... on January 1, 1983, enabled the relationship to become closer, creating a free trade area between the two countries and facilitating the development of dramatically increased two-way trade and investment. Economically, our two countries are now enormously important to each other. Australia is New Zealand's largest trading partner and New Zealand is Australia's fourth largest trading partner. Investment has become ... allied expedition that set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey (then part of the Ottoman Empire). They landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. Australia and New ...

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... economic access to the major world market, regional security and intelligence sharing. These benefits were not offered in the restrictive British alliance of yesteryear. Early last century, Australia was colonially linked to Britain and a series of events slowly eroded the strength of this empire/dominion relationship. Having lost faith in the British to a certain extent, Australian society looked to America for a fresh ... troops killed abroad. The overwhelming public opinion at the time still supported the British alliance, but the seeds of doubt had been sown (Evans, 1991:18). Leading...

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... generation and time frame. People from this era would be able to relate to the events better than people from younger generations would. Australians views and values differed on the subject of Vietnam War. Opinion was divided about whether or not we should be there. While the characters do not debate this political involvement Roy and Carol have very different reactions about the loss ... see Tom has a weak human being who is dieing rather than a second rate immigrant. Other references in the play to migrants include when Roy doesn't think it important to know how to pronounce the name ...

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... and Breaking Free, to this increasingly important issue. He goes into great detail about the blind devotion of former Prime Minister Robert Menzies, and the blatant exploitation of Australia's land, through atomic bomb tests, and its people, through various wars often fought on the other side of the world. He exposes the manipulation of Australian political 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 repeating its mistakes in the recent inv...

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... , Spain, Belgium and other countries. Economic and humanitarian events around the world subsequently influenced the size and source countries of the Australian program. At various times in the 1950s and 1960s, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia were important migrant source countries. There were also significant intakes: Of Hungarian and Czech refugees following unrest in those countries in ... 1956 and 1968 respectively; From Chile following the overthrow of the Allende Government in 1973; From Indochina after the end of the Vietnam war in 1975; and From Pola...

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