... perish" After WWII Australia had to re-think its plan for survival for if we didn't we surely would have been overpowered by japan, china or Indonesia because those countries are over populated and Australia for its size is largely under populated. Prior to WWII Australia was ... from coming here. He was very concerned about how our defence and economy would hold up if we were attacked or invaded after the war. Japan did not help his concerns when they had proved to be a major ally to Germany in WWII, they even bombed Darwin in WWII. Taking ... culture and learned to live the Australi...

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... 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 ... 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 thought it was in their best interests to make sur...

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... the U.S can quickly affect the supply of petroleum. In some instances OECD countries have deliberately manipulated supply to drive up prices. These factors are beyond the control of the Australian Government and represent a risk to the health of the Australian economy. Part 4 - Australia's Primary Trading Partners Australia's major exporting destinations reflect the goods that are being exported, with 27.3% ... of exports going to China, and 19.3% going to Japan in 2011. With China in particular expected to become the most powerful economy in the world, according to Austrade's chief eco...

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... the years. Political groups, social and religious groups all shaped the public's support of the war. Views of Save Our Sons, the Catholic Church and Menzies Government will be focused on in the text. Menzies view on the Vietnam War was that at all costs it had to be fought by Australians and won, he ... two years and if they refused, they would be made to serve a prison sentence for two years instead. This wasn't a big issue until 1966 when the government announced they would be sending the conscripts overseas to fight in the Vietnam War. SOS was completely against this idea of man they ...

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... be made by the Japanese people, in an attempt to refrain from depleting necessary resources. Petrol rationing did not only affect Japan, as it extended to Australia where people used large gas burners instead of the ordinary petrol. The government was essential in upholding the fair distribution of petrol and other every day commodities such as food and clothing, which was later ... introduced in 1942. The government went so far as to say to the public that "the government could not and would not provide enough beer and tobacco for all demands." Renowned persons such as politicians and ...

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... March 2002, Australia's net foreign debt was AUS $332 billion owed mainly to countries more developed than itself, for example the United States and Japan. Australia borrows money from other countries to cover any deficit in the Current Account. Australia's foreign debt is increasing every year because the negative ... increasing, (more in debt to itself) Australia is borrowing to cover this and is therefore unable to pay any of it back. The federal government will also borrow if there are insufficient funds in Australia's savings account, if there is a large depreciation in the value of...

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... discovered in its water. Perth was founded the twelfth of August 1829, by Captain James Stirling, as the Swan River settlement. Stirling's original objective was actually to assure the British government that no French colonists had occupied the western part of Australia. The place where the city was to be founded was chosen from its beauty. It was founded by free ... 1850, when British convicts arrived to shorten the labour shortage. Many of the old buildings in today's Perth were built using convict labour, for example the Town Hall and the Government building. Perth's development was...

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... discovered in its water. Perth was founded the twelfth of August 1829, by Captain James Stirling, as the Swan River settlement. Stirling's original objective was actually to assure the British government that no French colonists had occupied the western part of Australia. The place where the city was to be founded was chosen from its beauty. It was founded by free ... 1850, when British convicts arrived to shorten the labour shortage. Many of the old buildings in today's Perth were built using convict labour, for example the Town Hall and the Government building. Perth's development was...

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... – are still well within the inflation targeting range and are not trending up. The fall in the inflation rate was driven by a fall in price of electricity, after the government removed a tax on carbon emission starting early July. Inflation is expected to remain contained within the RBA's target band. Interest rate plays an important part in an economy of a country ... gas accounts for 54 percent of total exports. Australia is a major importer of machinery and transport equipment, computers and office machines and telecommunication lasers. Australia's main trading partners are: China,...

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... due to the wars and depression. Australia needed to survive, and this was done through planned immigration. The Department of Immigration was set up in 1945 by the Commonwealth Labor government and Arthur Calwell was the first Minister of Immigration. However Calwell had a single-minded view of where the migrants should come from. He was in favour of the 'White Australia ... ' policy and to him Asian countires, especially Japan (for what happened in World War II) were the enemies and European countries, especially Britain were the saviours. Calwell had a motto he was known for - 'Populat...

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