... located throughout the state. Power had not been devolved to these offices - resulting in communication taking longer between the head and regional offices and a tighter control from central office. Meadmore is critical of this top-down approach to devolution. Meadmore looks at the developments of the last 15 years across the Australian states. Devolution is seen ... concludes reflecting on the social democratic approach (enabling teaching, parents and community to make decisions which effect them) by itself is very acceptable. However he argues the dimension of central policy making, wh...

• Word Count: 2188
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... from one another. North and South America were connected and disconnected several times during the Tertiary by land bridges at the Central American isthmus, thus episodes of migration and considerable mixing of faunas and floras alternating with periods of isolation. Most rain-forest ... of South American origin, but certain groups may have originated in isolation in Mexico and Central America and spread southward relatively recently. Significant endemic groups include didelphid opossums, a number of bat families, marmosets and cebid monkeys, ... procyonids (primarily Central America), ...

• Word Count: 12375
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... colonies and federation could bring about a customs agreement which would serve all colonies. Matters of common interest such as railway gauges and postal and telegraph services could also benefit from central government authority. Immigration was another matter where cooperation was needed. Thousands of Chinese were coming to Australia in search for gold. Australians were afraid that cheap Chinese labor would ... Federation - Colonial Interests Colonies, since achieving their own government had produced their own laws to meet their own problems and did not want to give up self-governme...

• Word Count: 1831
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... that there is a sharp decrease in GDP in the year following but Australia managed to force itself out of the recession period. This may be due to the government and central banks introducing wide-ranging policies, including sizeable fiscal stimulus, large reductions in policy interest rates, guarantees of bank debt issuance, and in some cases, sizeable government ownership of troubled ... adopted a public-private partnership in health-care financing; the 'Medisave' has been introduced, where every working individual has to make a mandatory monthly contribution to the Medisave port...

• Word Count: 2267
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... development. Humans have been modifying the Australian ecosystem for 60,000 years but the greatest modification in NSW took place between 1788 and 1921. Woodlands once covered most of the central region of the State, forming a transitional zone between the forested eastern margin and the arid far west. But the woodlands now survive only in small isolated pockets surrounded by the ... -dwelling mammals and plants, once common in the woodlands, have become extinct (EPA, 2003). The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), using satellite imagery to map the State, found that central NSW i...

• Word Count: 2145
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... 30,000 years ago. It is estimated that before the time of European contact, there were 90 million Natives in North and South America. When the first Europeans arrived in Central America in 1492, the "Indians", as they were called, had no defense for the battles ahead. With them, the Europeans brought diseases such as malaria, cholera, and smallpox, which the ... the Native American population, and land continued to go to the white settlers, until the natives destitute and at the mercy of the colonies. The Spanish also brought alcohol to central and South America, as well as simply wipin...

• Word Count: 2682
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... WAFL. Many rural and remote communities suffer through a lack of local television news. Before coming to Perth this year I lived in Carisbrook in central Victoria. Television services were broadcast from transmitters in Bendigo. All five networks broadcast to the central Victorian region, ABC, SBS, Prime (Seven affiliate), WIN (Nine affiliate) and Southern Cross (Ten affiliate). Of those five networks only one, WIN ... ...

• Word Count: 2588
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... company employees of personal harm or kidnapping and a risk to the firm of extortion attempts. A unique form of political risk also occurs in China the constant battle between the country's central government and the provincial and local governments over applicable law. These factors would make a highly unstable political environment. When it comes to the Economic system, China currently has a Socialist/Market ... ...

• Word Count: 6484
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... -two million to thirty-five million people (Intergenerational report 2010). Most of its population 85 per cent live in cities and cities are having problem with water shortage, therefore, both central and states governments have been concerned about it for decades. There are many ways to balance the population growth with water supply by developing better water infrastructure instead of depending ... ...

• Word Count: 1060
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... application by the courts shall be reasonable and in accordance with Australia's international obligations." There are a variety of other reasons why customary law should be recognized. Aboriginal customary law is a central part of many Aboriginal people's way of life. There is a lesser possibility of an Aboriginal seeing a decision as unjust if it is part of customary law. However, they don't feel ... ...

• Word Count: 1027
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... Australia when the British arrived, barely half that number of languages were to survive (Dr T.Matthew Ciolek http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/History.html). Colin Tatz states that in Central Australia between 1860 and 1875 an estimated 40% of the indigenous population was killed, 10 000 murdered in Queensland (25%), and in Western Australia, where the settlers were particularly fervent ... ...

• Word Count: 2923
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... the economic crisis, Indonesia experienced many social impacts, however, these have been "neither been uniform nor homogenous across the archipelago" (Maxwell, 1999). The common measurement of poverty is from the Central Bureau of Statistics, that poverty has almost doubled from its pre-crisis level of 11 per cent to around 20 per cent (Maxwell, 1999). Despite this, some sources indicate that ... ...

• Word Count: 1633
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... power for banking policy. This provoked challenges to the government's legislation, in which the high court ruled against the commonwealth. It wasn't until a decade later, when the Menzies government created a central bank, finally granting the commonwealth power over monetary policy. Another example of conflict of power between the states and federal government is the Franklin Dams case. A proposal was made by ... ...

• Word Count: 1215
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... guidance of the able Vo Nguyen Giap, conducted a resistance movement against the Japanese from bases in Tonkin (in northern Vietnam). (Tonkin Annam and Cochin China were regions in the North, Central and South Vietnam. They were French territorial divisions but had no significance other than that.)The capitulation of the Japanese in August 1945 saw the Viet Minh seize control of ... ...

• Word Count: 3628
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... doubt on Australia's ability to govern the northeast of Papua New Guinea, due to its treatment of Aborigines and the publicity given to atrocities and mass murders against Aborigines in central and northern Australia were contributing factors to this change. In addition the previous assumption that the Aborigines would die out did not occur in fact the Aboriginal population started to ... ...

• Word Count: 3196
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... Australia has apparently developed a desire to "know itself through Aboriginal culture". Conclusion In my opinion at the moment there is no single Australian national identity. It is unclear what the central values and symbols of the identity are. Australian people have the choice with which of the described identities they agree. They could even choose a mixture of the two ideas. Their ... ...

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... that the workspace at home is up to Occupational Health And Safety standards. This can be difficult manage it would be harder to monitor several sites as opposed to one central site. With mobile users, the issues arise of having to carry equipment round with them. This means having to supply employees with the appropriate equipment to do this. However, this ... ...

• Word Count: 2117
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... circle has satisfactorily replicated the features associated with the real phenomenon, and this has baffled scientists and researchers. Crop circles are created by a force seemingly at odds with modern science. Central to the hoax argument is that a physical object is required to flatten the crop to the ground, resulting in the breaking of the plant stems. In genuine formations the stems ... ...

• Word Count: 1156
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... Luther King, Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers. This merging of movements meant that by the 1970s the focus had moved from civil rights to that of Indigenous rights (Burgmann, 1993). Central to the Indigenous rights movement was the principle of land rights, a principle that was to become a movement of its own emerging in the late 1970s (Burgmann, 1993; Bullimore, n.d.). Eddie Koiki ... ...

• Word Count: 1530
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... monarchy. So long as The Queen remains the Queen of Australia, and Australia's system of government is in formal terms a constitutional monarchy, I agree with David Flint's comment that she is central to the constitution. After all the Governor-General and state governors are formally appointed by her. Thus the Monarchic element retains some symbolic significance for many Australians. However, if Australia ... ...

• Word Count: 702
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... and their standing committee exercise the legislative power of the state. The National People's Congress is composed of deputies elected by the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and by the armed forces. All the minority nationalities are entitled to appropriate representation AUSTRALIA: In Australia the power is distributed to a federal government, which consists of the queen ... ...

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... lethal weapons with single-shot pistols, which will allow them to pursue their passions as normal. It has been claimed that removing firearms from domestic premises and storing them in central places would create an arsenal for criminals, which would be a problem. Instead a suitable solution could be splitting the components of the handgun so that a complete gun is not stored in ... ...

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... use of the camel and its appendage in the harsh Australian desert conditions. These Afghans were an important part to the Burke and Wills debacle into the arid conditions of central desert areas and the crossing of the Simpson Desert. Other projects, which the use of the camels and the expertise of the Muslim Afghans are associated with, is the "Ghan ... ...

• Word Count: 609
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... aspects of their spirituality. A right, which is associated with the Dreaming, is that of land ownership. The land is the foundation of aboriginal spirituality. Their relationship with the land is central to aboriginal issues that are important to all tribes, all over Australia. The core of aboriginal life is their heritage and identity with the land as it determines their lifestyle ... ...

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... Philippines, it is very likely that Australia would have been occupied by Japan before the end of 1942. Battle of midway In the great naval battle at Midway in the central Pacific between 4-6 June 1942, three American aircraft carriers won a remarkable and pivotal victory against a huge Japanese Imperial Navy invasion force.The Battle of Midway marked the turning of the tide ... ...

• Word Count: 1961
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate