Before I came to Australia, I did some backgrounds preparation and familiarized myself with its landscape, accent, animals and etc. So when I arrived in Sydney in January, everything is anticipated, except Australians’ mighty passion on celebrating the Australia Day. Despite my shallow understanding of Australia’s history, I am entirely affected by the atmosphere. I can still remember the busy city swelled with parades and many people had their face painted or wore flag capes. All the barbeques,
Australia Australia is an island continent located southeast of Asia and forming, with the nearby island of Tasmania, the Commonwealth of Australia, a self-governing member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The continent is bounded on the north by the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea, and the Torres Strait; on the east by the Coral Sea and the Tasman Sea; on the south by the Bass Strait and the Indian Ocean; and on the west by the Indian Ocean. The commonwealth extends for about about 2500 miles from
Australia Australia is the only country that is also a continent. In area, Australia ranks as the sixth largest country and smallest continent. Australia is located between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The part of the Indian Ocean that is south of Australia is called the Southern Ocean in the country. Australia is about 7,000 miles southwest of North America and about 2,000 miles southeast of mainland Asia. Australia is often referred to as being "down under" because it lies
Immigration to Australia Introduction Australia is often described as one of the ‘classical countries of immigration’. The concept of being a ‘nation of immigrants’ is at the center of Australian identity. Australia is a unique country, and it has a long history of population growth due to immigration. Australia is a young country and has not fully developed. It is commonly called “The Land of Opportunity.” This paper will discuss the history of immigration, the history of the immigration
world war two, migration has played a fundamental role in transforming the Australian society as a whole. A large portion of the population in Australia consists of people from a number of other countries or descendants of immigrants to Australia. Up to a fifth of the overall population in Australia is made up of those who were born in outside of Australia, which translates to about 23 percent. Other countries such as the United States has about 10 percent of its population being from overseas while
Australia Research Paper Australia is a beautiful country and a continent all in one. It is beautiful in its sense of rich and very long aboriginal culture, as well as its spectacular natural environment for example the Great Barrier Reef. The Australian society is very well educated with a literacy rate of 99% and overall Australia is a country with many great values. Australia is considered a developed nation and it has the world's thirteenth largest economy. It is known for high life expectancy
through the use of deception and bribery, especially the inhabitants from the South Pacific Islands, and then transporting them to the sugar cane and cotton plantations, particularly in Queensland, Australia, to work as labourers. This practice was not limited to the blackbirding in Queensland, Australia, and had already occurred on the Chincha Islands in Peru. This dreadful practice occurred predominantly between the 1860’s and 1904. The term “Blackbirding” may have been established directly as a
Australia and the GST Good morning Ms Donaldson and grade twelve economic students. Hi, my name¡¦s Candyce Pearson, a lecturer from the university of Queensland, and I am here to discuss the New Tax System, or more specifically the GST. As my previous speaker ogie said, I will give a brief yet incisive overview of the GST system, what GST is and how it works. The New Tax System was introduced in Australia on 1 July 2000 to provide a fairer and more consistent tax system for all Australians
Australia is a diverse country with many different types of land from desert to tropical to temperate. Within this diverse county there are millions of hectares of forests, actually 125 million hectares to be exact according to The Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DOA). The Australian DOA also says Australia has the 7th largest forest area in the world making up 3% of Earth’s forests. Within the country of Australia there are many different diverse forests including Eucalypt
views are valid-that there are unique Aboriginal and Australian cultures and that Australia has ongoing cultural links with other countries that have a significant impact on Australia and the rest of the world. It could fu... ... middle of paper ... ...hem. • Also many sports have been taken from other countries at various times in Australia’s history eg. cricket from England Types of Sport and Countries Australia is Linked with Through This Sport • Cricket (originally English sport brought
Rabbits in Australia Introduction Coevolution is a natural phenomenon that has affected all habitats throughout the world. In general, it encompasses the interactions among different species within a general population and the adaptations each species makes to survive in such a diverse environment. The mere presence of all species that are currently in existence is proof that those species have adapted over thousands and millions of years in such a way that allows them to survive and reproduce
evidence supports the 1975 Commonwealth Racial Discrimination Act, permitting all inhabitants to live in full equivalence regardless race, colour, national or ethnic origin. The controversial debate of racism in Australia will always be prominent. Nevertheless, the antagonism Australia withholds to egalitarianism amid minorities can be seen as
Abortion in Australia Our world today is full of unsolved, devisive and controversial issues. Most of them relate to our morals, ethics and religion, thus creating a very strong ‘yes’ and ‘no’, or ‘good’ and ‘bad’ side. Like the Chinese Yin and Yang sign, abortion has a very prominent ‘black’ and ‘white’ side but also contains traces of each in the alternating colour. This shows that if you were to come to any kind of conclusion on abortion, there would still be a downside to it, and that
Australia is commonly known as a multicultural country with multicultural views. Australian TV gives people of different heritage a chance to achieve big in the industry. This is seen through the large quantity of awards given to people from different cultures, for example, the 2016 Logies gave awards to people with Egyptian, Chinese, Italian, Greek, and Australian backgrounds. This shows our cultural diversity on the screens and how everyone is treated equally. However, this is an illusion and only
The world today is witnessing the highest levels of home displacement and refugees ever recorded, and it is occurring everywhere. 22.5 million refugees were recognised in 2016 all over the world, and in Australia alone, 182 thousand people migrated over to this country because of many different reasons (UNHCR, 2018). This issue relates to suffering, good and evil, and Catholic decision making, and will be explored further in this essay. Catholic social teachings take a strong stand on the issues
Provocation is one of the major defences used within our Queensland court system, with Queensland being one of the only States in Australia that still allow its use. The defence is considered to be highly controversial, and the majority of states in Australia have abolished it. This lead to heated debate all throughout Australia, with stakeholders claiming that provocation is an unacceptable excuse, no longer relevant to modern society. Many of the Queensland residents agree with these views, and
the person in question is able to communicate rationally, then their opinion must be asked first. Assisted death, other than passively should most definitely remain illegal, and in the Northern Territory, it should be made illegal. The nation of Australia must be uniformed, or else people simply go to another state, where the law different. People should live their lives for as long as it is worth living, as defined above. Some people wish to use euthanasia to die when they are diagnosed with a terminal
Income In Australia, people living with disability have lower incomes and are more likely to live in poverty than people without disability (ACOSS, 2014). Their relative income is also much worse than observed in most other OECD countries across a number of indicators. In 2003, the median personal income for people living with disability was $225 per week compared with $480 for people without disability, and the income of primary carers was $237 compared with $407 for people who did not have this
Introduction The oppression of a group of individuals, can lead to lesser health welfare. Thus, there is a need to disperse inequality, within the confines of Australian society’s perspectives upon Indigenous people and their actions towards them, within the realms of racism and health, solutions to aid their health, and the limitations in achieving a healthy society (Larson, et al., 2007, p. 328). These implications relate to schools and students through the consistent negligence toward the Indigenous
Melbourne, one of the most beautiful city's in the world. I have traveled through the USA, Canada & the Bahamas, and still, I find Melbourne is the greatest. In 1981 I was born in a New South Wales mid-coast town of Port Macquarie. I lived there until I was the age of four, and that's when we made the move to Victoria.I grew up in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, not far from the actual city. Most of my family lived there, and was the main cause for the move. I went to school and met lots of friends