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Lowy Institute poll 2015
No full textThis poll investigates Australian attitudes to military participation in Iraq, the role the Government should play in the upcoming international climate negotiations, views on foreign investment in real estate, feelings about nations such as China and Indonesia, and attitudes to a range of foreign leaders.
Overview
After a year marked by an unusual intensity in Australia’s interactions with the world, the 2015 Lowy Institute Poll includes findings from a mix of new questions together with established tracking questions on some of the critical issues of our time.
In this year’s Poll, we asked Australians about risks to Australia’s security such as terrorism and the risk of military conflict in our region. The Poll investigates attitudes to military participation in Iraq, the role the Government should play in the upcoming international climate negotiations, views on foreign investment in real estate, feelings about nations such as China and Indonesia, and attitudes to a range of foreign leaders.
In the eleven years of the Lowy Institute Poll, our goal has been to broaden and deepen the debate about Australia’s foreign policy, based on real data on how Australians think about the world. The 2015 Lowy Institute Poll continues this tradition, with a fascinating set of new results.
Key findings
This year’s Poll has recorded the lowest feeling of safety among Australians, and the sharpest decline in optimism about the nation’s economic performance in the world, in our 11-year polling history.
A majority (69%) see Islamic State as a high risk to Australia\u27s security, and 69% support Australia’s military participation in Iraq, while only 20% think it makes Australia safer from terrorism in the future.
The Poll has recorded the third consecutive rise in Australians’ concern about global warmin
Moving from 2015 to 2030: challenges and opportunities for higher education in developing resilience to disasters
No full textIn recent years, the higher education community has played an increasingly important role in moving disaster science from a responsive, primarily technical discipline, to a broad, multi-disciplinary movement that seeks to build societal resilience to disaster. This study sets out some of the key challenges and op-portunities for higher education towards tackling the challenges set out in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015 - 2030, which was adopted by 187 UN member states in March 2015.
The study brings together existing literature in the field, as well as the results of various analysis and study projects undertaken by a European network project.
Five key areas of focus are identified in working towards 2030: Link research, education and action; Integrate all hazards, stakeholders and disciplines; Collaborate regionally and globally; Facilitate policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity development; Develop flexible and customisable education programmes
Averbação premonitória: alterações impostas pelo CPC/2015 e questões controvertidas
No full textTCC(graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Ciências Jurídicas. Direito.O presente estudo enfrenta a problemática trazida com o CPC/2015 ao instituto da averbação premonitória, e buscar meios para a manutenção da eficácia e praticidade do ato em prol do sucesso da tutela executiva. Para tanto, utiliza-se o método de procedimento monográfico. O método de abordagem adotado é o dedutivo e a técnica de documentação é a indireta, feita por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica e legislativa. Estruturado em três partes, inicialmente serão abordados os aspectos fundamentais do instituto, tais como a natureza, benefícios da aplicação e efeitos práticos. Num segundo momento se tratará dos meios de operacionalizar sua utilização, analisando as minúcias do seu procedimento e as mudanças objetivas em relação ao CPC/1973. Na última parte do estudo, se verificam as alterações impostas ao instituto no CPC/2015 de forma mais ampla, os seus prováveis efeitos e razões para que tenham ocorrido. Considerando os benefícios até então apresentados, buscam-se formas de dirimir a problemática criada e, verificada a possibilidade de conferir efetividade à averbação premonitória mesmo à luz do CPC/2015, sugere-se a sua aplicação para além da execução de título extrajudicial. Ao final, tratam-se dos meios de insurgência da parte prejudicada diante da inadequada utilização da averbação
Fraude à execução no CPC/2015: atribuição do ônus da prova ao terceiro adquirente
No full textTCC(graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Ciências Jurídicas. Direito.O escopo do presente trabalho é o estudo da distribuição do ônus de provar a boa ou a má-fé do terceiro adquirente de bem em fraude à execução, a partir da nova perspectiva trazida pelo Código de Processo Civil de 2015. Para tanto, utiliza-se o método de procedimento monográfico. O método de abordagem adotado é o dedutivo e a técnica de documentação é a indireta, feita por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica e legislativa. O estudo é estruturado em três partes: (i) o ônus da prova; (ii) a fraude na execução; e (iii) a distribuição do ônus da prova na fraude à execução. As duas primeiras partes, por serem essencialmente teóricas, servem como alicerce para a construção da terceira. No primeiro assunto, realiza-se a apresentação do instituto do ônus da prova, mediante sua conceituação, suas dimensões (objetiva e subjetiva) e, também, das suas diferentes formas de distribuição (legal, convencional e dinâmica). No segundo assunto, analisa-se o instituto da fraude à execução: parte-se da identificação do princípio da responsabilidade patrimonial e dos pontos dissonantes entre a fraude à execução e a fraude contra credores; segue-se com os requisitos da fraude à execução: litispendência e frustação dos meios executórios; e conclui-se com a elucidação das tipificações da fraude à execução. Com isso, na terceira e última parte do estudo, apresenta-se as diferentes correntes que permeiam o tema, por meio de um breve percurso histórico da legislação e da jurisprudência brasileira até o CPC/2015. E, ao final, após discorrer-se sobre todas as nuances que envolvem a problemática da distribuição do ônus de provar a boa ou a má-fé do terceiro adquirente, apresenta-se uma solução para a controvérsia, de modo a retomar a efetividade do instituto da fraude à execução, conferindo segurança jurídica ao exequente e ao terceiro adquirente de boa-fé
Goals for the rich: Indispensable for a universal post-2015 agenda
No full textThe paper deals with the question of how a fair sharing of costs, responsibilities and opportunities among and within countries can be achieved in formulating and implementing a post-2015 sustainability agenda.
Introduction
After many years of focusing on the symptoms of extreme poverty with the pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals, the UN system is finally picking up a universal sustainability agenda, enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals, that address sustainability and causes of poverty and inequality.The Open Working Group of the UN General Assembly on Sustainable Development Goals has proposed a list of 17 goals and 169 targets.
The consensus outcome of this group, endorsed by the UN General Assembly in September 2014 as the "main basis" of the post-2015 development agenda, goes far beyond the narrow scope of the MDGs. The Millennium Development Goals provided an international framework for the advancement of social development for the poor in the global South with a little help from the rich in the global North. Unlike the Millennium Development Goals, the Post-2015 Agenda with the Sustainable Development Goals as a pivotal building block is intended to be truly universal and global. Sustainable Development Goals will be for everybody, rich countries, countries with emerging economies and poor countries
 
2015 Queensland state election: an overview
No full textExecutive summary
This paper provides an overview of the issues and outcomes for the January 2015 election for the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Where appropriate, it draws on the Library’s earlier publication on the 2012 Queensland state election.
The 2015 Queensland state election result surprised many observers with the dramatic shift in the fortunes of the two major parties. The Australian Labor Party (ALP), having lost government at the 2012 election and retaining just seven seats, emerged with 44 of the 89 seats with a swing of 10.8 per cent. The Liberal National Party (LNP), which had won a record majority of 78 of the 89 seats at the 2012 state election, experienced a swing of 8.3 per cent against it with its seats reduced to 42. Of the remaining seats, two were won by Katter’s Australian Party and one by Independent Peter Wellington.
The election outcome was initially unclear when it was revealed that a Palmer United Party candidate was ineligible as a result of being an undischarged bankrupt. Electoral Commission Queensland (ECQ) indicated that it would refer the Ferny Grove election result to the Court of Disputed Returns but subsequently decided not to proceed based on legal advice, paving the way for the ALP to form minority government with the support of an Independent.
Several key issues emerged during the election campaign including political financing, privatisation and asset sales, the impact of mining on the Great Barrier Reef and anti-association laws. Other events also overshadowed the election, including two defamation cases involving Premier Campbell Newman, a Senate Select Committee into the Queensland Government’s administration of Commonwealth funds, and leadership issues in the Queensland and Commonwealth Governments.
The incoming ALP minority government led by Annastacia Palaszczuk features several milestones in Australian and Queensland political history, including:
the first Australian ministry with a majority of women
the first female state opposition leader to lead her party to victory
the second all-female elected leadership team in Australia
Queensland’s first female Attorney-General and
the first Indigenous woman MP in the Queensland Parliament and Queensland’s first Indigenous minister
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Pay It Forward: Author Survey Results
No full textThese data files contain raw, anonymized response data, as well as a data codebook, from the author survey conducted in May and June 2015 as a part of the Pay It Forward project. The survey was distributed to approximately 15,000 academics at the University of British Columbia, The Ohio State University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Davis, and received an overall response rate of 14.1%.Funding provided by: Andrew W. Mellon FoundationCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000873Award Number: 41400690Survey conducted using Qualtrics software. Respondents included faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers from the University of British Columbia, The Ohio State University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Davis. The survey was open from May 20, 2015 to June 10, 2015. IRB approval for this study was obtained by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Office of Research Compliance
Campus Author 2015 Event Program
No full textCampus Author 2015 celebrated the 10th year of the Campus Author Recognition Program. The annual reception, held on Thursday November 5, 2015, featured Thomas King, celebrated author and Professor Emeritus, who read an excerpt from his book, The Back of the Turtle, for which he was awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2014. The 2015 event celebrated 94 authors and 121 books. This is the event program for the 2015 Campus Author Recognition Program annual reception held at the Academic Town Square, McLaughlin Library
The global Information technology report 2015: ICTs for inclusive growth
No full textInformation and communication technologies (ICTs) are transforming our economies and societies. Since 2001, The Global Information and Technology Report series and the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) have been taking the pulse of the ICT revolution worldwide.
The NRI identifies the capacity of countries to leveraging ICT, by assessing the overall political and business environment, the level of ICT readiness and usage of ICT among the population, businesses and government, as well as the overall impacts of ICTs on the economy and society at large.
The 2015 results, which covers 143 economies, confirms the dominance of advanced economies and the persistence of the multiple-faceted digital divides not only across but also within economies. They reveal the pervasive digital poverty that deprives the neediest from the opportunities offered by ICTs.
Beyond this diagnosis, under the theme “ICTs for Inclusive Growth”, the 2015 edition of the report provides solutions from leading experts and practitioners to alleviate digital poverty and make the ICT revolution a global reality. 
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