Partnerships and Collaborations: The Importance to Humanities, Social Sciences and Creative Arts

In 2001 a week in the life of a dean of humanities, social sciences and the creative arts is radically different from that of only a few years ago. Of course we still meet daily with staff and students, liaise with heads of schools and work with budgets and finances. But diary entries tell the tale of a more complex web of activities. A few days from one weekly diary, for example, might feature meetings with a leading urban developer and accompany a letter to the Minister for Planning to negotiate a Chair in urban design; a lunch with the executive director of the West Coast Eagles Football Club to discuss the prospects of a scholarship for indigenous students named after a great footballer; morning tea with an eminent epidemiologist about the prospective national partnership for human development; meetings with the Minister of Community Development about partners and projects; or with the Minister for Culture and the Arts regarding the future of a major festival; and, believe it or not, a meeting with a major bank to negotiate plans for a joint Chair and Research Centre for something other than finance and banking. And the week is barely half over. There is not a dean within the humanities and social sciences in Australia whose diary does not look like that sketched above. Partnerships with the community, industry and other universities are the only way forward in the environment in which higher education now finds itself. The vision of the current deans in Australia has increased their determination to pursue relationships with outside partners, as has the dynamism of the Academies of Humanities and Social Sciences. The imperatives are visible enough. The level of real government funding to Faculties and Divisions of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts has dropped in recent years from well over 80 percent to below 60 percent in some instances. Yet there is no doubt that the humanities and social sciences must play a pivotal role in the future of our nation’s education and economy. Last year Robin Batterham (2000) acknowledged this in his report ‘The Chance to Change’, and the concept of the knowledge economy has since been supported by the Prime Minister’s ‘Backing Australia’s Ability’ statement and by Kim Beazley’s ‘Knowledge Nation’

The art of contested histories: In Pursuit of Venus [Infected] and the Pacific legacy

European artists of the eighteenth century framed an exotic textual and visual narrative of the Pacific, drawing largely on knowledge gained from exploratory journeys of the 1760s and 1770s. Visual representations of the Pacific became socially fashionable and commercially successful. The French wallpaper manufacturer, Dufour, captured this commercial potential in a dramatic, panoramic wallpaper that told stories of European encounters with Pacific peoples: Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique (1804). Yet it was selective, defining the Pacific by moments of contact with Cook and other explorers. Lisa Reihana\u27s In Pursuit of Venus [Infected] (2015–17) dramatically interrogates the eighteenth-century narrative of the Pacific, responding to Dufour\u27s wallpaper in a complex, panoramic work. By attending to ways in which the factual and speculative are brought together in Enlightenment artefacts and Reihana\u27s restaging of them, we explore how art might be put to use in the service of historical interpretation

Efficacy and safety of open-label etanercept on extended oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, enthesitis-related arthritis and psoriatic arthritis: part 1 (week 12) of the CLIPPER study

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the efficacy and safety of etanercept (ETN) in paediatric subjects with extended oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (eoJIA), enthesitis-related arthritis (ERA), or psoriatic arthritis (PsA). METHODS: CLIPPER is an ongoing, Phase 3b, open-label, multicentre study; the 12-week (Part 1) data are reported here. Subjects with eoJIA (2-17 years), ERA (12-17 years), or PsA (12-17 years) received ETN 0.8 mg/kg once weekly (maximum 50 mg). Primary endpoint was the percentage of subjects achieving JIA American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 30 criteria at week 12; secondary outcomes included JIA ACR 50/70/90 and inactive disease. RESULTS: 122/127 (96.1%) subjects completed the study (mean age 11.7 years). JIA ACR 30 (95% CI) was achieved by 88.6% (81.6% to 93.6%) of subjects overall; 89.7% (78.8% to 96.1%) with eoJIA, 83.3% (67.2% to 93.6%) with ERA and 93.1% (77.2% to 99.2%) with PsA. For eoJIA, ERA, or PsA categories, the ORs of ETN vs the historical placebo data were 26.2, 15.1 and 40.7, respectively. Overall JIA ACR 50, 70, 90 and inactive disease were achieved by 81.1, 61.5, 29.8 and 12.1%, respectively. Treatment-emergent adverse events (AEs), infections, and serious AEs, were reported in 45 (35.4%), 58 (45.7%), and 4 (3.1%), subjects, respectively. Serious AEs were one case each of abdominal pain, bronchopneumonia, gastroenteritis and pyelocystitis. One subject reported herpes zoster and another varicella. No differences in safety were observed across the JIA categories. CONCLUSIONS: ETN treatment for 12 weeks was effective and well tolerated in paediatric subjects with eoJIA, ERA and PsA, with no unexpected safety findings

Britishness in recent Australian historiography

Australian public debate in the 1990s was dominated by issues surrounding the \u27impending\u27 republic. At the same time, Australian historiography experienced a return in the attention of historians to Australia\u27s relations and ties with Great Britain, paralleling the increasing interest of Australians in severing the remaining constitutional links with the United Kingdom. Australian \u27Britishness\u27 has, unarguably, been a common theme in many contemporary histories. In subjects ranging from war, \u27dedominionization\u27, and republicanism, historians have noted with interest the challenges in history which have faced the imperial connection in Australia. This paper reviews the exploration of Britishness in recent historiography, and pays particular attention to a few key publications

Lady Onslow\u27s Legacy: A History of the Home of Peace and the Brightwater Care Group

In 1901 a group, led by Lady Madeleine Onslow and Dr Athelstan Saw, founded the Home of Peace for the Dying and Incurable. Since then, the organisation, now known as the Brightwater Care Group, has directly provided care to over 15,000 Western Australians, and assisted countless others in the community. Infused with warmth, humour and tragedy, this is the story of the people who have been a part of that history - the patients, residents, nurses, board members, clerks and families - who together have created a bond of care over one hundred years. ISBN: 095792240X (pbk) ISBN: 095792241

Making Australian History: perspectives on the past since 1788

Making Australian History : perspectives on the past since 1788 contains landmark primary and secondary sources that cover a wide breadth of Australian history. Showcases the work of current and past leading scholars. Contents: Introduction. Making history and the politics of the past / Deborah Gare. Section 1. Australia and the Enlightenment. Section 2. Outpost of Empire. Section 3. First contact. Section 4. The convict stain. Section 5. Pioneering Australia. Section 6. The frontier. Section 7. Gold and the coming Australian. Section 8. Tablets of the law. Section 9. A white Australia. Section 10. Anzacs. Section 11. The homefront. Section 12. The interwar years. Section 13. World War II. Section 14. The ashes of Empire. Section 15. Menzies\u27 Australia. Section 16. Australia in the sixties. Section 17. After the Referendum. Section 18. Whitlam to Keating: the Labor years. Section 19. Howard\u27s Australia. ISBN: 97807013210

Self, king and country

The push for the creation of a university in Western Australia came in the new years of the 20th century as citizens in the west grappled with what it meant to be a young, vibrant state in the new federation. Other colonies, particularly New South Wales and Victoria, had long since founded their centres of knowledge fro professional and higher education - Sydney and Melbourne universities were both founded almost immediately after their colonies had achieved self government in the 1850s. But the depressed economy and small population of Western Australia had delayed the hope of the resident British community for the chance of a university on their side of the country. That was, until the gold rushes of the 1890s, a period of rapid population growth and financial boom, which generated a civic imagination

A Chain of Care : A history of the Silver Chain Nursing Association, 1905-2005

It was as a children\u27s club in the pages of the newspaper the \u27Western Mail\u27 that Silver Chain first was born. For hundreds of young people who lived in isolated communities the new Silver Chain League was an unusual means of friendship. For Western Australia, it meant that \u27some great big work\u27 was about to be born. ISBN: 064644509

Inclusion, equality and difference : continuities in public opinion about Indigenous Australians

Aboriginal affairs in Australia since World War II have been marked by a series of well-known watersheds, including the third Native Welfare Conference held in 1951, the 1967 referendum, the passing of the Commonwealth's (Northern Territory) Land Rights Act in 1976 and the Mabo decision in 1992. There is an interpretive peril that, with hindsight, Aboriginal affairs is regarded as having followed a more or less inevitable 'progressive' trajectory since 1945 (which some would argue may have ended under the Howard government), overlooking the contingency and ambiguity of historical change. In this contribution Australian political and social historian Tim Rowse and political scientist Murray Goor focus on attitudes towards reform in Aboriginal affairs reflected in opinion polls at some critical moments of change