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Returning to Milirrpum v Nabalco Over Half a Century On: Commonwealth v Yunupingu
No full textIn 2025, the High Court of Australia handed down its decision in Commonwealth v Yunupingu, finding against the Commonwealth. This article examines the historical context of the decision and explores the implications of the decision for possible future claims.</p
Factors affecting consumers’ energy curtailment behavior and purchases of energy-efficient appliances
No full textThis study examines how environmental knowledge, environmental concerns, attitudes toward energy conservation, and perceived monetary benefits affect two types of energy conservation behaviors, i.e., curtailment behavior and purchase behavior. Using survey data from 405 consumers, partial least squares structural equation modeling shows that knowledge about energy conservation and concern about energy shortages shape attitude toward energy conservation, leading to curtailment behavior and purchasing energy-efficient appliances (EEAs). Furthermore, attitude and curtailment behavior sequentially mediate the effects of knowledge about energy conservation and concern about energy shortages on EEA purchase behavior, with perceived monetary benefits strengthening the attitude-purchase behavior relationship. While necessary condition analysis identifies general environmental concern as necessary for developing a favorable energy conservation attitude, importance- performance map analysis suggests that improving knowledge about conservation should be prioritized in policy initiatives. These insights provide implications for policymakers and practitioners, including manufacturers and retailers, by identifying multiple pathways and influencing mechanisms for promoting consumers’ energy conservation behaviors through curtailment and EEA purchases.</p
Anchored leadership in extreme contexts: toward a model of enduring purpose under systemic collapse
No full textPurpose This paper introduces the Anchored Leadership in Extreme Contexts (ALEC) model to explain how leaders maintain mission focus, composure and moral clarity during systemic collapse and prolonged uncertainty. It addresses gaps in crisis leadership theory by showing how internal anchoring–rather than external validation–enables sustained leadership in humanitarian, conflict and institutional failure settings. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper synthesizes insights from crisis leadership, spiritual leadership, positive organizational scholarship and ontological security. It develops the ALEC through theoretical integration and narrative illustrations, emphasizing three interdependent dimensions: non-contingent stability, strategic patience and enduring purpose. Findings ALEC proposes that leaders can remain grounded and purpose-driven even without follower support or system continuity. Leaders who internalize ALEC's dimensions show emotional steadiness, long-term vision and value clarity–extending leadership theory to account for deep uncertainty and structural collapse. Research limitations/implications As a theoretical model, ALEC has not yet been empirically validated. Future studies can test its dimensions, build assessment tools and examine its impact on leader performance and organizational resilience across sectors such as humanitarian work, military and public health. Practical implications ALEC can guide leadership training, coaching and crisis strategy in volatile sectors. It equips leaders to act with composure and long-term purpose when external support is unavailable, supporting development programs that build internal resilience and mission alignment. Social implications In a world of escalating instability, ALEC helps prepare leaders in nonprofits, crisis response and development sectors to sustain ethical and effective leadership under relational isolation and systemic collapse, thereby advancing leadership capacity for uncertain futures. Originality/value This paper contributes a new leadership model grounded in internal anchoring, not reactive adaptation. ALEC integrates diverse literatures to offer a values-based framework for resilient leadership in extreme contexts, supporting both scholarly advancement and real-world application.</p
A Scoping Review for Clinical Reasoning and Differential Diagnosis of Abdominal Pain Attributed to Musculoskeletal Dysfunction in Primary Health Care
No full textThis poster presents a scoping review examining clinical reasoning and differential diagnosis of abdominal pain attributable to musculoskeletal dysfunction in primary healthcare. Using the Arksey and O’Malley framework and PRISMA guidance, the review synthesises evidence on prevalence, diagnostic approaches, and key musculoskeletal syndromes. Findings suggest that approximately 4% of abdominal pain presentations in primary care are musculoskeletal in origin, with diagnostic reasoning commonly relying on patient history, pain characteristics, and targeted physical examination. The review highlights the importance of recognising musculoskeletal contributors to abdominal pain to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient outcomes while minimising the risk of missing visceral pathology.</p
Beyond self-help: The spatial logics of insurgent infrastructure in urban Ghana
No full textResidents of informal settlements in the Global South actively produce their own infrastructure in response to state failure, yet the academic and policy vocabulary used to describe these efforts often lacks spatial and strategic nuance. This paper challenges monolithic terms like ‘self-help’ by developing a new typology of grassroots infrastructure provision. We argue that community-led action operates according to one of three distinct spatial logics: an overwhelmed ‘Reactive Pursuit’, a proactive ‘Strategic Hub-and-Spoke’ model, and a fragmented ‘Ad-Hoc Patchwork’. We contend these logics are not random but are the probable spatial outcomes of a settlement's underlying political economy—the logics of social reproduction versus informal production—interacting with the materiality of infrastructure. Using a mixed-methods spatial analysis in two contrasting settlements in Kumasi, Ghana, we provide empirical grounding for this framework. Our analysis reveals how Aboabo, a residential community, successfully employs a ‘Strategic Hub-and-Spoke’ model for water, while Suame Magazine, an industrial hub, exhibits an ‘Ad-Hoc Patchwork’. For sanitation, both sites are trapped in a ‘Reactive Pursuit’ against systemic failures. By mapping these dynamics, our study offers a more precise language for understanding grassroots urbanism and provides a practical, spatially-explicit method for identifying critical “service deserts.” The findings call for a shift in policy from generalised support to context-aware interventions that strategically amplify these diverse spatial logics.</p
Influence of shell thickness and lattice infill on the mechanical performance of a biomimetic alligator mandible structure
No full textBiomimetic designs that draw inspiration from structures found in nature provide a unique approach to engineering solutions and can reveal innovative concepts. The use of hollow-walled designs with porous infill provides an opportunity to achieve highly efficient structural designs. However, the experimental application of using hollow-walled designs as an approach to increase the efficiency of biomimetic structures is yet to be explored. This paper hence investigates the influence of shell thickness and lattice infill on the mechanical performance of a biomimetic structure using the example of an alligator mandible. Experimental and numerical approaches were employed to assess the mechanical properties of additively manufactured mandible structures under bending and compressive loading conditions. Finite element simulations were validated against mechanical testing and quantitative thermoelastic stress analysis (TSA). The shell thickness of the mandible was found to be more critical to the specific bending and compressive stiffness of the structure compared to the inclusion of the lattice infill. The TSA scans quantified the effect of shell thickness and infill on the unique surface stress distribution of the mandible, which increased with a reduction in shell thickness. These findings highlight the potential of hollow-walled designs as an approach to create more efficient, and optimised, biomimetic structures. This methodology can be applied to alligator mandible-like designs for load-bearing engineering applications that involve complex loading conditions, such as cantilevered bracket structures.</p
When less is more: resource constraints and radical innovation in family firms and non-family firms
No full textWhile radical innovation is crucial for long-term organizational success, resource constraints often challenge endeavors toward novel ideas, products, and services. Although there is increasing evidence of the positive impact of resource constraints on radical innovation performance, much still needs to be uncovered regarding the conditions that facilitate this positive impact. Drawing on the recombinative innovation perspective, we explicate the positive impact of knowledge and financial constraints on radical innovation. Moreover, we identify firm type—specifically the distinction between family and non-family firms—as a crucial organizational contingency that sheds more light on the focal relationship. Using data from a broad sample of Belgian firms, we find support for our hypothesis that financial constraints can spur a higher likelihood of introducing radical innovation. Moreover, family firms can better transform knowledge constraints into radical innovation, whereas non-family firms are better at generating radical innovation from financial constraints. By considering the impact of organizational characteristics on firms’ ability to innovate from specific constraints radically, we deliver more detailed results on the link between resource constraints and radical innovation.</p
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) modelling for rainfall-induced unsaturated slope failure considering void ratio dependence and variability
No full textRainfall-induced unsaturated slope failures are among the most frequent and destructive forms of landslides worldwide, often resulting in significant casualties and economic losses. Accurately predicting such failures requires not only a robust numerical approach that captures the coupled hydraulic and mechanical behaviours of unsaturated soils, but also a thorough understanding of how spatial variability of soil properties influences slope stability. In this study, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is employed in conjunction with an advanced unsaturated constitutive model to investigate, for the first time, the effects of void ratio dependence and variability on rainfall-induced unsaturated slope failure. The model captures the coupled hydro-mechanical behaviour of unsaturated soils, accounting for the influence of void ratio on water retention, infiltration and strength characteristics. A single-layer multiphase SPH approach is employed, where each particle simultaneously represents the water, air, and solid phases, enabling the efficient and robust simulation of large-deformation problems. The SPH model is applied to a synthetic slope with spatial variable soil properties to explore how heterogeneity in void ratio alters failure mechanisms and onset conditions. The results provide new insights into the role of void ratio heterogeneity in rainfall-triggered landslides and demonstrate the potential of advanced SPH modelling for practical probabilistic analysis in geotechnical applications.</p
Fox, Ocean, Island: Drafting – drifting – beyond human (point of) view
No full textWhat is the relationship between novel writing and new points of view? How can our creative practice – our respective creative practices – enable us to move on from, rather than reinforce, traditional narrative perspective(s) and the textual conventions associated with long-form non-traditional research outputs? In this essay we three researcher-writers reflect on and share revisions of our draft manuscripts to illustrate the ways in which the novel – including literary works, which Ken Gelder calls ‘Big L’ literature (Gelder 11) – may answer Donna Haraway’s call for ‘speculative fabulations’. Our case studies consider craft in context – the artistic and political considerations that have gone into our individual conceptions – to tease out specific strategies that have enabled us, as emerging and becoming-established creative practice researchers, to develop the ethics and aesthetics of three particular works-in-progress. This paper contributes to creative writing methodology – a process of thinking, reading, writing, reflecting, and editing – to share knowledge developed along the way to final fictional forms and formal, academic-accredited creative outputs.</p
China-Africa Relations: Intention, Aspiration, and a shared Future through the means of Football
No full textAs the most popular sport in the world, football acts as a crucial vehicle to advance inward and outward-looking goals of local governments in China and the countries in Africa. While China’s increasing engagement with Africa in the past decade serves to achieve bilateral interests, this has resulted in ongoing debates over the asymmetrical relationship between the two regions, especially at the expense of human rights. This chapter aims to examine the role of sports, with specific reference to football, in the development of China-Africa engagement. It starts by reviewing the different stages of the China-Africa relations along with the diplomatic approaches in each of these stages and discusses the motivators that have formed these approaches. It then examines the ways sports facilitate China-Africa relations, with the focus on the deployment of football in the service of internally and externally oriented goals in Africa and China. Unpacking the philosophy that lays out the directions of foreign policy in China and the countries in Africa, this article discusses to what degree China’s sports-based strategies contribute to fostering mutually beneficial relationships; and thereby points out the future trend of the China-Africa relations through the lens of football.</p