http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41673 2026-04-06T18:25:26Z 2026-04-06T18:25:26Z Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41686 2022-06-03T06:34:05Z 2022-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Time Has Caught on Fire:” Eco-Anxiety and Anger in Selected Australian Poetry Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna This essay discusses fire as a significant factor shaping Australian social and cultural life. It focuses first on the climate-change induced emotions such as eco-anxiety and anger that can be tied with the Australian landscape, and then moves on to a discussion of the presence and function of fire in selected contemporary Australian poetry. The reflection on the poetics of trauma in the second part of the essay is accompanied by a discussion of solastalgia connected with land dispossession as an experience of the First Nations expressed in the Aboriginal literature in English.

2022-01-30T00:00:00Z Brudnicka-Żółtaniecka, Jowita http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41685 2022-04-26T01:17:23Z 2022-01-30T00:00:00Z

Societal Security Trust Issues in Australia during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 Brudnicka-Żółtaniecka, Jowita In late December 2019 and early January 2020 the first cases of a new coronavirus occurred in Wuhan. It is a virus characterised by similarities to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome). On January 25, 2020 the initial case of infection by SARS-CoV-2 caused the disease COVID-19 in an Australian patient who later died from it. During my PhD thesis defence in September 2018 I would not have thought that one of the possible security scenarios which I designed for the South Pacific region, related to epidemic threats, would soon come true. Despite some obvious and high indicators resulting, for example, from a geopolitical location in the vicinity of China, the probability of an epidemic outbreak seemed nigh unbelievable. This article focuses on societal security. It is impossible to make a solid analysis of an epidemic impact on societal security in various countries in a single article; therefore, I concentrate specifically on the case of Australia. The goal of this article is to explain how Australians cope with the epidemic and if they are prepared for a drastic change in their lifestyles. Do they put trust in governmental institutions? What issues appear to be main societal threats in Australian society during the pandemic? I conclude with thoughts about new societal directions that are going to be implemented should the scale of the pandemic persist. Due to limited length, my overview is not exhaustive; instead, it focuses on core findings about the condition of Australian society during the pandemic.

2022-01-30T00:00:00Z Kandzia-Poździał, Agnieszka http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41684 2022-04-26T01:17:20Z 2022-01-30T00:00:00Z

The Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Consequences on the Australian Economy in 2020 Kandzia-Poździał, Agnieszka The fight against the Coronavirus continues around the world. The pandemic affects individuals and families and social groups, states, and economies. Like any other economy in the world, Australia’s economy has to deal with the effects of a pandemic. Australia has chosen its own way of fighting the disease and its consequences. It was not possible to avoid an economic recession, but at the same time, political decisions, aid provided, and social behaviour can be assessed as very effective.

2022-01-30T00:00:00Z Siekiera, Joanna http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41683 2022-04-26T01:17:27Z 2022-01-30T00:00:00Z

Understanding of the Rule of Law in the Antipodes Siekiera, Joanna Understanding the rule of law in the Antipodes, that is in the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand, as a legal value is clear to both of these societies. The rule of law, oftentimes called the state of law, is the basis of the system of values, as well as legal culture, which determines which social values are legally protected and how high their position de facto and de iure is. The hierarchy of the rule of law in the Antipodes shows undoubtedly how various legal norms, unwritten and those codified ones, protect the democratic system with all its principles, along with the rights and freedoms of citizens and persons residing in these two countries.

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