Australian Territory of New Guinea- was mounted to capture Tulagi and Port Moresby covered by large Japanese carriers (Pelvin‚ 2018). According to Dr David Stevens who is a Naval historian and currently an author on the Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan‚ “what the Japanese was trying to do was control the waters around Australia”. While the main Japanese invasion force that was headed for Port Moresby -on May 4- Allied outposts were held at Lae and Salamana in Northern
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What is Law? Western Legal System vs. Customary What is Law? There are many different interpretations of the definition of law depending on where it is being interpreted. According to the Oxford Business English Dictionary (2008)‚ law is “the whole system of rules that everyone in a country or society must obey”. This is general definition. Law is not only a system of rules but it also contains a contextual framework such as: human law‚ divine law‚ natural law‚ scientific law and also moral law
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penetration of Sydney Harbour. Australian citizens were extremely anxious for their safety. This is so because even if the Japanese had not invaded at the time of their Pacific Battles‚ Australian would still have been in constant danger‚ because Port Moresby was an extremely important tactical position because it had an airfield. Since it was so close
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The issue of whether the government should provide free health care in Papua New Guinea has been debated widely in our country recently. It is an important issue because health care has great impact on peoples’ lives in all walks of life. Health is a basis of good life and happiness. Without better health care life would be very difficult when it comes to deal with health related issues and emergencies especially in rural areas and those disadvantage ones in the urban centres. Health is for all
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Topic: Industrialization Polluting the Earth The natural conditions of land‚ air and water and everything in them are called environment and they play an important role in the survival of humans and every other animal species in it. In 2005 MEA evaluated the health of Earth’s forests‚ coastlines‚ inland waters‚ shrub lands‚ dry lands‚ deserts‚ agricultural lands‚ and other ecosystems vital to human health and welfare. The forest provides food‚ shelter and other needs for many terrestrial animals
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The War on the Pacific Front The war on the pacific started on December 7th 1941 when the Japanese military attacked pearl harbor the reason on why they attacked pearl harbor was the American government put an oil embargo which it dropped Japan’s oil supply and import by 80%. The process of this made the Japanese look south for supplies‚ the attack at the base was to weaken the American navy and destroy their oil supply for their ship’s. The reason why America put up the embargo was to make Japan’s
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Defence Qantas link operates over 2000 flights every week to 56 metropolitan‚ regional and international destinations across Australia and to Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. Qantas Catering Group Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary that operates two catering businesses - Q Catering and Snap Fresh. Q Catering has catering centres in six Australian ports - Sydney‚ Melbourne‚ Brisbane‚ Cairns‚ Adelaide and Perth. Snap Fresh is a state-of-the-art plant in Queensland built to centralise meal production
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As a result‚ Redman denied many of HYPO’s reports from being sent out to other agencies‚ finding them suspect. Rochefort became frustrated and began circumventing the system to report directly to Layton in CINCPAC‚ linking him directly with Nimitz‚ who was technically outside of his chain of command (Symonds 138). Nimitz had no problem with this‚ as he put complete faith in Rochefort’s abilities‚ which proved essential for the case of Midway. In one case‚ Rochefort’s team was receiving intelligence
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acquired the Australian Bank of Commerce‚ which had branches in both New South Wales and Queensland. 1942: BNSW suspended operations in Papua New Guinea as the Japanese Army captured many of the towns in which it had branches and agencies‚ and bombed Port Moresby. It resumed operations in 1946. 1968: BNSW joins Databank Systems Limited consortium to provide joint data processing services. 1970: BNSW established a branch on Tarawa in Kiribati (ex-Gilbert Islands)‚ which also took over the government savings
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