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The meaning of a republic
No full textJones, BT ORCiD: 0000-0002-4312-6995Australia is a country that has already embraced so many of
the finest features of republican philosophy. We believe in freedom,
equality, civic duty and the common good. Cicero claimed
that a republic is not just a group of people collected together in
any old way but a community of people committed to justice and the common good. When the Australian states federated in 1901, a
commitment was made to look beyond narrow individual interests
and to serve the common good. The hand of republicanism has
been on Australia's shoulder from colonial times to the present
day. As the renowned English republican Algernon Sidney put it,
the crew does not exist for the ship but the ship exists to serve the
people. Australia is destined to grow and prosper as a free and
independent republic, the champion of democracy and the home
of freedom
When and where is Australia?
No full textWhen Is Australia? On 24 September 2018, then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison posted an angry tweet after Byron Bay Shire council decided to move their Australia Day ceremony from 26 January. The decision came in response to growing public unease about using the date as a national celebration. Although Britain had claimed the continent and islands now called Australia in 1770, 26 January 1788 marked the beginning of European colonisation with the Gadigal people of Sydney being the first to be physically dispossessed of the land they had occupied for hundreds of generations. Like all First Nations, their sovereignty
was never ceded and it is increasingly accepted that terra nullius was ‘legal
fiction’ and was not used by the British to justify dispossession.1 In 2017, three councils in Melbourne and a fourth in Fremantle decided to stop holding official celebrations on 26 January out of respect for First Nations people.2 Then Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull responded by stripping the councils of their right to hold citizenship ceremonies. Likewise, Morrison removed Byron Bay Shire’s right to hold citizenship ceremonies (until the Shire backed down and reversed the decision) but he went further than his predecessor by presenting any change to the Australia Day narrative as a form of national self-sabotage
1940: What to do in an electoral draw
No full textJones, BT ORCiD: 0000-0002-4312-6995Even in committed democracies, it is not unusual far elections to be suspended in times of war. In the grim war year of 1940 there were certainly some calls far the scheduled federal election to be delayed and far the formation of an emergency government with special powers. The decision was made to conduct the election as normal and the result was nation-shaping . Although Robert Menzies and his United Australia Party-Country Party coalition retained power, the ultimate victor was the Australian Labor Party and John Curtin, who would rise to the task of wartime leader just over a year later. The hung parliament of 1940 was
an unlikely outcome and reveals the ever-present role of fortune in politics, Were it not far the tragic deaths of several frontbenchers, the UAP failing to run a candidate in a key division, Curtin defying the odds to retain his own seat, and the slowly revealed impact of postal votes, Menzies would almost certainly have secured an absolute majority in the House of Representatives and served as prime minister far the remainder of the war. The 1940 result exemplifies the.flexibility of Australia's Westminster system and its ability to function without a clear majority winner. It also highlights the sometimes crucial function of Independent
MPs. At a philosophic level, .Australia was still negotiating and constructing its national identity in 1940. Menzies and Curtin were not the polar opposites sometimes presented but they were different leaders with different visions of Australia and its place in the world. The hung parliament meant that both men would serve as prime minister during the turbulent war years,· securing two very different legacies. The direction of Australia's war effort and the agenda of the early post-war years were dramatically shaped by the election of 1940
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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