Order Of Australia Research Articles

The recruitment of religious as teachers: a case study from 1960s Australia

Historical expositions on the teaching religious in Catholic schools can be seen as constituting models aimed at promoting reflection on the possibility that teaching can be influenced by discourses of ‘vocation’ and ‘the giving of service’, every bit as much as it can be by ‘industrial’ and ‘labour’ perspectives. This paper is offered as one contribution to opening up debate on the matter. It provides an overview of the work of the teaching religious in the English‐speaking world from the middle of the 1850s to the latter half of the twentieth century. Particular practices adopted by the Church aimed at recruiting young males and females to join the ranks of the teaching religious are then outlined. Finally, a film entitled Profession in Christ, which was produced by the (Irish) Christian Brothers Order in Australia in the early 1960s for use by their special ‘recruiting agents’ as they traveled around Catholic schools ‘questing’ for recruits, is analysed.

Vale DRS Banks and Copeman

The two papers on echinococcosis in this issue describe part of the work of Dr David Banks during his PhD at James Cook University from 1981 to 1984, under the supervision of Associate Professor Bruce Copeman. Both men died recently, David in a plane crash at Lockhart River in 2005 and Bruce from multiple myeloma in 2006. David's early death led Bruce to finalise and submit their draft manuscripts for publication. Their work together during David's PhD along with the work of Dr Chris Baldock was instrumental in determining the epidemiology of echinococcosis in cattle in Australia. Researchers in this field have known of their work and have referred to it in their publications (see Jenkins et al. 2005, International Journal of Parasitology, volume 35, pages 1205–1219). David and Bruce were prevented from publishing these papers earlier due to the enormous workloads in their careers, which they appeared to accept with good humour. They were talented individuals whose skills and expertise were always in demand. David became the principal scientist of Biosecurity Australia and devoted much of his life to eradicating and preventing the spread of important animal diseases. Bruce was one of the key teaching and research parasitologists in the tropics for over 30 years. He supervised 52 postgraduate students including David, many of whom became senior scientists within their respective countries. Both David and Bruce were blessed with immense enthusiasm for their work, a quality they imparted to others. They were kind, considerate and thoughtful, the very best sort of people to be around. Between them they achieved a great deal and have been honoured with a number of awards such as the Kesteven Medal and the Order of Australia. Both men are already commemorated by their peers in two public lectures; the David Banks Memorial Lecture sponsored by the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre, which is given each year in memory of David's contribution to the control of emerging infectious diseases, and the annual Bruce Copeman Oration sponsored by the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM). The latter helps illustrate the breadth of Bruce's interests and enthusiasm. Bruce was one of a small group of 10 that founded the ACTM in Townsville in 1991. The fact that these two papers are now published also illustrates Bruce's amazing approach to life and death. When he realised that the myeloma would win in the end, Bruce retired from the School of Veterinary and Biomedical Science, but used the ‘free’ time to come in to work almost on a daily basis to finalise a lifetime of doctoral student publications. Bruce's last years have been some of his most productive, submitting 21 manuscripts for publication. Both scientists will be sadly missed.

KMT Cutting Systems wins first waterjet cutting order in Australia

KMT Cutting Systems wins first waterjet cutting order in Australia

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John Robert Philip 1927 - 1999

John Philip was struck by a car and killed on Saturday 26 June 1999 in Amsterdam where he was visiting the Centre for Mathematics and Information Science. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a Foreign Member of the All-Union (later Russian) Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and only the second Australian Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering. He was the first non-American recipient of the Robert E. Horton Medal, the highest award for hydrology of the American Geophysical Union. In 1998 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for 'service to the science of hydrology, to scientific communication in promoting the interests of science for the community, and to Australian culture through architecture and literature'. This memoir discusses John Philip's character and his work as Australia's most distinguished environmental physicist. It explores his management of science and his role in the Australian Academy of Science as well as his poetry and his fascination with architecture.

Reviews

When Police Unionise: The Politics of Law and Order in Australia; By Mark Finnane (2002) Sydney: Hawkins Press, 258pp, ISBN 1864874643 Behind Bars: Surviving Prison; By J.I. Ross & S.C. Richards (2002) Indeanapolis, USA:Alpha Books, 240 pp, ISBN 0028643518 Convict Criminology; By J.I. Ross & S.C. Richards (2002) California, USA:Thomson Wadsworth, 387 pp, ISBN 0534574335 Repair or Revenge: Victims and Restorative Justice.; By H. Strang (2002) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 320 pp, ISBN 0199251649 Punishment and Civilization; By John Pratt (2002) London: Sage Publications, 213 pp, ISBN 0761947531

Edna Chamberlain: In retrospect

Abstract This biographical article surveys the life of Edna Chamberlain, Emeritus Professor of Social Work, Queensland University. A study of Professor Chamberlain's life and work reflects some central themes in the history of social work in Australia, from its growth as a profession to questions of theory and practice. Professor Chamberlain was the first woman appointed as professor in the field of social work in Australia. She has become something of a role model for younger women entering social work. She came from a working-class Brisbane family, studied and worked extensively in Australia and North America and became Head of Social Work at Queensland University in 1973. Under her direction the department grew and generated considerable research. Professor Chamberlain was strongly concerned to develop social work education at a national and international level, particularly within the Asian-Pacific region. She retired in July 1986 and was awarded the Order of Australia in 1988.

Book reviews

J.M.R. Cameron, Ambition's Fire. The Agricultural Colonization of Pre‐Convict Western Australia, University of Western Australia Press, 1981, pp.xvii + 238, $19.95. Hugh Speirs, Landscape Art and the Blue Mountains; The Artistic, Historical, & Environmental Influences upon the Landscape Art of the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia; with an Introduction to the Ways in which Nature and Art may be linked in Painting, Alternative Publishing Cooperative, Sydney, 1981, pp.xx + 203, $39.95. G.P. Shaw, Patriarch and Patriot: William Grant Broughton 1788–1853 Colonial Statesman and Ecclesiastic, Melbourne University Press, 1978, pp.348, $18.60. Ross Fitzgerald, From the Dreaming to 1915; A History of Queensland, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1982, pp.354, $19.95. Joanna Monie, Victorian History and Politics. European settlement to 1939; a survey of the literature, Borchardt Library, La Trobe University, 1982, pp.689, $27.95. Jurgen Tampke (ed.) Wunderbar Country: Germans Look at Australia 1850–1914, Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1982, pp.223, $24.95, paper $13.95. Denis O'Brien, The Weekly, Penguin, Melbourne, 1982, pp.160, $12.95. Kay Saunders, Workers in Bondage, The Origins and Bases of Unfree Labour in Queensland, 1824–1916, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1982, pp. xx + 213, $29.95. Sydney Labour History Group, What Rough Beast? The State and Social Order in Australian History, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1982, pp.282, S22.50, paper $9.95. Margaret M. Pawsey, The Demon of Discord: Tensions in the Catholic Church in Victoria, 1853–1864, Melbourne University Press, 1982, $19.95. Pauline Kneipp, This Land of Promise, The Ursuline Order in Australia, 1782–1982, University of New England Publishing Unit, Armidale, 1982, pp.156, $16, paper $7.70. Ailsa G. Thomson Zainu'ddin, They Dreamt of a School A Centenary History of Methodist Ladies’ College Kew 1882–1982, Hyland House, Melbourne, 1982, pp.469, $25. Geoffrey Serle, John Monash. A Biography, Melbourne University Press (in association with Monash University), 1982, pp.xvi + 600, $27.50; Bernard Callinan, Sir John Monash, Melbourne University Press, 1981, pp.29, $3.50. R. East (ed.), The Gallipoli Diary of Sergeant Lawrence of the Australian Engineers ‐ 1st A.I.F., 1915, pp.xi + 167, Melbourne University Press, 1981, $15.95. Robert Murray & Kate White, The Ironworkers, A History of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1982, pp.xiii + 341, $24.95, paper $11.95. Judy Mackinolty (ed.) The Wasted Years? Australia's Great Depression, George Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1981, pp.xiii + 273, $18.95, paper $9.95.

Book Review: Law And Order In Australia

Book Review: Law And Order In Australia