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Watch This Space The Future of Australian Journalism


Free Download Milissa Deitz, "Watch This Space: The Future of Australian Journalism"
English | 2010 | pages: 162 | ISBN: 0521144280 | PDF | 0,9 mb
With traditional print media sinking under shrinking readerships, redundancies and declining advertising revenue, the imminent death of ‘quality’ journalism is being prophesied by academics, ✅Publishers and journalists. Are we losing a vital public sphere for interrogating those in power and creating local and national communities? Or is a moribund media status quo getting a long overdue shake up? Milissa Deitz argues that far from being the grave digger, the internet is in fact reinventing and reinvigorating ‘citizen journalism’. More democratic through interactivity and participation, more immediately responsive to rapidly changing events and issues, we increasingly go online for our news. Far from undermining traditional journalism, a changing mediascape composed of dedicated online journals, blogs, social networking, twitter and mobile telephony, is returning journalism to its radical and democratic roots, recreating the feisty, informed public domain extinguished over the twentieth century by the concentration of media ownership in Australia.

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PCR for Clinical Microbiology An Australian and International Perspective


Free Download Ian W.J. Carter, Margret Schuller, Gregory S. James, "PCR for Clinical Microbiology: An Australian and International Perspective"
English | 2010 | pages: 466 | ISBN: 904819038X, 9401783365 | PDF | 3,6 mb
Not another textbook, but a valuable tool for doctors and microbiologists wanting to know how to set up a PCR diagnostic microbiology laboratory according to current regulatory standards and perform assays supplied with patient clinical diagnostic criteria and easy to follow protocols. Whether laboratories are using commercial kits or in-house methods developed in their own laboratories or adopted from published methods, all clinical microbiology laboratories need to be able to understand, critically evaluate, perform and interpret these tests according to rigorous and clinically appropriate standards and international guidelines. The cost and effort of development and evaluation of in-house tests is considerable and many laboratories do not have the resources to do so. This compendium is a vehicle to improve and maintain the clinical relevance and high quality of diagnostic PCR. It is a unique collection of; guidelines for PCR laboratory set up and quality control, test selection criteria, methods and detailed step by step protocols for a diagnostic assays in the field of molecular microbiology. The structure of the book provides the PCR fundamentals and describes the clinical aspects and diagnosis of infectious disease. This is followed by protocols divided into; bacteria, virus, fungi and parasites, and susceptibility screens. The inclusion of medical criteria and interpretation adds value to the compendium and benefits clinicians, scientists, researchers and students of clinical diagnostic microbiology

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Australian Gospel A Family Saga


Free Download Australian Gospel: A Family Saga by Lech Blaine
English | 5 November 2024 | ISBN: 1760643971 | 352 pages | EPUB | 1.53 Mb
From one of Australia’s most brilliant writers, a dark comedy about the tangled fates of two couples and the children trapped between them

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Mastering Australian Slang and Expressions – Your Essential Aussie Idioms Dictionary When You’re Down Under


Free Download Mastering Australian Slang and Expressions – Your Essential Aussie Idioms Dictionary When You’re Down Under by Ella Wallaby
English | June 3, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D63HK2YG | 232 pages | EPUB | 24 Mb
Are you ready to dive deep into the heart of Australian English, mastering the art of Aussie slang with ease and confidence? Eager to fit in like a local on your next visit Down Under? Want to confidently navigate through conversations peppered with Aussie slang without missing a beat?

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Anglo-Australian Naval Relations, 1945-1975 A More Independent Service


Free Download Anglo-Australian Naval Relations, 1945-1975: A More Independent Service by Mark Gjessing
English | June 20, 2018 | ISBN: 3319927434 | 239 pages | PDF | 2.25 Mb
This book examines Anglo-Australian naval relations between 1945-75, a period of great change for both Australia and Great Britain and their respective navies. It explores the cultural and historical ties between the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the efficacy of communications between the services, and the importance of personal relations to the overall inter-service relationship. The author assesses the dilemmas faced by Great Britain associated with that nation’s declining power, and the impact of the retreat from ‘East of Suez’ on the strategic relationship between the United Kingdom and Australia. The book also considers operational co-operation between the Royal Navy and the RAN including conflicts such as the Korean War, the Malayan Emergency, and confrontation with Indonesia, as well as peacetime pursuits such as port visits and the testing of atomic weapons in the 1950s. Co-operation in matters of personnel and training are also dealt with in great detail,along with the co-operation between the Royal Navy and the RAN in equipment procurement and design and the increased ability of the RAN to look to non-British sources for equipment procurement. The book considers the impact of stronger Australian-American ties on the RAN and appraises the role it played in the conflict in Vietnam.

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