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Eccleston, Anthony L., and n/a. "Coordinating information provision in government agencies using an integrated information management strategy." University of Canberra. Information, Language & Culture Studies, 1996. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060404.123006.
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The specific aims of this study were determined on a conceptual appreciation that
management of information assets and services in some government agencies was
deficient in meeting both existing and developing demands. This appreciation
manifested itself in a commitment to investigate the principles and processes
intrinsic to existing management methodologies, to relate these processes to the
needs of users, and to determine a strategy which could more ably meet the
information provision requirements of those users.
The achievement of these aims predicated the use of the case study research
method, selecting as the first case study the Department of Human Services and
Health (DHSH), an agency that had recognised that a problem existed in the
provision of information services, and had initiated action to address that
problem. As a counter, the Department of Defence, an agency which adrmts to a
problem, but which had yet to initiate an active, global program for its resolution,
was chosen as the second case study.
A theoretical model, which reflects extant international thinking and practice, was
initially constructed in order to establish a basis on which to ascertain and
evaluate the information management circumstances of the two case study
departments. This model specified the objectives considered to be fundamental
to effective information management in a public service environment. It included
studying the foundation repositories of information services from which
information in the portfolio domains of government are sought. These services
are the traditional records centres or registries, the library services which provide
a repository of published and grey material in printed, image and magnetic
formats, and the computerised networks holding electronic records at varying
levels of development.
An analysis of findings was carried out separately on each case study agency
before bringing the data together for cross-case analysis. In order to maximise
the veracity and validity of the data collected and its subsequent interpretation by
the researcher, the draft analysed case study findings were submitted to the
respective agencies for review and critique. All matters of substance received
have been incorporated in the final version.
The findings from the two case studies and the cross-case analysis confm that,
despite significant advances in some specific agencies, the initial hypothesis that
government agencies are still deficient in providing optimum services to meet the
information needs of users, is demonstrated. The advances that have been made,
however, similarly support the other thesis hypotheses that the implementation of
an integrated information management strategy in any government agency will
provide a foundation for improved information provision and the timely delivery
of relevant available information to the user.
Finally, a model of optimum processes involved in such a strategy, derived from
the theory and practical products of this study, is offered. This could be the
subject for future evaluation and testing for realistic and functional application.
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Clements, Elizabeth. "Australia and Japan : a defence relationship?" Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/112134.
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This thesis is concerned with the conjunction of two themes.
The first is the new tempo of Australia's security
relationship with Japan. Since the late 1980s, governments
in Canberra and Tokyo have increasingly called for greater
partnership in pursuing shared security interests in the
Asia-Pacific theatre. This development has been largely a
result of the rise of Japan as a major international power,
and a corresponding revival of doubts about the role of the
US, hitherto the predominant power in the region.
These questions about Australia's strategic environment have
been thrown into sharp relief by the second theme of the
thesis - the impact of the end of the Cold War on the
international and regional order. The forces that
precipitated the Cold War's demise, and its after effects,
have raised fundamental questions about the international
system, not least being for Australia, its future security
environment and defence ties. This thesis, therefore, focuses on the intersection of
emerging trends in one of Australia's major bilateral
relationships and in the strategic order. The thesis is
accordingly divided into two elements: an examination of the
evolution of Australia-Japan ties and the recent development
of defence links, and an analysis of the key systemic forces
which will influence the future development of these links.
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Ball, Andrew. "The defence of Australia 1987 to defending Australia 1994 : an analysis of Australia's changing defence posture after the Cold War /." Title page, Contents and Abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arb1868.pdf.
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Delmore, Colin, and n/a. "Moves towards privatisation of Australia's Defence industries." University of Canberra. Management, 1990. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060704.132456.
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The degree and nature of government involvement in the production of war
materials has changed markedly in recent years. This dissertation traces
events that have occurred and the background to these. It attempts to put
in context, changes that have taken place particularly over the past decade,
and which to date have not been placed in a connected sequence or
described as part of an overall plan.
The dissertation commences with a brief outline of the growth of defence
industry in Australia and its subsequent decline in size and performance
during the last forty years. From this base, it looks at options which faced
governments at the beginning of the 1980's, decisions which were made,
and the reasons for those decisions. It then goes on to examine whether the
"best" options were followed from a number of viewpoints. These include
defence strategic considerations, matters of probity and equity in the
disposal of assets, (particularly the public good), as well as the impact on
those affected by the decision. The process of change, including the extent
to which decisions and their effects were scrutinised by external and
auditing agencies, is then considered. The experience in this country has to
a large extent paralleled, although lagged, that in the United Kingdom.
Accordingly, appropriate references are brought from the UK experience to
highlight alternatives to, or weaknesses of, the processes followed and
policies implemented locally.
Finally, the essay provides some discussion of the benefits and costs
which have been observed so far, as well as postulating options which may
be taken in Australia as the process of change continues.
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Van, Dyk Johannes Jacobus. "An evaluation of the South African Department of Defence's policy on Defence Industrial Participation (DIP) as a defence industrial development mechanism." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1067.
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This dissertation focuses on the local defence-related industry as a beneficiary under the Department of Defence’s defence industrial participation (DIP) programme, managed by Armscor. Attention is given to the main construct of the development theory and how the DIP process in South Africa compares with the international reciprocal trade phenomena commonly referred to as ‘countertrade’. The author does an in-depth analysis of the Government’s policy regarding the defence-related industry (DRI) that forms part of the local defence industrial base (DIB), as well as the DIP policy, procedures and practices and their subsequent bearing on the local defence industry. The study is further substantiated with a comprehensive review of the consequences and outcomes resulting from the largest defence package deal (SDP), signed in December 1999, between the Department of Defence and several major foreign original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and subsequently benchmarked against academic discourse on the subjects of international countertrade and development theories.
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Fernandez, Joseph M. "Loosening the shackles of the truth defence on free speech : making the truth defence in Australian defamation law more user friendly for media defendants." University of Western Australia. Law School, 2009. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2009.0075.
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Defamation laws truth defence the oldest, most obvious and principal defence has failed Australian media defendants. Few who mount the defence succeed. Many, discouraged by the defences onerousness, do not even attempt it. As a consequence the journalistic articulation of matters of public concern is stifled. This thesis argues that the limitations of the Australian truth defence are inconsistent with established freedom of speech ideals and the public interest in having a robust media. As a result society is constrained from enlightened participation in public affairs. This thesis proposes reforms to alleviate the heavy demands of the defence so as to promote the publication of matters of public concern and to strike a more contemporary balance between freedom of speech and the protection of reputation. These reforms employ defamation laws doctrinal calculus to reposition the speech-reputation fulcrum. While defamation law has for decades attracted reform attention, the truth defence has languished by the wayside. This thesis steps into the breech. The cornerstone of this thesis is a proposal to reverse the burden so that the plaintiff bears the burden of proving falsity of the defamatory publication where: the complainant is a public figure; the matter complained about is a matter of public concern; and the suit involves a media defendant. While this proposal is likely to dramatically alter the prevailing Australian freedom of speech/protection of reputation equilibrium, other measures are proposed to serve as a bulwark against the wanton destruction of reputation.
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McClure, Bruce Davis. "Design of an adaptive computing architecture for managing interactions in heterogeneous defence networks /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17146.pdf.
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Reitzig, Andreas, and n/a. "Trans-Tasman defence perceptions in the post-ANZUS era." University of Otago. Department of Political Studies, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20091105.131723.
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Throughout history, Australia and New Zealand have developed a special relationship due to their close geographic proximity and their similar cultural and colonial backgrounds. Ever since 1986, when New Zealand was suspended from the trilateral Security Treaty Between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America (ANZUS), Australia has been New Zealand's closest ally. As a result, the thesis specifically focuses on trans-Tasman defence relations after 1986, with a particular emphasis on attitude trends towards the bilateral defence relationship. Overall, the thesis aims to find out whether there has been a drift in the bilateral defence relationship between Australia and New Zealand since 1986. In this regard, it examines two main questions: first, is the Australian-New Zealand defence relationship is less close today than it was in 1986? The thesis findings show that there has indeed been a visible drift in trans-Tasman defence relations. In both countries, the relationship is much less talked about today than it was in 1986. Second, do Australians and New Zealanders view the bilateral defence relationship any more negatively today than they did in 1986? As the results show, the disagreement over defence spending, New Zealand's decision to restructure the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) as well as the ANZUS split were the main factors that have brought about some distance between both countries' defence policies and priorities. However, beside the downs in the bilateral defence relationship, there have also been ups embodied by the sometimes rather elusive Anzac spirit, the optimism that surrounded the creation of Closer Defence Relations (CDR) in the 1990s and, most notably, enhanced trans-Tasman cooperation in peacekeeping, primarily in the immediate regional neighbourhood. Importantly, Australians and New Zealanders do not see the defence relationship any more negatively today than they did in 1986. Indeed, opinion trends at all societal levels have been remarkably constant over the last two decades. Based on these findings, the thesis concludes that the bilateral defence relationship may well become closer again in the future, especially if both countries continue their close cooperation in regional peacekeeping. This appears to be the most promising way ahead for the Anzac defence relationship in the 21st century.
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Earnshaw, A. A. P., and n/a. "An analysis of the diarchic arrangements of the higher defence organization of Australia." University of Canberra. Management, 1990. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060706.165728.
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Salu, P. M. "Military intervention in Australia : a study of the use and basis of Defence Force involvement in civil affairs in Australia /." Title page, contents and synopsis only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs181.pdf.
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Auton, Luke Thomas Humanities & Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "'A sort of middle of the road policy' : forward defence, alliance politics and the Australian Nuclear Weapons Option, 1953-1973." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. Humanities & Social Sciences, 2008. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/40319.
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This thesis is about the importance of nuclear weapons to Australian defence and strategic policy in Southeast Asia between 1953 and 1973. It argues that Australia's approach to nuclear issues during this period, and its attitude towards the development and acquisition of nuclear weapons in particular, was aimed exclusively at achieving narrowly defined political objectives. Australia was thus never interested in possessing nuclear weapons, and any moves seemingly taken along these lines were calculated to obtain political concessions - not as part of a 'bid' for their acquirement. This viewpoint sits at odds with the consensus position of several focused studies of Australian nuclear policy published in the past decade. Although in general these studies correctly argue that Australia maintained the 'nuclear weapons option' until the early 1970s, all have misrepresented the motivation for this by contending that the government viewed such weapons in exclusively military terms. The claim that Australia was interested only in the military aspect of nuclear weapons does not pay due attention to the fact that defence planning was based entirely on the provision of conventional forces to Southeast Asia. Accordingly, the military was interested first and foremost with issues arising from extant conventional planning concepts, and the government was chiefly concerned about obtaining allied assurances of support for established plans. The most pressing requirement for Australia therefore was gaining sway over allied countries. However, the Australian government was never in a position to overtly influence more powerful allies against an undertaking that could escalate into limited war, and was similarly incapable of inducing its allies to retain forces in the region in spite of competing pressures. It was for this reason that Australia would seek to manipulate the nuclear weapons option. Indeed, access to such weapons offered Australia the opportunity to achieve greater integration in formulating allied planning, while the threat to manufacture them provided a means of convincing regional partners to maintain a presence in the area. The thesis therefore concludes that Australia carefully presented its options for procuring nuclear weapons to gain influence over its allies in response to strategic developments in Southeast Asia.
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Felsche, Klaus Humanities & Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "A Political Compromise : A Study of the Origins, Structure and Performance of the Australian Defence Force Academy." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. Humanities & Social Sciences, 1991. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/44892.
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This thesis traces the stages which led to the establishment of the Australian Defence Force Academy. The origins of the Academy are to be found in the 1950s. The perceived need for highly qualified technical officers to handle the technological demands of the future was complemented by a perception that officers with degree-level education would be better equipped to make decisions and provide strategic advice to government than their less educated counterparts. The emergence of the tri-Service Academy concept is discussed in some detail to highlight the constantly increasing involvement in the proposal by people and organisations from outside the defence community. The struggle between the three Services, eager to retain control over their officers' education, and the Department of Defence with its ambition to rationalise common defence functions, is described. The heated debate over the proposal to establish an armed forces university resulted in the rejection of the proposal by the Parliament Standing Committee on Public Works. The response from the Government and the Department of Defence was a modified proposal, acceptable to most of Casey University's critics, but flawed in its basic structure. Some aspects of the Academy's performance are described and compared to the performance and experiences of the Australian single-Service colleges which preceded it and some comparable overseas institutions. The paper concludes by revisiting some of the proposals presented as alternative models for the Academy during the Public Works Committee hearings in 1978/9. These may well provide a sound basis for the future development of the Australian Defence Force Academy.
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Cripps, Helen. "Collaborative business relationships and the use of ICT: The case of the marine, defence and resources cluster, Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2007. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/301.
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The research project was developed from an Australian Research Council Grant designed to investigate collaborative commerce and its impact on regional economic development. Through a process of consultation with the industry partner, the South West Group, the research was designed to investigate the drivers and inhibitors of collaborative relationships and the factors that impact on the creation and sustaining of these relationships. The role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in facilitating and sustaining collaborative relationships and the perceived benefits and drawbacks of collaborative relationships were also investigated. The research sought to identify models of the best adoption of collaborative relationships.
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Marmion, Robert J. "Gibraltar of the south : defending Victoria : an analysis of colonial defence in Victoria, Australia, 1851-1901 /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/4851.
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During the nineteenth century, defence was a major issue in Victoria and Australia, as indeed it was in other British colonies and the United Kingdom. Considerable pressure was brought to bear by London on the self-governing colonies to help provide for their own defence against internal unrest and also possible invasions or incursions by nations such as France, Russia and the United States.From 1851 until defence was handed over to the new Australian Commonwealth at Federation in 1901, the Victorian colonial government spent considerable energy and money fortifying parts of Port Phillip Bay and the western coastline as well as developing the first colonial navy within the British Empire. Citizens were invited to form volunteer corps in their local areas as a second tier of defence behind the Imperial troops stationed in Victoria. When the garrison of Imperial troops was withdrawn in 1870, these units of amateur citizen soldiers formed the basis of the colony’s defence force. Following years of indecision, ineptitude and ad hoc defence planning that had left the colony virtually defenceless, in 1883 Victoria finally adopted a professional approach to defending the colony. The new scheme of defence allowed for a complete re-organisation of not only the colony’s existing naval and military forces, but also the command structure and supporting services. For the first time an integrated defence scheme was established that co-ordinated the fixed defences (forts, batteries minefields) with the land and naval forces. Other original and unique aspects of the scheme included the appointment of the first Minister of Defence in the Australian colonies and the first colonial Council of Defence to oversee the joint defence program. All of this was achieved under the guidance of Imperial advisors who sought to integrate the colony’s defences into the wider Imperial context.
This thesis seeks to analyse Victoria’s colonial defence scheme on a number of levels – firstly, the nature of the final defence scheme that was finally adopted in 1883 after years of vacillation, secondly, the effectiveness of the scheme in defending Victoria, thirdly, how the scheme linked to the greater Australasian and Imperial defence, and finally the political, economic, social and technological factors that shaped defence in Victoria during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Hunter, Sri Mulyati. "The "changing dimensions" of the Australia-Indonesia bilateral relationship from 1996 to October 2002 in the defence and security context /." Diss., Title page, contents and introduction only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arh947.pdf.
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Orchard, Lionel. "Whitlam and the cities : urban and regional policy and social democratic reform." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pho641.pdf.
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Rainger, Michele Barbara, and n/a. "An examination of the achievements of In-House Options within the Defence Commercial Support Program." University of Canberra. Business and Government, 2006. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20070719.122229.
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The public sector in Australia, as in other western countries, has been accused in recent times of being too costly, too rigid, inefficient and ineffective. What is apparently needed is a public sector that is smaller, less costly, more efficient and more effective.
The search for alternative and better ways to organise and undertake work to meet these reform objectives is at the heart of the rapid expansion of Competitive Tendering and Contracting (CTC) within the public sector in the last two decades. But increased reliance on government contracting does not always lead to outsourcing. Some government agencies allow, indeed encourage, their current employees to also bid for the work on offer by including an In-House Option (IHO) within their CTC processes. In a number of cases these IHOs have been selected ahead of their commercial competitors.
IHOs are effectively internal tenders that, if selected, must be implemented by work areas within the confines of the policies and practices of their parent organisation. The reasons commonly expressed in support of IHOs are to do with addressing the potentially problematic aspects of organisational review and possible outsourcing, and to assist the parent organisation achieve its reform intentions in the most effective and least disruptive manner possible.
This research examined the achievements of six IHOs within the Australian Defence Organisation. It also asked what can be learned from their experiences? The findings show that IHOs can contribute to reform and enhance the effectiveness of CTC processes but that these achievements come at a price�borne primarily by the staff who work within selected IHOs.
IHOs add to the competition of CTC exercises. They also act as an insurance policy against being caught with no reasonable bids and offer a benchmark against which to assess unknown bids. But competition can also focus bidders on doing what is necessary to win rather than what is best for an organisation or its staff. Having IHOs increases the uncertainty for staff about their future employment while at the same times raising expectations that if they can be successful they will be able to make changes and improve their work areas. This research has shown that this does not always occur and staff can find the whole experience frustrating and demoralising.
Organisations that include IHOs within their CTC methodologies need to assist them if they are to have the best opportunity to propose new and innovative ways of working. And they must be prepared for the possibility that their IHOs could win. Selected IHOs need support to successfully implement changes, and as the IHOs examined here have shown, they can make significant improvements in work practices and more efficient use of resources if given the chance.
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Qwele, Gcobani. "An analysis of the role of labour relations practitioners as change agents : a case study on the Department of Defence." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2109.
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Thesis (MPA (School of Public Management and Planning))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Chapter 1 outlines the purpose of the research, provides the background on the way in which LR matters are currently managed and handled in the Department of Defence (DOD), identifies the research problem, and outlines the research design and methodology. Chapter 2 explores the theoretical framework of the principles of labour relations and management of change. The chapter reveals that the principles of labour relations hold persons in management or supervisory positions responsible for managing LR matters, and suggests that LR practitioners should therefore be able to equip them with adequate skills and knowledge of the procedures for dealing with LR matters in the workplace. The chapter also reveals that the principles of the management of change suggest that the employees should be prepared for change; that a change agent, who should create an environment conducive to change through lobbying the support of persons in management and employees for the proposed change, should be identified; and that resistance to change should be identified at an early stage of the change process in order to eliminate it. Change agents are encouraged not to dominate the change process, but rather to facilitate it in order to ensure that the organisation and its employees drive the change process themselves. Chapter 3 explores the objectives of the LR support function as well as the content of LR practices in order to determine the extent to which LR practitioners can become change agents in the DOD. The chapter reveals that LR at grassroots level is practiced in the way that has resulted to conflicts and costly litigations. In this chapter the regulatory framework and procedures that impede LR practitioners from becoming change agents are also analysed. Chapter 4 covers the data collection process and the analysis thereof. The data reveals that the LR structure at grassroots level is not conducive for the professional delivery of enhanced LR services; that the target group does not have access to adequate resources that would enable them to execute their functions; and that empowerment programmes are implemented to equip the target group with adequate qualifications, skills and or knowledge to be able to render enhanced LR services. The main findings were that guidance is lacking to ensure that LR systems, structures and processes at grassroots level are in place, to ensure that LR matters are managed and handled in a fair and responsible way; to ensure that LR staff with adequate competences to render LR services is appointed; and to ensure that the LR department is active enough and lead the execution of enhanced LR services. In Chapter 5 the main findings are analysed and it is concluded that LR practitioners are unable to become change agents if LR systems, structures and processes are not in place. It is encouraged that LR practitioners should form a cohesive but diverse team that is able to render enhanced LR services, and that the LR department should take a leading role. It is recommended that a study be conducted to determine overarching LR strategy that would guide the establishment of LR systems, the determination of LR structure and processes for dealing with LR matters, and the empowerment programmes for ensuring the professional delivery of enhanced LR services.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hoofstuk 1 skets die doel van die navorsing en verskaf agtergrond oor die manier waarop arbeidsverhoudinge tans in die Departement van Verdediging bestuur en hanteer word. In hierdie hoofstuk word die navorsingsprobleem ook geïdentifiseer en die navorsingsontwerp en -metodologie uitgestippel. Hoofstuk 2 ondersoek die teoretiese raamwerk van arbeidsverhoudingbeginsels en die bestuur van verandering. Die hoofstuk openbaar dat die beginsels van arbeidsverhoudinge persone in bestuurs- of toesighoudende posisies verantwoordelik hou vir die bestuur van arbeidsverhoudingkwessies. Daar word voorgestel dat arbeidsverhoudingpraktisyns daarom in staat moet wees om hierdie persone toe te rus met voldoende vaardighede en kennis van die prosedures vir die hantering van arbeidsverhoudingkwessies in die werkplek. Die hoofstuk openbaar ook dat die beginsels van die bestuur van verandering aandui dat werknemers op verandering voorbereid moet wees en dat ’n veranderingsagent geïdentifiseer moet word. Só ’n agent moet ’n atmosfeer skep wat bevorderlik vir verandering is deur steun vir die voorgestelde verandering van persone in bestuur en werknemers te werf. Verder moet weerstand teen verandering in ’n vroeë stadium in die veranderingsproses vasgestel word om dit sodoende uit te skakel. Veranderingsagente word aangemoedig om nie die veranderingsproses te oorheers nie, maar eerder te vergemaklik om te verseker dat die instelling en sy werknemers die veranderingsproses self dryf. Hoofstuk 3 ondersoek die teikens van die arbeidsverhoudingsteunfunksie asook die inhoud van arbeidsverhoudingpraktyke om te bepaal tot watter mate arbeidsverhoudingpraktisyns veranderingsagente in die Departement van Verdediging kan word. Hierdie hoofstuk onthul dat arbeidsverhoudinge op grondvlak op ’n manier beoefen word wat reeds tot konflik en duur litigasies gelei het. In hierdie hoofstuk word die regulerende raamwerk en prosedures geanaliseer wat arbeidsverhoudingpraktisyns verhinder om veranderingsagente te word. Hoofstuk 4 dek die data-insamelingsproses en analise van hierdie proses. Die data onthul dat die arbeidsverhoudingstruktuur op grondvlak nie bevorderlik is vir die professionele lewering van verbeterde arbeidsverhoudingdienste nie, en dat die teikengroep nie toegang tot voldoende bronne het wat hulle in staat sou stel om hulle funksies uit te voer nie. Die data openbaar verder dat bemagtigingsprogramme toegepas word om die teikengroep met voldoende opleiding, vaardighede en/of kennis toe te rus om verbeterde arbeidsverhoudingdienste te lewer. Die hoofbevinding was dat daar gebrekkige leiding is om te verseker dat arbeidsverhoudingstelsels, -strukture en -prosesse op grondvlak gereed is; dat arbeidsverhoudingkwessies op ’n regverdige en verantwoordelike manier bestuur en hanteer word; dat arbeidsverhoudingpersoneel met voldoende bevoegdhede aangestel word om arbeidsverhoudingdienste te lewer, en dat die arbeidsverhoudingdepartement aktief genoeg is en die voortou neem in die uitvoering van verbeterde arbeidsverhoudingdienste. In hoofstuk 5 word die hoofbevindinge geanaliseer en die gevolgtrekking gemaak dat arbeidsverhoudingpraktisyns nie in staat is om veranderingsagente te word indien arbeidsverhoudingstelsels, -strukture en -prosesse nie gereed is nie. Arbeidsverhoudingpraktisyns word aangemoedig om ’n verenigde maar diverse span te vorm wat verbeterde arbeidsverhoudingdienste kan bied en die arbeidsverhoudingdepartement word aangemoedig om ’n leidende rol in hierdie verband te speel. Daar word aanbeveel dat ’n studie gedoen word om ’n oorkoepelende arbeidsverhoudingstrategie vas te stel wat as riglyn kan dien vir die stigting van arbeidsverhoudingstelsels, die bepaling van arbeidsverhoudingstruktuur en prosesse om met arbeidsverhoudingkwessies om te gaan, en bemagtigingsprogramme om te verseker dat verbeterde arbeidsverhoudingdienste professioneel gelewer word.
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Thomas, Keith Trevor, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Understanding educational process in leadership development." Deakin University. School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education, 2003. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051110.134710.
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This thesis is a case study of educational process in the leadership development program of the Australian Defence Force Academy. The intention is to determine the relative emphasis in educational process on the conventional command and managerial compliance (Type A) style and the emergent contingent and creative (Type B) style of leadership. The Type A style is theorised as emphasizing hierarchy and control, whereas the emphasis in a Type B style is on adaptive and entrepreneurial behaviour. This study looks at the learning process in a cultural and structural context rather than focus on curriculum and instructional design. Research in this wider context is intended to enable development processes to successfully bridge a gap between theory and practice, implicit in studies that identify theories 'in-operation' as different from the theories 'espoused' (Argyris 1992, Savage 1996).
In terms of espoused and in-use theory, the study seeks to produce a valid and reliable result to the question: what is the relative emphasis on the two leadership styles in the operation of the three educational mechanisms of curriculum, pedagogy (teaching practice) and assessment? The quantitative analysis of results (n = 114) draws attention to both leadership styles in terms of two and three-way relationships of style, cadet or work group and service type. The data shows that both Type A and Type B leadership styles are evident in the general conversation of the organisation. This trend is present as espoused theory in the curriculum of the Defence Academy. However, the data also confirm a clear and strong emphasis towards command and managerial compliance as theory-in-use, particularly by cadets. This emphasis is noticeably evident in the teaching and assessment practice of the Defence Academy. Other research outcomes include the observation that:
Contextually, while studies show it is difficult to isolate skills from their cultural and biographical context (Watkins, 1991:15), this study suggests that it is equally difficult to isolate skills development from this context.
There is a strong task or instrumental link identified by cadet responses in terms of content and development process at the Defence Academy, in contrast to the wider developmental emphasis in general literature and senior officer interviews.
There is a lack of awareness of teaching strategies and development activity consistent with espoused Type B leadership theory and curriculum content. This gap is compounded by the use in the Defence Academy of personnel without teaching expertise or suitable developmental experience.
The socialisation of cadets into the military workplace is the primary purpose of training. This purpose appears taken for granted by all concerned - staff, cadets and senior officers.
Defence Academy development processes appear to be faced with a dilemma. Arguably, training and learning from experience are limited approaches to development. Training, which involves learning by replication, and learning from experience, which is largely imitative, are both of little use when people are faced with novel and ambiguous situations. This study suggests that in order to support the development of capabilities that go beyond training based competence a learning and development approach is needed. This more expansive approach requires educational planners to consider the cultural and social context that can inadvertently promote the status quo in practice over espoused outcomes.
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Dennis, Simone J. "Sensual extensions : joy, pain and music-making in a police band." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phd4115.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 210-226. Based on 18 months ethnographic fieldwork about the ways in which members of the South Australian Police Band make music. Studies their disconnection from the body of the community, acheived via an embodiment of emotional disconnection; the power of the Department to appropriate a particular order of emotion for the purposes of power; and, the misrecognition of the appropriation of emotion by members of the public who are open to the Department's emotional domination. The context material describes the reasons for the existence of the police band in the police view, while the core material of the thesis is concerned with describing what it is that police band members do, and what they do most of all is, in their own words, experience something that they call "the feel".
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Clarke, Stephen John History Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Marching to their own drum : British Army officers as military commandants in the Australian colonies and New Zealand 1870-1901." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of History, 1999. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38659.
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Between 1870 and 1901, seventeen officers from the British army were appointed by the governments of the Australian colonies and New Zealand as commanders of their colonial military forces. There has been considerable speculation about the roles of these officers as imperial agents, developing colonial forces as a wartime reserve to imperial forces, but little in depth research. This thesis examines the role of the imperial commandants with an embryonic system of imperial defence and their contribution to the development of the colonial military forces. It is therefore a topic in British imperial history as much as Australian and New Zealand military history. British officers were appointed by colonial governments to overcome a shortfall in professional military expertise but increasingly came to be viewed by successive British administrations as a means of fulfilling an imperial defence agenda. The commandants as ???men-on-the-spot???, however, viewed themselves as independent reformers and got offside with both the imperial and colonial governments. This fact reveals that the commandants occupied a difficult position between the aspirations of London and the reality of the colonies. They certainly brought an imperial perspective to their commands and looked forward to the colonies playing a role on the imperial stage but generally did so in terms of a personal agenda rather than one set by London. This assessment is best demonstrated in the commandants??? independent stance at the outset of the South African War. The practice of appointing British commandants in Australasia was fraught with problems because of an inherent conflict in the goals of the commandants and their colonial governments. It resembles the Canadian experience of the British officers which reveals that the system of imperials military appointments as a whole was flawed. The problem remained that until a sufficient number of colonial officers had the prerequisite professional expertise for high command there was no alternative. The commandants were therefore the beginning rather than the end of a traditional reliance upon British military expertise. The lasting legacy of the commandants for the military forces of Australia and New Zealand was the development of colonial officers, transference of British military traditions, and the encouragement of a colonial military identity premised on the expectation of future participation in defence of the empire. The study provides a major revision to the existing historiography of imperial officers in the colonies, one which concludes that far from being ???imperial agents??? they were largely marching to their own drum.
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Kidson, Renee Louise. "Army in the 21st Century and Restructuring the Army: A Retrospective Appraisal of Australian Military Change Management in the 1990s." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117069.
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Army in the 21st Century and Restructuring the Army:
A Retrospective Appraisal of Australian Military Change
Management in the 1990s
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Army in the 21st Century (A21) and Restructuring the Army (RTA)
were two related force
structure initiatives undertaken by the Australian Army in the
1990s. A21 radically proposed
to abolish traditional divisional/corps structures, fielding
instead independent task forces with
embedded combat arms. The RTA trials tested A21 concepts over
several years; yet
A21/RTA was abandoned in 1999. What happened, why, and what
lessons does A21/RTA
offer?
This retrospective appraisal of A21/RTA is a case study of
attempted transformational change
in the Australian Army. The sub-thesis’ methodology features
interviews with over thirty
senior military, public service, academic and political leaders
of this era; and applies
organisational theory to interpret internal/external dynamics.
A21/RTA faced formidable strategy, resourcing and cultural
challenges. However A21/RTA
failed to achieve critical elements of successful change
management, including: a clear,
shared, credible vision; achieving early successes; providing
enablers (e.g. time and
resources) and supporting efforts for change; senior leadership
buy-in; and political
sponsorship. A21/RTA failed in technical feasibility and cultural
sensitivity terms. However,
A21/RTA successfully developed an evidence-based approach, an
enduring legacy
supporting Army’s capability resourcing in Defence’s
contested budget environment. Lessons
for future restructures focus leadership attention to elements
critical for successful
organisational change, emphasising culture.
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de, Somer Gregory John Humanities & Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "The Redefinition of Asia : Australian Foreign Policy and Contemporary Asian Regionalism." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2003. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38666.
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This thesis set out to ascertain the position of recent Australian Governments on the latest instalments of Asian regionalism in the context of an assessment of whether there has been a redefinition of Asia and thus a redefinition of Australia???s engagement with Asia. It will concentrate on the broad themes of politico-strategic and economic engagement. Whilst there has been extensive research and documentation on the Asian economic crisis there has been less work on the issue of a new Asian regionalism and the implications for Australia???s complex and variable engagement with the region. This is the basis for the claim to originality of this thesis, a claim supported by its focus on the practical and policy implications of Australia???s engagement, or lack of it, with regional institutions. The process of regional integration has been extremely slow, thus supporting the conclusion that there is no evidence of a major redefinition of Asia. Efforts at Asian regionalism are meeting obstacles that pose immense challenges. Asian regionalism remains nascent and poorly defined. This reflects the diversity and enormous disparities in cultures, political systems and the levels of economic development and differences over economic philosophies within East Asia. What is discernible is that the regionalism is proceeding more rapidly on financial issues than on trade, and in the security area it is conspicuously absent. This research highlights the fact that the question of Asian engagement remains a sensitive issue in Australia and continues to grow more complex. Australia???s engagement with Asia since 1996 has been variable because of the Howard Government???s broader balance of priorities between global and regional issues, and because of the changing nature of the Asian region. The perception gleaned from sources is that, for the Australian Government, regionalism initiatives are characterised by much discussion but lack substance. Consequently, this appears to have led the Government to the position that exclusion from some manifestations of regionalism is not so important. Australia is excluded from some of the regional architectures being constructed. In its efforts to seek inclusion in ASEAN + 3 and ASEM, Australia is facing the same barriers that have stood in the way of an AFTA-CER agreement. Exclusion would be important if the performance of regional groupings was not so indifferent. Exclusion from ASEAN + 3 and ASEM, however, does not equate to Australia???s exclusion from the region.
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Helson, Peter History Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "The forgotten Air Force : the establishment and employment of Australian air power in the North-Western area, 1941-1945." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of History, 1997. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38719.
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The air campaign conducted by the RAAF in the North-Western Area during the Second World War has been largely ignored by historians yet it contributed significantly to the outcome of the Pacific war. This thesis sets out to discuss the campaign by considering various factors that impacted on the RAAF in the lead up to and during the course of the Pacific war and their relevance to the campaign. It looks at the way air operations were conducted in the North-Western Area between 1942 and 1945 and describes the role played by the flying squadrons based in the area. Using primary sources such as operational record books, documents and files at archives and libraries and interviews with veterans and experts the thesis found that the campaign was conducted in several phases. It started with the defence of Darwin. In keeping with overall allied strategy the RAAF then went on an offensive into what was then the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) using medium and heavy bombers and mine laying sea planes flying from bases in Australia???s north west. The NEI was vital to the Japanese war effort as a source of essential raw materials such as oil, timber, and rubber. To defend this part of their new empire the Japanese had amassed large military garrisons on the islands. The vessels used to transport troops and materials became the most important targets for the RAAF???s bomber squadrons. As General MacArthur???s forces advanced along the north coast of New Guinea the North-Western Area based units conducted raids into the NEI to deceive the Japanese into thinking an invasion would be launched from Darwin. As the New Guinea campaign gained momentum the RAAF???s task was to protect its western flank, to prevent the Japanese from moving troops and aircraft east to the Philippines. The thesis concludes the campaign was successful because Darwin was defended, it denied the Japanese vital materials for the conduct of the war and it kept hundreds of aircraft and tens of thousands of troops away from the allied advance.
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Broadbent, Stephen J. "Australia's defence export policy." Master's thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145187.
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Day, Carla Lynelle. "The role of values in employee decision making in the Australian Department of Defence." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151194.
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Welshe, Gillian. "Joint US-Australian defence facilities : some implications for Australian defence policy." Thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144284.
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Geering, John W. ""Value for money" in defence planning." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145279.
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Lee, Paul. "Finance and financial policy in defence contingencies." Thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144265.
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Ward, Michael B. "The regional concentration of defence resources : implications for Australia's infrastructure development." Thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144291.
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Coleman, Ben. "The new militarism critique of Australian defence policy : a critical analysis." Thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144346.
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Waters, G. W. "Network enabling the Australian defence force for operations in the information age." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151249.
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Dugis, Vinsensio. "Australian-Indonesian relations, a study of political, economic and defence cooperation (1986-1996)." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/111279.
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This thesis analyses the relationship between Australia and Indonesia between 1986-1996 and particularly focuses on cooperation in the areas of politics, economics and defence. It is argued that the relationship between Australia and Indonesia has become stronger due to the mutual interests of the two countries.Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Politics, 1997
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Harrison, Stephen J. "Military aircraft structural testing in Australia : supporting the ADF." 2004. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/80477.
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This minor thesis examines whether or not the Australian Defence Force (ADF) needs an indigenous aircraft structural testing program for military aircraft. Aircraft structural testing is a major test and evaluation activity currently undertaken by the DSTO to provide structural integrity information about particular aircraft for the ADF. The ADF has required this testing to be undertaken because, in general terms, testing undertaken by an aircraft's manufacturer has not been sufficient to meet the needs of the ADF. The research was divided into five sub-problems, which examined the need for aircraft structural testing, the management of these needs, what structural testing is required, how the testing should be managed and how the testing should be conducted. The research was undertaken by conducting five case studies into past, current and future aircraft structural tests being undertaken by the DSTO. The cases examined were the F/A-18 International Follow-On Structural Test Project, the P-3 service life assessment program, the F-111 wing test, the Hawk lead-in fighter full-scale fatigue test and the potential test program for the joint strike fighter (JSF). The basis of the case studies was the conduct of a series of interviews of the DSTO staff relevant to each case being examined. The information gathered through the interviews was supported by material gathered through making observations and reviewing documentation relevant to each case. The research concluded that an indigenous aircraft testing program is required by the ADF in order to maintain the structural integrity of its aircraft fleet. This minor thesis makes some recommendations for the way aircraft structural testing is conducted by the ADF, and the way general management of T & E in the Department of Defence could be improved.Thesis (MEng(TestandEvaluation))--University of South Australia, 2004
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Wise, Leonard Harry. "The responsibility of a constitutional country : the politics of Australian defence during the 1880s." Master's thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150768.
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Salu, P. M. (Peter Martin). "Military intervention in Australia : a study of the use and basis of Defence Force involvement in civil affairs in Australia / P.M. Salu." 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18717.
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Bibliography: leaves 261-275.v, 275 leaves ; 30 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 Law, 1995
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Bopping, Derek Jeames. "Secrecy and service-loyalty in the Australian Defence Force : understanding the social psychology of problematic non-disclosure." Phd thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146526.
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Elliott, Robert. "The geopolitical imperative and bureaucratic continuity in Australia’s regional policies, 1859 – 1944." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1410928.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)In the twenty-first century, the arguments that Australian governments have consistently advanced to administer the Australian region are grounded in geopolitics and regional policies that originated in the nineteenth century. The Australian region is an area of more than twenty-seven million square kilometres and the largest maritime jurisdiction in the world. The origins of the Australian region, its boundaries, contractions and extensions extend back to 1859. Using geopolitics, defence, geography, race and culture, immigration, ideas of Empire, international law, loyalty and nationalism, this study explores how the Australian region was formed and continues to be defined. The thesis considers the work of a selected group of political leaders, defence advisors, academics and other members of the Australian community who contributed to the making of regional policies that laid the foundations for what the region has become today.
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MacLean, Douglas. "The experience of transition : an analysis of the transition from the Australian Defence Forces to civilian life." Phd thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110245.
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Change is a significant feature of modern day living, and how
individuals adapt to change is itself a legitimate field of
research. Where, however, the ostensible change is dramatic,
the personal and economic costs of the failure to adapt can be
especially high. This study investigates the factors which may
impede or facilitate the duration and intensity of the
transition to civilian life, made by a large number of men
(N=962) who, after serving a minimum of six years (mean = 19.7
years), left the Australian Defence Forces during the years
1981, 1982 and 1983.
Five areas or aspects of change within this transition were
identified. These were the securing of congenial employment;
the sorting out of finances and obtaining suitable
accommodation; the settling of the family and the self into the
civilian environment.
Blocks of variables (factors) which were considered to have an
effect, for better or for worse, on the transition were
regressed separately on variables concerned with the duration
of the transition in each of the five areas of change above, on
the perceived intensity of the transition process, and on the
degree of felt comfort in present work and civilian roles.
These factors included (1) prior socialisation and residual
socialisation effects; (2) intentional changes made
contiguously with the transition and the impact of life events
on individuals during the transition; (3) the potential of
social support in ameliorating the effects of the transition;
(4) physical and psychological health; (5) personality factors,
including coping mechanisms, self esteem, self image and locus
of control; and (6) work related variables. There was support for the hypotheses that suggested that too much change, whether volitional or as a result of life events
prolonged and intensified the transition and reduced the degree
of comfort in civilian life. Social support, contrary to
expectations, was associated with a longer time to complete
transition tasks and with an intensification of the transition
process. The suggestion that social support acts as a buffer
against stress was not accepted. Physical health variables
played little role in affecting the course or the outcomes of
the transition. It was shown that transitions are stressful,
and that poor self esteem and poor self image are associated
with higher levels of stress, a more prolonged and intense
transition and decreased comfort in civilian roles. There were
a number of barriers identified in facilitating the entry into
civilian work.
Major findings concluded that those respondents who missed the
life in the armed forces, who perceived that the shift into
civilian life incurred tremendous losses took a great deal
longer to complete the transition, experienced the transition
more acutely and found it difficult to be comfortable in
civilian roles. Those respondents who believed t.'1.at the
transition was out of their control, who were unable or failed
to accept the challenges and opportunities offered by their
transition experienced considerable problems in making the
transition.
A mere general model of transition is sketched out. The
implications of the model, the limitations of the research,
issues and directions of future research conclude the final
chapter.
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Fruhling, Stephan. "Managing strategic risk : four ideal defence planning concepts in theory and practice." Phd thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/146693.
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Bird, David Samuel. "J.A. Lyons, the 'tame Tasmanian': a study in Australian foreign and defence policy, 1932-39." 2004. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7403.
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J.A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia, 1932-39, presided over twin policies of conciliation and rearmament in a search for peace. The thesis discusses his individual world-view, one chiefly constructed on principles of consensus, and analyses the foreign and defence policies of his government, thereby re-evaluating suggestions that Lyons was chiefly interested in only domestic policy.The foreign policy of the Lyons years was primarily directed at the Asian-Pacific region, especially at Japan. It consisted of an Australian variety of ‘cunctation’, superseded by the variety of ‘appeasement’ found in the Australian Eastern Mission of 1934, arguably the first time that appeasement was applied in East Asia and the first of three significant external policy initiatives of the Lyons years. Lyons himself lobbied in favour of appeasement in the broader imperial context from 1935, recognising that it needed to be targeted at Rome and Berlin, as well as at Tokyo. Any Australian government could not apply appeasement in Europe directly, in the absence of an Australian diplomatic service, although Lyons sought to advance conciliation through ‘personal diplomacy’ in certain foreign capitals. It was not, however, until the premiership of Chamberlain, after May 1937, that London and Canberra were united in the desire for the application of ‘wider appeasement’, the policy adopted at the 1937 Imperial Conference. At this gathering, Lyons presented a second major initiative, the proposal for a Pacific Pact of non-aggression; his magnum opus and the ultimate opportunity for his regional peacemaking.
The Imperial Conference had also discussed and endorsed measures designed to enhance the process of imperial consultation and once Whitehall subsequently began to apply appeasement in Europe, Lyons was keen to ensure that the voice of his dominion was heard. This was especially so during the first Czech crisis of September 1938 in which, it is argued, Lyons and his appeasing circle sought to play a significant consultative and intermediary role. These efforts seemed to have been rewarded by the climax of European appeasement: the 1938 ‘Munich Pact’. Appeasement was, however, everywhere dissolving from late-1938, as was the mechanism of imperial consultation, and the response of Lyons as prime minister was to initiate the process of establishing an independent Australian diplomatic service, something long considered by his government, but hitherto delayed. This initiative came too late to prevent his reluctant admission of the failure of appeasement, in March 1939.
The policy of conciliation was accompanied from the beginning of the Lyons years by a muscular defence policy. That policy involved five separate rearmament programs, September 1933-December 1938. Although mindful of imperial needs, this policy was chiefly directed at the requirements of home defence and the Lyons government remained wary of the Singapore strategy. Lyons’s character was stamped on it by his decisive opposition to conscription, 1938-39. Although it was his misfortune, as a leading Australian appeaser, that conciliation was everywhere overshadowed by rearmament, the considerable defensive preparations of the Lyons years ensured that a sufficient state of readiness was attained to match the hostile scenarios envisaged in defence planning after 1932. The attempts made to secure a level of joint, imperial defence planning, however, resulted in failure.
In its examination of the foreign and defence policies of the 1930s this thesis augments the revision underway in current scholarship. It demonstrates that an identifiable Australian foreign policy existed and that it was chiefly a regional one - even if the application of that policy was retarded by the absence of a diplomatic structure and by the consequent reliance on London. It nonetheless adhered to the patterns of external policy that had evolved since Federation. When combined with an examination of the robust defence measures of these years, Lyons emerges as a vigorous premier with a clear vision of Australia’s place in the world. It is argued that the search for peace of the ‘Tame Tasmanian’, 1932-39, was sustained and considerable.
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Cuffe, Honae. "The search for an integrated policy: challenges to Australian national interest in the Asia-Pacific, 1921–57." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1411231.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This dissertation examines the development of a distinct Australian foreign policy over the years 1921–57. The period under study was one of immense upheaval for Australia as the nation navigated economic crises, the threat of aggressive Japanese expansion and the sifting power distributions underway in the Asia-Pacific region as the world transitioned from British leadership to that of United States of America. Successive Australian governments carefully observed these global and regional forces, searching for a policy in response. This dissertation argues that the policy that developed was an integrated one—that is, one that sought to balance Australia’s particular geopolitical circumstances with great powers relations and, in assessing the value of these relationships, ensure that the nation’s trade, defence and diplomatic interests were served. This dissertation identifies a marked continuity in how Australia’s political elite approached foreign policy over the years 1921–57. In the midst of the economic and strategic uncertainty of the interwar years, policymakers determined the need to reorient policymaking to Australia’s immediate region and acknowledged that neither the policies of Britain nor the US completely served the national interest. The government accordingly sought to intervene in the policies of the great powers to ensure the national interest was safeguarded. This thesis traces how this geopolitically informed, interventionist approach to foreign policy went on to inform policymaking throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In doing so, this thesis identifies a comprehensive and explicitly pragmatic approach in Australia’s foreign policy tradition that has not been previously acknowledged.
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Henderson, Michael John. "An arrangement for all seasons : the contributions of the Five Power Defence Arrangements to Australian strategic interests, 1971-2010." Phd thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/151286.
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Australia has been an active member of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) since 1971, yet there has been no extensive analysis to determine the contributions that FPDA membership has provided to Australia. This is surprising as the FPDA is the second oldest, and only other, multilateral defence organisation in the Asia Pacific after the 1951 Security Treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the United States. This thesis aims to determine the specific ways in which the FPDA has contributed to Australian strategic interests between 1971 and 2010. In order to accomplish this, this study utilises the analytical framework of defence engagement, as this framework is most suited to recognising Australia's distinct diplomatic and military commitments made under the aegis ofthe FPDA. To illustrate these contributions, this thesis looks at three distinct time periods in the history ofthe FPDA: its origins between 1947 and 1971; how the Arrangements fulfilled Australian expectations from 1971 to the late 1980s; and how the Arrangements surpassed Australian expectations from the late 1980s to 2010. In the chapters covering the existence ofthe Arrangements, the Australian commitment is divided into two sections for the purpose of analysis under the defence engagement framework: Australian defence diplomacy and Australian military commitment. The framework of defence engagement is applied to primary and secondary written sources on the Arrangements as well as interviews with key academics and policymakers involved in the FPDA. This study found that the FPDA has been a creative and positive approach to Australia's need to ensure its involvement in regional defence and to contribute to its defence relationships with key allies. Australia's involvement in the FPDA between 1971 and 2010 has received positive support from within its region as well as from traditional allies. Through the Arrangements, Australia took an important role in the security ofthe Association of South East Asian Nations at a critical period in the organisation's history. This role allowed Australia to make a significant regional contribution in the areas of Australian defence expertise, including operating offshore as part of a coalition. Participation also allowed Australia to contribute to its traditional and long-standing defence relationships with the United Kingdom and the United States. As a result, the FPDA has been an unspectacular and under-appreciated but cumulatively significant contribution to Australia's shift in strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific.
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Orchard, Lionel. "Whitlam and the cities : urban and regional policy and social democratic reform / Lionel Orchard." Thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18575.
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McDowall, Roy Campbell. "The Giant Next Door: The evolution of Australian Government threat perceptions of Indonesia within the policy development process, 1957-1965." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/118222.
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Between 1957 and 1965 the Australian Government’s threat
perceptions of Indonesia changed from viewing it as a weak but
relatively friendly country, to eventually see it by 1965 as
posing a ‘direct threat’ to Australia’s security. This
thesis analyses how this transition in threat perception occurred
within the three-stage policy development process of the Menzies
Government. In doing so the thesis links the broader historical
literature analysing Australian policy during the period with the
more generalised literature analysing the Australian
Government’s strategic perceptions of Indonesia.
By analysing the policy development process the thesis is able to
make broader conclusions regarding Australia’s strategic
history and the way it has perceived threats. The thesis
demonstrates that between 1958 and 1964, Indonesia was the most
prominent threat in Australian defence planning, frequently being
debated and discussed ahead of Communist China, even though it
never rivalled the China threat in sheer magnitude. Indonesia was
mostly conceived as being a ‘low-level’ threat, but this
nevertheless led to a significant shift in Australian defence
planning in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The result was a push
to create ‘self-supporting’ forces and a focus on the defence
of the Australian continent and its maritime approaches, well
before these ideas matured and became better known in the 1970s
under the ‘Defence of Australia’ concept. Finally, the rise
of the Indonesia threat caused a significant rift in Australian
defence planning, with the Department of Defence chaired Joint
Planning Committee preferring to focus on the worst-case scenario
of a strong and hostile Indonesia while, in contrast, the
Department of External Affairs chaired Joint Intelligence
Committee preferred to focus on the more likely scenario of a
low-level Indonesia threat. This difference in focus aggravated
tensions in Australia’s defence planning regarding whether to
focus on developing Australia’s maritime deterrent
capabilities, more suited to resisting a strong and hostile
Indonesia, or to focus on developing the Australian Army, more
suited towards responding to low-level contingencies on the New
Guinea-Indonesian border.
Although Defence and External Affairs remained attentive to
providing Cabinet with accurate analysis of Indonesia’s
evolving capabilities and intentions, at times the reliability of
their assessments was cast into serious doubt by events such as
the Indonesian Civil War, the escalation of the West New Guinea
dispute, and Sukarno’s ‘Year of Dangerous Living’. Such
events tended to cause a general converging of threat perceptions
across the Government’s policy machinery towards recognising an
increased Indonesia threat, whilst fostering lingering
uncertainty regarding Indonesia’s current and future
capabilities.
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Hall, Christina Rachael. "The infection process of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum in Australian cotton and associated cotton defence mechanisms." 2007. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7166.
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Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (Fov) was first identified in Australia in 1993, and has since become one of the most significant threats to the country’s thriving cotton industry. The interaction between a unique Australian biotype of Fov and cotton hosts with varying susceptibilities to Fusarium wilt was studied. This research described the infection process and associated host defence mechanisms of two commercial cotton varieties after inoculation with Fov, and quantified their subsequent accumulation of antimicrobial terpenoids.A rapid, reliable glasshouse bioassay that correlated with field resistance was developed for the study of Fusarium wilt of cotton. Detailed observations of the infection process obtained through light microscopy were used to formulate the disease cycle of Australian Fusarium wilt cotton. Using pathogen growth assays, varietal differences in root exudates and vascular tissues in the cotton hosts were documented. Root diffusate from the most susceptible cotton variety to Fusarium wilt, Siokra 1-4, contained a lipophilic compound that promoted the germination of Fov microconidia. On the other hand, a lipophilic compound present in diffusate from the least susceptible variety, Sicot 189, inhibited the growth of Fov germ tubes.
A bioassay using inoculated whole plants showed that Fov colonisation of the vascular tissues of Sicot 189 was restricted after 3 days. The basis for this inhibition was investigated further using light and transmission electron microscopy. Infection induced the reorganisation of contact cells in host vascular tissue, including an increase in cytoplasmic content and the partitioning of vacuoles, which was concurrent with the accumulation of materials in adjacent vessel lumens, via pits. Histochemical analysis indicated these globular materials secreted into the vessels were terpenoids. These structural and terpenoid responses in Siokra 1-4 and Sicot 189 were similar, however, they were more intense and rapid in the latter, less susceptible variety. The responses in Sicot 189 also corresponded to the time period that pathogen inhibition was observed. Thus, a correlation was demonstrated between the rapid and intense induction of both structural and biochemical responses with decreased susceptibility to Fusarium wilt. Detailed HPLC analysis of vascular tissues confirmed that terpenoids accumulated more rapidly and at higher concentrations in the less susceptible cotton variety. These findings provided strong evidence for the involvement of antimicrobial terpenoids in the determination of Fusarium wilt susceptibility of Australian cotton varieties.
This work represents the most complete survey to date of the interaction of Australian biotypes of Fov with cotton. These insights can contribute to future cotton breeding efforts and cultural management of Fusarium wilt in the field. Thus, each part of this study has advanced complementary facets of our understanding of Fov, and has provided a framework from which future studies on phytoalexins and other putative cotton defences can be studied.
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Satake, Tomohiko. "From 'collective defence' to 'international security' : security burden-sharing in the US-Japan and the US-Australia alliances during the post-Cold War era." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150144.
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Bryar, Peter John. "An analysis of shift working rosters used within the Australian Army component of the Defence Integrated Secure Communications Network (DISCON)." Thesis, 1996. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18147/.
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Non standard working hours such as those experienced by rotational shift workers
have a wide ranging impact upon job and roster satisfaction, performance,
behaviour, sleep, quality of work and family life. The shift roster plays an important
role in moderating the influence of non standard working hours on the individual and
the group though it is well documented that shift work does affect everyone
differently. Aspects of shift work that appear to be disadvantageous for many
individuals can be considered to be beneficial by others depending upon the work
circumstances and the needs of the individual and family.
This study is concerned with shift work within a section of the Australian Defence
environment - the Defence Integrated Secure Communications Network (DISCON)
- Royal Australian Army Corps of Signals component, an area previously untouched
by academic or other research. The significance of this study is that whilst it has
focussed on a unique work environment the findings are not at variance to other shift
working research.
The Australian Army, through units of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals, has the
responsibility of managing and operating the Switching and Communications Centres
throughout the states of Victoria and Queensland, and within the cities of Canberra
and Sydney. Shift workers and the shift working rosters operating within these units
are the focus of this study.
The purpose of this study is to compare the four shift working rosters operating
within the four different Army units with DISCON and determine which one is most
appropriate in terms of current roster design guidelines and shift worker preference.
DISCON was established to support the operations of the Australian Defence Force
and Department of Defence for the rest of this century and beyond. DISCON is
Defence's first secure, integrated communications system, and will be used for
command and control of the Australian Defence Force as well as management and
administration of the Defence Organisation. DISCON operates by means of
interconnected switching centres which direct all incoming message traffic to its
destination and link Defence establishments Australia-wide. DISCON Switching
Centres serve a particular region through Communications Centres and decentralised
communications terminals.
DISCON has brought with it new technology, new equipment and a range of new
services to its subscribers. DISCON provides facilities for the passage of voice
(secure and insecure telephone), facsimile, telegraph and electronic data and is
expected to support the current range of tactical (field) external networks and
individual tactical radio communication. There has also been a major change to the
communications doctrine of providing pre-determined facilities, and subscribers no
longer have to rely purely upon area or regional communications centres to service
their communications needs of formal message traffic, facsimile and data
transmission. Communications terminals have been decentralised to a large extent
bringing them closer to the user - in some cases directly to them. Switching centres
have also taken on the additional responsibility of providing advice to subscribers
whilst communication centres are assisting with user education.
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Scanlon, Adam. "The Australian-American alliance: Holt, LBJ and the Vietnam War." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/24829/.
Full textAbstract:
The Australian-American alliance, since World War II, has served as Australia’s most important bilateral relationship, particularly in the field of security. Two decades later, the Australian government entered the war in Vietnam to secure an American military presence on the Asian mainland. This thesis examines the Australian-American alliance during the prime ministership of Harold Holt in relation to Australia’s role in Vietnam, and growing concerns over Britain’s planned withdrawal from Southeast Asia.
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Thompson, Laura. "The Australian Government, the US alliance, and the Cuban Missile Crisis: A history and policy analysis." Thesis, 2017. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/35980/.
Full textAbstract:
In October 1962, the world was brought to the brink of nuclear catastrophe. The Cuban
Missile Crisis marked the closest the United States (US) and the Soviet Union came to
military conflict that might have led to nuclear annihilation during the Cold War. This
thesis investigates the Australian Government’s policy response to the crisis. In doing
so, it makes an original contribution to Australian Cold War history and to the extensive
literature on the crisis.
The Australian Government’s policy response to the crisis is examined in the context of
the Australia-US alliance. A diplomatic history, this thesis relies heavily on declassified
government records from Australian and American archives. Additionally, oral history
interview transcripts, audio-visual materials, Hansard, newspapers, and private
collections, were consulted in order to reconstruct comprehensively Australia’s policy
on this matter and the factors that shaped it.
This thesis examines: Australia’s awareness of the Cuban situation; the Menzies
Government’s policy on the crisis, specifically, factors it considered—and did not
consider—in formulating its policy; and the Government’s immediate implementation
of that policy, including the reactions of some sections of the Australian community to
that policy. It demonstrates that despite limited advance notice and awareness of the
Cuban situation, the Government swiftly declared support for the US in the crisis,
specifically, its resolution to be presented to the United Nations Security Council. It reveals that certain politicians, diplomats, and public servants were concerned about:
Australia’s obligations under the Australia New Zealand United States Security Treaty;
the legality of the US response; the precedent set by the quarantine; the implications of
US policy on the crisis regarding Australian nuclear ambitions; Australia maintaining its
trade relationship with Cuba; and the repercussions the crisis could have on collective
defence arrangements, which Australia relied on for its security. Despite these concerns
and challenges, the Government considered the successful management of the US
alliance paramount in formulating and implementing its policy on the crisis.