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:241659 This study analyses the impact of scale, establishment mobility and policy substitution in the corporation's geographical behaviour. To maximise opportunities for observing change, the effects of recession on firms using a particular marketing system --product franchising are examined. It is argued that competitive powers, represented by company structural attributes and expressed through relative network control capacities, should assist larger organisations to undertake spatial tactics which maintain their market and economic standing. Nineteen agricultural machinery franchisors are classified on a number of key variables into large and small groups. Their manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing activity between 1967 and 1972 is compared on criteria relating to the entry and exit of outlets. Certain locational strategies adopted by major competitors are seen to stabilise or improve distribution control, thus demonstrating a relationship of structural factors, channel management and representation courses. However, a broader association of these measures and market and general financial performance cannot be shown because of data limitations. Subsidiary findings point out the greater stability of large corporations in a setback, the lower probability of continuation suffered by small franchisors' dealers and the attack on small towns enforced by the economic contraction. Through the use of an operational model within an intensive, longitudinal analysis, the enquiry concludes that scale effects pervade locational decision-making, not only among enterprises but across the whole business sector. For the largest firms, spatial policy is clearly an interchangeable means to goals and, thus, establishment mobility can be pronounced. The divergence of such findings from previous work contributes to the ongoing review of traditional thinking in industrial geography and economics and prompts further research into the interface of the corporation and the entrepreneur. 2011-06-02T00:00:00Z Wadley, David Alastair http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:106131 2007-08-24T00:00:00Z Gaus, Caroline http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:265388 This thesis examines the interplay between autonomy and dependence in domestic relations in a north Queensland urban Aboriginal community. Autonomy and dependence are mutually related principles of sociality which structure not only gender roles in Aboriginal domestic life, but also the relationships Aboriginal people establish with Europeans. This thesis offers a different view of the nature of households and the dynamics of gender relations in Aboriginal households from the prevailing emphasis on matrifocality as a dominant form in contemporary Aboriginal domestic life. Although matrifocality may be a feature of certain of the mundane dynamics of households, the model fundamentally misrepresents power relationships. In this thesis Aboriginal domestic relations and household organisation are approached through an appreciation of the historical circumstances which have influenced gender roles within the Aboriginal family. The contemporary Aboriginal family, it is argued, is more complex in its internal dynamics than was previously thought and cannot be understood without considering both the relationship between Aboriginal people and the State, and the specific cultural patterns of household life. Today the majority of Kuranda Aboriginal households depend on welfare income with little opportunity for wage labour. Women appear to be materially advantaged by welfare benefits and to have a potential for consolidating this advantage through their prominence in domestic life. But in practice Aboriginal men dominate domestic relations and succeed in monopolising the material resources of others, particularly those resources belonging to women. Cultural ideals about gender roles in domestic life cast women as nurturers who look after children and men, as their dependents. Through these ideals men legitimate their relationships with women and lay claim to women’s goods and services. In the same cultural process women themselves expect to look after and provide for others. Autonomy in such relationships emerges as the ability to appropriate and command the resources of another, but paradoxically this is achieved often through a position of dependence. Consequently, a woman with many resources is constantly under pressure from claims by dependent men to relinquish her resources. Thus she loses any capacity for, or means to control the accumulation of goods and services. The same principles structure wider Aboriginal social relations. Aboriginal people in Kuranda often became dependents of Europeans in a boss-dependent relationship where the primary aim of the relationship from the Aboriginal point of view, is access to the goods and services of their boss. In the domestic sphere the Aboriginal boss is usually a woman who must care for her dependents. Similarly, Aboriginal people structure their relationships with Europeans by seeking a European boss, who is also like to be female, as an extension of the same principle of dependency and autonomy. Aboriginal people develop gender relationships of this kind within their own community and they work successfully, but the same relationships with Europeans, even within the same sex, lack a mutual understanding of the basis and expectations of the arrangement. Subsequent cultural misunderstandings ultimately marginalise, not maximise, the knowledge and involvement of Aboriginal people with the wider society. 2012-01-18T00:00:00Z Finlayson, Julie Dianne http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:107616 2007-08-24T00:00:00Z Champion, Erik Malcolm http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:265386 Forest and land management in north-east Queensland is examined from Queensland separation in 1859 to the commencement of the first comprehensive forestry legislation in 1960. This is followed by a brief postscript of the period after 1960. The research is structured around the identification of those environmental and societal images which have influenced forest and land management policies and actions, and the resultant conversion of the rainforest landscape. Special emphasis is given to the development of forest policy for north Queensland. Rainforest management in north Queensland is considered in the context of land policy generally. Until 1960, agrarianism dominated Queensland images of rural development, resulting in closer settlement policies that ignored forest values. Attitudes towards rainforest were predominantly utilitarian and antagonistic, though there was a contrasting romantic image. While eventually, farming was successfully established, the effects of closer settlement policies on the northern landscape were also the transfer of timbered lands to private ownership, massive forest destruction, and clearing of poorly productive lands. The development of forest policy in north Queensland is discussed within the state and national context. As professional forestry became established in Queensland, in line with similar developments throughout Australia, the northern rainforest lands became the scene of bitter conflict between the forestry profession and land settlement interests. The early ‘inexhaustible’ image of the Queensland forests was progressively modified. By 1900, there was some realization that the vast forests could be quickly depleted. This was demonstrated by the rapid commercial extinction of red cedar. In south-east Queensland, management for sustained yield was eventually abandoned for the native softwoods. In recent times, maintenance of sustained yield has also become doubtful for the northern rainforest. Three phases are evident in concern for forest conservation in Queensland. Wasteful cutting provoked the first criticism. By the 1880s, the established industry looked for management that would guarantee future supplies. From the 1890s, moves for forest conservation came into conflict with continuing land alienation, resulting from the closer settlement imperative. Since the 1960s, production forestry has been opposed by conservation interests who argue that the remaining rainforest should be preserved for other values. In north Queensland, the result of a century of clearing has been to reduce the rainforest to the residual lands of the Great Divide. 2012-01-18T00:00:00Z Frawley, Kevin J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:105544 2007-08-24T00:00:00Z Graham, Philip W. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:106912 2007-08-24T00:00:00Z Breit, Rhonda http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:107052 2007-08-24T00:00:00Z Prange, Joelle. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:282909 2012-10-05T00:00:00Z Smith, Catherine D. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:265385 This thesis argues that the colonial ruling class developed its first White Australia policy in 1888, creating most of the precedents for the federal legislation of 1901. White Australia was central to the making of the Australian working class, to the shaping of Australian nationalism, and the development of federal political institutions. It has long been understood as a product of labour movement mobilising, but this thesis rejects that approach, arguing that the labour movement lacked the power to impose such a fundamental national policy, and that the key decisions which led to White Australia were demonstrably not products of labour movement action. ¶ It finds three great ruling class agendas behind the decisions to exclude Chinese immigrants, and severely limit the use of indentured “coloured labour”. 2012-01-18T00:00:00Z Griffiths, Philip Gavin http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:265384 One of the first Acts enacted by the Parliament of the new Commonwealth of Australia prohibited the recruitment of Pacific Islanders to work in Queensland from 1904. By 1908 the majority of these Islanders had been deported from Australia. The small number who remained, legally or illegally, were one of several non-European groups who served as reminders of ‘white’ multi-racial past. This thesis draws on not only conventional historical sources but also oral evidence and local records to examine the survival, in demographic, economic, social and cultural respects, of a Pacific Islander population in north Queensland in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Like other non-indigenous non-European groups, those islanders were subjected to a campaign, spearheaded by the labour movement, to exclude them from all favoured occupations and civic privileges. Despite and, indeed, as a result of such obstacles, they developed a sense of identity and community which marked them as a distinctive ethnic group. By 1940 the demographic and cultural survival of this Pacific Islander population was assured. 2012-01-18T00:00:00Z Mercer, Patricia Mary http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:274979 2012-05-30T00:00:00Z O'Hare, Daniel John. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:265383 Set in three local government authorities in north Queensland, Townsville, Douglas and Mackay, this study explores the extent to which community workers and environmental planners contribute to ecologically sustainable local area planning. The concept of ecological sustainability requires a balanced planning approach in order that the well-being of humans and the non-human environment are protected, yet the potential economic benefits promised by local development projects frequently override concerns about loss of areas with a high conservation value. The approach taken by the three local authorities studied in this thesis, is planning the future of their areas is significant in its potential to contribute to attaining ecological sustainability. Land-use planning decisions have affected and will continue to impact upon not only the aesthetics of the case study areas, but also inevitably short and long term issues of quality of life. There are many conflicting objectives in the councils because they endeavour to maintain employment opportunities, clean, safe environments and manage conservation of natural resources in the face of growing local populations. 2012-01-18T00:00:00Z Roughley, Alice Maree