failures‚ gaps or shortcomings. It should be stressed that the role of the Commission is to ensure that existing EU law is enforced properly‚ as well as to propose growth-supportive actions‚ within the context of the overall EU competitiveness policy. It must be equally clear that the Commission does not intent to favour specific business models or to influence individual market decisions‚ as long as they are compatible with the Treaty rules and the EU secondary law. On that basis‚ it is the
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breakers. Paragraph 1 Following the end of World War I‚ it took eighteen months to return 260‚000 Australian soldiers to their home and with them they brought the world-wide “Spanish influenza’ epidemic‚ which caused almost 12‚000 deaths in Australia. The soldiers had been told they would return to a land fit for heroes but Australia’s economy could not quickly adjust to the addition of so many workers. Initially 417‚000 men had enlisted in the AIF‚ which resulted in women emerging from their
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Geography Australia is both the smallest and oldest continent in the world‚ and it is the only country that is also a continent. [1] It is an island located between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific‚ just south of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. At 2‚941‚299 square miles‚ Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world and only about 150‚000 square miles (about the size of Montana) smaller than the continental United States. Its interior land is a flat and sparsely populated desert
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national and international security but human security. If climate change is neglected and not properly dealt with by effective policy actions‚ then there will be long-term security challenges that will cause significant widespread security implications nationally and internationally. As an Australian‚ climate change is a worry because there are evidences to suggest that Australia
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scenario‚ it becomes all the more imperative to prevent violations itself from becoming norms‚ to protect public interest from huge corporate scandals. In an attempt to safeguard the corporations and the economy on the whole‚ a robust whistleblower policy as part of the corporate governance strategy is a very valuable tool. It empowers employees to act on incidences of misconduct and help maintain a safe workplace‚ while protecting profits and reputation.
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The Principles of British Foreign Policy Philip Vander Elst The Principles of British Foreign Policy Philip Vander Elst Second Edition © The Bruges Group 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9547087-5-7 Published in February 2008 by The Bruges Group‚ 227 Linen Hall‚ 162-168 Regent Street‚ London W1B 5TB www.brugesgroup.com Bruges Group publications are not intended to represent a corporate view of European and international developments. Contributions are chosen on the basis of their intellectual rigour
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funding to private schools while cutting the funding to public schools (Save Our Schools (c)‚ 2016). If the federal and state government continue to fund private schools more than public schools‚ then they are creating an education inequality in Australia. This system will only strengthen the already privileged students and will continue to disadvantage
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Introduction Minerals Resource Rent Tax is a tax that will be placed on iron ore and coal projects starting July 1 2012. The introduction of MRRT will potentially have an effect on the accounting policy choices of mining companies affected by the tax. This paper will be split into two sections; a literature review and an analysis. The literature review will look at articles on the Minerals Resource Rent Tax and what it actually entails. Positive Accounting Theory in relation to bonus plans and
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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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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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