The first person to be legally voluntarily euthanised in Australia was Bob Dent in the Northern Territory‚ in the year of 1996. This controversial issue has raised many dilemmas throughout society‚ and so far it seems there is no clear solution. The implications of euthanasia will be discussed herein. Defining the issue and exploring both sides of the controversy has proven to be a difficult task. The word ’euthanasia’ comes from the Greek words ’eu’ and ’thanatos’‚ together translating as ’good
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Women The end of World War 1 showed a new age for Australia. During the 1920s the women of Australia changed before they were quiet‚ polite and modest. Primary sources indicated that Australian women of the 1920s had a cultural‚ political and social change. They worked in factories‚ smoke cigarettes in public‚ wore short skirts‚ started swearing‚ wore make-up‚ had short hairstyles and went dancing in the evenings. Unfortunately‚ women still remained largely excluded from most areas of public life
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FITNESS INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA Service Industry Number of outlets – 3800 outlets in 2009 as per Australian Fitness Industry Survey 2009 (The Access Economics survey put the number as 1570 in 2007-2008‚ as compared to 974 in 2004-5) Number of people utilising their services: 1.73 million Number of people working in the industry 23‚000. Characterstics of fitness industry: * Low barriers to entry * Existence of different formats e.g. * Chains – franchise based * Single – could
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problematically? Australian schools are comprised of a diverse population of students with a vast range of sociocultural factors shaping their individual and unique identities. In 2006‚ more than 50% of people living in Australia were migrants or had a parent who had migrated to Australia (ABS‚ 2006‚ p. 46). This demonstrates the prevalence of cultural diversity in the population which extends into Australian schools. Diversity has many faces‚ incorporating differences in culture‚ sexuality‚ gender identity
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An important part of all Australian schools is to promote and provide a supportive learning environment in which all students can expect to feel safe. (MCEETYA 2005). School connectedness and supportive social relationships have been associated with positive child outcomes such as lower levels of absenteeism‚ aggression‚ and higher levels of academic achievement and self- esteem among children. School bullying removes that safe environment. While bullying in schools was long recognized as existing
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INTRODUCTION On the‚ 26th of June 2007‚ the Department Of Education made effective Western Australia’s current ‘Duty of care for students’ policy. This policy was deemed necessary‚ as it strives to protect the immediate and on-going safety of students and teachers. The aim of the policy is to create the safest possible learning environment for all students‚ and for to serve as a guideline for education professionals. All teachers‚ school authorities‚ some non-teaching staff and external providers
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Most people believe an important and enforced law on background could really help‚ as it has worked in Australia. A study written by Jesse Singal and published by Science of Us on June 22‚ 2016 retrieved from : http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/06/what-a-new-gun-control-study-can-and-cant-tell-us-about-mass-shootings.html revealed a decline in violent acts in Australia after a passage of a gun control law resulted from a mass shooting. Two other studies‚ here at home‚ in Connecticut
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its life and which provides it with directions for how to live. We live in a culture and culture is written into us in a process of internalisation. Australia is a melting pot of races‚ cultures and beliefs. This country was built by people from many different national backgrounds‚ and has followed an active policy of multiculturalism. If Australia were have a multicultural canon it would be very complicated due to cultures accommodate a variety of values and beliefs‚ and if we could manage to have
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Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner v the Commonwealth’ (2001) 23 Sydney Law Review 239. This paper draws on a longer version published as ‘Cultural Genocide in Australia’ in Dan Stone (ed)‚ The Historiography of Genocide (2008) 128. 1 National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (‘Bringing Them Home Inquiry’)‚ Bringing Them Home: Report of the National
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In Australia‚ copyright law is contained in the Commonwealth Copyright Act 1968 (Copyright Act). A simple definition of copyright is that it is a bunch of rights in certain creative works such as text‚ artistic works‚ music‚ computer programs‚ sound recordings and films.The copyright owner of a film will only own copyright in the moving images and sounds of the film. They will not necessarily own copyright in the underlying works included in the film such as the musical soundtrack or score or the
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