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The forces of resistance: how the Lawyer X scandal illustrates the challenge of holding Victoria Police accountable
No full textAlthough the events surrounding Victoria Police’s recruitment and use of Nicola Gobbo as a human source—and the array of political and legal responses to her subsequent exposure—have been described as unprecedented, they have received little academic attention. This article offers the first systematic overview of these responses and their evolution. It is argued that despite the impetus for change in the face of systemic misconduct, these responses have ultimately been diluted to the point of inefficacy and are in fact only one more rotation in a cycle that illustrates the force of the status quo. That the risk of such police misconduct has not been meaningfully reduced despite the extensive efforts to consider and address these issues points, this article argues, to a deep inertia and unyielding resistance to police accountability.</p
Troubling drug law, political participation and human rights: A dope sick ontology
No full textIn recent years, enthusiasm for the role of human rights in shaping global drug policy has grown. Many argue that human rights can guide urgently needed drug policy reforms and instigate less punitive approaches to people who use drugs. To progress human rights-based reforms, international experts have issued guidance on what rights-compliant drug law and policy would look like. This way of thinking about both human rights and law emphasizes law as text and relies on a version of human rights as immaterial, transcendent, disembodied, and capable of realization through seemingly objective processes of definition, classification, and reason. This way of understanding law is troubled, however, by recent spatial and material turns in legal scholarship, including approaches that emphasize law and matter as co-constitutive. Situating ourselves within these spatial and material legal realms, this paper explores a different conceptualization of the relationship between human rights and drugs, focused on movement and political participation. Drawing on 30 interviews we conducted with human rights experts and activists, many of whom also identify as people who use drugs, as well as Daniela Gandorfer's matterphorical approach to law (2019, 2020) and Margaret Davies’ (2017) work on law unlimited, we examine entanglements of rights, law, drugs, bodies, borders, methadone, doors, prescriptions, languages, suits, airplanes, and security scanners. Through these entanglements, we introduce a “dope sick ontology,” drawing on the slang term used in some drug circles. Repurposing “dope sickness,” we argue that the realization of legal rights, including the rights to freedom of movement, association, and political participation, depends on assemblages of human and non-human bodies. We argue that this way of thinking about how human rights “work” has important implications for rethinking the relationship between human rights law and drug policy, and for how we conceptualize justice.</p
Consumer and community involvement in paediatric intensive care research across Australia and New Zealand: a protocol for a mixed-methods environmental scan
No full textBackground: Paediatric intensive care provides specialist expertise and support for critically ill children, often with complex conditions or in life-threatening circumstances. Hospitalisation of a child in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) can be extremely stressful for both the child and family which makes research in this area challenging. The involvement of patients and families (consumers) in the design and conduct of research in PICU is essential to ensure research is aligned with their priorities and meets their needs. However, the current level of consumer and community involvement (CCI) in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) PICU research is unknown. Methods: This protocol reports a mixed-methods environmental scan employing two phases. Phase 1, a scoping review, will include published, unpublished, and ongoing PICU research, reporting information about study methodology and conduct, and CCI. Quantitative data will be primarily reported using descriptive statistics, and inductive content analysis will be used for qualitative data. Phase 2, semi-structured interviews, will be conducted with purposive sampling of research teams and consumers to gather insights about their experiences of CCI in PICU research, using content analysis to identify key concepts. Discussion: Environmental scanning is an effective approach to information gathering and has been used in healthcare as an optimal method for studying real-world interventions. Our study will advance understanding of the current state of CCI in PICU research, identifying strengths, challenges, and areas for improvement. With the assessment of the needs of both consumers and the research community, our study will enable the development of strategies for improving CCI and subsequently the quality of PICU research. A multifaceted approach to dissemination of the findings of this environmental scan, informed by consumer advisors, will be used to reach diverse audiences. This may include email distribution, social media, academic journals, conferences or relevant institutional symposiums.</p
Distributed Radar Imaging with Parallel Cross-Attention for Continuous Human Motion Recognition
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Vietnam’s online platform workers
No full textThis policy brief examines the rise of digital labour platforms and their potential to expand employment opportunities in developing countries such as Vietnam. It highlights how online work can offer flexibility and global reach but notes the need for government support and international collaboration. Given Vietnam’s growing role as a supplier of digital labour and Australia’s position as a demand centre, the brief explores how cooperation under their new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership can advance digital transformation and offers recommendations to help Vietnam strengthen its readiness for online work.</p
Cultural intelligence as a catalyst for global competitiveness
No full text Highlights:Presents a novel framework linking organizational CQ to hotel competitiveness.Highlights international opportunities recognition mitigates language barriers.Extends dynamic capabilities theory in cross-cultural hospitality management.Develops a moderated mediation model for global hotel brand competitiveness.</p
Strengthening Informal Knowledge Exchange in Initial Teacher Education
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Flood of Co-operation: Tech, talk, and togetherness to safeguard South Asia
No full textNo description supplied.https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/south-asia-regional-integration/good-neighbours </p
Forging Innovative Partnerships: Australia-India Cooperation for Climate Development and Security in the Pacific
No full textNo description supplied.https://perthusasia.edu.au/research-and-insights/publications/forging-innovative-partnerships-australia-india-cooperation-for-climate-development-and-security-in-the-pacific/ </p