Eugene Schofield-Georgeson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene Schofield-Georgeson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene |
| FAMILY NAME | Schofield-Georgeson |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOFIELD-GEORGESON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1022-4844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Fair Day’s Work: The Quest to Win Back Time
Contract, Labour Law and the Realities of Working Life
This book offers a critical and timely account of how labour law has become a means for protecting employers rather than workers. The past few decades have witnessed something of a ‘silent revolution’ in the traditional protective role that labour law has played in the lives of workers. While this transformation has been overt in the realm of the market and at the level of the legislature, the role of the judiciary in this process remains signifi…
Legal obstacles and possibilities for environmental bargaining in Australia
Informed by an emerging discourse in environmental labour studies, this article investigates the legality of environmental bargaining in Australia. It demonstrates that existing enterprise bargaining law mostly prevents meaningful and enforceable bargaining regarding environmental issues. Proposed here instead is that more impactful possibilities for environmental bargaining exist under state Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws. In this respect, th…
The emergence of coercive federal Australian labour law, 1901–2020
Over the past two decades, industrial relations scholarship has observed a trend towards an increasingly punitive industrial environment along with the ‘re-regulation’ of labour law. Absent from much of this literature, however, has been an empirical and historical measurement or comparison of the scale and quality of this systemic change. By surveying coercive and penal federal industrial legislation over the period 1901–2020, this study shows e…
Industrial legislation in Australia, 2020
In 2020, the Federal Morrison Liberal Government scrambled to respond to the effects of the international coronavirus pandemic on the Australian labour market in two key ways. First, through largescale social welfare and economic stimulus (the ‘JobKeeper’ scheme) and second, through significant proposed reform to employment laws as part of a pandemic recovery package (the ‘Omnibus Bill’). Where the first measure was administered by employers, the…
Industrial legislation in Australia in 2019
In this 2019 electoral year, a federal Morrison Liberal Government was returned to power with little in the way of an industrial agenda. It failed to implement its key legislation, which mainly included reform to union governance and changes to religious freedom in the workplace. Meanwhile, the state governments, particularly the Victorian Andrews Labor Government, reviewed a swathe of labour law, including wage theft, industrial manslaughter, ow…
The state and capital: Lessons from the first Australian banking royal commission and its aftermath
This paper explores the critical theorisation of royal commissions. It does so by examining the conduct and aftermath of a pivotal Australian executive enquiry into banking following the Great Depression. While generally accepting the critical theorisation of royal commissions as serving to ‘legitimate political subjection’, this paper argues that the current theorisation of royal commissions requires a more nuanced understanding of the State and…
Introduction to the Griffith Law Review Commission of Inquiry special issue
These introductory remarks outline the themes and articles that comprise this special issue of the Griffith Law Review on ‘Commissions of Inquiry’. The guest editors explain how the work collected
Coercive Investigation of Corporate Crime: What Investigators Say
This study investigates the use of coercive investigation powers in the context of corporate crime, based on a series of interviews with former Australian Securities and Investments Commission (‘ASIC’) enforcement officials and corporate lawyers. It argues that ASIC’s powers are well equipped to investigate corporate crime, but that ASIC rarely exercises these powers. In this respect, the article draws similar conclusions to the recent Royal Comm…
Silence Matters: A survey of the right to silence in the summary jurisdiction of New South Wales
There is a scant existing literature on the relationship between the right to silence and its effect on convictions in Australia and comparable jurisdictions. Existing research has downplayed its significance in the face of various ‘law and order’ interventions seeking to limit its operation. This study is one of the largest of its kind, surveying over 1,000 charges to empirically assess the frequency of use and the effects of silence rights (the…
Equity fines for corporate crime: Why they should be back on the legislative agenda
Corporate crime causes significant social and environmental harm and its sentencing is frequently ineffective due to the ability of corporations to pass-on monetary fines to stakeholders such as workers and consumers. This article investigates the notion of equity fines or share dilution as an alternative corporate punishment that avoids the pitfalls of conventional monetary fines while acting as a significant deterrent to corporate offending. It…
Undoing a model system: A new federal Custody Notification Service
The Custody Notification Service is a legislative scheme to prevent Aboriginal deaths in custody. This article discusses proposed changes to the federal Custody Notification Service, that were before the federal Parliament in late 2017. It argues that the changes are inadequate, when compared with Custody Notification Service models in other Australian jurisdictions, primarily because the laws deprive Aboriginal people of important fair trial and…
Health and community services for trafficked women: An exploratory study of policy and practice
The trafficking of women has attracted considerable international and national policy attention, particularly since the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (2000), of which the Australian Government has been a signatory since 2005. The provision of health and community services for trafficked women is a central feature of this Protocol, but in Australia service provision is made diffic…
Setting and Evaluating the Energy Content of Emergency Rations
This paper examines the setting and evaluation of emergency rations for refugees and displaced people. After defining the purpose for which rations are designed, the variables affecting their quantification are discussed. The debate concerning the use of one as opposed to a range of energy levels for different populations is highlighted in a review of recent proposals for ration levels. It is demonstrated that up to a twofold range occurs if diff…
Lactose absorption in a Western Massim population
A sample of adults from Goodenough Island represents the first Austronesian- speaking series to be tested for lactose absorption. The results found were similar to those for non-Austronesian-speakers tested on the nearby mainland of Papua New Guinea. It is not yet possible to conclude whether the polymorphism, so unexpectedly present in populations with no history of milk utilization, is an example of founder effect or whether it is kept in exist…
Health and community services for trafficked women: An exploratory study of policy and practice
The trafficking of women has attracted considerable international and national policy attention, particularly since the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (2000), of which the Australian Government has been a signatory since 2005. The provision of health and community services for trafficked women is a central feature of this Protocol, but in Australia service provision is made diffic…
Lactose absorption in a Western Massim population
A sample of adults from Goodenough Island represents the first Austronesian- speaking series to be tested for lactose absorption. The results found were similar to those for non-Austronesian-speakers tested on the nearby mainland of Papua New Guinea. It is not yet possible to conclude whether the polymorphism, so unexpectedly present in populations with no history of milk utilization, is an example of founder effect or whether it is kept in exist…
Setting and Evaluating the Energy Content of Emergency Rations
This paper examines the setting and evaluation of emergency rations for refugees and displaced people. After defining the purpose for which rations are designed, the variables affecting their quantification are discussed. The debate concerning the use of one as opposed to a range of energy levels for different populations is highlighted in a review of recent proposals for ration levels. It is demonstrated that up to a twofold range occurs if diff…
Health and community services for trafficked women: An exploratory study of policy and practice
The trafficking of women has attracted considerable international and national policy attention, particularly since the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (2000), of which the Australian Government has been a signatory since 2005. The provision of health and community services for trafficked women is a central feature of this Protocol, but in Australia service provision is made diffic…
Undoing a model system: A new federal Custody Notification Service
The Custody Notification Service is a legislative scheme to prevent Aboriginal deaths in custody. This article discusses proposed changes to the federal Custody Notification Service, that were before the federal Parliament in late 2017. It argues that the changes are inadequate, when compared with Custody Notification Service models in other Australian jurisdictions, primarily because the laws deprive Aboriginal people of important fair trial and…
Silence Matters: A survey of the right to silence in the summary jurisdiction of New South Wales
There is a scant existing literature on the relationship between the right to silence and its effect on convictions in Australia and comparable jurisdictions. Existing research has downplayed its significance in the face of various ‘law and order’ interventions seeking to limit its operation. This study is one of the largest of its kind, surveying over 1,000 charges to empirically assess the frequency of use and the effects of silence rights (the…
Equity fines for corporate crime: Why they should be back on the legislative agenda
Corporate crime causes significant social and environmental harm and its sentencing is frequently ineffective due to the ability of corporations to pass-on monetary fines to stakeholders such as workers and consumers. This article investigates the notion of equity fines or share dilution as an alternative corporate punishment that avoids the pitfalls of conventional monetary fines while acting as a significant deterrent to corporate offending. It…
Industrial legislation in Australia in 2019
In this 2019 electoral year, a federal Morrison Liberal Government was returned to power with little in the way of an industrial agenda. It failed to implement its key legislation, which mainly included reform to union governance and changes to religious freedom in the workplace. Meanwhile, the state governments, particularly the Victorian Andrews Labor Government, reviewed a swathe of labour law, including wage theft, industrial manslaughter, ow…
The state and capital: Lessons from the first Australian banking royal commission and its aftermath
This paper explores the critical theorisation of royal commissions. It does so by examining the conduct and aftermath of a pivotal Australian executive enquiry into banking following the Great Depression. While generally accepting the critical theorisation of royal commissions as serving to ‘legitimate political subjection’, this paper argues that the current theorisation of royal commissions requires a more nuanced understanding of the State and…
Introduction to the Griffith Law Review Commission of Inquiry special issue
These introductory remarks outline the themes and articles that comprise this special issue of the Griffith Law Review on ‘Commissions of Inquiry’. The guest editors explain how the work collected
Coercive Investigation of Corporate Crime: What Investigators Say
This study investigates the use of coercive investigation powers in the context of corporate crime, based on a series of interviews with former Australian Securities and Investments Commission (‘ASIC’) enforcement officials and corporate lawyers. It argues that ASIC’s powers are well equipped to investigate corporate crime, but that ASIC rarely exercises these powers. In this respect, the article draws similar conclusions to the recent Royal Comm…
Industrial legislation in Australia, 2020
In 2020, the Federal Morrison Liberal Government scrambled to respond to the effects of the international coronavirus pandemic on the Australian labour market in two key ways. First, through largescale social welfare and economic stimulus (the ‘JobKeeper’ scheme) and second, through significant proposed reform to employment laws as part of a pandemic recovery package (the ‘Omnibus Bill’). Where the first measure was administered by employers, the…
The emergence of coercive federal Australian labour law, 1901–2020
Over the past two decades, industrial relations scholarship has observed a trend towards an increasingly punitive industrial environment along with the ‘re-regulation’ of labour law. Absent from much of this literature, however, has been an empirical and historical measurement or comparison of the scale and quality of this systemic change. By surveying coercive and penal federal industrial legislation over the period 1901–2020, this study shows e…
Legal obstacles and possibilities for environmental bargaining in Australia
Informed by an emerging discourse in environmental labour studies, this article investigates the legality of environmental bargaining in Australia. It demonstrates that existing enterprise bargaining law mostly prevents meaningful and enforceable bargaining regarding environmental issues. Proposed here instead is that more impactful possibilities for environmental bargaining exist under state Work Health and Safety (WHS) laws. In this respect, th…
Contract, Labour Law and the Realities of Working Life
This book offers a critical and timely account of how labour law has become a means for protecting employers rather than workers. The past few decades have witnessed something of a ‘silent revolution’ in the traditional protective role that labour law has played in the lives of workers. While this transformation has been overt in the realm of the market and at the level of the legislature, the role of the judiciary in this process remains signifi…
A Fair Day’s Work: The Quest to Win Back Time
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