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 | | Pioneering Poms | | by sue mcverry, Nov 29, 2008 | | With so many forms of communication open to us nowadays, it is easy for families living on different sides of the world to stay in touch. How much more difficult it must have been years ago. | | Comments(6) Liked It: 4 |
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 | | Greenpeace | | by hisp, Nov 19, 2008 | | Greenpeace Australia is part of a bigger international group founded by a small group of Canadians. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Human Rights | | by Chanman, Sep 28, 2008 | | Australia's current legal system has limited scope for human rights. The Constitution provides several express gaurantees; the common law system has protected some fundamental human rights too. However, these "protections" are insufficient. The common law system is shackled to the chains of precedent and are subject to change at Parliament's discretion. The Constitution has stood the test of time but its formulation prior to Federation has made it a product of its time - entrenching only the values deemed important at its formulation. In response to these limitations, both statutory and Constitutionally-entrenched bill of rights have been put forward. Should we follow the United States of America with a Constitutionally-entrenched Bill of Rights or should we follow Victoria and Canada with the (Victorian) Charter of Rights? | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Australia: German Relationship in 19th Century | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | The German annexation of part of New Guinea in 1884 led to a minor rift between the Australian colonies and the British Government. Since the 1870s, Australians had perceived all nearby Pacific Islands as their sphere of influence and wanted the region under the British flag. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Australia-Japan Relations in the Early 20th Century | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | Although Australia was part of the British Empire, and Japan had signed a treaty of alliance with Britain in 1902, these two nations had a strained relationship in the period immediately before the World War I. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Aborigines and Australian Frontier War | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | A series of frontier wars waged by Australian Aborigines against British settlers, soldiers, and police from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century for control of what is now Australia. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Australia in 19th Century | | by balisunset, Aug 24, 2008 | | Originally Terra Australis Incognita, or the unknown southern continent, Australia was first claimed for Britain by Captain James Cook on August 22, 1770. Although the Dutch navigator Tasman had first explored what is now Tasmania in the seventeenth century, and the French were active in eighteenth century Pacific exploration, the British claim to Australia and many adjacent islands was within a short number of decades widely accepted. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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