Pauline Monologue

This is a reputation that many believe Pauline Hanson is out to destroy. Her controversial views combined with her political power has the potential to divide Australian society, and damage our international image. Hanson believes that the government spends too much money on foreign aid and welfare, specifically Aboriginal welfare services. The problems arose when she publicallyannounced this in her maiden speech at a time of great social change; many people were recognizing that minority groups in Australia were disadvantaged despite what Australian identity would have them believe. “We now have a situation where a type of reverse racism is applied to mainstream Australians by those who promote political correctness.” It is partly true that a ‘type of reverse racism’ exists, however Hanson blows this idea out of proportion, creating controversy. While this controversy potentially aids her political campaign with widespread media coverage, it has the side effect of dividing Australian society. There will be one group of people who agree with her views and another who don’t. Instead of uniting all Australians under the same goals of multiculturalism, Hanson seemingly ‘drives a wedge’ through our society. Multiculturalism is a vulnerable thing for a country like Australia, and Hanson poses a threat to this identity with her primitive views, and her political

The pearl, in my opinion, was not evil, it was bait. It lured bystanders in as a test. It reminds be of the trails to get to heaven; it was made to entice the greedy and selfish so they may be punished. Those who can keep away the destructive thinking of power and riches get rewarded. It was a standard to leech out the sinners.

Kevin Rudd’s speech was eloquent and lengthy (2012). He continued to make promises to the Indigenous Australians saying they, the government, were determined to close the gap, embrace new solutions to old issues and form a partnership between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Since the Whitlam Government passed the Racial Discrimination Act in 1975, the notion of “White Australia” was thought to have disappeared with it all together. However, time and time again, like cancer it strikes without warning. Though the media and government believe Australia has been inherently free from the White Australia notion, it has yet to truly disappear from modern day Australia. To understand why the White Australia notion has yet to disappear, an examination of Pauline Hanson needs to be taken into account, with a primary focus on her political party, One Nation’s beliefs and ideologies. Furthermore, a close look at our own government’s policy towards asylum seekers with a brief look at their treatment in Australian

With both political parties having fairly similar opinions on the refugee situation, only having slight differences, only a few differences separate the two, with labor wanting to increase the refugee intake per year to almost double of what the coalition currently has in place which is 13,750 and labor plan to raise it up to 27,000. (Australian Labor Party) Also labor also plans to reinstate the UN’s refugee convention, which Abbott is currently undermining, which is technically international law. In one way this breach of international law Abbot has broken is refusing to take refugees that has been allocated to Australia by the UN, for it is overstepping the coalitions humanitarian intake policy. Also labor will work to implement a system to release the children from off shore and on shore detention centres. As well as cutting down the time it takes for an asylum seeker going through the process to become a

Already I know we are going to have so much fun (and drama) with these two. I kind of agree with as kids being closer and sort of falling apart as they grew older. To be completely honest they are both knuckle heads who need to get over themselves, but of course thats going to be a long way down the road. But yes, no matter what they are certainly going to act like brothers, I actually made Wallace purposly older by a year just so I could see him play that "I'm older than you card." I could actually see Wallace partially trying to prove himself to Bennett because to him Bennett is the pinnicale of Jazz sucess in his eyes at the moment as he hasn't been able to be close to anyone as close to it as him. I could see him being even partially angry seeing Bennett get to cocky since he had it all for a while and ruined it through his arogance, so like Wallace has

Negativity has been surrounding our identity ever since “Invasion Day”, due to the poor treatment of the original owners of the land. Kevin Rudd’s speech left us all shocked, yet empowered to embrace this opportunity to change the face of Australia.

Pauline Hanson; a former member of the Australian House of Representatives commenced her political vocation in 1994 as independent Ipswich City Council. During the last two decades, her faculty to ask the arduous questions has availed her to gain fame and popularity within the Australian community. Adherents applaud her anti-migration and anti-Islam stance and she visually perceives herself as representing ‘typical Australians’. Concurrently, her views have been branded as controversial and even racist. Pauline Hanson and her series of actions to regain election to Federal Parliament has been accoladed by the media, as found in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’, by Peter Hartcher, on the 23rd of July 2016 and criticised comprehensively by Colleen

The Australian Greens represent the progressive face of Australian politics and have formulated their policy positions with a reformist framework. Whilst the Greens origins and expansion are primarily a consequence of new social movements, splits within the ALP and its supporter base have enabled them to expand their political voice. The Greens can trace their origins to local party branches across Australia that have merged together to become Australia’s the nationally recognised party Greens Party. The Nuclear Disarmament party and the Franklin River campaign bought the Greens onto the national stage and revealed the power of social movements in elevating the Greens into a political force. However, the ALP’s failure to present themselves

Australia is working hard to keep threats away from happening. Currently war on terrorism is a big issue in the western and since Australia and the US have are allies, it does make sense for terrorist to attack them too. They have been backing up US for decades now if anything happens US will fully help out including US allies. Since the latest incident was the November 2015 Paris attack which took the entire western by surprise. This has raised a lot of awareness and Australia has strengthened their national security. They have also put a new foreign policy on the asylum seekers issue, who were entering Australia illegally. Most of these people were originally from Indonesia. Under the united national Australia is obligated to help anyone who seek help, but they did breach that law because asylum seeker were breaking the law. This had also caused intension between Indonesia and Australia because they had established a military defence near their side. Australia is also investing lot money into the defence force. This will help them in the future and to be able to control threats. Australia responding to these issues shows that they are under control with what goes in the country. Lastly Australia is balancing it relationship between US and China. Since both of these country are very significant to Australia. China and US have tension between them, but Australia doesn’t want to be put in a position where it has to choose

“There have been a lot of back room discussions in Canberra, Minister! We see this as a break down in all of our agreements!”

Australian foreign policy is characterised by a series of significant issues that are all inter-related. This piece will focus on Australia’s relationship with the US, Asylum Seeker policy and Australia’s relations with Asia.

that Fatima only wants to focus on what she needs to do currently; she wants to concentrate on her writing, which is her release of from the struggles and harshness of daily life. The lighting of this scene adds on an additional perspective. Light illuminates from the window toward Fatima. However, the part that is most brightens by the light is her hand on the notebook.

On my point of view, I agree on how Rudd has taken the right choice and I was also fascinated by his courage to apologize to the public for the better future of his citizens. However, I did search about the stolen generation and

Australia has not been without its own controversies where truth has been compromised or sacrificed by those on the left and right of politics. The deliberate use of false and misleading assertions is a common tactic among our public figures. The question now, sharpened by Trump's brazen disregard for accuracy and truth, is whether we are willing to put up with this behaviour from our public representatives.