... Thus, Australia's support for the "war on terrorism" has generally seen an improvement in its relations with South-East Asia. Following the attacks on September 11, 2001, President Bush sought wide support for what was declared the "war against terrorism". Australia initiated the ANZUS pact and consequently committed itself to fight alongside US forces, which had identified Osama Bin ... Mass Destruction" and strong links with Al Qaeda. Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim nation has consequently had upheavals by Muslims over Malaysia's support on the "war on terror". Following President Bu...

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... prominent portrayals of masculinity and male orientated films. By delving into how each of the films illustrates, that even today the ideals and values of the bush survive as a powerful endorsement of Australia's origins as a "bush" nation, bestowed in mythical terms. The uniqueness of Australian films, which seem to employ a particular style and attitude are not seen in mainstream Hollywood flicks, ... portrayal of the vast Aussie outback tends to be vary analogous in both films. Both present their viewers with a sense of Australianness through exposing the barrenness and desolation of...

• Word Count: 1458
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... and they would often spend months or years on government construction work before being assigned to the service of a country settler . This obviously had a major influence on how people perceived "bush life" and it is no wonder that the bush life became so popular and sought after by ex-convicts whose lives were such that they brought with them to the ... bush the same attitudes. In the 1880`s Australia was seen as the "workingman's paradise". This was mainly due to the fact that migrants compared it to the country they had left ... ...

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... many of the white explorers was to discover new land and resources for white settlers to cultivate and prosper. A combination of eagerness and ignorance led many of these men into a bush land, which they had no idea how to deal with or survive. Reynolds states that "the explorers were engaged in warfare against the hostility of the wilderness .a battle fought and ... of acquiring local knowledge was to take an Aboriginal guide on the expedition. This way, the explorers were more than certain to have all the necessary skills needed in the bush right on hand, whenever needed. "From the qu...

• Word Count: 1696
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... English naturalist Joseph Banks first stepped ashore at Botany Bay, he would have felt the thrill of strangeness that succeeding generations have experienced in their first encounter with the Australian bush. Australia is a land unlike any other. The uniqueness of its animals, plants and landscapes are consequences of a vast, slow accident of geology. Over the past 45 million years, this old ... overgrown. Then widespread fires devastated these plant communities and fire-thriving species like eucalypts replaced them.There is some evidence that Aboriginal peoples burned a patchwork patte...

• Word Count: 1979
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... days. The stomata will also close during times environmental stress such as drought to prevent unnecessary water loss (Campbell & Reece 2002:582). Every summer in Australia bushfires devastate areas of bush land, the river red gum has adapted to this and developed a slight resistance to fire. This resistance is because the river red gum has lignotubers at the bases of their ... ...

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... other countries. So at this time an identity, which was formed around a distinctive Anglo-Celtic ethnical core definitely continued to increase. Australian artists and poets helped to create the Australian Bush Legend that might be "a source of unique national character" (Lecture 18.3.2004). Painters such as Tom Roberts, Charles Condor, Hans Heysen and Arthur Streeton began to paint Australian images. Poets ... ...

• Word Count: 1535
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... had brought from home' - page 11-, Ashley Crowther constantly refers England as home', and viewing Australia as a nation stemmed from England. And as a result other older Crowthers regard the Australian bush as alien, and presumably inferior to the English countryside. Historically, Malouf's portrayal of Australians being a lower class is accurately represented. Australians originally were English convicts that were sentenced and sent ... ...

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... greatly increased in areas where introduced predators have established. Another factor is the significant local disturbance that the development will cause; this will create incandescent carbon "slugs" which cause irregular bush fires. The project could cause an annual emission of approximately 8 million tonnes of climate threatening greenhouse gases, environmentalists anticipate total greenhouse emissions of 1.4mtpa CO2 - e for a 1 train project, which includes ... ...

• Word Count: 2008
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate