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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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    To what extent is the ANZAC spirit relevant to life in Australia today? What can it teach us about the Australia we want for the future? To the perception of many Australians‚ the ANZAC spirit is a fundamental component to Australian identity but what is more it has been a moral example in which many Australians still commend on. The ANZAC spirit has presented itself in modern day Australia through its respected qualities such as pride and persistence and should manifest these values in the future

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    Shark Island Shark Island is a small island located in Sydney Harbour‚ Australia. It lies between the Harbour Bridge and the harbour entrance‚ offshore of the suburbs of Vaucluse‚ Point Piper and Rose Bay. The Island‚ at 1.25 hectares‚ is said to have resembled a shark and the shallow waters around it presented a constant danger to shipping. This is how it got its name. Physical Environment of Shark Island Weather & Climate The weather on Shark Island that day varied a lot. It was overcast

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    Similar to the United States and the United Kingdom‚ Australia has two major political parties. The two parties consist of the Liberal party and the Labor party‚ which are the biggest among all the other parties. The next in line of the Australian political parties is the Greens‚ which is significantly smaller than the Liberal or Labor parties. People with the Liberal party are in favor of more of a capitalist society. Currently Australia is under the control of the Liberal party led by Malcolm Turnbull

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    How did different groups within Australia respond to the war in Vietnam? Groups of Australians responded to the Vietnam War in diverse ways and these responses changed as the war went forward. This was because during the war the public were heavily exposed to violence and a firsthand sight of the war through television. Most Australians supported our involvement in the early years as it was seen as a black and white war‚ good vs evil and capitalist vs communist. In 1962 Prime Minister Menzies supported

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