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Gayborhoods
No full textGayborhood is a term used to describe a neighborhood populated by and associated with LGBTQ+ people and communities. Arguably, the term is most commonly used in North America, and is equivalent to descriptions deployed in other places, including gay ghetto, gay village, or simply a gay and/or lesbian neighborhood. A neighborhood can be understood to be a gayborhood if it (a) contains a cluster of LGBTQ institutions, both commercial (bars, clubs, cafes, bookstores, shops) and service-oriented (legal, health, and community organizations); (b) houses a substantial residential LGBTQ population; and (c) has conspicuous, locally dominant LGBTQ subculture(s). The LGBTQ presence is sufficiently embedded and visible in society that gayborhoods have mainstream recognition
Reflections on cinema and philosophy
No full textFirst published in 2018, Alain Badiou’s “Cinema and Philosophy” is doubtless one of the most lucid and accessible accounts of his own understanding of cinema and what it means for philosophy in general. Originally delivered as a keynote address at the University of New South Wales, Australia, the lecture itself constituted something of a culmination of his philosophical comprehension of film, an intellectual engagement that stretches back at least as far as 1957 with the publication of his remarkable (and remarkably prescient) article on “Cinematic Culture.”1 The address moreover served as an occasion to respond to a number of potential issues concerning the somewhat uncertain and even conflicted position that cinema appears to hold in his own philosophical system, complications which arise in particular from its apparent status as an “inessential art.”2 With this in mind, the purpose of this chapter is to provide some general considerations on the meaning of cinema and its relationship to both art and philosophy—a relationship which is itself closely tied to a historically modernist ethos—as well as offer some critical reflections on Badiou’s responses. In doing so we see how cinema not only sheds crucial light on the other arts but also reveals Badiou’s own approach to art as one that simultaneously reflects and repudiates certain core tenets of aesthetic modernism
Event-triggered multiagent consensus under relative output sensing
No full textEvent-triggered (ET) consensus of linear multiagent systems with relative output sensing on undirected graphs is studied. Two output-feedback protocols with static and time-varying coupling strengths, respectively, are proposed, which, different from the existing results in relative output sensing, integrate effective ET strategies to reduce the communication burdens between agents. To ensure the closed-loop consensus, design conditions about the gain matrices, coupling strengths, and event-triggering functions are derived. Zeno behaviors are also shown to be excluded from the triggering process. In addition, recursive algorithms are devised for computing the continuous-time relative signals required by the event-triggering functions, so that continuous monitoring of neighbors is circumvented. Numerical examples finally demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method
Democracy, Protest and the Law: Defending a Democratic Right
No full textIn a new era of rising protests, social unrest and political discontent globally, especially over climate change, war dangers, austerity measures and social inequality, the right to protest is a critical democratic right. Yet it is increasingly controversial and subject to government reaction. This book poses a crucial question: how to defend and extend democracy? It examines the critical historical, social, political, ethical and legal issues raised by the basic democratic right to protest and the legislative and executive measures being taken by governments to restrict it. These measures are examined with a focus on three countries with an English legal heritage: the United States, Britain and Australia. These states are frequently held up as models of liberal democracies, respecting core legal and democratic rights. However, an examination shows that they have adopted far-reaching anti-protest laws and other provisions that threaten protest rights and genuine democracy itself. This book will be of interest to all members of society, as well as students, academics and policy-makers in the fields of civil liberties and human rights, constitutional law, criminal justice, national security and environmental studies
Integrated circular dichroism and circularly polarized luminescence measurements
No full textCircularly polarized luminescent (CPL) systems have a plethora of potential applications owing to their interesting excited-state properties. However, the progress in developing new chiral luminescence systems is significantly hindered by the lack of available instrumentation for the broader chemistry and materials science community to perform routine, reproducible measurements of chiral spectroscopies. In this work, we present data from an easy-to-use custom-built instrument based on a Jasco circular dichroism (CD) spectropolarimeter coupled with a CPL emission monochromator (CD/CPL hybrid system). The hybrid system measures CPL, fluorescence, CD, and absorbance on the same part of the sample without the need to move between the CD and CPL measurements. The instrument uses a xenon arc lamp as the light source, enabling a wide range of excitation wavelengths to support flexible development of new molecules and materials. Data obtained and presented for camphor, ruthenium metal complexes, the peptide gramicidin, and a DNA-ligand (4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole, DAPI) system in this work highlight the ease of use and reproducibility of the results. The g-factors for CD and CPL obtained for the different compounds are shown to be the same for isolated transitions and some examples of how to use variations of g-factors with wavelength are demonstrated. The reliable and excellent benchmark results obtained from a custom-built commercial wavelength scanning CPL/CD hybrid instrument open up new avenues for the broader chemical and materials science community to intensify research on chiral luminescent systems
Teach us consent : digital feminist activism and the limits of school-based consent pedagogies
No full textGlobally, debates about sexuality education initiatives, and specifically the inclusion of lessons around consent, remain politically and socially charged. While it has long been recognised, consent education plays an important role in reducing sexual assaults and coercion and improving young people’s experiences of intimacy. However, political conservatism has slowed or prevented its consistent presence in educational programs. Joining a chorus of scholars and policy-makers, young people have begun to demand consent education in different settings, and in February of 2021, a significant movement was commenced in Australia, when Chantel Contos launched an online petition calling for mandatory consent education within Australian schools. In doing so, she collected testimonials of over 6700 schoolgirls who experienced sexual assaults during their school years by young men attending all-boys schools. The e-petition precipitated a larger campaign (with 44,484 signatories) called Teach Us Consent, which continues to call for more comprehensive sexualities and relationship education in schools, including addressing toxic masculinity, rape culture, slut shaming, victim blaming, sexual coercion, and is inclusive of queer sex education. Contos’ petition has received global media attention and ignited dialogue within Australian schools and government about how to reform school-based consent education. Drawing from Ferfolja and Ullman’s concept of ‘a culture of limitation’, this chapter reviews the Teach Us Consent movement and analyses national and international social and news media, exploring representations of consent, gender and power. Our analysis demonstrates that the media debate around Contos’ e-petition, and even the Teach Us Consent movement itself, overlooks a long and challenging history for researchers working in health, gender and education who have advocated for more comprehensive and critical consent, sexualities and relationship curricula. Recognising Contos’ impact in using social media as a vehicle for political change, we ask what role it might play in better disseminating research about consent and sexualities education, to politicise the work of researchers and ensure new efforts to develop consent education is informed by a strong research base
Outcomes for young people in out of home care accessing tiered mental health services in Sydney, Australia
No full textYoung people in OOHC have complex mental health concerns, therefore the South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) has trialled a tiered model of mental health care. Under this model the OOHC mental health team (OOHC-MHT) provides specialist tier four service delivery for those with the most severe, intense mental health needs. OOHC consumers with a reduced level of severity access services at a tier three centre-based iCAMHS. This study aims to understand the characteristics of young people in OOHC accessing different service provision options in Sydney, Australia. Sixty-six OOHC consumers 8–17Â years accessing mental health services across SWSLHD from January 2020–December 2021 participated in the study. Group differences in OOHC-MHT and iCAMHS outcome measures were compared. HoNOSCA scores were significantly worse for OOHC-MHT than iCAMHS, indicating more severe psychopathology for OOHC-MHT at baseline. In OOHC-MHT, HoNOSCA decreased significantly from admission to discharge and scores on the CGAS increased significantly, indicating significant improvements in psychopathology and functioning. In the iCAMHS group scores on the HoNOSCA significantly decreased indicating improved psychopathology over this period. These findings support a tiered model of service delivery for OOHC consumers, with this tailored level of care resulting in significantly improved outcomes across a range of complexity
The benefits of cooperative inquiry in health services research : lessons from an Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health study
No full textHealth services research is underpinned by partnerships between researchers and health services. Partnership-based research is increasingly needed to deal with the uncertainty of global pandemics, climate change induced severe weather events, and other disruptions. To date there is very little data on what has happened to health services research during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper describes the establishment of an Australian multistate Decolonising Practice research project and charts its adaptation in the face of disruptions. The project used cooperative inquiry method, where partner health services contribute as coresearchers. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, data collection needed to be immediately paused, and when restrictions started to lift, all research plans had to be renegotiated with services. Adapting the research surfaced health service, university, and staffing considerations. Our experience suggests that cooperative inquiry was invaluable in successfully navigating this uncertainty and negotiating the continuance of the research. Flexible, participatory methods such as cooperative inquiry will continue to be vital for successful health services research predicated on partnerships between researchers and health services into the future. They are also crucial for understanding local context and health services priorities and ways of working, and for decolonising Indigenous health research
[In Press] The impact of Learning from Country on teachers' understandings of place and community : insights from the Culturally Nourishing Schooling project
No full textIn this paper, we present findings from the Culturally Nourishing Schooling (CNS) project data, collected during and after a series of experiential and immersive Learning from Country (LFC) activities with teachers working in New South Wales (NSW) schools in Australia. LFC is positioned as the critical first step in the CNS whole-school reform project, which seeks to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students’ educational experiences and outcomes by developing teacher capacity to deliver culturally responsive curriculum and pedagogies. By centring Country and community, LFC, along with four other CNS strategies, encourages teachers to think, act and relate differently with respect to First Nations students, families, communities and the places and histories in which they are grounded. Drawing on Burgess et al.’s LFC framework, we found evidence of teachers: professing an ethical commitment to respecting and honouring local Aboriginal knowledges and knowledge holders; understanding the importance of connectedness and relational practices in their teaching; reflecting critically on their pre-existing ideas about Aboriginal students and communities and developing ‘place-consciousness’ or ‘Country consciousness’. We conclude that the LFC strategy is influencing the ways that teachers conceptualise and enact education in relation to Country and community, with the potential to deliver significant benefits to First Nations students, families and communities
Submission to Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society
No full textSubmission made to the Australian Government Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society