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    Australia Legal Aid

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    Mason, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. In today's Australia the price of handling a substantial litigation matter is unobtainable for the average Australian, justice does indeed go to the highest bidder and “Unless you are a millionaire or a pauper, the cost of going to court to protect your rights is beyond you.” George Brandis, shadow attorney-general. To say that justice is earned and reserved for the population of Australia is a myth and it is true that legal aid community

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    Australia resettles around 14,000 refugees each year under its humanitarian visa program (Department of Social Services, 2017). The University of New South Wales (UNSW) study report released by the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health in September 2017 found refugees entering Australia are under-immunised. The study that was conducted using a highly developed policy framework comprising eight important policy determinants found inconsistent immunisaiton policies for refugees between

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    Australia has in recent years been assisting the Sri Lankan government in returning asylum seekers fleeing the persecution inflicted by the Sri Lankan government. In 2014, the United Nations Human Rights Council condemned Australia, claiming that the country has desecrated its international law responsibilities (Human Rights Law Centre, 2014). Additionally the indefinite

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    Senate covering herself with a Burqa, ridiculing Muslim’s all over Australia and mocking their religious garments. This is certainly not the first time Australian Muslims have been mocked, discriminated and harassed for their faith and it was certainly not the last. The Burqa is a full face covering, which is chosen to be worn by a minority of Muslim adherents in Australia. If the burqa is to worn in public places within Australia (e.g. shopping centres, schools) it inhibits the ability of the Muslim

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    business in China. Australia has joined strong allies the US, Japan and other Europe to condemn Chinas human rights violation and its commitment to restore international order on the United National Human Rights Council (Wen, 2017). In the 21st Century Australia is lobbying to ensure everyone have the same rights, treatment, equality before the law and equality of education, and healthcare, freedom of speech, free to worship and equality of opportunity for global citizens. Australia believes that manner

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    ideologies rather than just staying in a simple and individual members’ society, so Australians must avoid a biased and nationalistic view to coexist with many other ethic groups in their society. Moreover, regarding another tutorial reading, “What makes Australia great is mutual respect” (Bowen, 2011) describes Australian’s own way of multiculturalism and their

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    Australia Research Paper Australia is a country I wish to visit because of cultural diversity, snorkeling experiences, and animal encounters. I first heard about Australia when I was looking for destinations to visit for vacation a few summers ago. When I visited Florida it had beautiful beaches and a variety of tourist attractions. Florida is similar to Australia because it also has gorgeous coastlines and interesting places to visit. Australia is an appealing place for me to visit because I like

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    Australia has a high rate of deforestation. As much land has been cleared in the last 50 years in Australia as was cleared in the previous 150 years. ().  Even though Australia isn’t recognised as a place with a lot of deforestation, it is recognised for some people a serious problem as it kills and put animals lives in danger and destroys the beautiful landscape and soil that we have. Mining is a very large part of Australia and has ruined many places. Bungonia is only one of the places it has effected

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    Middle Eastern countries to Australia. Since Australia signed Convention of Refugee in 1954, Australia should accept refugee because the convention can be defined as an agreement from Australia to accept refugee. However, Australia implemented “stop the boat” policy by Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia in 2013 as an action to refuse refugee to enter Australia. Since Australia does not accept refugee, the refugees are spread into some neighboring countries of Australia such as Indonesia while

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    White Australia Policy

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    arrived in Australia. Upon arrival captain Arthur Phillip planned to live with the indigenous people in harmony. Soon that changed, when the indigenous were being killed by British convicts that disliked them. The Aboriginals were thought as backward, unproductive and an obstacle to development. The reason for colonialism is for; Intellectual, Religious, Economic and political reasons. The British came for economic power. Today I will be focusing on four main topics; what is the white Australia policy

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