... States by seizing the southern Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, and Port Moresby on the southern coast of the Australian Territory of Papua. The first Japanese targets would be Port Moresby and the island of Tulagi in the British Solomon Islands. Although these invasions ... Coral Sea the first major fleet to fleet engagement between the American and Japanese navies following Pearl Harbour, and for the first time in naval history would see a major naval battle decided by opposing aircraft carriers. Australia threw in its lot with Britain for several reasons. ...

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... entertainment, "For some extraordinary reason, radio drama has been almost entirely overlooked by many theatre critics and teachers." This essay will, in part, rectify this and endeavour to present the history, development, strengths and weaknesses of Radio Drama as a unique dramatic art form presented through a very common place form of mass media: the radio. It's rise to popularity and it's subsequent ... higher. In 1920 the Marconi Company showed the sheer power of the medium by broadcasting a concert by Dame Nellie Melba throughout Europe and North America thus cementing it's place ...

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... in this report will be the laws and regulations that have been applied to abolish this act in Australia and also some of the debates, history, effects, and opinions on this very sensitive subject. Australia, along with many countries worldwide, abolished capital punishment by 1985. According to the ... committing crimes. Studies of the deterrent effect of the death penalty have been conducted for several years, with varying results. According to the "Australian Coalition against the Death Penalty" capital punishment is less of a deterrent factor for criminals than just simply the risk of ...

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... with the "fall" of South Vietnam to communist North Vietnam, all of Southeast Asia might also "fall" starting a communist chain reaction. Another reason why the Australian government sent Australians to serve in the Vietnam War was to fulfill their obligations as members of the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO). SEATO is an alliance ... by the treaty. One aspect of the SEATO treaty was if a member country was attacked other members would help it. Therefore the Australian government felt obligated to assist the people of South Vietnam in their struggle for a life free from oppre...

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... forces served in the Vietnam War under the banner of the United States of America. The act of going to war, so common in Australian history, became perhaps the single most controversial issue in the short history of our nation. Whilst traditionally the populace were supportive of Australians in war, many were opposed to the idea of Australia fighting what was believed to ... society, Australia soon found itself fighting a war on two fronts; one in the jungles of Vietnam, and another in the city streets. The Vietnam War was a defining moment in our history, with our nation developing its...

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... STUDIES RESEARCH AND ORAL PRESENTATION AUSTRALIA AND CHINA Australia and china both have very independent political and legal systems. Both countries political and legal systems are heavily influenced through their history and development in society to form a national identity. Australia's political and legal system was, and still is linked to the British system through adopting the west minister system. China's political ... courts and maritime courts. The military court that is established within the PLA is in charge of hearing criminal cases involving servicemen. This is a relatively...

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... and even though there was no act of war, this situation they found themselves in became known as the Cold War. Stalin's real intentions with the Berlin Blockade, as the History Channel's web page describes were to "limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied ... , the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Ro...

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... and protect the territories of the Penan people, the Penan took matters into their own hands. The Penan implemented blockades and roadblocks, while receiving international help from the European Parliament, Australian dock workers, the Japanese Tropical Forest Action Network, and a host of other industries and governments who banned the use of tropical timber (Wilmer, 2000: 192). Since these events in the ... country made an attempt to stop these behaviors, though they have a legal obligation to do so (MacKinnon, 1995: 194). Hopefully, these rapes of women in war will not disappear into...

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