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Second World War Attempt To Show
1,688 wordsA countrys foreign policy is only partly the result of decisions made by its government: it is mainly imposed by circumstances. Australia, during the last fifty years, has been a country unsure of its place in the world. She has been bouncing from ally to ally, begging for a place under their umbrella of protection, ignoring and denying her place in the Asian region, and struggling to find a foreign policy that is in the best interest of her welfare and security. Australia truly finds herself, p...
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South East Asia Second World War
1,651 words... year later. The ANZUS treaty signed by Australia, New Zealand, and the United States in 1951 represented the security blanket Australia had been desperate for since the end of the Second World War. The ANZUS treaty has since become the cornerstone of the Australian foreign policy. 15 Originally, the treaty was supposed to act as a protection from the powerful forces of Japan. But soon after ANZUS was signed the Japanese realized the strength of such an agreement and decided to sign a peace t...
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South East Asia World War Ii
1,108 wordsThe Vietnam War had great political impact and led to deep division within Australian society. The Australian people were forced to take the issues about the Cold War, Vietnam and the arms race seriously because of Australias military involvement in Vietnam from 1962 to 1972. As a result, our fear of communism and of Asia increased dramatically. Australia, occupying a large mass of land, yet having a small population had always lived in the belief that they were threatened some way by the foreig...
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Australian And Indonesian Economies
948 wordsWhat are the major points of contrast between the Australian and Indonesian Economies? The major points of contrast between the Australian and Indonesian economies are: GDP, GDP growth, inflation, unemployment and quality of life. In this essay I will also discuss the quality of the environment in each. There is also a large contrast between the land area and population of each nation. The World Bank classifies Australia as a developed economy. It is a mixed market economy because the price mech...
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Single Handedly First Test
1,706 wordsCricket is a game now played all over the world. Back in the 1920 s there were two main teams, Australia and England. The Ashes are a series of cricket test matches between Australia and England. The first Ashes test ever played was on March 15 th 1877 in Australia. Since then Ashes tests between Australia and England have flourished numbering a series approximately every three years. The overall Ashes results are in favor of Australia, while since 1989 the Ashes series have all been won by Aust...
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Australia Political Parties Voting Process And Bicameral System
1,498 wordster> What are Australia's main political parties? Compare & contrast the voting system of Australia with that of another country. Discuss the effects of Australia changing its bicameral system of government. Modern democracy is party democracy; the political institutions and practices that are the essence of democratic government in the Western view were the creations of political parties and would be unthinkable without them. (Katz, 1980: page 1) As a feature of modern democracy, the ...
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Political Leaders British Parliament
763 wordsFederation was the coming together in 1901 of the six separate Australian colonies to form what is now the Commonwealth of Australia. It occurred for many reasons including: to unite the defence of Australia; to make uniform bank laws; taxes and tariffs resulting in better trade and communication between states; and to put the White Australia into practise. Federation came about with the aid of many political leaders, federation lobby groups, many drafts of the constitution and the people of Aus...
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Supply And Demand Australian Dollar
1,666 wordsWhat factors affect the demand and supply of Australian dollars in the foreign exchange markets? Distinguish between the possible causes and effects of a currency depreciation and a currency appreciation on the Australian economy. What forces have come into play, if any, in the past four months that have affected the value of the Australian dollar? Exchange Rate: The rate at which one unit of domestic currency is exchanged for a given amount of foreign currency
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South East Asia Post War Period
1,797 words... k, discovered that a tough peace treaty was not a possibility. The development of the Cold War conditions in Asia and the outbreak of the Korean war lead to the USA reassessing the role of Japan in the post-war world. Japan was to be built up as an effective counter-balance to the spread of communism in Asia. The Australian government thus had to adjust its policy realistically to these changed circumstances, obtain the guarantee of the USA for Australian security through the ANZUS pact and ...
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Australias Involvement In The Vietnam War
1,191 wordsFollowing the withdrawal of the last Australian troops in 1972 more than 46000 Australian personnel had served in Vietnam. This is out of a population of approximately 11 million. Of these, 3000 were wounded and almost 500 were killed. Australia became involved in Vietnam because of a longstanding alliance with the USA since World War 2. It can be argued that Australias involvement in the Vietnam War had its origins in the Cold War. By 1945 the world had been divided between two superpowers: the...
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Australia In The World Economy
1,110 wordsAustralia is quite a rich economy in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per head of population, ranking 17 th in the world. However, this has dropped from a ranking of fourth in 1950, and ninth in 1970. This could be seen as a sign of poor economic performance, however other factors that contribute towards a high standard of living, such as environmental considerations, need to be taken into account. For much of the period up to the 1960 s most of Australias exports were in wool, food and oth...
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Number Of Times Intellectual Property
2,024 wordsUnlike much copyright law which struggles to inspire the imagination, this legislation is of particular interest and significance as it aims to set the ground rules, the rights, for our emerging knowledge economy, a central tenet of current political discourse and, I hope, a common vision for Australia. It is the potential of these rights, coupled with the ubiquity of the application of these new rights with technological innovations, which has captured the attention of so many interests. Of cou...
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Op Cit Journal Vol
4,645 wordsDefamation Law is seen as balancing competition interests: Reputation/Privacy vis a vis Freedoms of Speech and Communications. [ 1. 1 ] The law of defamation in Australia has long sought to protect the competing interests of reputation and privacy, and the rights of freedom of speech and information. The law of defamation has also sought to provide a course of action for the individual and provide possible defences available to the press. However, with new technologies and the advancement of the...
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Australias International Relationships World War Ii Australia
410 wordsHow And Why Australias International Relationships Have How And Why Australias International Relationships Have Changed Through Its Participation In Overseas Conflict. In this essay I will answer the question- how and why have our (Australias) international relationships changed by our participation in overseas conflicts? The answer to this is that we have had changed international relationships, more independence, it ended Australias isolation, it gave greater social rights to women, it affirme...
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Second World War Rest Of The World
2,140 wordsOUT OF EMPIRE: EDWARD GOUGH WHITLAM More than any other part of the old Empire, Australia remains inhibited and limited by its nostalgia for past associations and pretensions which the British nation, and in particular, the British monarch have long since abandoned. Nothing has done more to retard Australias relations with Britain or to distort the very real and substantial nature of that relationship than the obsessions of the Australian conservatives with the British connection and their manip...
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