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Contemporary Australia and Emerging Challenges
No full textWe would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of Country across Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. Indigenous knowledges are and have been used to support us to sustainably exist with Australia’s fragile ecology for thousands of years but are only recently being valued for their role in creating a sustainable future for Australian fauna. Indigenous Ecological Knowledges can play a vital role in the future management, and recovery of Australian native species. But the value of this knowledge needs to be recognised by those in decision-making roles. Here, I present these concepts using my family totem, the Koala, as a case study for how these two knowledge systems can be merged. As part of my Honours research year, I completed reflections that were centred around the experience and challenges that I, as an Indigenous person, would experience when merging Indigenous and Western research methodologies. The key reoccurring findings of my reflections were categorised into 1) my growth as an Indigenous person, 2) gaining a deeper sense of ecology, 3) Indigenous Ecological Knowledge, and 4) incorporating culture into a Western science system. This experience overall showed that it is possible to bring your own cultural experience and way of conducting science into the current dominant scientific practice
A Content Analysis of Age, Race, Face Attractiveness, and Body Type
No full textThe portrayal of diverse ages, races, face attractiveness, and body types in sexual media content might impact societal perceptions of sexuality, delineating which individuals are deemed sexually appealing and whose sexuality is normalized. Despite extensive research on demographics within pornography, the representation within mainstream media, particularly on streaming platforms like Netflix , remains underexplored. The current study addresses this gap by employing quantitative content analysis to examine the diversity of characters in sexual contexts within seven highly popular Netflix series. We coded the age, race, face attractiveness, and body type of 91 characters (45 female characters) that appeared in mixed-gender sexual encounters (i.e., sexual encounters between a woman and a man). The study reveals a predominant adherence to stereotypical demographics and conventional beauty standards. The sexual scenes presented mostly younger individuals and revealed a notable underrepresentation of individuals aged 40 +. Racial diversity among characters was more evident. Female characters were predominantly depicted as conventionally attractive and were almost exclusively portrayed with skinny body types, while male characters exhibited a wider range of physical appearances. This study highlights a gap in the media’s inclusivity efforts and suggests a need for more comprehensive representation to reflect a broader spectrum of age and beauty ideals in the portrayals of human sexuality. While our study is limited to analyzing media representations, future research should include longitudinal experimental studies to evaluate their impact on people’s sexualities.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (1030
Contemporary Australia and Emerging Challenges
No full textIn our article, we examine how Ambelin Kwaymullina explores alternative forms of postcolonial education i.e., through Aboriginal storytelling / yarning. Drawing from ‘Message From the Ngurra Palya’ (2020) and ‘Teacher / Decolonizer’ (2024), as well as ‘Catching Teller Crow’ (2018), written with her brother Ezekiel, we consider how the works mobilize yarning to actively challenge hegemonic forms of education. Yarning, we argue, carries great anti-colonial potential and can be identified as a formally distinct literary approach. Rooted in Indigenous Australian epistemologies, yarning serves as both an educational method and a form of resistance to colonial narratives. Through close readings we highlight its role in fostering connection, transmitting knowledge, and imagining decolonized futures. ‘Message from the Ngurra Palya’ envisions a hybridized educational basis featuring blended Indigenous and Western scientific literacies. ‘Teacher / Decolonizer’ critiques the burdens placed on Indigenous peoples while advocating for inclusive, relational teaching practices. ‘Catching Teller Crow’ embodies yarning through both its form and content, emphasizing intergenerational learning and the recovery of marginalized histories. Collectively, these texts demonstrate how literary yarning can resist hegemonic systems and inspire alternative forms of learning. We call for a broader engagement with yarning as a transformative, decolonial practice, particularly in addressing pressing global challenges
Short and Long-Term Effects of Disruptive Animal Rights Protest
No full textThe climate crisis requires transformational changes to our food systems, which contribute around one third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Animal rights activists try to draw attention to this issue through direct action campaigns. However, it remains largely unknown how these disruptive protests affect public opinion. We conducted the first in-depth investigation of the short and long-term effects of a disruptive animal rights protest, Animal Rising’s protest at the UK Grand National horse race. We found that immediately after the protest, respondents’ awareness of the action was linked with more negative attitudes towards animals. However, these negative effects dissipated after six months, suggesting that high-profile disruptive protests trigger short-term emotional reactions that fade over time. Cross-sectional comparisons revealed overall positive shifts in attitudes towards animals over the six-month period. We also found that the protest triggered a sharp increase in media and public attention, as well as mobilization for the protest group. This evaluation suggests that an initial emotional backfire effect of disruptive animal rights protest might be a necessary short-term setback in the general direction of a progressive shift to how society thinks about animals
A Computational Study of Hierarchy and Group-Boundary Policing
No full textIncels (involuntary celibates) are part of a broader misogynistic culture known as the manosphere. Some communities within the manosphere, including incels, promote gender-based violence through misogynistic rhetoric and ideology. Incels are men who struggle to form romantic relationships and thus seek solace in online forums to find a sense of purpose and community. The community is organised around an ideology and a hierarchical classification of members. This paper presents a computational linguistic analysis of the utterances made within the community. We analyse the linguistic patterns of six different ranks of users: paragons, high-rank users, low-rank users, greycels, banned users, and self-banned/deleted users. We conducted an analysis of the sentiments expressed between ranks and of the affective attitude of posters when discussing a variety of topics. We then we analysed linguistic features, also conditioned on the rank of the poster. These analyses reveal qualitative differences between users of different ranks in how they express themselves and their sentiments. Finally, we trained models based on the linguistic features of users’ posts and show that already based on this information it is possible to predict the rank of users. Overall, our results indicate that the incel community has developed distinctive linguistic patterns to disseminate their ideology and that these linguistic patterns vary according to the rank of an incel within the community. This methodology offers a robust framework for studying similar echo chamber-like communities.Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.University of Manchesterhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000770Technische Universität Berlin (3136
Histories of Northern and Regional Australia
No full textKylie Tennant was one of Australia’s most popular and influential writers in the mid-20th century. Having gained fame in the 1930s and 1940s for her eye-witness accounts of the
suffering of the poor and unemployed, in the late 1950s she used her public platform to draw attention to the terrible consequences of colonialism for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the far north. Her books ‘Speak You So Gently’ and ‘All the Proud Tribesmen’ sold well nationally and internationally, fulfilling her aim to promote community co-operatives as a solution. Here I position her as an activist who sought to shift Australian public opinion away from racism. I suggest that we might see her as a transitional figure between Xavier Herbert, who in the 1930s profited from colourful depictions of Aboriginal degradation, and Kath Walker / Oodgeroo Noonuccal, the celebrated Indigenous poet whose works from the 1960s evoked Aboriginal oppression and called for human rights and full citizenship
Histories of Northern and Regional Australia
No full textThis article is an edited transcript of a keynote address delivered at the Australian Historical Association Conference held in Townsville from 30 June to 3 July 2025. It provides a social, cultural, and economic snapshot of Townsville during the 1960s. The paper also highlights the establishment of institutions which brought greater national attention to the unofficial capital of North Queensland, including the establishment of the Townsville University College (now James Cook University) and Lavarack Barracks