IT helps Australian bank achieve carbon-neutrality National Australia Bank has adopted tri-generation‚ private cloud‚ modular data centres National Australia Bank (NAB)‚ one of Australia’s big four banks‚ has detailed how changes to its data centres helped the organisation to become carbon neutral in a white paper (PDF) issued by the Open Data Center Alliance. The bank says it has been carbon neutral since 2010‚ thanks in large part to work on its data centres‚ which account for 43% of all energy
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The Adversary System Evaluate the effectiveness of the Adversary System as a means of achieving justice. In Australia the Adversary System is used as a way of ensuring justice is achieved fairly‚ equally and easily accessed. This system was inherited from Britain and concerns two contrasting parties presenting their evidence before a neutral third party. This system of trial is successful in accomplishing several aspects of the legal system‚ such as protecting individual’s rights‚ meeting society’s
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of relieving pain and agony. The people who opt for euthanasia suffer from an incurable and painful disease or are in an irreversible coma. Euthanasia has been the subject of much moral‚ religious‚ philosophical‚ legal and human rights debate in Australia. At the core of this debate is how to
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funding to private schools while cutting the funding to public schools (Save Our Schools (c)‚ 2016). If the federal and state government continue to fund private schools more than public schools‚ then they are creating an education inequality in Australia. This system will only strengthen the already privileged students and will continue to disadvantage
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Methamphetamine – most commonly used drug in Australia. It has become the single biggest health and law issue for regional communities. Methamphetamine is an extremely addictive drug that immediately creates a feeling of intense euphoria that quickly fades away‚ resulting in repeating dosages by users. It elevates the levels of dopamine in the brain‚ forming extreme motivation‚ pleasure and motor function. Repeated use of the drug may have effect such as sleeplessness‚ aggression‚ psychiatric
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without a major accident or significant loss of cargoes Exploration and Production Australia | back to top | * 2011 net production 7.6 mmboe. * Exploration and development of onshore CSG acreage in the Surat and Bowen basins. * Exploring shale gas potential in the Cooper basin. * Exploring deep gas sands potential in the south of the Bowen basin. * Total gross resources in Australia of more than 25 tcf. * BG Group supplies the
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In this presentation I’ll explain why voluntary euthanasia should be legalised in Australia when a person is suffering from a terminal illness or are already in the late stages of an illness that cannot be cured. Euthanasia is known as the practice of deliberately ending a life which releases an individual from an incurable disease or intolerable suffering. This mercy killing is often referred as an easy and painless death. This can be done from the request of a dying patient or that person’s
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a protection notice. Breaching one of these domestic violence orders can have serious ramifications and to be considered a criminal offence. Since the Since the 1970s there has been considerable change to the law relating to domestic violence in Australia. Recent changes in Queensland government enacted a new legislation with substantial changes to domestic violence laws in Queensland. Occurring on the 28th of February the Queensland government began implementing numerous changes to the domestic violence
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1. Outline TWO indicators of morbidity. Include examples in your answer. (3 marks) Morbidity one of the two measures of epidemiology is used to illustrate the prevalence and incidence of illness‚ disease and injury that don’t result in death but reduces the quality of life‚ either temporarily or permanently for an individual within a population. Morbidity can be measured or indicated through such things as: Hospital use: The number of admissions to hospital and their causes are vital statistics
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polarizing issues all come together to create a multilayered society of competing factions‚ ideals‚ values‚ beliefs‚ religious identities‚ political and social identities‚ and cultures. We see this happening all over in the West‚ and even here in Australia we see this clashing of divergent cultures. These conflicting ideologies within a single national geographic area have made it increasingly difficult for policy makers to understand these different factions and to create policy which serves the greatest
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