... people are in court and that is because they are there to resolve a dispute. To resolve a dispute, the people of the court must follow a system. There are two different systems, the inquisitorial system and the adversary system. The adversary system is the method used to administer justice in Australia. It requires two opposing parties who argue their versions before an independent and impartial arbiter ... , if you cannot afford to hire a lawyer to defend yourself, you can apply for legal aid. This provides you with a lawyer for your case free. This means that our legal system is suppos...

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... to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women in the workplace. However, despite all the changes that have occurred in the Australian legal system to stop unequal treatment and discrimination in the workplace, women although less needy then before, are still disadvantaged. In the past, ... been reformed in an attempt to exterminate disadvantages that women face in the workforce. Law/Case Description 1973 - AUSTRALIAN CENTRALISED WAGE FIXING SYSTEM Through this women received the economic right of gaining equal wages as men for work of equal value. 1977 - ANTI-DISCRIMINATION ACT ...

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... years. A decade ago, "Tracey's" home state of Victoria introduced reformed rape laws designed to encourage reporting of sexual assaults. Statistics show that the new reforms are an immense failure. While the number of reported attacks has risen, the conviction rate has fallen by almost half, from 46% to 24 ... %. However, both Victorian Barrister David O"Doherty and Marcia Neave of the Law Reform Commission have stepped out in defence of the Legal System: David O"Doherty, Barrister: "Today, authorities tend to prosecute cases with less supportive evidence and that's not a bad thing, but I...

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... the right to compulsory and free primary education. Both Pakistan and Australia are members of the United Nations, but there are a significant amount of differences in the primary school education system between the two countries. Pakistan is a developing country with a struggling economy and is the sixth most populous country in the world (Wikipedia.2009). The country has been affected by two ... Pakistan have similarities in schooling age and the subjects that are taught, but differ in the curriculum, co-education vs single sex schools, learning styles and school assessment and report...

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... arrangements, notably in Bougainville and East Timor. ANZAC Day is commemorated as a public holiday in both countries with memorial ceremonies held at various locations. Times when Australia and New Zealand have worked together - East Timor Immediately following the turmoil in East Timor in 1999 an international force - INTERFET - was formed under Australian leadership to restore peace ... another notable area of contact between the two countries. Australia's sporting triumphs and rivalries are the source of much interest for followers everywhere, and frequently involve contests with New...

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... test and tenth place on the reading literacy test. Indeed, I discovered that the top spending countries were very often not the top scoring countries in the tree areas measured by the PISA tests. Of the top twelve highest spending countries, only three of them placed in the top ... ten highest scoring counties on the mathematical literacy test. They were Japan, Switzerland, and Belgium. These countries ranked first, third, and seventh, respectively. The highest ... reading literacy test. Five of these nations place among the top ten. It is worth noting, however, that the top two spots we...

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... the size of Europe. The mainland of Australia has an area of 2,967,909 square miles. The country is divided into six states: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia. The geological activity that created the country's mountains, plains, and rivers ceased millions of ... slick Italian clothing stores. Victoria St in Richmond is the vibrant Vietnamese center, chock full of budget restaurants, and the focus of the Lunar New Year celebrations in January-February. Fitzroy is now a magnet for the urban cool, cafe dwellers and property renovators, b...

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... the North Vietnam and quickly were defeated in 1946. In 1954 the French was eliminated for good in Vietnam. The World's powers sat a Geneva Conference to decide the state of Vietnam and the country was split into two at the 17th parallel, southern was democratic ... War began out between the North and the South with communist countries supporting North Vietnam and democratic countries supporting South Vietnam. Communism is a political system which promotes property and resources to be collectively owned by a society, not individuals. This is used to try to promote the fairest society .....

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... . On January 19, 1994, my flight to America took off at approximately three in the morning. Outside, the sky was still dark. Stars were still shining as bright as ever. I sat in my seat patiently until the plane had landed. Suddenly, I heard a loud noise coming from the speaker saying, " We have arrived to Sandiego." Quickly, I took all of my belongings and ... weeks. While he was gone. My mom, my sister, and I had to stay home. Every night, we had to deal with the loneliness that we built inside us. We sometimes sat in our room praying and crying, hoping that my father would come home f...

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... to either prevailing method, their success was limited with both Australian and overseas audiences. For such commentators, the blending of art-house elements within, for example, Gallipoli sat uneasily alongside elements of the classic Hollywood genre. For them, the juxtaposition of art-house elements (classical music used to heighten audience emotions, important scences shot in ... environments. Paralells may also be drawn with Strictly Ballroom which combined the 'conventional romance fairytale and Australian suburbia, its back streets and its dreams.' It also reflected a new maturity ...

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... instead of pronouncing the T's, it was pronounced as D's. So daughter would have been daughDer. In korea, people are called "white collar" or "blue collar" depending on your job. If you sat in an office and did paperwork then you were referred to as a "white collar". If you did technical work you were referred to as a "blue collar". White collars earned heaps ... ...

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... state in which "the supreme power resides in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is excercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them". In reality a republic is a system of government without a monarch(a person that holds power by birthright). In a Monarchy ,the head of state is a hereditary monarch who symbolises the nation and has all constitutional and democratic ... on in the government(judicial legislative executive etc).This will most likely include the changing of our current westminster system of government to the American Style,this cannot be achieved thr...

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... in anguish he could have committed the crime. From this, it is unfair to hold this man fully accountable for his wrongdoing. Justice system has to balance morality, humanity and quality all on the same scale. Weighing and evaluating each aspect of these three components of justice ... the society and are likely to re-offend. Justice is merciless and ineffective in many aspects, contradicting the true definition of justice. Nevertheless, our justice system has improved greatly over the years. This is evident when we read the "Daily Mirror - The woman who hangs today" (July 13, 1955) ... ...

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... changing demands. Inconsistencies in the law can lead to uncertainty about what the law should be or when the law applies which can lose the public respect for the legal system. The law may also be seen as being inconsistent if some individuals are treated differently to others. "Consistency" is desirable in most cases; the law needs to maintain some flexibility ... can still be consistent yet helping for the greater good in which ever form that may be. If those objectives or aim's add up once the law is in the system then only then can you claim a law was as effective as it said it wou...

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... no pity if someone kills another person as they deserve done to them what they inflicted on to the other person. Yet Jesus tells us in the New Testament the opposite of what we have just discussed: "You have heard that it was said, "Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth." But I ... mistakes. For example Jesus was sentenced wrongly to death because of public opinion. Mistakes such as these incur large amounts of protest as they say the system is flawed. A study in the USA in 1987 reported three hundred and fifty people were guilty of capital crimes yet they were innocent - twenty-three ... c...

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... sustainability in Australia is followed by the main challenges addressed: The amount of resources needed to expose constraints in water, waste management, food, energy, extraction systems and invocating new resources in the market. The deforestations proceeds, as do weight prompting biological decline and the massive amount of habitat and species loss. Land degradation mainly obtains in the rangelands ... GNI) 3.8 4.2 Population living on degraded land (%) 9 8.6 Primary energy supply, fossil fuels (% of total) 95.4 88.3 Source: UNDP (2013), Human Development Report 2013, The Rise of the ...

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... ago, Antarctic was the center piece of a large Southern Hemisphere super continent, Gondwana, which included what is today South America, Africa, Madagascar, Peninsular India, Antarctica, Australia & New Zealand. The wide distribution of mineral resources across the Gondwana continents, including base metals and precious stones, implies that similar deposits probably exist in Antarctica. The United States Geological ... % of Antarctica's territory had been claimed by nations. Seven nations have asserted claims to pie-shaped sectors of Antarctica bounded by longitudinal lines: 1. Great Br...

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... descent were favored. This practice was replaced in the 1960's by new rules classifying immigrants into three groups: refugees fleeing political persecution, family members of Canadian citizens, and independent immigrants. The last group is admitted under a point system, where they are allot points for level of education, experience ... on each adult immigrant to help pay the cost of the immigration program. Once they are here, immigrants have to adapt to a new culture and a new way of life. For them, the Canadian ways may seem strange for they have never seen it or experience it before...

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... descent were favored. This practice was replaced in the 1960's by new rules classifying immigrants into three groups: refugees fleeing political persecution, family members of Canadian citizens, and independent immigrants. The last group is admitted under a point system, where they are allot points for level of education, experience ... on each adult immigrant to help pay the cost of the immigration program. Once they are here, immigrants have to adapt to a new culture and a new way of life. For them, the Canadian ways may seem strange for they have never seen it or experience it before...

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... comes into play. Proof of that can be seen with the pictures and footage of the millions of office papers flying around the streets of New York amidst the pandemonium. The main ways include the families of paper, digital electronic, and microform (Britannica). II. Paper Paper is one ... file cabinets come in many different shapes and sizes, from the traditional vertical and lateral file cabinets, to the more complex and expensive mobile aisle system (Read-Smith et.al. 97). The usage of paper will never become obsolete; it will always be around. III. Digital Electronic The digital ... bu...

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... works in one area what is stopping it from being to work in another area. There are different ways to regulate gun control one is through a restrictive permitting system (Bogus 167). With this system it would allow individuals to own a handgun but they would have to fit into certain criteria and a persons reasoning cannot just be self-defense (Bogus 167). The second ... ). "Periodic licensing could a include background check to ensure that a purchaser hasn't been convicted of a serious crime or is otherwise prohibited from owning a gun" (Black). In all of Western Europe, Australia, New Z...

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... money. Financial market also covers all business activities relating to borrowings and savings of household and institution. They also make funds available for investment purposes such as the purchase of new capital equipment or goods by business firms; which is vital for future economic growth and development. And lastly it perform very important role in a market for the relocation of ... they are going to buy in accordance to their status in life, level of income or even their goals in life. 3. Table of the 5 public companies • ANZ.AX - Australian New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group â€...

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... culturally determined and socially structured health care systems, some more complex than others but all suited to and working for their specific society. In aboriginal Australia, the indigenous health care system is part of a unique complex, which includes descriptions of well being, explanations of illness causation, healing practices and prerequisite social behaviours for the person experiencing the illness ( Reid, J. and Thrompf ... Europeans introduced alien diseases such as smallpox, influenza, pneumonia, typhoid fever, mumps, scarlet fever, diptheria, gonorrhoea and syphilis to t...

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... the idea to have Western Australia sub-divided was put forward. The problem was that idea needed to be heard in front of a court, and with Western Australia's poor transport system, actually making it to the court was going to be difficult. The idea of sub-dividing Western Australia was expressed by councilor McKenzie in appendix one. The movement supporting the ... and communication systems and with a budget of only 400,000 pounds a year setting up these systems was a difficult task. John Forrest and many other residents were not willing to support a system that would take away much of...

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... world and whose spirits inhabit the features of the natural world today _ influences every aspect of daily life _ permeates song, dance, storytelling, painting, artifact making, hunting, food gathering, social (kinship) system _ provides a framework within Aborigines live _ traditionally, Aborigines maintained contact with the Dreaming through their dreams _ concept of time does not apply to the Dreaming _ Dreaming is seen as a "whole"; where ... recognition of past injustices _ eg, Mabo overturned lies of the past Today " some form of reconciliation, not achieved yet _ still problems w...

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