... 1909 was knighted. In 1910 he became Australia's first representative to London and held his position until his death in 1918. Edmund Barton was born in Sydney, 1849. Later on he joined the Legislative Assembly in 1879 and became "speaker" in 1883. He then toured New South Wales ... September 1903 after he had been appointed "Justice of the High Court". He remained in that position until his death in 1903. Alfred Deakin was born in Melbourne, 1856. He graduated from Melbourne University in 1877, and then became a journalist. He later stood for Victorian Parliament, and was ... ) in 1891 ...

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... young audiences to explore the deeper meanings behind them. The first piece included in this exhibition is Painting 1977 by Peter Booth, who is a contemporary Australian figurative and surrealist painter born in 1940 in Sheffield, England. Most of Booth's artworks depict the difficult childhood he experienced in Sheffield, where he grew up during war years and witnessed the destruction war caused ... as the main subject matters in her artwork is Ryoko Suzuki, an Asian artist who is famous for her extremely explicit and disturbing art installations. Ryoko Suzuki is a Japanese artist born...

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... are 22% more likely to become teen mothers themselves. In addition, the children of teen mothers are at greater risk of abuse and neglect than children born to older parents. Children of teen mothers tend to have lower birth weights and are more likely to perform poorly in school. The sons of teen ... having had sexual intercourse while half report that they are virgins. • A quarter of sexually active teenage girls become pregnant. • About six percent of babies born in Australia (or 15,000 of them) had teenage mothers (based on 1990 statistics). • 72 percent of teenagers think preg...

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... Immigration is a worldwide phenomenon. Canada is an increasingly ethnically diverse country. Canada's reflection of ethnic diversity is due to the increasing flow of immigration. The vast majority of Canadians are born in Canada, and most of them are from European descent. Close to, half of all immigrants that came to Canada between 1991 and 1996 reveal a first language other than French ... at first but after 10 to 12 years, they have caught up and exceeded the national average wage. It's been reported that children of immigrant family often out perform children born Canada. Almost one...

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... Immigration is a worldwide phenomenon. Canada is an increasingly ethnically diverse country. Canada's reflection of ethnic diversity is due to the increasing flow of immigration. The vast majority of Canadians are born in Canada, and most of them are from European descent. Close to, half of all immigrants that came to Canada between 1991 and 1996 reveal a first language other than French ... at first but after 10 to 12 years, they have caught up and exceeded the national average wage. It's been reported that children of immigrant family often out perform children born Canada. Almost one...

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... .8) The British diaspora had it`s origins in the colonial period (1788 - 1900) and the dominion nation period (1901 - 1950) in which England was thought of as "home- by many Australian-born people and where those of Brtitish ancestory made up a lare majority of the population. Australian films of the 20`s, 30`s and 40`s portrayed the country as ... the fairest child of ... the creed of 'new world' societies and therefore appealing to both Australian and US audiences. 'These societies are predicated upon an immigrants preparedness..... and an assumption that the existing native-born ident...

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... Great Britain. From this day Australia was built up as a Multicultural society and now has a population of just over 17 million people with 20% of people living in Australia were born in another country. Today the aboriginal population is less than 1.5% with over half being under the age of 25 years. Australians speak more than 100 languages other than English in ... and instead get the choice of the most amazingly different foods. Australians like many other countries thrive for their sport and many of Australia's sporting hero's were born in other countries or have parents born in ano...

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... protect it from foreign influence of different cultures. By the 1880's three quarters of Australia's population had been born in Australia. This is an important cause of national identity because you feel Australian if you are born there, unlike previous generations, where the majority were born in other countries. So at this time an identity, which was formed around a distinctive Anglo-Celtic ethnical ... ...

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AUSTRALIA BACKGROUND: Australia is my homeland. I was born in America, but my mom was born in Australia and tries to take us home every 2-3 years so we can know what she loved growing up. All my family comes from there and we are proud of ... and annoy you so much. Facts about Family I am half Australian and half American. I have to passports and duel citizenship. My mother is Australian and my father is American. I was born in America but my nationality was put as both American and Australian. My family first moved to Australia in about 1900's, my great grandfather came over from Ireland. M...

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... skilled workers and other migrants came to Australia (Museum Victoria. N.d.). According to Australian Bureau of statistics, in 2011, there were 5.3 Million migrants in Australia out of which 265000 were Indian born and 390894 had Indian ancestry[CITATION ABS14 n t l 3081 ] . Of the total migrants in 2011-2012, about 15.6% of migrants are from India [CITATION The15 n l 3081 ]. Indian ... -born community is culturally and linguistically diverse. Health Care Practices, Beliefs and Hospital Practices Family play an important role in the Indian culture. Death is accepted and is considered rei...

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The artwork Yawkyawk was painted by Indigenous artist Jimmy Njiminjuma. Jimmy Njiminjuma was born in the Arnhem region. Jimmy Njiminjuma was born in 1947 and unfortunately died in 2004. The place of origin is Mumeka, Central Arnhem land, Northern territory, Australia. This painting was finished in 2000. The painting is a bark painting ... ...

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... the federation process, Australia, was a creation in many ways continuing from its pre 1901 state. Yet there is much to support the claim that Australia at this time had been born to a new existence. John Molony, in his research states that federation had not been achieved easily or quickly, and whilst the majority of Australians were supportive of federation in 1901 ... of an Australian settlement. The argument posed here is the burden "colony" held in the lifestyle of the pre federation Australian. Whilst white, educated and of British dissent, the native born Australian could not sha...

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... the Australian culture. Since World War II, the population has started to become more ethnically diversified, as people from a wider range of countries have started to migrate to Australia. People born in other countries increased from 10 % in 1947 to 24 % in 2000. In 1947, 81 % of new arrivals came from Europe. Lately people from other parts of the world have ... 5 %; and India 4 %. These six countries represented about 53 % of total immigration during those years. After the early 1970s the immigration from Asian countries began to increase. In 1999-2000 Asian-born people made up 34 % ...

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... this way until 1983, when the age was raised to 19. After much debate, on July 17, 1984 Congress passed a law stating that people born after July 1, 1966 had to be 21 to buy or possess alcohol. Those born before July 1 retained their right to drink. The main push to reform this law was led by a woman named Candy Lightner, who founded ... ...

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... and senior managers of public companies are from a non Anglo-Celtic background (NMAC, 1995:11-12). This is despite the fact that over 42% of Australians are born overseas, or have at least one parent born overseas (The Age, 2003). Clearly, the lack of ethnic representation within Australia's creative and administrative appendages reflects negatively on a society that prides itself on a supposedly representative ... ...

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... 19th century itself drew to a close."" (1). There were mixed feelings with the end of Victoria's reign. At the time Australian culture still revolved around Britain and most Australian's were either born in Britain, or had relatives residing there. Victoria was the Queen of Great Britain for such a long time period that by the time of her death no one under the ... from Australia and it became a less British based society. After her death many people felt their connection with Britain was weakened. For many Australians at that time, especially those not born in Britain, they felt they h...

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... America in the 1970's, our very own Rupert Murdoch joined the US ranks launching Fox network as the fourth US network, up against a saturated market a new breed of entertainment was born, reality style tabloid television. The first of which was A Current Affairs' followed closely by the next cab of the rank America's most wanted', but what do we care in Australia ... Americans and more recently Australians through sensationalism, tabloid journalism augments significant events of the times, thereby shaping the pages of history. "Tabloid Television, as the term is generally understood, wa...

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... together with the significant contributions of the early settlers and more recent migrants have helped build the nation we belong to today. With 43% of the population born overseas or with at least one parent born overseas, and with some 200 languages between us, we have one of the most cosmopolitan populations in the world. Multiculturalism celebrates Australian traditions, recognising that our ... ...

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... Australia. People in Australia came from more than 220 nationalities and 130 different language backgrounds in 1999. (D"Netto & Sohal, 1999:530 sited Nankervis et al., 1999) Almost 4.4 millions Australians were born overseas and 2.5 million Australia residents speak a language other than English in 2000. (Barrile, 2003: 5) The ethnic formation of workplace has been changing since the 1970s with a decrease of proportion from ... Southern Europe and Middle Eastern countries while people come from South-East and Northern Asia has increased. (Teicher et al., 2002: 321 sited ABS 1988-1998) A...

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... probably do a runner from the Government and change their name from Mohammed to Bruce. According to Amnesty International, 1 in every 115 people on earth is a refugee, and a new refugee is born every 21 seconds, and at that rate I say they should all be neutered. With the amount of refugees there are already, and new ones being ... born every 21 seconds, imagine the amount of these refugees immigrating across the world, filling up our countries and taking away our jobs such as taxi-drivers and doctors. And this ... ...

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... not as widely embraced, and various artists recognized this and challenged the international communities to become familiar with the artists interpretations of Australia; the independent' nation. George Russell Drysdale was born in Bognor Regis, England on the 7th of February 1912 and died on the 29th of June 1981 in Sydney's Westmead Hospital. Drysdale traveled to and from Australia numerous times ... to form, painted this image in trademark style, conforming to his dry brush strokes and slight touches of theatrical and sentimental charm which he became accustomed to. Sidney Nolan was ...

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... the major political parties in Australia abandoned the racist immigration policy. Thus by 1995, 38% of migrants arriving in Australia had been born in an Asian country, although this dropped from the peak of 51% in 1991. 15% were born in South East Asia including 5% from Vietnam. Australia has an incredible sense of space to people living in densely populated Asian cities ... ...

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... nourishment of the young. Most placental mammals nourishment is passed from the circulatory system of the mother to that of the embryo by means of a placenta, and the young are born well-developed. But some mammal are very different from other mammals. For example, the egg-laying monotreme of Australia, and in the marsupial the young are ... born at an extremely undeveloped stage and continue to develop in a milk-supplied pouch. Most mammals have highly evolved sense organs and larger brains than other chordates. Mammals also have the ... ...

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... of sixteen professionally trained artists who each obtain an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander heritage from different areas across Australia and one artistic director called Stephen Page; he was born in Brisbane and is a descendant of the "Nunukul" people from South East Queensland. Stephan was chosen to be Artistic Director of Bangarra in 1991 and ever since then he has ... ...

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... also brutalized by police because of their race. Bureau of Statistics figures also "shows the incarceration rate of Sudanese people in Australia is almost triple the average of people born here." Reading about all this information throughout my research, I can honestly say I am devastatingly disgusted by the figures. As a fellow "black" and as a person with morals, I can definitely ... ...

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