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2. Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia's Lost Generation: By Ross McMullin. Melbourne: Scribe, 2023. Pp. 640. A$49.99 paper.
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Beaumont, Joan
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WORLD War I , *SCRIBES , *BIOGRAPHY (Literary form) , *ELITE (Social sciences) ,AUSTRALIAN history - Abstract
"Life So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia's Lost Generation" by Ross McMullin is a sequel to his acclaimed book "Farewell Dear People." The book focuses on the lives of three young Australians who were part of the 'lost generation' of World War I. Captain Brian Pockley, Norman Callaway, and Murdoch Mackay are profiled in the book, highlighting their pre-war potential, their war experiences, and the impact of their deaths on their families and communities. McMullin's writing is sympathetic and well-researched, providing insight into the emotional connections between the soldiers and their loved ones. The book raises questions about the worth of the war and the loss of talented young men. [Extracted from the article]
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3. Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia: Edited by Evan Smith, Jayne Persian and Vashti Jane Fox. London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 282. A$47.99 paper.
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La Rooij, Marinus
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ANTI-fascist movements , *FASCISM , *RIGHT-wing extremism , *POLITICAL violence , *ATROCITIES , *RIGHT-wing extremists - Abstract
The book "Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia" edited by Evan Smith, Jayne Persian, and Vashti Jane Fox sheds light on the often overlooked topic of Australian right-wing radicalism. The book explores the historical context and various individuals, groups, and movements within the radical right in Australia. It also examines the relationship between the political mainstream and the radical right, as well as the opposition faced by anti-fascists. While the book has some imbalances and omissions, it offers important observations that can contribute to future research and debate on the subject. The book also addresses the tension between scholarship and activism, and the question of whether the Australian radical right is endogenous or influenced by international factors. Overall, the book provides valuable insights and should be read to stimulate further discussion and research. [Extracted from the article]
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4. A History of Crime in Australia: Australian Underworlds: By Nancy Cushing. London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 234. A$55.99 paper.
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Ingram, Caroline
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HISTORY of crime , *LEGAL history , *CRIMINAL justice system , *ACTUAL innocence ,AUSTRALIAN history - Abstract
"A History of Crime in Australia: Australian Underworlds" by Nancy Cushing is an introductory text for students of crime history and criminology. The book explores the impact of English law on transported convicts and First Nations peoples in Australia, and how their own systems of law were disregarded by colonists. It is organized into twelve chapters, each focusing on a specific aspect of crime history in Australia. The book includes essays by historians in each chapter, providing examples of scholarly writing. While the book primarily focuses on the legal history of New South Wales and Victoria, it offers thought-provoking case studies and is accessible to both students and general readers interested in crime history. [Extracted from the article]
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5. Enclaved Belonging: Ageing Migrants Staying Connected by Consuming COVID-19 Information.
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Cabalquinto, Earvin Charles B.
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OLDER people ,COVID-19 ,IMMIGRANTS ,RACIALIZATION ,SOCIAL networks - Abstract
This paper critically examines the ways ageing migrants perceive and experience a sense of belonging in a mediascape during the pandemic. It underscores how 15 elderly people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds in Victoria, Australia stayed connected among their networks in and beyond Australia by accessing and consuming COVID-19 information via traditional and digital channels. By analysing the data based on conducting remote interviews in 2020 and 2021, the findings highlight the paradoxical nature of mediated belonging. On the one hand, ageing migrants forged connections at a distance with their familial and social networks by circulating and consuming COVID-19 information. This practice provided ageing migrants an assurance of their safety and their networks. On the other hand, differentiation and racialisation stirred frustrating, polarising and exclusionary-mediated environments. In this case, they deployed connective strategies to negotiate connections and belonging. In sum, this paper reveals the possibilities and politics of mediated belonging fuelled by intersecting structural and technological divides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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6. From niches to regime: sustainability transitions in a diverse tourism destination.
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Flood Chavez, David, Niewiadomski, Piotr, and Jones, Tod
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TOURIST attractions ,COMMUNITY organization ,SUSTAINABILITY ,INTERNATIONAL tourism - Abstract
Until the end of WW2, the Margaret River region (MRR) was a popular domestic destination based on cave explorations. A series of incremental innovations between the 1950s and 1990s reconfigured the destination into a thriving international tourism destination that offers diverse experiences based on wine, surf, and nature. Nonetheless, contemporary external and internal forces are stimulating another shift – one towards sustainability. Apart from the global pro-sustainability agenda, this sustainability transition in tourism is mainly driven by two emerging niches: eco-accreditation and grassroots organisations. This paper adopts the multilevel perspective (MLP) – a commonly adopted framework in the sustainability transitions research field – and combines it with a typology of tourism innovation to examine the evolution of the MRR as a tourist destination. The paper addresses the ongoing sustainability transition in the MRR and discusses both top-down and bottom-up initiatives that stimulate it. In order to provide a holistic view of this transition, the paper also pays attention to the first transition in the destination (i.e. from caves to wine, surf, and nature), and examines its influence on the ongoing sustainability transition. As such, this paper aims to help bridge the gap between tourism geography and the interdisciplinary field of sustainability transitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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7. 'It's Time to Make Your Way Home': Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Multicultural Policies in Australia.
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Phillips, Melissa
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COVID-19 pandemic ,STAY-at-home orders ,SECONDARY analysis ,POLITICAL refugees ,RIGHT of asylum - Abstract
Governments around the world acted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic through lockdowns and border closures that had specific impacts on temporary residents (migrants, asylum seekers and refugees). In Australia, there were differential responses across states and territories, and a critical distinction made at Federal government level between permanent residents and citizens as compared to temporary migrants. The result has been the continued Othering of certain groups of Australians of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds as well as migrants and refugees on the basis of racial characteristics and visa status. This paper will consider the period where arguably multicultural policies were 'on hold' by investigating the timeline leading up to major policy decisions and the immediate and longer-term after-effects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Arguably the way in which multicultural communities were treated has shown the superficial nature of multicultural policies in Australia and the lack of more solid foundations in support of what now demographically constitutes a majority of the country's population. Drawing on secondary data analysis, the paper will outline the distance these actions have put between political leaders and multicultural communities, and queries the implications for a sustained commitment to multicultural policies in an era of temporary migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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8. Agile approach to accelerate product development using an MVP framework.
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Kazakevich, Boris and Joiner, Keith
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AGILE software development ,NEW product development ,TECHNOLOGY assessment ,REQUIREMENTS engineering ,PROJECT managers ,CONSUMERS - Abstract
Customers are looking for suppliers to deliver complex systems at faster rates, targeting three year cycle. This timeframe is challenging for low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) developments, increasing requirements engineering effort, leaving engineers little time and scope for innovation. Test and Evaluation (T&E) activities are often performed in Australia near the end of the process diminishing their value , compensating for a lack of modelling and simulation in early stages. Waterfall Project Management dominates where capability is hardware focused, leading to overruns and deliver capability that falls short of customer expectations in some areas. The Agile approach has been successfully used in software-focused developments. Project managers have been slow to adopt Agile for developments in areas like Defence where the safety is hardware dominant claiming the Agile process lacks necessary governance , increasing risk in the development. This paper examines the extant developmental process in a Defence context and proposes a Minimal Viable Product (MVP)-based framework using Agile to accelerate the development and mitigate risk escalation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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9. Positionality and reflexivity: negotiating insider-outsider positions within and across cultures.
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Yip, Sun Yee
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DOCTORAL students ,PARTICIPANT observation ,REFLEXIVITY ,QUALITATIVE research - Abstract
This paper draws on my experiences as a doctoral student undertaking a project to examine the professional adaptation of Asian immigrant teachers in Australia. Using a reflexive narrative approach, I examine how my position influenced my access to participants, the understanding of their contexts, and the nature of my relationship and interaction with the participants. The paper discusses the tensions that resulted from my insider-outsider positions and how they shaped my qualitative study's research process and outcomes. I conclude with recommendations for researchers to carefully consider the possible influence of their positionality in any research setting and its implications for informing future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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10. The contestation of policies for schools during the Covid-19 crisis: a comparison of teacher unions' positions in Germany and Australia.
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Brown, Bernard and Nikolai, Rita
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EDUCATION policy ,COVID-19 pandemic ,SCHOOL administration - Abstract
This paper examines school management and policies in Germany and Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study, which is comparative and qualitative, explores the interrelationship between different levels of governance and the responses of teacher unions. The inquiry is informed by the perspectives of historical institutionalism and path dependency, and the document analysis is conducted by utilising the justification categories of value, collective, and formal and procedural driven arguments. We argue the contestation which occurred between different levels of school governance and the teacher unions amidst the pandemic created the potential for changes in policy settings and influence over the administration of schooling. However, there is no indication of fundamental shifts in the organisation, policy direction or control over schooling in Germany or Australia. Instead, there is a conformity to established institutional arrangements and path dependencies, which secure and protect the vested interests of the different policy actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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11. Decolonization and trauma-informed truth-telling about Indigenous Australia in a social work diversity course: a cultural safety approach.
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Bennett, Bindi and Gates, Trevor G.
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CURRICULUM ,QUALITATIVE research ,RESEARCH funding ,INTERVIEWING ,SOCIAL work education ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,DECOLONIZATION ,EXPERIENCE ,THEMATIC analysis ,RACISM ,RESEARCH ,RESEARCH methodology ,STUDENT attitudes ,DISCLOSURE ,INDIGENOUS Australians ,CULTURAL pluralism ,SOCIAL stigma - Abstract
Actual accounts of the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples since colonization remain largely misunderstood and misrepresented within Australian education systems and the broader social consciousness. Culturally sensitive practice and ethnic diversity are challenging topics to teach social work students when truth-telling is absent. Social workers need to develop an understanding of intergenerational trauma experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, critically reflect on perpetuated stereotypes, and confront internalized beliefs about peoples of diverse ethnic and cultural identities in preparation to work respectfully with Indigenous communities. A course focused on building students' knowledge and skills for culturally responsive practice is described in this paper, along with suggestions for enhancing teaching and learning. The paper argues for the importance of truth-telling about Australia's continuing racism in social work education to create cultural safety for service users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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12. Children with disability in competitive Little Athletics: a systems thinking approach to rules and law.
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Moritz, Dominique, Pearce, Simone, West, Kerry, Sherrington, Catherine, and Bellew, William
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CHILDREN with disabilities ,SPORTS for children ,SYSTEMS theory ,ATHLETICS - Abstract
Children's competitive sport in Australia poses barriers for children with disabilities. Sporting structures generally do not provide opportunities for children with disabilities to compete in a manner that is meaningful and fair to them, and generally not with the mainstream competitions. Such treatment may be discriminatory, either wrongfully or unlawfully so. Using Australia's Little Athletics as a case study, this paper uses systems thinking to holistically map the influences on a child with disability's experiences in a sporting contest, to identify how the socially constructed environment affects structures and rules and how the law might shape those. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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13. The Basketball Boys: young men from refugee backgrounds and the symbolic value of swagger in an Australian state high school.
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Harwood, Georgie, Heesch, Kristiann C., Sendall, Marguerite C., and Brough, Mark
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YOUNG men ,REFUGEES ,HIGH schools ,EDUCATION policy ,CULTURAL capital - Abstract
Schools are critical spaces for young men from refugee backgrounds. They play an integral role in literacy development, educational attainment, and providing a sense of belonging. Inclusive education practices for this group are largely absent in Australian schools. Research shows focusing on these young men from a non-deficit position assists with inclusivity. There is a lack of research exploring the agentic practices of young men from refugee backgrounds within schools. This paper explores the symbolic value of swagger for a group of young men from refugee backgrounds at a high school in Australia. A Bourdieusian theoretical framework guided critical awareness of power in schools. This research shows how a group of young men found a meaningful way to acquire social and cultural capital. Despite the school's constraints, this group developed a group identity reflected in their clothing and embodied dispositions referred to here as swagger. Our findings demonstrate the complex power relations at work, including the opportunity for the young men to resist and be included. In the spirit of Bourdieu's concern for reflexivity our findings point to the need for schools, teachers, and education policy makers to consider the workings of power in schools in more considered ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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14. School Educators' Use of Research: Findings from Two Large-Scale Australian Studies.
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Gleeson, Joanne, Harris, Jess, Cutler, Blake, Rosser, Brooke, Walsh, Lucas, Rickinson, Mark, Salisbury, Mandy, and Cirkony, Connie
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EDUCATORS , *EFFECTIVE teaching , *EDUCATIONAL leadership , *EDUCATION research - Abstract
Increasingly, there are expectations internationally that schools will use research to inform their improvement initiatives. Within this context, this paper brings together findings from two large-scale Australian studies – the Monash Q Project and the University of Newcastle's Quality Teaching Rounds Project – to explore educators' patterns of engagement with research. The combination of these studies provides data from a larger and more diverse sample (n = 774) than other recent Australian studies, and integrates insights from direct and indirect approaches to investigating educators' research engagement. The analysis highlights several common themes associated with educators' research use including: the perceived credibility of different sources; the relevance and usability of research; and affordances of access to research and time to use it well in practice. Newer and more nuanced insights include: the interrelationships between collaborative and directed research use; the need for research to be convenient in terms of access and usability; the role of trusted colleagues in helping to bridge gaps between research and practice; and educators' distrust of research itself. The paper argues that these insights provide important cues as to how systems and school leaders can help educators to increase and improve their use of research in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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15. Just transitions in the Australian automotive sector?
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Beer, Andrew, Weller, Sally, Dinmore, Helen, Ratcliffe, Julie, Onur, Ilke, Bailey, David, Barnes, Tom, Irving, Jacob, Horne, Sandy, Atienza, Josefina, and Sotarauta, Markku
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The closure of the Australian passenger vehicle industry in 2017 ended an important phase in the nation's economic history. Closure affected up to 100,000 employees working across the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and the supply chain, with the impacts concentrated in two Australian states. This paper examines both the processes and the outcomes of this closure, making use of a Just Transitions lens to assess the wider impacts of this change. It reviews the measures put in place to assist workers displaced by plant closure, while also drawing on three waves of data from a survey of retrenched workers. The paper argues the process of transition for former employees was shaped by the distinctive characteristics of Australia's system of industrial relations and the ambition of its governments to have as many affected workers find employment as possible. This objective was prioritised over quality of employment or the emerging skill needs of industries. The paper finds that while former auto workers have been able to re-establish themselves in the labour market, the management of this major change does not meet the expectations of a Just Transition as too little attention was directed to the wider societal impacts of this transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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16. Understanding generational housing inequalities beyond tenure, class and context.
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Howard, Amber, Hochstenbach, Cody, and Ronald, Richard
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YOUNG adults ,HOUSING ,HOME ownership - Abstract
Much of the literature surrounding 'generation rent' has been criticized for neglecting socio-economic inequalities, stimulating an emergent body of work addressing intersections between age and class in shaping housing opportunities. Despite this, two key conceptual and empirical gaps remain under-explored: the manifestation of housing outcomes beyond a binary owner-renter tenure framework, and the drivers of inequalities aside from exclusion from homeownership. In addressing these omissions, this paper compares shifts in tenure (restructuring of rental sectors), housing conditions (affordability and precarity), and alternative housing situations (parental co-residence), between income groups in two contexts: Australia and the Netherlands. Findings illuminate increasingly multifaceted housing pressures faced by young adults, remarkable differences between private-renters and occupants of other tenures, and growing socio-economic disparities within the private-rental sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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17. Implementation of Social Inclusion to Support Refugee Students' Well-Being in Victoria, Australia: A Study of School Reports and Policies.
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Nguyen, Huu Loc and Kuyini, Ahmed Bawa
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SOCIAL integration ,STUDENT well-being ,SOCIAL support ,SCHOOL rules & regulations ,REFUGEE resettlement ,REFUGEE children ,REFUGEE families - Abstract
This paper explores social inclusion approaches implemented by ten secondary schools in Victoria, Australia, to support refugee students' well-being, as articulated in their policies, reports, and other published documents. Using an exploratory, qualitative research design, we found that all schools employed a holistic approach to implementing social inclusion programs for refugee students. This paper reports on the best practices and unique examples of social inclusion programs from all schools involved in the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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18. Waterways transformation and green stormwater infrastructure: enabling governance for Adelaide's River Torrens Catchment, Australia.
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Ibrahim, Alhassan, Bartsch, Katharine, and Sharifi, Ehsan
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GREEN infrastructure ,WATERSHEDS ,WATERWAYS ,FLOOD risk ,POWER resources ,BIPARTISANSHIP - Abstract
This paper explores the enabling governance conditions for implementing green stormwater infrastructure to transform waterways. Using Australia's largest integrated stormwater management project in Adelaide's River Torrens Catchment as a case study, we explore four key governance dimensions and their shifts over time: actors, rules of the game, discourse, and resources and power. Overall, 11 enablers emerged from these dimensions. These include collaboration and coordination, bipartisan support, regulation enforcement, knowledge and beliefs, leadership and expertise, and incremental funding. The paper reflects on the prevalence of these factors and provides recommendations to revitalize polluted waterways and address riverine flood risk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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19. The psychosocial experience of cancer: a meta-analysis of Australian rural versus urban populations.
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Barnes, Marisa, Thorsteinsson, Einar Baldvin, and Rice, Kylie
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META-analysis , *POPULATION geography , *SYSTEMATIC reviews , *ODDS ratio , *RURAL conditions , *METROPOLITAN areas , *CANCER patient psychology , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *WELL-being - Abstract
Understanding the psychological wellbeing of people with cancer is a key component of assessment and intervention in quality cancer care. However, the unique experiences of rural cancer populations are less often explored than those from urban centres. The aim of this study was to perform a meta-analysis of Australian studies that compared the psychological wellbeing experiences of people with cancer from rural and urban locations. Five databases were searched, and 19 studies, involving 16,947 participants, assessing and comparing the psychological wellbeing of rural and urban populations with cancer were included. The analysis indicated that Australian rural cancer populations have greater odds of worse psychological wellbeing than those from urban areas (OR = 1.54, 95% CI [1.01, 2.35], p = 0.044). This disparity remains when cancer types are analysed separately, with a slightly smaller odds ratio for rural people with breast cancer (OR = 1.29, 95%CI [1.01, 1.64], p = 0.046) and a slightly larger odds ratio when cancers excluding breast cancer were reviewed (OR = 1.78, 95% CI [1.59, 2.01], p = <.001). Significant heterogeneity was found. Despite increasing emphasis in Australia on psychological wellbeing throughout the cancer journey, there remain significant disparities whereby rural people experience greater impacts upon their psychological wellbeing. The wellbeing of Australian rural populations with cancer remains an area in which clinical and political focus is imperative. Whilst screening is a necessary first step, additional clinical implications for improving rural access to appropriately skilled health professionals who provide oncology-specific assessment and intervention are suggested. What is already known: Cancer is a major public health issue, and its psychosocial impacts are substantial, not just on patients but on their families and the broader community. The prevalence of clinically significant psychological distress is higher amongst people with cancer than the general population. However, identification, treatment, and provision of psychological support is inconsistent across services and geographical areas, and notably lacking in rural areas. Disparities in screening, assessment and intervention for psychological wellbeing in people with cancer remain, despite the fact that systematic application of screening, appropriate referral, and intervention can improve quality of life and reduce healthcare costs associated with inpatient and outpatient cancer care. What this paper adds: This article extends outcomes from previous systematic reviews and analyses from Australia and internationally with the addition of meta-analytic methods. It was specifically designed to solely focus on Australian cancer populations. The results suggest that Australian rural populations with cancer may have anywhere from 30% to 70% greater odds of experiencing poorer psychological wellbeing than those from urban areas. This paper highlights ongoing disparities in rural psycho-oncology that may be impacting wellbeing outcomes from rural people in Australia, and urges psychologists, other health professionals, and policy-makers to proactively address these inequities with improved screening, assessment and intervention for their rural populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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20. Going beyond the binary of internationalisation: how international faculty programmes enable institutions to function at home and abroad.
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Asada, Sarah R.
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GLOBALIZATION ,HIGHER education ,CLASSROOMS - Abstract
Internationalisation is now a prominent feature of the higher education landscape, with many institutions integrating international, intercultural and global dimensions inside and outside the classroom. In this paper, I examine the long-term outcomes of international faculty mobility on individual pathways at home institutions framed within the context of internationalisation. I find that the current mode of internationalisation neglects the role of how abroad activities contribute to subsequent institutional internationalisation at home and abroad. My retrospective tracer study with eight qualitative in-depth interview participants finds that formerly internationally mobile faculty integrate international, intercultural, and global dimensions related to the host country, host region and wider world at their home institutions into their teaching, research and service after returning from abroad. In doing so, I propose a new way of understanding how the complementary pillars of abroad and at home internationalisation maintain an on-going, synergetic process that react and contribute to each other and the way in which internationalisation can be re-visited and re-imagined meeting broader goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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21. Developing learning objectives for forensic accounting using bloom's taxonomy.
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Alshurafat, Hashem, Alaqrabawi, Merwiey, and Al Shbail, Mohannad Obeid
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ACCOUNTING education ,ACCOUNTING teachers ,CURRICULUM ,INFORMATION technology - Abstract
This paper aims to identify and explore the learning objectives outlining the core knowledge for forensic accounting education. Bloom's taxonomy is used to outline and analyze the core knowledge for forensic accounting education (e.g. fraud examination, litigation support, business valuation, and IT forensic accounting) in 15 Australian universities that provide forensic accounting courses. Furthermore, this paper applies a qualitative method to forensic accounting curricula, handbooks, and syllabi. These educational documents were retrieved from Australian universities. The findings report learning objectives under core content knowledge distributed over Bloom's cognitive areas. This study also provides a unified set of learning objectives to harmonize forensic accounting courses' teaching and learning processes. The most promising contribution of the paper is to provide a set of learning objectives in all forensic accounting subtopics. The main implications of this paper are relevant to forensic accounting educators, students, standard setters, researchers, regulators, and curricula designers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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22. Engaging in Reconciliation in Australia, and the Challenge of Institutional Reform.
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Boer, Henry
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CRITICAL discourse analysis ,RECONCILIATION ,SOCIAL cohesion - Abstract
The emphasis on reconciliation as a process of individual reflexivity and institutional reform raises important questions about people's engagement in reconciliation discourses. This paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine how staff at a regional Australian university interpret reconciliation and its application in a workplace context. Many frame their understanding on ideas that are considered foundational to reconciliation in post-colonial Australia. Notions of relationships and coexistence, unity and social harmony, cultural respect and the rightful place of First Nations peoples form the foundation to a revisionist national identity tied to a critical examination and responsiveness to past injustice. Participants recombine and reorder these concepts in ways that speak to their individualised translation, with a greater emphasis on the agency of First Nations peoples in the learning and teaching environment. Such expressions indicate a willingness by respondents to engage in the ideas of reconciliation at the cognitive level. For many, however, reconciliation remains an aspirational or desired activity, and belies a reticence to take personal action that will contribute to wider institutional change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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23. Making Whiteness and the Racialisation of Australian Youth Citizenship.
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Harris, Anita
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AUSTRALIANS ,RACIALIZATION ,WHITE youth ,YOUNG adults ,MINORITY youth ,ETHNICITY - Abstract
Rather than apprehending race or ethnicity as a predetermined social fact that then informs young people's experiences of engagement or inclusion, youth citizenship studies would benefit from more critical perspectives that enable investigation of the racialised construction of what is legible as civic participation or national belonging. Processes of racialisation operate in the production of youth as citizen-subjects in Australian nation-making through approaches in youth policy and research that simultaneously centre and invisibilise whiteness. This paper considers the role of racialisation in ways of knowing and regulating Australian youth as citizens through a critical review of the ways different groups of young people become meaningful and knowable as racialised citizens. It explores the representation and constitution of Indigenous, ethnic minority and white youth citizenship in youth research and policy as in turn non-existent/provisional, integrative/integratable, and vulnerable/healthy, to contribute to deepened understandings of the social construction of youth in the service of white nation-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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24. Exploring Christian Lutheran theological framings that shape men’s perpetration of domestic violence through pastor perspectives.
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Wendt, Sarah, Clarke, Josephine, and Mayer, Wendy
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DOMESTIC violence , *CHRISTIANITY , *GENDER identity , *LUTHERAN Church , *CLERGY , *FAITH - Abstract
The inclusion of theological beliefs and practices in the analysis of domestic violence is needed, hence this paper explores how Christian theological framings shape men’s perpetration of domestic violence. Through engagement with the Lutheran Church of Australia, interviews and a survey with Pastors found that gender was dominant in the themes and provided a framework for how Pastors understood domestic violence and how they articulated their explanations for why they perceived a denial of domestic violence in their religious contexts. The interviews in this study brought out the capacity of gendered theological discourse and the truth valency of scripture to both inform domestic violence and potentially be part of the solution, while at the same time the narratives express the inherent tensions and the resistance to change in the religious culture. The paper argues for the coming together of sociological, feminist, theological and spiritual understandings of gender identity to shape responses to domestic violence in Christian contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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25. Curriculum in conflict: influences of Australian teacher’s decision-making for students with complex disabilities.
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Rendoth, Tess, Foggett, Judith, Duncan, Jill, and Colyvas, Kim
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TEACHER influence , *EDUCATIONAL standards , *STUDENTS with disabilities , *DECISION making , *CURRICULUM , *CREATIVE ability - Abstract
This paper is an exploratory study of the personal and systematic influences over the curriculum decision-making process of teachers of students with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties in Australia. The way in which these influences impact teacher perceptions of the mandated curriculum and its day-to-day operationalization are discussed. The paper draws from both a national survey (
n = 46) and in-depth case studies (n = 5) of teachers who work in government-funded specialist educational settings. Findings show that teachers have prominent levels of emotionality, a drive for creativity and dedication to inclusive practice, but ultimately work within a context perceived through conflict and dilemma. Previous related decision-making models are used to compare results, with some distinct differences emerging. Findings indicate that rather than enabling inclusion, standardized curriculums create an environment of professional (self)exclusion and reduce access to professional support. Increases in responsibility burden and negative emotional effects are explored. Although teachers view access to standardized curriculum programs as vital to educational inclusion and the enhancement of their professional expertise, the utilization of the current offering in Australia is makeshift at best and fraught with internal conflict. The implications of these findings are discussed, and future recommendations for research are prioritized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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26. Youth Work as Social Pedagogy: Toward an Understanding of Non-Formal and Informal Education and Learning in Youth Work.
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Corney, T., Marion, J., Baird, R., Welsh, S., and Gorman, J.
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POLICY sciences , *EMPLOYEES , *TERMS & phrases , *PROFESSIONAL practice , *TEACHING methods , *PROFESSIONAL identity , *CODES of ethics , *HUMAN rights , *STUDENTS , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *LEARNING strategies , *CONCEPTS - Abstract
This paper undertakes a select survey of international literature to identify the points of convergence that support common understanding – and debate – amongst youth workers, researchers and policy makers in regards to definitional commonalities in professional youth work. We find that non-formal education, framed by human rights, appears to offer definitional common ground for youth work practice globally. Drawing on the Australian context to ground the discussion, the paper considers how revision of key definitional documents to reflect the pedagogic basis of youth work could inform the tertiary level training and preparation of youth work students and the state-based codes of ethics that inform and regulate professional youth work practice. This is important for professional youth work in Australia as the only nationally agreed statement on youth work currently lacks a pedagogical definition. While precisely categorizing the practices and programs used by youth workers remains a challenge, there is much common ground found amongst the non-formal and informal education conceptualisations of youth work internationally. While there are differences in the way professional youth work is delivered across countries and jurisdictions, there appears to be an agreed underpinning pedagogical framework, often referred to as social pedagogy, which is commonly applied, and informs the practices and programs delivered to the diverse and complex young people who benefit from them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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27. "Frantic online searches for help": design considerations for an online early intervention service addressing harmful sexual behaviour.
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McKibbin, Gemma, Tyler, Matt, Gallois, Esther, Spiteri-Staines, Anneliese, Humphreys, Cathy, and Green, Julie
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PREVENTION of child sexual abuse , *RISK-taking behavior , *EARLY medical intervention , *RESEARCH funding , *HUMAN sexuality , *MEDICAL care , *INTERVIEWING , *INTERNET , *SEX customs , *THEMATIC analysis , *RESEARCH methodology , *ACTION research , *PREVENTIVE health services - Abstract
Secondary prevention efforts, which target risk and protective factors associated with harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) and seek to intervene early in the trajectory of HSB, are underdeveloped in Australia. This study explored design considerations for an online early intervention service for children and young people worried about their sexual thoughts and behaviours. A trauma-informed child right's framework underpinned the study, which involved 10 individual interviews with international experts in HSB, and one group interview (n = 3) with Australian practitioners. Analysis was carried out using thematic analysis. Results reflect design considerations in relation to: theoretical approaches; practice frameworks; service delivery components; and helpseeking challenges. Key tensions emerging from the results are discussed, including the need to move beyond binary constructions of victims and perpetrators. PRACTICE IMPACT STATEMENT: This paper has significant potential to influence practice in the field of harmful sexual behaviour prevention and response. The paper sets out the components of an early intervention online service for children and young people worried about their sexual thoughts and behaviours. The online service could be built and trialed for impact and efficacy in supporting children and young people not to sexually harm. It would be the first service of its kind in Australia and fill a gap in the current service delivery landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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28. Clusters of risk associated with harmful sexual behaviour onset for children and young people: opportunities for early intervention.
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McKibbin, Gemma, Humphreys, Cathy, Tyler, Matt, and Spiteri-Staines, Anneliese
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RISK-taking behavior in children , *RISK assessment , *SEX crimes , *RISK-taking behavior , *EARLY medical intervention , *VIOLENCE , *RESEARCH funding , *HUMAN sexuality , *INTERVIEWING , *SEX customs , *TEENAGERS' conduct of life , *EMOTIONAL trauma , *RESEARCH , *PORNOGRAPHY , *MEDICAL practice , *CHILD behavior , *ADVERSE childhood experiences - Abstract
Harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) carried out by children and young people can include sexual abuse of younger children or adults, or sexual assault in dating or peer relationships. The aim of this paper is to capture the "practice wisdom" of practitioners and applied researchers about clusters of risk factors associated with HSB onset, as well as possibilities for earlier intervention. Participants included practitioners and applied researchers in the HSB field. Data was collected in 2020 through individual interviews with eight key expert informants, and two group interviews – the first with two applied researchers and the second with three practitioners. Data analysis revealed risk factor clusterings around five key childhood experiences: being sexually curious; having a sexual interest in children; living with childhood trauma; living with contextual violence; and using pornography. These clusters are discussed in relation to early intervention. PRACTICE IMPACT STATEMENT Harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) is preventable but the early intervention agenda is underdeveloped. In this paper, five risk clusters are identified: being sexually curious; having a sexual interest in children; living with childhood trauma; living with contextual violence; and using pornography. The identification of these risk clusters present opportunities for early intervention that could enhance the prevention agenda to address HSB in Australia and internationally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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29. Describing, knotting, tying: developing emerging media documentary in a creative accelerator context.
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Andrews, Ben Joseph, Browne, Reanna, Knowles, Isobel, Roberts, Emma, Sowerwine, Van, Tiquia, Ana, and Morrison, Katy
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ARTISTS , *DOCUMENTARY films - Abstract
This article discusses the experiences of six artists participating in a new Australian creative accelerator programme for emerging media documentary. Attending to the processes, perspectives and frames employed by these artists in developing their early-stage projects, the article explores the diverse practice-based methods employed in developing documentary for emerging media formats. The paper argues for the value of attending to process and practice, as key frameworks that set the context for eventual creative outcomes. In doing so, the paper aims to contribute to knowledge about methods to support artists in developing emerging media documentary in a creative accelerator context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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30. Celebrating Australian nurses who are pioneering the response to climate change: a compilation of case studies.
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Levett-Jones, Tracy, Bonnamy, James, Cornish, Jack, Correia Moll, Elaine, Fields, Lorraine, Moroney Oam, Tracey, Richards, Catelyn, Tutticci, Naomi, and Ward, Aletha
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NURSES , *ENVIRONMENTAL health , *OCCUPATIONAL roles , *LEADERS , *CLIMATE change , *RESPONSIBILITY , *LEADERSHIP , *WASTE recycling , *HEALTH , *EVALUATION of human services programs , *GOAL (Psychology) , *NURSES' attitudes , *NURSING practice , *HORTICULTURE , *CASE studies - Abstract
Nurses, the largest healthcare workforce, are well placed to provide leadership in initiatives that promote planetary health. Yet, few practical examples of nurse leadership in the health sector's response to climate change are evident in the scholarly literature. The aim of this discussion paper is to profile Australian nurses who are leading initiatives designed to champion planetary health and promote sustainable practice. The paper presents a series of case studies derived from interviews conducted in October and November 2023. The nurses' experiences and insights, along with the challenges they have encountered, are presented as evidence of Kouzes and Posner's five practices of exemplary leadership. The case studies demonstrate that appointment of more nurses with climate and sustainability expertise will accelerate the implementation of responsive strategies that target waste management, emissions reduction and climate resilience across healthcare organisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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31. Negotiating Work-Family Transitions: Reverse Family Migration among Second-Generation Hong Kong Mothers.
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Ngan, Lucille Lok Sun
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FAMILIES , *EMIGRATION & immigration , *FAMILY unity (Law) - Abstract
Gendered and generational understandings of circular migration are scant in studies of Chinese family migration. Filling this gap, this paper draws on in-depth interviews with twenty-six returnee families to examine the work–family transitions of previously employed, overseas-educated mothers who have re-migrated from Hong Kong to Canada, Australia, the United States, or the United Kingdom. These overseas-educated returnee mothers possess transnational backgrounds that differentiate them from most first-generation immigrant mothers. This paper shows that, despite this distinction, reverse migration leads to compromised careers and domestication for these women, although they accept, and in some cases embrace, such compromises. This study elucidates how both husbands and wives in these families justify women's post-migration changes in their work and caregiving roles. It argues that beyond economic rationalization, interrelated gender, cultural, transnational, and family lifestyle dimensions distinctively impact how second-generation returnee mothers negotiate work–family transitions. This paper offers new insights involving generational and gendered dimensions into the study of Chinese family migration. It also widens the discussion of the impact of family migration on skilled immigrant women in transnational circuits beyond its focus on the lives of first-generation skilled immigrant women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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32. Teacher professional autonomy in an atypical government school: matters of relationality and context.
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Keddie, Amanda, MacDonald, Katrina, Blackmore, Jill, and Gobby, Brad
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TEACHER attitudes , *AUTONOMY (Psychology) , *SCHOOL autonomy , *PUBLIC education , *ADULTS - Abstract
Teacher professional autonomy is important to teachers' work satisfaction, efficiency, well-being, and empowerment. However, it cannot simply be defined as freedom from control because it is relational and contextual. In this paper, we examine the relationality and contextual sensitivity of teacher professional autonomy at 'Newstall' College, a senior secondary government school in Australia. The paper draws on a larger study that examined the social justice implications of school autonomy reform in four Australian state education systems. Newstall College was one of the five case study schools included in this study. Findings generated through in-depth interviews with eighteen staff members (including teachers, professional staff, the deputy principal and the principal) are presented that examine teacher professional autonomy. Conceptualising teacher autonomy as relational and contextual, the paper provides insight into the ways in which teacher autonomy was enabled at this school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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33. Big data, emerging technologies and the characteristics of 'good intelligence'.
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Hammond-Errey, Miah
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TECHNOLOGICAL innovations , *BIG data , *DIGITAL technology , *INTELLIGENCE service , *HISTORICAL literature - Abstract
What constitutes good intelligence is best understood by practitioners but has not been explored through empirical analysis and in the context of a digital age. This paper presents the first research inside all the agencies that form the Australian National Intelligence Community exploring how they are impacted by big data. Intelligence is often opaque to outsiders, yet understanding the characteristics of good intelligence is important to societies that rely on intelligence agencies for national security. This paper reflects the previously unheard perspectives of members of the agencies that form the Australian National Intelligence Community – where there is a significant empirical gap. Semi-structured interviews with 47 participants explored the impact of big data on intelligence and decision-making in Australia. This paper finds that intelligence must meet the following characteristics, many established in historical literature, in order to be considered good intelligence; (i) timely, (ii) purposeful, (iii) actionable, (iv) accurate, (v) provides value-add for an intended audience, and, (vi) is unbiased. This article explores and unpacks each of these characteristics of good intelligence and finds they remain critical in a big data era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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34. Community solutions for schooling engagement: Two Australian case studies.
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McGregor, Glenda, Mills, M., Riddle, S., and Howell, A.
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COMMUNITY relations , *SECONDARY schools , *PARTNERSHIPS in education , *ACADEMIC support programs - Abstract
This paper draws together data from two projects on schooling dis/engagement in Australia. One project focused on mainstream schools and the strategies employed to retain and engage young people in learning, whereas the other explored the growing sector of alternative/flexible education for similar solutions. We found interesting parallels. For example, rich, relevant curricula delivered through innovative pedagogies alongside positive staff/student relationships were key elements in schooling engagement across both sectors. Those findings have been published elsewhere. This paper focuses on the contributions to schooling engagement that may be derived from mutually beneficial school/community relationships. Here, we examine one mainstream high school and one flexi secondary school, both situated in remote geolocations, that established bespoke school/community partnerships in response to local needs. The data from each site provide blueprints for other schools that wish to tap into the wealth of human and material support systems in their own local areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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35. A summary of initiatives to address teacher shortages in hard-to-staff schools in the Anglosphere.
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McPherson, Amy, Lampert, Jo, and Burnett, Bruce
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SUPPLY & demand of teachers , *TEACHER recruitment , *TEACHER retention , *TEACHERS , *TEACHER education - Abstract
This article brings together a number of key issues that emerge in research around the problem of teacher shortages in hard-to-staff schools. It offers a broad overview of the hard-to-staff schooling sector as discussed in recent academic literature and provides a context-specific overview of the literature around workforce shortages in hard-to-staff schools with relevancy for high poverty contexts. In line with Williams et al. (2022) position on "Local Strategies, Global Inspiration," this paper focuses on the problem of teacher shortages in hard-to-staff schools in Australia while looking to both Australian and broader Anglosphere literature (p.120) to reconsider responses to teacher recruitment and retention. The paper begins with a survey of the current state of this issue of workforce shortages in hard-to-staff schools in Australia. Turning our attention to literature from both Australia and Anglosphere countries, the summary then focuses on the specific initiatives and mechanisms employed for recruiting and retaining teachers in hard-to-staff schools, particularly the organisational contributions of Initial Teacher Education that support recruitment into hard-to-staff schools. The article concludes by highlighting limitations and critiques of hard-to-staff initiatives in the literature to inform policy and organisational considerations when addressing the issue of teacher shortages going forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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36. Digital, co-created implementation of communication partner training programs for stroke, brain injury, and dementia: Past, present, and future.
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Power, Emma and Morrow, Rosemary
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REHABILITATION for brain injury patients ,DIGITAL technology ,HUMAN services programs ,TRAFFIC accidents ,DIGITAL health ,REFLECTION (Philosophy) ,APHASIA ,COMMUNICATIVE disorders ,INFORMATION needs ,STROKE rehabilitation ,CONVALESCENCE ,COMMUNICATION education ,DEMENTIA ,PEOPLE with disabilities ,SPEECH therapy - Abstract
Communication partner training is a recommended intervention for partners of people with acquired brain injury. In this paper we explore the past, present, and future of communication partner training (CPT) based on our 2023 Speech Pathology Australia national conference address. We focus on our research team's contributions, and highlight research knowledge across stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and dementia. This work is anchored in the voice of people with communication disability. One partner in the CPT journey, Rosey Morrow, co-authors this paper. The CPT evidence base for acquired neurological conditions is growing, including in the areas of technology, co-design, and translation. However, knowledge and implementation gaps remain. The future of CPT will require us to harness co-design and technology, whilst meeting the implementation challenges of complex systems to enable communication for all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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37. Pandemic Racism in Australia: A Systematic Review.
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Ben, Jehonathan and Elias, Amanuel
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RACISM ,PANDEMICS ,COVID-19 pandemic ,INVECTIVE ,INSTITUTIONAL racism ,ETHNIC groups ,MEDLINE - Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to diverse manifestations of racism in Australia, from everyday attacks against Asian Australians to discriminatory policies towards temporary migrants. Since the start of the pandemic, considerable knowledge on pandemic-related racism has been produced. This knowledge has yet to be consolidated, leaving questions about the nature, forms, impacts and trajectories of racism during the pandemic. This paper presents a systematic review and synthesis of research on racism during the pandemic, with an emphasis on pandemic-specific racism. We searched the databases Scopus, MEDLINE and PsycINFO for research published between January 2020 and July 2022. Eighteen research studies were included in the review, along with reports of routine data collection by five organisations. The research reviewed collected data mainly around the pandemic's 'second wave' in Australia (June-October 2020), focusing largely on Asian Australians and temporary migrants nationally and in Victoria. Widely studied forms of COVID-racism were verbal abuse, physical attacks, exclusion and Othering, and institutional racism involving governments, media and employers. We examined the pandemic's health and socio-economic impacts, and variations in experiences of racism over time between ethnic groups. As Australia emerges from the pandemic, we consider the review's implications for pandemic response, anti-racism practice and policy, and future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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38. English language expectations and experiences of Chinese students in Australian secondary schools: Opportunities and challenges.
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Lindner, Karen and Margetts, Kay
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ENGLISH language ,CHINESE students ,SECONDARY schools ,CURRICULUM - Abstract
This paper presents data derived from a larger study related to the expectations and experiences of international students from the People's Republic of China with regard to studying in Australian secondary schools. The study involved 116 international students, and data were collected in two phases using questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Findings suggest that English language experiences are a key concern and students do not always develop English language skills as expected during their period of study in Australia. To reduce dissonance between expectations and experiences of English language learning in Australia, it is recommended that substantial, ongoing English language support is embedded within the core curriculum for international students in Australian secondary schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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39. Inviting students to talk the talk: developing employability skills in accounting education through industry-led experiences.
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Twyford, Erin and Dean, Bonnie Amelia
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ACCOUNTING education ,ACCOUNTING students ,INTEGRATED learning systems ,FINANCIAL planning - Abstract
Universities are increasingly focused on preparing graduates with strong disciplinary and interdisciplinary skills to increase student employability. In accounting education however, the development of employability skills remains a concern among graduates and employers. One strategy for enhancing employability is to engage students in industry-based experiences through work-integrated learning (WIL). This paper introduces a novel, industry-led WIL experience embedded in an Australian university's accounting and financial planning curriculum and investigates students' perceptions of employability skills developed through this intervention. In this WIL experience, industry professionals workshopped multidisciplinary skills and provided feedback to students following a simulated work-based scenario. Data was analysed from student surveys and reflections and showed that students perceived this approach as effective for developing employability skills such as teamwork and communication and for aligning theory to praxis. This paper supports endorsing alternative WIL models and industry collaborations in accounting education to enhance graduate employability skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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40. Population Growth and Distribution in Australia: Policy and Governance Challenges for a More Balanced Settlement Structure.
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Dühr, Stefanie
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STRUCTURED financial settlements ,LAND use planning ,POPULATION forecasting ,CITIES & towns ,POPULATION aging ,HUMAN settlements ,REGIONAL differences - Abstract
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41. Youth Work in a Warm Climate: Navigating Good Practice in Australia Under Neoliberalism.
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Edwards, Kathy and O'Keeffe, Patrick
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GLOBAL warming ,AUSTRALIANS ,NEOLIBERALISM ,BEST practices - Abstract
We write as Australian youth work educators. We consider some of the ethical challenges involved in teaching youth work 'in a warm climate', situated in the diaspora of English youth work but where youth work also has a uniquely Australian character, placing us in an ethically liminal space in our teaching between an understanding of youth work that is robustly defended as being both 'good' and 'true', and what we do, which is different from this, and has its own character and strengths. We situate this in the policy history of youth work in Australia, particularly in the 'neoliberal turn' that this has taken in the last four decades which has created ethical challenges for us, just as it has for those elsewhere. Two guiding questions shape this paper. The first is, given our differences, what challenges do we face in maintaining connections with 'good' youth work and its value base as traditionally defined and defended in England, and relatedly, given that policy and funding regimes in the UK seem to be aligning more with an Australian model, is there anything that the youth work community in the UK can learn from the Australian experience? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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42. Retrospective review of the efficacy for sublingual ketamine in the treatment of chronic low back pain defined by a cause and central functional pain symptom focused clinical model.
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Johnson, David, Feng, Lanxuan, and Johnson, Charlotte
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HEALTH literacy , *MEDICAL logic , *LIFESTYLES , *CHRONIC pain , *KETAMINE , *SUBLINGUAL drug administration , *OUTPATIENT services in hospitals , *PATIENT safety , *QUALITATIVE research , *DISEASE management , *EXERCISE therapy , *REHABILITATION , *MOVEMENT disorders , *RETROSPECTIVE studies , *TERTIARY care , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *TREATMENT duration , *FUNCTIONAL status , *LONGITUDINAL method , *DRUG efficacy , *MATHEMATICAL models , *CONCEPTUAL structures , *MEDICAL records , *ACQUISITION of data , *PAIN management , *THEORY , *LUMBAR pain , *EVALUATION - Abstract
Chronic low back pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide. A clinical model for its cause is lacking. Defining a cause based clinical model and a framework of understanding back pain in terms of peripheral structural and central functional pain is essential for optimal management. We describe the results of the largest published audit of 41 chronic low back pain patients, receiving outpatient sublingual ketamine therapy for defined central functional pain along with conventional peripheral structural pain management. Our clinical model assigns Movement Dysfunction as the primary cause for low back pain symptoms and restores it with Movement Therapy focused rehabilitation which is also defined. Patients were derived from a tertiary single neurosurgical specialist practice in Brisbane Australia over a three year period. Severe pain and disability measurements more than halved and only 13% of patients ceased ketamine prematurely due to predominantly non-sinister side effects common to all pharmaceutical therapies. All other surveyed metrics of utility were highly favourable in this challenging cohort of chronic back pain patients biased to poor outcomes. Outpatient ketamine maintains high efficacy and safety used in conjunction with a unique clinical model that describes chronic low back pain. This paper builds on our previous publications that describe the disease of movement dysfunction as an integral factor to the development of a cause based clinical model for the condition of chronic low back pain symptoms. Our clinical application of this model, applying the necessary dual approach of controlling symptoms arising from peripheral structural pain and central functional pain in conjunction with elimination of root causation has shown favourable outcomes in patients with high levels of pain and disability based on their tertiary referral origin and high Oswestry Disability Scores. Removing chronic low back pain from its position as one of the world's leading causes of pain and disability is more likely if the rehabilitation industry can replicate and test treatment algorithms based around established clinical models of disease which is the important subject of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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43. Settler colonialism and prisons: a comparative case study of Canada, Palestine, and Australia.
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Venczel, Elizabeth
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COLONIES , *ABORIGINAL Canadians , *INTERSECTIONALITY , *HISTORY of colonies , *PRISONS , *ANTISLAVERY movements - Abstract
Through an examination of the history of settler colonial violence against Indigenous peoples and lands in Canada, Palestine, and Australia, this paper exposes the links between colonialism and the penitentiary, across borders. This paper interrogates the differences and similarities between the use of prisons as a tool in settler colonial expansion in these three states. As a contribution to abolitionist thought and theory, this paper highlights the need for an intersectional analysis of the overlapping consequences of settler colonialism and international carceral regimes. Efforts to resist carceral expansion around the world must include efforts to resist colonial expansion, and the voices of Indigenous peoples must be centred throughout this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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44. Towards an assemblage approach to mobile disability politics.
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Waitt, Gordon, Harada, Theresa, and Birtchnell, Thomas
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ELECTRIC wheelchairs , *DISABILITIES , *PEOPLE with disabilities , *AUSTRALIANS , *PRACTICAL politics - Abstract
This paper addresses embodied geographies of power assisted devices (powered wheelchairs and motorised scooters) for disabled people in Australia to augment understandings of mobile disability politics. Deleuze and Guattari's notion of 'lines' is used to reimagine spatial thinking about mobile disability politics. Disability in this paper is understood as an emplaced, emergent, relational and embodied process that arises in the interaction between ideas, materials and bodies. A focus on the shifting affective capacities of everyday journeys can deepen an understanding of mobile disability politics through attention to sensations. To illustrate the notion of lines we draw on three 'portraits' from a qualitative project on power assisted devices in Ballina Shire, New South Wales, Australia. Each portrait provides an illustration of how mobility experiences of power assisted devices may reinforce and/or challenge normative ideologies and identities, alongside deepening understandings of how ideas and materials come together to produce enabling and/or exclusionary arrangements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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45. Privatising public schools via product pipelines: Teach For Australia, policy networks and profit.
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Rowe, Emma, Langman, Sarah, and Lubienski, Christopher
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PUBLIC schools ,NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations ,DECISION making ,ETHNOLOGY - Abstract
Drawing upon a long-term study of venture philanthropy and public schools in Australia, this paper focuses on Teach For Australia (TFA) as a major component of a venture philanthropic network, one that builds critical infrastructures and connections between non-government organisations and the state, creating a product pipeline into public schools. Utilising interviews with staff from Teach For Australia and venture philanthropic organisations, comprehensive and rigorous financial data, reviews, reports and website data, the analysis aims to identify the major philanthropic funders, individual actors and private foundations that leverage Teach For Australia, illustrating how this network develops for-profit pathways into public schools. In pushing a deficit framing of public schools, these networks incur privatisation effects, including flows of money, resources and key decision-making. They compromise the democratic principles upon which public schools are ideally based, in that the most disadvantaged public schools are opened up to 'entrepreneurial' and risk-taking corporate behaviour to test out teachers, products and services. By examining streams of revenue, partnerships and networks, we show how the purportedly non-profit Teach For Australia develops for-profit opportunities and business partnerships nested in corporate philanthropy, resulting in a privatisation effect on public schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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46. Rescue and recovery: The COVID and post-COVID responses of apprenticeship systems.
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Smith, Erica
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COVID-19 pandemic ,YOUNG adults ,APPRENTICESHIP programs ,COVID-19 - Abstract
Few changes have been so abruptly disruptive to apprenticeships worldwide as the global COVID outbreak from early 2020 onwards. Because apprenticeships involve experience in workplaces (normally via employment), as well as participation in education systems, the effects were especially serious. There was extra urgency to policy responses because apprenticeships are disproportionately, and in some countries, exclusively, undertaken by young people. There were no worldwide 'answers' as to what to do, as apprenticeship systems vary greatly among countries. The paper examines the development of apprenticeship-related measures in several countries worldwide, with a particular focus on Australia and England. The paper uses statistical data, government announcements, guidance from stakeholders and officials, and also a systematic analysis of presentations by leading country experts at an online international apprenticeship conference in May 2021. Reflecting on common concerns on apprenticeship system, the paper critiques and analyses the effects and potential effects of COVID and post-COVID measures on apprenticeship systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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47. Earth pressure model to predict the long-term performance of integral abutment bridge.
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Wijaya, Hendrik, Rajeev, Pathmanathan, and Gad, Emad
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EARTH pressure ,BRIDGE abutments ,FINITE element method ,TORQUE ,SHEARING force - Abstract
Integral abutment bridges (IAB), especially the short to medium-span IABs, have become more popular throughout the years in Australia as well as globally. IABs have advantages over traditional bridges in terms of their construction and maintenance costs due to the elimination of expansion joints. However, the thermal expansion can develop significantly larger earth pressure behind the abutment, thus leading to excessive forces (i.e. moment and shear force) to the foundation, which are not considered during the design process and can cause cracking and failures, eventually. It is observed from the field monitoring of IABs that the earth pressure model used to estimate the pressure distribution is not adequate to capture possible variations. Further, the performance of IABs highly depends on the complex interaction of abutment-backfill and soil-foundation and the time-dependent and cyclic behaviour of backfill and foundation soils. In this paper, nonlinear finite element model of an IAB considering the time-dependent effects of materials is presented to simulate long-term responses due to thermal loading. The developed IAB model results are validated using field monitoring data and parametric study is performed including the geometry of IAB, thermal loading, and soil properties. The results are used to investigate the functional relationship between input parameters and long-term responses which are further utilised to develop a new earth pressure distribution model for the design and performance assessment of IABs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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48. Exploring queer people of colour's perceptions of pride in Sydney.
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Lewis, Clifford, Chandra, Shiva, and Markwell, Kevin
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PEOPLE of color ,LGBTQ+ people ,LGBTQ+ pride celebrations ,LGBTQ+ identity ,POWER (Social sciences) ,SOCIAL dominance - Abstract
Pride events in majority-White contexts reflect social structures and power relations which privilege individuals from that group. The normative Whiteness that shapes these societies influence the dominance of Whiteness in queer spaces and Pride events which take place in them. This paper focused on queer people of colour (QPoC), in Australia, to understand how their intersectional identities shape perceptions of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Drawing on intersectionality as a framework, the study analysed interviews with 12 individuals. Results indicate participants feel a disjuncture between their queer identities and ethnicities and that queer spaces in Australia are premised on a normative Whiteness. While Mardi Gras is a meaningful and positive experience for respondents, the findings suggest the event perpetuates a narrow understanding of what it means to be queer by centring a White subjectivity and stereotypical queer representations. Findings suggest greater inclusivity can be achieved by 'inviting in' QPoC, meaningfully supporting more diverse expressions of 'queerness', including QPoC in all stages of the event, and being sensitive to the diverse needs of different groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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49. The spatiality of economic maldistribution in public-school funding in Australia: still a poisonous debate.
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MacDonald, Katrina, Keddie, Amanda, Eacott, Scott, Wilkinson, Jane, Blackmore, Jill, Niesche, Richard, and Gobby, Brad
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FINANCE ,PUBLIC schools ,JURISDICTION ,JUSTICE - Abstract
This paper analyses the composition, distribution, and history of school funding in Australia through a spatial lens (Soja 2010). We explore multi-scalar school funding policy through three layers of economic maldistribution. We sketch the funding disparities between the three school sectors (public, Catholic, and independent) exposing a spatial injustice in policies of school choice; the spatial and economic maldistribution between state jurisdictions; and the economic maldistribution within state public systems, including the ability of their school communities to contribute funds. Spatial injustice is uncovered in economic maldistribution within and across these policy layers, adding nuance to existing school funding debates. The Australian case is relevant to international explorations of school funding as an example of 'unjust practice' in the hierarchies between schools across sectors, between jurisdictions, and within systems of public [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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50. Scoping review of the application of the Behavioural Model for Vulnerable Populations to people experiencing homelessness.
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Grech, Elizabeth, Longbottom, Erin, Yee, Jasmine, Hastings, Ruth, Aitkenhead, Amy, Cason, Amy, Obrecht, Karin, and Currie, Jane
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HOMELESS persons ,INFORMATION needs ,CINAHL database ,QUALITY of service ,SERVICE design ,HOMELESSNESS - Abstract
This scoping review investigates the characteristics included in the Behavioural Model for Vulnerable Populations applied to people experiencing homelessness. This review underpins the development of a novel tool to assess the health needs and capacity of people experiencing homelessness to access health care in Australia. Included papers were primary studies, written in English, published from 2000 onwards, participants aged 18 years and over and experiencing homelessness. Databases searched were CINAHL, MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed, between March to June 2020. The Joanna Briggs Appraisal criteria were used to quality appraise included studies. Fifteen papers met the eligibility criteria and were included. The total participant sample size was 42,152. Provision of professional support and case management were significant factors in increasing access to care for people experiencing homelessness. Findings suggest that the Behavioural Model for Vulnerable Populations is a valuable tool in identifying health needs and predicting health service use. Included studies indicate that using the Behavioural Model for Vulnerable Populations can facilitate provision of targeted health services to people experiencing homelessness by identifying unmet needs. The findings of this review are valuable to health service design and policy, to increase access to care for people experiencing homelessness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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