One major human rights issue that has been debated for the past decade in Australia, is the protection and treatment of refugees who land on Australian shores. “At the end of 2015, the number of refugees reached 65.3 million, revealing that 1 in every 113 people are displaced from their home.” This constant rise in refugee number highlights the importance for Australia’s government to move towards better solutions for the management of asylum seekers. This essay will consider the political…
The Federation of Australia was when six separate, self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia united to establish the Commonwealth of Australia. The federation of Australia was a difficult process as the states could not agree on the final constitution. At first, the idea of Federation was quite unpopular. Each colony had view themselves as a country and citizens had grown patriotic of their own . One of the more…
Darwin during 1941, this was throughout the government and public, and due to previous attacks, reserve armies were being formed and deported2 above, one of these to the island 500km North-east of Australia, to New Guinea. Newspaper headlines such as Border Morning Mail’s ‘Australia Ready to Meet Japanese Attack,’ (Oct. 1941), spreads the idea and acknowledgment of a possible invasion across the whole of Australia and also comments that the Australian government was preparing in case of an…
detention centres has caused a media uproar showcasing the lack of human morality of the mistreatment of refugees in domestic detention centres. Australia has been known for signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and also the one of the founding counties of the United Nations (U.N) [Australian Human Rights Commission, 2015]. This leaves Australia in a position of prestige, being a country that fully supports the concept that everyone is entitled to an adequate degree of Human…
Adoption As discussed earlier, the impact on same sex equal rights stretch far beyond the aesthetics of marriage and also includes adoption. In Queensland, Northern Territory, and South Australia, same-sex couples cannot adopt STAT a child. Although there are some cases in which individuals can adopt, the process is very long and has a very low success rate. The blatant discrimination against LGBT people is clearly not protecting the rights of the individual as they are being unfairly excluded…
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…
VU21481 Nuanprang SAELUEA GEC00000BS Task 1 1. Tahiti 2. Give three reasons why it was difficult to look for the “Great Southern Land” (Australia) - The sea so dangerous - The wind always blows to direction. - Is long way to travel maybe not enough for food and drink. 3. Give four reasons why people wanted to find the “Great Southern Land”(Australia) 1)make a lot of money from trade 2)make a lot of money from gathering natural resources 3)England was very interested in setting up a naval base…
political and legal system in Australia has provided both advances and setbacks for the Indigenous Australians. There have been many setbacks for Aboriginal people in their fight for equal legal and political rights like the legislation 's, constitution, voting rights and parliamentary laws. They have also had some gradual advances from the amendments to the electoral act, the 1967 referendum and Prime Minister Whitlams actions to give land back. Early on in Australia 's history Indigenous…
In 2013, the National Gallery of Victoria saw roughly 1,940,921 visitors. As the oldest and most visited gallery in Australia, the venue holds over 70,000 works that span several thousand years of history (About the NGV). Since the museum’s founding in 1861, the NGV has grown to include two buildings, NGV International and NGV Australia, located in Melbourne that house a variety of art and artifacts from around the globe including Europe, Asia, and Africa. From 18th century European oils of…
and refugee mortality is an almost impossible task. While Operation Relex and Operation Sovereign Borders clearly reduced arrivals to Australian territory, their impact on the attempted journeys has not been transparently reported by the relevant government agencies. The claims of immigration ministers are accepted, however, these operations have slowed the number of voyage attempts. Nonetheless, while they limited the potential for drownings in Australian waters, the follow-on effects from…