Government and International Relations: Recent submissions
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Got AATitude? A quantitative analysis of refugee decision-making at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Published 2020-01-14The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) is the first level of appeal for an asylum seeker whose application has been rejected by the Department of Home Affairs. There have been allegations that appointments at the AAT ...Thesis, Honours -
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, Honours -
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, Honours -
‘Equal Participation of All’: A study of environmental justice and vulnerability in the Resilient Melbourne and Resilient Sydney Strategies
Published 2019-01-07‘Resilient Melbourne’ (RM) and ‘Resilient Sydney’ (RS) are City Resilience Strategies (100RC, 2017) developed to prepare cities for climate change impacts and other ‘shocks’ and ‘stresses’. Through an environmental justice ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
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, Honours