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This thesis argues that the work of the artist David McDiarmid is to be read as an enactment of late twentieth century gay male and queer politics. It will analyse how both the idea and the cultural specificity of 'America' impacted on the work of this Australian artist resident in New York from 1979 to 1987. The thesis examines how African American music, The Beats, notions of 'hip' and 'cool', street art and graffiti, the underground dance club Paradise Garage, street cruising and gay male urban culture influenced the sensibility and the materiality of the artist's work. McDiarmid's cultural practice of dress and adornment, it is proposed, forms an essential part of his creative oeuvre and of the 'queer worldmaking' which is the driver of his creative achievements. The thesis proposes that McDiarmid was a Proto-queer artist before the politics of queer emerged in the 1980s and that his work, including his own life-as-art practices of dress and adornment, enact a mobile rather than fixed gay male identity.

An intergovernmental regional economic institution was a common goal of Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, his Office, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and the Japanese Ministry of International Trade Industry (MITI) in the late 1980s. Bob Hawke publicly announced the idea in Seoul in January 1989, but his initiative was backed by a solid foundation of cooperation with Japan. In mid-1988 MITI had floated a proposal for regional meetings of economic ministers and DFAT's strong interest in the idea urged coordination between the two countries. In March 1989 a MITI delegation visited the region to sound out reactions to its proposal and the Hawke initiative, and this laid the groundwork for the Hawke proposal's relatively easy acceptance on the Australian delegation's later visit in April and May. Both countries continued to coordinate their approaches toward the organisation of the first Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Canberra in November 1989. MITI's proposal was eventually subsumed into the Hawke initiative, but MITI believed the successful establishment of APEC amounted to the success of its own proposal. This paper concludes that APEC was a joint enterprise between Japanese and Australian leaders, as had been the case in the establishment of the previous three regional institutions: the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC), the Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) forum and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC).

Argues that stricter enforcement of posted speed limits by using cameras and imposing heavier fines, implemented in several Australian states, has failed to reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents, penalizes safe drivers, and will harm motorists' relations with the police; analyzes British and Australian research data; recommendations.

Examines military policy of fighting wars in the name of the British Empire and in partnership with the US during the Cold War. The arc of islands and air defense, Australian atomic strike force, the Canberra bomber, and atomic weapons, strategy, and planning.

Wahlergebnisse von Wahlen zur obersten Volksvertretung im Jahr 1990 von Australien, Dänemark, Ungarn, der ehemaligen DDR, Österreich und der Tschechoslowakei