It makes us focus on the Australian Flag Debate. The Australian Flag Debate, a periodic question, is a discussion about whether the Australian should change their national flag or not. Especially, the new flag should remove the Union Jack from the canton and to introduce a completely new design which is without the Southern Cross. (Wikipedia 2014) And it has been an ongoing debate since early 1990s. From the history of Australia, we can know that it has many connections with Britain.
The station operated from April 1960 until August 1974, when the Dutch ratification of the Strassbourg treaty came into effect, after which Radio Veronica - then called VOO - became part of the regular Dutch broadcasting system, but was unable to retain its popularity. Radio Veronica is now an independent radio station Also in the Netherlands, Radio Noordzee Internationaal (RNI) broadcasting on AM, FM and international shortwave from the MV Mebo II which was originally anchored off the Netherlands. The ship moved for a time off the coast of south-eastern England where it was jammed
The school's name was officially changed to Brigham Young University (its present name – also known as BYU) in 1903 as enrollment numbers sky- rocketed. In 1955, another Brigham Young University was established in Laie, Oahu, Hawaii. BYU's first doctoral program was inaugurated in 1957. Many years later, in 2000, Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho was transformed into a Brigham Young University. The LDS (Latter-Day Saints) Business College was established in 2004 in Salt Lake City, just a few blocks away from the Salt Lake Mormon Temple in Temple
Australia has been one for over a hundred years now. Australia’s adopted a Federal Constitution on 1 January, 1901 which distributed legislative power over public policies between the Commonwealth and the State governments (Grewal and Sheehan, 2003). Eccleston et al. (2009, pp.34-35) finds that prior to becoming a federation, the six colonies in Australia had considerable political and economic independence which they did not want to relinquish. This essay will explain the federal structure of government and discuss why countries choose to adopt federalism in the first place.
The company initially focused on radio waves technology research along with transmission of wireless data. During the year 1988 RIM became the first company to introduce Wireless data technology in North America. It initially partnered with Rogers CanTel to develop software that supported one-way text messaging, later partnered with Ericsson to develop two-way wireless communication. In the year 1992, Jim Balsille a Harvard alumni joined Mike Lazaridis as the Co-CEO along with an investment of $250,000. Eventually, during the year 1995 RIM received a modest $5,000,000 from
The company opened its 200th warehouse in Wenatchee, Washington in 1995. In the same year,Costco launched its first private label brand, Kirkland signature. During the same period, Costco started its first gas station in Tucson, Arizona. In 1997, the company spun-off most of its non-warehouse assets to Price Enterprises and officially changed its name to Costco Companies. In the same year, the company started its operations in Taiwan.
The front call, then called the Trudgen was introduced in 1873 by John Arthur Trudgen, copying it from nativr Americans. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens. In 1902 the trudgen was improved by Richard Cavill, using the flutter kick. In 1908, the worl swimming association, Federation Internationale de Natation de Amateur (FINA), was formed. Butterfly was first a variant of breastroke, until it was accepted as a separate styles in 1952.
America’s sport, football started as a modified version of rugby in the mid 1850’s. Soon after came the official rules of football from the Association Football Committee. The first intercollegiate football game was between Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey on November 6, 1869. Dr. James A. Naismith invented basketball in 1891. It did not take long for the game of basketball to become popular in the United States.
Geography Migration Task: Australia, an island country and continent in the southern hemisphere, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, a member state of the Commonwealth of Nation. A country made up of people from all around the world, a multicultural country. Australia accepts migrants and refugees from all around the world.About 24% of the Australian population is made up of people born in other countries, migration is not a new thing in Australia, migration is what made Australia what it is today. The first migrants were the European settlement when the convicts from Brittian and Irland were transported to Australia and soon after voluntary immigrants followed. The discovery of gold just outside Bathurst in 1851, Australia's migration
It has different documents and most laws are unwritten, making it difficult to define their constitution. The Legislative and Executive arms of government are fused in the House of Commons (the lower house). This system is often dubbed the “Westminster” system. When Australia became a federation in 1901, they needed to establish a nationwide system of government. In order to do this, they looked at both the Westminster and Washington systems and from there they took ideas from each system to establish the “Washminster” system.