International Relations : Nurturing Reality
- Authors: Edmondson, Elizabeth , Levy, Stuart
- Date: 2008
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Climate Change and Order: The End of Prosperity and Democracy
- Authors: Edmondson, Elizabeth , Levy, Stuart
- Date: 2013
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Mining Towns: Making a Living, Making a Life
- Authors: Eklund, Erik
- Date: 2012
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- Description: At any given moment in our history Australia has been in the middle of a mining boom. This book is a history of iconic Australian towns that have emerged as a result of these booms: Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie and Kambalda.
The state of welfare : comparative studies of the welfare state at the end of the long boom, 1965-1980
- Authors: Eklund, Erik , Oppenheimer, Melanie , Scott, Joanne
- Date: 2018
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- Description: The period after 1945 saw a rapid growth in social welfare, with the state taking on increasing responsibility for pensions, health care, unemployment relief and income support. In Western democracies economic growth underpinned state investment and was reinforced by demands from the new social movements of the 1960s. Just as the clamour for reformism reached a crescendo in the late 1960s, the global economy began to falter, culminating in the oil crisis of 1973-1974. This volume explores the factors that shaped the trajectories of welfare state change over this crucial period. A close analysis of countries such as Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom reveals signs of a broader shift towards the decline of government spending and the first tentative moves towards a nascent neoliberalism. Other countries, such as Sweden and West Germany, remained comparatively untouched by the economic crisis and even sought to reinforce their welfare state in response to it. Ireland and Northern Ireland also showed little evidence of these changes, isolated as they were by complex political and religious factors. This book brings together a range of case studies at both country and provincial level in order to build up a more complex and nuanced picture of the welfare state in the 1960s and 1970s.
Bravo Brown!: The correspondence of Charles Henry Brown - aeronaut
- Authors: FitzSimons, Terence
- Date: 2020
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- Description: As an aeronaut, Brown's lifelong obsession with aerostation took him from his native Great Britain to Australia. While his aeronautical endeavours met with only limited success he was, however, determined to record his contribution to the science, and from an early stage established a vital correspondence with a number of leading figures in the world of ballooning. The letters provide insights into the developing field of aeronautics, and reveal the tensions, rivalries and downright underhand conduct of some of the pioneers of aviation. Brown's intention was to publish his collected correspondence, but his failure to fully realise his own lifelong ambition as an aeronaut of note led him in despair to take his life before he achieved his objective of bringing the compiled correspondence to print. The manuscript was later recovered by a relative and deposited at the State Library of Victoria where it sat receiving but scant attention until now. © Peter Lang AG 2020. All rights reserved.
Learning through indigenous business : The role of vocational education and training in indigenous enterprise and community development
- Authors: Flamsteed, Kate , Golding, Barry
- Date: 2005
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Under current: A Trans-Tasman exchange
- Authors: Forbes, Rodney , Holcroft, Julian
- Date: 2010
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Enabling the elderly person with lower limb amputation through surgery, rehabilitation and long term care
- Authors: Fortington, Lauren
- Date: 2013
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Deconstructing Youth: Youth discourses at the limits of sense
- Authors: Gabriel, Fleur
- Date: 2013
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- Description: Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'.
Non-thermal food processing: impact on chemical, nutritional and bioactive
- Authors: Gamlath, Shirani , Wakeling, Lara
- Date: 2011
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Non-thermal food processing: Impact on chemical, nutritional and bioactive components
- Authors: Gamlath, Shirani , Wakeling, Lara
- Date: 2011
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- Description: This book focuses on current research in the application of non-thermal technologies such as high pressure processing (HPP), pulsed electric field (PEF) and ultrasonics (US) and their impact on nutritional and bioactive components in a range of food commodities, with an emphasis on identifying suitable processing regimes for commercial applications. Pressures around 400-600 MPa at shorter treatment times retain nutritional properties and enhance the retention of bioactive components in foods with high levels of antioxidant activity. PEF indicated superior results in extracting phenolic and anthocyanins in fruit juices compared to HPP and US due to the electroporation of cellular membranes. However, more research with standardised processing conditions, such as pulse geometry, pulse duration, treatment time and energy levels, on a range of commodiites are necessary to validate PEF conditions for commercial processes. Ultrasonic in combination with mild temperature, enzymes and other non-thermal technologies has a great potential for extraction of nutritional and bioactive components from plant materials with reduced energy, chemicals and processing waste. While HPP technologies are being used commercially, further research and standardisation of processing conditions are required before other non-thermal technologies see commercial application. © 2011 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
Water quality history of Murrumbidgee River floodplain wetlands
- Authors: Gell, Peter , Little, Fiona
- Date: 2007
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Men's sheds in Australia : Learning through community contexts
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Brown, Michael , Foley, Annette , Harvey, Jack , Gleeson, Lynne
- Date: 2007
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- Description: ‘Men’s sheds’ organisations are typically located in shed or workshop-type spaces in community settings that provide opportunities for regular hands-on activity by groups deliberately and mainly comprising men. Men’s sheds in community organisations are shown to be a relatively new, diverse and poorly known set of community-based, grass-roots organisations—found only in Australia. These informal spaces and programs in community settings have grown recently and rapidly in parts of mainly southern Australia with a higher proportion of older men not in paid work. Men’s sheds are typically organised by, and legally constituted through, existing community organisations. They usually provide a woodworking workshop space, tools and equipment and an adjacent social area in a public, shed-type setting. Some include a metalwork area and/or an adjacent garden.
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The Men's Shed Movement : The company of men
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2015
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- Description: Invented in Australia, the remarkable Men's Shed Movement has spread from the back blocks of Australia to reach a total of more than 1,400 Men's Sheds in diverse countries on opposite sides of the world. This book provides a fascinating, carefully evidenced and definitive story of Men's Sheds for the first time. It is a book and movement whose time has come. Many nations are struggling to meet the needs and interests of men beyond the workplace. Over two decades, the Men's Shed Movement has mushroomed from the ground up to become a strongly networked international movement, not only in Australia, but now in Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, continental Europe. How and why this has happened and what the evidence and research means for service providers, communities and the men in the Men's Sheds Movement is thoroughly explored. Lead author, Professor Barry Golding, Federation University Australia, is the respected world expert in the field, being a patron of the Australian Men's Shed Association and the winner of the coveted Ted Donnelly Award in 2013 for his "outstanding contribution to the Men's Shed Movement." (From back cover).
Not exactly rocket science : Replicating good practice in meeting diverse client needs
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2005
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Shoulder to shoulder : broadening the men's shed movement
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2021
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- Description: "Men's - and now Women's and Community - Sheds are meeting many people's acute, unmet needs arising, largely, out of a lack of paid work and retirement, and the void of meaninglessness that can arise as a result. Offering its readers an informative and insightful view of a growing grassroots movement, this timely book shows how the Shed movement, far from contracting, is nimbly and rapidly responding to the needs of communities during the global crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. From the humblest of beginnings in Australia, the movement today has evolved to total almost 3,000 Sheds worldwide"
An orphan's escape : Memories of a lost childhood
- Authors: Golding, Frank
- Date: 2005
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- Description: As late as 1961, nearly seven thousand children were in the custody of Victorian institutions or under the care of the Children's Welfare Department. Many of them were institutionalised simply because they had been born out of welock; more than half were admitted because of so-called 'neglect'. This is what happened to Frank Golding and his two brothers. On Christmas Eve 1940, the boys - Frank (not yet three), Bob (four), and Bill (six) - found themselves on the doorstep of an orphan asylum. They were certainly not orphans, but the boys spent most of their lost childhood inside the walls of the Ballarat Orphanage. 'An Orphan's Escape' is not just about surviving in the emotional wasteland of state care. It would take Frank fifty years to learn what had been happening 'outside the wall' while he was inside. Where were his parents? Why didn't they come for him? Why wouldn't anyone tell him? Frank's childhood puzzlement lasted half a lifetime. Theirs was by no means the only appalling story of the time. Hundreds of similar stories were told to the Federal Senate Committee's 2004 Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care. His parents rescued him at last, but the battle for their children had been at a huge cost. Files from the welfare department, the army and the police opened up a dark pit that his parents had kept hidden. Although his parents had been irresponsible in the early stages of this saga, 'An Orphan's Escape' reveals that evidence Frank discovered in the files showed they care deeply about their children.
- Description: As late as 1961, nearly seven thousand children were in the custody of Victorian institutions or under the care of the Children's Welfare Department. Many of them were institutionalised simply because they had been born out of welock; more than half were admitted because of so-called 'neglect'. This is what happened to Frank Golding and his two brothers. On Christmas Eve 1940, the boys - Frank (not yet three), Bob (four), and Bill (six) - found themselves on the doorstep of an orphan asylum. They were certainly not orphans, but the boys spent most of their lost childhood inside the walls of the Ballarat Orphanage. 'An Orphan's Escape' is not just about surviving in the emotional wasteland of state care. It would take Frank fifty years to learn what had been happening 'outside the wall' while he was inside. Where were his parents? Why didn't they come for him? Why wouldn't anyone tell him? Frank's childhood puzzlement lasted half a lifetime. Theirs was by no means the only appalling story of the time. Hundreds of similar stories were told to the Federal Senate Committee's 2004 Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care. His parents rescued him at last, but the battle for their children had been at a huge cost. Files from the wefare department, the army and the police opened up a dark pit that his parents had kept hidden. Although his parents had been irresponsible in the early stages of this saga, 'An Orphan's Escape' reveals that evidence Frank discovered in the files showed they care deeply about their children.
Reviewing the AFL's vilification laws : rule 35, reconciliation and racial harmony in Australian football
- Authors: Gorman, Sean , Lusher, Dean , Reeves, Keir
- Date: 2018
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Painting and Sculpture before 1800 in the International Collection of the National Gallery of Victoria
- Authors: Gott, Ted , Benson, Laurie , Jones-O'Neill, Jennifer
- Date: 2003
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Water allocation argument tree (WAAT): A tool for facilitating public participation in water allocation decisions
- Authors: Graymore, Michelle , Stranieri, Andrew , McRae-Williams, Pamela , Mays, Heather , Lehmann, La Vergne , Thoms, Gavin , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2012
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