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Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
wiley   +1 more source

Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

SCIENCE AND RELIGION AS LANGUAGES: UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE–RELIGION RELATIONSHIP USING METAPHORS, ANALOGIES, AND MODELS

open access: yesZygon, 2019
Many scholars often use the terms “metaphors,” “analogies,” and “models” interchangeably and inadvertently overlook the uniqueness of each word. According to recent cognitive studies, the three terms involve distinct cognitive processes using features ...
doaj   +2 more sources

Religion in an age of science; metaphysics in an era of history - review

open access: yes, 1992
This is an electronic version of an article published in Zygon®: Journal of Religion and Science.Ian Barbour's Religion in an Age of Science is a welcome systematic, theoretical overview of the relations between science and religion, Gifford lectures ...
Joint Publication Board of Zygon, publisher   +1 more
core   +1 more source

How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Science, religion, and the future [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82).Physics, especially cosmology, is compatible with monotheism, discovering a universe "fine-tuned" for the subsequent construction of stars, planets, life, and mind.
Routledge, publisher   +1 more
core  

Cultural framing of risk and religion within science fiction narratives

open access: yes, 2014
This article explores some case studies of science fiction narratives concerning human-made worldwide catastrophes (i.e. The Day the Earth Stood Still, I Am Legend, Dawn of the Dead) that have been made and re-made since World War II. It analyses how the
Possamai-Inesedy, Alphia (R12192)   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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