... -time employees are casual, the proportion of full-time workers who are employed on a casual basis has almost doubled in the last decade to reach 12 percent in 2000(ABS, 6310.0). The increasing prominence of "nontraditional" employment has raised concern both in the population at large and among economists. It has been suggested that part-time employment has been seen as an ... number of full-time jobs speeds a race to the bottom wherein once secure workers and their families are dislocated, impoverished and dispossessed. Welfare dependency: The proportion of the working-age population r...

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... the Russians have been exploiting it for feeding their cattle. It may eventually be a food for humans after further research. It is also a food for the penguins and seals whose population is reported to be increasing after the coming into effect of the CCAMLR the agreement on Marine Living Resources. There are two types of penguins found in the coastal regions ... and 1 Australian vessels were hunting seals in the South Shetlands. The next year the numbers were perhaps doubled. In 1978 the Antarctic Treaty nations agreed to prohibit the taking of fur, elephant and Ross seals, and limit t...

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... . While the preference at that time was for British migrants, others were accepted on the understanding that they should shed their cultures and languages and be assimilated into the host population so that they would rapidly become indistinguishable from it. The policy effectively excluded non-European immigration as in 1905 a dictation test was introduced given the reason it was to ensure ... Australia's responsibilities as a member of the international community. In 1966 the Liberal-Country Party Government began dismantling the 'White Australia' policy by permitting the immigration o...

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... , however, these have been "neither been uniform nor homogenous across the archipelago" (Maxwell, 1999). The common measurement of poverty is from the Central Bureau of Statistics, that poverty has almost doubled from its pre-crisis level of 11 per cent to around 20 per cent (Maxwell, 1999). Despite this, some sources indicate that approximately 100 million Indonesians would sink below the ... poverty line, which includes almost 50 per cent of the population (Pettifor, 2002). Within Australia poverty is seen at 13 per cent, with an estimated total of 2.4 million Australian's now living i...

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... of the `backbone' network. Satellite and microwave networks are used mostly to service regional and rural areas. They also serve as a backup facility for the fibre optic networks in the population centres. A comprehensive list of the domestic networks is provided in Appendix B. Australia's key eastern seaboard capitals of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are currently linked by three major fibre optic `backbone ... in Sydney linking Australia with the west coast of the United States and has increased cable capacity by 500 times. The Australia-Japan cable, launched in November 2001,has fur...

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