Australia Essays

Collette Dinnigan was born in South Africa in 1966 and brought up in New Zealand. At age nineteen she graduated from the WellingtonPolytechnicCollege where she majored in fashion design. From here she moved to Sydney and began working for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) in the costume department. She worked …

European settlement of Australia commenced in 1788. Prior to this, Indigenous Australians inhabited the continent and had unwritten legal codes Terra Nullius: Terra Nullius: A Latin term which translates as ‘Empty Land’ or ‘Nobody’s Land’. Captain Cook declared Australia to be ‘Terra Nullius’ when he sailed into Botany Bay on …

Its 1975, spring in Del Mar, CA. A freestyle skateboarding contest was held at the ocean festival. That day the Zephyr Skate team ( lords of dogtown, Z-boys) attended the contest, won almost every event they entered and showed the world what skateboarding was really about. This was the rebirth …

Intro Vision is a means of communicating an individual’s thoughts and feelings that convey senses of something immaterial, or in other words – Concepts. Visions are perceived differently by individuals; they often reflect different values, attitudes and emotions that are shaped by experiences of individuals or social groups to express …

1. Contemporary Aboriginal Spiritualties 2.1. Discuss how Aboriginal spirituality is determined by the Dreaming: * Kinship * Refers to the complex relationships of blood and spirit that exists between Aboriginal people; based on familial and totem relations that govern Aboriginal life by determining clan issues. * The Dreaming has determined …

Australia’s national and cultural icons range from natural landmarks to man-made wonders. They are instantly recognisable, have special significance and are uniquely Australian. (1) Two Australian artist’s that created cultural iconic images through their artworks, were Sydney Nolan and Russell Drysdale. During the 1940s cultural, social changes and the Second …

After 2008 financial crisis, the current economic is slowdown and governments have to come up “with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems” ( ,,,). Last year, Julia Gillard speech to the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce said builds a new economy. She indicated that “the problems of Europe” and …

            Australian and New Zealand National Bank Limited, commonly called ANZ, is the third leading banking and financial services group in Australia, and the largest bank in New Zealand. It offers financial products and services in the two countries, and has branches in Asia, the Pacific, Europe, and the Unites …

The dangers of judicial activism in Australia far outweigh its advantages because of several reasons.             Judicial activism is the instance whereby the courts or the judiciary affects the status quo of the prevailing legal system by preventing the implementation of certain legislations on grounds that they are unconstitutional (Pudlow, …

After the conclusion of World War 2, which ended in 1945, Australia faced the growing threat of communism. Communism is social organization in which all the people in the community all properties and money is equally shared. The Australian government responded in many ways to the threat of communism during …