106 research outputs found
Ten Journeys to Cameronâs Farm
Three decades after what he called âa dreadful air crash, almost within sight of my windowsâ Robert Menzies wrote âI shall never forget that terrible hour; I felt that for me the end of the world had comeâŠâ Ten Journeys to Cameronâs Farm tells the lives of the ten men who perished in Duncan Cameronâs Canberra property on 13 August 1940: three Cabinet ministers, the Chief of the General Staff, two senior staff members, and the RAAF crew of four. The inquiries into the accident, and the aftermath for the Air Force, government, and bereaved families are examined. Controversial allegations are probed: did the pilot F/Lt Bob Hitchcock cause the crash or was the Minister for Air Jim Fairbairn at the controls?
âCameron Hazlehurst is a story-teller, one of the all-too rare breed who can write scholarly works which speak to a wider audience. In the most substantial, original, and authoritative account of the Canberra aircraft accident of August 1940 he provides unique insights into a critical, poignant moment in Australian history. Hazlehurstâs account is touched with irony and quirks, set within a framework of political, social, and military history, distinctions of class, education, and rank, and the machinations of parliamentary and service politics and of the âofficial mindâ. The research is meticulous and wide-ranging, the analysis is always balanced, and the writing at once skilful and compelling. This is a work of an exceptional historian.â
(Ian Hancock, author of Nick Greiner: A Political Biography, John Gorton: He Did It His Way, and National and Permanent? The Federal Organisation of the Liberal Party of Australia)
âTen Journeys to Cameronâs Farm is a monumental work of historical research pegged on a single, lethal moment at the apex of government at an extraordinarily sensitive time in Australiaâs history. The book embodies top drawer scholarship, deep sensitivity to antipodean class structures and sensibilities, and a nuanced understanding of both democratic and bureaucratic politics.â
(Christine Wallace, author of Germaine Greer Untamed Shrew and The Private Don: the man behind the legend of Don Bradman
Data-driven conceptual modeling: how some knowledge drivers for the enterprise might be mined from enterprise data
As organizations perform their business, they analyze, design and manage a variety of processes represented in models with different scopes and scale of complexity. Specifying these processes requires a certain level of modeling competence. However, this condition does not seem to be balanced with adequate capability of the person(s) who are responsible for the task of defining and modeling an organization or enterprise operation.
On the other hand, an enterprise typically collects various records of all events occur during the operation of their processes. Records, such as the start and end of the tasks in a process instance, state transitions of objects impacted by the process execution, the message exchange during the process execution, etc., are maintained in enterprise repositories as various logs, such as event logs, process logs, effect logs, message logs, etc. Furthermore, the growth rate in the volume of these data generated by enterprise process execution has increased manyfold in just a few years.
On top of these, models often considered as the dashboard view of an enterprise. Models represents an abstraction of the underlying reality of an enterprise. Models also served as the knowledge driver through which an enterprise can be managed. Data-driven extraction offers the capability to mine these knowledge drivers from enterprise data and leverage the mined models to establish the set of enterprise data that conforms with the desired behaviour.
This thesis aimed to generate models or knowledge drivers from enterprise data to enable some type of dashboard view of enterprise to provide support for analysts. The rationale for this has been started as the requirement to improve an existing process or to create a new process. It was also mentioned models can also serve as a collection of effectors through which an organization or an enterprise can be managed.
The enterprise data refer to above has been identified as process logs, effect logs, message logs, and invocation logs. The approach in this thesis is to mine these logs to generate process, requirement, and enterprise architecture models, and how goals get fulfilled based on collected operational data.
The above a research question has been formulated as whether it is possible to derive the knowledge drivers from the enterprise data, which represent the running operation of the enterprise, or in other words, is it possible to use the available data in the enterprise repository to generate the knowledge drivers? .
In Chapter 2, review of literature that can provide the necessary background knowledge to explore the above research question has been presented. Chapter 3 presents how process semantics can be mined. Chapter 4 suggest a way to extract a requirements model. The Chapter 5 presents a way to discover the underlying enterprise architecture and Chapter 6 presents a way to mine how goals get orchestrated. Overall finding have been discussed in Chapter 7 to derive some conclusions
Student Expectations: The effect of student background and experience
CONTEXT
The perspectives and previous experiences that students bring to their programs of study can affect their approaches to study and the depth of learning that they achieve Prosser & Trigwell, 1999; Ramsden, 2003). Graduate outcomes assume the attainment of welldeveloped independent learning skills which can be transferred to the work-place.
PURPOSE
This 5-year longitudinal study investigates factors influencing studentsâ approaches to learning in the fields of Engineering, Software Engineering, and Computer Science, at two higher education institutes delivering programs of various levels in Australia and New Zealand. The study aims to track the development of student approaches to learning as they progress through their program. Through increased understanding of studentsâ approaches, faculty will be better able to design teaching and learning strategies to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student body. This paper reports on the first stage of the project.
APPROACH
In August 2017, we ran a pilot of our survey using the Revised Study Process Questionnaire(Biggs, Kember, & Leung, 2001) and including some additional questions related to student demographics and motivation for undertaking their current program of study. Data were analysed to evaluate the usefulness of data collected and to understand the demographics of the student cohort. Over the period of the research, data will be collected using the questionnaire and through focus groups and interviews.
RESULTS
Participants provided a representative sample, and the data collected was reasonable, allowing the questionnaire design to be confirmed.
CONCLUSIONS
At this preliminary stage, the study has provided insight into the student demographics at both institutes and identified aspects of studentsâ modes of engagement with learning. Some areas for improvement of the questionnaire have been identified, which will be implemented for the main body of the study
The Convergence of British and American Methodism in the South Pacific
There have been several Methodist denominations in the South
Pacific, two of which operated under the name "Wesleyan Methodist
Church". The first was from Britain in the nineteenth century and
the second from America in the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. The latter and numerically smaller of the two, the
American Wesleyan Methodist Church, is ultimately the focus of
this thesis, but an overview of British Methodism is necessary to
provide a context for the emergence of the latter group.
This thesis outlines the historic development of the American
Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia from the appointment of
its founder, Rev. Dr Kingsley Ridgway, in November 1945 until its
most recent National Conference, in September 2015. In addition
to the domestic history of the denomination, the development of
missions in Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, the Solomon Islands
and New Zealand resulted in the formation of the South Pacific
Regional Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 2012. A
summary of the regional expansion and the structure of the
Regional Conference is included.
The motivation for the formation of a second Methodist Church in
1946 was a conviction by some evangelicals that Australian
Methodism had ceased to genuinely reflect John Wesley's original
priorities. This claim is evaluated by comparing South Pacific
Methodism of the twentieth century against John Wesley's
statements that Methodism must hold true to his original
"doctrine, spirit and discipline" or become merely a "dead sect".
The conclusion of this research is that British Methodism, as
practised in Australia and New Zealand in the twentieth century,
had largely ceased to be recognisable as Wesley's Methodism and
that American Methodism, as practised by the Wesleyan Methodists
in Australia in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, also
fails to reproduce much of Wesley's spirit and discipline
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