Sydney\u27s Anti-Eviction Movement: Community or Conspiracy?

In the last week of June 1931, a doctor in a Sydney hospital was surprised by a seven-year-old patient whose crushed toe had been acquired in a novel fashion. The Sun reported: \u27We was playin\u27 evictions,\u27 [the boy] fearfully told the doctor, \u27and I was a pleecemanan\u27 \u27e\u27 - pointing to another small and grimy boy - \u27was a Communist. \u27E threw a brick and it hit me on the toe.\u27 Yelling at the top of their voices, a dozen small boys in Simons Street Newtown had staged a \u27mock\u27 battle between police and antievictionists. Swinging sticks and firing imaginary revolvers the \u27police\u27 routed the anti-evictionists\u27 who, in desperation, began throwing stones

Patients' preferences for subcutaneous trastuzumab versus conventional intravenous infusion for the adjuvant treatment of HER2-positive early breast cancer: final analysis of 488 patients in the international, randomized, two-cohort PrefHer study

PrefHer revealed compelling and consistent patient preference for subcutaneous (s.c.) trastuzumab, regardless of delivery by single-use injection device or hand-held syringe. s.c. trastuzumab was well-tolerated and safety data, including immunogenicity, were consistent with previous reports. No new safety signals were identified compared with the known intravenous trastuzumab profile in early breast cance

The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performance of the spacecraft, telescope, science instruments, and ground system, with an emphasis on differences from pre-launch expectations. Commissioning has made clear that JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built. Moreover, almost across the board, the science performance of JWST is better than expected; in most cases, JWST will go deeper faster than expected. The telescope and instrument suite have demonstrated the sensitivity, stability, image quality, and spectral range that are necessary to transform our understanding of the cosmos through observations spanning from near-earth asteroids to the most distant galaxies.Comment: 5th version as accepted to PASP; 31 pages, 18 figures; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acb29

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

Protest in Sydney - 1968: Counterculture, Protest, Revolution conference

Presentation by Nadia Wheatley to the conference held by the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong on 30 November 2018

The unemployed who kicked: a study of the political struggles and organisations of the New South Wales unemployed in the Great Depression

Bibliography: pages 1160-1189.1. Unemployment and the unemployed: who, where and why -- 2. The Beginning of the unemployed movement - 1925-1929 -- 3. The unemployed movement in 1930 -- 4. The movement in 1931 -- 5. The unemployed Movement - 1932 - April 1933 -- 6. The relief workers' movement - 1933 - 1936 -- Conclusion.The unemployed workers of the Australian Depression have usually been portrayed as a dispirited, disorganised mass, making few political attempts to resist the poverty and degradation brought about by unemployment and heightened by the inadequacies of government relief and the form taken by its administration. The question, 'Why did the unemployed not fight back?', is often asked; oddly, perhaps, few historians have simply asked: 'Did they fight back?' This thesis tries to answer the second question, and denies the assumption behind the first. In fact, over the years 1930 to 1935 (and, to a lesser extent, in the periods 1927 or so until 1930, and from 1936 up to the war) thousands of unemployed workers in New South Wales alone actively resisted their fate in an organised and often militant manner. Small political organisations of unemployed workers proliferated in local areas. While a number were independent of any political party or wider organisational network, many were affiliated to, and some were initiated by, the various central unemployed organisations founded by the Communist Party. Others were inaugurated by the Labor Party. In regard to both the organisation and the activism of these political groups, success alternated with setbacks. While the latter were at times almost crushing, this does not detract from the very real successes of the movement: firstly, unemployed workers won a number of concrete improvements in their economic and social position; secondly -- and probably more importantly -- by the very act of organising and demonstrating, by demanding to be treated as workers rather than as rightless objects of charity, they resisted at least some of the degradation caused by their inability to provide for their own and their families' needs.Mode of access: World Wide Web.1 online resource (xxxvii, 1189 pages) illustration

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