Languages of Australia

Gender Equality. It’s fictitious, fake and false. Australia would not be like it is today without sport. Although, men and women are viewed vastly different. As a nation, we need to put this inequity to an end, before an important part of Australia will end itself. BY Elli Chapple Gender Equality. What exactly is Gender Equality? It is unacceptable. Gender inequality is a significant matter that reflects on Australia today. Fairness and equality in sport does not exist and remain today…

The Whitlam Government implemented a large number of reforms in the 1071 days it held office between December 5, 1972 and November 11, 1975 . Gough Whitlam changed Australia indefinitely not only through its laws and establishments, but by the way it was viewed by other countries and by itself. During the reign of the Gough Whitlam government, more bills were passed in its first year than any other federal government had passed in a single year with a total of 203 bills passed (e.g. the Trade…

What is a refugee? A refugee is someone that is forced to flee their country because of war, persecution, or natural disaster. 71,000 - 90,000 refugees come to the U.S. each year. Ha, in the book Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai, is a ten year old girl that has to flee her country of Saigon in Vietnam. Ha and her family are refugees that have to flee Saigon because of the war. Ha and many other refugees have to flee the only place they know as home. Refugees lives turn “inside out” and…

As a psychology student I find this information to be very crucial in a psychological field, allowing psychologists to work with clients from a vast array of cultural diversities. Psychologists need to be properly educated on being culturally competent and aware, particularly on matters involving the stolen generation. Children were taken from their families under duress, compulsion and undue influence, where they were assimilated into the ‘white society’ and sent to mission stations (Clay,…

Key events in the gallipoli campaign The landing on 25th april 1915 on dawn April 25th 1915 the first anzac soldier arrived at Anzac cove in galliopoli penusla in turkey (also known as Çanakkale). There were approxiametley 60,000 Australian soldiers and 18,000 new zealand soldiers who were under the command of sir Ian Hamilton. At 4:30 under Hamiltons command the royal navy started firing. Some of the battilion were under heavy fire and so the battle of gallopoli began. During the…

farmlands. Two of our current poets who explicitly portray very different ideas about the environmental circumstances we are living in are: Les Murray, a typical Australian poet who reveals his passionate and unshakable love for the rural landscape of Australia in his poem Spring Hail; and Bruce Dawe, who has written a poem, Search and Destroy that expresses his protest and frustration at our human infested, machinery dominated and polluted environment. When we reflect on Murray’s free-verse…

The relationship between Australia and the United States is a strong one, in which both nations are quite supportive of one another. This year in particular is very important for Australia and the U.S. The year 2015 is the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, as the relationship was established back in 1940 after Australia gained domestic and external independence from the British Empire and was finally recognized by the United Kingdom. Australia has become an…

Intro (237) Children in immigration detention centres have been a prevalent issue since 1992, which has affected the lives of many that are fleeing their countries to seek a better life. This issue affects the common good in unfathomable ways. Some of the happenings in the detention centres affect the dignity of not only the children in the detention but the adults too. The children have either been witness to or experienced some form of violence or abuse whether it is sexual, physical, or…

Young children are being held against their will as Asylum Seekers to live in detention centres across Australia. They show signs of mental illness, a lack of education, and physical harm brought on by the lack of human rights being allowed in these detention centres. By allowing young children to be kept for excessive amounts of time within these detention centres the common good is not being served. These children are being denied basic human rights like an education, safety, medical attention…

The agreement with Malaysia included the exchange of refugees between the two countries. Australia would send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia in exchange for 4000 already processed refugees. However, on the eve of Australia’s first exchange, refugee lawyers took their grievance to the High Court to put a stop to the exchange. The High Court ruling…