Using a case study of an Australian income support policy, Carer Payment (child), this thesis proposes a set of principles for designing care and support policy to advance the rights of multiple constituencies. The principles ...

Foreign policy making in Australia is complex. It has linkages into myriad domestic and international policy contexts. Yet despite this, the system of making foreign policy in Australia remains highly concentrated; a ...

The recent increase in the number of incarcerated women from migrant groups in Australia and the United States prompted an investigation into women’s experiences of re-entry into the community after their release. Existing ...

Governments in liberal welfare states are grappling with the rising cost and complexity of social disadvantage by shifting risks of social exclusion onto individuals. In areas such as health and superannuation for example, ...

In the social movement literature, scholars have proposed that the success or failure of social movements is shaped by several factors, including: social movement strategies and organisational arrangements; cost-benefit ...

Transitional justice has become a global norm and practice yet some advocates continue to use the media alongside law to pursue justice for state crimes. This thesis examines why they do so and what this can tell us about ...

This thesis documents and analyses an element of peacekeeping training, namely Gender Training. The development of Gender Training began in 1998 in part due to peacekeepers ‘dreadful record on women’ over the previous two ...

By engaging with the question of ‘What is the Imagination?’, this thesis gives form to the intangible seed of human creation — the seed of indeterminacy that underlies the ontological form of being and of society. Orientated ...

My research critically engages with the concept of marginality present in discourse on the relationship between GLBTI people and police. By problematising the taken-for-granted categories present in police-GLBTI studies, ...

In this thesis I argue that singing is a way of creating an ongoing identity that is founded upon a particular way of being that is opened up through singing. In order to do this I draw upon Western Classical singing ...