Culture of Australia

There are many overseas-born people living in Australia who have migrated to seek a better life. The percentage of Vietnamese-born Australians as of June 2011 is 0.9%. Most Vietnamese migrants came to Australia after the Vietnamese war to live a better and safer life. Student migrants come to Australia to study and gain a better education to improve their quality of life. Part A: In 1975 many Vietnamese people migrated to Australia mainly because that was the year the Vietnam War ended. Before…

Government plans to relocate refugees have continued to move ahead this week as immigration minister Scott Morrison has travelled to Cambodia to sign a memorandum of understanding which would allow refugees in detention on Nauru to settle Cambodia. The government has also begun to push for the reintroduction of temporary protection visas along with new 'safe haven enterprise visas'. This legislation would see around 30,000 refugees currently living in the Australian community outside of…

Why? why does Australia do this? As a nation we are meant to be free, but then as soon as people arrive here to be in a safe environment they are thrown into detention centres onto remotes islands such as Manus. If these people are running from dangerous and unhealthy situations, then why are they being put into similar situations in another country. The three topics that are being covered include: how Australia doesn’t protect the human rights, what the rights towards refugees and asylum…

Australia was originally in the Antarctic circle as part of Gondwana, a supercontinent that consisted of Australia, Antarctica, Africa, and South America. It was part of the land and then broke off and slowly moved up to where it is now. New Zealand and the other surrounding islands also came from this same land, but, they broke off to form islands of their own. Because of the greenhouse conditions on the planet at the time of Gondwana, the area, despite being in the Antarctic circle, had no…

The suicide rate in indigenous communities is 1.5 higher compared to the entire USA population. Statistics show native males take their own life more than non-indigenous males of 19 years two to eighteen times greater (ibid). Two-spirit aboriginals have a greater risk of taking their own life than non-native, non-heterosexual individuals. Alcohol and illicit drug use, addiction and death is most prevalent amongst indigenous people as well, along with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases…

It wasn’t just Whitlam’s policy achievements that left a lasting impact on Australia, the matter in which his government ceased to be caused great turmoil, mixed opinions, anger and confusion following the Dismissal on Remembrance Day, 1975. The event impacted on Australian culturally, politically and socially due to the fact what happened had never happened before, nor is it likely that it will ever happen again. Before the press knew about what had happened, he informed his ministers and…

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.…

immigrationlawyer.com.au - Most Common Reasons for Deportation and Removal from Australia Even though Australia is a very hospitable country for immigrants, there are still times when certain non-citizens will go through the deportation and removal processes to be sent back to the country they came from originally. People immigrating to this country need to understand the reasons that this can happen in order to stay in Australia without issue. We list the main causes for removal and…

suspects upon reasonable grounds by Customs officers. Furthermore, the Act makes it illegal to travel to designated ‘no – go zones’ without a legitimate purpose, as well as outlining penalties and controls towards foreign fighters who return to Australia. The effectiveness of this legislative response is evident in the detaining of two brothers at Sydney Airport, “the boys aged 16 and 17 were detained on Friday on suspicion of attempting to prepare for incursions into foreign countries for the…

asylum seekers. In this essay, an argument is made that while short-term detention of asylum seekers is justifiable, indefinite mandatory detention is a violation of human rights and therefore unacceptable. This notion is looked at in the context of Australia, and the human rights violations that indefinite detention has on asylum seekers who travel there. Before delving…