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This thesis focuses on the Australian Defence Force's need for credible analytical advice to inform decisions associated with selecting military capability. Current data-collection practices often lack flexibility and adaptability to cope with the challenges of a military operational environment. The diverse and dynamic nature of the environment results in limited data-collection opportunities and barriers to identifying and locating appropriate data. Within this environment, time constraints, difficulties in interpreting the battle space and the limitations on the ability to apply the usual scientific control act as impediments to collecting credible data. This research puts forward a new approach to overcome these deficiencies by identifying and targeting key issues for assessment and accommodation of data collection from various perspectives. This approach combines the unique perspectives of military knowledge and analytical rigour as part of the data-collection process which is key to establishing data credibility in complex and dynamic environments. The approach provides a value-adding environment linking data credibility and relevance to enhanced analytical focus and improved navigation of the complex environment. I use a series of ecologically valid case studies to demonstrate military data collectors' experiences of using the approach. In these case studies, data capture occurs as part of military operational deployments and field training exercises using multiple case studies incorporating mixed-methods for data collection and analysis. This enables the thesis to focus on the central research question: "How can data credibility be established in a military operational environment?" This thesis makes a significant contribution to understanding and assessing the concept of data credibility and the process of collecting of credible data in military operational capability evaluations; it identifies the factors that affect data credibility and the influences on data collection during capability evaluation in ...

This paper is based on fieldwork undertaken in conjunction with Green My Favela, a land use restoration project that works with informal and vulnerable income sector residents to reclaim chronically degraded public areas by creating gardens inside the urban favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The paper reveals how government intervention policies employed in the lead up to the 2016 Olympics are destabilizing the fragile social fabric of the city's largest favela, Rocinha, through military occupation and urbanization activities that threaten an already low and unstable human security threshold. ; Arts, Education & Law Group, Queensland College of Art ; Full Text

Although health surveillance in schools is not a new phenomenon, surveillance has arguably intensified in the contemporary historical moment. As individuals and professional collectivities coalesce around the concern for youth health, surveillant mechanisms proliferate within the educational context. In this article, I critically examine the "Youth Health Survey" (YHS) administered in Manitoba (Canada), to illustrate how youth health is deployed as a mechanism for engaging inter- and intraprofessional knowledge in tightening the biopedagogical discourse surrounding youth health. In Manitoba, these biopedagogical networks and lessons arise from the body data gathered through the surveillant mechanism of the YHS resulting in the formation of public partnerships, resource sharing, and collaborative approaches to intervene in youth lives, both inside and outside the school, forming a "surveillant assemblage" of youth health. Using qualitative data from interview and focus groups with health professionals and education specialists, I illustrate how an ever-tightening web of professional networks invested in shaping the future of youth lives connect through the development and deployment of a health surveillance tool.

This paper examines female shareholdings in Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales. Existing descriptions of colonial women have portrayed them generally as domestic servants, farmhands, prostitutes or wives and mothers, rather than as businesswomen or investors. But by 1823 the number of female shareholders represented 31 per cent, almost one-third, of total shareholders. Nevertheless, it seems that women were unable to take advantage of this potentially powerful position. Although they were allowed proxy votes, these could only be exercised by male shareholders. Thus, male shareholders acquired extra voting power through use of female shareholders' proxies, and seemingly employed the extra votes particularly when there were crucial or 'political decisions to be made.

This paper examines female shareholdings in Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales. Existing descriptions of colonial women have portrayed them generally as domestic servants, farmhands, prostitutes or wives and mothers, rather than as businesswomen or investors. But by 1823 the number of female shareholders represented 31 per cent, almost one-third, of total shareholders. Nevertheless, it seems that women were unable to take advantage of this potentially powerful position. Although they were allowed proxy votes, these could only be exercised by male shareholders. Thus, male shareholders acquired extra voting power through use of female shareholders' proxies, and seemingly employed the extra votes particularly when there were crucial or 'political decisions to be made.

The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration is concerned with the various relationships between migration, crime and victimization that have informed a wide criminological scholarship often driven by some of the original lines of inquiry of the Chicago School. Historically, migration and crime came to be the device by which Criminology and cognate fields sought to tackle issues of race and ethnicity, often in highly problematic ways. However, in the contemporary period this body of scholarship is inspiring scholars to produce significant evidence that speaks to some of the biggest public policy questions and debunks many dominant mythologies around the criminality of migrants. The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration is also concerned with the theoretical, empirical and policy knots found in the relationship between regular and irregular migration, offending and victimization, the processes and impact of criminalization, and the changing role of criminal justice systems in the regulation and enforcement of international mobility and borders. The Handbook is focused on the migratory fault lines between the Global North and Global South, which have produced new or accelerated sites of state control, constructed irregular migration as a crime and security problem, and mobilized ideological and coercive powers usually reserved for criminal or military threats. Offering a strong international focus and comprehensive coverage of a wide range of border, criminal justice and migration-related issues, this book is an important contribution to criminology and migration studies and will be essential reading for academics, students and practitioners interested in this field.

With the German invasion of Belgium on 4 August 1914, Britain was given a noble cause. Not only had the Germans apparently violated an international treaty in their invasion of neutral land, but according to press reports they were showing no remorse as they committed alleged acts of atrocity upon the innocent nation. As the press justified the war in terms of the sanctity of the law and the safety of civilians, Britain's involvement became difficult to dispute. The invasion of Belgium merged parliamentary and press support for the war and provided the two with a powerful tool that they fully intended to exploit. This article argues that because of Britain's vast machinery for the production and distribution of propaganda, visual representations of the German invasion of Belgium had ramifications for the way that the meaning of the war was addressed to the British public. The plight of Belgium featured prominently in the British press during the first few months of war. Visual propaganda from both public and private concerns used rhetorical frameworks of national loyalty, gender and the family to manipulate public opinion. War advertising was instrumental in providing a link between the state and the masses. Also used by charities and other interest groups, it was perceived as a crucial and effective link to the public. Drawing from a collection of war advertising held at the Imperial War Museum, the author traces the way that both public and private concerns targeted the wave of 'Belgianitis' that was spreading across Britain at the time of their production, notably to justify and garner support for the war, to raise funds and promote recruitment.

While many scholars have commented on the rise of consumer finance, few have sought to critically explore a largely invisible segment of this industry: the multi-billion dollar consumer data broker industry. The industry has amassed trillions of digital consumer records, or 'big data', that are stockpiled, analyzed, and sold. The odious under-regulation of this industry, as well as the role it plays in consumer debt and data breaches, often flies under the radar of critical social analyses. I adopt a neo-Gramscian approach to make sense of the material, historical, and social dimensions of this phenomenon. This article asks: what are the sources and nature of this industry's power, and how does it relate to consumer debt? The analysis suggests that these systems demonstrate how financial capital can constitute certain domains of public policy.