Nutritional related aspects of the artificial propagation and larval rearing of Macquarie perch, Macquaria Australasica (Cuvier, 1830)

Studies the underlying role of nutrition in the lack of response of captive fish to hypophysation. Aspects studied include morphological characteristics, histology of ovaries, proximate analysis, fatty and amino acid profiles of oocytes, muscle, liver and diets of wild and tank-reared fish, egg and larval quality, amino acid composition of eggs and larvae at different developmental stages, larval feeding and hormone treatments.

Spirit-music unbound: Romanticism and print politics in Australian women's poetry 1830-1905

This thesis presents a re-mapping of Australian poetic tradition to reflect the presence of colonial women poets. The research recovers a wide range of neglected poetry, offering a new way of reading these important poets as politic and transnational, particularly through the significance of newspaper authorship and international women’s poetry.

'Against the tide': Australian government attitudes to decolonisation in the South Pacific, 1962-1972

This article is a study of the attitudes of Australian government ministers and officials towards the decolonisation of the Pacific island colonial territories in the decade from 1962 to 1972. It argues that the Australian state was very slow to recognise and understand that the winds of change would also sweep through the South Pacific and see the emergence of many new island nations by 1980.