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0000-0002-6508-6197
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Edith Cowan University
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Edith Cowan University - Mount Lawley Campus
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-1997
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-1994
DOI: 10.1007/BF00009289
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-2016
Abstract: Public health literature proposes that the Australian alcohol industry–funded organisation DrinkWise is a Social Aspects Public Relations Organisation (SAPRO) that favours industry over public interests by deploying ineffective alcohol harm reduction strategies. This research addresses a gap in the critical public relations literature by investigating these claims through an examination of DrinkWise’s source media content. Content and rhetorical framing analysis revealed how the organisation framed the alcohol issue, as well as identifying the messages and message audiences of their media releases. Results supported extant research suggesting that DrinkWise is insulating the alcohol industry against evidence-based public health harm reduction strategies, by engaging in agenda building through industry-friendly framing of the alcohol issue, and dissemination of information subsidies to elites and policy-makers. We discuss the conclusions through a lens of hegemony and develop an argument that DrinkWise media relations is a strategy to maintain a hegemonic in idual responsibility ideology.
Publisher: Fuji Technology Press Ltd.
Date: 06-2016
Abstract: This research describes outcomes from a project that aimed to present near real-time bushfire information to remote and regional Australian communities susceptible to bushfires through an intuitive and easy to use interface. This project arose as a response to calls for increased information sharing amongst communities and in iduals in the wake of several severe fire events in Australia. Several rounds of user engagement were undertaken, which informed the design of an application that came to be known as MyFireWatch, which was launched as an officially-supported publicly-accessible web application. Previous research in Australia regarding bushfire information suggests that user-sourced data can provide rich, timely and meaningful information. Yet the MyFireWatch research, the first of its kind in Australia to ascertain community attitudes to user-sourced disaster information, found that user attitudes varied. This paper describes those user attitudes and how they pose both challenges and opportunities for organisations who provide publicly-accessible disaster information.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 07-2019
Abstract: The struggle to save the Beeliar Wetlands, an urban remnant bushland in Perth, Western Australia, demonstrates elements of both urban social and urban environmental movements. At the end of 2016, 30 years of objection to the continuation of the Roe Highway development (Roe 8) culminated in months of intense protest leading up to a state election and a cessation of work in 2017. During the long-running c aign, protestors fought to preserve high-conservation-value bushland that was contained in the planned road reserve. At the heart of this dispute were competing spatial uses. This article will analyze four protest actions from the dispute using Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the production of space, and will demonstrate that the practices of protest gave those fighting to preserve Roe 8 the agency to reinscribe meaning to the natural uses of the Beeliar Wetlands over and against the uses privileged by the state.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-11-2013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1993
DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-8137.1993.TB03765.X
Abstract: Low activities of the monomeric aluminium (Al) species, Al 3+ , Al(OH) 2 + and Al(OH) 2+ in solution reduce root growth and root hair development in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. Calcium (Ca) ameliorates to a certain extent the toxic effects of Al on root growth, but the interactive effects of Ca and Al on root hair development are not known. In the absence of added Al in solution culture, Ca concentration over the range 500–2000 μM had little effect on root growth or root hair development of soybean cv. Fitzroy. Where the sum of the activities of the monomeric Al species was 2 μM, taproot elongation and lateral root development of soybean was suppressed in solution with 500 μM Ca. The length of the root hair zone was only 10% of that in plants not exposed to Al, and scanning electron microscopy revealed a low density of root hairs. Increasing the Ca concentration to 2000 μM largely overcame these deleterious effects. The results are discussed in relation to the role of root hairs as infection sites for Bradyrhizobium , and the known effects of Al in suppressing nodulation in soybean.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-1993
DOI: 10.1007/BF00025007
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2013
Abstract: Bushfires are a major part of the Australian natural disaster landscape causing severe property damage and loss of life. Since 2009 there have been four major bushfire events in Australia warranting government inquiry. The recommendations from such inquiries are intended to drive future policy and decision making, reflecting a commitment on behalf of authorities to learn from past events. For authorities, ensuring the successful communication of bushfire safety is the key to securing legitimacy, yet communication within the public sector is characterized by politics, legal constraints, media attention and public scrutiny. The perception of risk and the desire to promote an image of competence can inhibit innovation, particularly in relation to public sector internet communications. We should not assume that governments want greater community participation when there is both economic and political risk involved in doing so. Nevertheless, greater community participation in bushfire communications appears to be a key recommendation of the recent bushfire inquiries and which the public sector generally and fire and emergency services organizations specifically, are under some pressure to accommodate. Internet-based communications have a key role to play in filling the gap, but must balance community desire for participation with government requirements to be reliable and minimize risk. As part of preparations for a project which aims to provide greater community involvement in the Landgate FireWatchinternet map service, this article reviews the opportunities and threats inherent in government/community bushfire communication.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 07-1998
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 07-2001
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.5334/CSCI.40
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 21-04-2020
Start Date: 2011
End Date: 2014
Funder: Australian Research Council
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