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This document details the extensive 'netnography' (Kozinets) conducted by the researcher, liminal (Deegan & Hill) preliminary findings derivative of a reflexive practice in the form of a research journal and critical discourse analysis (Carla Willig) of interviews and conversations and with key figures who provided detailed accounts of the historical, social and political dimensions of BWCs. This full and unabridged background chapter was originally titled 'Chapter 4.0 - Background' chapter, designed for inclusion following the main '2.0 Literature Review' chapter, '3.0 Research Design' chapter and prefacing '4.0 Observational Study' in the PhD thesis 'The Socioethical Implications of Body Worn Cameras: An Ethnographic Study'. The chapter was composed over a two (2) year period it contains the main structural framework and historical premise upon which the main thesis was formed, principally an investigation of the historical precursors to BWCs. Due to the burgeoning scale of the thesis in late 2019, after much angst, in consultation with Supervisor, Professor Katina Michael this intensive write-up was removed to bring the thesis into the acceptable word count for a PhD thesis published through and Engineering and Information Sciences at the University of Wollongong.

Public art in Western Australia has been boosted by the Australian Federal Government's Percent for Art Scheme, which requires one percent of all new construction budgets for new development over $2 million to be spent on artwork. The scheme is a State Government initiative that started in 1989. It is managed by the Department of Finance in partnership with the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries ˗ which is responsible for arts policy in the State. Alexander Hayes provides examples of contemporary works and accounts from professionals in the Arts sector as to what public art work means for the general public. An analysis of these perceptions are comparatively examined, drawing upon the understandings of what constitutes public art from literature written by leaders in this field of endeavour.

". Australia's Aborigines have a 'special relationship with the land', Like most 'primitive' cultures this relationship is symbiotic and requires a particular ideology to sustain it. Compared to the idea of material development and consumerism dominant in western culture this older ideology was, during the modern era of European history, seen as inferior and naive. This lecture will illustrate the complexity and sophistication practised by Palaeolithic and Neolithic cultures; especially in the set of relations associated with the landscape" Goddard, J. (1999 p. 3)

A discussion point, and conversation paper, considering the four (or more) states that humans find themselves being when approaching the contentions of mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19.