the decade‚ women won the right to equal pay and maternity leave and Indigenous peoples made progress on land rights. In 1972‚ Australian troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and in 1975‚ the nation was rocked by the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. The 1960s hippie movement also continued into the early 1970s‚ with many young people adhering to the values of peace‚ love and freedom and protesting against issues concerning the environment‚ politics and war. These changing aspects in society
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must it be either multiculturalism or the three values stated previously‚ egalitarianism‚ mateship and freedom‚ why not all four? Murray‚ for the purpose of this article‚ uses a carefully constructed photographic montage to include proponents‚ Gough Whitlam and Harold Holt‚ and opponents of multiculturalism‚ Sir Henry Parkes. He has pictured Australia and its place in the world overlaid on the Australian flag and tied it in with the emblem of American migration‚ “Give me your tired‚ your poor‚ your
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Author | URL | Retrieved | Skwirk | http://www.skwirk.com.au/p-t_s-14_u-116_t-316/the-impact-of-the-war/nsw/history/australia-in-the-vietnam-war-era | 13/7 | Vietnam War Commemoration | http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/ | 13/7 | Vietnam War Commemoration | http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/public-opinion/index.php | 14/7 | Vietnam War Commemoration | http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/conscription/save-our-sons.php | 14/7 | Shrine | http://www.shrine.org
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The Women’s Electoral Lobby formed in 1972 which lobbied for childcare and maternity leave. In 1975‚ the Whitlam Government elected women’s representative; Elizabeth Reid to address women’s rights in the political arena. Employment During the early 1970s‚ there was a significant push to make tertiary education in Australia more accessible to working and middle class Australians. The Whitlam Labor Government abolished university fees on January 1st 1974. Equal pay progression was up to 1974 including
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The ’White Australia’ policy describes Australia’s approach to immigration from federation until the latter part of the 20th century‚ which favoured applicants from certain countries. The abolition of the policy took place over a period of 25 years. Following the election of a coalition of the Liberal and Country parties in 1949‚ Immigration Minister Harold Holt allowed 800 non-European refugees to remain in Australia and Japanese war brides to enter Australia. Over subsequent years Australian
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Edward Gough Whitlam Gough Whitlam was the 26th prime minister‚ born in Melbourne on the 11th of July 1916‚ the son of a solicitor who became a leading public servant; his background was abnormal for a Labor man. He joined the party in 1945 as he joined the APL in Sydney. In those days‚ many of the leading Labor personalities were Irish Catholics from working class background. Whitlam‚ an intellectual from an intellectual family‚ had never needed to sweat for his salary in the dust and heat. Whitlam
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Who is he‚ when and where did he live? What have they done that impacted Australia Sir William Patrick Deane‚ was born on the 4th January 1931‚ he was an Australian judge and the 22nd Governor-General of Australia. * | William Deane was born in Melbourne‚ Victoria. He was educated at Catholic schools including St. Joseph’s College‚ Hunters Hill and at the University of Sydney‚ where he graduated in arts and law. He also attended the Hague Academy of International Law. After graduation
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After the Second World War‚ communist fears in Australia were high. This fear was intertwined with politics and as a result of this‚ Prime Minister Robert Menzies was able to quite skilfully exploit the threat of Communism for electoral gain. He raised the threat of Communism before each election‚ stimulated opposition disarray and scared the more impressionable voters back to supporting the coalition. As well as impacting on Australian politics‚ communism and the fear of communism greatly affected
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The primary internal reason how Australia responded to the threat of communism was by Menzies and the Liberal Party attempting to ban the CPA. Menzies tried to ban the CPA two times. The first time was in 1950‚ when the Liberal Party introduced the Communist Party Dissolution Bill (CPDB). Menzies tried to make it a law so that the CPA would become illegal. However‚ this was unsuccessful as the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and many other unions opposed it as this would lead to the Liberal Party to
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Dear Mr Abbot‚ My name is Matthew Wright and I am in year 9 at Turramurra High School. I am writing to you regarding the coalition’s foreign aid budget. In 2005 John Howard promised to double Australian aid and recently the Australian Labor Party promised to further lift it to 0.5% of our gross national income by 2015. Our foreign aid is still sitting on 0.34%. There are millions of people depending on developed countries like Australia to help them out. It is easy to ask why it has to be us‚ but
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