... wealthy countries accept many refugees such as the United States and Australia. Australia accepts 30,000 to 99,999 refugees per year, which is a poor amount compared to other small Middle Eastern countries such as Iran and Pakistan, which accept 500,000 to 999,999 refugees a year. Australia is a popular country for refugees because it is safe and we are a multicultural ... but it is always difficult to fit in no matter what country they move to. Most refugees live in Southwest Asia (mostly Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan), North Africa and the Middle East. 5.1 million in Africa south of ...

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... of these refugees immigrating across the world, filling up our countries and taking away our jobs such as taxi-drivers and doctors. And this is just focusing mainly on the Middle East. China is already full and many Chinese are immigrating here as well. It is only a matter of time before Box Hill gets full and they move on to Ringwood. There ... them would be the bloody hippies and humanitarians, but who listens to those crazy people anyway. The Americans have the same problem with the Mexicans as we do with the Middle East and Asia. If we listened to the hippies and let the Asylum Seek...

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... it was decided that the Allied troops would be withdrawn from the Peninsula; the attempt to control the Dardanelles had failed. The remaining ANZACs were evacuated and returned to the Middle East and the Western Front where they were involved in other battles. The Gallipoli campaign was an enormous failure, a failure bought at the cost of an enormous number of lives, and ... other Allied troops from France and Britain also died. However, ANZAC Day is not just about Gallipoli. It also recognises the sacrifices made in other conflicts including WW2, Korea, South East Asia, the Persian Gul...

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... available in Australia's main urban centres. These estimates were developed for the National Bandwidth Inquiry and are regarded as conservative. Seven international fibre optic cable networks link Sydney via the east and west coast of Australia to the US, Europe and Asia. Sydney, a major Internet-Exchange Point and telecommunications hub, is serviced by deep sea underwater cables that link to a domestic ... . Two new high-capacity cables are planned for completion by the end of 2003. These cables will augment the SE-ME-WE 3 and Jasaurus cables link Sydney with Asia, the Middle East and E...

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... people which make up about two percent of Australia's total population. Aborigines are believed to have evolved as modern man in Africa about 190,000 years ago, moved into the Middle East by 120,000 years ago, then into Asia, and on to Australia at least 60,000 years ago. This believed information is based on archaeological finds and genetic studies of ... ...

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... goods places enormous strains on the Australian economy. The dependency on imported petroleum exposes the Australian economy to fluctuations on the worldwide market for petroleum. Outbreaks of war in the Middle East or hurricanes in 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 ... ...

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... breakdown of the seeds they eat. Hot deserts can be found in the southwest of the United States, along the coast of South America, in northern Africa, and in the Middle East. There are cold deserts to the west of the Rocky Mountains, in eastern Argentina and throughout central Asia. They are the driest of all biomes. The evaporation exceeds rainfall, making ... ...

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... then Christianity spread to different parts in Australia and became the dominant religion. Immigration Australia is a multicultural society, which people all over the world such as Asia, Europe and the Middle East migrate to live a better life. Therefore as immigrants migrate to Australia, various religions that differ from Christianity with different beliefs and traditions are being introduced in Australia, which will lead ... ...

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... this request but there is strong evidence to suggest that his government is not cooperating fully with the United Nations. The US has amassed a large number of troops in the Middle East and this pressure is felt by many as threatening and bullying. The issue that Iraq holds the highest percentage of oil production in the world clouds the issue of America ... ...

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... never seen before. Cook and Banks inspected the land and thought it would be a good place to set up settlement for future use. The endeavour sailed north up to the East coats of Australia and spotted Botany Bay. It was maed this because of all the different plants Banks observed. On May 7, Cook sailed again Travelling North and seeing an approach ... a piece of the Great Barrier Reef. The Hull of the ship was leaking, Cook instructed the crew to begin fothering, and patch up the hole and the ship By the middle of August they had come into site of the tip of Australia's north-eastern tip...

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... 1966 the Liberal-Country Party Government began dismantling the 'White Australia' policy by permitting the immigration of 'distinguished' non-Europeans. The population doubled as non-European immigration, mostly from the Middle East, Asia and Latin America increased because of Australia's extensive immigration program. Thus the mid-1960s to 1973 evolved into the integration period. Integration refers to those policies that did not ... ...

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... sentiment is by far the strongest. The study identified Muslims as one of the country's most marginalised religious and ethnic groups, with many Australians believing Muslims and people from the Middle East were unable to fit in to Australia. More than half of those surveyed said they would be concerned if a relative married a Muslim. About 45% said some cultural groups did not ... ...

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