Tom Trevorrow: A Ngarrindjeri Man of High Degree

A memoir of Ngarrindjeri man Tom Trevorrow who died in April 2013

Doublecloth: History, Technique, Possibilities.

Merged with duplicate record 10026.1/2320 on 06.20.2017 by CS (TIS)The aim of this research is to analyse through practical and historical investigation the manner in which Doublecloth in the twentieth century has been transformed from a traditional woven technique to one of artistic innovation and challenge. The first series of woven samples and historic enquiry concerns the structure and pattern of doublecloth at a time when its industrial and craft-based use was for the production of decorative and utilitarian woven fabrics. The research focuses on the extent to which this technique was given aesthetic credibility by its altered profile at the Bauhaus and the subsequent influence of the writings and work of Anni Albers. While the philosophy and products of the Bauhaus and the role of Walter Gropius have been documented and widely debated the practice of textiles, and the influence on it of gender, class and the hierarchical practice of craft, has received little critical attention. The research seeks to redress this imbalance, evaluating why the output of the textile workshops was undervalued artistically and considered marginal to the products from other workshops. This leads to a consideration of the interface between the practice of Fine Art and the practice of Craft, between designing and making, between art and industry. The woven samples are a process of experimentation against which the historic stages can be tested and the technical constraints of contemporary practice can be explained. This primary material leads to a consideration of the new technology and the impact of Nuno doublecloth fabrics on the production of doublecloth for the mass market. The evidence suggests that while new fabric finishes and experimental pattern effects are desirable, the difficulties of hand production are so prohibitive, that it is only with computer aided technology that such ambitions can be me

Whispers from Eden: a narrative inquiry into the long-term influences of the Circle of Trust retreats for clergy participants

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Empirical Studies on the Disambiguation of Cue Phrases

Cue phrases are linguistic expressions such as now and well that function as explicit indicators of the structure of a discourse. For example, now may signal the beginning of a subtopic or a return to a previous topic, while well may mark subsequent material as a response to prior material, or as an explanatory comment. However, while cue phrases may convey discourse structure, each also has one or more alternate uses. While incidentally may be used sententially as an adverbial, for example, the discourse use initiates a digression. Although distinguishing discourse and sentential uses of cue phrases is critical to the interpretation and generation of discourse, the question of how speakers and hearers accomplish this disambiguation is rarely addressed. This paper reports results of empirical studies on discourse and sentential uses of cue phrases, in which both text-based and prosodic features were examined for disambiguating power. Based on these studies, it is proposed that discourse versus sentential usage may be distinguished by intonational features, specifically, pitch accent and prosodic phrasing. A prosodic model that characterizes these distinctions is identified. This model is associated with features identifiable from text analysis, including orthography and part of speech, to permit the application of the results of the prosodic analysis to the generation of appropriate intonational features for discourse and sentential uses of cue phrases in synthetic speech

The (mis)matching of resources and assessed need in remote Aboriginal community aged care

© 2014 The Authors. Australasian Journal on Ageing published by Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd on behalf of Australian Council on the Ageing and The Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.Aim: To examine processes of aged-care needs assessment for Aboriginal people in remote central Australia to assist development of appropriate models of aged care. Method: A qualitative study involving 11 semistructured interviews with aged-care assessors and two focus groups with Aboriginal community members. Results: This paper reports four major themes concerning how needs assessments relate to realities of service delivery: cultural perspectives on aged care, context of service delivery, equity and access to services, and program (mis)alignments. Conclusion: Disparities exist between assessment recommendations and service availability, with a potential mismatch between Aboriginal understandings of needs, interpretations by individual assessment staff and program guidelines. Incorporating a conceptual framework, such as the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, into service guidelines to ensure structured consideration of a person’s holistic needs may assist, as will building the capacity of communities to provide the level and type of services required

Financing options for the provision of assistive products

Having predictable, stable and adequate financial resources is essential for achieving universal coverage of essential health products and services, including assistive products. Access to such resources would enable governments and participating organizations to initiate and maintain a system for providing assistive products and associated services, as well as to grow the scope and scale of their operations over time. While limited funding is not the only reason to explain the shortfall in the provision of assistive products globally, unpredictable and inadequate public funding has been cited as the primary cause of poor access to these products in many countries. Several financing options have been presented in this paper that could be considered by decision-makers to initiate or supplement the financing of assistive products

A ‘key worker’ model to improve service pathways for Aboriginal people with dementia in remote Central Australia

Published version of the paper reproduced here with permission from the publisher.Introduction: The provision of support services to Aboriginal Australians living with dementia in remote communities is complicated by factors such as cross-cultural and language barriers, long travelling distances and often inadequate resources. Poor coordination of services and other problems of service access and lack of service awareness can lead to many unmet needs including delayed assessment and diagnosis. This project builds on a previous research study in the region that highlighted the urgent need for improvements to implementation of recommended service pathways for dementia care. The project aimed to achieve this by developing a model for appropriate ‘case management’ or ‘key worker’ approaches to coordinating. Method: A qualitative study was conducted in 2013-14 that included six in-depth interviews with key informants and thematic analysis. The researchers used the themes to develop a model which was then validated by a local reference group. Results: Our data to date have enabled us to develop a model where one ‘key worker’ takes the lead in the assessment and coordination of provision of services with no expectation that they will provide any services outside their own area of expertise. Implications and conclusion: Significant principles of the ‘key worker’ model include that it is person-centred, culturally safe and contextually relevant. Introduction of the model needs to be accompanied by workforce education so that there is a shared understanding of how care coordination should be implemented ranging from the broad principles (such as culturally appropriate relationships, and service flexibility) through to the more micro elements of the model (such as communication methods between services, record keeping and handover mechanisms). The principles and the process for developing the model are transferrable to other remote service delivery contexts