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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 535-551, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article uses a historical case study to significantly advance theoretical debates on path dependence in institutional change and continuity. In particular, it argues that the heuristic of ‘jumping tracks’ can be productively developed to explain how institutional arrangements can shift into different policy arenas.
Emma Watkins
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Elemental analysis of vertebrae discerns diadromous movements of threatened non‐marine elasmobranchs
Journal of Fish Biology, Volume 103, Issue 6, Page 1357-1373, December 2023., 2023 Abstract River sharks (Glyphis spp.) and some sawfishes (Pristidae) inhabit riverine environments, although their long‐term habitat use patterns are poorly known. We investigated the diadromous movements of the northern river shark (Glyphis garricki), speartooth shark (Glyphis glyphis), narrow sawfish (Anoxypristis cuspidata), and largetooth sawfish ...
Michael I. Grant +13 more
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Water Futures in Australia: Materialities, Temporalities, Imaginaries
Oceania, Volume 93, Issue 3, Page 196-215, November 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This special issue is part of a shift in social science and humanities thinking and in public awareness towards planetary water concerns. As societal and scholarly attention to the wet element – and its political import and its cultural constitution – is growing, we ask, how can we rethink our relationships with water in Australia now and into
Sally Babidge +2 more
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Whores Aboard and Laws Abroad: English Women and Sexual Slander in Early Colonial New South Wales
Gender &History, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 916-934, October 2023., 2023 Abstract In the nineteenth century, a gendered reform movement – the Slander of Women Acts – swept through the British common law world, making it easier for women to sue for defamatory allegations of sexual immorality. By examining two slander cases brought by women in early New South Wales and radical reforms passed in 1847, this article locates the ...
Jessica Lake
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Before It Was ‘New’: A Neglected History of Lived Experience–Led Criminal Justice
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing range of criminal justice initiatives are being shaped and delivered by people with lived experience, including peer mentoring, prisoner councils and policy advocacy roles. While often seen as recent innovations, we reveal a deeper, largely unacknowledged history dating back to at least the 19th century.
Gillian Buck +2 more
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Fire regime change in western Tasmania between 1830 and 2025
Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 1, February 2026.Sketches by N.J.B. Plomley of George Augustus Robinson western Tasmanian expeditions in 1830 and 1833, undertaken to persuade Aboriginal nations of western Van Diemen’s Land to leave their ancestral lands. Geographic analysis of Robinson journal of this remote area provides unique insights in the changes in fire regimes that followed this tragic ...
David M J S Bowman +3 more
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Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 3, Page 838-851, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘social model of disability’ to show that the disabling capacities of impairments varied depending on wider social structures and beliefs, and on each
Emily Cock
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Geographical imaginaries of escape: Discourses of escapism in the Tasmanian archive
Geographical Research, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 405-417, August 2025.Tasmania is imagined as a place of escape. From bunkers and black boxes to lifestyle change, escape in Tasmania is interrelated through shared British colonial conceptions of the island state. These conceptions help form the archive of discourses that describe Tasmania, but there are still opportunities to reinterpret these discourses in more positive ...
Alexander Luke Burton
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Mapping the frontiers of private property in New South Wales, Australia
Geographical Research, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 236-248, May 2025.We discuss a mapping project developing a technique accounting for the alienation of each parcel of property from Crown lands in New South Wales. We argue a basis for representing the plot‐by‐plot creation of private property, when and where it occured, and its effects in colonial governance, violence, and disspossession.
Dallas Rogers +4 more
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‘Tearing Off the Bonds’: Suffrage Visual Culture in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, 1890–1920
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 234-266, March 2025.Abstract This article will examine how transpacific suffrage visual culture imagined and reimagined an artistic tradition centred around the figure of the bound woman. White suffragists and anti‐suffragists in Australia, New Zealand and the United States used the iconography of bonds, chains and whips to mediate the possibility of women’s ...
Ana Stevenson
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