breakers. Paragraph 1 Following the end of World War I‚ it took eighteen months to return 260‚000 Australian soldiers to their home and with them they brought the world-wide “Spanish influenza’ epidemic‚ which caused almost 12‚000 deaths in Australia. The soldiers had been told they would return to a land fit for heroes but Australia’s economy could not quickly adjust to the addition of so many workers. Initially 417‚000 men had enlisted in the AIF‚ which resulted in women emerging from their
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Is Australia an inclusive society? Reports from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2003a‚ 2003b‚ as cited in Ashman & Elkins‚ 2009‚ p. 7) show 25% of the Australian population is currently made up of migrants from around 200 countries. This fact demonstrates Australia‚ on the whole‚ has a tolerant and inclusive society. A society can be identified as a collection of people who live together in a relatively ordered community (Ashman & Elkins‚ 2009‚ p. 7). It could be said‚ Australia has one of
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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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more taxes than the native employee. Immigration clearly expands the national economy‚ especially for the context of Australia (Wooden‚ 1990 and Foster and Baker‚ 1991). For example‚ The Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS) and State Specific Regional Migration (SSRM)‚ these both schemes play a vital role in the economic growth of Australia‚ especially in regional areas. Australia has forefront policies of skilled migration for promoting population growth and economic growth of regional areas
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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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Under a market economy all decisions are made by individuals and private firms that are driven by self- interest. Without government intervention the Australia prone to the market failure in the allocation of resources efficiently. This market failure arises in the provision of certain goods and services and the inequitable distribution of income. The Australian government must intervene and address issues like those stated above to achieve desirable economic and social outcomes The need for government
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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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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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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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