Everything Sydney Andrea Phillips Mrs. Everett 14 April 2015 5th Block Outline Thesis: Sydney‚ Australia is full of fun year round because of its warm weather‚ amazing wildlife‚ beautiful art pieces‚ world renowned universities‚ and big waves; therefore Sydney accommodates people from all walks of life. Introduction Activities Get some dragon beard candy at Friday night’s Chinatown Night Market Observatory Hill Park is a great place for a picnic Take a surfing class in Sydney Go to
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Description and container tonnages of each port Port of Melbourne The Port of Melbourne is the largest container and general cargo port in Australia and one of the top four container ports in the southern hemisphere. The port now has around 3‚400 commercial ship calls per year and handles more than 2.5 million twenty foot equivalent units annually and around 1‚000 motor vehicles and 7‚000 containers per day on average. In the 2011 to 2012 financial year‚ the total trade of Melbourne Port increased
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The Industrial Revolution had a great impact on not only Great Britain‚ but Australia as well. Wool‚ wheat and mining where just a few of the things that Australia provided during the 1800s. Australia provided Great Britain with many raw materials in the nineteenth century such as wool‚ to meet the demands of the new textile industry‚ wheat to feed the population and increase what was growing on British farms‚ metals such as gold‚ copper‚ lead‚ zinc‚ silver and tin‚ and other materials such as
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AUSTRALIA Australia is a truly unique place. It is the world’s 6th largest country and its smallest continent. Australia is the same size as 48 states of USA or 1‚5 Europe. However‚ it still has the lowest population in the world- 23‚829‚000 or only 2 people per square km. After World War II‚ Australia has launched a massive immigration program which include: employment visas‚ student visas‚ family visas‚ skilled visas‚ programs for refugees and Special Humanitarian Program. According to Australian
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THE BENEFITS OF MIGRATION IN AUSTRALIA SUBMISSION: Committee Secretary‚ Joint Standing Committee on Migration House of Representatives‚ Parliament House‚ Canberra ACT 2600 NH 28 February‚ 2011 The beginnings of white migration and multiculturalism in Australia saw our British forefathers arriving in boats on the shores of the “land down under”. Boat loads of prisoners – reluctant migrants - from an overflowing British penal system were brought to Australia to be used for punishment and
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States and Australia were once a British colony. However‚ this right pair of fellow sufferers had embarked on completely different paths of development two hundred years later: the United States had become the world pole‚ Australia had entered the ranks of developed countries‚ but in terms of the economic‚ financial and educational fields‚ there was a big gap between the two countries. I think that the choice of political system is crucial to the country’s development. The U.S.A and Australia chose the
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The production and sale of cigarettes should be illegal in Australia. Smoking is the largest avoidable cause of cancer and is responsible for more cancer deaths than any other factors. Smoking puts a heavy toll on public and private treasuries‚ as it is a financial burden principally from the costs of treating illnesses that arise from smoking. Cigarettes kill up to 6 million people every year‚ a number that is rapidly growing rather than shrinking. According to (WHO 2015)‚ 100 million deaths
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Australian Gold rush changed Australia The gold rushes in the second half of the 19th century would completely change the way Australia would look at its self and how other nations and people would look at it. Before 1851‚ Australia’s combined recorded white population was approximately 77‚000. Most of these where convicts‚ slaved and war captives who had been inhabiting Australia for the past 70 years. But the gold rush completely changed the small country Australia the convicts where used to
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apologised for the mistreatment and removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children the Federal government hadn’t apologised officially. But on the 13th February 2008‚ the Prime Minister gave an apology to the Stolen Generations over all Australia. “Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land… We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families‚ their communities and their country. To the mothers and the fathers‚ the brothers
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Luhrmann’s Australia and Perkins’ Bran Nue Dae could be said to approach the apology to the Stolen Generations from different perspective. Discuss with reference to style. Director Baz Luhrmann and Director Rachel Perkins both addressed Australia’s cruel and racist history and the aboriginal’s Stolen Generation in Australia and Bran Nue Dae‚ respectively. Both films follow the lead of Australian government and made an effort to apologize the Stolen Generation. Unfortunately‚ neither Australia nor
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