Our kids aren’t getting smarter. They are going backwards. Dear Editor‚ I selected this topic from your newspaper heading. ‘Prime Minister Julia Gillard’ set an ambitious goal for Australian education to be ranked as a top-five country in reading‚ mathematics and science by 2025. But according to the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) Report‚ in 2000‚ Australia’s education system was ranked number two in the world for reading and mathematics and ranked three for science. Today
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The benefits of Australian landforms Australia has many significant and beautiful landforms that are valuable and unique. These landforms provide many benefits that have important outcomes for the economy‚ and the survival of life and vegetation in Australia. Australia’s most precious landforms are its water bodies each of which has a very important role for the survival of life and vegetation in Australia. The two largest and most important water bodies in Australia are its large
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“Welcome to Australia.” Her voice rung with the familial tongue of our home land. The short woman‚ who stood with a small group‚ extended her arms towards us as we walked from the arrival gates. Men in suits with stone white faces shook my mother and father’s anxious hands. With heavy accents‚ in broken attempts‚ the men greeted my brother and I in the language of our home. Our responses were meek and fragmented as our nervous clouded our tired minds. A flash of light and quick smiles were formed
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Australian rules is set in a small rural town‚ where the relationships between the white townspeople and the Aboriginal people on the mission are complex‚ conflicted and marred by deeply entrenched racism. The local football team in many ways serves to represent the town‚ it reflects the conflicted relationship between the white people and the Aboriginal people- we begin to understand this as the film unfolds. Other themes inherent in the film are themes of family‚ love‚ loyalty and violence-
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Australia’s Flora and Fauna Using the internet and the websites provided‚ answer the following questions and complete the profile. Questions 1. Define the terms: * Flora Plants * Fauna Animals * Monotreme A primitive mammal which lays eggs. Marsupial A mammal of an order (Marsupialia) whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch * Eucalyptus Fast-growing evergreen Australasian tree * Endemic (of a disease or condition)
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1. Journal Name‚ Type and paper Structure The paper chosen for this critique is an academic article “Social Networking as a Marketing Tool: The Case of a Small Australian Company” which was published in the Journal of Hospitality Marketing and Management‚ Volume 19‚ 2010‚ pages 700-716 and is a case study that researches the use of Web 2.0‚ in this case MySpace as a marketing tool. The Journal covers different subjects including hospitality industry‚ international internet marketing‚ tourism‚ tourism
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nation. Between the mid 1990’s and mid 2000’s‚ incomes of the top 20% of earners grew four times faster than that of the bottom 20%. (Mccamish 2009‚ The Age 16 Aug 2009). A study by Andrew Leigh revealed that ‘in the early 1990’s‚ a CEO in a top 50 company earned 27 times more than the national average; only a decade
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total world aid. The majority of Australia’s Aid is sent to this region and countries such as Papua New Guinea‚ East Timor and Indonesia. Government Organizations Australian Government ’s overseas aid program is Federal Government funded and aims to reduce poverty in developing countries. The program is managed through the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID)‚ which reports directly to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. AusAID helps fund international organizations such as the
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The codification of the Criminal Code has marked a watershed on Australian legal jurisprudence. In this essay I will discuss the problems that may occur when interpreting the Criminal Code (The Code)‚ the creation of uniformity and the also accessibility that the Code creates. The Criminal Code WA is a piece of legislation that has been passed by parliament the states that have enacted this legislation are referred to as Code jurisdictions‚ and the states that have not are known as Common Law jurisdictions
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Directors are wills and minds of a company. Furthermore‚ Directors are defined as a person who is responsible and in charge for managing the company’s trade activities and affairs (Hanrahan‚ Ramsay and Stapledon 2010). Directors are appointed by members (Shareholders) after chosen the right person by another director of the company. In company’s view directors are the responsible bodies that are generate more profits to the company. Harris‚ Hargovan and Adams (2011) defined the term of best interest
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