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https://hdl.handle.net/2440/15618
2024-03-28T23:51:35ZBuilding and Maintaining Community Trust in Australia's Primary Industries: Background Literature Review
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/139446
Title: Building and Maintaining Community Trust in Australia's Primary Industries: Background Literature Review
Author: Ankeny, R.; Bray, H.; Phillipov, M.; Buddle, E.
Abstract: Australia’s primary industries share common risks relating to declining community trust. Decreasing trust can lead to increased regulation, limited market access, disincentives to invest in infrastructure, and reduced industry productivity, profitability, and sustainability. Australia’s RDCs have identified community trust as an essential area for collective investment and research capacity building. This background literature review outlines the evidence that formed the basis of the Research Program Investment Plan. We undertook an extensive review of Australian and relevant international scholarly and industry literature on the food and fibre industries to assess existing knowledge about building and maintaining community trust. We identified significant research gaps that must be addressed before effective intervention strategies can be developed. The review found existing research on community trust in Australia’s primary industries to be surprisingly limited and remarkably siloed. Existing research focuses disproportionately on agriculture, rather than on the broader food and fibre industries, and it tends to examine industries or issues individually, rather considering cross-sectoral challenges or themes. Scholarly and industry research also tends to rely on quantitative methods such as surveys, rather than on qualitative approaches that enable deeper investigation of key issues. As a result, while there have been some efforts to understand issues of importance to the Australian community (i.e., what the community cares about), there has been surprisingly little investigation of why or how these issues become important. Focus on the why and the how is essential for developing cross-sector and whole-of-system strategies that can address specific issues where trust is currently fragile and enable proactive approaches for maintaining trust as new issues emerge.2018-01-01T00:00:00ZPrecarious Subjects: Picturing Indigenous British Subjecthood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/138726
Title: Precarious Subjects: Picturing Indigenous British Subjecthood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia
Author: Nettelbeck, A.
Abstract: Recent discussion in Australia has highlighted how Indigenous citizenship remains troubled by the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. This article takes up a pre-history to these discussions, returning to a transitional period (1830s–1850s) in the Australian colonies when governments worked to activate Indigenous people’s newly-clarified legal status as British subjects. How, in this period, did settler colonial culture envisage Indigenous people’s relation to the law as citizens-to-be of the empire? Focusing particularly upon visual vocabularies of policing and civic order, the article considers how vacillating colonial visions of Indigenous people as ‘new’ British subjects reflected a wider tension between settler culture’s non-recognition of Indigenous law and jurisdiction, and its running disquiet about the insecure terms of British sovereignty.2023-01-01T00:00:00ZAn investigation into 'community expectations' surrounding animal welfare law enforcement in Australia
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/137949
Title: An investigation into 'community expectations' surrounding animal welfare law enforcement in Australia
Author: Morton, R.; Hebart, M.; Ankeny, R.; Whittaker, A.
Abstract: Nature of reform to animal welfare legislation in Australia has commonly been attributed to increasing alignment with the ‘communities’ expectations’, implying that the community has power in driving legislative change. Yet, despite this assertion there has been no publicly available information disclosing the nature of these ‘expectations’, or the methodology used to determine public stance. However, based on previous sociological research, as well as legal reforms that have taken place to increase maximum penalties for animal welfare offences, it is probable that the community expects harsher penalties for offences. Using representative sampling of the Australian public, this study provides an assessment of current community expectations of animal welfare law enforcement. A total of 2152 individuals participated in the survey. There was strong support for sentences for animal cruelty being higher in magnitude (50% support). However, a large proportion (84%) were in favour of alternate penalties such as prohibiting offenders from owning animals in the future. There was also a belief that current prosecution rates were too low with 80% of respondents agreeing to this assertion. Collectively, this suggests a greater support for preventing animal cruelty through a stronger enforcement model rather than punishing animal cruelty offenders through harsher sentences. This potentially indicates a shift in public opinion towards a more proactive approach to animal welfare, rather than a reactive approach to animal cruelty.
Description: PUBLISHED 11 November 20222022-01-01T00:00:00Z'Croatians in South Australia: Community and Identity Since 1945'
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/137919
Title: 'Croatians in South Australia: Community and Identity Since 1945'
Author: Drapac, V.; Dzino, A.; Heruc, M.; Hrstic, I.; Klaric, K.; Sullivan, N.2018-01-01T00:00:00Z