http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland en Fez http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:220362 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Colley, Linda http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:195440 2010-02-15T00:00:00Z Kifle, Temesgen http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:194233 2010-01-29T00:00:00Z Sourdin, Tania http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:196393 2010-02-23T00:00:00Z Boege, Volker http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:181137 We investigate change in the association between premarital cohabitation and the risk of separation. Using retrospective marriage history data from the first wave (2001) of the Household Income and Labor Dynamics in Australian survey, we examine 6,210 first marriages formed between 1945 and 2000. We find the association between premarital cohabitation and separation is changing. The increased risk of separation for cohabitors compared to noncohabitors diminishes each year for marriages before 1988. This association then reverses for marriages after 1988, where noncohabitors have an increased risk of separation. Our results indicate that, for more recent marriages, premarital cohabitation reduces the risk of separation; more research is needed to understand the underlying mechanisms for this reversal. 2009-09-03T00:00:00Z Hewitt, Belinda og De Vaus, David http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:256570 2011-10-18T00:00:00Z Colley, Linda http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:199198 2010-03-15T00:00:00Z Stimson, R. J. og Stough, R. R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:253074 2011-09-23T00:00:00Z Martin, Bill og Healy, Josh http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:228885 2011-02-11T00:00:00Z De Silva, D. Sujeewa M. og Memmott, Paul og Flutter, Nick og Martin, Darren http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:256610 2011-10-18T00:00:00Z Colley, Linda http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:260144 2011-11-01T00:00:00Z Yerkes, Mara http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:194357 2010-02-01T00:00:00Z Natalier, Kristin og Walter, Maggie og Wulff, Maryann og Reynolds, Margaret og Hewitt, Bellinda http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:282911 2012-10-05T00:00:00Z Ferris, Jason A. og Richters, Juliet og Pitts, Marian K. og Shelley, Julia M. og Simpson, Judy M. og Ryall, Richard og Smith, Anthony M. A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:283189 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Richters, J. og Smith, A. M. A. og Ferris, J. og Pitts, M. og Shelley, J. og Simpson, J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:135194 Considerable debate has taken place in recent years regarding definitions of volunteering, particularly around the need for a globally appropriate definition. An internationally recognised definition includes a broad range of activities, including civic engagement behaviours such as citizen participation in governance. Citizen participation is certainly seen in democratic societies as a right, and even a responsibility of citizenship; however, if it is included in the definition of volunteering, what might be the implications for governments, for citizens, for governance processes, and for researchers in the field? This paper explores the pitfalls and potential of a complex definitional issue. 2008-04-14T00:00:00Z Petriwskyj, Andrea M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:198530 2010-03-10T00:00:00Z Petriwskyj, A. M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:243369 2011-07-07T00:00:00Z http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:247349 2011-09-06T00:00:00Z Mazerolle, Lorraine Green og Roehl, Jan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:244978 This study evaluates the impact of a civil remedy program (Beat Health) on drug and disorder problems under experimental field trial conditions. Using calls for service data, the authors find statistically significant differences between the control and experimental groups, when drug problem calls prior to the start of the intervention were compared to drug calls during a 12-month follow-up period. The Beat Health sites, especially the residential sites, improved relative to the control sites. By contrast, the control treatment (patrol response) led to significant increases in drug problems, particularly at the commercial properties included in this study. The authors also examined the spatial influences of the Beat Health and patrol responses in catchment areas surrounding each of the 100 study sites. The results show some improvement in the experimental residential sites. The authors found, however, a possible displacement of drug problems in and around both the commercial experimental and control sites. They show that the displacement effect is most notable in the commercial control sites. 2011-08-04T00:00:00Z Mazerolle, Lorraine Green og Price, James F. og Roehl, Jan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219108 2010-10-26T00:00:00Z Western, Mark http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:258401 2011-10-21T00:00:00Z Western, Mark http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:249689 This article presents the findings from an analysis of the relationship between class location and income. The class schemas employed in these analyses derive from the work of Wright, Poulantzas, Carchedi, Barbara and John Ehrenreich and Goldthorpe. In the context of the Australian workforce, individual class location is found to be significantly related to income level. A properly specified causal model incorporating class and other relevant factors can explain between approximately 33 and 37 per cent of the variation of income among Australians in the workforce. 2011-09-10T00:00:00Z Marks, Gary N. og Western, John S. og Western, Mark C. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:258398 2011-10-21T00:00:00Z Western, Mark http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:283171 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Clarke, Miriam og Cutri, Stephanie og Elliott, Melissa og Ferris, Jason og Honeysett, Michael og Reichert, Tiffany M. og Roberts, Bridget http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:234749 2011-03-10T00:00:00Z Milligan, V. og Phillips, R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:237170 Growth models for subtests of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, 4th edition (R. L. Thorndike, E. P. Hagen, & J. M. Sattler, 1986a, 1986b) were developed for individuals with Down syndrome. Models were based on the assessments of 208 individuals who participated in longitudinal and cross-sectional research between 1987 and 2004. Variation in performance among individuals was large and significant across all subtests except Memory for Sentences. Scores on the Memory for Sentences subtest remained low between ages 4 to 30 years. Greatest variation was found on the Pattern Analysis subtest, where scores continued to rise into adulthood. Turning points for scores on the Vocabulary and Comprehension subtests appeared premature relative to normative patterns of development. The authors discuss development at the subdomain level and analyze both individual and group trajectories. 2011-03-17T00:00:00Z Couzens, Donna og Cuskelly, Monica og Haynes, Michele A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:198665 2010-03-10T00:00:00Z Everingham, J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:198924 2010-03-12T00:00:00Z Rombouts, S. og Mazerolle, L. og Shyy, T.-K. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:260138 2011-11-01T00:00:00Z Wattis, L og Yerkes, Mara og Lloyd, S og Hernandez-Sanchez, M og Dawson, L og Standing, K og Standing, M http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:256568 It is easy to criticize the traditional model of public service employment. However, its distinctiveness met the particular needs of a political environment and Westminster conventions. It was a bureaucratic model of employment aligned to the bureaucratic form of public administration, based on strong conventions of merit, tenure, political neutrality and a unified service, administered by an independent central authority. This model endured for more than a century. As public administration was transformed into public sector management, public sector employment was varied in pursuit of efficiency and responsiveness, and became an unstable mixture of traditional and new practices. Institutional changes have brought accompanying problems of duplication, lack of strategic direction or monitoring, and decreasing independence from political influences. The current public sector is beset with recruitment difficulties, high turnover in some fields, increasing use of insecure forms of employment, an aging workforce, and lower morale than many private sector counterparts. 2011-10-18T00:00:00Z Colley, Linda http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:130740 Community engagement and citizen participation have long been important themes in liberal democratic theory, although managerial versions of liberal democracy have typically been dominant. In the past two decades, however, many countries have seen a shift away from a managerial or top-down approach, towards a revitalised emphasis on building institutional bridges between governmental leaders and citizenry, often termed 'community engagement'. This paper outlines some of the main explanations for this shift, including international trends in governance and political economy; the availability of improved communications technologies; the need to share responsibility for resolving complex issues; and the local politics of managing social, economic and environmental projects. Some critical perspectives are also raised, suggesting a degree of scepticism about the intentions of government and implying serious limits on the potential influence of the citizenry and community groups. Important distinctions are drawn between policy arenas, in relation to the different dynamics and opportunities in different policy fields. The importance of building effective capacity for citizens and all non-government organisations (NGOs) to participate is emphasised. Typologies of community engagement are outlined, and linked to ideas about social capital. 2008-02-18T00:00:00Z Head, B. W. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:268539 The present study investigates the beliefs held by community members regarding child witnesses, with some emphasis on cases where a child is involved in a claim of sexual abuse. Responses to a survey of beliefs about children of different ages were collected from 204 Queenslanders of jury-eligible age. Results showed a variety of beliefs were held, with some differences between beliefs about younger and older children, particularly in terms of beliefs about memory abilities and suggestibility. Beliefs were also somewhat varied in terms of participants' age, gender, parental status and educational level. 2012-02-27T12:57:49Z Antrobus, Emma og McKimmie, Blake M. og Newcombe, Peter A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:286682 2012-12-03T09:33:08Z Mazerolle, Lorraine og Davis, Jacqueline og Higginson, Angela og Mengersen, Kerrie og Bedford, Laura og Somerville, Adele og Thompson, Jenna og Ham, Kathryn http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:230738 Community resilience (CR) refers to a complex, multi-dimensional, multi-layered process through which communities demonstrate a capacity to withstand and respond positively to stress or change. Enhancing CR is now a political priority as a result of rapid global change and concomitant levels of uncertainty that now dominate our international landscape. Whilst the importance of CR is acknowledged by academics, policy makers and practitioners, the concept continues to be characterised by ambiguity with little agreement on what CR is or how it can be enhanced and subsequently sustained. This paper aims to establish what is currently known about CR, identify the key theoretical and methodological limitations of the research as it presently stands and provide recommendations for the future development of this body of research. The purpose of this paper is to enhance our understanding of CR and its potential application for policy and practice. 2011-03-01T00:00:00Z Wickes, Rebecca og Zahnow, Renee og Mazerolle, Lorraine http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:193701 2010-01-24T00:00:00Z Mazerolle, Lorraine og Wickes, Rebecca og McBroom, James http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:195200 This paper will argue that there have been three waves of regulatory reform in contemporary Australia, each informed by a similar broad set of neo-liberal, political and economic objectives, but with important differences that reflect: the changing nature of the issues being addressed; the changing domestic and international context within which the reforms have been developed; the motives and roles of the State and Commonwealth governments in initiating the reforms; the management and organization of the reform processes. Our focus is upon the second and third waves of regulatory reform, commencing in the late 1980s. We suggest that the third wave of regulatory reform, commencing in about 2006 and initially described as the National Reform Agenda, represents a reinvigoration of key aspects of the second wave of microeconomic reform (as commenced under the Hawke and Keating Governments of the later 1980s and early 1990s and continued under the Howard Government). However, it also represents a genuine broadening of the national ‘productivity and efficiency’ debate by entering new policy areas as designated within the Human Capital agenda of COAG. Some of the impetus for this broadening came from the States with a view to engaging the Commonwealth at the highest level on expensive program areas such as health, childcare and education/training. These ‘human capital’ issues certainly include core ‘regulatory reform’ issues concerning regulatory clarity and accountability for performance, but funding responsibilities between the levels of government are also crucial issues. The structural arrangements for reform of intergovernmental relations in the Australian federal system have changed in response to the broad range of issues and heavy workloads. These changes include new arrangements for intergovernmental funding; a new oversight body, the CRC; and closer integration of strategic policy work between COAG and ministerial councils 2010-02-11T00:00:00Z Carroll, P. og Head, B.W. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:273233 Driver education and graduated driver licensing are two counteÍneasures designed to help reduce the crash risk ofyoung novice drivers. However, while driver education enjoys popular support there is a lack of evidence confirming that it reduces crash risk. In contrast, research has suggested a strong link between the introduction of stronger graduated licensing schemes, which include restrictions such as limits on late night driving or peer passengers, and crash reductions. This paper will present preliminary findings from a survey of novice driver experiences in Queensland. Implications for the better integration of licensing requirements and driving training are discussed. 2012-04-26T00:00:00Z Bates, L. og Watson, B. og King, M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:146087 2008-06-06T00:00:00Z Western, M. C. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:243370 2011-07-07T00:00:00Z Mazerolle, Lorraine og McBroom, James og Rombouts, Sacha http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:146589 2008-06-06T00:00:00Z Stimson, R. J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:269425 Human discourse contains a rich mixture of conceptual information. Visualization of the global and local patterns within this data stream is a complex and challenging problem. Recurrence plots are an information visualization technique that can reveal trends and features in complex time series data. The recurrence plot technique works by measuring the similarity of points in a time series to all other points in the same time series and plotting the results in two dimensions. Previous studies have applied recurrence plotting techniques to textual data; however, these approaches plot recurrence using term-based similarity rather than conceptual similarity of the text. We introduce conceptual recurrence plots, which use a model of language to measure similarity between pairs of text utterances, and the similarity of all utterances is measured and displayed. In this paper, we explore how the descriptive power of the recurrence plotting technique can be used to discover patterns of interaction across a series of conversation transcripts. The results suggest that the conceptual recurrence plotting technique is a useful tool for exploring the structure of human discourse. 2012-03-09T00:00:00Z Angus, Daniel og Smith, Andrew og Wiles, Janet http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:289157 This paper draws on ideas of recognition and the intercultural as a way of examining the impact of welfare conditionality on Indigenous housing policy in Australia. The increased application of welfare conditionality has occurred in tandem with „mainstreaming‟ of housing management and provision, and regulation of Indigenous Community Organisations. (ICOs). These developments raise policy and practice questions about the effectiveness of such approaches in achieving desired housing outcomes because of questions about their alignment with Indigenous norms and values. The paper argues that the embedded nature of individuals in their social and cultural locations requires the development of policy paradigms that are adapted to these realities. The idea of a recognition space extends the idea of conditionality to one involving moral relationships of duty and care between the individual, Indigenous formal and informal governance structures and the state and its agents. This can be used to build a framework for the development of flexible and adaptive housing policies that are culturally respectful and address the differences in housing values between tenants and housing agencies. 2013-01-16T11:10:04Z Habibis, Daphne og Memmott, Paul og Phillips, Rhonda og Moran, Mark http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:297250 Previous research has not addressed the possibility that people may face conflicting norms of pro-environmental behavior from their multiple in-groups. Across two studies, the authors test competing hypotheses: People may be demotivated by norm conflict, or conversely, norm conflict may motivate people to action. The results of both studies suggest a clearly motivating effect of conflict. Norm conflict was associated with decreased water usage (i.e., increased water conservation) in Study 1, and increased pro-environmental behavior intentions in Study 2. The effects of conflict were partially mediated by perceived effectiveness in Study 2. Although these initial findings indicate that conflict motivates rather than hinders behavioral engagement, future research should investigate whether the nature of the influence of norm conflict depends on factors such as issue importance. 2013-04-12T15:47:03Z McDonald, Rachel I. og Fielding, Kelly S. og Louis, Winnifred R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:196546 2010-02-24T00:00:00Z Loode, Serge og Nolan, Anna og Brown, Anne og Clements, Kevin http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:207523 2010-07-12T00:00:00Z Graham, Mary og Brigg, Morgan og Walker, Polly O. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:71836 2007-08-14T00:00:00Z Boege, V. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:167605 2009-03-13T00:00:00Z Brown, A. J. og Head, Brian W. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:224023 2010-12-08T00:00:00Z Colley, Linda http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:259550 While the subject of interruptions has received considerable attention among organizational researchers, the pervasive presence of information and communication technologies has not been adequately conceptualized. Here we consider the way knowledge workers interact with these technologies. We present fine-grained data that reveal the crucial role of mediated communication in the fragmentation of the working day. These mediated interactions, which are both frequent and short, have been commonly viewed as interruptions — as if the issue is the frequency of these single, isolated events. In contrast, we argue that knowledge workers inhabit an environment where communication technologies are ubiquitous, presenting simultaneous, multiple and ever-present calls on their attention. Such a framing employs a sociomaterial approach which reveals how contemporary knowledge work is itself a complex entanglement of social practices and the materiality of technical artefacts. Our findings show that employees engage in new work strategies as they negotiate the constant connectivity of communication media. 2011-10-25T00:00:00Z Wajcman, Judy og Rose, Emily http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:197752 2010-03-04T00:00:00Z Hewitt, Belinda