Moss, Hon. Matthew Lewis, (1 Dec. 1863–26 Feb. 1946), KC; West Australian Bar; Legal Adviser in London to the Government of Western Australia

2007 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Matthew Lewis ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
The Government

scholarly journals Spinifex People as Cold War Moderns

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 71-94
Author(s):  
Greg Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Nuclear Testing ◽  
Atomic Age ◽  
Native Title ◽  
Global Modernity ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Government

Aboriginal Australian contemporary artists create works that express indigenous traditions as well as the unprecedented conditions of global modernity. This is especially true for the founders of the Spinifex Arts Project, a collective established in 1997 to create so-called “government paintings”: the large-scale canvases produced as documents of land tenure used in negotiations with the government of Western Australia to reclaim expropriated desert homelands. British and Australian nuclear testing in the 1950s displaced the Anangu juta pila nguru, now known to us as the Spinifex people, from their nomadic lifeworld. Exodus and the subsequent struggle to regain lost homelands through paintings created as corroborating evidence for native title claims make Spinifex canvases not simply expressions of Tjukurpa, or “Dreamings,” but also artifacts of the atomic age and its impact on a culture seemingly far from the front lines of cold war conflict.

Archerite, (K,NH4)H2PO4, a new mineral from Madura, Western Australia

1977 ◽  
Vol 41 (317) ◽  
pp. 33-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Bridge
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Type Material ◽  
New Mineral ◽  
Queensland Museum ◽  
Cell Dimensions ◽  
The Government ◽  
O 10 ◽  
White Streak

SummaryArcherite, (K, NH4)H2PO4, a new mineral, has been found in Petrogale Cave, 36 km east of Madura Motel (31° 54′S, 127°00′E) Western Australia. Archerite and biphosphammite together with aphthitalite, halite, syngenite, stercorite, oxammite, weddellite, whitlockite, guanine, newberyite, calcite, (NH4)2Ca(HPO4)2·H2O, and an unknown occur as stalactites and wall and floor crusts.Archerite is tetragonal with second order prisms and pyramids in crystals up to 2 mm in length with D 2·23, ω 1·513, ε 1·470, all close to artificial KH2PO4. The mineral is soft, has a white streak, and is soluble in cold H2O. Cell dimensions of natural archerite were not determined and the composition was calculated from measurements of selected powder lines correlated with charts prepared from end-member data and by chemistry which gave 81% KH2PO4 and K2O 10·8, NH2 3·46 respectively, the latter corresponding to (K0·74(NH4)0·26)H2PO4.The name is for Dr. M. Archer, Curator of Mammals, Queensland Museum. Type material is stored in the collections of the Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia.

scholarly journals Western Australia’s Remote Indigenous Communities: A Case Against Closures and a Call For New Governance

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 209-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asta Hill
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Remote Communities ◽  
Aboriginal Communities ◽  
The Government

In the late 1970s thousands of Indigenous Australians initiated a movement back to the ancestral lands they had been removed from during the assimilationist era. Less than 50 years since their return to country, Aboriginal people living in Western Australia’s (WA) remote communities are again grappling with their impending redispossession. Wa Premier Colin Barnett’s announcement late last year was panic inducing: It is a problem that I do not want and the government does not want, but it is a reality. There are something like 274 Aboriginal communities in Western Australia—I think 150 or so of those are in the Kimberley itself—and they are not viable. They are not viable and they are not sustainable . . . I am foreshadowing that a number of communities are inevitably going to close.

Chasing The Dream – Self-Determination on a Non-territorial Basis for the Noongar Traditional Owners in the South West of Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-193
Author(s):  
Bertus De Villiers
Keyword(s):  
Western Australia ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Native Title ◽  
Land Claim ◽  
South West ◽  
The Government

Abstract Self-determination for Aboriginal people in Australia has been a long sought after yet difficult objective to reach. The recently concluded Noongar Settlement in the state of Western Australia opens new opportunities and could potentially set a new benchmark for non-territorial autonomy and self-government for an Aboriginal community. The Noongar Settlement exceeds the more traditional settlements of a native title claim since it provides elaborate institutions for self-government albeit by way of private bodies corporate. The bodies corporate for the Noongar people would enable them to make and administer decisions; offer services; undertake management of public conservation areas; and advocate for the best interests of their community. This privatised form of self-government may not only provide new impetus to other land claim processes in Australia, it may also address the often-heard demands from Aboriginal people for a treaty to be entered into between themselves and the government of Australia.

Aboriginal Hostesses Take to the Air

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Health Department ◽  
Fishing Village ◽  
Shark Bay ◽  
Queensland Health ◽  
Field Officer ◽  
The Government

Three attractive Aboriginal girls graduated last December as air hostesses for the government airline TAA. They are Mary Cross, 20, of Sylvania, a Sydney suburb; Jennifer Patterson, 22, of Townsville; and Evelyn Schraber, 22, of Alice Springs, who are thought to be the only Aboriginal air hostesses now working on an airline in Australia. They graduated with 16 other beautiful and intelligent Australians.Under the new National Employment Strategy for Aboriginals (NESA), TAA and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs undertook a recruitment drive to find suitable Aboriginal hostesses. None of the three girls chosen had considered applying for an air hostess job before, in fact they said they ‘didn’t think they’d have a chance because they were Aboriginal, and didn’t think they would be accepted’.They see their jobs as being public relations officers, not just for TAA but for their people.Sydney girl Mary Cross hails from Shark Bay, a little fishing village in Western Australia, and had been in Sydney for a year studying to be a secretary on an Aboriginal Study Grant. Evelyn Schraber was a clerk with the Central Land Council at Alice Springs, and Jennifer Patterson was a field officer with the Queensland Health Department. Their air hostess training was funded by the NEAT scheme.TAA’s chairman, Sir Kenneth Vial, said he hoped the three girls would be the forerunners of more Aboriginal hostesses with the company.

Holtite: a new mineral allied to dumortierite

1971 ◽  
Vol 38 (293) ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. Pryce
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Unit Cell ◽  
New Mineral ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Free Basis ◽  
X Ray ◽  
The Government

SummaryHoltite, a new mineral allied to dumortierite, occurred as pebbles with stibiotantalite and tantalite on an alluvial tin lease near Greenbushes, Western Australia, and is named after the late H. E. Holt, Prime Minister of Australia.The mineral is orthorhombic with a 11·905 Å, b 20·355 Å, c 4·690 Å, space group Pmcn, weak supercell 2a, 2b, c developed. Crystals are elongated along c, D 3·90 ± 0·02, hardness 8½, fluorescent. Optical properties α 1·743−1·746, mainly yellow, ‖ [001], β 1·756−1·759, colourless, γ 1·758−1·761, colourless, 2Vα 49−55°, r < v. X-ray powder data are given.Chemical analysis gave SiO2 20·30, Sb2O5 4·61, Al2O3 46·43, Ta2O5 11·24, Nb2O5 0·76, Fe2O3 0·27, MnO 0·05, TiO2 0·09, BeO 0·05, B2O3 1·82, Sb2O3 13·89, H2O+ 0·38, H2O− 0·08, sum 99·97%. On a water-free basis the unit cell contains Al24·5Sb2·56‴Ta1·36Sb0·76vNb0·16Fe0·10‴Be0·05Ti0·03Mn0·02B1·40‴Si9·09O66·85. Compared with dumortierite, 4[(A1,Fe)7BSi3O18] or 4 (X11O18), the holtite unit cell contains approximately 4(X10O17).Type material is preserved at the Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia.

scholarly journals Women Migrants in Western Australia: Case Studies of Resilience and Empowerment

Social Change ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94
Author(s):  
Jaya A. R. Dantas ◽  
Penelope Strauss ◽  
Roslyn Cameron ◽  
Claire Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The Government ◽  
Purposive Sample ◽  
Personal Case

This article presents findings from an exploratory research using descriptive case studies of 12 migrant women in Western Australia. The purposive sample represents the government, academia, the private sector, community, civil society and not-for-profit organisations and is ranged in age from the late 20s to the 70s. Underpinned by theoretical frameworks of resilience and empowerment, women have shared their personal case narratives, and five case studies are presented in this paper. Our findings resonate with the vital and uncontested importance of education, the desire to be empowered, the capacity to be resilient and adaptive and the importance of giving back to the community. Key recommendations include the need for migrant women’s continued access to avenues of empowerment and furthering education. The provision of adaptive structures builds resilience and grows strong communities where women feel empowered. We propose that women migrants, through alliances and collaboration, cross borders of learning and work towards generating change and transformation.

Calcium sulphosilicate in lime-kiln wall coating

1972 ◽  
Vol 38 (300) ◽  
pp. 968-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. Pryce
Keyword(s):  
Optical Properties ◽  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Organic Acids ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Lime Kiln ◽  
Sulphur Trioxide ◽  
The Government ◽  
Oil Fuel ◽  
Pale Green

SummaryGreen calcium sulphosilicate layers were formed in lime-larnite-calcite wall coating in a lime kiln at Rivervale, Western Australia. The compound formed in the kiln flame area by the combination of siliceous lime sand feed with sulphur trioxide from the sulphurous oil fuel.The calcium sulphosilicate is orthorhombic with a 10·183, b 15·408, c 6·825 Å, space group Pcmn. Crystals are [100] tablets or prisms elongated along c, D 2·95, hardness 5, streak pale green, decomposed by organic acids. Optical properties α 1·632 = [001] blue, β 1·638 = [100] yellow-green γ 1·640 yellow-green, 2Vα = 60°, dispersion r > v, X-ray powder lines: 2·855 (10) 032,202; 2·838 (7) 330,321; 3·35 (6) 012; 2·622 (6) 331; 2·571 (6) 060; 3·20 (5) 231; 1·962 (5); 1·899 (5); 1·896 (5); 1·372 (5).Chemical analysis by P. Hewson gave: SiO2 21·50, Al2O3 1·83, Fe2O2 0·50, CO2 0·49, P2O5 0·23, CaO 57·19, MgO 0·35, Na2O 0·22, K2O 0·22, SrO 0·15, Li2O 0·06, SO3 16·71, H2O+ 0·28, H2O− 0·10, others 0·04, total 99·87. On a water-free basis the unit cell contains Ca19.66 Mg0.17 Na0.14 K0.08 Sr0.03 Li0.08 approximately 4[Ca5(SiO4)2SO4] and isostructural with silicocarnotite, 4[Ca5(PO4)2SiO4]. Type material is preserved at the Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia.

The Phantom of Deterrence: The Crime (Serious and Repeat Offenders) Sentencing Act

1993 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderic Broadhurst ◽  
Nini Loh
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Hard Core ◽  
Repeat Offenders ◽  
Crime Wave ◽  
The Government ◽  
Juvenile Arrests

Throughout 1991 a car theft “crime wave” and a series of deaths arising from high-speed police pursuits had engendered an atmosphere of crisis in “law and order” in Western Australia. Prompted by these events, controversial legislation (the Crime (Serious and Repeat Offenders) Sentencing Act 1992) aimed at “high risk” juvenile offenders and increasing penalties was rushed through the Parliament of Western Australia in early 1992. A critique of the legislation illustrates that it both breached human rights and failed to address the difficulties of implementing selective incapacitation policies. Following the introduction of the new law the government claimed that downward trends in car theft, police high-speed pursuits and other offences were due to the deterrent effects of the increased penalties provided. The data, however, indicate that the decline in official records of car theft and juvenile convictions had begun prior to the introduction of the legislation. Significant correlations between reports of stolen vehicles and arrests for car theft (especially Aboriginal juvenile arrests) were found but not for police high-speed pursuits or arrests of persistent offenders and reports of stolen vehicles. This suggests that targeting “hard core” juvenile offenders had, at best, modest and temporary effects on vehicle theft. While a sharp decline in the relevant statistics was observed around the time of the passage of the law, this proved short-lived and other factors, such as changes in policing (the introduction of cautioning, the formation of a special motor vehicle task force, and stricter guidelines on pursuits) are more compelling explanations than the deterrent aims of the legislation.

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