Over the last quarter of a century, Australian historiography and political analysis has witnessed a significant shift in the dominant terms of reference for thinking about the past, and about its relationship to the present and future. By the early 1980s an influential body of thought had coalesced around the proposition that Australia's political economy could be best understood through the lens of 'settler' or 'dominion' capitalism. These terms denote the distinctive forms that capitalism took in the white settler colonies of the British Empire and the temperate zones of South America (Ehrensaft and Armstrong, 1978;Denoon, 1983;Head, 1983;McMichael, 1984;Gerardi, 1985). The key argument was that Australia carried a pattern of family resemblances with these other settler colonies, which arose from their shared historical experience as both colonizers and colonized (Macintyre, 1989: 11). These resemblances included an early and significant degree of political autonomy from the imperial power out of which they were established; the early commodification of land and hence labour, with a corresponding absence of a large peasantry; relative economic prosperity for white settlers, including workers, despite or perhaps because of a highly dependent form of economic development that was disproportionately centred on primary production for the imperial market; mass immigration of white settlers from the metropolitan power and the attendant physical and cultural destruction, or at least the brutal subjugation, of indigenous populations. This final characteristic was the original presupposition and condition for all the other features noted. These contributed to distinctive patterns of inter-and intraclass relations and political institutions, which continued to shape realities in the settler colonies long after the conditions that gave rise to them had
The Australian and New Zealand welfare states have undergone dramatic transformations since the early 1980s. This has led some commentators to redeploy the ‘social laboratory’ metaphor widely used to describe Australasia at the turn of the 19th century. This article analyses the disjunctures in Australia’s and New Zealand’s experience of transforming the welfare state, and seeks to account for them. Drawing inspiration from comparative political sociology, it suggests that the differences can be explained with reference to variations in the political-economic starting point of transformation, variations in the institutional context of political decision-making, and variations in the balance of social and political power in the two countries
HNS-IV (2,2', 4,4', 6,6' -Hexanitrostilbene) is a well characterized energetic material that is used in a variety of aerospace, military, and industrial systems. It is an insensitive explosive, and is thermally stable to temperatures of over 200 C. With many modern systems requiring a system life of 20 years, it is important that the explosive be stable during that lifetime, and that there be a method of verifying the stability of the explosive. This paper will discuss the tests typically used to characterize the explosive. It will discuss the theory behind aging studies as well as aging studies performed on bulk powder and several devices containing HNS-IV explosive. The data will show that there is little performance degradation with explosive powder and detonators that have been subjected to accelerated aging. In addition, data is presented showing that a commonly used performance indicator has almost no effect on device performance.
So I am in two minds. I think we are condemned to modernization. If we are going to be modern, try to be more quick and pacific about it. On the other hand, I say 'condemned to modernize,' because seeing the U.S., Europe, and Japan I think modernization is not a benediction. It can be a kind of airconditioned hell. Octavio Paz (1994)
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