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Social media are transforming public communication and state-society relations, dynamics distinctly visible in the domains of policing and order maintenance. Despite growing research on this relationship, scholarship has adopted an internalist optic, privileging social media use by domestic law enforcement. Using an original data set, this paper broadens the scale of analysis to consider Twitter usage by federal agencies tasked with border security and migration policing in Australia, Canada, and the United States. Despite new technologies' transformational potential, its findings suggest Twitter is overwhelmingly employed for the conventional purposes of broadcasting information, managing impressions, and enlisting public assistance. Message themes linked with greater user responsiveness are also identified. The deeper implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this century Chinese tourists in Australia have rapidly become the most numerous national source. Relatively little is known about their socio-economic status, their geographical origins and expectations of tourism, and their attitudes to and perceptions of Australia, although every Australian state has devised a specific Chinese tourism strategy to tap into this market. Chinese tourism is concentrated in metropolitan areas in the eastern states, has evolved from group tours to individual plans, and is relatively high spending. Unless geographical and tourism research on Chinese tourism aligns with contemporary theoretical developments in tourism studies, the type of knowledge being produced will be limited. Whilst there is value in extending existing knowledge, important social insights into the Chinese tourists' experience of Australia will not emerge. Although Chinese tourism is similar to earlier waves from East Asia, it constitutes a distinct component of the contemporary Australian market. A deeper understanding of this phenomenon requires the adoption of practice theories that privilege social practices as the entry point for theorising and conducting research. In advocating such an approach, we highlight challenges of linguistic and cultural differences, scale and governmentality in providing a qualitative research agenda for geographical and tourism studies' engagements with Chinese tourism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current public debate on asylum seekers arriving to Australia by boat is profoundly emotional and divisive. Its emotional nature must not only be considered in the present context but also understood from a historical perspective. This article argues that often the asylum seeker debate has been structured as an emotional dispute about the morality of the Australian nation; and that one of the main functions of such a dispute is to reinstate the moral privilege of whiteness. This has weakened the ability of human rights activists to advocate for the ending of current policies, and has instead reinforced an insular, exclusionary and rhetorical understanding of Australian history. On both sides of the debate, historical amnesia and the rhetorical celebration of the past have at times worked hand in hand with allegedly pragmatic approaches to the “boat people” crisis. Yet it is only in addressing the repressed and haunting memories of the past that Australians might find critical and creative antidotes to the merciless dictates of pragmatic politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are several types of professional groups that provide tax advice in Australia: lawyers, accountants, and financial advisors, many of whom are registered tax agents. In many cases, the type of advice provided is the same; however, currently whilst lawyers can extend to their clients a blanket legal professional privilege ("LPP") over confidential tax advice, clients of non-lawyer tax advisors ("NLTAs") are presently only granted an administrative concession by the Australian Taxation Office ("ATO") and then only over a limited range of documents. This article argues in favour of the enactment of a separate statutory tax advice privilege in Australia for accredited NLTAs and suggests a framework for determining which taxation professionals should be able to offer a tax advice privilege to their clients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This conceptual paper traces the development of the culture and capture of celebrity in the field of educational leadership. Drawing on Rojek’s (Celebrity. London: Reaktion Books, 2001) typology of celebrity, we examine the emergence of celebrity of leadership that is activated via the current policy environment that compels schools and school leaders to be recognised and well-known. It is this well-knownness that subsequently contributes to the school as a marketable commodity that “people like us” desire. We highlight the complex convergence of these two phenomena in our reading of the independent school sector in Victoria (Australia). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In I Sustaining Indigenous Songs: Contemporary Warlpiri Ceremonial Life in Central Australia i Curran explains how and why Warlpiri elders dedicated themselves to recording and transcribing their songlines with her. In 2005 Georgia Curran first arrived at Yuendumu to conduct her fieldwork on ritual songs with the Warlpiri people who live at Yuendumu, an Indigenous community 300 km north-West of Alice Springs in the Australian Central Desert. [Extracted from the article]

It has been noted that a "glance at the numerous cases in Australia and the United Kingdom which have concerned legal professional privilege in the last 20 years or so indicates twists and turns in the application of the general principles within single jurisdictions": Arrow Pharmaceuticals Ltd v Merck & Co Inc (2010) 210 ALR 593 at [13]. The perfect illustration of this, unfortunately, is the litigation in Kennedy v Wallace (2004) 208 ALR 424 and Kennedy v Wallace (2004) 142 FCR 185, where contrary views were expressed at first instance and on appeal on the question of whether the privilege will apply to legal advice given by a foreign lawyer in the same way that it applies to legal advice given by an Australia lawyer. Not only, in the modern world, is this a question of considerable importance, but the approaches taken in that litigation encapsulate the differing judicial reactions to the issue of the scope of the doctrine. While these views are analysed in this article, and one view is held out as being demonstrably correct, Australian law still awaits an authoritative answer to the question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The way in which private schools use rhetoric in their communications offers important insights into how these organizational sites persuade audiences and leverage marketplace advantage in the context of contemporary educational platforms. Through systemic analysis of rhetorical strategies employed in 65 ‘elite’ school prospectuses in Australia, this paper contributes to understandings of the ways schools’ communications draw on broader cultural politics in order to shape meanings and interactions among organizational actors. We identify six strategies consistently used by schools to this end: identification, juxtapositioning, bolstering or self-promotion, partial reporting, self-expansion, and reframing or reversal. We argue that, in the context of marketization and privatization discourses in twenty-first-century western education, these strategies attempt to subvert potentially threatening discourses, in the process actively reproducing broader economic and social privilege and inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I reveal how texts produced by Aboriginal women scholars signify a racialised and gendered body that functions discursively, as an immediacy of racism in the form of white patriarchal epistemic violence (Lloyd 1991, 74). I demonstrate how this dominant racialised and gendered form of violence is an assertion of power that involves or arises from racialised knowledge by examining Dirk Moses' analysis of ‘Indigeneity’ via the Northern Territory Intervention (Spivak 1988). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Beginning in the 1970s, the efforts of the Australian settler state to help its Indigenous minority shifted away from 'assimilation' and embraced the principles of 'self-determination'. According to the rhetoric of the self-determination era - explored in this article as the 'liberal fantasy space' - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians should be in control of efforts to improve their lives, ultimately making state intervention redundant. A by-product of this shift was to radically change the role of non-Indigenous people who sought to participate in Indigenous development. No longer in charge of Indigenous advancement, they were now cast as partners and supporters. This article explores some of the complexities of White anti-racist subjectivities in the self-determination era. It draws on ethnographic research with a group of progressive Whites who work in Indigenous health in northern Australia. A striking feature of contemporary White anti-racist discourse is a reluctance to claim any agency in the process of Indigenous improvement. I argue that applying the concept of stigma to White privilege is a novel and productive approach to understanding this desire for self-effacement. White stigma works in a parallel fashion to the case of liberal Germans who believe the German collective identity is irrevocably tainted by the Holocaust. In the Australian case, the negative characteristics associated with Whiteness act as a barrier to the broader goal of constructing ethical White subjectivities fit for the 'liberal fantasy space' of post-colonial justice. In their attempts to overcome this barrier and transcend White stigma, White anti-racists mobilise the identity tropes of missionary, mother, and child. Ultimately, these efforts at self-fashioning point to the ultimate fantasy of decolonisation: the desire of White anti-racists to disappear. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the Yolngu people of Australia. Galiwin'ku is located in northeast Arnhem Land, which was one of the last regions in Australia to have felt the presence of mission and government authorities. It is populated by Yolngu (people) of some 60 different mala (hereditary groups) whose homelands are spread across this region. It presents figures which shows social construction of the Yolngu people. The figures shows that their society is di-constitutional. The super-groups or moieties who possess these two constitutions are called Dhuwa and Yirritja. Each Yolngu group exists under one constitution or the other. Yolngu group also holds secondary rights in the properties of other groups to whom its members are related through kinship. Leaders of each group are responsible for negotiating access to the property of others through these secondary rights.