average rate of 3.5% and has not experienced an economic downturn since 1990/91. This success is largely due to the significant microeconomic reforms in the 1980’s as well as the resources boom and high levels of consumer confidence have left the Australian economy in a strong position. Levels of economic following the prolonged period of growth in 2007/08 were at 3.8%‚ levels of growth‚ this fell to 1.6% during the 2008/09 financial year as a result of the Global financial crisis and the subsequent
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“Many people living in poverty do not want to be living in poverty. In order to obtain a higher level of socioeconomic status‚ crime is seen as the only option.” (Wilson‚ 1987). Crime exists everywhere in the world – in rural and urban areas in many countries‚ in the East and West‚ and among all types of people. This has led many government officials‚ especially those in urban areas‚ to focus largely on the reduction of crime among their respective constituencies and has led others to speculate
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Territories)‚ Queensland (1859)‚ and Western Australia (1890). These one-time colonies became states within a federation as the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901‚ created by a British Act of Parliament. Now the British Monarchy is merely a figurehead in Australian politics. An appointed Governor ’ General represents the monarchy but has little actual power. The country is a parliamentary democracy whose legislative branch is made up of an elected Senate and House of Representatives. The executive branch consists
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of national identity in Australia. How has/have national identify/ies been portrayed and maintained and which groups have been excluded? The nature of Australian’s national identity has been an ongoing debate for many years. It involves how Australians see themselves‚ and how other countries view Australia as a whole. Throughout the country’s history‚ the national identity has not remained constant‚ and currently it is a debate to what Australian’s true national identity is. As the original
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Link wheel is effective and widely used internet marketing strategy. The basic idea of link wheel is to create a variety of links which flow from your site to another site which would finally link to your targeted website requiring promotion. The best‚ common and free method of setting up a link wheel is to use free free web 2.0 websites that generate “do follow” links. These web 2.0 websites are important because they sometimes tend to hold a higher page rank value. The theory is very easy to
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Is our Australian identity a matter for pride or shame? Is it thongs‚ the beach‚ the bush‚ lamingtons and the sun? Or Flies‚ kangaroos‚ wife beaters and the Bunnings sausage sizzle? Depictions like these have been used to describe Australia for decades‚ however is this the epitome of the Australian national identity? Poetry‚ a practical and engaging form of language has deepened and challenged my understanding of Australian Identity through the questioning and exploration of the treatment of Australian
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Alcohol & Aggression – The Missing Link? Increasing attention is being paid to the question of what exactly is the nature of the association between alcohol and aggression. There is certainly a need to better understand how some patterns of drinking intersect with some patterns of violence. A desire for some form of intoxication appears to be part of the common personality of human nature‚ one of its universal constants. The cultural manifestations of this drive are diverse‚ but all societies
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What is the Australian Identity? Introduction For years‚ many sociologists defined national identity simply as shared feelings of understanding‚ national sense of self and cultural heritage. In 2012‚ Holmes‚ D.‚ Hughes‚ K. & Julian‚ R. (2012) made a compelling statement that national identity‚ while reinforcing a shared sense of character and uniqueness‚ creates a rather singular identity that not all people within the country will necessarily share. In Australia‚ national identity has become
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Like lots of indigenous and cultural groups‚ they have their own explanations of how the world was created! * The aboriginals believe that everything around them exists because of the dreaming * This is an ongoing belief of the indigenous Australians that has occurred due to the past‚ is present in our society and one a belief that will continue in the future. * It was believed that at the beginning of time spirit ancestors wandered the earth in the form of animals. * They believe that
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Springer 2010 Fair Trade and the Depersonalization of Ethics ´ˆ Jerome Ballet ´ Aurelie Carimentrand ABSTRACT. Fair Trade has changed considerably since its early days. In this article‚ we argue that these changes have led to a depersonalization of ethics‚ thus raising serious questions about the future of Fair Trade. In particular‚ the depersonalization of ethics which is seen to accompany the current changes has led to greater variety in the interpretations of Fair Trade. Hiding these divergences
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