http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25999 2013-05-20T06:24:20Z 2013-05-20T06:24:20Z Willis, Eileen Mary Pearce, Meryl Winsome McCarthy, Carmel Marie Ryan, Fiona Therese Wadham, Benjamin Allan http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26319 2013-05-13T02:08:57Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The provision of water infrastructure in Aboriginal communities in South Australia Authors: Willis, Eileen Mary; Pearce, Meryl Winsome; McCarthy, Carmel Marie; Ryan, Fiona Therese; Wadham, Benjamin Allan Abstract: The provision of water supplies to Aboriginal people in South Australia, particularly to communities covered under the Commonwealth–State (South Australia) Bilateral Agreement is considered world class in terms of the suitability of the technology to the remoteness of many of the communities and the harsh arid environment. This article explores the history of domestic water supplies to these Aboriginal communities. The article begins with a brief outline of pre-contact Aboriginal technologies for the maintenance of water supplies and reflects on the continuity of these approaches through the early years of pastoralist and missionary settlement. This is followed by a description of the services offered by the state and federal governments since the late 1970s to the present.

2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Willis, Eileen Mary http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26318 2013-05-13T02:08:57Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Expressive phenomenology and critical approaches in the classroom: process and risks for students of health sciences Authors: Willis, Eileen Mary Abstract: This article explores the use of expressive phenomenological and critical approaches to the teaching of health policy to a large class of first year health professional students studying both internally and through distance education. The phenomenological approach to classroom teaching attempts to provide students with opportunities to immerse themselves in the lived experiences of populations and individuals who are ill and in need of care. The critical approach brings the political, social and cultural realities of professional practice into the classroom discussion and reflection. The transition from the expressive phenomenological to critical analysis requires careful management by the teacher when reacting to the mood, responses and capacities of students. Managing these processes online for students studying at a distance presents additional pedagogical issues. These are: the problem of capturing ‘real time’ mood, managing the chaos of multiple student narratives, allowing time to dwell on the phenomena and dealing with the impact of violent films.

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Wadham, Benjamin Allan Willis, Eileen Mary Pearce, Meryl Winsome http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26027 2013-05-13T01:26:52Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The cultural relations of water in remote South Australian towns Authors: Wadham, Benjamin Allan; Willis, Eileen Mary; Pearce, Meryl Winsome Abstract: Water is an increasingly scarce resource and the decline in rainfall presupposes people and communities adapting to live in drier, and very different, social and environmental conditions. In rural and remote South Australia residents have always considered water a reflexive resource that requires them to consider their relationship to water and its availability and access. These are material concerns. Yet, lifestyle, identity, sense of place and community is profoundly shaped by the inclusion of ‘water’ in one’s habitus. ‘Water’ is also a social concern and its material management arises within cultural relations.

2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Willis, Eileen Mary Toffoli, Luisa Patrizia Henderson, Julie Anne Walter, Bronwyn Kay http://hdl.handle.net/2328/26026 2013-05-13T02:07:51Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Gendered relations to working time: enterprise bargaining outcomes in acute care and community nursing settings in Australia Authors: Willis, Eileen Mary; Toffoli, Luisa Patrizia; Henderson, Julie Anne; Walter, Bronwyn Kay Abstract: In this paper we examine the outcomes of the 2001, 2004, 2007 Enterprise Bargaining Agreements between the Australian Nursing Federation (SA) and the South Australian Government with particular focus on union-based strategies for de-intensifying nurses’ labour in the acute and community sectors. Consistent with the theoretical and empirical research on time, the strategies employed in the acute sector reflect rational, linear, bureaucratic, logical and masculinist relations to time through the use of computerised time and task measures. Community sector solutions are characterised by cyclical, messy and highly relational feminised approaches to reducing work intensification. We argue that the outcomes of these two approaches are contradictory. The community-based solution of case management is less successful in reducing workload, but maintains worker control over the labour process, while in the acute sector, the highly Taylorist approach is successful in de-intensifying workload but at the cost of reduced control over the labour processes.

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