Organisation

Swinburne Institute for Social Research

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Across the seas: a history of Australia's response to refugees


According to Across the Seas, by Swinburne University professor Klaus Neumann, Australia's policy on refugees and asylum seekers has long been a contentious and controversial issue. Across the Seas, by Swinburne University professor Klaus Neumann, investigates how Australia's response to refugees has evolved from Federation until 1977.
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Governing for innovation


In this seminar Chris K. Wilson argues that the 1992 Broadcasting Services Act inspired the formation of hundreds of new broadcasting organisations (particularly in the community radio sector), encouraged experimentation in broadcasting content, communication infrastructure configuration and media convergence, and impacted the cultural landscape beyond broadcasting.
Report

Making apartments affordable: moving from speculative to deliberative development


Urban consolidation policies in Australia presuppose apartments as the new dominant housing type, but much of what the market has delivered is criticised as over-development, and as being generic, poorly-designed, environmentally unsustainable and unaffordable.
Chapter

The ‘C’ word: class, migrants and academia


In this chapter May Ngo discusses her background as a child of Vietnamese bakers in Sydney and how having a working-class background has influenced what she does now at university. The 'C' word appears at page 20, following the introduction to this book Bread and Roses: Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class edited...
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Home internet in remote Indigenous communities


The project aimed to inform the successful provision of internet infrastructure, maintenance and training in remote areas by providing detailed qualitative analysis of how households in the three communities experienced the internet.

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