All that was needed to change this legislation was pass an amendment through the two houses of parliament; The Senate and the House of Representatives. There was some support from both Labor and Liberal to pass the legislation through to the Senate, but Billy Hughes (The prime minister) knew there was not enough support in the Senate. To overcome this, Billy Hughes held a national vote on the problem. The public were asked, Are you in favour of the Government having, in this grave emergency, the same compulsory powers over citizens in regard to requiring their military service, for the term of this War, outside the Commonwealth, as it now has in regard to military service within the Commonwealth? The results were extremely close, with conscription being rejected 51 to 49 per cent.
Name: Mellissa Harley SPE211: Foundations in Social Policy Student Number: 11242359 Assessment item 1 Liberal Democracies take various forms. These types of political systems at the same time support collectively owned institutions and a free market economy. This essay aims to discuss the Australian liberal democratic political system and how the wellbeing of its citizens is enhanced by its operation. This paper discusses the many tensions the Australian government must manage; between negative and positive liberalism, and between liberal and democratic theory. Finally, Australia’s reliance on unwritten conventions and how this leaves our democratic institutions vulnerable and open to attack is also considered.
Explain the Argument on Federation The debate on federation was lengthy and included various arguments both in favour and against the uniting of colonies under one central (federal) government. Arguments in favour included Better Communications, Stronger Defence and a more divers Trade System. Fears of the small colonies, farmers and employers and the labour movement were topics that worked against the idea of a federal government. Communications in the 1880’s was a telegraph link between all capital cities and a telephone line linked Sydney and Melbourne. The Railway lines in some states were different to others but were used along with steamships to make transport quicker and to make the colonies feel less isolated.
President Roosevelt believed that government reform at the state level needed to be revamped, restrictions needed to be imposed on big business byway of assembling a regulatory program to impose the new changes as well as building up his administrative staff with professionals that would work towards implementing all of the changes that he believed needed to be made. By all outward appearances, from the beginning of his tenure as president, Roosevelt didn’t just talk about changes; he implemented the changes that he promised. Proof that change was his chartered course and main initiative during his time in office, the website english.illinois.edu[->0] quoted President Roosevelt as saying during his first annual address “When the Constitution was adopted . . .
Intro : Good morning today I will be discussing the following topics; the Australian of the year award and what it celebrates, who I believe should have been given the award. The meaning of Australia day and what it means to be an Australian. If the date should be moved to avoid conflict between the Ingenious Australians and white Australians. Paragraph 1: Each year there is a Australian of the year award presented and given to an Australian who is worthy of receiving it by, being a good role model, inspiring Australians by achieving some of the greatest challenges and by helping make Australia become a better place. I believe Deborah De Williams should have received the Australian of the year award this year as she was the first woman to complete a non-continuous lap around Australia in 2009 which was 20,000km's she aslo completed the last 800km's with broken feet showing no signs of giving up to help raise money for the breast cancer foundation.
<http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/a+Brief+History+of+Welfare+Reform>. In this news article “a Brief History of Welfare Reform,” historians assert the factual and well known process of the American Welfare reform; impacting the nation beginning with the “Great Depression in the 1930s” (unknown aurthor). The government argues that they are allowed to “enable” a “person to maintain a minimum standard of well-being” although they may not deserve welfare; through this article, historians express the truth about government welfare from the start and allows the audience to debate whether the government has that control. The author’s purpose of the article is to inform Americans of the truth behind government welfare, in order to not be bias, historians wrote a well expressed article telling the history of government welfare. The intended audience is those who want to make America different, or those who want to see where
Week 1 - Sustainability Sustainability is definitely a concept I find most interesting in this week's lectures and tutorials. Particularly in the fact that different people have differing views on the idea, eg. During Monday's lecture, Dr. Helena Bender mentioned that Indigenous Australians have a more eco-centric view on sustainability, whereas the WCED ignores sustainability and instead looks at sustainable development in a sense that is heavily human-centric. There are numerous definitions when it comes to sustainability, but which interpretation of the idea is the ultimate solution to this problem? I do not think there are any right or wrong answers to this question.
Its predecessor, AS/NZS 4360 Risk management, was first published in 1995. After AS/NZS 4360 was last revised in 2004, the joint Australia/New Zealand committee OB-007 decided that rather than undertake a similar revision in 2009, it would promote the development of an international standard on risk management, which could then be adopted locally. How will this standard help my business? The standard provides organisations with guiding principles, a generic framework, and a process for managing risk. New to this edition is the inclusion of 11 risk management principles an organisation should comply with, and a management framework for the effective implementation and integration of these principles into an organisation's management system.
Discuss two remedies for low voter turnout. What are the pros and cons of each? Our system of government, today, requires voters to turnout, because in theory any one vote could decide the outcome of the election. Many ideas have been proposed to the government to improve voter turnout, but the two that are the most likely to work out in my opinion is finning citizens who do not vote and to try to raise political awareness. Australia fines its citizens for not voting and we could do the same in the U.S.
Reporter)Where to now for Tasmania? Many key indicators of health, education and prosperity put Tasmania at the bottom of the heap in state by state comparisons. Jonathan West has written an essay outlining the areas he believes the state can exploit to lift its performance, but it will require questioning deeply engrained behaviours.Tasmania Which way is forward for Tasmania? (Google) In an essay written for the 39th edition of GriffithREVIEW, Jonathan West has argued that there are an abundance of opportunities for Tasmania to grow economically, but there is equally a reluctance to embrace change. In conjunction with 'The Conversation' and The University of Tasmania, a series of essays are being published over the next two weeks discussing the future of the island state.