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Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , The legal aspects of foreign investment in Australia.(1969-07) Nochimson, David.The subject of foreign investment has been an emotive issue among Australian politicians, economists and journalists.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , Law reform and the defences to defamation(1984-06) Lucas, E. A.At the heart of this study is the simple proposition that no-one is omniscient.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , Legal protection and incentives to private foreign investment in member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa(1994-07) Seid, Sherif Hussein.There is considerable controversy about the relative advantages and disadvantages of foreign investment, particularly in developing countries.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , The justiciability of cabinet decisions(1989-01) Gallagher, Peter W.The object of administrative law is to protect the citizen against the excess or abuse of executive powers and to ensure that the executive fulfills the duties required of it by lawItem type: Item , Access status: Restricted , Legal implications of militarisation in outer space(1987-02) Dawes, Colleen Elizabeth.The potential use of outer space as the newest battleground in the on-going struggle for super-power hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union is one of the major issues facing the international community in its effort to survive to the twenty-first century.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , Judicial review on the merits(1988-05) Groat, C. R.It seems to be the current fashion when examining the effectiveness of the new administrative law in Australia, to contrast the external review of administration action by the courts, against the alternative of some form of self regulation; by internal review within the public service.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , Joint development of the Timor gap? : joint development as a potential interim solution to the boundary dispute between Australia and Indonesia concerning the seabed in the Timor sea(1988-08) Leigh, Kathy.Since at least 1984 Australia and Indonesia have been discussing the possibility of establishing a joint development zone (JDZ) for the exploration for, and exploitation of, petroleum1 resources of the seabed in an area between the two states in the Timor Sea, known as the 'Timor Gap'Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , Limits on exclusivity of federal power to impose excise(2000-08) Davis, Brian.Although other sections also are relevant, the text crucial to this topic is in the first paragraph of section 90 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of AustraliaItem type: Item , Access status: Restricted , The liability of statutory authorities in negligence and the law-making process : Sutherland Shire Council v Heyman(1989-06) Barnes, Jeffrey Wilson.Over two days in June 1984, the High Court of Australia heard an appeal by special leave from a decision of the New South Wales Court of Appeal.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , Henry Bournes Higgins and the Australian Constitution(1975-08) Coward, Pamela.Henry Bournes Higgins 1 2s 3first formal involvement in the development of Australia's Constitution began in 1897 when he was elected as one of the Victorian delegates to the Australasian Federal Convention which met to draft the document which finally became Australia's Constitution.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , International air transport policy in transition and search for a new approach to civil aviation among North Atlantic states(1983-06) Maniruzzaman, A. F. M.The crucial aspect of regulation of international scheduled air services is concerned with route, rate, capacity of airlines and frequency of services.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , Freedom of assembly in the Australian Capital Territory(1983-07) Handley, Robin Patrick.When I first started thinking about this dissertation in 1980, the thesis itself, the nub of what I wanted to say, appeared quite straightforward.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , Island claims of the People's Republic of China(1985-01) Austin, Gregory D.Immediately after the corrmunist victory in 1949, there was little clear indication of the PRC's view on particular international legal issues.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , Indigenous rights, international law and an Aboriginal 'treaty'(1989-08) Lawrey, Andrée.The Australian Government has committed itself to negotiate a treaty with Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, at a time when efforts are being made to devise international standards on indigenous rights.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , The future of the banking fiduciary : the application of the fiduciary principle to commercial banking relationships(1997-03) Hamilton, Samuel Donald.The only certainty in a paper considering the fiduciary principle is an introductory paragraph noting the uncertainty of the fiduciary principle.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , The impact of geomorphology, distance and other criteria as determinants in maritime boundary delimitations : a case study of Australia / Indonesia delimitation in the Timor Sea(1984-11) Ross, Phillip GeoffreyThe three decisions on the adjudication of international maritime boundaries1 2involved only the delimitation of continental shelf jurisdiction.Item type: Item , Access status: Embargo , Accelerating Physical Systems with Imagination ModelsSaha, ArindamCutting-edge experimental systems comprise carefully assembled, finely tuned collections of interdependent components. As complexity grows, maintaining optimal performance manually becomes a bottleneck, especially for remotely deployed systems. Sample-efficient automation is therefore essential for scalability. While reinforcement learning promises a general solution to autonomous control, practical adoption is limited by extensive training needs or the development of accurate simulations. In this work, I introduce a simplified model-based reinforcement learning scheme that can be pre-trained from existing datasets, featuring a completely task-agnostic algorithmic framework. It employs generative models to imagine potential outcomes before real-world execution, reducing the number of physical interactions required. I have demonstrated its efficacy in two distinct experimental challenges. In an optical resonator, it autonomously aligns and mode-matches an input laser beam using precise actuation of lenses and mirrors. Despite drift and noisy feedback, the method attains human-level efficiency in a few steps starting from arbitrary misalignment. In a silicon quantum-dot system, it tunes fourteen gate and timing parameters to optimise spin-parity initialisation and readout. Tested over several days under varied conditions, the method rapidly recalibrates the system, even across unseen dot pairs, thereby illustrating its adaptability and scalability. Additional studies illustrate the framework's extension to sequence optimisation, virtualising interactions with a cold atomic system and exploration of its learnt representations of task-relevant features. Collectively, these results highlight the framework's potential to accelerate progress in emerging quantum and space technologies by minimising manual interventions and establishing scalable automation.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , International law relating to passage of vessels through internal waters, the territorial sea, international straits, archipelagos and the exclusive economic zone(1986-12) Purcell, G. Lawrence.Until the latter half of the 20th Century the law of the sea was stähle and generally agreed.Item type: Item , Access status: Metadata only , Indigenous peoples in international law : the significance of Francisco de Vitoria and Bartolome de las Casas(1990-06) Marks, Gregory.This paper was originally intended to be a discussion of the present day situation of indigenous rights in international law.Item type: Item , Access status: Restricted , International law and the Achille Lauro incident : jurisdictional issues relating to international terrorism with particular reference to the Achille Lauro incident(1987-02) Moyes, Marion M.On the night of Monday, 7 October 1985, four Palestinians, members of the Tunis-based Palestine Liberation Front (P.L.F. - a constituent part of the Palestine Liberation Organization, P.L.O), hijacked an Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, en route from Alexandria to Port Said (both in Egypt).1