... refugee situation, as well as images and messages all over the press intended to influence us into believing that asylum seekers are terrorists. "Solutions" have been implemented by the Australian government which simply shift the problem to other countries, and policies have been created to deal with asylum seekers that aren't actually helping anybody - including Australians. Among the many ... the right to seek and to enjoy other countries" asylum from persecution. As for asylum seekers being illegal, those people who arrive on our shores without prior consent from the Australian gove...

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... supporters but also many skeptics, both of which have their own ideas on the strengths or weaknesses of it. The Australian Constitution has many strengths and weaknesses to it. A major strength of the constitution is that the three main institutions of government (legislature, executive and judiciary) were created following the principles of separation of powers. This means that no one institution ... kept pressure on the major parties while at the same time offering the public a wide variety of alternatives. A democratic government is essential to the constitution in Australia and is ...

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... a willingness to control Australia when it manipulated political events through the CIA in the Menzies era to ensure that the right people were elected. What is worse is that the Australian government has shown a willingness to accept control by following the US blindly into unpopular and, at times, immoral wars. Wherever the United States is resisting aggression we will go a-waltzing Matilda ... events by the CIA, often through our own intelligence agency, ASIO and the unquestioning tag along that Australia was during the pointless Vietnam War. And the Australian government is repeatin...

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... and the electric vacuum cleaner. Although these appliances were initially targeted at an upper class, they changed the life of the house working middle-class wife forever. The changes overtaking Australian lives saw the evolution of new technologies. New methods of transportation included the automobile, (mostly imported from Britain and America), the electrification of trains spread through Sydney and Melbourne, as ... February, and Bolsheviks overthrew both in October. A new wave of communists lead by Lenin spread throughout Russia, and soon influenced the rest of the world. The domin...

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HOW DID THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT RESPOND TO THE THREAT OF COMMUNISM IN AUSTRALIA? Communism is a political movement that is seen by the independent Western world as a threat to ... until World War II. In response to this formation, a Crimes Act was passed in Parliament which stated that if any person supported the overthrow of an existing Australian Government by violence, they would be guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment. During The Great Depression, members of the Communist International in Australia increased to 4000 and ... oppose the war effort. The negative influence of the c...

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... wished to seek permanent residence in Australia. The Immigration Minister of the time, the first ever in Australia, Arthur Calwell sought to deport these refugees, arousing protest from the Australian public. Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt's decision in 1949 to allow 800 non-European refugees to take up residence in Australia, and Japanese war brides to be admitted, paved the way ... from well-qualified people on the basis of their suitability as settlers, their ability to integrate readily and their possession of qualifications positively useful to Australia. At this time, the G...

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... childcare industry, with long waiting lists, and increase in prices associated the high demand, and significant behavioural problems that have been attributed to overly busy parents. Despite these trends, little government action has been made to alleviate the problem, other than measures to encourage mothers to stay at home, thoughbaby bonuses?, tax breaks for stay-at-home mothers, and the refusal ... to provide measures for paid maternity leave, and job sharing, and part-time work for parents. Clearly, some redistribution of work within the Australian economy is needed to redress the ...

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... remove the French. Eventually this led to armed conflict between France and Vietnam, the French were defeated in 1954. After the war, the Vietminh controlled north Vietnam while an unpopular government setup by the French with it's capital in Saigon controlled the South. After many years of political disagreement, a civil war broke out. The North (the communist Vietcong) and the South ... USA). 1965. With Australia allied to America, it began sending in conscripts (young men forced to join the armed services) and thousands of troops to Saigon to assist the U.S.A. The Australian Governme...

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) After war had broken out in Vietnam in 1960, Ngo Dinh Diem, leader of the government in South Vietnam requested support from the US and its allies to improve its defense. Australia eventually acted in response by sending 30 military advisers ... that 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 ...

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... led by Jemaah Islamiyah. Dozens of members of the al Qaeda group have been arrested and jailed but many more are still believed to be operational. Since the attacks the Australian government has increased security measures at their embassies overseas and have warned the people of Australia that the terrorists may even attack Australia. Prime Minister Howard was quoted by Channel Nine ... people are saying, is that maybe the body of international law has to catch up with the new reality." (CNN News pg2). Asian countries are outraged to the calls that Australian prime minister had said ab...

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... by fighter jets, and the second in the afternoon by 21 bombers. The two raids killed at least 243 people and between 300 and 400 people were wounded. However, the Australian government released to the public that only 17 people had been killed in the attacks to keep up the nation's morale. Darwin's population, believing that a Japanese invasion was imminent, evacuated the ... city and began to move south to the Adelaide River. The attacks on Darwin were not part of a direct plan for Japan to invade the Australian mainland, but rather the Japanese were preparing to invade Timor and thoug...

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... community. One of the first ever attempts to address some of the problems indigenous people faced was in the form of policy, which nowadays is known as the Stolen Generation. Australian governments, as a practice and as a policy, removed part-Aboriginal children from their mothers, parents, families and communities, often by force. In around 60 years, over 100,000 ... from their families faced physical mistreatment, sexual exploitation and more extreme forms of humiliation. Therefore this attempt by the Australian society to address indigenous problems, was unsuccessful, and in some as...

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In what way did life on the home front change in response to Australian involvement in World War 2? World war two began when Germany invaded Poland in 1939, bringing Great Britain under threat and resulting in our troops going to war. On 19th February ... was attacked by the Japanese, killing 243 and wounding over 350. Not long after, on the 31 May 1942, there was yet another attack, this time on Sydney Harbour. The Australian government feared the worst and took precautions such as; blackouts at night so enemies could not find us, issuing personal identity cards in case you were killed, pro...

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... become a professor of commerce. My dad came with a student visa but he had to stop studying two years later because my grandfather passed away and there were financial problems. The Australian government gave migrants the opportunity to lodge for permanent residentship in December 1989, so through this my dad became a legal migrant in Australia from 1990. My dad came to Australia and ... area of skill. In Australia there is no snow in winter and my dad said Australians had a "unique smell" which he could smell at first. He found that a lot of Australian homes grew their pets inside. One...

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... men to enlist. The people who were in favor for conscription were those such as conservative politicians, the Universal Service League, Protestant church leaders and businessmen. These people urged the Australian government to follow Britain in introducing conscription. They argued that "eligible men should not be allowed to avoid their duty while others who had volunteered were dying for them." Australia's Federal ... Labour government and the Labour party were traditionally against conscription. They argued "should there was conscription of working men when there was no conscription o...

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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 ... and powerful friends" Vietnam had been a French colony since 1858, but when they were driven out during World War II, Ho Chi Minh's Vietminh, a nationalist group with communist ideals formed a government in Hanoi, situated in the northern region of Vietnam. The ...

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... that migrants are not entitled to social security until they have lived in Australia for a period of no less than 2 years. Differing views are prevalent in Australian society as to whether people should receive government assistance and to the level of this assistance as well as to the criteria used to determine who should get assistance. Many different categories of assistance are ... , which entitles people to access free dental treatment, eyesight tests etc. Additional concessions can also include travel concessions, assistance with education, rental assistance and provisions of housin...

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... that he had promised to Britain. (10,000). this group of men were called the 6th Division. . The Menzies government were the first to introduce rationing which was used because of the shortages and lack of many needed raw materials. In 1939 the Menzies ... government also passed the National Security Act. This gave the government more power over the people allowing them to imprison the perceived internal "threats" such as German and Italian born citizens ... Curtin: John Curtin was one of Australia's Prime Ministers during both world wars. In 1941 John Curtin became Prime Minister follow...

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... convicts who had been exiled from their own homeland as a punishment for breaking the law. Along with the migrants and convicts came soldiers, sailors, government officials and guards. Free migrants were attracted to Australia, as the colony grew larger. Only few people were migrating to Australia, until the gold rush ... came from England, Scotland and Ireland. Many of them paid their own fares to migrate to Australia. When Australia needed workers the government assisted migrants by paying part or all of their fares to travel. After the Second World War the third wave of migrants came...

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Federation refers to the unity of several states to form one nation, but remain independent in internal affairs. The Australian Federation was proclaimed on the 1, January 1901. The following discussion will focus on the issues that lead to six separate British colonies forming one united Australia. The economic advantages to ... . This added to the economic hardship. Politicians, bankers and businessmen began to believe that the problems that by now had lasted a few years could be better handled by a central federal government. Another important issue was defence. The colonies relied on Brit...

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... that lies between us in life expectancy, educational achievement and economic opportunity." This emphasises the "all" so that the indigenous communities feel a sense of involvement amongst the Australian culture, further equalising them to the rest of the country. Rudd also uses repetition when he lists all of the apologies he must make on behalf of the country. He ... at hand. Using these adjectives allows Rudd to further convince the audience of his contention, which is to make up for all the wrongs that have been done by the government in the past. The use of words through strong fea...

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... and eventually had to shut down. The closure of these companies led to mass unemployment. It took two years for the shortage of money to be taken into account in Australian society. Unemployment above all was the worst sideffect of the depression and in 1932 and estimated 30,000,000 were unemployed worldwide. On the 2nd of July 1931 the Age ... to these camps. They were often harassed by police and locals for doing this, but if they managed to get away they would go as far away as possible. The government established work camps to provide some of the unemployed with money. The men had t...

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