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This thesis uses the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) developed by Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith (1993) to analyse the politics of educational disadvantage in Australia. The historical influence of two competing coalitions at Commonwealth and at State level in New South Wales and Victoria is traced. For most of the 20th century there has been a dominant conservative coalition and a minority coalition that has favoured reforms to assist socially disadvantaged groups in each of the three jurisdictions. However, the composition of these contending coalitions and their relative strengths have varied substantially from State to State. The theoretical model provided by the ACF was supplemented by explorations of Halligan and Power’s (1992) ‘regime dynamics’ framework which helps explain these differences in terms of the differing politico-administrative cultures of Victoria and New South Wales.

When Beverley Kingston remarked some years ago that the governess remained one of the ‘most elusive figures in the whole of Australian history’, she effectively exposed the gap in our knowledge about the lives of a relatively large body of women who had been employed as teachers in private families and ladies’ schools for the best part of a century. In Australia the experience of women who spent part of their lives, or indeed, a whole lifetime, as a governess has remained obscure. This is not surprising for governesses like most women, or perhaps it should be said, more than most women, were not found in public places but lived out their lives in private places, the home, the nursery, and the schoolroom. (For complete preface open document)

The Family Law Reform Act 1995 introduced a new legal framework for handling disputes involving children whose parents are separated or divorced. A radically different template for post-divorce parenting was established by the Act, which aimed to strengthen connections between fathers and children after separation. There were two key elements in this template. The first was the childs’ right to maintain contact with, and be cared for by, both parents regardless of marital status. The second was a notion of jointly held and exercised parental responsibility. / This thesis adopted a socio-legal approach in assessing how the legislative framework was applied in practice. A particular concern was to establish how the legislative ideal would be applied in social circumstances where parenting remains gendered in practical terms. The empirical basis for this inquiry was a sample of 40 Family Court files involving children matters that were heard in the Melbourne Registries of the Court in 1999 and 2000. The research involved collecting data from each of three layers in the files; parents’ affidavit materials, psycho-social assessments of the litigating families and judicial determinations. Judicial approaches could thus be assessed in the context of the evidence on which they were based. / The analysis reveals that a complex interplay between three factors has produced different standards of ‘adequacy’ that are applied to mothers (mostly residence parents) and fathers (mostly contact parents) in contemporary Family Court decision making. The three factors are the factual backgrounds of the cases, the litigation strategies adopted by the parties and particular psychological and legal concepts that are influential in informing current legal approaches to the question of what children need. / The research shows that separated fathers are making claims for bigger roles in their children’s lives. These claims occur in the context of family histories that often involve violence, entrenched conflict, mental illnesses and substance addiction. These backgrounds prevent fathers’ aspirations for more involvement with their children being completely realised, but a commitment to maintaining father-child relationships is nonetheless strongly evident. In many instances little scrutiny is applied to the nature and quality of the relationship being sustained by contact and some mothers and children continue to be exposed to family violence under court orders. Furthermore, the legal process allows little scope for children to assume a role in determining how their parenting arrangements are worked out. Litigation places them at the centre of conflict between their parents but their opportunity to influence its outcome is very limited.

The thesis seeks to find evidence to support the assumption that British migrants were the ‘pampered’ and ‘protected’ of the post-World War Two intake of migrants. Contemporary students of historical writing of the migration experience have virtually written British migrants out of the history of this era by such unsubstantiated assumptions. / The assimilationist construct of the 1940s to the 1960s that defined non-British migrants as assimilable, and British migrants as ‘kith’ and ‘kin’ was a vital component in the ideology of governments. It enabled them to carry out a migration programme the extent of which had no precedent in Australian history. Because social participation is vital in the process of admitting new knowledge, the construction of assimilability needed to be developed and legitimated on the basis of shared values. In effect the imposition of ‘new’ information promulgated by the institutions of society needed an empathetic response from the community, for the successful implementation of the programme. If the concept of non-British migrants as being assimilable could be ‘sold’ to the public, then it went without saying that British migrants would be the exemplar of trouble-free assimilation; they were ‘kith’ and ‘kin’. When British migrants did not fit the archetypal mould designed and fashioned for them by others, they had to be redefined for the continuing success of a policy. The thesis examines the experience of British migrants during the assimilationist era and how their settlement was affected by this ideological construct.

Translation of first paragraph of forward: The present work is an attempt at the first description and documentation of German exile-literature in Australia. As no literary stocktaking has so far taken place, there was no possibility of any reliance on preceding material. This meant that the work represents a painstaking gathering together of material. A not insignificant part of this material is based on unpublished material, spread far across Australia and often hard to get at. For example, poems, manuscripts, memoirs and novels (about the existence of which no one had the slightest idea), were discovered in drawers and in the papers of deceased people.

The past neglect of the Australian city by historians is frequently the subject of lament. The neglect can be highlighted by noting that not only has the impact of the city been generally avoided in Australian historiography despite its overarching importance but also by the fact that Melbourne and Sydney still lack biographies. By contrast, major British and United States cities have had substantial treatment. Therefore, in the circumstance of very considerable gaps in Australian urban historiography, there is probably little need to justify a research topic which tackles the emergence of Sandringham, a Melbourne suburb in the late 19th century. Apart from the narrow and local purpose of providing a means by which local residents can further identify themselves with their community, a suburb history can provide a case study in urbanization which can be of relevance to the whole field of urban history and more specifically, it can enrich the written history of the city of which it is part.

Typescript (photocopy) / viii, 417 leaves [78] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dept. of Zoology, University of Adelaide, 1982

iii, 223, 237 p. : ill., fold. maps, photos., (some col.) 10 fold maps and 1 tables in end pocket ; 26 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology, 1976