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Evolving ideologies of the intercultural in Australian multicultural and language education policy
No full textAustralia's language and multicultural policies have constructed the intercultural dimension of Australian identity and practice in a number of different ways relating to different community groups. This paper traces the evolution of multicultural policy from the 1970s until the present through the main national policy documents in order to examine how understandings of multiculturalism and the participation of various cultural groups within a multicultural society has changed over time. It demonstrates that although the ways in which multiculturalism and the interrelationship of ethnic groups within Australian identity has evolved over time, the positioning of the monocultural majority and ethnic minorities within the overall multicultural framework has consistently been understood in different ways. The result is a policy context in which there are multiple ideologies of multiculturalism at play and the existence of tensions between the forces of diversity and integration within the same policy context. (Contains 10 notes.)
Views from Chambers: A discourse analysis of judicial speeches in Australia 1995 - 2006
No full textA review and critical discourse analysis of selected judicial speeches made by judges over a period of more than 10 years suggests that judges are captured and colonised by the discourses of disapproval found in political and media rhetoric espousing law and order. Despite the obvious realisation that the media are attempting to set agendas and to direct the course of justice administration in order to further the attraction of readers and viewers to the drama of justice stories, judges are still attempting to work with the media, the very problem outlined in their speeches, rather than attempting to address the community directly through other means.
Hpf2 Glycan structure is critical for protection against protein haze formation in white wine
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A national study of the availability and use of electrophysical agents by Australian physiotherapists
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Stabilization of linear switched delay systems : H2 and H∞ methods
No full textThis paper presents new results pertaining to the delay-dependent stability and control synthesis of a class of linear switched continuous-time systems with time-varying delays. A new state transformation is introduced to exhibit the delay-dependent dynamics in the slow-time scale. For stability, we construct an appropriate selective Lyapunov functional to derive delay-dependent LMI-based sufficient conditions under arbitrary switching and without relying to overbounding. For the control synthesis, we design switched feedback schemes based on quadratic ℋ2, ℋ∞ and simultaneous ℋ2/ℋ∞ performance criteria. Under the developed transformation, it is established that both the instantaneous and delayed feedback control yield identical results. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the analytical development.