... Life of Us-, was in school, she was cast as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. The first thing she said to her teacher was "Miss, I don't think Dorothy is black?" . Her teacher then replied: "Deborah, Dorothy can be any colour she wants to be."" Maybe Deborah's Mt. Isa teacher was a ... as this. Or maybe she had a vision that Deborah would go on to greater things. I know many people who watch The Secret Life of Us, don't see an Aboriginal woman, they see Kelly (her character), and draw parallels between her life and their own. Such parallels may not exist if they were ... and chair holding on...

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... background. However, although the rhetoric of the policy is well intended, there continues to be a marked gap in opportunities and outcomes for students who don't identify with the 'dominant' Australian culture. In addition to this, this paper will demonstrate that there is still a long way to ... ;Anglo' perspective dominates what is actually taught. Whose experience counts as worthy of being accorded the status of known? Whose history? We don't see Australia as a prize for competing empires, with the British trying to deal with the diversity of Asian, Irish, European and pacific p...

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... the grapevine to find out what is actually going on. Not passing on information, or filtering by management, leaves many team members feeling ignored or pressured to things that they don't fully comprehend. Secondly, information overload tend to be information that team members do not need to know being plastered all over the tea room walls, especially as it mostly seems ... and Recommendations I believe that there were fewer participants in this year's survey because of a considered lack of interest, and often expressed opinions of "why should I bother; they don't listen to what I say;...

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... injuries and getting sick a couple of times. That kept me out of the water for about seventy five percent of the past two years and was a sincere bummer. Plus, when I don't surf every day I gain weight. At the moment I am in great shape, for a cow. I just really love to surf. I gave up trying to still be good a few years ago, now ... fire coral heads can ruin a day real fast when encountered at speed. What do you consider the greatest threat to surfing? Probably death. Or a surfing ending injury. For everyone else, I don't know. Dirty water is a problem. Crowds. Untimely use of large bo...

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... aged 65 and over indicating they were likely to use the internet, compared to 15  per cent of those aged between 14 and 49. There were a high number of ˜don't know' and ˜can't say' responses for this question indicating the lack of awareness of the internet among those who have never gone online. Figure 21: Likelihood to use the ... six months Source: Roy Morgan Single Source, July 2007 "June 2008, 14+ years old, N = 2,697 those do have never accessed the internet. Note: excludes ˜Can't say' and ˜don't know' Of those without an internet connection at home, 77  per cent indicated t...

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... of KABC radio in Los Angeles had a particularly disheartening discussion with a "readers" representative" for the Los Angeles Times. The representative told Elder "Even if there was a good guy with a gun, I don't know that he played a key role in this case." All this speculation, despite the fact that these were the people that stopped the attack, He's right; what possible role could ... private parties." The Government has no obligation to defend the individual citizen, and, with gun bans, the individual has no right to defend their selves. (Bovard, 2000, p. 223) Gun bans don't ban gun...

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... Epstein said in 1994: 'The only way making films is going to work is if Australians start taking gambles and do the pictures that the Americans won't . We don't have the manpower, we don't have the movie stars to compete with expensive American films head-on. All we have left at the end of the day is lower budgets, ingenuity, freedom and ... ...

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... 2002:64). Thus rape and prostitution become nessicary in order to satisfy the male desire to constantly procreate(Vida 1996). A female would not have a desire to be promiscuous, theoretically women don't harbour such innate urges in their genes. Women are theorised as having little, or no sexuality, as sociobiology suggests species survival requires them to need only be the recipient of ... from Llewellyn-Jones" (1982:52) book titled "Everywoman" an excerpt on "cultural myths about sex" describes some consequences of Darwinism on social attitudes of sexuality. Llewellyn-Jones writes, "n...

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... Approach is the only approach, it holds the necessary pressures and incentive to accomplish and commit to making a difference. " This is the only ball game in town, and those who don't want to be a part of that say quite clearly they do not want to be apart of the solution- says Swedish minister in regards to other countries wanting to participate ... industry and house hold emitting pollutions will continue to contaminant our bodies, for many of which we do not even understand the long-term affects. "The fact is that we don't know the long term impact of most pollutants, the threshold ...

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... use for it. Most on-reserve natives have a sub-secondary school education, and live below the poverty line. They"re caught in a viscous cycle where they live in poverty, but don't have the education or tools necessary to improve their way of life. For Natives leaving reserves for urban areas (see appendix 2), they are often worse off, because a lack of education ... as a result of the effects of European settlement" (UN Press Release, 1). This proves there is a major economic problem with Aborigines in Australia. They are caught in a viscous cycle where they don't have the education or ...

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... mostly runs by having buyers and sellers producing and buying what is most wanted, without the government controlling what is produced. Buyers purchase what they want and avoid what they don't want and business grow and some fail, this freedom keeps the economy growing healthy. In fact there has been 22 years of uninterrupted economic grown in Australia. It has a strong ... ...

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... orders of his commandment were: Wheeler: It is a general order that whenever there are large assemblances [sic] of blacks, it is the duty of an officer to disperse them Question: Don't you consider that this is a very loose way of proceeding - surrounding blacks" camps, shooting innocent gins? Wheeler: There is no other way Settler John Coley gave evidence on one of ... ...

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... pig, Lester attempts to tell Oriel that the pig is to stay. It is in this conversation between Oriel and Lester that we can clearly see the dominance of Oriel Don't you Oriel Love me and Lester sensitive side, with him being able to see the relationship between Fish and the pig The boy thinks the pig's his friend. After the ... ...

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... into the heads of certain sections of the population. Television is a powerful mass medium, and as such it deserves strong regulation to ensure its power is not abused. Many people don't believe in events, they just simply believe in television, the "if it's on TV it must be true" attitude. What constitutes news can be quite different for different news services ... ...

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... type of relationship, where the bank takes mortgage and puts the sword on the neck of the occupant saying: "you pay or else we kick out of the house." We don't sacrifice the security because our name will be on the title together with the buyer but we also give the buyer security that he or she will not be kicked ... ...

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