Privacy under Australian law means the right for a person to be protected from intrusion into their personal lives and allows them to control the flow of their information. Privacy has been an issue for some time now and I agree with Igor’s summation of the law that it only provides little comprehensive protection. With people being surrounded by technology that continues to rapidly grow‚ many Australian’s are concerned with how their information is dealt with by organisations and individuals. Some
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background on the issue‚ together with links to relevant sites and documents. For a comprehensive‚ well-presented‚ study released in April 2006 and covering thesame ground as this e-brief‚ see Content‚ Consolidation and Clout: How will regional Australia be affected by media ownership changes? The Executive summary and key findings are available online here. The Constitutional Position The Commonwealth’s legislative controls on media ownership can be divided into two broad categories: specific
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Legalization of Euthanasia in Australia INTRODUCTION Today I’m going to talk about the legalization of Euthanasia in Australia and here is a personal story for you to think about. It’s been eight months since your father‚ once an active and energetic man‚ has been diagnosed with motor neuron disease. The effects of the disease are beginning to take their toll on him and now with his limited motor skills‚ he has recently been confined to a wheelchair. The doctors tell your family that he has less
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(beyondblue‚ n.d.; mind your head‚ n.d.). Affecting one in seven Australians in their lifetime‚ and approximately one million Australian adults in any one year‚ depression has the third highest burden of all diseases both internationally and in Australia (Black Dog Institute‚ 2012). Fortunately‚ the Council of Australian Governments Roadmap for National Mental Health Reform 2012-22 has committed to minimising the stigma and discrimination towards mental illnesses within
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Just like India where the largest wine imports are from France‚ China’s largest wine imports are also from France but followed by Australia with financial figures available as bottled wine exports from Australia reached level of USD 87 million in 2009 as against USD6 Million in 2004. China imports huge volumes of wine from Australia. In view of the above‚ Australia has become largest supplier of bottled wine led by France. The top four suppliers i.e. Southcorp‚ Beringer Blass‚ BRL Hardy and Orlando
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The negative points of cloning greatly outweigh the positive. This is proved by the fact that cloning is currently illegal in Australia‚ so other people must feel the same way. With plant cloning‚ the genetic makeup is the same for each clone made from the same DNA. If the original DNA has a disease‚ all of the clones will have it too. Plant clones will also be vulnerable to the same diseases and environmental factors as the original plant. This means that if all the cloned plants are in one area
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the habits and ways of the Australian Aborigines Aborigines 3 Australian Aboriginals The Australian Aborigines are a nomadic band of people that roam the outback of Australia. They walk for miles a day‚ rest at night‚ and then walk some more the next day. The men kill the animals of Australia for food and the women gather what roots and berries that they can find. They travel from place to place according to the seasons.
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Contrast the activities of the four major Australian banks with those of the regional banks. The four major banks have a national focus and offer banking at corporate and retail levels‚ not only throughout Australia but also overseas. Many of the regional banks were building societies which converted to banks and thus tended to conduct their activities within the confines of the region or state where they had traditionally operated. More recently the regional
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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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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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