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    Task 1 1. The ‘Constitution of Australia’ started in 1900. 2. It can control the Government of Australia. 3. These are the legislative, the executive and the judicial. 4. The legislative power writes the new laws. 5. The executive power checks the new laws. 6. There are three levels of government in Australia - Commonwealth(federal), state or territory, and local. 7. The Commonwealth can make financial grants to a state or territory and specify how the money is to be spent in education, health

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    Essentially, the destructive historical policies and social inequalities that were settled in the British colonization was the start of limiting their access to healthcare services. As non-indigenous people including Europeans expanded territories over Australia, Indigenous Australians started to encounter social injustices, lost possession of lands as well as control over legal and political responsibilities. The colonizers separated them forcibly from their lands and resources. This resulted in unequal

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    completion of Operation FS, the Japanese would be able to “throttle Australia into submission by cutting off communication and supply lines with the US”, they planned to do so through the gradual extension of Japanese control over the islands in the South-East Pacific around continental Australia (Pacific War Historical Society, n.d.). Japanese Prime Minister, Tojo Hideki, was opposed to the direct amphibious invasion of Australia, though with Port Moresby under Japanese control it would allow them

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    LITERATURE REVIEW 1. Oral health system in Australia A health system defined as ‘all the activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore and/or maintain health’ (WHO 2013). A good health system is indicated by its capability to delivers quality services, when and where the people need them (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2014). Australia’s health-care system is a combination of public welfare and private market provision (Willis, Reynolds & Keleher 2009). There are multiple

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    imprisonment, less likely to receive bail and are frequently overcharged (Allard et al., 2010 and Carpenter & Ball 2012,97) 2005 specifically established that Indigenous juveniles aged 10 to 17 accounted for 52 percent of juveniles in detention across Australia, further highlighting that it was more probable for young Indigenous offenders to be sent to court, unlikely to receive a formal caution (Snowball 2008). Mazel (486: 2009) outlined that due to remote communities being cut off from education, Indigenous

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    Protectionism is a paternalistic policy that was introduced in Australia; established on the belief that indigenous people were primitive and inferior to Europeans based on the theory of Social Darwinism the Hierarchy of Races. It was created on the basis of protecting aboriginal people because they could not take care of themselves and would surely die out. The policy revolved around segregating aboriginal populations from the rest of society, removing inhabitants from their sacred land and transfer

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    Central Australia Central Australia is an arid region. Central Australia has a desert climate: Minimum temperature noted is 20o C and average temperature in the month of October and march is around 35oC whereas in cold season the average maximum temperature is almost 25oC which also drops at zero degree at late mid night. Person having interest in camping and praising the aesthetic location then Central Australia is the one of the best option for it. Tropical north This part of Australia i.e. Northern

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    Indigenous people are those aboriginal and torres strait islander people of Australia descended from groups that existed in Australia and surrounding islands prior to European colonization. Though Indigenous Australians are seen as being part of the Australia, but there are significant differences in social, cultural and linguistic customs between the various Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups. These indigenous people are facing a lot of problems such as The right to status and culture

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    issue that is perpetuated by our ever-globalizing environment. With increased communication technologies cultures from continents that are oceans apart are now able to meet (Hogan 2012). More specifically within Australia racism has been the burden of the Indigenous people of Australia, since the countries discovered by the British. Indigenous Australians have been subject to policies and laws sort to convert them to integrate into the newly pronounced white country (Finlayson, J & Martin, D 2012)

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    poor refugees, in to a country with barely other people is surely the right thing to do, I mean it’s a no-brainer. The ending is no at all reasonable. When people ranging from little babies, to Grandmas and Grandpas, have absolutely nowhere to go, Australia is heaven on Earth. It’s a basic human right to be able to live happily, safely, and not being constantly scared you’re going to die. Yet so many people have to live this horrible, horrible life. Besides, it’s a free country. I do not at all get

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