This paper examines how community arts in Sydney, Australia, have created new narratives of multiculturalism, focusing on the everyday diversity found in Sydney’s disadvantaged western suburbs. These narratives respond to the post-9/11 demonization of western Sydney and its multicultural communities, particularly Muslim and Arab-Australians. In contrast to the largely symbolic multiculturalism ...

Results: The prevalence of myopia in 6and 7-year-old children of Chinese ethnicity was significantly lower in Sydney (3.3%) than in Singapore (29.1%) (P .001). The prevalence of myopia in 1 or more parents was 68% in Sydney and 71% in Singapore. Children in Sydney read more books per week (P .001) and did more total nearwork activity (P=.002). Children in Sydney spent more time on outdoor activ...

BMJ | 1 MARCH 2014 | VOLUME 348 33 NSW Poisons Information Centre, Sydney, Australia Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Department of Clinical Toxicology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia Correspondence to: N A Buckley [email protected] Cite this as: BMJ 2014;348:g1626 doi: 10.1136/bmj...

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is regarded generally as having promise of becoming established as the general purpose framework for enabling transfer of data amongst heterogeneous environments. It is of interest therefore to analyse how suitable it may be once details of applications requirements and constraints are taken into account. One important requirement is for the security of docu...

published a lengthy and elaborate Report of the Board of Health on a Second Outbreak of Plague at Sydney, 1902, comprising 80 folio pages, written by the Chief Medical Officer of the Government, Dr. J. Ashburton Thompson. Amongst numerous features of interest there is the fact that it is a very complete analysis of an outbreak of plague in a civilised white urban population living under conditi...

Download ArticleBy Khandakar Farid Uddin and Awais Piracha, Western Sydney University, Australia. Introduction Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in world. More than 86% people live a large metropolitan area along its coast (statista.com, 2020). Sydney, state capital New South Wales (NSW), largest Australian […]

Maoying Qiao, Jun Yu, Wei Bian, Qiang Li, and Dacheng Tao 1 School of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University 2 School of Software, FEIT, The University of Technology Sydney 3 Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University 4 UBTECH Sydney Artificial Intelligence Institute, School of IT, FEIT, The University of Sydney {qiaomy, yujun}@hdu.edu.cn, {brian.weibian, leetsiang.clou...

Robert I. Menzies, Margaret Burgess and David N. Durrheim National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney Sydney Children’s Hospital Network Hunter New England Population Health School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]...

Andrew C. Etchell*, Blake W. Johnson and Paul F. Sowman 1 Department of Cognitive Science, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2 Department of Cognitive Science, Perception in Action Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia 3 Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia *Corre...

Mark D. Gorrell, Xin M. Wang, Miriam T. Levy, Eleanor Kable, George Marinos , Guy Cox and Geoffrey W. McCaughan 1. A. W. Morrow Gastroenterology and Liver Centre, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology and the University of Sydney, NSW Australia. 2. Electron Microscope Unit, University of Sydney. 3. Gastroenterology Department, Prince of Wales Hosp...