AN EARTHQUAKE IN AUSTRALIA Australia has a relatively low rate of seismicity due to its location towards the centre of the Indo-Australian Tectonic Plate. Earthquake activity is much higher around the margins of the Indo-Australian Plate‚ for example In places such as Indonesia‚ Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. Nevertheless‚ many historic earthquakes have Occurred in Australia and Geosciences Australia’s database (QUAKES) contains information on tens of thousands Of historic earthquakes in the
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Multicultural Australia: Australia’s Immigration History and Current Political Debate Ryan Besgrove Word Count: 1‚491 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY INTRODUCTION People have always come to Australia through immigration. Whether it be 45‚000 years ago via nomadic boats (Broome‚ 1994) or through the efforts of the British Empire to expand their Anglican empire (Ferguson‚ 2003). As a result modern Australia is a composite of many varying cultures and ethnicities. It is often said that Australia is a multicultural
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group of convicts were transported to Australia. Convicts are the people who found guilty of crime. All the convicts were transported Australia by ship and fleets. After the first fleet arrived to Australia‚ there were a lot of fleets arrived to Australia as well. Consequently‚ The Australia’s government were kept for each convict and up till the mid-1800s they recorded names‚ date and place of trial and sentence. The convicts were transported to all over Australia such as New South Wales‚ Queensland
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Synopsis Australia is known as a multicultural country. It is because there are lots of people from different country‚ racial and ethnics settled in Australia. They called themselves Australian and make Australia as their home. Although nowadays most people can easily accept the others from different races‚ racism still exists in Australia. Immigrants and Indigenous were the group of people being discriminated and excluded from the society in the past. Their human rights have been neglected. The
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(2013) states that the VF model as a new product cannot alleviate the crisis in the market and influence Holden’s decline 12.5% in 2012 (Appendix 1). In 2013‚ Holden manufacturing plants suddenly announced that it will cease its production line in Australia in 2017. The main reason is that Holden doesn ’t have a definite understanding of the consumer preferences and purchase intentions. These problems resulted in the company facing difficulty with their business operation. 1.2 Decision Makers Key Goal
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Demographics of Australia Demographics are the quantifiable figures of a given population. Demographics are also used to recognize the study of quantifiable subsets contained by a specified population which illustrate that population at a particular point in time. Australia’s estimated population in year 2013 is projected to be 22‚917‚910. In June 2012‚ the estimated resident population of Australia was 22‚ 683‚600 people. This reflects an increase of 359‚600 people since June 2011 and 87‚100 people
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Market study: Lubricants November 2012 Summary The Lubricating Oil Market in Australia 3 Introduction 3 The Packaging of Retail Lubricating Oil 3 Major actors in the sector 4 The Lubricating Oil Market in Australia Introduction The consumption of lubricating oil in Australia totalled 458 megalitres (ML) in 2009/10. The major users are industrial and mining companies‚ primary producers‚ transport companies and the automotive industry. These commercial users account for approximately
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society to nations or societies whose populations have become increasingly multi-ethnic as a result of immigration. Australia is one such diverse society that has seen 7 million immigrants from over 150 nations
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A national day is a day which has significant importance to a nation and is celebrated throughout the nation. These days are usually associated with the nationhood of a nation‚ the day it became a new state or territory. However‚ Australia Day is celebrated on January 26‚ marking the day that Captain Arthur Philips landed in Sydney in 1788. When Captain Philips and 11 convict ships landed in Sydney they immediately started taking over land that was already inhibited by Indigenous people. Forcing
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Racism affects everybody. This is shown in the movie ‘Australia’‚ how everyone can be affected by racism. Many different ways of racism towards people in the movie ‘Australia’. A few of the main characters that are affected in the movie is Nullah‚ The Drover‚ Lady Ashley. The people that are being most affected in the movie would have to be the indigenous‚ that’s because the time the movie was set in‚ was when the white australia policy was happening‚ so pretty much every Australian was being racist
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