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Item Metadata only Building and Maintaining Community Trust in Australia's Primary Industries: Background Literature Review(The Food Values Research Group, The University of Adelaide, 2018) Ankeny, R.; Bray, H.; Phillipov, M.; Buddle, E.; Agrifutures AustraliaAustralia’s primary industries share common risks relating to declining community trust. Decreasing trust can lead to increased regulation, limited market access, disincentives to invest in infrastructure, and reduced industry productivity, profitability, and sustainability. Australia’s RDCs have identified community trust as an essential area for collective investment and research capacity building. This background literature review outlines the evidence that formed the basis of the Research Program Investment Plan. We undertook an extensive review of Australian and relevant international scholarly and industry literature on the food and fibre industries to assess existing knowledge about building and maintaining community trust. We identified significant research gaps that must be addressed before effective intervention strategies can be developed. The review found existing research on community trust in Australia’s primary industries to be surprisingly limited and remarkably siloed. Existing research focuses disproportionately on agriculture, rather than on the broader food and fibre industries, and it tends to examine industries or issues individually, rather considering cross-sectoral challenges or themes. Scholarly and industry research also tends to rely on quantitative methods such as surveys, rather than on qualitative approaches that enable deeper investigation of key issues. As a result, while there have been some efforts to understand issues of importance to the Australian community (i.e., what the community cares about), there has been surprisingly little investigation of why or how these issues become important. Focus on the why and the how is essential for developing cross-sector and whole-of-system strategies that can address specific issues where trust is currently fragile and enable proactive approaches for maintaining trust as new issues emerge.Item Metadata only Precarious Subjects: Picturing Indigenous British Subjecthood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Australia(Taylor & Francis Online, 2023) Nettelbeck, A.Recent discussion in Australia has highlighted how Indigenous citizenship remains troubled by the denial of Indigenous sovereignty. This article takes up a pre-history to these discussions, returning to a transitional period (1830s–1850s) in the Australian colonies when governments worked to activate Indigenous people’s newly-clarified legal status as British subjects. How, in this period, did settler colonial culture envisage Indigenous people’s relation to the law as citizens-to-be of the empire? Focusing particularly upon visual vocabularies of policing and civic order, the article considers how vacillating colonial visions of Indigenous people as ‘new’ British subjects reflected a wider tension between settler culture’s non-recognition of Indigenous law and jurisdiction, and its running disquiet about the insecure terms of British sovereignty.Item Open Access An investigation into 'community expectations' surrounding animal welfare law enforcement in Australia(Frontiers Media S.A., 2022) Morton, R.; Hebart, M.; Ankeny, R.; Whittaker, A.Nature of reform to animal welfare legislation in Australia has commonly been attributed to increasing alignment with the ‘communities’ expectations’, implying that the community has power in driving legislative change. Yet, despite this assertion there has been no publicly available information disclosing the nature of these ‘expectations’, or the methodology used to determine public stance. However, based on previous sociological research, as well as legal reforms that have taken place to increase maximum penalties for animal welfare offences, it is probable that the community expects harsher penalties for offences. Using representative sampling of the Australian public, this study provides an assessment of current community expectations of animal welfare law enforcement. A total of 2152 individuals participated in the survey. There was strong support for sentences for animal cruelty being higher in magnitude (50% support). However, a large proportion (84%) were in favour of alternate penalties such as prohibiting offenders from owning animals in the future. There was also a belief that current prosecution rates were too low with 80% of respondents agreeing to this assertion. Collectively, this suggests a greater support for preventing animal cruelty through a stronger enforcement model rather than punishing animal cruelty offenders through harsher sentences. This potentially indicates a shift in public opinion towards a more proactive approach to animal welfare, rather than a reactive approach to animal cruelty.Item Restricted 'Croatians in South Australia: Community and Identity Since 1945'(2018) Drapac, V.; Dzino, A.; Heruc, M.; Hrstic, I.; Klaric, K.; Sullivan, N.Item Restricted Community Attitudes toward Gene Editing in the Red Meat Sector(Meat and Livestock Australia, 2022) Ankeny, R.; Bray, H.; Paxton, R.; Meat and Livestock Australia Ltd.This study was conducted to better understand the diversity of community and producer attitudes toward the use of gene editing in red meat production, and to explore the drivers and implications of these attitudes for community engagement on this topic. The purpose of the research was both to better understand how and why Australians hold particular views on the use of gene editing in meat production and, through such understanding, to develop a set of best practice guidelines for community engagement on this topic. To achieve the research objectives, we conducted a mixed qualitative and quantitative study which consisted of a series of community focus groups, stakeholder interviews, and a producer survey, which helped inform a subsequent large-scale community survey. As a result, we identified five community discourses on gene editing, which were partly associated with general views on livestock production and technological innovation. We also explored key issues related to community trust and proposed best practice guidelines for engaging members of the community about gene editing. The results of this research will assist MLA in responding to the public’s hopes for and concerns about the use of gene editing in livestock production.Item Open Access Focus groups on consumers' responses to the use of New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) in food production(Food Standards Australia & New Zealand, 2021) Ankeny, R.; Harms, R.; Food Standards Australia New ZealandItem Metadata only Forgotten Women: Remembering"“Unsupported" Migrant Mothers in Post-World War II Australia(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Agutter, K.M.; Kevin, C.; Darian-Smith, K.; Hamilton, P.Oral history is a crucial tool for social historians; however, its application may be limited for discovering those who have lived with multiple and intersecting disadvantages. This chapter examines the methods used to explore the migration experiences of female displaced persons to Australia (1947–1953) with a particular focus on unmarried and widowed mothers. We argue that while Sophia Turkiewicz’s auto/biographical film Once My Mother brings the memories of the migration experiences of these so-called unsupported mothers to a wider public audience, it also suggests a larger, neglected story and raises questions for scholars of migration which can only be pursued through the use of multiple and varied sources in order to piece together a fuller, more intersectional, history and collective remembering.Item Metadata only Whisperings of wilderness in Australian centenary landscapes(Terra Foundation for American Art, 2020) Speck, C.M.; Read, R.; Haltman, K.Item Metadata only Paris Calls(Bendigo Art Gallery, 2020) Speck, C.M.; Curtin, P.Item Metadata only The intellectual world of Catholic piety(Routledge, 2020) Walker, C.I.; Capern, A.L.This chapter examines the importance of books, reading and writing for Catholic women after the Reformation. Women who were believed to be naturally inferior to men might do great things for God through the twin virtues of humility and courage. The chapter considers the textual engagements that informed early-modern Catholic women's piety. It draws particularly upon the experience of those from England's Catholic minority whose reading and writing practices traversed subjects and centuries from biblical times to their own, and which inevitably drew upon the rich spiritual material of reformed Catholicism, but places this material in a European context. The chapter examines variety of ways in which women engaged in the intellectual world of Catholic piety. The intellectual world inhabited by the nuns, connected often by correspondence and the exchange of pious texts with their families, church authorities and secular rulers, equipped them for engagement with religious and secular politics in the world outside convent walls.Item Metadata only The early modern family(Routledge, 2020) Barclay, K.E.; French, A.Instead, this book reveals a more intricately detailed character of the early modern child and how childhood was viewed and experienced.Item Metadata only Protective governance and legal order on the colonial frontier(Routledge, 2020) Nettelbeck, A.; Furphy, S.; Nettelbeck, A.The concept of protective governance that shaped British colonial policy towards indigenous people from the 1830s is often regarded as having its greatest expression in the 1837 report of the Select Committee on Aborigines, which carried forward the reformist energy of the abolitionist era and re-centred it on Indigenous people. But the program of protection that came to focus on Indigenous people in this decade did not just emerge from a humanitarian agenda, nor did it originate with abolitionism in the British Empire. Rather, protection carries a much longer and more complex history as an instrument of imperial governance, as a growing body of recent scholarship explores. This chapter situates the place of Aboriginal protection programs in the Antipodean colonies within this wider history of governance. While the first colonial Protectors of Aborigines have most often been remembered for their immersion in the ‘civilising mission,’ they were also legal officials, usually empowered as magistrates so that they could represent the reach of law and the presence of good government on unstable colonial frontiers.Item Metadata only Protecting the protectors: evaluating the agency of missionary-protectors in the newly formed settlements of Adelaide and Melbourne, 1838-1840(Routledge, 2020) Krichauff, S.M.; Furphy, S.; Nettelbeck, A.Item Metadata only Mary Beale: pioneer of portraiture(National Gallery of Victoria, 2020) Mansfield, L.; Aitken, A.; Crombie, I.; Patty, M.; Quirk, M.; Russell-Cook, M.Each essay in the volume examines one or a group of works held by the NGV, focussing on the way artists and designers have used image, colour, text, symbols and medium in response to changing paradigms of gender, feminism and political ...Item Metadata only Mobile emotions: Bigamy and community in Scotland, 1660-1830(Routledge, 2020) Barclay, K.E.; Barclay, K.; Meek, J.; Thomson, A.That emotion is a spatial phenomenon, constructed through material conditions and physical boundaries and specific to particular locations, is now widely accepted, following the work of Henri Lefebvre. Yet, the implications of this claim for our understanding of historical emotions are understudied. This chapter explores the relationship between community, marital breakdown and mobility, asking how paying attention to emotion might aid interpretation of this phenomenon. Looking through the lens of emotional experience enables a rethinking of why bigamous men are mobile; it locates the mechanism by which marriage embedded people into communities and through which marital breakdown disintegrated those ties.Item Metadata only Marriage and emotion in historical context(Routledge, 2020) Barclay, K.E.; Meek, J.; Thomson, A.; Barclay, K.; Meek, J.; Thomson, A.Marriage has been one of the central locations where historians have explored emotion. Approaches from the history of emotions, however, have illuminated intimate relationships from new perspectives, explaining gender relations, power and everyday experiences. This introduction surveys the historiography of courtship, marriage, marital breakdown and emotion, discusses some of the critical new methodologies emerging from the history of emotions, and highlights the contribution the chapters in this collection make to this discussion.Item Metadata only Frontier violence in the nineteenth-century British Empire(Cambridge University Press, 2020) Nettelbeck, A.E.; Ryan, L.; Edwards, L.; Penn, N.; Winter, J.Item Metadata only Intersectional identities(Routledge, 2020) Barclay, K.; Crozier-De-Rosa, S.; Barclay, K.; Crozier-De-Rosa, S.; Stearns, P.Item Metadata only Illegitimacy(Routledge, 2020) Barclay, K.E.; French, A.This chapter begins with a discussion of how illegitimacy was defined and discussed in early modern Europe, before exploring how children were cared for both within families and institutions. It highlights how attitudes towards illegitimacy interacted with social practice to shape the world of the illegitimate child. Illegitimacy was not particularly unusual between 1400 and 1700, with between one and five per cent of births occurring outside wedlock in Europe across the period. For some historians, the stigma of illegitimacy and its implications has been overstated. The late medieval Church’s response to illegitimacy reflected not only a desire to encourage chastity amongst the population, but reflected competing ideas about the inheritance of sin amongst theologians. Children born within such relationships did not have the same legal status as a legitimate child, but were generally raised within or alongside the family, receiving education, training, affection and care.Item Metadata only Exploring the migrant experience through an examination of letters to The New Australian(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) Agutter, K.M.; Dewhirst, C.; Scully, R.In January 1949, the Australian Department of Immigration commenced publication of a monthly newspaper The New Australian. This new bulletin, aimed specifically at European migrants, and Displaced Persons (DPs) in particular, was produced in simple English primarily as an aid to assimilation. Regular features included English language lessons, information about the Australian way of life, and the “Write to us” column. For many migrants the opportunity to “write to us” provided a means to garner information and to express, often desperately, their current circumstances. Through an examination of the original migrant letters, and the government responses to them, this chapter will explore these migrant voices and what they contribute to our knowledge of the post-war European migrant experience within the Australian context.