one of the strongest and most consistent in the world. There are a multitude of factors that have led to this and allowed the Aussies to be in this position. One of them being steady GDP growth rates, averaging around 3.5% annually (Heritage.org). Australia has also benefitted from considerably low inflation and unemployment rates. With this mixture of GDP growth, low inflation, and unemployment, they consistently set themselves up to be one of the strongest economies in the region, as they ranked third
rights in Australia have largely been developed under Australian Parliamentary democracy, and safeguarded by such institutions as the Australian Human Rights Commission and an independent judiciary and High Court who apply the Common Law, the Australian Constitution and various other laws of Australia and its states and territories. Universal voting rights and rights to freedom of speech, freedom of association, freedom of religion and freedom from discrimination are protected in Australia. As a founding
Australia is a diverse country with many minority groups and foreign-born citizens. However, looking into Australia’s past we can see the multiple cases of anti-immigration based on racism and not xenophobia. The majority of Australians are of European descent, and they were the first immigrants to Australia. The first major immigration after the British settlements in the late eighteenth century was the Chinese immigrants during the gold rush. The White Australia Policy was later implemented from
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has stated that “Australia is the world’s most successful multicultural nation”. All the people know Australia is a multicultural state which is a civilization of populace from a wealthy variety of artistic, racial, linguistic. The multiculturalism describes the difference of culture and race in modern Australia. This difference is trying to safeguard the benefit of every Australian and national interest. Cultural variety is significant since our state, workplaces
Mason, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. In today's Australia the price of handling a substantial litigation matter is unobtainable for the average Australian, justice does indeed go to the highest bidder and “Unless you are a millionaire or a pauper, the cost of going to court to protect your rights is beyond you.” George Brandis, shadow attorney-general. To say that justice is earned and reserved for the population of Australia is a myth and it is true that legal aid community
refugees. However, in other countries, such as Germany, Canada and Australia, they make the best effort to accept the refugees. Especially in Australia, the introduction of refugees is very controversial. The positive refugee policy represents the international humanitarian spirit and promotes the world peace, while the entry of refugees can also bring the negative effects to Australian society. In
A national anthem is a symbol that represents the core idea of a country. After more than 30 years of using Advance Australia Fair as Australian national anthem, there are a large amount of dissent about this song. Advance Australia Fair is a good song, but its lyrics is really out of date and need to be changed because it cannot reflect both social attitude and political attitude. As for social attitude, the main criticism is the anthem is racist. The first few lines of the song have already had
Middle Eastern countries to Australia. Since Australia signed Convention of Refugee in 1954, Australia should accept refugee because the convention can be defined as an agreement from Australia to accept refugee. However, Australia implemented “stop the boat” policy by Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia in 2013 as an action to refuse refugee to enter Australia. Since Australia does not accept refugee, the refugees are spread into some neighboring countries of Australia such as Indonesia while
migrants in Australia. They have worked and have create their communities in Australia. Nowadays, there are a number of Chinese town in Australia and also, in Australian universities, many Chinese people are studying. In Australian history, it is well- known that many Chinese labours worked at gold mines. Also, under the White Australian Policy, they experienced racial discriminations. However, there is still some unknown history, that those Chinese migrants had experienced here in Australia. This essay
“From the surface one may look upon Australia as being the ‘lucky county’ however when explored deeper Kayleigh Richmond came to the conclusion that this so called ‘lucky country’ isn’t all that ‘lucky’ for marginalized groups in Australia, the literature of these marginalized groups in Australia certainly substantiates this point”. Many sources of literature suggest that Australia is not considered the lucky country for migrants, indigenous and other marginalized groups of people living in Australian