... to hold most of the economic progress in the country. "Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide are the leading industrial and commercial cities" (Australia-Economy). The currency in Australia is the Australian dollar. (A$) The standard of living in Australia has remained generally high, despite a recession in the late 1980's. Its industry is based around mining and exporting certain goods. Some of the ... they are enjoying their summer. During the summer, the water is the main attraction. Since Australia is completely surrounded by water, the coastlines have been home to many surfers. ...

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... , lakes and mountains. The Aboriginals lived in large close-knit families. Everybody had his or her own responsibilities. Elders passed down knowledge about their culture, beliefs, and sacred sites to the younger generation through talking, song, dance, art, and storytelling. There were no horses or carriages, large farms ... just over 386 000 at the last census in 1996 including Torres Strait Islanders. Where they used to cover most of the Australian land they now mainly live in New South Wales and Queensland. While Aboriginals have now been given more rights such as land rights, ... h...

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... themselves as the Maoris. They were a Polynesian seafaring people who shared a common ancestry with the Tahitians, but as Tasman had learned, nearly 130 years earlier, they were an exceedingly warlike culture (Beaglehole 142). Unable to obtain food or water, Cook pulled out of the harbor that he named Poverty Bay, and began coasting southward, measuring depths and charting the shoreline. Reaching ... amount of time spent in the mighty waterway. (Rickard 909) James Cook is an essential part of both New Zealand and Australian history. His contributions to the charting of the shores and wa...

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... families and communities at a time. This dramatically affected the health and well being of the aboriginal people in a negative way. The introduction and eventual forced conformity to the British culture and its ideologies is the second way in which colonialism has impacted on the health and well being of Aboriginals in Australia. Through methods such as government policies and the ... removal of aboriginals from ancestral land the radically different British culture was thrust upon indigenous Australians. The forced removal of aboriginals from their families (known as the stolen genera...

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... not understand why. 7. Why were the Aborigines irritated about the white settlers? The Aborigines had no problem towards the white settlers but did not understand all their different behaviours and culture they started to question the following; Why did the foreigners walk on aborigine sacred sites and dig up aborigine graves? Why did they boss each other around and beat and ... effects did the white settlements have on the Aborigines? The aboriginal people were forced away from their traditional lands. Also their families were broken up and all the wild native Australian animals were h...

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