Australia as a global citizen: Historically Australia and its political leaders have known their role in the global community being a part of many organizations designed to make the world a better place‚ and uphold the rights of humanity. Australia has been an integral part of the formation of the UN‚ and is one its most active members. The United Nations is an international organization with over 190 member states‚ its goal to avoid the recurrence of violent conflicts; to affirm fundamental human
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Comparison of Ethnic Stratification in Australia and the United States Tiffani Gibson SOC308: Racial & Ethnic Groups Dr. J Kipp September 1‚ 2014 Comparison of Ethnic Stratification in Australia and the United States Australia is a large continent located between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. Its climate is generally dry to semi dry‚ with a temperate climate in the south and east‚ and a tropical climate in the north. The terrain is mostly low plateaus with
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Journal and reflection Target group Migrants who came to Australia during the white Australian policy. WHITE AUSTRALIAN POLICY The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 was the result of the widely accepted view that the Australian population should remain a “white society”. This is one of the first Acts of the National parliament following Federation.(www.wikipedia.orgracisminaustralia.com) These beliefs came mainly from British white-settlers dating back as far as 1788 who formed racist beliefs
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education in China and Australia has different kinds of system. They share many similarities in students studying‚ such as the system structure‚ the study atmosphere‚ and the educational policy. However‚ there are also a few differences between these two countries. First of all‚ the structure in China and Australia has some similarities and differences. It is similar that both of these two countries’ students have to study for 12 years until they enter the university. However‚ in Australia‚ student have
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Election promises from Labor and liberals 2004 2004 is an election year in Australia and one of the issues that the parties have diverse election promises on is to which extent employers should be authorized to use casual workers‚ and what rights the casual workforce should be entitled to. Casual workers play a central part in the Australian labor market as it is the fastest growing form of employment. Next to Spain‚ Australia has the second largest casual workforce in the world (Munn‚ 2004)‚ with
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Discuss How Socioeconomic Status Impacts on Health Outcomes in Contemporary Australia: In contemporary Australia there are many social classes which group people in regards to their financial‚ legal and family situations. The effect that socioeconomic status has on the health outcomes of an Australian person today’s society is a great one. Persons belonging to low or the lowest socioeconomic status groups have more disadvantaged health outcomes compared to persons belonging to high socioeconomic
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The White Australia Policy (WAP) was a policy that was introduced in 1901 by the newly federated government. It was officially known as the Immigration Restrictions Act 1901 and the Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901. These policies were put in place to keep Australia white for racial issues‚ economic issues and for the preservation of democratic freedom. In order for the WAP to work‚ a “Dictation Test” was put in place that would monitor who was allowed into the country such as undesirables including
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Currently Australia is has a growing population. There is one birth every 1.7 minutes‚ one death every 3.6 minutes‚ a gain of one migrant every 2.2 minutes ‚ leading to an overall total population increase of one person every 1 minute and 18 seconds deducting the amount of deaths occurring. The media are systems or technology that assist and promote human communication (O’Shaughnessy & Stadler‚2008). The media uses industrialized technology to produce messages that are to be relayed between people
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and failure risk will increase to SBEs (Pologeorgis 2016). Globalization makes widening the gap between the poor and rich. Developed countries are getting rich by globalization with Foreign
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mass migrations of many Vietnamese people to Australia. According to Ashley Carruthers (2008)‚ the only Vietnamese to previously arrive in Australia were generally tertiary students‚ wives of Australian soldiers or orphans from the war. Following the 1975 surrender of South Vietnam however‚ the Vietnamese were forced to flee their homes in a desperate attempt to escape the newly-communist rule of the North. Due to the economic prosperity of Australia and the close ties it had with South Vietnam‚
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