Associate – Professor Wayne Hudson, Division of Humanities at Griffith University, for his unstinting committment to helping see this project through to its final completion, and his equally generous and wise guidence during its development;

Professor. David Moss, Division of Humanities at Griffith University, for assistance while Dr. Hudson was on study leave during late 1989;

Dr. Brian Martin, Department of Science and Technology Studies at Wollongong University, for friendship and intellectual advice;

Ralph Summy of the Department of Government at Queensland University, Andrew Mack and Dr. Jan Pettman of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University, Professor Jim Falk of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Wollongong University, and other members of the Australian Peace Education and Research Association go my special thanks;

Dr. Trevor Jordan, for research assistance, and to Dr Edwin Dowdy, and Rev. Prof. Han Spykeboer, who read earlier chapter drafts. Associate – Professor David Saunders, of the Division of Humanities at Griffith University, and Dr. April Carter, of the Department of Government at Queensland University, also offered insightful comments on later drafts;

Dave Keenan and Janelle Briggs for computing expertise and assistance.

Initial research for this thesis was done while I was in receipt of a Griffith University Postgraduate Research Award, and was completed while I was holding a lectureship in media communications in the Faculty of Arts at the University of New England – Northern Rivers, laterly Southern Cross University, in Lismore, New South Wales, and I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Southern Cross University’s Learning and Information Centre staff for research assistance during the concluding stages of thesis preparation.

The Dean of the Arts Faculty at Southern Cross University, Professor Leon Cantrell, gave me time away from teaching to complete the thesis, and I gratefully acknowledge his generous support.