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    Commonwealth administrative tribunals.
    (1969-12) Commonwealth administrative tribunals.
    The twentieth century has witnessed many remarkable developments, but one of the most noteworthy is the extent to vhich society has become more complex and organised
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    Cumulate rocks of the Luxmore complex, Fiordland, New Zealand petrology and geochemistry
    (2000-01) O'Neill, Cameron
    This report presents detailed petrological and geochemical observations of the cumulate rocks of the Luxmore Complex (LC) with an introductory examination of dioritic and granitic rocks to the west of Mt. Luxmore. The cumulate rocks of the LC form an elongate body with a rough concentric zonation from ultramafic rocks to altered gabbroic rocks. This zonation is supported by a mineral and whole rock (Bulk MgO#) chemical traverse through the complex. The cumulate rocks are divided into the Ultramafic-mafic Series and the Gabbro Series. The rocks of the Ultramafic-mafic Series are plagioclase- and amphibole bearing, and are characterised by significant locallised heterogeneity at outcrop and microscopic scale. This heterogeneity is mostly defined by the abundances of cumulus and postcumulus plagioclase and amphibole relative to olivine. Plagioclase-rich layers in the ultramafic-mafic cumulates, with diffuse and poorly formed margins, are interpreted as injection layering. These features, and thenumerous plagioclase-cumulate pods, sills and veins are best explained by the injection of an aluminous basaltic magma into the main ultramafic body before it had consolidated. A plug-like outcrop of dioritic gabbro is considered further evidence for multiple intrusions during the emplacement of the LC. The apparent complexity of the LC is evidence for complicated and multi-event crystallisation histones within sub-volcanic plumbing systems. Fine-grained mafic sills consisting of amphibole, plagioclase, clinopyroxene, olivine and chrome spinel are interpreted as the products of quenched water-saturated melt expelled from the mam cumulate body during cooling. The presence of olivine, chrome spinel, plagioclase and clinopyroxene in the cumulate rocks indicates that they were emplaced from the crystallisation of basaltic magma/s. The proposed crystallisation sequence is olivine + chrome-spinel > plagioclase + Fe-Ti oxides > clinopyroxene > orthopyroxene > amphibole. Magma composition, pressure/temperature and water content mostly drove this crystallisation sequence. The observed crystallisation of plagioclase before clinopyroxene in the Luxmore cumulates is indicative of crystallisation at moderate pressure (0.5-0.8 GPa) and water content, based on a review of experimental results in the literature. The presence of multi-phase coronas, consisting of orthopyroxene, amphibole and spinel, also roughly constrains the depth of emplacement of the Luxmore cumulates to 0.5-0.8 GPa (18-24 km depth). Plagioclase compositions are irratic, particularly in the orthocumulate rocks. This includes fluctuating An% within individual samples, mostly in the range An85-94, and increasingly calcic grain rims adjacent to postcumulus or secondary amphibole. This is likely the result of fluids percolating through the cumulus pile proceeding crystallisation. From the elevated abundances of residual postcumulus amphibole combined with the observed hydrothermal alteration of the later formed rocks, manifested by partial to complete replacement of mafic phases by palegreen amphibole, it is interpreted that the amount of water interacting with the cumulates markedly increased during crystallisation. The range of olivine compositions (F070-81) is low compared to primitive mantle-derived ultramafic rocks and it is suggested that the parent magma was already considerably evolved before emplacement of the exposed cumulate outcrop. The compositions of co-existing olivine and plagioclase from the ultramafic-mafic cumulates is consistent with emplacement of the LC in an arc setting. Clinopyroxene compositions reflect low titanium relative to aluminium, another general characteristic or arc magmas. Electron microprobe analyses of chrome spinel inclusions within olivine indicate that two distinct types of spinel are present within individual grains: an aluminous phase and a Fe +-rich phase, both contain similar amounts of chrome (wt%). Plotted on a spinel tetrahedron, these two compositions representunmixing of an original spinel composition along a compositionally defined solvus. The incorporation of a Fe + -rich phase into the spinel structure is interpreted as evidence for oxidising conditions in the parent magma. The eventual unmixing of the two compositions is likely to have been promoted by prolonged cooling at low (sub solidus) temperatures at moderate depths in the crust. Homogenised spinel separate compositions plot within the spinel solvus, indicating that the end members are formed from compositional unmixing of one original phase. Calculations for oxygen fugacity using olivine and homogenised spinel separates indicate the conditions of crystallisation were oxidising relative to the fayalitemagnetite- quartz (FMQ) buffer. Olivine-spinel temperature calculations indicate sub solidus re-equilibration. Two-pyroxene thermometry applied to pyroxene-bearing rocks also indicates sub-solidus pyroxene re-equilibration temperatures in the range 900-950°C. Combined amphibole-plagioclase thermometry and Al-in-amphibole barometry indicate that quartz-diorite adjacent to the cumulate rocks was emplaced at pressures of 0.35 GPa at 690°C. This point lies on the experimentally tested wet tonalite solidus indicating it is an accurate pressure estimate. Combined with field observations, the pressure estimates are indicative that the cumulate rocks of the LC were tectonically emplaced into the dioritic and granitic rocks to the west of Mt. Luxmore. It is interpreted here that the cumulate rocks of the LC represent a dismembered portion of a much larger system and any definitive size estimates would be speculative. It is also interpreted that within this system, the crystallisation sequence (as observed in the cumulate rocks) may have in part been responsible for the derivation of dioritic and tonalitic magmas that rose to higher levels in the crust. However, from this study, no direct link can be drawn between the cumulate rocks and the dioritic, tonalitic and granitic rocks to the west of Mt. Luxmore. Whole rock Pt-Pd-Au analyses fail to reveal any anomalies, but moderate to high background Cu levels in the Gabbro Series cumulates indicate that these rocks may be the source for Cu mineralisation in minor carbonate breccias throughout the LC. Trace element chemistry of fine-grained mafic sills is indicative of an arc setting and that the cumulate parent magma was generated by low degrees of partial melting of a moderately depleted mantle source. The mafic sill trace element patterns display moderate incompatible element enrichment, a feature of ‘medium-K’ arc magmas. Depletion of HREE in the mafic sill, phenocryst and calculated melt REE patterns, indicates that partial melting occurred in the presence of a phase with Dhree > 1 such as clinopyroxene or garnet. The trace element patterns for the dioritic and granitic rocks also display an arc signature, particularly the enrichment of large-ion lithophile elements and depletion of high field strength elements relative to MORB. The trace element patterns of the Luxmore mafic sills, and many other petrological/geochemical features of the cumulate rocks, display strong similarities with other cumulate complexes from the South Island. Cumulate phenocryst trace-element patterns prove these similarities, indicating a similar source and setting, possibly the same arc system. It is interpreted that these cumulate complexes represent the root zone of an arc system active throughout the Triassic and Jurassic.
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    Discovery of the Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Changes During Retinal Degeneration
    (2026) Liu, Lixinyu
    Spatial transcriptomics, awarded Nature's Method of the Year 2020, has enabled high-resolution investigation of gene expression in intact tissues. Despite its rapid adoption in various biological fields, the spatial and molecular underpinnings of retinal degeneration, particularly age-related macular degeneration (AMD), remain incompletely understood. This thesis applies spatial transcriptomics to study the cellular and regional mechanisms of retinal degeneration across five projects in six chapters. The first project constructs a high-resolution spatial atlas of the healthy mouse eye. The second investigates transcriptional responses to photo-oxidative damage (PD). The third explores alternative polyadenylation (APA) as a post-transcriptional regulator. Later chapters extend spatial transcriptomic techniques to the mouse intestine and brain. Project 1 (Chapter II): Spatial Atlas of the Mouse Eye This chapter presents the first comprehensive spatial transcriptomic atlas of the healthy mouse eye using Stereo-seq and Visium. It maps key compartments - retina, cornea, lens, iris, and sclera - and introduces Eyelocator, a tool linking single-cell transcriptomes to spatial coordinates. Findings include molecular layer definitions in the retina, evidence of regenerative signatures in the cornea, and transcriptional gradients in the lens. Project 2 (Chapter III): Spatial Transcriptomics in Retinal Degeneration Using a PD model, this project identifies a superior retinal hotspot with heightened expression of inflammatory and angiogenic genes. Spatial profiling reveals region-specific immune responses, with VEGF and novel pathways (pleiotrophin, midkine) implicated in vascular remodeling. This study provides new targets for therapy and advances our spatial understanding of retinal disease. Project 3 (Chapter IV): Spatial APA in Degeneration This study characterizes spatial APA changes using a custom bioinformatics pipeline. It reveals a superior-inferior "APA seesaw" with reciprocal 3'UTR changes across retinal zones. APA remodeling affects genes involved in visual signaling, autophagy, and immune modulation. Photoreceptors exhibit light-responsive APA patterns, suggesting a role for APA in retinal stress regulation. Together, these findings advance our spatial understanding of transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation in retinal degeneration and identify APA as a potential therapeutic target.
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    Remaking renewable energy in the Blue Pacific
    Temby, Hugo
    Energy shapes contemporary worlds and future possibilities yet is largely invisible. Its management has become a pressing concern for policymakers who, in the face of worsening climate change, are engineering an urgent transition to renewable energy without always weighing benefits against costs. In the Blue Pacific, governments have set a series of ambitious renewables targets that have proved difficult to deliver. Yet their attempts - through large-scale projects financed by global capital, accompanied by energy sector marketisation - entail profound political, cultural and practical consequences. The social dimensions of renewable energy, meanwhile, like other aspects of climate mitigation, are understudied. While two research traditions, one broadly materialist, the other idealist, have provided important critiques and alternative framings of renewables over several decades, these have not engaged meaningfully with the Pacific. Nor have they attended closely to the practices of renewable energy professionals, the heterogeneous elites we might consider 'the unacknowledged legislators of our technological age' (Winner 1990:59). Laura Nader once asked, in an earlier ([1981] 2010:200) ethnography of energy professionals, 'What do people think is possible? Why are people so tightly constrained?' I ask similar questions here of the energy professionals working in the Pacific, before asking how projects might be approached differently, to better support Pacific priorities. In so doing, I draw on older and more recent scholarly traditions, including Pacific decolonial theory, framing contests, serious games, and plenary design. Data are drawn from three case studies, which I shadowed as a participant observer over 12 months in 2023: (1) a regional energy policy conference in Vanuatu; (2) a large, donor-funded electric transport project in Samoa; and (3) a smaller, Pacific-led effort to develop an alternative battery chemistry in Samoa. These case studies are supplemented by interviews with 20 regional energy experts between 2023 and 2025 and a close reading of more than 40 energy policy documents over a similar period. I make three overall findings. First, practitioners are actively contesting hegemonic and harmful approaches to renewable energy in the region through various techniques of resistant and re-existent reframing. Second, reframing efforts can be understood as moves in wider serious games. While some of these games reproduce modernist policy hauntologies (Lea 2020), others prefigure an alternative, more caring approach to renewables implementation. Third, antihegemonic and more equitable renewables projects are already being designed and delivered in the Pacific. These projects are underpinned by inclusive cosmologies, expansive conceptions of sustainability, and fresh approaches to resourcing, governance, and delivery. Such approaches include plenary practice traditions of contextualising, including and connecting. My findings provide a deeper understanding of renewables implementation 'on island'. They contribute to debates over meaning-making and the limits of agency. Finally, they offer several pointers towards more inclusive Pacific energy futures.
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    Genomic Determinants of Cardiometabolic Traits in South Australian Aboriginal Communities
    Godwin, Samuel
    Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading contributor to the mortality gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians, with events occurring 10-20 years earlier and mortality rates approximately 1.5 times higher. While social determinants substantially drive these disparities, the contribution of genetic factors has remained unexplored due to the underrepresentation of Aboriginal people in genomic research. Underrepresentation creates direct barriers to precision medicine, as variant interpretation algorithms, polygenic risk scores (PRS), and clinical genomics tools developed predominantly in European populations perform poorly when applied to populations with diverse genetic ancestries. Aim: This thesis investigates whether genomics can improve the understanding and prediction of coronary heart disease for Aboriginal people, addressing a critical gap in Indigenous health research. Methods: The Predicting Renal, Ophthalmic and Heart Events in the Aboriginal Community (PROPHECY) study enrolled 1,376 Aboriginal people living in South Australia with comprehensive phenotyping for type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and cardiometabolic risk factors. Whole-genome sequencing for 1,231 participants generated the largest Aboriginal genomic dataset to date. Analyses included characterisation of population genetic diversity and comparison with global reference databases; the first systematic screening of 72 monogenic cardiovascular disease genes for loss-of-function variants in Aboriginal people; the first genome-wide association study of 14 cardiometabolic traits under additive and recessive inheritance models with local ancestry inference for Aboriginal peoples; and evaluation of clinical risk prediction tools and polygenic risk scores for coronary heart disease. Results: Approximately 24% of the genetic variants identified in South Australian Aboriginal communities were absent from gnomAD, the world's largest genomic reference database, demonstrating substantial underrepresentation with direct clinical implications for variant interpretation. Screening of monogenic cardiovascular disease genes identified 35 high-confidence loss-of-function variants across 17 genes, with 37% of these variants absent from global databases. Ten variants with pathogenic classifications span conditions including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome, and familial hypercholesterolaemia. Genome-wide association analyses identified 13 genome-wide significant and 5 suggestive associations with cardiometabolic traits, including strong signals at LPA and APOE loci, with 10 associations detected exclusively under recessive inheritance models. Current clinical risk calculators showed only moderate discrimination for prevalent coronary heart disease (AUC 0.77 to 0.81), with substantial underperformance in adults under 40 years. PRS demonstrated independent predictive value, with combined clinical-genetic models achieving superior performance and moderate-risk reclassification strategies yielding net reclassification improvement of 35% to 55% for males and females, respectively. Conclusions: Aboriginal communities in Australia possess a unique genomic architecture shaped by over 50,000 years of evolutionary history, with substantial variation invisible to current clinical databases. This thesis establishes foundational resources for precision medicine equity, demonstrating that monogenic cardiovascular disease variants are present in Aboriginal communities, that both shared and population-specific genetic architecture underlie cardiometabolic traits, and that genetic information can improve cardiovascular risk prediction where clinical tools underperform. Conducted under Aboriginal governance and aligned with Indigenous data sovereignty principles, this work provides a model for ethical genomic research that advances both scientific knowledge and health equity.
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    Protector, Partner, Powerbroker: Turkey's Smart Power in the Arab Region Post-2011
    (2026) Al Bostanji, Khalid
    Abstract This thesis examines how Turkey sought to reconfigure its role in the Arab world in ten years that followed the Arab Uprisings through the deployment of 'smart power', the strategic fusion of military, economic, diplomatic, and identity-based resources. Moving beyond conventional analyses that focus on Ankara's hard power interventions or soft power branding alone, the thesis argues that Turkey's regional strategy is best understood as an adaptive, narrative driven project shaped by domestic politics, regime legitimacy, and shifting regional alignments after the Uprisings. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of primary sources, including Turkish foreign ministry statements, speeches by President Erdogan, policy documents, media outputs, and regional surveys, the study identifies how Turkey constructed different identity roles and threat discourses to justify and operationalise its engagement across the region. Four case studies illustrate the variations and limits of Turkey's smart power: Palestine, Libya, Syria and Iraq, and the GCC or Arabian Peninsula. The Palestine case demonstrates how Ankara mobilises religious identity and protector narratives to project moral authority and claim leadership of the post-Ottoman space. The Libya case highlights Turkey's use of coercive military technological capacity alongside diplomatic initiatives to influence post-conflict outcomes. In Syria and Iraq, threat politics surrounding Kurdish autonomy and refugee flows drive a predominantly security centred strategy. Finally, in the Gulf, economic vulnerability and regional isolation push Ankara towards pragmatic normalisation and securitisation of economic interdependence. Through these cases, the thesis argues that Turkey's smart power is neither consistent nor uniformly effective. Rather, it is contingent, relational, and deeply shaped by narrative framing. Understanding this interplay between identity, discourse, and power provides a more coherent explanation of Turkey's evolving regional posture and its aspirations for influence in the Arab world.
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    Understanding the implementation of green innovation: From concept to practice
    (2026) Qin, Xiangru
    The escalating climate crisis and ongoing environmental degradation have intensified the need to implement innovation for the environment. Green innovation is a new or improved product, service, or management process that mitigates environmental harm while fostering economic growth. Despite growing interest in green innovation, its implementation remains challenging. Many promising ideas exist but most of them fail to be implemented into practice. This is because the distinctive nature of green innovation implementation (GII) remains largely vague in concepts and requires more empirical exploration. Therefore, this thesis aims to advance existing knowledge on GII by examining who implements it, how they do it, and what its impact is. It comprises three interconnected studies: a systematic literature review and two qualitative empirical studies. Study 1 clarifies the concept of GII through a systematic literature review that synthesises existing knowledge on the practitioners, antecedents, process and impacts of GII. It establishes a conceptual foundation for this thesis by identifying characteristics that distinguish GII from traditional innovation implementation. Additionally, it identifies relatively underexplored research areas such as micro-level practitioners and the implementation of non-technological innovation. In doing so, Study 1 informs the focus of two subsequent empirical studies on frontline employees and green service innovation. Study 2 explores how frontline employees implement green service innovation by focusing on the temporal challenges that emerge when GII become entrained with established service rhythms. These challenges arise from the long-term process of GII, the multitasking demands of frontline work, and the real-time, perishable nature of service innovation. The study identifies intra-entrainment challenges, where green practices disrupt internal task coordination, and extra-entrainment challenges, where employees must align green innovation with external rhythms such as customer routines and reusable material circulation. In response, frontline employees use navigation strategies to coordinate green practices within everyday service work. Study 3 investigates the impact of implementing green service innovation on the working experiences of frontline employees. GII is a recursive process, where early implementation influences future practices. This study reveals that GII can generate unintended ethical impacts on frontline employees through interpersonal interactions with customers, co-workers and managers. Furthermore, this study identifies four key constraints--perceived inability, obligations, powerlessness, and reluctance--that limit frontline employees' ability to address these ethical issues, potentially reducing their engagement in subsequent implementation. Theoretically, this thesis contributes to the innovation management literature by conceptualising GII as a distinctive strategic process and highlighting the active role of employees. Through empirical explorations, it advances understanding of green service innovation by revealing how interpersonal interactions influence GII on the frontline. Practically, this thesis suggests a more nuanced, employee-centred approach to implementing green service innovation and encourages regulators to support GII through environmental education and financial incentives that leverage employee creativity and agency. Overall, this thesis establishes a solid conceptual foundation and presents empirical evidence for further scholarly inquiry into GII, thereby opening avenues for both theoretical advancement and practical application toward a more sustainable future.
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    Custody of children in Australia
    (1972-02) Geddes, Robert S.
    This thesis is written with the objects of sketching a general outline of the law of custody of children in Australia and of suggesting ways in which the law could be improved.
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    Control of international child abduction in Australian law
    (1990-12) Clarke, Ian Thomas Keith.
    This dissertation addresses only International child abduction. International abduction of children by parents is essentially a custody dispute carried across national boundaries.
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    Complaints against police : legislation and issues in Australia
    (1986-09) Pidgeon, Sue.
    Legislation governing the handling of complaints against police is a relatively new phenomenon in common law countries.
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    A critical evaluation of the scope and policy of section 26 (a) of the Income Tax Assessment Act, 1936 - 1972
    (1973) Sweeney, Charles AugustineSweeney, C. A. |q (Charles Augustine),
    For forty-two years the Income Tax Assessment Act has contained a provision similar to section 26(a) of the present Act.
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    The concept of preferential fishing rights in international law
    (1983-08) Gosselin, James.
    One of the most significant components of the regime negotiated at the Third United Nations on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) was that relating to the exploitation and conservation of living marine resources.
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    Countertrade : some issues in contracting, with particular reference to Australia and the Asian Pacific region
    (1988-09) Wedutenko, Alexandra Carmel Mary.
    This paper will outline some of the legal and financial aspects of constructing a countertrade transaction. Reference will also be made to government countertrade, both 'mandated' and 'invited'.
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    A critical comparison of the United States/Canada free trade agreement and the Australia/New Zealand services protocol as they apply to cross border data flows
    (1991-02) Lennard, Michael.
    On the first of January 1989 two international agreements dealing with trade in services came into force. One was the United States/Canada Free Trade Agreement ("the Free Trade Agreement")* - which deals with goods as well as services.
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    The common heritage of mankind : development of a concept
    (1984-01) Grinberg, Jaque.
    At the basis of international law lies the notion that a state occupies a definite part of the surface of the earth/ within which it normally exercises/ subject to the limitations imposed by international law/ jurisdiction over persons and things to the exclusion of the jurisdiction of other states.
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    An analysis of the liability of the United Kingdom government under international law for damage arising from atomic weapons tests conducted by the United Kingdon in Australia at Emu and the Monte Bello Islands
    (1987-08) Nethery, David A.
    In the early hours of the morning of 3 October 1952 the United Kingdom carried out its first atomic weapons test in Australia.
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    Transnational Networks and South Korea's Pro-Democracy Movement: Japan-Based Advocacy and the Letters from South Korea Project under Yusin
    (2026) Whitney, Younghye
    This thesis examines the transnational activist networks that sustained South Korea's pro-democracy movement, with a particular focus on the 1970s Yusin period and the Letters from South Korea series published in the Japanese intellectual magazine, Sekai. While the study traces antecedent networks from before the 1960s and follows their later reconfiguration into the 1980s, its central focus is the period of intensified repression under Park Chung Hee's Yusin regime, when domestic avenues for dissent were sharply repressed, and overseas channels became increasingly important. Focusing on Chi Myong-gwan and the intellectual, Christian, and civil society networks that operated in and through Japan, this thesis argues that transnational advocacy networks were not merely conduits for conveying information about repression to overseas audiences. Rather, they helped sustain South Korea's pro-democracy movement by preserving, translating, framing, and circulating oppositional voices beyond the reach of the authoritarian state, while also providing moral, material, and organisational support to activists under repression. These networks were underpinned by long-standing relationships of trust and solidarity that predated the most visible moments of mobilisation. Drawing on archival research in Korea and Japan, personal papers, published and unpublished writings, and oral history interviews, the thesis reconstructs the origins, structure, and influence of these networks. It shows how earlier intellectual and religious linkages, including the legacy of the intellectual magazine Sasangge and Korean - Japanese Christian cooperation, provided antecedent networks that were consciously repurposed after domestic avenues for dissent were suppressed under Park Chung Hee's Yusin regime. The clandestine production and circulation of the Letters from South Korea - supported by figures such as Chi, Yasue Ryosuke, O Chae-sik, and Kim Kwan-sok - illustrates the relational labour through which information was sourced, translated, framed, and circulated through Japanese, Christian, intellectual, and human rights channels. Diaries, correspondence, organisational records, and interview testimony further show that these networks also provided moral encouragement, financial assistance, legal support, safe passage, and access to overseas institutions. The thesis further demonstrates that these networks were not uniformly oppositional spaces. Christian institutions, intellectual circles, media platforms, and overseas advocacy networks were contested arenas in which both opposition actors and the South Korean state competed to shape narratives of legitimacy and repression. By critically engaging with the Boomerang Model of transnational advocacy, the thesis argues for a meso-level, relational approach that highlights trust, embeddedness, mediation, and continuity as vital elements of transnational activism. In doing so, the thesis makes three key contributions. First, it reinterprets South Korea's democratisation as a process shaped not only by domestic resistance, but also by sustained cross-border relationships. Second, it contributes to social movement theory by emphasising the role of antecedent networks and relational labour, rather than episodic mobilisation alone. Third, it highlights the contested role of religion and intellectual life as resources used both for authoritarian legitimation and for resistance. Overall, the thesis demonstrates that South Korea's pro-democracy movement was sustained through both domestic resistance and cross-border collaboration. It shows how antecedent networks were reactivated under Yusin, adapted into transnational advocacy under repression, and persisted into the post-authoritarian period.
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    The administration of justice by courts martial prior to Federation
    (1964) Dainer, John Joseph.
    The purpose of this paper is to examine the manner in which Courts Martial functioned in the Australian colonies from the time of the First Settlement in 1788 until Federation.
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    The neutralization of influenza virus
    (1960) Withell, John
    The :interaction between virus & neutralizing antibody has been extensively investigated for aver three decades but the phenomenon is still not clearly understood.
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