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:152830 2008-08-27T00:00:00Z Mr Rhys Palmer http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:240007 Collective apologies have an unparalleled potential to right past wrongs and promote reconciliation between victim and perpetrator groups. The purpose of the current study was therefore to examine real-world apologies and the reconciliation process at an intergroup level. Specifically, this research tested the difference between sincere and insincere intergroup apologies (Study 1) and investigated how this might be qualified by victim group acceptance and rejection (Study 2). In Study 1 Australians (N = 95) were given an extract of the 2008 apology made to Indigenous victims of the Stolen Generation which was either sincere (the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology) or insincere (the former Opposition leader Brendan Nelson's apology). In Study 2 a second sample of Australian university students (N = 117) were additionally given Indigenous responses to the apology which indicated rejection or acceptance of one of the national apologies. Outcomes of interests were perpetrators' support for apology, willingness to reconcile, affection for the victims, pride and moral worth. Results revealed that in both studies the sincere and insincere apologies were equally supported. It was however demonstrated in the second study that the role of the apology sincerity on perpetrators' support for the apology was qualified by the victim group‟s response. Furthermore, victim group response played an important role in perpetrators' willingness to reconcile and their affection for the victims, with rejected responses leading to less positive outcomes. Finally, the results of this study were the first to identify pride as an important mediating factor driving perpetrators' responses following a public apology offered on their behalf. These results help explain how collective apologies can succeed or fail in the real world. 2011-04-06T00:00:00Z Sarah White http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186243 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z Pemberton, Alexander Gordon http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184246 2009-09-28T00:00:00Z Grimshaw, Charles http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185017 2009-10-19T00:00:00Z Embury, Brian Leonard http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:198869 2010-03-11T00:00:00Z Dutton, Thomas Edward http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:151783 The place of religion in society is under scrutiny. Increasing local and global religiously marked conflict calls for deeper enquiry into its causes and possible solutions. Inter-religious ignorance may be contributing to rising intolerance. Philosopher Peter Singer (1981, 2004) claimed that interactions with an increasing variety of cultures will require humanity to develop a more tolerant approach to those once considered outsiders. This thesis proposes that comparative religion education may contribute to a possible remedy. The study combines qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore the relationship between comparative religion knowledge and cultural diversity capability. It argues that comparative religion education may assist in the development of inclusive attitudes towards religious and cultural difference and thus make a positive contribution to social cohesion and democratic citizenship. It includes a survey of Australian Year 11 students enrolled in the comparative Study of Religion course. The results are not conclusive but may be interpreted as showing some support for the hypothesis. The study raises important questions regarding the nature of religion education in Australia and highlights opportunities for further research. 2008-07-07T00:00:00Z Byrne, Cathy J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:8996 West Wales in the Iron Age contained a diverse range of settlement types, from hill-forts to unenclosed farmsteads, with the dominant type of settlement the enclosed farmstead. However, a recent review of information available for the British Iron Age identified a relative lack of systematised information for Wales and consequently there is a pressing need to re-examine the settlement record for this area, as the belief in a single Iron Age "culture" gives way to recognition of regional difference in material cultures, social institutions and life-ways. This thesis examines the settlements and landscape of West Wales in an attempt to contribute to our understanding of this region in the Iron Age. In order to make a regionally synthesised investigation of the social, I conducted a survey of excavation and survey information for Iron Age settlements in West Wales. Analysis centred on examining the spatial patterning of settlements by considering the morphology, distribution, placement and structure of settlements, their place in the landscape and regional trends in the structuring of space and artefacts. The investigation was contextualised within the wider body of material for the Iron Age in Britain. The use of landscape theory as an interpretive framework in examining the spatial patterning of the material culture in the Iron Age proved an effective method for interpreting domestic settlements within the lived landscape. Social and cosmological relations within settlements and within the referential structuring of a landscape, particularly with respect to pre-existing monuments, were suggested by the analysis. By comparing these trends in the structuring of settlements within the landscape to settlements elsewhere in Britain, a distinct and regional culture for the Iron Age of West Wales was identified. 2005-11-01T00:00:00Z Mate, Geraldine L. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189286 2009-12-07T00:00:00Z Fones, Ralph http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186247 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z Hungerford, Linda http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186267 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z Lang, Carolyn Ann http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186237 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z Tejada, Zandro C. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186779 2009-11-17T00:00:00Z Stuart-Fox, Elisabeth http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:198883 2010-03-11T00:00:00Z Sullivan, R. J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:266179 2012-01-27T00:00:00Z Coleman, David G. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:190033 2009-12-15T00:00:00Z Kidd, Alexander Philip http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:245949 2011-08-22T00:00:00Z Cronin, Kathryn, 1949- http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185015 2009-10-19T11:06:34Z Connole, P. F. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:9250 This thesis intends to examine four chronicles from fifth, sixth, and early seventh century Spain and discuss the different approaches to the history of that period that the chronicles of Hydatius of Lemica, John of Biclaro, Isidore of Seville, and the Chronicle of Zaragoza display. Firstly, each of the writers will be discussed in turn, along with the implications of their choice to use the format of a chronicle to record the past. Then, their sources of information will be examined, because all four chronicles do not have access to the same quantity of information from parts of the world other than Spain. After these matters are dealt with, we will analyse the way in which changing political and social realities affect the presentation of historical events in our chronicles, including the use of appropriate technical terms. Finally, the treatment of religious issues will be examined, and once again we will see how the changes of their times altered the style of these chronicles. In all of this, it is apparent that attitudes in Spain to the recent past changed during this period, because of the political, religious, economic, and social upheavals caused by the disappearance of the Roman Empire in Spain and the rise of the kingdom of the Visigoths. 2005-08-29T00:00:00Z Johnson, Gary William http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189496 2009-12-09T00:00:00Z Mauger, Matthew P. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184890 2009-10-14T00:00:00Z Wilson, Mildred Mary http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:105672 2007-08-24T00:00:00Z Fan, S. P. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:213089 This thesis examines the financing and construction arrangements of the recently designed Airport Link project in Brisbane, Australia. The central hypothesis of the thesis is that the equity risk premium, combined with the public nature of toll roads, makes private financing of this kind of public infrastructure undesirable. It attempts to test this hypothesis by valuing the project under standard CAPM and WACC frameworks, and then modelling the sensitivity of the project’s value to different assumptions regarding traffic flows, inflation, asset risk, and errors in operating-cost forecasts. The results show that with large equity contributions the project is inherently unstable and given the finance structure, was always susceptible to a downward price spiral of the type observed. The thesis then models the project value under a public finance option and concludes that this is a more beneficial option for investors, the government, and the community alike. 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Mr James Green http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:193932 No abstract available 2010-01-27T00:00:00Z Murphy, D. J. (Denis Joseph), 1936-1984. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189003 2009-12-03T00:00:00Z Clarke, Eddie http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:205551 2010-05-26T00:00:00Z Rayner, Samuel Alan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:206177 The factors affecting the supply of rubber from Sarawak, East Malaysia, were identified and reviewed in an historical framework. A methodical framework for the general analysis of economic relationships between variables was reviewed and a practical application of the methodology to the supply of rubber from Sarawak was carried out. An econometric analysis of the long run factors affecting the production of rubber was carried out. (1) Two log-differenced autoregressive models of the rubber supply were formulated. (2) The models were tested for parameter constancy to identify structural breaks in the time series and for structural invariance to determine whether they were suitable for policy analysis, forecasting and backcasting. (3) The variables were tested for bivariate Granger Causality to determine the relationships between the factors of production and the output of rubber. (4) Forecast Error Variance Decomposition analysis of multivariate Granger Causality was carried out using a Vector Autoregressive Model. The results confirm the a priori economic theory that long run changes in supply have been affected primarily by changes in area under rubber production and long term price trends. The area planted to rubber has depended upon price incentives and the availability of scarce labour resources. Prices have been affected by the supply of rubber from Sarawak but this is posited to be a reflection of global supply trends affecting prices. While the results generally confirm the economic theory, caution is urged when interpreting the results. The severe inadequacies of the data used highlights the need for more accurate time series and the mainly methodological approach of this study. 2010-06-17T00:00:00Z Purcell, Timothy http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:277671 2012-07-17T00:00:00Z Smith, Dayle Kerry. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:188447 2009-11-30T00:00:00Z Hogan, Margaret M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186239 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z Chuchotesakulwong, Sithara http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185342 2009-10-31T14:30:34Z Davis, Bruce Lawrence http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184250 2009-09-28T00:00:00Z Courtice, Phyllis http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186234 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z Butcher, Judith M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185345 2009-10-31T00:00:00Z Lynch, Mary Rose http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:192179 2010-01-12T00:00:00Z McLaren, Ian http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189974 2009-12-14T00:00:00Z Johnston, Anna http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:195385 No abstract available 2010-02-15T00:00:00Z Hannan, John Grant. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:205098 2010-05-12T00:00:00Z Abidin, Zainal http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:139088 The present study examined the relationship between marital conflict, parenting conflict and emotional and behavioural problems in children aged 2 to 16 years. Additionally the psychometric properties of the Parent Problem Checklist (PPC; Dadds & Powell, 1991) were examined in sample of 200 parents sharing the role of parenting. The purpose of the present study was threefold: (1) to gain a measure of parenting conflict and children’s behavioural and emotional problems in a non-clinic referred community sample, (2) to examine the individual contribution of conflict specific to child-rearing to the prediction of child problems, and (3) to further validate the psychometric properties and examine the factor structure of the Parent Problem Checklist (PPC; Dadds & Powell, 1991). Findings support the hypothesis that parenting conflict influences children’s outcomes more than either general marital conflict or marital satisfaction. Analyses of the PPC show evidence of strong reliability and validity for the measure and factor analysis provided support for a two-factor structure. Implications for clinical practice and understanding the role of parenting conflict in the development of child difficulty are discussed. 2008-06-05T00:00:00Z Emma Thompson http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:204935 2010-05-08T00:00:00Z Bryan, Harrison, 1923-2008. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189794 2009-12-11T00:00:00Z Bassett, P. G. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:195400 2010-02-15T00:00:00Z McCormack, Jacqueline http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189281 2009-12-07T00:00:00Z Collyer, Angela http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:209534 2010-07-24T00:00:00Z Stoodley, June. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184910 2009-10-14T00:00:00Z Stewart, Neil http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186134 2009-11-13T00:00:00Z Kowald, Margaret http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:207730 2010-07-14T00:00:00Z Haglund-Calley, Laila http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:7806 Adolescence is a time of great changes, a time where experimentation and exploration is expected and when the values of authority figures are examined and challenged. Adolescents will experiment and push the boundaries of all aspects of their life in order to find their own place and identity in a world that has changed its expectations of them. Use of drugs is one of the ways that they do this. Australian adolescents grow up in a society where alcohol and tobacco is an acceptable part of daily life. Their use of drugs is at least on par with and in some cases exceeds that of the general population. The overall goals of this research were to gain more information on drug use of Australian adolescents, using existing data sets. This research examined, using a number of different age groups, the differences in adolescent drug use between urban and rural Australia for lifetime use, use in the last year and use in the last month using the 2002 edition of the Australian School Student Alcohol and Drug (ASSAD) survey series in conjunction with the 2001 National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS). It also used these data sets to investigate differences between indigenous adolescents and non-Indigenous adolescents and whether there were any differences in adolescent drug use across socio-economic status groups. Four hypotheses were developed. The first was that rural adolescents are more likely than urban adolescents to use licit drugs and the second was that urban adolescents are more likely than rural adolescents to use illicit drugs. Thirdly, that Indigenous adolescents are more likely than non-Indigenous adolescents to use both licit and illicit drugs and the fourth was that adolescents from low socio-economic status (SES) groups are more likely than adolescents from high SES groups to use licit and illicit substances. The data offered little support for any of the hypotheses. The hypothesis on rural adolescents being more likely to use licit drugs was supported by the ASSAD surveydata but not the NDSHS. All other hypotheses were not supported by either of the data sets. While there are aspects of the information from the two data sets that are contradictory making it difficult to prove or disprove the hypotheses formulated for this research, they highlighted a number of aspects of adolescent drug use. The first of these is that this research supports the premise that rural adolescent drug use rates are converging with urban drug use rates for younger adolescents. It also highlighted that there are a large number of rural school students who are using alcohol and cannabis. The ASSAD data also confirmed other Australian research showing that Indigenous adolescents are less likely than their non-Indigenous counterparts to use alcohol. Both data sets confirmed previous research by indicating that adolescents from the high SES groups are more likely than their counterparts in the lower SES groups to consume alcohol. Further investigation is needed to find out why the data sets did not substantiate each other and to gain further insight into the consumption of alcohol by Indigenous adolescents and adolescents from the higher socio-economic status groups. Increasing the samples of Indigenous people in both of the data sets and lobbying the Australian Bureau of Statistics to increase their sample for the Indigenous Social Survey to include 12-14 year olds should give more information on Indigenous adolescents that could be used in research and prevention activities. 2006-10-23T00:00:00Z Smith, Dianna http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186244 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z Dillon, C. Elizabeth http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:216510 2010-09-16T00:00:00Z Shipstone, Graham J.