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- 121: Soil Salinity
- ... salt, which leads to further erosion. Salinity affects around 560,000 hectares of the Murray-Darling basin's most productive irrigation lands, mostly in southern New South Wales, and northern Victoria, and partly in South Australia. This represents more than half the total irrigation area. In Western Australia, about 250 square kilometres of agricultural land is going out of production every year because of soil salinity caused by overclearing of native vegetation.
- 122: All An Adventurer Must Know Ab
- ... How to get to Thailand By Air Bangkok is Thailand's major gateway. Most visitors arrive through Bangkok's Don Muang International Airport which is connected by daily flights to Europe, North America, Asia and Australia aboard the world's major airlines. Further international flights, mostly from Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Hong Kong, land on a less regular basis at the southern airports of Phuket and Hat Yai and Chiang ... drag it back into male territory. Passports All visitors entering Thailand must possess valid passports. Visas Visitors from the following countries may now visit Thailand for up to 30 days without requiring visas: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bahrain, Brunei, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Djibouti, Kenya, Korea, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Papua ...
- 123: Changes in the Earth's Environment
- ... and White,G.F. (1978). The Environment as Hazard. Oxford Uni. Press. New York.. Chapman, D.M. (1994). Natural Hazards. Oxford Uni. Press, New York. Heathcote, R.L. (1979). The Threat from Natural Hazards In Australia in R.L. Heathcote and B.G. Thom (eds): Natural Hazards in Australia. 3-12, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra. Kevies, D.J. (1992). Some Like it Hot. New York Review of Books. 39:31-39. McCall, G.J.H. (1992). Natural and Man Made Hazards: Their Increasing ...
- 124: The Development Of The Prison
- ... to a penal colony. During the 1700s, British Convicts were sent to North America to work in cotton fields. This ceased in 1776, when the United States achieved independence. After 1789, convicts were sent to Australia. The first convicts were sent to work as servants. If they misbehaved, the government took them back and put them in chain gangs to break stones and build roads. Eventually purpose built penal colonies were ... the prisoners behaviour. Good conduct and hard work led to privileges and association with other inmates. These ideas were tried in Ireland, France and the English penal colony on Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia. There, prisoners gained marks for good conduct and hard work, or lost them for bad behaviour. When they reached the required number of points, they could be released. Other reformers introduced the idea of a ...
- 125: Tennis A Sociological Perspect
- ... 1993, in terms of tennis, Australians and the Swedish view it as national sports. It is like ice hockey to Canadians, basketballs to American and gymnastics to Romanians. Many teenagers choose to play tennis in Australia and Sweden because of the success of Bjorn Bjork and Roy Emerson. Bjorn Bjork, a legend Swedish player who won the Wimbledon 5 time in a row plus 4 French Open single titles. Roy Emerson ... kids grow up with the knowledge that world champions of tennis were born and raised in their home country and with the dream of continuing the legend. In addition, because the importance of tennis in Australia and Sweden, children are exposed to tennis in their schools. Because of the early exposure to the game and some famous legendary players in the nations' history, the young generation of Australians and Swedish continue ...
- 126: Global Warming 4
- ... in other activities that release certain heat- trapping gasses into the air. Humans all over the world need to get together and solve these problems.In the southern hemisphere, the warming is the greatest over Australia, southern south Africa, the southern tip of south America, and the area of Antarctica near Australia. In the northern hemisphere, warming is strongest in Alaska, northwest and eastern Canada, most of the Soviet Union, and parts of Southern Asia, North Africa and south west Europe. Climate has cooled in Great Britain ...
- 127: Gun Control
- ... buy guns, otherwise known as the Right to Bear Arms. This being one of the first principles that this government was established on. Other countries have already gone to worse laws than this; for example Australia’s new law prohibits pump shotguns and semi-automatics from being owned. The new law compensated the people for the price of the gun, then has the gun taken away, melted down and destroyed. For ... considered as a crime. A crime that I consider justified because of the personal importance of the matter. Even the Olympic biathlons cannot train in the country because of the law. They are sponsored by Australia but have to do their practicing outside the country. Canada is another country not far from this and the United States could be next. This way of thinking is being introduced into the United States ...
- 128: Womens Writing The Powe And Th
- ... belonging to a marginalised group. Morgan achieved an uplifting story which questions society through My Place and did so speaking about her family s experiences, which were contrary to (particularly the current Prime Minister) how Australia remembers. Morgan has satisfied Cranny-Francis s theorem but did so on her on terms and not necessarily from reading feminist literary theory. But as Moi points out feminists can in a sense afford to ... a patriarchal society. It has put forward that women have played a larger part in society such as Kate Greenville s alternative Australian history Joan Makes History in which stories such as Captain Cook discovering Australia or the Kelly gang getting a photo taken, is from a women s perspective. And it has been particularly so through authors such as Virginia Woolfe who through her ponderings of women s role in ...
- 129: Hurricanes
- ... waters (except those of the South Atlantic) between the latitudes of 5 degrees and 20 degrees and are known in each locale by a unique name. In the western Pacific they are called Typhoons. In Australia they are called Willy-Willys. In the Indian Ocean they are called Cyclones. The North Pacific has the greatest number of these storms, averaging 20 per year. Fortunately for those living in the coastal regions ... several meters above sea level as the center of the storm passes onto low-lying land areas, causing highly destructive flooding. The practice of naming hurricanes has been common since the early 1800's in Australia and the Caribbean. Currently, the United States applies mixed male and female names to hurricanes according to annual lists of proposed hurricane names given by the World Meteorological Organization. Each year a unique set of ...
- 130: Photochemical Smog
- ... prone to air pollution, the first summer of measurements revealed that the city was sometimes subjected to smog levels which approached or exceeded the guidelines recommended by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC). In 1991 the State Energy Commission of Western Australia (SECWA, now Western Power Corporation) sought to extend the capacity of the gas turbine power station it operated at Pinjar, some 40 kilometers north of the Perth central business district. In view of the Caversham ...
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