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Papers by Gil Hardwick
Persistent conflict over water allocation in Australia's Southern Murray-Darling Basin is not rec... more Persistent conflict over water allocation in Australia's Southern Murray-Darling Basin is not recent. Conflict can be traced back to the earliest settlement period, founded in philosophical, ideological and political differences as much as in the location of state borders and interstate rivalry. Stakeholders are invariably related to each other through marriage and family ties, having settled the districts along particular pathways. Absentee decision-making in distant cities is better served by greater consultation, and the impacts of decisions and the conflicts they generate better measured through anthropological emic participation in place of abstracted etic analysis of state agency staff wrongly assuming that communities are too involved, too immersed in what they are doing to be impartial, when local people demonstrably possess a high degree of knowledge and skill in managing natural resources.
A Master Species List of useful plants and trees suitable for Northern Australia, including wetla... more A Master Species List of useful plants and trees suitable for Northern Australia, including wetlands and aquatics, grasslands and ground cover, mid-story and upper-story trees.
Capt. John Molloy is best known through his association with the pioneering Bussell family, about... more Capt. John Molloy is best known through his association with the pioneering Bussell family, about whose tribulations on the Vasse much has been written. He is also known for his marriage to the extraordinary Georgiana Kennedy, a woman much younger than himself who achieved fame in her own right. The story of their tiny settlement at the end of the earth is wrought with tragedy. As the senior administrative official charged with managing the situation in which they found themselves, Capt. Molloy stamped an enduring mark entirely his own on Western Australian history.
The world's forests are obviously in a state of decline, yet it appears difficult to establish pr... more The world's forests are obviously in a state of decline, yet it appears difficult to establish precisely how we arrived at this situation. The historic precedents are complex. The example of the forests of the lower southwest of Western Australia demonstrates this variable sequence of human impact on what was pristine forest. The failed steps taken at each point to circumvent the damage being done under pressure from government to pursue inappropriate and poorly planned development of the region have left not only the forest but the society and the economy in turmoil. In this respect, despite the huge wealth generated, the forest itself became an analogue for the exploitation of natural resources and human beings alike, yet offering no clear solution to the current dilemma. It is only perhaps by understanding the sequence of events leading to the present that we may begin to discern the path ahead.
This paper arose from discussion and review of claims made by Keith Windschuttle in the third vol... more This paper arose from discussion and review of claims made by Keith Windschuttle in the third volume of his 2003 'The Fabrication of Aboriginal History', most specifically seeking to refute arguments about the treatment of Aboriginal peoples outlined in the 1997 'Bringing Them Home Report', and in particular rejecting the direct likening of the forced removal of children from their families to the practices of Nazi Germany.
Remodelling Criminogenic Duress Pathways in Childhood: Early childhood and coming-of-age diversio... more Remodelling Criminogenic Duress Pathways in Childhood: Early childhood and coming-of-age diversion, youth justice reinvestment, habilitative service delivery and institutional adaptation among the shadows of modernity.
For thousands of years the forests of the lower South West of Western Australia stood in pristine... more For thousands of years the forests of the lower South West of Western Australia stood in pristine, impenetrable grandeur, like ancient forests everywhere the haunt of runaways and outlaws. Defeat of this grandeur and with it the promise of civilization came about not through the exercise of might but by the trampling of myriad hooves, leaving a carcass bereft of its life support to be flayed and dismembered. As time went by, eventually the rational, enterprising mind overcame the broad back and sharp wit of the pioneer to fulfill that promise of civilisation, bringing with it a new focus on organisation in development of natural resources to support the endeavour.
The remote colonial frontier poses peculiar difficulties in many aspects of crime and victimisati... more The remote colonial frontier poses peculiar difficulties in many aspects of crime and victimisation, especially where justice is administered from such a far-off, centralised location as here in Western Australia where enormous distances, diverse bioregions and alien cultures are encountered on a pan-European scale.
The question of using crime measures and indicators to inform child protection policy invokes at ... more The question of using crime measures and indicators to inform child protection policy invokes at first sight an old conflict between empirical and normative research, especially on the remote frontier of Western Australia where the norms because imported are rather more colonising than socialising; the empirical data underwriting such norms having generally been gathered from far distant populations at the expense of the local. To grasp the issue being raised from this far away, some appreciation of background is needed, and an account rendered of how such things came to be at this end, away around here on this other side of the planet.
This choice of question arose from discussion on criminal law being used historically as an instr... more This choice of question arose from discussion on criminal law being used historically as an instrument of class domination within the English home society, suggesting that race can be substituted for class, along with other such raw categories of person as age, sex, gender and ethnicity, though to balance the equation another category of person listed as 'the public' might also be taken into account. Effective use of such terms presupposes membership of and familiarity with the language systems within the normative communities of meaning in which they are embedded. It may well be the case that in England criminal law and punishment have been used historically as instruments of race and class domination, but the imported construct needs to be unpacked, explored and mapped for its efficacy out here in the Antipodean colonial environment in order to be assumed for this setting.
Persistent conflict over water allocation in Australia's Southern Murray-Darling Basin is not rec... more Persistent conflict over water allocation in Australia's Southern Murray-Darling Basin is not recent. Conflict can be traced back to the earliest settlement period, founded in philosophical, ideological and political differences as much as in the location of state borders and interstate rivalry. Stakeholders are invariably related to each other through marriage and family ties, having settled the districts along particular pathways. Absentee decision-making in distant cities is better served by greater consultation, and the impacts of decisions and the conflicts they generate better measured through anthropological emic participation in place of abstracted etic analysis of state agency staff wrongly assuming that communities are too involved, too immersed in what they are doing to be impartial, when local people demonstrably possess a high degree of knowledge and skill in managing natural resources.
A Master Species List of useful plants and trees suitable for Northern Australia, including wetla... more A Master Species List of useful plants and trees suitable for Northern Australia, including wetlands and aquatics, grasslands and ground cover, mid-story and upper-story trees.
Capt. John Molloy is best known through his association with the pioneering Bussell family, about... more Capt. John Molloy is best known through his association with the pioneering Bussell family, about whose tribulations on the Vasse much has been written. He is also known for his marriage to the extraordinary Georgiana Kennedy, a woman much younger than himself who achieved fame in her own right. The story of their tiny settlement at the end of the earth is wrought with tragedy. As the senior administrative official charged with managing the situation in which they found themselves, Capt. Molloy stamped an enduring mark entirely his own on Western Australian history.
The world's forests are obviously in a state of decline, yet it appears difficult to establish pr... more The world's forests are obviously in a state of decline, yet it appears difficult to establish precisely how we arrived at this situation. The historic precedents are complex. The example of the forests of the lower southwest of Western Australia demonstrates this variable sequence of human impact on what was pristine forest. The failed steps taken at each point to circumvent the damage being done under pressure from government to pursue inappropriate and poorly planned development of the region have left not only the forest but the society and the economy in turmoil. In this respect, despite the huge wealth generated, the forest itself became an analogue for the exploitation of natural resources and human beings alike, yet offering no clear solution to the current dilemma. It is only perhaps by understanding the sequence of events leading to the present that we may begin to discern the path ahead.
This paper arose from discussion and review of claims made by Keith Windschuttle in the third vol... more This paper arose from discussion and review of claims made by Keith Windschuttle in the third volume of his 2003 'The Fabrication of Aboriginal History', most specifically seeking to refute arguments about the treatment of Aboriginal peoples outlined in the 1997 'Bringing Them Home Report', and in particular rejecting the direct likening of the forced removal of children from their families to the practices of Nazi Germany.
Remodelling Criminogenic Duress Pathways in Childhood: Early childhood and coming-of-age diversio... more Remodelling Criminogenic Duress Pathways in Childhood: Early childhood and coming-of-age diversion, youth justice reinvestment, habilitative service delivery and institutional adaptation among the shadows of modernity.
For thousands of years the forests of the lower South West of Western Australia stood in pristine... more For thousands of years the forests of the lower South West of Western Australia stood in pristine, impenetrable grandeur, like ancient forests everywhere the haunt of runaways and outlaws. Defeat of this grandeur and with it the promise of civilization came about not through the exercise of might but by the trampling of myriad hooves, leaving a carcass bereft of its life support to be flayed and dismembered. As time went by, eventually the rational, enterprising mind overcame the broad back and sharp wit of the pioneer to fulfill that promise of civilisation, bringing with it a new focus on organisation in development of natural resources to support the endeavour.
The remote colonial frontier poses peculiar difficulties in many aspects of crime and victimisati... more The remote colonial frontier poses peculiar difficulties in many aspects of crime and victimisation, especially where justice is administered from such a far-off, centralised location as here in Western Australia where enormous distances, diverse bioregions and alien cultures are encountered on a pan-European scale.
The question of using crime measures and indicators to inform child protection policy invokes at ... more The question of using crime measures and indicators to inform child protection policy invokes at first sight an old conflict between empirical and normative research, especially on the remote frontier of Western Australia where the norms because imported are rather more colonising than socialising; the empirical data underwriting such norms having generally been gathered from far distant populations at the expense of the local. To grasp the issue being raised from this far away, some appreciation of background is needed, and an account rendered of how such things came to be at this end, away around here on this other side of the planet.
This choice of question arose from discussion on criminal law being used historically as an instr... more This choice of question arose from discussion on criminal law being used historically as an instrument of class domination within the English home society, suggesting that race can be substituted for class, along with other such raw categories of person as age, sex, gender and ethnicity, though to balance the equation another category of person listed as 'the public' might also be taken into account. Effective use of such terms presupposes membership of and familiarity with the language systems within the normative communities of meaning in which they are embedded. It may well be the case that in England criminal law and punishment have been used historically as instruments of race and class domination, but the imported construct needs to be unpacked, explored and mapped for its efficacy out here in the Antipodean colonial environment in order to be assumed for this setting.