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• A Comparative History of Religious Change in two Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia
      This comparative history addresses an important issue in indigenous and...
  
• A cross-cultural study of the musical play practices of children in school playgrounds
      This study seeks to observe, collect and analyse children?s musical play...
  
• A cultural, Political and Economic History of Aboriginal Victorians and of Indigenous-Settler Encounters 1803-2000
      This project will produce the first-ever synthesis of the experiences of...
  
• A multi-media history of the Westrail Workshops at Midland
      The project will produce histories in two formats, a book and a CD-ROM...
  
• Agreements, Treaties and Negotiated Settlements with Indigenous Peoples in Settler States: their role and relevance for Indigenous and other Australians
      The project aims to examine treaty and agreement making with Indigenous...
  
• Alexander the Great in India, Iran and Babylonia. A Historical Commentary on Arrian
      The project completes one of the most important commentaries on classical...
  
• Aliens and Others: Representing citizenship and internments in Australia during WW2.
      This project will consider an episode in Australia's wartime history, the...
  
• All that Glisters .. A history of literary culture in Melbourne from the Gold Rushes to Federation
      The study will provide for the first time a considered examination and...
  
• An Analysis of Theatrical Space as a Contested Cultural Site in Contemporary Australian & Canadian Theatre.
      This project, culminating in a book manuscript, constructs and applies a...
  
• An ethnomusicological study of Lirrga, a genre of Australian Aboriginal song from NW Australia
      Aboriginal singers receive lirrga songs in dream from the spirit world....
  
• Anthropological perspectives on ethnographic collecting by Australian colonial administrators in Papua and New Guinea and their contribution to museum collections.
      Australian colonial administrators in PNG built up large ethnographic...
  
• Archaeology of Cultural Landscapes in West New Britain, Papua New Guinea
      The objective is to understand changes in cultural landscapes in West New...
  
• Australia's Post World War II War Crimes Trials of Japanese Defendants
      Contemporary war crimes trials regularly refer to historical precedent -...
  
• Australian Concert Music for the Piano: A Critical Study of Twentieth Century Compositions
      This project will produce the first ever critical edition of Australian...
  
• Australian Electoral Law: Building a System for the 21st Century
      An effective regime of electoral law and regulation is vital to the...
  
• Balancing intellectual property and other rights in tangible research materials used in biomedical research
      Scientific discoveries may be available as tangible research materials...
  
• Byzantine chronicles of Skylitzes and Alexander the monk
      Byzantine Chronicles are key sources for Byzantine historians including...
  
• Caravaggio's lutenists: Spanish, Neapolitan and Roman links in lute composition and performance, 1850-1620
      The Spanish castrato singer/lutenist depicted in Caravaggio's famous Lute...
  
• Change in the coastal habitats of the Great Barrier Reef region since European settlement: implications for contemporary management.
      The research will enable the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to...
  
• Clement of Alexandria and the tradition of Western thought
      Philosophy and theology are not concerned with building systems but with...
  
• Closing the Future: New Foundations for the Physics of Possibility
      The distinction between a fixed past and an open future is deeply embedded...
  
• Completing the picture of a vital historical source: The homilies of John Chrysostom
      This project builds on internationally recognised research conducted over...
  
• Conceiving and Implementing National Integrity Systems Assessments (NISA)
      Integrity and corruption are conceptually linked opposites. Integrity...
  
• Constitutional history, federation and judicial review
      The Australian High Court's use of history has grown in recent years and...
  
• Contemporary Indigenous Theatre: A Comparative Analysis
      This project examines indigenous theatre in Australia, Canada, the USA and...
  
• Crimes of the sign: the legality of graffiti writing in the contemporary city
      Graffiti is a major concern in the contemporary city. This research...
  
• Delivery of online tourism information using three dimensional modelling and interactive multimedia technologies
      This project will review options, develop alternative procedures and...
  
• Designing public acoustic space: Australian sound designs, a history, analysis and recommendations for a more considered acoustic environment
      This will be the first major study on Australian sound design of public...
  
• Diabolical fantasy in seventeenth century Europe: the possession and visions of Christoph Haizmann
      The aim of the project is to explore how the devil was imagined in...
  
• Digital Endangered Cultural Materials Network: Working group on digital research methodologies for endangered ethnographic material of the Asia-Pacific region.
      The initiative aims to develop new synergies and improved methods to...
  
• Discriminatory language in Japan: community protest and its effects
      The project will investigate how the issue of discriminatory language has...
  
• Does pre-natal diagnosis discriminate against people with disabilities?
      This project aims to investigate the claim by some leading disability...
  
• Educational media in transition: Public broadcasting, digital media and lifelone learning in the knowledge economy.
      This project involves collaboration with ABC Education Services in...
  
• Engendering Roman Spaces: A feminist approach to the material culture of occupants of roman houses and military forts
      The objective of this project is to produce more engendered perspectives...
  
• Exhibitions as Contested Sites. The Role of Museums in Contemporary Australian Society.
      This project investigates the problem of controversy in museums. It...
  
• Fabric(ation)s of the Postcolonial
      The project reads selected postcolonial literary texts in English against...
  
• Fictional narratives of sexual pathology in late nineteenth-century France: the makings of a new genre.
      Throughout the nineteenth century in France, there were many thematic...
  
• Film, Television and the Urban Experience: A Case Study of Brisbane's Images
      Although the density and complexity of the urban experience on the one...
  
• Friendship, Morality and the Self
      Close friendships are central to a good life. The value of friendship for...
  
• From Myth to Fantasy in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
      During the 1990sI research and published two books (1994 and 1998) on...
  
• From paper to practice: meeting the challenges of implementing human rights in Australia
      With scanty constitutional and legislative rights protections, Australia...
  
• Full-scale critical edition of UNDER WESTERN EYES by Joseph Conrad
      Joseph Conrad's place in twentieth-century literature is now firmly...
  
• Girls, Empowerment, and Markets in Education: A History of The Mac.Robertsons Girls' High School
      With its centenary approaching, the school wants to evaluate its past. In...
  
• Global popular fiction: contemporary modes of production, distribution, evaluation and identification in a transnational literary field
      This project will analyse contemporary popular fiction, a massive, complex...
  
• God in Modern Cosmology
      To develop an account of the relevance of modern cosmology for the...
  
• Heidegger's Topology of Being: Space, Place, Dwelling
      Place is a much used but relatively under-theorized concept in...
  
• Hindu revival moments in eastern and central Java, Indonesia: an inter-local ethnographic investigation
      In the 15th century Islamic polities replaced the Hindu empires that had...
  
• History of Maralinga
      Maralinga Tjarutja, which represents the traditional owners of the...
  
• House Museums and Heritage Sites: Then, Now and the New Millennium
      This project examines the genesis of the idea of the historic house in...
  
• How mixed language input affects child language development: case studies from Central Australia
      Case studies of three Aboriginal communities (Gurindji at Victoria River...