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Narratives of Memory and Myth: Decolonising Representations of Australian National Memory
Get PDFThis thesis explores the capacity of representations of Australian national memory in contemporary literary and screen texts to evoke and reanimate past times and spaces to enable a critical understanding of the present. Through four case studies, the project analyses narratives of the past and the form of these representations within the Australian context. In doing so, the dominance of myth in national memory is challenged, and dis-remembered, forgotten and repressed histories and identities emerge
Gambling advertising regulation in Ghana: what do we know and where to next?
Get PDFIn Ghana and many other sub-Saharan African countries gambling advertising has become pervasive due to weak regulations that allow gambling operators to zealously promote their products as a risk-free way to make money. In this commentary, we provide a public health perspective based on document analysis of the Ghana Gaming Commission’s guidelines on advertisements, and recommendations for strengthening Ghana’s gambling regulatory environment. With the industry intensifying its focus on new markets to grow and sustain profits, and new global players entering Ghana’s market, the competition for market share will most likely intensify with an associated and aggressive increase in gambling advertising. Accordingly, a strengthened gambling advertising regulation underpinned by public health principles is required to restrict advertising across all forms of media and regulate advertising content. The next step for public health action should focus on advocating for new gambling advertising regulations and a review of the Gaming (gambling) Act
Exploring perspectives towards the gambling industry and its marketing strategies among young people in Western Australia
Get PDFIssue Addressed: The gambling industry utilises a range of strategies to attract and retain customers and limit meaningful gambling reform. Industry marketing strategies have demonstrated appeal to young people; however, little is known regarding how young people perceive and engage with gambling and industry marketing strategies in a Western Australian context. Young people's perspectives are vital to effectively respond to the harmful impacts of such commercial determinants on health and social outcomes. Methods: Constructivist Grounded Theory guided data collection and analysis of online group interviews with 25 young people aged 12 to 17 years old residing in Western Australia. Eligible participants received parent or caregiver consent, had lived in WA for at least 5 years, had access to technology, and able to communicate in English. Results: Five key themes were constructed regarding young people's perspectives towards gambling and industry marketing strategies in Western Australia: exposure to gambling marketing is pervasive and inescapable in multiple environments; industry appeal to young people through culturally valued identities; gambling is normalised and embedded in the everyday; corporate power and government reciprocity protects commercial gambling interests; personalising responsibility for preventing gambling harms. Conclusion: This research provides further evidence about young people's everyday exposure to gambling and the need for comprehensive approaches to protect them from industry marketing. So What?: Findings reinforce the ubiquity of young people's exposure to gambling and the highly engaging and sophisticated tactics used by industry to engage young people in their harmful products. Researchers, advocates, practitioners and policymakers can use these findings to further advocate for increased restrictions on children's exposure to gambling marketing
Exploring the impact of colonisation and industrialisation on the natural environment through steampunk fiction
No full textThis project interrogates how steampunk represents gender, colonisation and industrialisation in an Australian setting. The novel – a steampunk story depicting immigration, an energy crisis and the whaling industry in a colonised space – explores the environmental, social and cultural impact of imperial expansion. Through my exegesis, I argue for an approach that embraces diverse voices and an ecocritical approach to the issue of industrialisation and its impact on the natural environment
The impact of human-centered artificial intelligence on firms’ workforce demand in Industry 5.0 transition
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Science inquiry instruction and direct instruction in authentic primary and secondary classroom contexts
Get PDFThis study provides a contemporary perspective on how teachers implement inquiry-based instruction and direct instruction in everyday science lessons. While science education researchers have historically positioned these instructional approaches as flowing from epistemological opposites, this research examines how teachers pragmatically combine inquiry-based and direct instruction by investigating how teachers integrate these instructional approaches, including the timing, duration, and contextual factors that shape instructional decisions in authentic classroom settings. Systematic and structured observations and interviews were conducted with 8 upper primary teachers and 11 lower secondary teachers. Results showed primary teachers implemented more inquiry-based instruction (48%) than secondary teachers (18%) who relied predominantly on direct instruction. Both groups combined approaches within individual lessons, though primary teachers alternated between inquiry and direct instruction episodes more frequently than secondary teachers. Secondary teachers typically began lessons with direct instruction before transitioning to practical activities, a pattern driven by institutional requirements that overrode teachers’ pedagogical beliefs. The marked reduction in inquiry instruction at the secondary level creates a pedagogical disconnect that contradicts research-based expectations for increased inquiry as students develop scientific capabilities. This study establishes that contemporary science teaching pragmatically integrates both inquiry and direct instruction, though implementation differs considerably between primary and secondary settings
Art of Peace: Art After War
No full textThe Art of Peace: Art After War is a major research-based curated exhibition of contemporary art, featuring nine artists who have created artworks shaped by living amongst the horrors and aftermath of war and conflict.
The exhibition brings together artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda and Timor-Leste to explore how visual artists address the trauma of war and life after conflict. In the last thirty years, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda and Timor-Leste each emerged from different versions of social and human destruction caused by the genocide of hundreds of thousands of people. Understandably, peace following war is hard work, and life in a post-conflict society is very different in each of these countries.
Art of Peace: Art After War offers occasions for the voices and experiences of artists resident in zones of significant turbulence to visualise and tell their own stories. With the public awareness of war and genocide increasingly prominent, this exhibition is a timely occasion to consider the human consequences of international and civil aggressions, and the way artists engage with and process the resulting social and psychological upheavals.
The international artists in the show include Teta Chel, Innocent Nkurunziza, and Cedric Mizero from Rwanda; Bernardino Soares, Inu Bére, and Maria Madeira from Timor-Leste; and Mladen Miljanović, Aida Šehović and Adela Jušić from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This exhibition is one outcome of an Australian Research Council grant project led by Curtin University in partnership with The Art Gallery of Western Australia. Key to the project were teams of experts with close relationships to each of the countries included in the exhibition. The project was led by Kit Messham-Muir; working alongside Vannessa Hearman from Curtin University; academic Wulan Dirgantoro from University of Melbourne; Uroš Čvoro from University of New South Wales; Talia Leiber from University of California, Los Angeles; Sarah Minslow from California State University Los Angeles; the late Paul Lowe from University of the Arts London; and former official Australian war artists Charles Green and Jon Cattapan.
The project aims to provide a view on the visual arts practices emerging from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda and Timor-Leste as they reconcile after enduring brutal conflict and genocide. While there is much pain and trauma in evidence here, there is equally hope, humour and patience fuelled by a spirit towards a more positive future.
The exhibition component is curated by Curtin University Professor Kit Messham-Muir, AGWA’s Curator of Contemporary Art, Robert Cook, and ex-AGWA associate curator, and now independent curator and writer, Bahar Sayed.
This exhibition deals with topics and themes of war, viewer discretion is advised, as some imagery and or artworks on display may be confronting
Strategic Plan: Climate Action in Planning and Transport Research Program 2025-2028
No full textThis Strategic Plan has been prepared to guide the new program of research: Climate Action in
Planning and Transport (CAPTR). Manifesting PATREC’s broader mandate, the purpose of the CAPTR
program is to conduct collaborative, applied research and teaching in the connected spaces of
transport and land use planning in supporting Western Australian (WA) cities, towns and communities
to:
• Adapt urban settlements to improve resilience to climate change; and
• Achieve Net Zero emissions consistent with science-based targets.
The Plan presents how this will be achieved through PATREC’s four key strategic activities:
• Conducting multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research in response to identified agency
research requirements and knowledge gaps
• Knowledge transfer and communication
• Providing training and teaching, including professional development through short courses,
executive programs and “expert” courses on key topics and teaching into units
• Attracting additional research funds through business development.
Strategic drivers informing the Plan were sources through:
• Policy review to update the local and national contextual environment
• Literature review to identify relevant conceptual frameworks and theoretical approaches to
frame the Plan
• Semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders to obtain policy and practice insights
• Workshop with researchers to identify available capacity, capability and experience as well as
eliciting research suggestions.
Informed by the strategic drivers, five research focus areas were identified to guide and scope the
research program over the next four years:
• Climate risk and adaptation
• Transport decarbonisation
• Infrastructure and built environment decarbonisation
• Circular economy and materials
• Land use planning and sustainable communities