Australian Century

Australian English pronunciation into the 21st century

Australian English is traditionally considered to be the form of English spoken by people who are born in Australia or who immigrate at an early age and whose peer network consists of Australian English speakers (Bernard 1981). Such a simple definition implies that Australian English is a single form, which all native-born Australians will attain and exhibit. This paper will review segmental as...

Welsh settlement patterns in a nineteenth-century Australian gold town.

The adjacent gold mining settlements of Ballarat and Sebastopol in the colony of Victoria are universally acknowledged as the major focal point for Welsh immigrants in Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Here, the Welsh had congregated in sufficient numbers to establish an identifiable and highly visible ethnolinguistic community. Factors such as the necessity of acquiring t...

Designing Australian Land Power For The 21st Century

Human Rights and the Second Century of the Australian Constitution

In many countries with a written constitution, constitutional development in the second half of the 20th century was dominated by concepts of human rights. For example, Canada and South Africa gained Bills of Rights* 1 while the United States saw an existing Bill of Rights expanded through judicial interpretation. In other nations, international norms and the proliferation of treaties and conve...

Child and adolescent obesity in the 21st century: an Australian perspective.

The early 21st century has seen the development of a global epidemic of obesity in both developed and developing countries. In Australia at least one in five children and adolescents are overweight or obese, with rapid rises in prevalence apparently continuing. Similar trends are seen in other countries. Child and adolescent obesity is associated with both immediate and long-term medical and ps...