Issues in firearms control: a critique of the 1985 New South Wales legislation

1985 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-271
Author(s):  
J David Fine
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Primary Producers ◽  
Control Laws ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Future

New South Wales recently has adopted significant amendments to its firearms control laws. In so doing it has evinced certain fundamental policy choices. These relate to matters including gun registration and the licensing of gun owners; controls on ammunition; the appropriate locus of discretion in firearms control matters; the appropriate controls for especially dangerous types of firearms; the situation of primary producers; reciprocity in firearms licensing within Australia; and the collection of historically significant firearms. This article identifies the policy preferences implicit in the 1985 New South Wales law. It then proceeds to critique these policy decisions with reference to patterns of law (present and emerging) in the country's other jurisdictions, and the relevant secondary literature in the field. While concluding that the newly amended New South Wales legislation remains “functional and purposive”, on the whole, the article ends with a problematic for the future. VII. And be it further enacted, That every person who shall be found with any fire-arms, or other instruments of a violent nature, in his possession, and shall not prove to the satisfaction of the Justices of the Peace as aforesaid, that the same was or were not intended to be illegally used, as hereinbefore is provided, shall be deemed to be guilty of a high misdemeanour, …A

How past sea-level changes can inform future planning: A case study from the Macleay River estuary, New South Wales, Australia

The Holocene ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (11) ◽  
pp. 1591-1601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A McGowan ◽  
Robert GV Baker
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
River Estuary ◽  
The Past ◽  
Case Study Area ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Future

Climate change poses many challenges for the future management and development of the coastal zone. Uncertainties in the rate of future sea-level rise reduce our ability to project potential future impacts. This study seeks to further develop the past–present–future methodology proposed in Baker and McGowan and apply it to an additional case study, the Macleay River estuary, New South Wales (NSW), Australia. The past–present–future methodology uses evidence from the past, the Holocene and Pleistocene, to formulate a response function that can be used to project future sea-level heights. Three scenarios for 2100 were developed to emphasise the uncertainties surrounding future sea levels and the need to consider multiple sea-level rise scenarios when planning for the future: a best case (90 cm rise), mid-case (2.6 m rise) and worst case (5 m rise). Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data were used to project each of the three scenarios onto the case study area of South West Rocks. The methodology was tested by using shell samples extracted from cores which were AMS dated to determine whether or not Holocene estuarine conditions correlated with the proposed future sea-level rise inundation scenarios. We also conducted an audit of potentially affected infrastructure and land uses, and proposed possible future adaptation strategies for the case study area.

Drug policy’s past, present and future: Where should Australia head now?

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 254-260
Author(s):  
Kate Seear
Keyword(s):  
Drug Policy ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Current State ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The Right ◽  
Drug Problems

In recent years there have been significant changes in global drug policy. This article considers these developments. I provide a brief introduction to the history of global drug policy, followed by an overview of the current state of play, both in Australia and abroad. Inspired by a recent injunction by New South Wales Deputy Coroner Harriet Grahame to think differently about drug problems, I then consider whether we are asking the right questions in current debates about the future direction of drug policy, and whether our policy priorities need to change.

scholarly journals Australian local government sustainability and transformation: Structural reform and the fit for the future (F4F) reform initiative in New South Wales - forced council mergers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Tiley
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
The Future

For decades, sustainability and, especially, long-term financial sustainability and transformation, primarily through structural and other modes of reform, have constituted major concerns and problems for the ‘grass roots’ Australian government. Usually the catalyst for change in these areas has emanated from state and territory jurisdictions which have imposed reforms, often with little regard for local councils or the communities they serve. Since August 2011, in New South Wales, a structured process of dialogue and consultation has been ongoing in the local government sector with the objective of implementing beneficial reform. The paper briefly explains this transformation initiative and particularly the NSW Government Fit for the Future (F4F) process and the current 35 council merger proposals. The process is considered from the perspective of a long-term local government practitioner, elected representative, Mayor, and former member of the NSW Local Government Acts Taskforce (LGAT).

The Feminization of Teaching in New South Wales: A Historical Perspective

1983 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noeline Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
The State ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Future ◽  
Feminization Of Teaching ◽  
State Schools

The claim has been made that a high proportion of female teachers in the state schools could disadvantage some children. This paper takes a historical perspective to suggest that such a claim has little basis in fact. Although this article concentrates on one particular paper which presents this claim, there is also awareness that comment about the large number of female teachers compared with males in the teaching service and implications for the future is now widespread. The assumptions underlying such comment clearly need close appraisal.

scholarly journals “The Coming Event!”

Politeja ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4(61)) ◽  
pp. 463-479
Author(s):  
Jan Lencznarowicz
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Future ◽  
United Provinces

John Dunmore Lang’s Vision for an Independent Australia John Dunmore Lang, the Scottish Presbyterian clergyman who settled in Sydney in 1823, until his death in 1878 played an important role in the religious, political and cultural life of New South Wales and helped to create two new colonies: Victoria and Queensland. His writings as much as his political and educational activities significantly contributed to the rise of early Australian nationalism. Lang envisaged a great future of a federal Australian republic – the United Provinces of Australia. Drawing on Lang’s books, pamphlets and his articles and speeches published in the colonial and metropolitan press, this paper analyses the religious, ideological, political and economic ideas that led him to present and espouse the cause of the future America of the Southern Hemisphere.The focus is on the fundamental political and social principles on which Lang wanted to establish the independent Australian nation. The paper also discusses planned political institutions, as well as expected or desired social and economic

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