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- 11: Australia And The Depression
- ... Board, which he dominated. Consequently, the Government lacked the necessary power to significantly influence to the board in favour of their policies. This lack of means was sorely missed during the crisis in government finance. Australia depended heavily on overseas borrowing for new investment. However, the returns from the investments were not sufficient to satisfy debt repayments and so the government persistently used overdrafts. In the later half of 1929, Australia's external debt position worsened. When the government approached the banks to extend further overdrafts, the banks refused. The banks argued that if sufficient funds could be found to repay the maturing Treasury bills, funds could also be found to reduce overdrafts (Schedvin 1970 p137). Australia began a near exhaustive sale of gold reserves which ended in mid 1930's. After a number of bankers conferences, the Mobilisation Agreement was signed. This provided a means for financing current public debt ...
- 12: ... portray an outstanding setting in her books. McCullough is primarily a writer of novels, but has written a cookbook. Her novels describe of love that is socially unaccepted. McCullough’s childhood family life and home, Australia, foster McCullough in supplying an elaborate setting and plots for her novels. McCullough was born in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, on June 1, 1937. Her father was James McCullough, an Ulster Orangeman who came to Australia in the 1920s. Her mother was a New Zealander with a mixture of Irish Catholic and Maori ancestry. McCullough’s father was rarely in the McCullough home on account of his occupation. This left ...
- 13: ... portray an outstanding setting in her books. McCullough is primarily a writer of novels, but has written a cookbook. Her novels describe of love that is socially unaccepted. McCullough’s childhood family life and home, Australia, foster McCullough in supplying an elaborate setting and plots for her novels. McCullough was born in Wellington, New South Wales, Australia, on June 1, 1937. Her father was James McCullough, an Ulster Orangeman who came to Australia in the 1920s. Her mother was a New Zealander with a mixture of Irish Catholic and Maori ancestry. McCullough’s father was rarely in the McCullough home on account of his occupation. This left ...
- 14: Australia
- Australia Australia is the world's smallest continent and sixth-largest country. With proportionately more desert land than any other continent, Australia has a low population density. Lying completely in the Southern Hemisphere, Australia is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the west and south and by the Pacific Ocean on the east. These oceans merge ...
- 15: Austrailian Aborigines
- Australian Aborigines Prior to the colonization of Australia by the British in the late 1600's, large group of natives called Aborigines lived there. They received the name Aborigine due to the translation of the word "the people who were here from the ... island of Tasmania. By the time the British arrived, the Aborigines established a culture to include Art, multiple languages, social structure, and religious and spiritual ideas. It is very important to understand the land of Australia, and the development of the government, which as change the way of life for these people. Australia is the smallest of the world's seven continents and the only one that is comprised of a single political unit. (See Map) The population of Australia is 1,8031,000 with an area ...
- 16: Convicts and Australia
- Convicts and Australia WHO WERE THE CONVICTS? WHAT SHORT AND LONG TERM CONTRIBUTION DID THEY MAKE TO AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY?" During January 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip landed in New South Wales. Of the one thousand people who made the ... about the reasons behind transportation and the nature of the convicts themselves, there can be little doubt concerning the pivotal role they played in establishing the groundwork of not only the new colony, but of Australia as well. The convicts not only made a significant short term economic contribution they also played an extended role in becoming the founders of Australian society and culture. There is much postulation about the motives for convict transportation to Australia. Some view transportation as part of a global system of forced migration, while others argue resettlement was carried out for commercial advantage, defence strategy or simply as a genuine response to penal dilemmas . The ...
- 17: Australia
- Australia Most Australians are governed by three levels of government - local, state and federal. For instance, a family living in Sydney would have the Sydney City Council (local) looking after such things as garbage collection, park ... or city that they provide to. State governments are run from the state capitals, while the Federal Government sits in Canberra, in the Australian Capital Territory. There are six states, and two major territories in Australia. The states are: Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. The two territories are the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. Australia also has a number of areas run by the Federal Government (dependent areas). These include the Ashmore and ...
- 18: Australia Joining World War 1
- Australia Joining World War I In 1914, Australia joined the First World War. Although it was seen as a European war, the Australia government decided that Australia should support its 'Mother Country', Britain. The prime-minister at the time, Joseph Cook, stated Australia's position : "Whatever happens, Australia is a part of the Empire, right to the ...
- 19: Australia's Future
- Australia's Future According as there was intellect or no intellect in individuals, will the general conclusion they make-out embody itself as a world-healing Truth and Wisdom, or as a baseless fateful Hallucination. Thomas ... factories, pervading the whole community with despair. Fixing the constitution that does not need repair, while ignoring the economy that is in desperate need of a major overhaul, is clearly madness. The desire to make Australia a republic springs not from the improvement offered by a new constitution, this is still unknown, but from a rejection of the old order. Citizens do not aspire to be republicans, rather they wish to ... community, for if it could be denied the king, it could be denied any office- be it church, government, police or parent. A result now all too familiar with parents, teachers, police and government in Australia in 1990s. The community no longer accepts any authority without question, and is suffering the inevitable consequences - its eventual dissolution. Which is why professor Toynbee set the French Revolution as the start of the ...
- 20: Australian History - Populate
- On the forming of the Federation of Australia, on 1 January 1901, one of the first priorities of the new Federal Government was to increase Australia's population. One way was to encourage an increase in the birth rate, which had been falling. A second way was to encourage immigration, not only from Great Britain, but also from other European countries. The main requirement was that immigrants be white skinned. Although this policy became known as the White Australia Policy, the regulations did not actually prohibit people with coloured skin. The prohibition was achieved through regulations requiring each immigrant to pass a dictation test to be given in any European language. If the ...
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