Life In Australia Research Articles

URWICK ON THE PIONEERS OF MANAGEMENT

Colonel Lyndall Fownes Urwick is one of the major theoreticians and historians of the management movement of the twentieth century. For this he has been recognized internationally, holding most of the major awards for excellence in contributions to management. He is now 87 years old and lives in Australia. In this paper the authors report an edited version of Urwick's verbal responses to questions about Taylor, the Gilbreths, Gant, Fayol, Mayo, Mooney, Reiley, Mary Parker Follett, Barnard, Drucker and Koontz. Questions were designed to elicit Urwick's experiences with the individuals rather than just their ideas. Anecdotal recollections have been included where they give insights into the pioneer's personality and writings.

The Migrant Family: Some comments on Social Work Practice with non-English speaking migrants.

The description of the P. family — their anxieties, hardships and frustrations will be a familiar story to social workers working with non-English speaking migrant clients, regardless of whether the social worker is employed by ethnic or sectarian agencies or the wider general agencies such as government departments, municipal councils or independent organizations. This attempts to investigate some of the ways in which social workers can attempt to help and support the migrant client from a different ethnic group in his struggle to create a new life in Australia. The P. family's story will be used to illustrate some of the major areas of difficulty faced by a migrant family and a number of social work roles and strategies are suggested which might be employed in seeking to bring about social change. The implications of ethnicity for social work practice in a multi-cultural society form a central focus of concern. Finally, general comments and suggestions will be made about the role and responsibilities of the social worker in the multi-cultural society.

R. E. N. Twopeny and town life in Australia

R. E. N. Twopeny and town life in Australia

Town Life in Australia

Town Life in Australia

Australia 1972

Abroad1 March 1972Australia 1972BRYAN T. EMMERSON, M.D.BRYAN T. EMMERSON, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-76-3-508 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTo most people in the United States, Australia is a new frontier of excitement, adventure, and opportunity that retains the virtues of a less complicated society. Newspaper headlines read "Americans head for the good life Down Under," and the problems of life in Australia certainly seem to be of lesser magnitude than those of the United States. Perhaps these differences are illusory, however, and really reflect the fact that many problems seem smaller in a country with a smaller population.To most Australians, the United States (or America, as it is usually called) is the land of prosperity and opulence,... This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Department of Medicine University of Queensland at the Princess Alexandra Hospital Brisbane Queensland Australia PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 March 1972Volume 76, Issue 3Page: 508-509 ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 March 1972 PDF downloadLoading ...

The Resignation of the Governor-General: Family Drama and National Reproduction

This article tells the story of the 2003 resignation of Peter Hollingworth as Governor-General as part of an ongoing hyper-anxiety in Australia about the state and status of ‘the child’. The sexually abused child sits at the centre of this story and carries a heavy burden with respect to the past and future of the white Australian nation. The recuperation of that child to a state of innocence, repeatedly, as stories of its abuse keep returning to our front pages and political agendas, is necessary for the reproduction of the white nation. This article shows that the Hollingworth drama is entwined with the current politics of motherhood and fatherhood and the carriage of national feeling and temporality through the performances of these always racialised identities. Attending to the politics of the historical construction of the child, and the idealised parents who abuse or protect it (but never allow this child a voice or a sexuality of her or his own), thus becomes a part of the project of accountability to the past which has also occupied public life in Australia over recent years.

Shuttlesworth, Dorothy E. The wild life of Australia and New Zealand. New York 10022 (151 East 50th Street): Hastings House, Publishers, 1967. 118 P. $4.95

Shuttlesworth, Dorothy E. The wild life of Australia and New Zealand. New York 10022 (151 East 50th Street): Hastings House, Publishers, 1967. 118 P. $4.95

The rapid development of music in Australia, 1851–1861

Abstract The rich finds of gold at Ballarat and Bendigo in 1851 revolutionised life in Australia. Gold-diggers came pouring into Victoria from other parts of Australia and soon from all over the world. Victoria became separated from New South Wales and quickly forged ahead as the leading Australian colony. The population increased rapidly from 80,000 to more than half a million people, many of them immigrants fresh from overseas.

Correlation of Race and Way of Life in Australia and the Territory of Papua and New Guinea with Incidence and Severity of Clinical Trachoma

Correlation of Race and Way of Life in Australia and the Territory of Papua and New Guinea with Incidence and Severity of Clinical Trachoma

Wild Life of Australia and New Guinea

Wild Life of Australia and New Guinea

Conservation of Wild Life in Australia

Conservation of Wild Life in Australia

Conservation of Wild Life in Australia

Conservation of Wild Life in Australia

MR. W. H. Dudley Le Souëf

THE October issue of the Victorian Naturalist contains an appreciation of the life and work of Mr. W. H. Dudley Le Souef, Director of the Melbourne Zoological Gardens, who died on September 6, at the age of sixty-six. Mr. Le Souef was a prominent member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, and his extensive travels over the Australian continent studying the habits of or collecting native animals, birds, etc., provided material for numerous papers which he contributed to the Club. In most of these the main interest centred on the birds, but other branches of natural history were not neglected. He compiled a list of Victorian reptiles published in the Victorian Naturalist of 1884, and was the author, with Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, of two standard works, “The Animals of Australia,” and “The Birds of Australia.” In another volume, “Wild Life in Australia,” he brought together the accounts of his many expeditions which had appeared from time to time in the Victorian Naturalist and the Emu, the organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union, of which he was one of the founders. His interest in Australian ethnology led him to take part also in expeditions to King Island, the Kent Group, and to Albatross Island. Mr. Le Souef was an enthusiastic student of Nature, who was always willing to bring natural history before an audience, generally illustrating his lectures by lantern slides from his own photographs. For many years he was Assistant Director of the Melbourne Zoological Gardens, and in 1902 he was made Director, in succession to his father. Under his care the Gardens have become the most important collection oi animals in Australia.

The Protection of Animal and Bird Life in Australia

The Protection of Animal and Bird Life in Australia

Nest Eggs of Platypus

MY attention has been directed to the review of Mr. le Souef's book on “Wild Life in Australia” (NATURE, October 24) and to the reviewer's subsequent note on the eggs of Platypus (NATURE, November 28). The reviewer states that there “appears to be no definite evidence that the eggs” of Platypus “are really laid entire.” As I had the good fortune to find some in that condition a few years ago, I think it well to record the fact. I have already shown these eggs in Sydney and to the British Association (1899), the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and other scientific bodies, but, alas! I have not found time to write a full account of my material, and I have been putting off—perhaps too long—in the hope of getting sufficient leisure for the task.

Wild Life in Australia The Life-Story of a Squirrel Adventures in the Great Forests Heroes of Pioneering

IN re-publishing, with considerable additions, the series of natural history articles which originally appeared in the Victorian Naturalist and the Emu, the author of “Wild Life in Australia” has assuredly been well advised; for within this unassuming little volume is to be found a valuable store of information concerning the animals and plants of various districts in Australia. The province of Victoria, the Riverina district of New South Wales, the islands of Bass Strait, Queensland, and Western Australia are in turn discussed; and in each case, the treatment of the subject is full of interest, although the amount of space devoted to each district is by no means large. The most important observations in the book are those relating to the life-history of the duckbill or platypus. Many of our readers will recall that in 1901 Mr. G. Metcalfe, at a meeting of the Zoological Society, denied that the platypus lays eggs. Mr. le Souëf, on the other hand, definitely states that at the end of October the creature lays one or two eggs, which are of elongated form and furnished with a leathery shell. The egg is believed to be soon hatched, and the newly-hatched young is naked, and about one inch in length. A nest and kroken eggshell were, according to the author, forwarded to Dr. P. L. Sclater. The point in dispute may now be regarded as settled. Mr. le Souëf adds that the platypus is, a good climber, and that when on land it folds inwards the portion of the web projecting beyond the toes, so that the latter may be enabled to obtain a grip of the surface.

The Euahlayi Tribe. A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia

The Euahlayi Tribe. A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia

On Mesozoic forms of life in Australia

On Mesozoic forms of life in Australia