private collections. Her art has also been exhibited in many countries‚ including the United States. Sally Morgan has received many awards‚ including the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission Award for Literature in 1987 and the Western Australian Citizen of the Year Award for Arts‚ Literature and Culture in 1989. Her work is featured on the cover of the edition being used for the South Dakota Reading Series. The publisher offers this explanation of the painting: "The white house in the
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1 | Engineers’ Case | An industrial dispute between the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and employers across Australia included three employers from the Western Australian government.The ASE asserted that the Cth industrial award applied to all members including State employeess51(xxxv) ‘conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of industrial disputes extending beyond the limits of any one State’Was the industrial award made under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration
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for the Indigenous Australian Population Introduction Tobacco smoking is one of the main causes of major diseases in Australia and is still the largest single preventable cause of death (AIHW‚ 2008). Smoking counts for 15‚500 deaths annually and higher mortality and morbidity are found among Indigenous populations (AIHW‚ 2008). In Australia‚ the smoking prevalence is higher among the Aboriginal People and Torres Strait Islanders. Approximately 34.1% of Indigenous Australians are smoking‚ compared
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It is stated that We maintain and reproduce our cultural identity through what we read and write’. Many great Australian poets show the culture that Australia has through the strong imagery and emotive language portrayed in their poetry. Judith write is a famous Australian poet who wrote many poems that portrayed Australia’s Cultural Identity. Her poems The Wonga Vine"‚ "Jet Flight Over Derby"‚ "A Country Town" and "Two Dreamtimes" strongly reflect the landscape‚ environment‚ history‚ beliefs and
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crisis in Australian history. On that day Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Whitlam and appointed Malcolm Fraser to form a caretaker government‚ pending elections. The dismissal was the most dramatic event in the history of Australian federal politics. For the first time since Federation‚ the unelected representative of the Queen had removed a government which commanded a majority in the House of Representatives. The Dismissal‚ as it is known‚ remains a highly controversial event in Australian political
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The role of the minor parties within the Australian political system can be as their title suggests‚ quite minor. On the other hand‚ a minor party can influence the political proceedings of this country in more ways than one. Minor parties can highlight socio-economic problems that quite often fly under the radar of the larger political parties‚ or simply can broaden electoral debate. Often spawning from a social‚ or in the case of the Greens‚ an environmental movement‚ minor parties tend to only
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The Essay The speech ‘Funeral Service of the Unknown Australian Soldier’ by former Prime Minister Paul Keating has been chosen as the basis of this commentary. It was given on 11th of November 1993 at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra as a commemoration in honour of all of the soldiers who have served for Australia in conflict situations. Paul Keating’s point of view is evidently reflected through his speech. He aims to bring about the development of Australia as a unified nation by the instilling
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Essay Question: Why did forced separation from the land have such a devastating impact on Australian Aboriginal culture? For an estimated sixty thousand years Indigenous people lived‚ surviving off the land‚ in what is now known as Australia. On January 26th 1788 the first British to settle Australia arrived at the location that is presently called Port Jackson near Sydney. This arrival marked the beginning of a new era in Aboriginal history that saw over the next two hundred years
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disarray and scared the more impressionable voters back to supporting the coalition. As well as impacting on Australian politics‚ communism and the fear of communism greatly affected Australian society‚ as evident in both long and short-term impacts. In the post-war period‚ the presence of communism in and around Australia was seen by many Australian people as a kind of threat to the Australian way of life. The concepts of the Domino Theory - that communism was spreading and making Southeast Asian
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have influenced the nature and identity of Australian society. The aspects of changing demographic characteristics affecting Australia’s nature and identity include multiculturalism; the ’ageing population’; decreasing fertility rates; the changing indigenous population and the changing population density of Australia. Australia has one of the lowest population densities in the world‚ with population spread occurring around particular areas of the Australian coastline. Australia is one of the world’s
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