Published 2011This project examines the artistic conditions that provoked major exhibitions in Australia in the Fifties including French Painting Today (1953) and Direction 1 (1956). It strives to give the reader a vernacular ...Open AccessThesis -
The Paradox of New Atheism: A Critique of Meaning, Belief, and Scientific Persuasion
Published 2025At the beginning of the twenty-first century, atheism transformed from a private intellectual stance to a loud cultural movement. This movement was led by the New Atheists, including figures such as Dawkins, Harris, Dennett ...Open AccessThesis -
Novel applications of pQCT in a Paediatric Diagnostic Setting
Published 2026There is considerable interest in the clinical use of peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) to assess paediatric bone density (BMD). Peripheral QCT’s volumetric measurement of trabecular and cortical BMD is ...Open AccessThesis