The COAG Reform Council has played a critical role in tracking progress, nationally and on a state-by-state basis, against the COAG reform agenda. The council has analysed and publicly reported on governments' performance against outcomes, performance indicators and targets agreed by COAG. However, until 2013 gender analysis was not directly incorporated in the assessment of governments' performance. The council's first report on gender, Tracking equity: Comparing outcomes for women and girls across Australia, redressed this omission. This article explores how taking account of gender greatly enriches our understanding of governments' performance in critical areas, and enhances public accountability as a result. An understanding of gender differences also provides a better basis for government decisionmaking on ways to improve outcomes.
This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media edited by Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson. This essay analyzes the Bourne trilogy and discusses how both image and soundtrack are symptoms of an underlying cultural trauma. An introduction considers the relationship of soundtrack rendering to digital aesthetics. The essay then examines how music underscores the basic duality of Jason Bourne, a duality born of this trauma and which music elevates to myth. Next, the essay looks at the intersection between the striking visual techniques and the sound design in The Bourne Ultimatum and argues that the audiovisual style matches the film’s thematics. In the concluding section, the essay returns to the issue of trauma and explores the law of action that regulates the action genre and the social trauma that it attempts to conceal.
The 10th annual LGBT History Month has just come to an end. Alex Newton, from charity Stonewall, offers primary schools some best practice advice for tackling homophobia and celebrating difference
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