Media representations affect societal views regarding refugees. Sudanese refugees have been represented negatively in the Australian news media. This presentation discusses findings of the Au Sud media project, an ARC Linkage funded project that aims to influence media discourses around the Sudanese.



DataBlitz on 'Refugees' was held on 27 July 2012.

Key to untangling the asylum seeker policy knot is increasing humanitarian settlement intake. Can Australia support an increased intake of humanitarian migrants? What does the evidence tell us and what do refugee migrants have to say about their settlement experiences?



DataBlitz on 'Refugees' was held on 27 July 2012.

Immigration detention of asylum seekers must be abolished. It is harmful, expensive and destroys the human rights reputation of Australia.



DataBlitz on 'Refugees' was held on 27 July 2012.

Outlines the new water paradigm and its implications for water management in Australia.



DataBlitz on 'Water Futures' was held on 30 September 2011.

This presentation discusses the ongoing controversy in Australia over online retail, considers how the lack of an official measure of online retail is hampering debate and analyses recent World Internet Project data to investigate the state of online retail in Australia.



DataBlitz on 'Online Shopping' was held on 26 August 2011.

AFL players' attitudes towards women were in the recent past problematized, as noted by a number of allegations of sexual assault. This research examines social networks within teams, highlighting differing club cultures related to masculinity.

The sports digital game is an artefact that aspires towards a completely accurate rendition of sport-as-played. Yet what these products instead present, and re-present, is the sport-as-mediated, and further, the sport-as-spectacle. Though such games position themselves as 'mirrors' held up to the sporting world, they are revealed instead as carnival mirrors, distorting and exaggerating the image to not answer the question "is it true?" but instead "will it sell?".



DataBlitz on 'Sport" was held on 27 April 2012.

Swinburne forensic psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Pfeifer discusses the results of the latest research in forensic and sport psychology in the United States.



DataBlitz on 'Sport' was held on 27 April 2012.

Louise White provides an overview of the regulatory pathway to the commercialisation of drug products and outlines a framework for development groups. It also provides an introduction to the current expectations for a more scientific and risk-based approach to development and improvement across the drug product lifestyle.



DataBlitz on 'From Discovery to Clinical' was held on 1 June 2012.

Professor Andrew Scholey uses Melissa officinalis (Lemon balm) as a case study to examine effects of herbal extracts on behaviour.



DataBlitz on 'From Discovery to Clinical' was held on 1 June 2012.