ADB Volume 19 Book Launch
Book launch
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography contains 680 concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and…
Youth Migration and Educational Selectivity in the Context of Human Capital Development in Indonesia
Seminar
It is broadly understood that migration works in a selective nature by age and education. While educational selectivity is evidenced in Indonesia's migration profile, the interaction between education and migration is argued to vary significantly across regions and over time. This study seeks to…
‘I am not a Kanaka or a N____’
Webinar/Online
‘I am not a Kanaka or a N____’: slave pasts and kidnapped men in the Pacific Albert Messiah, alias Arthur Fredrick Augustus Plantagenet Messiah, is an enigma, yet somebody that history records enough about to beg many questions and reveal some answers about slavery and associated questions of…
CAIS Careers and Alumni Information Session
Seminar
The Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies offers undergraduate, postgraduate and HDR programs that enable students to specialise in the study of the Middle East and Central Asia. CAIS programs include coursework subjects covering the politics, international relations, languages and cultures…
Using Machine Learning to Create an Early Warning System for Welfare Recipients
Seminar
ABSTRACT: Using novel nation-wide social security data combined with machine learning tools, we develop predictive models of income support receipt intensities for any payment enrolee in the Australian social security system between 2014 and 2018. We show that off-the-shelf machine learning…
(Western) Australian Legacies of British Slavery
Webinar/Online
The celebration of British abolition has overshadowed memories of the country’s long prior history as the world’s leading slave-trading nation. In August 1833 British Parliament abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape. In place of slavery the negotiated settlement…
Moral Framings in the Australian Parliamentary Debate on Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients
Seminar
Abstract Around the world an expanding array of behavioural conditions are being attached to social security payments. This paper offers empirical evidence of the various moral frames used in the welfare conditionality debate, by both its supporters and detractors. We systematically analyse the…