Australians have applied "the law of bloody commonsense" to vote Darryl Kerrigan as the film character that most represents who we are as a nation. Over one third of people (37 per cent) believe The Castle - the 1997 film about a working class Melbourne family's fight to save their home - best represents the real Australia, according to a nationwide survey released on Wednesday. Darryl Kerrigan, the movie's working class patriarch played by Michael Caton, was the favourite Aussie film character for 23 per cent of the 1003 people surveyed. Crocodile Dundee, played by Paul Hogan, won 21 per cent of the vote while Muriel (Toni Collette) from Muriel's Wedding came third with 17 per cent. Advertisement Social commentator Bernard Salt said it was quite surprising The Castle
Being elected as a prime minister in modern times now is a big achievement but being the first prime minister is a bigger achievements. Edmund Barton found the federation movement and also founding the High court of Australia without this man Edmund Barton Our country Australia would be a mess not physically
The inclusion of nuclear power within Australia could reduce power prices by 20% and save $150 billion from now until 2050 in greenhouse gas abatement costs. The modern reactors cost about $3 billion. When I say we need to go nuclear power, Australia doesn’t necessarily have to rely on Nuclear power as the only source, but could they go a mix of renewable energy and nuclear energy. Australia is home to many large industries and renewable energy its self would not be strong enough to power them. Nuclear power itself is very simular to renewable energy and emits close to no green house gasses.
It is predicted that by 2021, Australians could save more than one billion dollars. Even though the Australians are spending to buy a WELS product, they end up saving money on their water bill. This is a win-win situation. The more they buy products with greater numbers of stars on the water rating label, the more money they will save. 4.
The only thing I was after was a quote from Mark Sheahan who rated Wayne Carey as the best player to ever play the game in his book celebrating 150 years of Australian Football. Other than that this site was of no use to me as it was about another former player saying how Carey shouldn’t have been number one. It was still useful for me as I found a quote that I used in my essay. James Brayshaw says Wayne Carey deserves Hall of Fame – by Mark Robinson http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=571586 – accessed 19/07/09 This site was based on an interview between James Brayshaw the North Melbourne’s football club chairman and the media. I was interested in this article because I knew that Brayshaw was really passionate about Carey being inducted and was one of the people who nominated him.
The merger meant that the newly formed company was required by Australian law to offload two radio stations, as one company cannot own more than two radio stations in the same market. As a result, 4RO and 4CC were offloaded to Canberra-based Prime Media Group. Around the same time, Prime also acquired a number of other regional stations after similar events occurred in other regional radio markets - Zinc and 4CA in Cairns, Zinc and Mix FM in Townsville, Zinc and 4MK in Mackay, and Zinc and Hot 91 on the Sunshine
The queen has virtually, no say in any of the happenings in Australia and our country could easily do without her. But monarchist say if Australia was to become a republic it would mean we would no longer be able to rely on British Forces should WW3 or equivalent begin. Australia currently has the largest defense force in Oceana with 57,690 full time personal, 21,248 active reserves and 22,166 standby reserves. But even without help from British forces, Australia has allied with the independent America whose army has worked for countless years with Australian forces. The Australian defense forces combined with American defense forces would easily be enough for us to no longer rely on Britan assistance.
Prior to Federation Australia’s defence forces consisted of 6 separate small armies running in different ways, these armies would operate in-cohesively if faced with danger. By combing all the colonies forces, Australia’s new collective army was a force to be reckoned with, as it was a country larger than England and the world’s largest island. Federation was a huge step
“I was only 19” is easily Redgums best known song and was probably the song that made them so famous. It has peaked at number one on the world charts and is in the Top 30 of all time Australian songs. The reason I have chosen this topic is because it is one of the best Australian songs ever and also my great grandfather fought in the Vietnam War. Throughout the song “Redgum” used many different poetic devices. In this song the only type of imagery used is metaphors.
A survey hosted by the United Nations Children’s Fund in Australia undertaken by 1043 Australian youths, are representatives of a new generation of Australians. The survey shows that 75% of respondents refer to themselves as extremely or very interested in Aid with 74.2% believe that we are not giving enough aid. In this sense, only 3.3% have said that we are helping too much and others stood ground that we are giving enough. Believe it or not, Australia is only ranked at 13th for Foreign Aid distribution and our Money towards it only stands towards 0.5% of our country’s reserves. Chief executive of world vision Australia, Tim Costello, claimed during the election campaign that 450,000 lives would be lost as result of the Coalition's proposal to cut Australia's projected foreign aid budget by $4.5 billion.