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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Australian culture"”.
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International students in English language programs: their images of Australia and their travel behaviour
… English language students' images of Australian cities. To identify the mental map of cities in Australia (Sydney and Melbourne) a sketch map methodology supplemented by a range of question types and styles was applied. The results of the sketch maps of the two cities indicated that …
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Receiving by giving: The impacts of immersive service-learning for primary school-age students
… the nature of service; and understanding Australian culture. Results from the survey data were then used to formulate semi-structured interview questions asked for focus groups with both groups, on only one occasion, after the tour was completed. Through this methodology, a deeper …
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Male and female relationships in Australian fiction 1917-1956
… purpose in this study is to examine a number of Australian novels which portray love relationships between men and women, and to suggest some reasons for the quality of these relationships as fictionally depicted. Traditionally, Australian culture has been male dominated, therefore, central to …
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Looking out for the ‘Aussie bloke’: gender, class and contextualizing a hegemony of working-class masculinities in Australia
… of working-class masculinity is embedded in Australian culture in ways that legitimize certain gendered, classed, sexualized and ethnic positions while delegitimizing others. Working-class masculinity is considered as an inclusionary and exclusionary tool. This thesis uses masculinity theory, …
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Radio, community and the public : Community radio in Western Australia
… a new form of public sphere in contemporary culture. I explore notions of democratic radio following the theories of Harold Innis to explore how elites have attempted to control communication. I argue that community radio provides a participatory medium which democratises the medium and …
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From Hope to Disillusion? A Literary and Cultural History of the Whitlam Period, 1966-1975
It is argued in this thesis that Australian history between 1966 and 1975 can usefully be termed 'the Whitlam period' because the 1972-1975 ALP government of E.G. Whitlam represented the culmination of a wider set of movements for progressive social change, activated primarily by post-1965 …
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Transparency and place : a visitors' center in Sydney Australia
… to visitors of Sydney, that represents the "Australian culture" and can provide general information on ways to explore the continent. The design exploration navigates through several descriptions and approaches, on the city and the continent, conducted by a variety of intellectuals, writers, …
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Deconstructing motherhood and fatherhood: An exploration of same-sex parents’ experiences and construction of their parenting roles
… motherhood and fatherhood are entrenched in Australian culture and are often implied during public discussions of families with same-sex parents. Using a post structuralist approach, this project aimed to identify how parents in same-sex relationships experience and construct their parenting …
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A novel - The dues of St Fitticks: and essay - Paying your dues in the lucky country: Anglo-Celtic Australian attitudes to migrants
… the dominant (Anglo-Celtic) and non-dominant Australian cultural groups. I argue that upholding the dominance of Anglo-Celtic culture, particularly as a centre or “core” of Australian identity, is discriminatory and detrimental to the development of Australian society in general and the goal …
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Keeping the money under the soap : constructions of the English and English migrants in Australian nationalist texts
… by extension, English migrants, in a variety of Australian cultural texts, including film, television, newspapers and academic publications. Underlying this investigation are two major research questions: What are the factors informing the ambivalent place accorded 'Englishness' in Australian …
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Life satisfaction of adolescents: a cross-cultural study in malta and Australia
… means to attain life satisfaction vary from one culture to another (Bradley & Corwyn, 2004; Lu & Shih, 1997). The current study examined life satisfaction in native Maltese, Maltese-Australian, and Anglo-Australian adolescents. It is argued that adolescents of Maltese origin come from a culture …
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Ways of becoming : South Asian students in an Australian postgraduate environment
… a significant flow of international students to Australian universities, and a large proportion of this student cohort comes from South East Asian and South Asian countries. Whilst there has been a good deal of research on international students from South East and Far East Asia, who share a …
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Grey nomads: Retirement, leisure and travel in the Australian context
… tents. They have been a part of prevailing Australian culture for at least four decades. A highly visible group, these retirees tow their caravans behind their large four wheel drives, or drive their motorhomes, along the city roads and regional highways of Australia. Many form part of a …
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Tasha: A practice-based problematisation of Australian comedy cinema’s representation of gender, family and nationhood
… films were financed with the assistance of Australian film funding bodies. Of these 140 films, only 31 featured female protagonists and of these 31 films, only 8 were comedies (see Appendix B). These figures show statistically, Tasha, the creative film component of this research project, is …
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Negotiating the social consequences of stopping or reducing alcohol consumption
… but this consumption is ingrained in Australian culture, playing an important role in the rituals of many social occasions. This can make reducing or stopping alcohol consumption challenging, as one risks rejecting, not just a drink, but also the valued social meanings that drink …
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Gardens of the mind: an exploration of the integral role of gardens in the lives of contemporary Australians by probing the construction of a public garden space and exploring visually an idiosyncratic artistic experience of the Flecker Botanic Gardens
… environment. The garden is a significant part of Australian culture satisfying as it does a significant need in the contemporary Australian identity. This view is supported by an investigation into the highly interdisciplinary area of research of the nature of the garden in which attention is …
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Music in the life and work of Patrick White
Arguably, Patrick White (1912-1990) is Australia’s best known and most celebrated writer. In a working life spanning almost seven decades, he produced twelve novels, eight produced plays, three books of short stories and several collections of poetry, as well as several film scripts (only one of …