Governor-General of Australia

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    The reason why Australia joined the Vietnam War was to support South Korea in stopping communism from spreading to Europe and Asia. The French defeat at the Dien Bien Phu was followed by a peace conference in Geneva. As a result of the conference, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam received their independence, and Vietnam was temporarily divided between an anti-Communist South and a Communist North. Koreas national conflict had rapidly become one of the global significance the us president called to stop

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    the cabinet calls the shots on most of the matters. (Peterson) Civil & Criminal Law: Under the Civil Law system, the laws are written and codified that the judges have to follow verbatium. Whereas, under the common law system that is followed by Australia, India and the United Kingdom, the laws are codified, doctrine of precedents is followed but the higher courts have the power to over-rule old judgements and existing law in cases where the law breaches the basic structure. (Peterson) Adversarial

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    Australia should relinquish the British monarchy and become a republic. This advancement is crucial to establishing Australia’s independence from Britain which reflects on the ability to maintain a tenacious government rule. After almost 230 years under the watchful eye of the British head of state and Queen Elizabeth II, it is time for Australia to demonstrate its self-sufficiency from the British by instituting a republic government (Lewis, Balderstone and Bowman, 2006). Additionally, the monarchy

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    decision where judicial discretion is limited by law. Typically a crime in Australia has a maximum penalty but does not have a minimum, therefore the judge has to take into account the minimum penalty and can then from there continue to add on to the minimum penalty. For example in the late 1990’s a very controversial decision was to made when a mandatory sentence was introduced for repeat home burglary offenders in Western Australia. The NSW government has recently introduced a Mandatory sentencing law

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    our tears.” World War I, as we recall it, was a period of intense devastation, death, horror, and national division. Australia, a nation barely a decade old, went into the war often in the name of patriotism and for the hope of adventure, and emerged with 60,000 of the 416,809 men who voluntarily enlisted dead, and a further 156,000 wounded or taken prisoner. The loss Australia felt was immense, and left the nation with scars that took decades to heal. Yet every 25th of April, thousands of Australians

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    * A compromise is made. * Mediations cheaper and voluntary. Matrimonial: property of marriage, everything is shared * * Matrimonial assets. * Court considers contributions of parties. * Child is child of marriage Government in Australia * Governments make laws to control us. They set up systems to enforce laws. * Governments set up courts to decide upon breaches of laws. Jury

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    it was completed to 1979. From its humble beginning as a convict male dormitory to a women’s immigrant half way house, mostly for Irish orphans shelters who immigrated to Australia after the Irish famine while awaiting employment, hence the monument An Gorta Mor (see figure 24) erected in 1999 by governor General of Australia Sir William Dean to commemorate the young Irish women who left their motherland because of the infamous famine in Ireland (Sydney living Museum, 2014). The history behind the

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    regarded in Australia as a nationally growing industry that is always thought to as high priority. Nursing history is a big part of the knowledge base that Registered Nurses must contain to be able provide educated care. Australia’s access to healthcare has grown and is still growing. Nursing first began in 1954 with Florence Nightgale and her team of 38 volunteers started organising equipment at a Turkish hospital (Bradford, 2009). Many factors of history then changed nursing not just in Australia but all

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    Bob is a male nickname or occasionally a given name, most common in English speaking countries such as the United States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. It most likely originated from the nickname Rob, short for Robert. Rhyming names were popular in the Middle Ages, so Richard became Rick, Hick, or Dick, William became Will or Bill, and Robert became Rob, Hob, Dob, Nob, or Bob.[1][2] While it is impossible to count the popularity of Bob as a nickname, in 1960 nearly

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    nineteenth century, anxiety arose in the Australian colonies about the amount of ‘coloured’ immigrants travelling to Australia, particularly from China (National Archives of Australia, 2015). Subsequently, one of the first legislations in the new Federal Parliament was the Immigration Restriction Act (IRA). This Act made it almost impossible for Asians and Pacific Islanders to migrate to Australia, along with the Pacific Islander Labourers Act and the Post and Telegraph Act 1901 (NSW Migration Heritage Centre

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