Referendum

For a long time homosexuality has been discouraged and has sometimes been illegal, but in the recent years homosexuality has been legalised, despite this they cannot get married in Australia. A few weeks ago a referendum was held in Ireland and gay marriage is now legalised in Ireland. This has sparked the debate again in Australia whether gay marriage should be legalised. Traditionally marriage has been defined as a man and a woman, and together they can come together to make new life.…

The Progressive Movement began in 1901 and ended in 1917. It started as a social movement to fix social, economic and political problems and turned into a political movement that changed the nation, and the main objective was to eliminate corruption within the government. The issues that they worked on included, but were not limited to women’s suffrage, prohibition, Native American issues, child labor, workers compensation, direct elections, and political reforms. The Progressive Movement shaped…

plans through courts. However, Trudeau was very adamant with bringing the new Canadian constitution to Canada, and even threatened to go alone. After a few meeting with the Gang Of Eight, Trudeau proposed a referendum. This didn’t go well with the Gang Of Eight, as they knew that if a referendum were to happen, Trudeau would easily win the vote as he had lots of Canadians on his side. So, this caused the Gang Of Eight to back off, except for Levesque. Seven members who left the Gang Of Eight…

96.7 percent of the voters supported secession. However, Ukraine, the United States, and the European Union do not consider this vote to be valid. This referendum only had two options: Become part of Russia or work towards independence (Yuhas). Therefore voters were not given much of an option, and voting could be considered invalid. Despite this, Vladimir Putin, the president in Russia, annexed Crimea on…

out. A disadvantage when holding a referendum is that it is very expensive as it requires a successful petition, people to take time off work and a space to hold the ballot. It is a process that needs patience and money to work. The end result may not always turn out the way you’d want either. As an example the government could invest money into a successful petition and hold a poll, just for it to be challenged and denied. The last weakness of holding a referendum would be that the decision is…

This essay will address the Labour Party’s electoral performance in the 2010 and 2015 General Election. There are several factors that have contributed towards Labours performance in the 2010 and 2015 General Elections. For example; economic performance, party identification, communication, rise in power by the SNP, support by the media, poor leadership, tactical voting, the introduction of challenger parties and political ideologies. One could argue that the Labour party performed worse in the…

Part A-Timeline of Significant Events in the Changing of Rights and Freedoms of Indigenous Australians: 1948- It is stated on the Youth for Human Rights webpage After the Second World War, wife of Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, led a committee of people to write up a special document that stated the basic human rights that everyone in the world should have. This Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the general assembly of the United Nations (UN) on the 10th of December,…

Most countries in the world are governed by democracy. Under this form of governance, the people reserve the power to select and remove the president or any public officer. The selection process happens through elections after which the most popular candidate forms the government as the head of state. However, his or her removal from office happens only through the recommendation by the House of Representatives as described by the constitution through the impeachment process. It may be initiated…

Most murder victims in America are usually black people slaughtered by their own, magazine The Economist says, “Blacks represent 13% of America’s population, yet in 2015 they represented 52% of the slain.” Until now there is not an answer to why young black americans tend to be the ones being affected by this the most, whilst men from other ethnicities do not deal with such problems. The answer lies with a combination of poverty, family imbalance, epidemic of drug use in the wretched inner-urban…

The social and economic consequences of austerity measures imposed by troika on Greece have been devastating. Since 2010, Greece’s GDP has fallen by 25 percent and unemployment rate is 26 percent. The youth unemployment rates are at an alarmingly high level. Currently, over 56 percent of young people in Greece are without a job and there are more than 450,000 families with no working members. After five years of fiscal adjustment and economic hardship under the austerity program, Greece’s major…