... Hogan's repeated failed attempts to resurrect his Crocodile Dundee success. A more realistic, down-to-earth approach to film-making was required, as Scott Epstein said in 1994: 'The only way making films is going to work is if Australians start taking gambles and do the pictures that ... best friend in the position of living horror.' Far from being eccentric, Paul J. Hogan's idea filts into a well-represented strand of Australian story-telling. A great deal of Australian stories focus on people who would normally be in the periphery. Physical types are often cast in leading ... national...

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... with a view to reach the South Pole. They organized a National Antarctic Expedition in 1899, and in June 1890 appointed Lieutenant Robert Falcon Scott, an officer from the Royal Navy, as the Commander of the Expedition. They constructed a special scientific vessel Discovery of length 52.4m ... its goal, but they acquired a lot of knowledge about the area which was useful to them in later missions. In 1907, a veteran of Scott's expedition, Shekleton from Great Britain organized a private expedition after raising funds from various sources, which included a heavy loan from a bank. He left...

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... perpetuate the "Australian Myth" of idealised masculinity. Films are not an accurate reflection of the real world, rather they apt aspects of the real and drag them into their own story world, whilst having a tendency to conform to the Australian template. This can be seen in "Robbery Under Arms" where a real Australian bushranger, Captain Starlight, is conveyed in a typical bushranger genre ... stability which progresses to instability through conflict and intervention, then as the problem is resolved, the film conspires to stability once again, si typical to many Australian films. Thi...

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... representations of cultural qualities, becoming influenced by personal gain will colour political and cultural issues in a very different light. As relationships develop between these elites, several disturbing considerations arise. Tony Fitzgerald QC pointed out in his inquiry, the cost of political corruption in Queensland. Here the media failed to report, or chose to ignore the abusive powers of the Queensland Government ... , which enabled corruption to "develop and flourish." (Cunningham and Turner, 1997 40) Had it not been for the Government run ABC finally breaking the story, Quee...

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... fell good personal stories of heartache or achievement this is all well and good but has this supposed Women's television' has too gone too far. We now have diet story after diet story on that Hard hitting' program called A Current Affairs and Today Tonight which both have almost become comical in their supposed hard journalistic stories. Australia could soon get sucked further ... had on an unsuspecting second party. The twist was that the crushes were ones that homosexual men had on other men. Jonathan Schmitz, 24, says he had no idea that Scott Amedure, 32, a neighbour of his, was hi...

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... dairy products, there existed an equilibrium of supply and demand. This equilibrium can easily be explained as a point "where quantity demanded is equal to quantity supplied". (Fraser, Gionea, Fraser, 2000: 39) The outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease created a disequilibrium of both supply and demand that, although initially affecting only England, quickly spread its fingers to the rest of the world ... contain the spread. Marwell Zoo in Winchester, one of the UK's leading conservation zoos has closed after a suspected case of the disease was found". (Perry, 2001: http://newsroom.co.nz/s...

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... developing cross-cultural programs. Failure to recognise " the fact that human identity is expressed in a specific cultural and community context and human potential is realised in much the same way" ( Fitzgerald, 1988, p. 58 ) can only be disadvantageous to any cross- cultural human service worker. The necessary preparation and underlining principles for cross-cultural work will be discussed. The role of self ... ...

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... articles on a wide range of subjects: recent issues have included "Convict to Copper - the early police in Australia," "The Croydon Poisonings of 1928-1929," "The Murder of PC Thomas Henry Scott", "Conan Doyle and the bullet-proof uniform", ""Lest we forget : The National Police Officers Roll of Honour" and "Greeno:Master Detective." ...

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... . That same year M. Daguerre discovered the photographic process called the Daguerreotype. In 1840 Fox Talbot produced negative images using silver nitrate solution to produce what he called a calotype. 1851 Fredric Scott Archer discovered the collodian wet plate process for producing an image. The major influences on Australian photography were the European Pictorialists who emulated the styles of the French impressionist's painters ... ...

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... and acquisition FDI (M&A) decreased from 34.603 to 23.087, according to World investment report 2013 In 2012, FDI stock flew in Australia is US$ 610,517 million, cover of 39.0% of GDP. It is an impressive number and Australians stock market is potential for investors. Therefore, investors can invest stock to Australia. Although the Philippine government and its legal system ... ...

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... . Maynarda(2009) argues although Aborigines gained great achievement at football and rugby in Australia, their success is suppressed with government policies preventing them to be in 'world game' soccer(pp.39-56).These cases support the idea that racism shows its face in every era of daily life. In conclusion, attempts trying to reject racism as a problem is useless.People are ... ...

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... 2% of Australia's population, they represent 9% of the total homeless population and 19% of people in improvised housing. 60% of the homeless are men and 40% of the homeless are women. 39% of the homeless population is young people under 18. The average age a teen becomes homeless is 14 and 7 months of age. 1 in 7 young people between the ages of 10 to ... ...

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... newer communication activities at least monthly, if not more regularly. The most common activities include: email, used by 75  per cent news feeds (Really Simple Syndication or RSS), used by 39  per cent instant messaging, used by 29  per cent social networking sites, used by 22  per cent blogs, read by 22  per cent. This research also indicated that there is ... ...

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... days surfing the outer islands in Hawaii. Also Mainland Mexico and Costa Rica. I think one of my favorite sessions was getting "restaraunts" in Fiji all to myself one morning for 39 of the best waves that I have ever ridden. Recently I had a wonderful day trip to Witches Rock in Costa Rica with Robert August, Wingnut, the Tashjian boys, Mark Martinson, and Alf ... ...

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... the post-recession economic recovery" (Henderson, 2001). Despite this, one could question whether this is "a crisis" as in 1993 employment peaked at Eleven per cent, as compared to Indonesia where "39 million Indonesians have lost their jobs" (Pettifor, 2002). On the other hand, "the main reason for high unemployment in Australia is that employment growth has been too weak over the ... ...

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... legitimate, implicitly encouraged the segregation and fragmentation of minority ethnic groups from the mainstream Anglo-Saxon community. Such behaviour is expounded upon in The Mackay Reports (Mackay Research, 1995:38-39): "Tolerance actually discourages assimilation the underlying concern here, of course, is that strongly entrenched ethnic communities will create divisions within the broader Australian society and these divisions will set the ... ...

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... part of their ongoing curriculum. However, 9% of English schools did include grief education as an ad hoc topic, meaning it was taught aside from the regular curriculum (Rowling and Holland 39.) There were similarities in what the two countries taught in their grief curriculum. Suicide prevention/ intervention programs need to be viewed very carefully as only 4% of English schools indicated offering ... ...

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... 38.2 in 1982 to 41.3 in 2001; and increase of 3.1 hours, or an eight per cent increase. [ACTU 2002] According to the ABS, (Appendix A), the number of people working 35 39 hours, 41 - 44 hours, 45 49 hours, 50- 59 and 60 and over hours have all increased by varying degrees over the twenty year period. The increase has been steady ... ...

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... . Capital Punishment was abolished from all Australian states by the year 1985 (Appendix 1), however it is still practised in many other countries around the world. The death penalty exists in 39 of the United States of America, most of Africa, many countries in Europe, most countries in Asia, and most of the Middle East. A total of 95 countries worldwide retain the ... ...

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... students agree or somewhat agree that reading is fun. And 43% believe math is fun. These scores are higher than most other nations. For example, in the United States only 39% of 15 year-olds agree or agree somewhat that math is fun and only 42% say they enjoy reading. When I examined the percentages of students in nations who agreed with ... ...

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... statistics show that from 1947 to 1997 immigration from English speaking countries such as the UK, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the US, had dropped from 81% to only 39%. While on the other hand immigration from the Asian countries had increased from 15.2% in 1977, peaking at 50.6% in 1991-92 and was 37.4% in 1996-97. These immigration ... ...

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... imprint is Martin Booth's "Cannabis: A History-, selling for an even pricier $34.95. Late last year also saw the release of Jonathon Greer's "Cannabis- from Hardie Grant Books, selling for $39.95. Even considering there is a semi-established cannabis literature market, John Birmingham has overcome a certain amount of risk to write Dopeland'. There are social, political and certainly legal implications to ... ...

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... for eye, and tooth for tooth." But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn him the other also." Matthew 5:38-39 What Jesus is trying to tell us is that if forgiveness is essential when dealing with criminals. We need to understand that they may have gone through a great deal in ... ...

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... rooms. But are these shows bringing us the honest truth? For example, the segment reported by Sixty Minutes, titled "The Lost Children", tells the story of children who were sent to Australia for the opportunity of a so called "better life". It would be there where they would be taken care of ... Brothers. However it was in this "better life" that the children were forced to work as labourers and were molested, beaten and raped. Was the story twisting words? After all, we are all guilty of exaggerating occasionally. But was it an act, tailored to stir up our emotions by using sly, ... p...

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... colonial bush culture and its people. 'In a dry season' talking from a homodiegetic narration, explores the thoughts of a narrator who is travelling through the NSW bush when in fact this story was based on Henry Lawson's own trip from Sydney to Bourke in the summer of 1892. Lawson captures the essences of the Australian bush culture and introduces his readers to ... the eccentric nature of its inhabitants. A fundamental nature that Henry illustrates in his story of the Australian bush culture is the Australian outback. Lawson concentrates on the harsh reality of outback existence ...

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