Economy of Australia

dramatically, while the participation rates of young Australians have significantly dropped despite the increasing need for them to rise due to Australia’s fast aging population and decreasing workforce creating a strain on the economy and government (ABC News, 2015). Australia needs to increase participation rates of indigenous Australians, which goes hand in hand with tackling mental health issues in the community to motivate the youth to strive for better futures. Statistics show that…

Introduction Immigration policies all over the world are affected by the country's laws and how their government deals with immigrants. They are also affected by how the country views the specific race. Immigration is people moving to another country in which they aren’t natives sometimes in hope to have a better standard living or many other reasons. Therefore immigration policies have to be enforced due to unlawful immigration, to increase border security, and to prevent visa violators…

Nowadays, for Aboriginal Culture to still be known as an important part of Australia’s cultural heritage it is vital that children from a young age are thoroughly educated on this significant part of Australian history. The book “Maybe Tomorrow” narrated by Boori Pryor with Meme McDonald is recognised as a powerful and moving text that tells the the incredible story of an Aboriginal male growing up in the 1950’s where white culture was dominant. This book in detail explains the high and lows,…

citizen. The boom in the property sector has contributed a fair amount to the Australian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the last decade. Per AEC Group for the Property Council of Australia report, the sector has directly contributed $182.5 billion (11.5%) to the GDP in 2013-14. The sectors’ contribution to the Australian economy has allowed the government to improve the quality of life, but at what cost to blue-collar workers, and especially the millennial generation of this nation. It should…

Provincial and federal governments take advantage of and use unclaimed Aboriginal land, often ignoring legal standards. In 2014, the Supreme Court has enforced constitutional procedures the Canadian government must take relating to Aboriginal land claims in the Tsilhqot’ in Decision. This Precedent setting case will strengthen Aboriginal rights for protecting their traditional territories and bring about change within their communities. By analyzing the legal policies our government must abide…

My interest in economics was developed since I was a child. I was given birth in a “financial family”; my parents’ works were all related to economics. Therefore, since I was young, I had the opportunity to observe and understand the financial work. In middle school, when my parents discussed economic events, I did not feel bored. To the contrary, I listened carefully and even made efforts to express personal opinions. Undoubtedly, sometimes my opinions were infantile and funny. However, my…

The present thesis, is aimed to analyze the social behavior of transnational corporations during the economic crisis of late 2000s. While the growth of world´s GDP was negative in 2009 (-2.1%) and many corporations experienced cuts in employment, limited access to credit, and reductions in capital and technological spending (Campello et al., 2010: 1), the social investment of many firms followed a counter-intuitive move by increasing their social contributions in more than 228%. Between 2004…

potentially dismantle the operating environment which these enterprises function within. These issues that we learn about, and the company profiles that were presented gave us an insight into some of the biggest macro challenges present in the world’s economy. These conglomerates are potentially disastrous macro-economic structures who have attained a status where it is necessary to be educated about them and understand how a seemingly unrelated event may have a profound impact on another.…

Response paper # 2 GEOG 473 SPRING 2016 Chad (Jong H) Lee I have never heard the term “Blockadia” before, but after reading her book, it makes sense to me now where the term came from. In my understanding, the term originally started by activists in fighting the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas, and people tried to stop it with their bodies, and their camp was called “Blockadia.” However, Klein mentioned that Blockadia is really the transnational space, roving space, where just regular people…

Economic growth relates to the increased output within an economy. It can come from rural to industrial shifts, invention, innovation and technological progress; it requires savings and investment, along with a well-implemented policy framework and can be measured through the economies GDP. Haggard, (2004) suggested economic growth can result from productive inputs, capital and labour or from greater efficiency in their use. It can lead to economic development, which Michael Todaro (2011)…