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Portrait of author Steven Arnott at the Knightsbridge Hotel, London for Dwell Magazine, Los Angeles, USA
No full textMatthew Murray Commissioned editorial Portrait of author Steven Arnott at the Knightsbridge Hotel, London for Dwell Magazine, Los Angeles, USA © Matthew Murray
For the editorial piece 'Royal Flush' For the modern American, buying a designer toilet can easily break the bank. But a Little debt might be worth the thrill of sitting on the loo in style
Royal Commission on Human Relationships
No full textThis controversial Royal Commission from the 1970s found that many Australian families were failing to protect their most valuable members, and helped change the shape of public discussion around families, gender and sexuality.
This is the first time a digitised version of the Royal Commission on Human Relationships\u27 five-volume final report has been made publically available.
The Royal Commission was initiated in 1974, following a failed attempt by the Whitlam government to reform abortion law. The terms of reference were:
To inquire into and report upon the family, social, educational, legal and sexual aspects of male and female relationships, so far as those matters are relevant to the powers and functions of the Australian Parliament and Government, including powers and functions in relation to the Territories:
To give particular emphasis to the concept of responsible parenthood, to have regard to experience in other countries and to include in your inquiry the following aspects of the said matters:
(a) the extent of relevant existing education programs, including sex education programs, and their effectiveness in promoting responsible sexual behaviour and providing a sound basis in the fundamentals of male and female relationships in the Australian social environment;
(b) the extent of relevant existing programs in medical schools and their adequacy to provide comprehensive medical training in contraceptive techniques, in the physical, psychological and sexual problems experienced by women in adapting to marriage and before, during and after menstruation and in matters relating to pregnancy, fertility control, spontaneous and induced abortions and childbirth and to encourage acceptance by the medical profession of its responsibilities in the field of contraceptive counselling;
(c) the provision, adequacy and effectiveness of existing family planning facilities, educational and activational information on family planning and methods of evaluation of all family planning techniques;
(d) the social, economic, psychological and medical pressures on women in determining whether to proceed with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, having regard to:
(i) the adequacy of housing, child-minding centres, pre-school centres, domestic assistance for families and working mothers, assistance to single parent families, other forms of assistance for mothers employed in industry, and adoption procedures;
(ii) the disabilities of families with handicapped children; and
(iii) the social status of women in the community; the social, psychological and medical results of termination of, or and failure to terminate such pregnancies;
(e) the adequacy and effectiveness of existing medico-legal determinations in relation to termination of pregnancy, the incidence of such terminations, the factors influencing their occurrence, the adequacy of medical training in an evaluation of methods of termination, consultative rights of the family or other persons concerned and the adequacy and effectiveness of pregnancy support services; and
(f) any other matters in relation to the family, social, educational, legal and sexual aspects of male and female relationships to which the attention of the Commission is directed by the Prime Minister in the course of the inquiry.
To make recommendations as to measures that are desirable with respect to the foregoing matters under existing or future laws of the Australian Parliament or of the Territories (including laws providing for grants to the States) and to indicate whether these measures should be implemented through existing bodies or through government instrumentalities to be created.
The final report, presented to Governor-General John Kerr in 1977, contained over 500 recommendations relating to "contraception (access and use), unwanted pregnancies, childbirth, attitudes to sexuality, sexual knowledge, sex education, domestic violence, rape and the police and courts’ treatment of rape victims, the changing roles of women, child care, child abuse, and homosexuality – especially discrimination faced by gays and lesbians."
The report was highly controversial when released and many of its recommendations were not acted on. However, the Royal Commission had a lasting influence. It was said to have brought taboo topics like abortion, rape and child abuse into public discussion, and to have opened up conversations about private life to this day.
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Part of the Policy History Collection. Digitisation of this report has been supported by the National Library of Australia.
Reproduced with permission of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Note inedite di W.G. Arnott alle 'Baccanti' di Euripide
No full textThis paper is devoted to W.G. Arnott’s handwritten annotations on the edition with commentary of Euripides’ Bacchae edited by E.R. Dodds. A reprint of Dodd’s edition (1953) was bought by Arnott in 1953; after his death (2010) this and other books belonging to Arnott’s collection were acquired by Scrinium Classical Antiquity, a Dutch antiquarian bookstore, and the author of this paper came into possession of this book in July 2013. The Greek text of Dodd’s edition presents Arnott’s marginalia, mostly in pencil, on both the right- and the left-handed margins, and there are even some slips of paper with copious glosses on longer passages. Further annotations in the book’s introduction might give some clues to propose a dating. This paper will offer a transcript and discussion of Arnott’s major annotations on Dodd’s introduction and Greek text, including his remarks in the slips of paper. This will make it possible to shed light on Arnott’s reflections on Euripides’ Bacchae over the years and his critical approach to the Greek text and to Dodd’s edition itself.This paper is devoted to W.G. Arnott’s handwritten annotations on the edition with commentary of Euripides’ Bacchae edited by E.R. Dodds. A reprint of Dodd’s edition (1953) was bought by Arnott in 1953; after his death (2010) this and other books belonging to Arnott’s collection were acquired by Scrinium Classical Antiquity, a Dutch antiquarian bookstore, and the author of this paper came into possession of this book in July 2013. The Greek text of Dodd’s edition presents Arnott’s marginalia, mostly in pencil, on both the right- and the left-handed margins, and there are even some slips of paper with copious glosses on longer passages. Further annotations in the book’s introduction might give some clues to propose a dating. This paper will offer a transcript and discussion of Arnott’s major annotations on Dodd’s introduction and Greek text, including his remarks in the slips of paper. This will make it possible to shed light on Arnott’s reflections on Euripides’ Bacchae over the years and his critical approach to the Greek text and to Dodd’s edition itself
The Roman Military Valetudinaria: Fact or Fiction?
No full textThis paper questions whether Roman military hospitals have been properly identified in the archaeological evidence. The author is not convinced by the scholarship that adheres to the understanding that we know what Roman hospitals were. The buildings that have been identified as such were so justified at the beginning of the last century on the basis of a single structure with a room that contained medical tools. In comparison with other structures and buildings there is not enough evidence in the archaeological record to support such an argument. Again this has sparked a debate on how we identify buildings used for health and healing
L'autore e la lettera: problemi di attribuzione e autorialità nell'epistolografia greca fittizia
No full textThis paper investigates the collection of fifty love letters that a Vienna codex, which dates from the 12th to 13th century and was discovered in the Terra d’Otranto, attributes to an author conventionally identified by the name Aristaenetus. Almost two centuries after the historic commentary of Boissonade (1822) and despite the care of authoritative twentieth-century scholars, the most notable being Albin Lesky and William Geoffrey Arnott, numerous questions remain unanswered. In particular, the validity of the Vienna manuscript’s attribution of authorship to Aristaenetus; the historical-literary identity of the author; and the dating of the collectio
Privatisation, the Hawke government and Labor tradition
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The Effect Of Forward Sweep On A Wing/Body Junction
No full textPhDA study has been carried out of the aerodynamic interference flow arising at the junction of
a swept-forward wing, which is cambered, but without taper or twist and a flat plate on
which a fully-developed, turbulent boundary layer approaches the junction. Initial CFD
predictions of the pressures over the wing were carried out by the author at BAe, Hatfield.
Flow visualisation tests and surface pressure measurements over the wind tunnel model
were conducted at wing incidences from -3' to +9'. With the wing at 0' incidence, a
single-tube yawmeter was used to explore the flow field around the leading-edge of the
junction and an X-wire anemometer to examine the mean velocity and turbulence fields in
the streamwise corners and at the trailing edge. The Reynolds number of the tests, based
on the streamwise chord and free stream velocity of 30 m/s, was 1.03 A06.
At low incidence,, a very weak separation occurred in the plate boundary layer, a very
short distance upstream of the junction. However the oncoming stream converges into the
junction, appearing to confine any vortical motion at the leading edge to within a very thin
layer below the closest point of measurement to the plate. Rudimentary vortical flow
developed slightly downstream of the leading edge, but dissipated further downstream.
Although weak vortices were measured in the trailing-edge, cross-plane, these were
attributed to comer separations just upstream. The turbulence activity in the streamwise
corners was found to be surprisingly low, especially in the compression side of the
junction. Estimates of skin-friction showed that it was lower over the majority of the
trailing-edge cross-plane than in the plate boundary layer upstream of the junction. At
higher incidence, flow visualisation showed that the junction region had severe stall
characteristics, with 3-dimensional recirculation regions forming.British Aerospace, Hatfield, Civil Aircraft factory under contracted HY-11070
Decision biases and decision support systems development
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