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Advances in language and education
This book examines new functional approaches to language and education, and the impact of these on literacy in the classroom. The first section looks at issues of multimodality, in which the definition of a text is expanded to include not only that which is written down, but also the interaction of writing, graphics, and audiovisual material. The contributors explores ways in which language education can be expanded to deal with multimodal discourse, whether in children's books, in textbooks, or on the web. The second section looks at how critical discourse analysis and appraisal theory can be used as tools for assessing the effectiveness of student writing and literacy achievement, and also for helping developing writers to write more successfully. The final section argues that corpus-based studies of language have changed the way we see language, and that the way we teach language should evolve in line with these changes. This appealing survey of new directions in language and education includes contributions from internationally renowned scholars. It will be of interest to researchers in systemic functional linguistics, or language and education.
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High Court overturns Mallard murder conviction
KERRY O'BRIEN: Now to a major development on a story we first brought to you two years ago. The High Court today overturned an 11- year-old murder conviction, sending the case of Western Australian Andrew Mallard back for retrial. The court found that significant evidence had been withheld from the jury in 1994 and criticised both the prosecution and the State Supreme Court of Appeal. It's the latest in a series of controversial cases in the west that have been overturned. Mick O'Donnell reports. MICK O'DONNELL: In 1994, Andrew Mallard, a young Perth man with a history of psychiatric problems, was convicted for the murder of [Pamela Susan Lawrence] in her jewellery shop in Perth's affluent western suburbs. She had been struck repeatedly in the head, but the murder weapon was never found. MICK O'DONNELL: But Andrew Mallard has maintained his innocence, twice submitting to lie detector tests. This one was arranged by Perth newspaper journalist Colleen Egan.
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Industry supports fly in, fly out operations
KERRY O'BRIEN: As the energy and mining industries boom, and in the shadow of tough new industrial relations laws, employers in some of Australia's remote regions are desperate to attract skilled workers. Increasingly they're flying those workers in, often thousands of kilometres, and then flying them back home for leave breaks in the capital cities. The fly in, fly out phenomenon is most extreme in Western Australia, where now only half the state's mine workers are drawn from homes close to the workplace. Politicians bemoan the paradox that bush towns continue to decline, even in the midst of a boom, but industry claims there's no easy solution. Mick [MICK O'DONNELL] reports. MICK O'DONNELL: But now, despite the unprecedented demand for the region's riches of red iron ore, the town's employer, Pilbara Iron, has changed its mind, switching Marandoo to a fly in, fly out work force. Workers like [KEVIN WALSH], who want to stay here, will actually lose pay, working different shifts on lower status at another local mine. MICK O'DONNELL: [Darren Morris] was trained by Pilbara Iron under an Indigenous employment program but he felt his connection to the land of his Banjama people was being forgotten in the move to fly in, fly out.
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Halloran free to leave Sierra Leone
KERRY O'BRIEN: Senior Australian police officer Peter Halloran is preparing to return home to Australia after a court of appeal in Sierra Leone yesterday quashed his conviction for indecent assault of a schoolgirl. The former head of the Victorian homicide squad, who was commander of the United Nations-backed War Crimes Investigation Unit in the war-torn African nation, has always proclaimed his innocence after allegations were made by a fellow Australian police officer. Now Halloran plans to pursue those in Australia who he claims smeared his name, including the officer who first raised the allegations. Mick [MICK O'DONNELL] reports. MICK O'DONNELL: The case against Halloran was initiated by a fellow war crimes investigator - former Tasmanian detective Mandy Cordwell. She and Halloran had shared this house in the hills above the city. There, Halloran had hired 13-year-old Kadie Kabia as a nanny for a girlfriend's son. MICK O'DONNELL: The board of inquiry questions why, if Mandy Cordwell was so concerned about seeing the young girl go into Halloran's room: \"She takes no actions to safeguard the welfare of the child. \" And it says Cordwell tried: \"To put ideas in the girl's head about serious sexual assault.\" During the court case against Halloran, the young girl recanted the claims against him. She said Mandy Cordwell and a Sierra Leone police woman had offered her inducements to accuse Halloran.
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Confusion over missing stallion mounts
KERRY O'BRIEN: In his place is another similar looking horse. The strange tale ring-in has embarrass add chain of authorities from Newmarket in Britain to Sydney and Western Australia. Apparently no- one in that chain realised that the wrong horse was being imported in place of Dubai Excellence. The mystery has raised questions about the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service's (AQIS) reliance on paper audits and it has left a Perth horse owner wondering just where in the world the real horse is. For owner Ted van Heemst, who forked out near on $500,000 to buy him, Dubai Excellence was as close as the breeding world gets to a sure thing. A prize stallion from the international Godolphin racing stable - one of the world's best. Dubai Excellence was coming to town with a full dance card of 80 mares. Ted van Heemst was going to charge his stallion's services at nearly $4,000 a pop. [MICK O'DONNELL]: By March this year, the picturesque Evergreen Lodge, south of Perth, had become the new home for the horse known as Dubai Excellence. And to all those involved in his export, from the Godolphin Darley Stable in Newmarket to the agistment centre in Suffolk where he'd been sold, to British Quarantine and then on to Customs and Quarantine in Sydney, he certainly looked like the horse in the passport.
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Zentai faces extradition over war crime
MAXINE McKEW: Back home now, and after months of deliberation by Australian authorities, Federal Police arrested an alleged war criminal in Perth last Friday. Charles Zentai, an 83-year-old man who came from Hungary over 50 years ago, is accused of the murder of a young Jewish Hungarian civilian in 1944. To now, Australia has had little success in dealing with alleged perpetrators of the crimes of the Holocaust. But now the Australian Government has chosen to act after Hungary applied for Mr Zentai's extradition to face charges back at the scene of the crime. The attempted extradition follows the failure of the last such case when the alleged criminal Conrad Kalejs died in Melbourne before the case was completed. Mick [MICK O'DONNELL] reports from Perth. MICK O'DONNELL: Zentai, serving in the Hungarian army, is alleged to have been involved in rounding up Jews who had previously escaped the Nazi purges. Witnesses claim that in 1944 Zentai grabbed the 19- year-old Balazs from a tram, and with other soldiers beat and killed him before throwing his body into the Danube River. [John Weiner] has been translating some of the witness statements against him. MICK O'DONNELL: What's not in dispute is that Karoly Zentai, who later anglicised his first name to Charles, arrived in Australia in 1950 on the passenger ship 'Fairsea', bringing with him his wife and two sons. By 1955 he had received Australian citizenship. But it's the document Zentai filled in for his citizenship application that's at the heart of the case against him. This excerpt obtained by the 'Australian' newspaper gives his time of departure from Hungary as March 1945. That sharply contradicts his family's recent claims he left there in 1944, just before [Peter Balasz] was murdered.
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Study into surgery deaths released
KERRY O'BRIEN: Since an Australian Government study a decade ago estimated 18,000 people a year died from adverse events in hospitals, there's been pressure to expose the flaws in the systems and fix them. The concern has led to one Western Australian surgeon initiating an audit into his own profession. The findings, released today, suggest there are preventable deaths happening which will only be stopped if surgeons review their work openly. Some are willing to own up to their errors in the operating theatre but only if their names are withheld. This has prompted calls for the names of doctors who make mistakes to be made public. Others say this will only make surgeons scapegoats for a fundamentally flawed hospital system. Mick O'Donnell reports. [MICK O'DONNELL]: Three years ago, cases like these led surgeons James Aitken to begin a pioneering study in Western Australia, the first state to attempt to audit every death related to surgery. MICK O'DONNELL: The need for surgeons to be more open about their successes and failures is starkly evident in a separate audit of deaths in trauma surgery at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney. The results, to be released tomorrow, suggest 21 per cent of trauma deaths between 96 and 2003 were potentially avoidable. It does sound shocking?
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