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    It’s All About Space: How Middle-Class Asian Australian Travellers’ Expectations of Airline Travel are Centred Around Space Inside the Airplane Cabin
    (2026) Kim, Nicholas
    This research project will analyze passengers’ expectations for commercial aviation - focussing in particular on the airplane cabin. In-depth interviews were conducted with nine participants from middle-class Asian Australian backgrounds. Participants were asked questions about airplane behaviours and preferences, airline consumerism and class, airport security, and politics. A key theme of this research was that many passengers’ expectations of commercial aviation were connected to the concept of space inside the airplane cabin. Participants associated the confined space of the airplane cabin, with the deprivation of certain freedoms. They also associated having more space with being more comfortable. Participants also held expectations for purchasing space in their airline consumerism decisions. Whilst within the airplane cabin, participants indicated that they held expectations for having personal space. Participants also identified the airplane cabin as a shared public space which is associated with expected rules and behaviours. Finally, participants acknowledged differential access to space through the imposition of airport security, and discrimination based on social class-based identities, in restricting access to the business and first class cabins. A second key finding was that participants were guarded against people who they perceived as different. The implications of the key finding that space was central to participants’ expectations of air travel are political, in terms of who has access to space, and how much space they have access to. The implications of the second key finding are that the negative perceptions of human differences identified in the airplane can be applied to addressing social cohesion in Australian society
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    Review of the management of adverse effects associated with Panvax and Fluvax
    (Department of Health and Aging, Australian Government, 2011-03-10) Horvath, John
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    Supporting Comparative Studies of Judicial Behavior: Introducing the Australian High Court Database
    (2026) Leslie, Pat; Robinson, Zoe; Smyth,  Russell; Jacobi,  Tonja
    Comparative research on law and legal institutions depends on high-quality data infrastructure. This article introduces the Australian High Court Database?a new resource that encodes structured information on all full judgments of the High Court of Australia between 1995 and 2020, and all leave applications (Australia?s equivalent to petitions for certiorari) from 2003 to 2018. The database is built in accordance with core principles that support comparative research: it is adaptable, and comparable. By attending to jurisdictional specificity while adhering to general standards, the database supports both within-country analysis and cross-national comparison. We illustrate how the Australian High Court Database can be used to study comparative judicial behavior by analyzing judicial dissent rates across apex courts, judicial ideology, and agenda setting.
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    Book Review: Fresh Ink: Laura Vermeeren, 'Ink Studies: Everyday Practices of Calligraphy in Contemporary China' (2025); Luise Guest, 'Invisible Ink: Feminism and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art' (2026)
    (2026-05-06) Burchmore, Alex
    A double review of Laura Vermeeren's "Ink Studies: Everyday Practices of Calligraphy in Contemporary China", University of Singapore Press, 2025; and Luise Guest's "Invisible Ink: Feminism and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art", Bloomsbury Academic, 2026
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    Island Hydrology and Freshwater Resources
    (University of Hawai'i Press, 2026-04-30) White, Ian; Falkland, Tony
    Island states and territories spread across the vast Pacific Ocean are some of the most vulnerable locations in the world. Ober the past one thousand to forty thousand years their communities have demonstrated remarkable resilience to a formidable range of natural disasters such as tropical cyclones, floods, landslips, severe droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and wave inundation. That resilience has been underpinned by an ability to access sufficient freshwater for survival from a variety of sources and a capacity to substitute brackish water and seawater for non consumptive use in emergencies.

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