Tasmania

Building structure is a combination of several aspects that act as a building. The information about the building structure is significant to assess the structural vulnerability of a building from various hazards. The construction materials, style and type of the buildings depends on the usage such as residential, commercial, light industrial and special buildings. The building construction types for the residential buildings are separate houses, semi-detached and apartment buildings.…

History, although it is what defines the world we live in today still causes conflict in the Australian curriculum. Arguments are often about what should be taught in history in our schools. For many its underlining issues is that it not only represents the good that has happened in the past, but also clearly delves into the dark side and this can quite confronting at times. The world wars are a clear contender in these issues for the most part they are what have shaped our very nation today,…

Three companies were chosen and their financial statements were used and analysed to find the ratios. The companies that were used are: Select Harvest Limited, Webster Limited and Domino’s Pizza. All three of the companies are from the food companies listed on the ASX. The three different companies were chosen to find out whether which company is doing its best by making profit and which is doing the least by being in loss as well as determining the market capitalisation and comparing it with…

such as food shortage because of a road in the middle or lack of mates [15]. A major example of extinction by habitat lose is the Tasmanian Tiger which lived across the Australian continent but due to deforestation it was last seen on the island of Tasmania…

Gay marriage is no longer a new phenomena around the nation. Same sex marriages have existed in some way or another around 600 years ago. According to Tulchin (2007) gay activists have been fighting and striving since the early 1960’s to be granted the right to marry. However, only in 1990s the issue of same sex marriages arose when three same sex couples filed for a lawsuit against the Hawaii state for prohibiting gay marriages in US. According to Bower (2010), the case was concluded by…

of an offender or having the option of release after ten years in Western Australia and twenty years in Queensland (Anderson, J 2012). In comparison, according to Anderson (2012), life imprisonment in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory refers to the natural life of an offender except under exceptional circumstances with the average sentence lasting 12-25 years nationally. The debate for whether life imprisonment is a…

"killing members of the group", because the Aborigines, were members of a definable group. We know something about the physical killings, particularly in the latter half of the last and the early part of this century. The first white settlers came to Tasmania in 1803, and by 1806 the serious killing began [26]. In retaliation for the spearing of livestock, Aboriginal children were abducted for use in forced labor, women were raped and tortured and given poisoned flour, and the men were shot.…

In the case of R v Toonen, it is argued that the laws against homosexual relations, unfairly discriminated and disrupted an individuals right to privacy. The anti-gay laws, that existed in Tasmania prior to their decriminalisation in 1994, equated homosexual relations with other prohibited practices, such as polygamy, pedogamy, incest, and zoophilia (Geraldine, A, & Wagner, R 2015, 1). The continued lack of legislation in favour of same-sex…

Introduction One of the essential issues in countries that implemented federal governmental system is the balance of power between the central and the regional/local governments. Federal system is characterized by a binding agreement between federal and sub-national levels of government concerning the powers and rights of each government. Another key issue is related to fiscal capacity gap amongst sub-national levels of government due to different ability and capacity of each government to raise…

membership under the British empire, they frequently fought battles together. Military ties between both Canada and Australia were established in the 19th century, when 154 rebels from the upper and lower regions of Canada were sent to Australia and Tasmania in 1837-8 for rebelling against the oligarchy. Moreover, both countries fought side by side in a various…