Western Australia

all realistic. Australia is becoming a very multicultural country, with the amount of residents born over seas approaching nearly 25% (2), and the indigenous population nearing 550,000; a number that only represents the people who choose to identify as indigenous (2). The Caucasian male is quickly diminishing as a representation of the country, but other characteristics…

of October 1916 and the 20th of December 1917 to the Australian public . The referendums allowed the people of Australia to establish whether the Australian government should introduce the proposal of conscription - the nationwide system of mandatory service to the national military. It was proposed but not introduced during the Great War; due to the severity of casualties on the Western Front as well as constant pressure from the British Government to sustain its 5,500 men needed every month to…

The county of Australia is a large island located in the Indian Ocean between Asia and the US. Slightly smaller than the US’s lower 48 states, Australia’s 2.97 million square miles of land are primarily split up into four major geographic regions; the Coastal Plains, the Eastern Highlands, the Central Lowlands and the Western Plateau (United). Most of Australia’s terrain is considered low, flat, and desert-like. However, there are mountain ranges and highlands that stretch across the country…

A flag is used so people can instantly recognise the country it represents. Yet, when the Australian flag is flown, foreigners do not easily associate it with Australia and are often confused. This is because our flag is too similar to New Zealand's flag, as it also features the Southern Cross and the Union Jack. The only difference between the Australian flag and the New Zealand flag is Australia's federation star. This is similar to the issue of Australia's national anthem. Our former…

1901 the white Australia policy excluded indigenous Australians from the vote and pensions. The roots of this policy can be seen all the way back in 1850 with the white miner 's hatred to the Chinese…

plausible flashbacks from his dreadful past that leads to his present. With the short story Aquifer, you are immediately immersed in Australia: the surroundings, its people, the sound:(p.40)”beyond the fence cicidas, birds whirred,”. It is an Australia imagined, wild and rambling, but also in a normal detailed place on a map: revolving around Western Perth, Australia:-(p.49-50)”The brown land, I figured wasn’t just as wide but deep too, “out west here, when the easterly blows”, from the 1960s: (…

There are few better vacation destinations than the beautiful Country of Australia. With its white sandy beaches and blue water calling and the vast culture to experience there is no reason not to go. Unless you are scared of some of the deadliest spiders, snakes, and sharks in the world along with many other venomous or creepy crawly things. The continent and country of Australia is huge and has a very interesting history and by far very different from any other country in the world. The food…

patients in Australia are denied the treatment that they rightfully deserve because the Australian Government refuses to accept and acknowledge the fact that the disease exists in our country. Lyme disease is the fastest growing tick-borne illness in the world and is transferred through a tick bite from a tick infected with the disease, characteristically creating a bullseye shaped rash but can also be transferred from mother to child in the womb. If left untreated, which is common in Australia…

“having boots on the ground” nearly becomes taboo for the U.S. and its allies, such as Australia. Then, how we frame the whole…

Good morning/afternoon fellow Australian Journalist, Rabbit Proof Fence by Phillip Noyce is an adventurous, dramatic, and historical film, which, display the stolen generation and issues with Aboriginals. It tells the story of three aboriginal girls who are forcibly taken from their families and travel to find their way home. Rabbit Proof Fence represents the racial discrimination of the stolen generation through characterization and the connection to their country through setting.…