“The NOSCA Mafia”: overseas student activism in Australia, 1985–1994

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Tim Briedis
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Overseas Students ◽  
Overseas Student ◽  
South Wales ◽  
First Case

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to explore and analyse the history of the predominantly Malaysian Network of Overseas Students Collectives in Australia (NOSCA), that existed from 1985–1994.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on extensive archival research in the State Library of New South Wales, the National Library of Australia and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Archives. It makes particular use of the UNSW student newspaper Tharunka and the NOSCA publications Truganini and Default. It also draws upon nine oral history interviews with former members of NOSCA.FindingsThe NOSCA was particularly prominent at the UNSW, building a base there and engaging substantially in the student union. Informed by anarchism, its activists were interested in an array of issues–especially opposition to student fees and in solidarity with struggles for democracy and national liberation in Southeast Asia, especially around East Timor. Moreover, the group would serve as a training ground for a layer of activists, dissidents and opposition politicians throughout Southeast Asia, with a milieu of ex-NOSCA figures sometimes disparagingly referred to as “the NOSCA Mafia.”Originality/valueWhile there has been much research on overseas students, there has been far less on overseas students as protestors and activists. This paper is the first case study to specifically hone in on NOSCA, one of the most substantial and left wing overseas student groups. Tracing the group's history helps us to reframe and rethink the landscape of student activism in Australia, as less white, less middle class and less privileged.

The Crown land accounting dilemma in New South Wales local government

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Ivannikov ◽  
Brian Dollery ◽  
Leopold Bayerlein
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe paper addresses the question of whether Crown land managed by local authorities in the New South Wales (NSW) local government system should be recognised as assets on municipal balance sheets.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides a synoptic review of the literature on accounting for public goods assets followed by a critical analysis of the official requirements of the NSW government on the recognition of Crown land.FindingsThe NSW government holds that Crown land managed by local councils should be recognised as an asset on council books. However, following an assessment of the problem through the analytical prism of financial accounting, it is argued that councils do not possess control over Crown land and that such land should thus not be recognised by councils.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper covers the legal and accounting framework applicable to NSW local government. However, it has broader implications for other local government systems with similar institutional and legislative foundations, such as other Australian states, New Zealand and South Africa, and these implications are highlighted in the paper.Practical implicationsIt is argued that NSW government policymakers should re-consider the requirement for Crown land to be recognised on councils' books. Local authorities would then be able to save money and time on external auditing, management of land asset registers and the mandatory valuation of land.Originality/valueAlthough Crown land shares some of the characteristics of other public good assets, unique accounting challenges arise due to the existence of a market in which such land could be traded not by councils, but by its legal owner (the Crown). In financial accounting, legal ownership is not considered as the main criterion over assets. However, the authors argue that for Crown land vested with councils, it becomes a critical factor in decision making.

scholarly journals Universities, war and the professionalization of dentistry

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamson Pietsch
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
First World War ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
World War ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The University ◽  
First World

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to bring together the history of war, the universities and the professions. It examines the case of dentistry in New South Wales, detailing its divided pre-war politics, the role of the university, the formation and work of the Dental Corps during the First World War, and the process of professionalization in the 1920s. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on documentary and archival sources including those of the University of Sydney, contemporary newspapers, annual reports and publication of various dental associations, and on secondary sources. Findings The paper argues that both the war and the university were central to the professionalization of dentistry in New South Wales. The war transformed the expertise of dentists, shifted their social status and cemented their relationship with the university. Originality/value This study is the first to examine dentistry in the context of the histories of war, universities and professionalization. It highlights the need to re-evaluate the changing place of the professions in interwar Australia in the light both of the First World War and of the university’s involvement in it.

Asset management policies and guidelines of different states in Australia

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nateque Mahmood ◽  
Subas Prasad Dhakal ◽  
Kerry Brown ◽  
Robyn Keast ◽  
Anna Wiewiora
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Mapping Technique ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Management Policies

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore and compare the asset management policies and practices of six Australian states – New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania – to improve understanding of the policy context to best shape policy focus and guidelines. Australian state-wide asset management policies and guidelines are an emergent policy domain, generating a substantial body of knowledge. However, these documents are spread across the layers of government and are therefore largely fragmented and lack coherency. Design/methodology/approach – The comparative study is based on the thematic mapping technique using the Leximancer software. Findings – Asset management policies and guidelines of New South Wales and Victoria have more interconnected themes as compared to other states in Australia. Moreover, based on the findings, New South Wales has covered most of the key concepts in relation to asset management; the remaining five states are yet to develop a comprehensive and integrated approach to asset management policies and guidelines. Research limitations/implications – This review and its findings have provided a number of directions on which government policies can now be better constructed and assessed. In doing so, the paper contributes to a coherent way forward to satisfy national emergent and ongoing asset management challenges. This paper outlines a rigorous analytical methodology to inform specific policy changes. Originality/value – This paper provides a basis for further research focused on analyzing the context and processes of asset management guidelines and policies.

The discovery of Lepidocyrtoides Schött, 1917 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Entomobryinae) from the New World, including three new species from Brazil and one from Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4324 (2) ◽  
pp. 201 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIKOLAS GIOIA CIPOLA ◽  
JOSÉ WELLINGTON DE MORAIS ◽  
BRUNO CAVALCANTE BELLINI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
New World ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Brazilian Amazon ◽  
American Continent ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Three New Species

Herein four new species of Lepidocyrtoides are described and illustrated: three from Brazilian Amazon, L. caeruleomaculatus sp. nov., L. colormutatus sp. nov. and L. bicolorangelus sp. nov., all similar to each other by macrochaetotaxy reduced; and L. hopkini sp. nov. from New South Wales, Australia. Lepidocyrtoides tapuia comb. nov. (Arlé & Guimarães) and L. villasboasi comb. nov. (Arlé & Guimarães) are redescribed and transferred from Lepidosira Schött due to projection of mesothorax over head and manubrial plate with blunt macrochaetae. Neotypes are designated to both species. The holotype of L. oliveri Liu, Chen & Greenslade is analyzed and details of the dorsal chaetotaxy are added. Keys to the five species of the genus from Brazil and six from Australia are provided. Lepidocyrtoides now is recorded from the New World, South and Southeast Asia and Oceania, and the records of Lepidosira in the American continent are excluded. 

scholarly journals Unconventional Labour: Environmental Justice and Working-class Ecology in the New South Wales Green Bans

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 458-474
Author(s):  
Paul Bleakley
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
New Left ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
South Wales ◽  
1960S And 1970S

The New South Wales union movement embraced the principles of heritage and conservationism in the 1970s through the imposing of “green bans” – a strategy wherein union members refused to work on construction projects that were a threat to the state’s natural or built environment. Led by radicals like Builders Labourers’ Federation leader Jack Mundey, the green bans were seen in several sectors as a departure from the traditional “Old Left” priorities of securing workers’ wages and conditions. Rather than a hard shift towards radicalism, this article proposes that the green bans were instead reflective of an already existing conservationist tradition in the New South Wales union movement. This reinterpretation is predicated on a content analysis of extant historical material such as contemporaneous news articles, personal memoirs, transcripts of political speeches and archival documents related to the policing of left-wing activism in the 1960s and 1970s. The results show that an existing tradition of engagement with a broad spectrum of social issues in the New South Wales union movement predates the emergence of the New Left, including the commitment to environmental justice principles that underpinned the green bans.

Comparing health status, disability, and access to care in older and younger inmates in the New South Wales corrections system

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-161
Author(s):  
Courtney Field ◽  
Vicki Archer
Keyword(s):  
Access To Care ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Aging Prisoners ◽  
Older Inmates ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the rates of chronic illness, disability and access to care between older and younger inmates who took part in a large epidemiological study in New South Wales, Australia. Design/methodology/approach Data are presented from a cross-sectional study based on a sample of inmates from correctional sites in NSW. The inclusion of results here was guided by the literature with regard to their relevance to older people, and older inmates in particular. Findings Results indicate that a higher proportion of older inmates suffer a range of chronic illnesses, with prevalence often many times higher than that of younger inmates. Older inmates are more likely to be classified as disabled and have a disability which impacts their mobility. Older inmates also reported accessing medical services in prison more recently than younger inmates and were more likely to have seen both nurses and general practitioners. Practical implications Older inmates appear to be considerably more resource intensive than younger inmates. The increasing proportion of inmates who are classified as older thus poses a pressing challenge to those working in the carceral space and, in particular, those responsible for providing healthcare to incarcerated people. Originality/value The impact of aging prisoners on resource demand has yet to be effectively measured. This study provides an important first step towards that goal.

First case of Mycobacterium ulcerans disease (Bairnsdale or Buruli ulcer) acquired in New South Wales

2007 ◽  
Vol 186 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline J Lavender ◽  
Sanjaya N Senanayake ◽  
Janet A M Fyfe ◽  
John A Buntine ◽  
Maria Globan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Buruli Ulcer ◽  
Mycobacterium Ulcerans ◽  
South Wales ◽  
First Case

Schooling in Rural New South Wales: The Experience of Overseas Students

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil-Soo Han ◽  
Maggie I. Jamieson ◽  
Amanda E. Young
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Overseas Students ◽  
South Wales

Conodonts of Caradocian (Late Ordovician) age from the Cliefden Caves Limestone, southeastern Australia

1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 821-831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman M. Savage
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Late Ordovician ◽  
Eastern Siberia ◽  
Southeastern Australia ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Eastern Australia

New species of Aphelognathus, Belodina, Taoqupognathus, and Yaoxianognathus have been identified in the Late Ordovician Cliefden Caves Limestone Group in central-western New South Wales, Australia. Of the Aphelognathus species, Aphelognathus percivali n. sp. and A. webbyi n. sp. occur in the basal Gleesons Limestone Member and A. packhami n. sp. and A. stevensi n. sp. occur 30 m higher in the Wyoming Limestone Member. It seems likely from the similarity of several of the elements that A. packhami is closely related to A. percivali, and A. stevensi to A. webbyi. Yaoxianognathus wrighti n. sp. occurs in the Gleesons Limestone Member but not in the Wyoming Limestone Member. Belodina confluens, Belodina hillae n. sp., Belodina n. sp., Panderodus gracilis, Taoqupognathus philipi n. sp., and Phragmodus? tunguskaensis occur at both horizons. The conodonts suggest a middle to late Caradocian (mid-Shermanian to mid-Edenian) age for the lowest part of the Cliefden Caves Limestone. The occurrence in southeastern Australia of the forms Taoqupognathus, Yaoxianognathus, and Phragmodus? tunguskaensis suggest affinities to coeval faunas in China and eastern Siberia. The four new species of Aphelognathus are distinct from known species in the Late Ordovician of North America and Europe but they may help characterize a paleobiogeographic region that includes eastern Australia and southeast Asia.

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