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Supporting Comparative Studies of Judicial Behavior: Introducing the Australian High Court Database
(2026) Leslie, Pat; Robinson, Zoe; Smyth, Russell; Jacobi, Tonja
Comparative research on law and legal institutions depends on high-quality data infrastructure. This article introduces the Australian High Court Database?a new resource that encodes structured information on all full judgments of the High Court of Australia between 1995 and 2020, and all leave applications (Australia?s equivalent to petitions for certiorari) from 2003 to 2018. The database is built in accordance with core principles that support comparative research: it is adaptable, and comparable. By attending to jurisdictional specificity while adhering to general standards, the database supports both within-country analysis and cross-national comparison. We illustrate how the Australian High Court Database can be used to study comparative judicial behavior by analyzing judicial dissent rates across apex courts, judicial ideology, and agenda setting.
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Book Review: Fresh Ink: Laura Vermeeren, 'Ink Studies: Everyday Practices of Calligraphy in Contemporary China' (2025); Luise Guest, 'Invisible Ink: Feminism and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art' (2026)
(2026-05-06) Burchmore, Alex
A double review of Laura Vermeeren's "Ink Studies: Everyday Practices of Calligraphy in Contemporary China", University of Singapore Press, 2025; and Luise Guest's "Invisible Ink: Feminism and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art", Bloomsbury Academic, 2026
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Island Hydrology and Freshwater Resources
(University of Hawai'i Press, 2026-04-30) White, Ian; Falkland, Tony
Island states and territories spread across the vast Pacific Ocean are some of the most vulnerable locations in the world. Ober the past one thousand to forty thousand years their communities have demonstrated remarkable resilience to a formidable range of natural disasters such as tropical cyclones, floods, landslips, severe droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and wave inundation. That resilience has been underpinned by an ability to access sufficient freshwater for survival from a variety of sources and a capacity to substitute brackish water and seawater for non consumptive use in emergencies.
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Regulatory Guidance for the Return of Raw Genomic Data to Research Participants: A Qualitative Interview Study
(2026) Nielsen, Jane Louise; Wakefield, Claire E.; McWhirter, Rebekah; Johnston, Carolyn; Otlowski, Margaret; Tyrrell, Vanessa; Cowley, Mark J.; Tucker, Katherine M.; Lyons, Ruth; Gill, Anthony J.
This paper reports the results of an Australian qualitative study investigating the return of raw genomic data to research study participants. Increasing numbers of participants request access to their raw genomic data, although the legal position in relation to whether data should be returned lacks clarity, particularly in Australia. Interviews were conducted with stakeholders involved in two research studies where participants have undergone whole genome sequencing: ZERO Childhood Cancer, and the Australian Pancreatic Cancer Genome Initiative. Four major themes were identified: whether raw genomic data should be returned; reasons for seeking access; risks in returning data; and processes for return. Our findings indicate that health professionals, scientists, bioinformaticians, patients and patient advocates overwhelmingly support the return of raw data upon request, with ethical imperatives providing a strong basis for this support. Many stakeholders went on to stress the importance of adequate support for participants to ensure risks associated with the return of raw genomic data are minimized, including the provision of explanation and, where necessary, counselling and clinical advice. Our findings provide a basis for arguing that adequate resourcing must be built into research projects from the outset, given expected increases in participant demand for genomic data.
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Promotion in the Australian Public Service: Improvements for Women and Stagnation for Cultural and Linguistic Minorities
(2026) Breunig, Robert; Hansell, David; Win, Nu Nu
We investigate whether being female, Indigenous, from a non-English speaking background (NESB) or having a disability affects career advancement in the Australian Public Service. Over the past 20 years, women have become more likely to get promoted at senior ranks than similar men and just as likely at junior ranks. NESB staff have much lower promotion prospects at higher ranks despite being less likely to separate from the public service. Lower promotion prospects for NESB staff are only partially explained by language proficiency or cultural assimilation. The unexplained remainder could reflect tokenism or a penalty for being non-white.
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Zhou Xiaoping celebrates cultural encounter in this refreshingly sincere autobiography
(2026-04-26) Burchmore, Alex
A review of Zhou Xiaoping's "Adopted by Country: An Artist from China in Aboriginal Australia", Arden/Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2025
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A Marginalized Group's Land Ownership and Cultural Costs of Legitimation
(Emerald Publishing, 2026-06-01) Song, Eun Young
How does a culturally marginalized group legitimize their land ownership, and how does successful legitimation inadvertently undermine their culture? While existing studies have explored how marginalized groups strategically utilize dominant mainstream culture, they often overlook multiple layers within it and leveraging these layers can lead to unintended effects on marginalized groups’ culture. Considering marginalized groups’ culture as encompassing values, beliefs, and behaviors, I focus on a peasant kin group in rural Korea and examine how they legitimize the communal values of their culture by legalizing their centuries-long collective ownership of the land through utilizing different layers of the dominant culture, such as agnatic primogeniture and modernization. Yet, at the same time, their successful efforts to legitimate the collective land ownership marginalize their culture of community stability. Through content analysis of multi-year observations and interviews, my findings provide nuanced understanding of marginalized groups’ agency, by highlighting the layered nature of dominant culture as a potential source of undermining their culture.
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Diachronic divergences in West Iberian languages
(De Gruyter, 2026-06-22) Delicado Cantero, Manuel; Tejedo-Herrero, Fernando; Amaral, Patrícia
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Introduction: Investigating divergences in West Iberian languages
(2026-06-22) Delicado Cantero, Manuel; Tejedo-Herrero, Fernando; Amaral, Patrícia
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"To Hear Real Freedom": Overcoming Barriers to Promoting Everyday Singing as a Form of Accessible, Universal Musical Care
(2026-05-09) West, Susan; Pike-Rowney, Georgia; Bodkin-Allen, Sally; McConnell, Bonnie; Gulliver, Amelia; Castro De Jong, Daniela; Cave, Breanna; Loudon, Jenny; Anyos, Belinda; Pearce, Claire
This position paper proposes a concept of Everyday Singing as a form of regular, free, embedded, and self-instigated caring activity for all. Framed as a form of Musical Care as developed and discussed by, this conception of Everyday Singing emerges from the longitudinal practice and research of the Music Engagement Program (MEP) based in Canberra, Australia. The MEP singing approach is a social-altruistic form of music making that encourages everyone to participate in musical activity, particularly singing, while supporting the musical activity of others. The approach has shown significant impacts in overcoming the documented singing anxiety of adults in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand as a means of enabling access to regular singing for those with less autonomy, such as children and the elderly. Everyday Singing is interrogated by an interdisciplinary group of practitioners and researchers who also act as co-authors for this position paper. The aim was to help identify the barriers and facilitators to engagement, providing a starting definition for Everyday Singing that highlights its potential to support well-being both in and beyond Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Experienced discussants specifically discuss the MEP singing approach as a vehicle for encouraging Everyday Singing in a range of contexts viewing the concept through the lens of Musical Care as a form of social musical encouragement and sharing. Everyday Singing is conceptualized as an umbrella term, including both formal and informal singing, and is designed to support higher levels of active engagement for the general community whilst at the same time providing a different way of approaching skill development and performance. Everyday Singing is thus positioned to provide a pathway for the anxious or reluctant singer to overcome personal barriers to engagement, to instead focus on supporting and encouraging those with less autonomy, towards a form of accessible, universal, free, and embedded Musical Care for all.
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First report of digital fluting from Melanesia: The cave art site of Kalate Egeanda, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
(1992) Ballard, Christopher
Cave art site of Kalate Egeanda, Southern Highlands Pronvice, Papua New Guinea
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Epstein Family Values
(2026-02-14) Cooper, Melinda
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
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Dudumahan: A rock art site on Kai Kecil, Southeast Moluccas
(1988) Ballard, Christopher
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Avatar: Forms of Vishnu
(Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2026-06-20) Sambrani, Chaitanya; Eastburn, Melanie
Avatar: forms of Vishnu explores the rich artistic and cultural legacy of the many forms taken by Vishnu – one of Hinduism’s most revered deities – to restore cosmic order in times of crisis. Spanning fifteen centuries and featuring approximately 200 exceptional works from collections across Australia, India, Cambodia, Switzerland, the UK and the USA, the publication traces the enduring relevance of Vishnu’s avatars through sculpture, painting and contemporary art. Structured around expansive thematic essays and entries on Vishnu, his avatars, companions and opponents, Avatar: forms of Vishnu provides new scholarship from leading curators and academics, including editors Melanie Eastburn and Chaitanya Sambrani, and authors Johanna Bear, Carol Cains, Neeraja Poddar, Seang Sokha and Caroline Widmer – offering fresh perspectives on narrative traditions, devotional practices and artistic styles in South and Southeast Asian art. The publication explores the mythological origins and iconographic diversity of Vishnu’s avatars, the role of feminine energies in the Hindu pantheon, the devotional philosophy of bhakti, and regional approaches to painting and architecture in South and Southeast Asia. Short texts on ‘who’s who’ within Vishnu’s divine circle helps readers identify the avatars, consorts and adversaries depicted throughout the works of art. Designed to extend the curatorial vision of the exhibition presented exclusively at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Avatar: forms of Vishnu invites readers to experience the great art that has brought these beings and their stories to life across time and place.
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Unchartered territory: immigration restarted amid population panic
(UNSW Press, 2026) Allen, Liz
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INTEGRATING SWIDDEN AGRICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: Into sustainable intensification in the Central Mekong region
(CABI Publishing, 2017) Xu, Jianchu; McLellan, Timothy; Hiwasaki, Lisa
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Storey, Cecile Eunice (1933–1997)
(2025) Staff, Michelle
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An Ocean of Images: Film and History in the Pacific
(2010) Landman, Jane; Ballard, Christopher
In introducing a collection of papers deriving from a workshop dedicated to Pacific film and history, this article takes the opportunity to broadly map the disciplinary and textual terrain of professional historians’ engagement with the cinema. The papers introduced by this essay were selected from the first workshop dedicated to the topic of film and history in the Pacific, held in Canberra in 2007, which brought together film-makers and scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds. Despite pioneering work in the 1980s and early 1990s, historical scholarship concerned with film in the Pacific has been sporadic and remains relatively undeveloped, in contrast to research on film in other regions or the growing study of the relationships between film, colonialism and postcolonial identity. The article first reviews recent literature on history and film, and advocates further exploration of the distinctive ‘history-making properties of this medium. A survey of the evolution of cinematic imaginaries for the Pacific highlights the development of colonial technologies and documentary traditions, and concludes with reflections on the growing body of film made by Islanders, marking the emergence of a new range of visual sensibilities.
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The Criminal and Fallen of their Sex': The Establishment of Canada's First Women's Prison, 1874-1901
(1985) Strange, Carolyn
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Fluid Ontologies: myth, ritual and philosophy in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
(Bergin & Garvey, 1998) Goldman, Laurence; Ballard, Christopher

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