Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria

Boucher, Leigh; Russell, Lynette

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“…In the development of Victoria in establishing itself as its own colony, there was a shift towards an electoral system of appointment for public office, where these systems had built in them several criteria. The primary criterion was that only those considered 'gentlemen' could stand for election into public office [10]. This raises questions of what constitutes a 'gentleman' as it is inherently subjective and open to the possibility of nepotism, where people in power would recommend connections and family members as 'gentlemen' , it is therefore of little surprise that despite what appears to be the best of intentions, there was soon a system of administration established that was ripe for criticism based on loose practice at best and criminality at worst.…”

Section: Development: the 1800smentioning

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The history of corruption within Victoria, Australia

Perussich

2023

Criminal Behavior - The Underlyings, and Contemporary Applications

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Corruption is a difficult concept to define and address as it encompasses various behaviours, which often sit outside the criminal law. These are an insidious form of behaviour as they erode trust and integrity in government institutions, such as democratic values, the rule of law, and the economic efficiency and stability of governments. Corruption is estimated to cost the world 5 per cent of global GDP, approximately 2.6 trillion. It is difficult to measure the extract amount and how much corruption takes place, as most behaviours are often hidden from public view. These concepts are explored and critically discussed within the Victorian, Australian landscape as a case study example of how corruption has changed and evolved over time. It will be suggested that corruption and what is considered corrupt behaviour changes as society and its values change, making what constitutes and is defined as corruption an evolving concept throughout history.

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Section: Development: the 1800smentioning

confidence: 99%

The history of corruption within Victoria, Australia

Perussich

2023

Criminal Behavior - The Underlyings, and Contemporary Applications

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“…A complementary account can be given of the temporal dimensions of racialised embodiment, with work from Fanon (1952, 1967), Al‐Saji (2013), and Ngo (2019) exploring the ways they are differently figured for racialised (and especially colonised) bodies. As Fanon and Al‐Saji have argued, the colonised body is anachronistic, temporalised as past, primitive, and future‐less: think, for example, of the frequent assumption (or assertion 14 ) in colonial Australia and elsewhere, that First Nations peoples would eventually and inevitably ‘die‐out’ (Boucher & Russell, 2015, p. 17). Albeit in different ways to the spatial register, temporal horizons are also closed in; a past not of one's own making looms heavy and large, once more depriving racialised bodies of a vital sense of ‘leeway’ (Al‐Saji, 2019, pp.…”

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“…These ruses could take a variety of forms – the most obvious being the notion of the “dying race” that so powerfully fantasised about the inevitable disappearance of the Aboriginal problem whilst also justifying specific practices of governance that would enact it’. (2015, p. 17).…”

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Critical phenomenology and the banality of white supremacy

Ngo

2022

Philosophy Compass

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Critical phenomenology is a rapidly flourishing field of research within philosophical phenomenology. This article undertakes a genealogy of the critical philosophical enterprise, drawing out its key commitments, motivations, tensions, and productive potential. In the second half of this article, I explore the promise of critical phenomenology, by examining how a critical phenomenological approach to questions of racism and racialised embodiment can help extend our understanding of white supremacy, opening up new possibilities for thinking its banality and ubiquity in contemporary social and political life.

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“…The colony of Victoria was the earliest to institute bureaucratic control over Indigenous people in Australia in response to the catastrophic destruction of the Tasmanians and the severity of frontier violence and disease (Boucher & Russell, 2015;Broome, 2005). Working with Dr. Len Smith, who had pioneered the historical demography of Aboriginal Victorians (Smith, 1980), we sought to reconstitute the population from oral genealogy and vital registrations, as the public records rarely noted indigeneity.…”

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Building Longitudinal Datasets From Diverse Historical Data in Australia

McCalman

2021

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Australia is rich in population datasets generated to manage convicts, civilians, stock, land and the colonised and displaced First Nations people. It has also preserved all service and pension data from both world wars. Through nominal linkage using volunteers and paid research staff, it has been possible over the past twenty years to build four cradle-to-grave datasets derived from administrative cohorts: poor white babies born in a charity hospital 1858–1900; Aboriginal Victorians from 1855 to 1988; convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1818-1853 and servicemen who embarked for World War I from the State of Victoria. The abundance of digitised historical sources from government archives to historical newspapers enables the practice of demographic prosopography, with a wide range of variables that have yielded new insights into Australia’s population and social history.

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Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria

Cited by 6 publications

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The history of corruption within Victoria, Australia

The history of corruption within Victoria, Australia

Critical phenomenology and the banality of white supremacy

Building Longitudinal Datasets From Diverse Historical Data in Australia

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