Postgraduate Student Bios

List of current Postgraduate Students bios in Department of Government and International Relations:

	Lindy Annakin Thesis topic or title: Whistleblowers in the Australian public sector and the role of external accountability agencies
	Chloe Bennett Thesis topic or title: A comparative study of the media coverage of selected candidates in the 2007 Australian and 2008 US federal elections.
	Judith (Judy) Betts Thesis topic or title: “The Battle of the Narratives: Australian media agendas and the Iraq War”
	Matthew Brazil Thesis topic or title: The Influence of Politics in Chinese Communist Intelligence Operations
	Trevor Cook Thesis topic or title: The relationship between the ALP and unions at a national level between 1983 and 2009
	Luke Deer Thesis topic or title: The People's Bank of China's foreign exchange reserve accumulation
	Peter Donohue Thesis topic or title: The effects of the privatisation of the KrAZ aluminium plant on the workers in the plant.
	Rosa Evaquarta Thesis topic or title: Business – Political Actors Relationship in Decentralised Authoritarian Countries (Indonesia and Russia)
	Naser Ghobadzadeh Thesis topic or title: Feminism – Multiculturalism Dispute: Sharia Debate in Australia and Canada
	Hongyan Gu Thesis topic or title: Ecological nationalism in China and Japan: continuity and change of state-nature relations
	Sadik Hasan Thesis topic or title: Public Administration in the Information Age: Effect of E-government on Government-Citizen Relationship in Bangladesh
	Stewart Jackson Thesis topic or title: The Australian Greens: a parliamentary party in a cartel system?
	Johnson Louie Thesis topic or title: America’s Liberal Hegemony: Change and Stability in a Unipolar World
	Ron Lubensky Thesis topic or title:Citizens make sense in deliberative activity
	Stephen Mills Thesis topic or title: ‘Planning for Victory’: Changing Campaign Practices of Australia’s major Federal political parties, 1972-2007
	Delphine Rabet Thesis topic or title: Corporate power and national governance: a study of French and American corporations in Mexico in terms of their environmental policies and self-regulatory initiatives
	Cate Thomas Thesis topic or title: The Research Utilisation Nexus: Putting Research into Practice. An examination of research to practice utilisation in a child welfare context in New South Wales
	Helena Muhamad Varkkey Thesis topic or title: Transboundary Haze and the ASEAN Way
	Chris Winslow Thesis topic or title: My brother’s keeper: bilateralism in the age of global governance
	Marilyn Wise Thesis topic or title: Increasing the power of minority populations to engage in setting public policy agendas, in framing problems and solutions, and in adopting policy.
	Yelena Nikolayevna Zabortseva Thesis topic or title: “Kazakhstan’s-Russian Relations(1991-2008)