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Davies, John Christopher. "The progress of Australian humour in Britain." European Journal of Humour Research 5, no. 4 (2017): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2017.5.4.davies.

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There has long been a close link between both the comedy and, by implication, the sense of humour of British and Australians. Such distinctively British radio and television programs as Hancock's Half Hour and Till Death Do Us Part found their main overseas market in Australia rather than in other English-speaking countries. Americans either did not find them funny or else were not allowed to find them funny, or provided feeble imitations such as Archie Bunker. Only the Australians were able and willing to share the British sense of humour. The other side of this relationship is that Australia

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Chang, Wei-Lin Melody, and Valeria Sinkeviciute. "role of ‘familiarity’ in Mandarin Chinese speakers’ metapragmatic evaluations of Australian conversational humour." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 2 (2022): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.2.651.

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Although research on humorous practices of Anglo-Australians has received much attention, the understanding of those practices by members of various multilingual communities in Australia has not been much studied. In this paper, we look at metapragmatic comments on concept familiarity in relation to conversational humour, particularly focusing on Mandarin Chinese speakers’ perceptions of conversational humour in Australian English. In order to explore what role ‘familiarity’ plays in (inter-)cultural conceptualisation of humour, we analyse interview data where speakers of Mandarin Chinese prov

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Hale, Adrian. "Dame Edna and ‘the help’." European Journal of Humour Research 9, no. 4 (2021): 152–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.568.

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‘Dame Edna Everage’, a persona originally created by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries in 1955, is a character designed to simultaneously shock and amuse. Dame Edna voices (and satirizes) the discourse of ‘average’, older, politically conservative Anglo-Australians who feel compelled to ‘tell it like it is’ – no matter how offensive their opinions might be. In the Anglosphere, Edna’s humour is well understood and sustained international success has followed Edna for more than 60 years in Britain, Canada, the US and Australia. However, Edna occasionally misfires. In 2003, for instance, Ed

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Willoughby, Louisa, Howard Manns, Shimako Iwasaki, and Meredith Bartlett. "Are you trying to be funny? Communicating humour in deafblind conversations." Discourse Studies 21, no. 5 (2019): 584–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445619846704.

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Humour is a prevalent feature in any form of human interaction, regardless of language modality. This article explores in detail how humour is negotiated in conversations among deafblind Australians who are fluent users of tactile Australian Sign Language (Auslan). Without access to the visual or auditory cues that are normally associated with humour (e.g. smiles, laughter, eye crinkles and ‘smile voice’), there is a risk that deafblind interactants will misconstrue humorous utterances as serious, or be unsure whether their conversation partner has got the joke. In this article, we explore how

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Wise, Nathan. "Fighting a Different Enemy: Social Protests against Authority in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I." International Review of Social History 52, S15 (2007): 225–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859007003215.

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During World War I, the rank and file of the Australian Imperial Force utilized humour in their social protests against both their officers and the military regimen. This paper looks at the expression of this humour through a variety of mediums and explores the value of humour in providing an outlet through which these men could vent their anger at the military system. It further seeks to highlight how the adoption of humour in social protests became a secure part of the Australian soldiers' “working” identity and how this was sustained throughout the war by the masculine image of the soldier.

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Jones, Dorothy. "Serious Laughter: On Defining Australian Humour." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 23, no. 1 (1988): 76–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002198948802300108.

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Pabel, Anja, and Philip L. Pearce. "Humour in supplier-customer interactions: the views of Australian tourism operators." European Journal of Humour Research 7, no. 3 (2019): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2019.7.3.pearce1.

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Much of the existing literature on the tourism-humour relationship focuses on the perceptions of tourists. Little research exists on the views of tourism operators. This study aims to gain a better understanding of the perceptions of tourism operators when deliberately including humour into interactions with customers. The research is based on three workshops with tourism industry stakeholders in North Queensland. Three interactive workshops were delivered by the author from May to July 2017 with the purpose of informing tourism industry stakeholder on how to use humour effectively in interact

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Mullan, Kerry, and Christine Béal. "Conversational humor in French and Australian English: What makes an utterance (un)funny?" Intercultural Pragmatics 15, no. 4 (2018): 457–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2018-0016.

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AbstractIn this paper we focus primarily on the second dimension of the model designed for the comparative cross-cultural analysis of conversational humor outlined in (Béal, Christine & Kerry Mullan. 2013. Issues in conversational humour from a cross-cultural perspective: Comparing French and Australian corpora. In Bert Peeters, Kerry Mullan & Christine Béal (eds.),Cross-culturally Speaking, Speaking Cross-culturally. 107–139. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.), namely the linguistic devices and discursive strategies used by speakers to create humor in social interact

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French, Lisa. "David Gulpilil, Aboriginal humour and Australian cinema." Studies in Australasian Cinema 8, no. 1 (2014): 34–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17503175.2014.925319.

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McPherson, Les. "Australian birds with a sense of humour." Notornis 32, no. 4 (1985): 338. https://doi.org/10.63172/967688naxvvx.

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Fitzgerald, Justice Tony. "Telling the Truth, Laughing." Media International Australia 92, no. 1 (1999): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9909200104.

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This paper centres on three themes: the lack of a constitutional bill of rights in Australia, especially a right to freedom of speech; the suitability of the judiciary to arbitrate social values; and the importance of public humour, and its relations to Australian defamation law. These themes are illustrated by a discussion of the Queensland Court of Appeal's recent finding that Ms Pauline Hanson was defamed on the ABC by Ms Pauline Pantsdown.

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Chey, Jocelyn Valerie. "Overcoming awkwardness." European Journal of Humour Research 9, no. 4 (2021): 131–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2021.9.4.560.

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As Chinese people engaged with the Australian cultural scene in recent years, two posts about its humour attracted considerable attention from netizens in the People’s Republic of China. The post authors believed that their firsthand accounts of events demonstrated how Australians used humour to overcome awkward situations and regarded this as an essential national characteristic. In each case, other interpretations were possible if cultural factors had been taken into account, including the contemporary culture of China, Putonghua language usage and the Anglo-centrism that is common to cross-

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Mullan, Kerry. "Humour in French and Australian English initial interactions." Journal of Pragmatics 169 (November 2020): 86–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2020.08.005.

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Rolfe, Mark. "The pleasures of political humour in Australian democracy." Journal of Australian Studies 34, no. 3 (2010): 363–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2010.498334.

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Sheridan, Dominic P. G. "The demotic tongue of mateship in Australian Great War literature: The vernacular humourist." Beyond Philology An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching, no. 15/4 (December 28, 2018): 27–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/bp.2018.4.02.

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This paper looks at the demotic tongue of mateship in Australian Great War Literature as a theme of cognition and understanding in the literary texts and texts of culture. The language, like the Australian, was filled with character and a sense of the larrikin. It seemed irreverent at times, even rude in some circles, but it was much more than its immediate sound or inference; it was the natural verbal essence of the Australian mind – honest, loyal, dutiful and humorous. These characteristics are cornerstones of Australian mateship, a type of friendship that would be there beyond the bitter en

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Osborne, Roger. "Dairy farm philosopher: J.P. McKinney's ‘According to Noonan’ stories and Ron Campbell's Australian Journal." Queensland Review 24, no. 2 (2017): 293–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2017.38.

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AbstractWhile working as a dairy farmer in the Sunshine Coast hinterland during the 1920s, Jack McKinney began contributing short stories to the popular weekly, the Australian Journal. Drawing on his own experience and sense of humour, he developed these stories into a series, ‘According to Noonan’, which the Australian Journal published until 1939 and reprised in the 1950s. This article will examine these stories and consider them in relation to McKinney's later life and writing.

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Goddard, Cliff. "Ethnopragmatic perspectives on conversational humour, with special reference to Australian English." Language & Communication 55 (July 2017): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2016.09.008.

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Galea, Gitte, Ritesh Chugh, and Lydia Mainey. "Funny or risky? Humour in health-related social media." Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies 15, no. 2 (2025): e202520. https://doi.org/10.30935/ojcmt/16312.

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Social media has emerged as a vital platform for health communication, facilitating audience engagement and disseminating health-related information. It offers opportunities to implement innovative approaches to help audiences acquire health knowledge, presenting a compelling alternative to traditional fear-based campaigns. The paper is part of a doctoral study exploring how Queensland Health uses social media to communicate with the public, providing insights into the use of humour in health-related social media. Using a Constructivist Grounded Theory methodology, interviews were conducted wi

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Bojić, Zoja. "SLAV CULTURAL MEMORY, NOSTALGIA AND HUMOURIN THE OEUVRE OF DANILA VASSILIEFF (1897-1958), RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉ ARTIST IN AUSTRALIA." PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES 18, no. 1 (2020): 18–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/1857-6060-2020-18-1-18-44.

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Danila Vassilieff(1897–1958) was a Russian émigré artist who lived and worked in Australia. By far the largest and most significant part of his painterly and sculptural oeuvre Vassilieff executed on Australian soil, in the states of New South Wales and Victoria.This article explores Vassilieff’s visual arts ideas and idiom created within the parameters of his Russian and Slav cultural memory and characterised by his émigré experience. It argues that Vassilieff’s art was fully formed only after the artist’s experiencing anexistence of a permanentémigré in Australia and that both his ideas andhi

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Nichols, David, and Emily Turner-Graham. "Bluey and Sol: Antisemitic Humour in a German-Australian Outpost, 1937–1939." Immigrants & Minorities 33, no. 3 (2015): 231–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2014.978177.

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Béal, Christine, and Kerry Mullan. "The pragmatics of conversational humour in social visits: French and Australian English." Language & Communication 55 (July 2017): 24–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2016.09.004.

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Kennedy, Mark, and Maeve Kennedy. "Bogan bias: Addressing class-based prejudice in physician-patient interactions." Journal of Social Inclusion 5, no. 2 (2014): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.36251/josi74.

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There is a widespread belief in the ‘classlessness’ of Australian society, despite strong evidence demonstrating the impacts of socioeconomic status (SES) on individuals’ educational attainment, health, and mortality. Disparities in health care are also prevalent. The quality of communication between physicians and patients is associated with health outcomes and patient satisfaction, and we argue that this communication can be influenced by socioeconomic bias and prejudice. The majority of medical students in Australia are from backgrounds of high SES, and this is likely to influence their com

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Lloyd, Mike. "Nerds in the City: Flight of the Conchords Makes Good Television Humour." Media International Australia 131, no. 1 (2009): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0913100107.

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First screened in 2007 on HBO television, Flight of the Conchords has received the best international reception of any New Zealand-based television comedy. The series shows the two Kiwis, Bret and Jemaine — a musical duo — bumbling their way through trying to make it in New York. The failure scenario could have led to the typical sitcom fare of conflicting personalities with specific character types as the butt of humour; however, Flight of the Conchords avoids this standard route, and this may partly explain its popularity. Details are provided of exactly how the series makes ‘good’ humour, w

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Waters, Sophia. "The lexical semantics of blaguer: French ways of bringing people together through persuasion, deception and laughter." European Journal of Humour Research 8, no. 4 (2020): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2020.8.4.waters.

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This study presents a lexical semantic analysis of the French verb blaguer and related expressions. This verb belongs to a suite of “French humour practices”, and French-English dictionaries translate it as ‘to joke’. However, Anglo-specific terminology such as “joke” does not match the conceptual semantics of blaguer and its related noun blague. Relying on Anglo-specific terms to categorise culture-specific practices perpetuates conceptual and terminological Anglocentrism. This study furthers the call to avoid the dangers of sustaining Anglocentrism in the theoretical vocabulary of humour stu

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Jones, Garry, and Colleen Mcgloin. "Pedagogy, Pleasure and the Art of Poking Fun: Anti-colonial humour in Australian Indigenous studies." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 12, no. 5 (2016): 527–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.20507/alternative.2016.12.5.7.

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McArthur, Michelle L., Susan M. Matthew, Conor P. B. Brand, Jena Andrews, Anne Fawcett, and Susan Hazel. "Cross-sectional analysis of veterinary student coping strategies and stigma in seeking psychological help." Veterinary Record 184, no. 23 (2019): 709. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vr.105042.

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Veterinary education can result in high levels of academic stressors for students. Students are also susceptible to non-academic stressors, including relationship issues and financial concerns. These can all result in mental ill health, which may impair the student’s ability to complete their studies and go on to a successful professional career. Finding and using strategies early on to help alleviate mental health problems is critical to successful management of these problems, but seeking help may be impeded by the stigma associated with mental health problems. Using a cross-sectional online

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Brewster, Anne. "Humour and the defamiliarization of whiteness in the short fiction of Australian indigenous writer Alf Taylor." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 44, no. 4 (2008): 427–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449850802410564.

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Stekelenburg, Naomi, Caitlin Horsham, Montana O’Hara, and Monika Janda. "Using Social Media to Determine the Affective and Cognitive Components of Tweets about Sunburn." Dermatology 236, no. 2 (2020): 75–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000506102.

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Background: The relationship between social media usage and the public’s expressions of sunburn remains unexplored. This study is a content analysis of Twitter that was performed to identify the public’s expressions, perceptions, and attitudes towards sunburn. Methods: Qualitative content analysis was conducted on tweets by Australian Twitter users during January 2007 and January 2016. Out of 2,000 tweets available, in-depth content analysis of 200 random tweets was performed. Results: Tweets in this study were categorised into 10 distinct themes, three of which were cognitive (fact based) and

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Rodríguez-Salas, Gerardo. "Communitarian Theory and Andalusian Imagery in Carmel Bird’s Fiction. An Interview." IRIS, no. 35 (June 30, 2014): 123–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.35562/iris.1803.

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Australian writer Carmel Bird writes fiction that, while being highly individual and varied, settles within the Australian traditions of both Peter Carey’s fabulism and Thea Astley’s humane wit. As William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews state (1994), Bird is a “witty writer with a wide but always highly original tonal range”, who “raises what is often potentially sinister or horrific to something approaching comedy. Disease, deaths and violence are staples in her fictional world, which has similarities with Barbara Hanrahan’s Gothic sensuality and feminist irony, although Bird’s deadpa

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Redmond, Anthony. "Captain Cook Meets General Macarthur in the Northern Kimberley: Humour and Ritual in an Indigenous Australian Life-World." Anthropological Forum 18, no. 3 (2008): 255–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00664670802429370.

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Carlson, Bronwyn, and Tristan Kennedy. "Us Mob Online: The Perils of Identifying as Indigenous on Social Media." Genealogy 5, no. 2 (2021): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5020052.

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Social media is a highly valuable site for Indigenous people to express their identities and to engage with other Indigenous people, events, conversations, and debates. While the role of social media for Indigenous peoples is highly valued for public articulations of identity, it is not without peril. Drawing on the authors’ recent mixed-methods research in Australian Indigenous communities, this paper presents an insight into Indigenous peoples’ experiences of cultivating individual and collective identities on social media platforms. The findings suggest that Indigenous peoples are well awar

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Shearer, Lee S., Lisa Simmons, Adrian Mindel, Lawrence R. Stanberry, and Susan L. Rosenthal. "Reducing the stigma of herpes simplex virus infection: lessons from an online video contest." Sexual Health 9, no. 5 (2012): 438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh11188.

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Background Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is one of the most common sexually transmisible infections worldwide. HSV-associated stigma negatively impacts emotional and sexual health, suggesting a need for novel approaches to reducing stigma. The aims of this study were to describe the range of destigmatising strategies used by the public in brief online videos, and to describe videos that were successful or unsuccessful in creating a destigmatising message. Methods: A thematic content analysis was performed on 103 publicly produced YouTube videos designed to destigmatise HSV infection for an Austra

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Gottschall, Kristina. "‘Jesus! A Geriatric — That's All I Need!’: Learning to Come of Age with/in Popular Australian Film." Global Studies of Childhood 1, no. 4 (2011): 332–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/gsch.2011.1.4.332.

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Popular film texts are powerful means by which Western societies construct, maintain, protect and challenge concepts of childhood and youth-hood. As a context where audiences learn about the self, their culture, and their place within it, popular film is understood here as pedagogic, that is, as a space where key lessons about the formation of subjecthood might take place, and at what costs. This article takes into account scholarship on popular culture as pedagogy, challenging narrow notions of popular film as a simple transmission of knowledge. Focused on how pedagogies might be at work, thi

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BALKIN, SARAH. "The Killjoy Comedian: Hannah Gadsby's Nanette." Theatre Research International 45, no. 1 (2020): 72–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883319000592.

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In her 2017 show Nanette, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby announced that she was quitting comedy. In the show, Gadsby argued that as a marginalized person – a gender-nonconforming lesbian from rural Tasmania – she was doing herself a disservice when she invited audiences to laugh at her trademark self-deprecating humour. Gadsby framed her decision to quit comedy partly as a problem of persona: her practice as a comedian was to take actual, sometimes traumatic, events from her life and turn them into jokes, which she described as ‘half-told stories’. So framed, the problem with Gadsby's comic

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Westbrook, Fiona, Elise Hunkin, and Jayne White. "Lost in Translation: an Experiment with Memes for Research Translation in Australian Early Childhood Education and Care (ecec) Contexts." Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy 6, no. 1 (2021): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23644583-bja10019.

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Abstract Early transitions are on the rise across global and national contexts. However, resources informing teachers and families about best practices concerning infants, especially infant transitions from home to early childhood settings, are almost non-existent. In this article, the authors share the outcomes of an experiment that translated research from an International Study of the Social and Emotional Experiences of Early Transitions (isseet) project into a range of visual resources for this audience. They created a suite of video, infographic and meme visual resources that outlined ‘wh

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Hanna-Osborne, Sally. "‘You will never be as good as we are’: a qualitative study of women paramedics’ experiences of sex-based harassment in an Australian ambulance service." British Paramedic Journal 7, no. 2 (2022): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.29045/14784726.2022.09.7.2.1.

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Objectives: Sex-based harassment remains a pernicious and pervasive problem in organisations, as evidenced by the recent #MeToo movement. Little is known about how this issue affects women in the paramedic profession. This study explores the sex-based harassment experiences of women working in a large Australian ambulance service, focusing on harassment from co-workers and managers.Methods: Long-form, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with women paramedics (n = 30) as part of a larger qualitative study of the careers and work experiences of women paramedics. Interviews were recorded a

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Rolfe, Mark. "idea of national humour and Americanisation in Australia and Britain." European Journal of Humour Research 10, no. 2 (2022): 51–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2022.10.2.689.

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The widespread notion of a unique national humour involves an impulse to apply the commonplace assumptions of national identity that demand uniqueness of identity, history, language and culture for a political society. What is deemed true and distinctive of the nation must be also be true and distinctive of its national humour, goes the thinking. However, such cultural exclusivity has not been reconciled with cultural exchanges between nations. Paradoxically, conceptions of national humour have been formulated in dynamic tension with such exchanges during the various phases of globalization th

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Feo, Rebecca, Frank Donnelly, Åsa Muntlin Athlin, and Eva Jangland. "Providing high-quality fundamental care for patients with acute abdominal pain." Journal of Health Organization and Management 33, no. 1 (2019): 110–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhom-02-2018-0037.

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Purpose Globally, acute abdominal pain (AAP) is one of the most common reasons for emergency admissions, yet little is known about how this patient group experiences the delivery of fundamental care across the acute care delivery chain. The purpose of this paper is to describe how patients with AAP experienced fundamental care across their acute care presentation, and to explicate the health professional behaviours, reported by patients, that contributed to their positive experiences. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative descriptive study, using repeated reflective interviews, was analyse

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Abe, Goh. "Lessons learned about humor from J.C.H. Davies and examples in his home collection." HUMOR 32, no. 2 (2019): 289–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2018-0050.

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Abstract This essay starts with a story about Christie’s collections at his home from around the world that he collected during his field research. The postcard from Australia on an Aussie Gentlemen fits into his description of Australians in the jokes as “coarse Australians”. Christie explained the Essexgirl jokes in London and I learned the importance of contexts hidden behind the jokes such as socio-cultural characteristics, mobility and social division in UK. Christie’s analysis of the Japanese jokes about stupidity revealed the prototype of ethnic jokes in Japan.From the episode at his ho

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Baughman, H. M., E. A. Giammarco, Livia Veselka, et al. "A Behavioral Genetic Study of Humor Styles in an Australian Sample." Twin Research and Human Genetics 15, no. 5 (2012): 663–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/thg.2012.23.

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The present study investigated the extent to which individual differences in humor styles are attributable to genetic and/or environmental factors in an Australian sample. Participants were 934 same-sex pairs of adult twins from the Australian Twin Registry (546 monozygotic pairs, 388 dizygotic pairs) who completed the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ). The HSQ measures four distinct styles of humor — affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating. Results revealed that additive genetic and non-shared environmental factors accounted for the variance in all four humor styles, thus r

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Haugh, Michael, and Lara Weinglass. "Divided by a common language? Jocular quips and (non-)affiliative responses in initial interactions among American and Australian speakers of English." Intercultural Pragmatics 15, no. 4 (2018): 533–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2018-0019.

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Abstract Studies of conversational humor in intercultural settings have focused largely on illustrating how participants can successfully draw on humor to build rapport. However, it is nevertheless clear that attempts at humor can also go awry in settings in which participants come from different cultural backgrounds. In this paper, we focus on the responses of American and Australian participants to playful or light-hearted comments on, or responses to, another speaker’s just prior serious talk, which are designed to initiate a non-serious side sequence, or what we term “jocular quips”. Drawi

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Zwart, Em, and Glynis Jones. "Western Australia Health Libraries Update." Journal of Health Information and Libraries Australasia 5, no. 1 (2025): 22–24. https://doi.org/10.55999/johila.v5i1.193.

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For those of you located on the east side of our country, throw your glances about 3500 km to the west and you see the very friendly library staff in the WA Health Libraries waving hello. So, what has been happening over here in the west? We consulted with our colleagues and offer the following with humour and haiku.

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Semotiuk, Orest, and Yana Hladyr. "Impartial humor in war times." European Journal of Humour Research 13, no. 2 (2025): 26–40. https://doi.org/10.7592/ejhr.2025.13.2.1020.

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This article examines the use of impartial humour in political cartoons on the Russian-Ukrainian war. The dataset includes 18 political cartoons from Australia, the USA, Algeria, Morocco, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Greece, Taiwan, Qatar, Iran, Ukraine, and Russia. This dataset is a selection from a corpus of 3,780 political cartoons from 65 countries in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Africa, and Australia as a part of the research project “Laughter During the War: Russian Aggression in Ukraine in Political Cartoons and Memes”. The analysis of impartial humour is based on the corres

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Clarke, Adrienne E. "A special place in history - Professor Nancy Millis." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 122, no. 1 (2010): xxvii. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rs10008.

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Professor Millis has had a profound influence on the regulatory framework for Gene Technology in Australia. Her leadership in this and other fields has been an inspiration to younger women in science. Her use of humour in all her interactions is legendary.

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Hee, Matthew, Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Anastasiya Fiadotava, Karina Judd, and Hannah R. Feldman. "Communicating urgency through humor: School Strike 4 Climate protest placards." Journal of Science Communication 21, no. 05 (2022): A02. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.21050202.

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Protest placards are an important part of School Strike 4 Climate (SS4C) protest culture and illustrate how protesters view, understand and share their environmental concerns. Many of the placards use humor to convey the messages of their creators. Bringing together science communication and humor studies, this paper examines the communicative functions of humor in Australian SS4C posters by asking to what extent protest signs can be understood as a vehicle of science communication. The paper reveals how humorous protest placards become the means of grassroots creativity, exploring bottom-up s

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Schermer, Julie Aitken, and Marisa L. Kfrerer. "Humor style differences across four English-speaking countries." HUMOR 33, no. 3 (2020): 423–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2019-0027.

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AbstractUsing three archival data sets, mean differences in the four humor styles of affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating were assessed for adults (n = 6404) across four English-speaking countries: Canada (n = 339), the USA (n = 165), the United Kingdom (n = 4012), and Australia (n = 1888). As age and sex varied greatly across the samples and had significant relationships with the humor styles (men scored higher on each scale, younger people scored higher on affiliative, aggressive, and self-defeating humor, and older people scored higher on self-enhancing humor), age an

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Kfrerer, Marisa L., Nicholas G. Martin, and Julie Aitken Schermer. "A behavior genetic analysis of the relationship between humor styles and depression." HUMOR 32, no. 3 (2019): 417–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2017-0098.

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Abstract The present study examined the relationship between humor styles and depression using two methods of examination: (1) the mean humor style differences between individuals who reported that they had been diagnosed with depression versus those who did not report being depressed; and (2) the phenotypic, genetic, and environmental correlations between humor styles and a short scale assessing depressed affect created from preexisting measures in archival data. Participants were 1154 adult Australians, consisting of 339 monozygotic twin pairs and 238 dizygotic twin pairs. With respect to me

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Wijewardena, Nilupama, Charmine EJ Härtel, and Ramanie Samaratunge. "Using humor and boosting emotions: An affect-based study of managerial humor, employees’ emotions and psychological capital." Human Relations 70, no. 11 (2017): 1316–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018726717691809.

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Evidence from emerging scholarly investigations consistently points to managerial humor as fruitful new grounds to expand management knowledge and practice. In light of this, the present study examined managerial humor as an affective event at work that has short-term emotional and long-term psychological outcomes for employees. To test this empirically, we recruited a sample of 2498 Australian employees to participate in a field experience sampling study. We also considered the potential moderating effect of leader–member exchange on the humor–emotions relationship. Findings provide initial s

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Richardson, James, Robert Ayre, and Peter Gerrand. "Gavan Edmund Rosman (1934–2022)." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 10, no. 1 (2022): 101–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v10n1.560.

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Gavan Rosman was valued at the Telecom (later Telstra) Research Laboratories, Australia, for his expertise as a research engineer in radio and coaxial cable technologies and, in particular, for his pioneering work on optical fibre technologies. He was also valued for his wide-ranging intellect and gentle, satirical sense of humour. His fluency in speaking Japanese was appreciated by visiting Japanese researchers. In retirement from TRL, he worked at Optiscan Imaging in Melbourne on developing an optical endoscope.

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Easterbrook-Smith, Gwyn. "Sex Workers’ Online Humor as Evidence of Resilience." Sexes 4, no. 2 (2023): 310–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sexes4020021.

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Sex workers’ humor has received comparatively little attention in the literature to date, and work that does consider this phenomenon focuses on humor in face-to-face contexts. Increasingly, elements of sex workers’ labor and community building take place online. This article examines the emergence of sex work humor in online spaces, considering how this humor provides evidence of resilience within this community. The article uses a critical discourse analysis approach blended with a cultural studies lens to examine 171 discrete texts drawn from sex work communities in Australia and New Zealan

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