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    The establishment by the Australian Government of offshore processing of asylum seekers on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea and similarly in Nauru was a direct action to prevent this. By making it clear internationally that anyone arriving without a visa in Australia by boat would have no chance of being settled in Australia it removed the financial incentive for people smugglers. It ensured

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    Australia come into question over treatment of Asylum seekers By Andrew Bol Every year, thousands of people are forced to their homes because of persecution this include regions persecution, ethnicity and gender. Australia has a great history of accepting refugees from all over the world and help them resettle. There a bit of confusion between refugee and an asylum seekers. An Asylum seeker is a person who left their home country in search of a better life but is yet to be accepted as a refugee

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    these countries are fairly independent, they have not yet been able to land seats in the United Nations. They have what Cotton calls, “limited recognition” where only a few member states recognize them. Only members Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Nauru acknowledge Abkhazia, along with non-members Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, and

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    INTRODUCTION We must manage the needs of refugees to help them escape their traumatic circumstances and to make a safe trip over to their new country. When they arrive they should be treated well and have safe and humane living conditions, housing and medical assistance. I chose this topic as I first started caring about the treatment and lives of refugees when I read the book ‘Boy Overboard’ in primary school (Gleitzman, 2002). A refugee is someone who flees their country for fear of persecution

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    Australian and American politics are both polarised by clashing philosophies between two major parties dominating the system, however, the United States is faced with a greater political dichotomy stunting the growth of legislation on social and economic issues. In Australian politics, these parties are the Australian Labor Party and the Liberal National Party and in the United States the Democratic Party and the Republican Party clash. These parties lie on opposite ends of the traditional political

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    INTRODUCTION I believe we should manage the needs of refugees to help them escape their traumatic circumstances and to make a safe trip over to their new country. When they arrive they should be treated well and have safe and humane living conditions, housing and medical assistance. I chose this topic as I first started caring about the treatment and lives of refugees when I read the book ‘Boy Overboard’ in primary school (Gleitzman, 2002). A refugee is someone who flees their country for fear of

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    “My name is Bruce,” he said, into the digital recorder that I’d placed on the bench between us. “I’m being interviewed in relation to my work on Christmas Island, and my experience with the movement of refugees from the Middle East and parts of Asia, via Indonesia, into Australia. Illegally.” It was a crisp afternoon in October at Battery Park in New York City. We sat by the water, talking over takeaway cappuccinos from a nearby Italian café. Sunday tourists streamed past us, chatting excitedly

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    of the “smuggled” not the eyes of the governments that criticizes and bars the refugees from receiving asylum. “That people are willing to hazard death at sea despite Australia's vow to send them to places like Papua New Guinea and the Republic of Nauru would seem illogical- or just plain crazy” (Mogelson 53). Mogelson uses this quote to invoke pity for the refugees in the reader. The pity enforces the desperation that refugees face. This bolsters Mogelson’s opinion that refugees are desperate enough

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    The Treaty of Versailles was to blame the outbreak of WW2. The treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of WW1 signed on 28th July 1919. It ended state of war between Germany and Allied powers. World War I was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. The topics that are discussed in this essay are the terms of the treaty of Versailles, the countries and people involved in the treaty of Versailles, the Germans’ reaction to the

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    Which African country has the highest proportion of people living in urban areas? In Asia? In Latin America? In Europe? In Oceania? Reunion in Africa, Bahrain, Qatar, and Singapore in Asia, Puerto Rico in Latin America, Monaco in Europe, and Nauru in Oceana. F. Gross national income in purchasing power parity per capita (GNI PPP/capita) converts income into "international dollars" and indicates the amount of goods and services one could buy in the United States with a given amount of money.

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