Australia currently has no nuclear facilities generating electricity‚ which is forcing the Australian Government to look towards nuclear energy as a great alternative. Nuclear energy is a growing controversial topic in Australia; because the demands of utilizing electricity are increasing rapidly. According to a recent study‚ Australia has 23% of the world’s uranium deposits and is the second largest producer of uranium. Which leads to one question‚ why isn’t Australia using nuclear
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PIRACY IN AUSTRALIA Professional Computing Practice - Assignment 1 Authors: Ornan Wei S3341875‚ Araunah Wei S3341874 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 4 2 ISSUES OF PIRACY 4 3 PIRACY SOLUTIONS 5 3.1 Stakeholders involved 5 3.2 Solution 1 6 3.3 Solution 2 6 3.4 Preferred solution 6 4 SURVEY 7 APPENDIX A: REFERENCES 8 APPENDIX B: KEY TERMS 9 1 INTRODUCTION As a first world nation‚ it is a surprised that Senator Brandis said that Australia is the worst offender of any
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Whether or not the term ’Roaring Twenties’ is an adequate description of the character of Australian society from 1920 to 1929 depends on the circumstances of the Australian population in this decade‚ because ’Roaring’ implies the 1920’s were full of dramatic social changes‚ which may have came about from spontaneous economical or political incidences and new inventions. In the 1920s Australian politics was dominated by the conservative parties and‚ despite some industrial discontent and hardship
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In his 2006 Australia Day speech‚ Prime Minister John Howard said‚ “all Australian’s have the right to express culture‚ beliefs and participate in National interests” 1. This essay raises the question about whether assimilation will create a tolerant Australia. Or is it a case of how long does a free society have to tolerate the intolerable? Assimilation by definition‚ is “the acceptance of a minority population into a majority population on the condition that the minority takes on the values
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– the inequality between the rich and poor‚ and the growing inequality between wages and profits. Through looking at these two relationships we can see the worsening condition of the distribution of income and wealth in Australia. When looking at changes in income in Australia‚ the recent trends (as seen in diagram 1 and diagram 2) shows the top 20% or highest quintile‚ increasing their income share from an averaged 38% in 1994/95 to over 41% in 2007/08. This increase has resulted from the long
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in developed countries. Australia is one of these countries which depends mainly on coal as a source of energy generation. While diversification of power will reduce the emission of CO2‚ Australia is still using coal for electrical generation purposes. This essay will discuss the case both for and against the diversification of energy sources in Australia. It will focus on the environment impacts of burning fossil fuels as well as the importance of coal industry in Australia. There are a number of
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Imagine the world where obesity was just a myth? Unfortunately‚ it is not and obesity is a serious health issue throughout Australia. Obesity does not only have an impact on the physical sector of health but has on all aspect of health in a way. Obesity weakens nearly every quality of wellbeing. “Someone who is 40% overweight is twice as likely to die prematurely as is an average-weight person” (Information on Health Risks Associated with Obesity at MedicineNet.com‚ 2016). Obesity results from
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has shown that restorative justice conferences can reduce re-offending among juvenile offenders. What is restorative justice and what is the evidence to suggest it is effective? Word Count: 2‚589 There has been considerable interest in Australia since the late 1980’s in the use of restorative justice as an alternative to court proceedings. In particular‚ conferencing has been identified as a viable tool to reduce the seemingly proliferating level of offending amongst juveniles (Alder & Wundersitz
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committing troops to overseas battles. The Prime Minster in charge was Robert Menzies‚ and was Prime Minister from 1949 through to 1966. He was very against communism and wanted to change laws about communism in australia. The response to communism in Asia was very important to Australias decisions in fighting against communism. At the end of World War 2‚ The United States and Soviet Russia both emerged as superpowers‚ but had conflicting political views. This relates to Source 1 of my sources as
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and Australia are two of the furthest countries apart in the world‚ (15‚ 696 km by flight) 1 a substantial amount of physical trade is very hard to maintain due to the long shipping time and expenses. The fact that Japan and China two of the worlds largest manufactures are located close by doesn’t help. Nevertheless some Irish based companies manage to supply and deliver products to Australia‚ companies such as Cadbury Microsoft‚ Dell and Apple. However a major source of revenue for Australia comes
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