Government and International Relations: Recent submissions
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On the Frontlines of Change: A discursive approach to understanding real and envisioned climate adaptation pathways of drought-affected primary producers in NSW
Published 2020-01-14The most severe drought on record continues to devastate rural communities and primary producers across most of South-Eastern Australia; signalling current adaptive responses are failing to keep up with the rate of change ...Open AccessThesis -
DFAT’s Culture and Approach to China: Understanding the impact of organisational culture on institutional behaviour
Published 2019-06-10The Australia-China relationship is arguably Australia’s most complex and important bilateral relationship of the 21st century. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is the principal government department ...Open AccessThesis -
Alien Agendas: A Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories Across Western States
Published 2019-01-07Conspiracy theories have been a topic of interest among academic and non-academic literature for decades. As of recently, the political implications of public conspiracism has begun to be taken seriously. Political science ...Open AccessThesis -
The Facebook Formula: An experimental study into which electioneering strategies used over Facebook are most effective at influencing the Australian youth vote.
Published 2019-01-07Facebook is rapidly changing Australia’s political media landscape. Young voters’ growing reliance on Facebook for the consumption of political news has corresponded with politicians’ increasingly prudent use of social ...Open AccessThesis -
Cocaine crackdowns and criminal violence
Published 2019-01-07In the last decade, Colombia has seen improvement in the levels of violence and the stability of the state as a result of targeting illicit narcotics traffickers. In the same period, Mexico has seen an increase in violence ...Open AccessThesis