After the war, the Vietminh controlled north Vietnam while an unpopular government setup by the French with it's capital in Saigon controlled the South. ... The Australian Government setup a propaganda campaign that the Vietnam war was a simple struggle between freedom and communism, and that free nations had to stop communism from spreading around the world. But this was not the first time the Australian Army had been involved in Vietnam. In 1962 a team of 30 Australian military instructors was sent to Saigon. ... It was on the 27th of December 1972, the newly elected Labor governme...

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Australia, along with many countries worldwide, abolished capital punishment by 1985. According to the Institute of Criminology, Queensland was the first state to abolish capital punishment in Australia, in 1922, followed by New South Wales in 1955, Tasmania in 1968, ACT in 1973, Northern Territory in 1973, Victoria in 1975, South Australia in 1976 and finally Western Australia in 1984. Now the worst punishment impoundable by Australian law is life imprisonment, with no parole. ... Some of these problems include; innocence of the perpetrator, the costs of execution for governments and the n...

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He makes it very clear that he wants reparation from the government, and not from individual citizens. ... Government had benefited from the slave labor of African Americans. ... Government. The Inuit were compensated by the Canadian government. The Australian government compensated the Aborigines. ...

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It also indicates that instead of the government serving the will of the people, the government is directing that will where is pleases. The Tampa crisis, also known as the Children Overboard has also successfully presents that the politicians have the power over the media and media have the power to change the facts to manipulate the public and demonstrating that prevailing representation of people and politics at a given time is a function of power instead of truth as Children Overboard was an Australian political argument involving public allegations by Howard government in 2001, which ...

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It is the primary opportunity the people of the United States have to select representatives and influence the government. ... Italy has and 94% voter turnout, Australia with a 84% voter turnout, Israel 82%, France 77%, the U.K. 75%, Japan 73%, and Canada with a 67% voter turnout. ... First, unlike the U.S., some nations like Australia and Belgium have compulsory voting laws. ... You have to find the governmental and fill out a registration form. ... Elite democrats often argue that the fact that many do not vote is a good thing, because there is no relationship between good government, democ...

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This is true, but what he failed to point out is like with Australia, communities are widley spread out and to walk home from town would take hours. ... Canadians are also taxed harder than Americans, on average 30% of a Canadians pay cheque is taken away to pay for government services eg. ... And most recently the BBC - a government funded organisation, has shown that it is not afraid to stand alone and speak out against the hand that feeds it eg. ... Where as CNN Americas largest news channel on t.v are constantly being accused, by more objective journalists, of filtering stories which coul...

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The basis upon which marijuana is prohibited has been proven by the very government which has banned the drug to be false. ... It is about whether the government may prevent doctors from providing a patient with an honest medical opinion recommending marijuana." ... It is a criminal act of the U.S. government by it's own manifesto, the Constitution, to make a personal behavior a crime. A government that cannot criminalize alcohol or tobacco cannot, for the same reasons, deny the right to use marijuana. ... In reality, the average amount of THC (the active ingredient of marijuana) in go...

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This forces the US government to conduct a recruitment exercise. With such a high demand for servicemen, the US government had to siphon them from the members of the community to make up civil soldiers. ... The joint American and Australian forces took advantage of this opportunity and made an attack. The attack raised the morale of the American and Australia forces as Japan seemed invincible. ...

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A quote from vice-guardian (British government official) of Ennistymon workhouse states, "There were collections of dirt and filth almost under every bed. ... By December 1845, the price of potatoes had doubled, and by the summer of 1847, over 3 million people were being fed by government soup kitchens and those organized by Quakers (TGF). ... Between 1845 and 1850, over 1 million Irish starved to death, 500,000 were evicted and 500,000 emigrated to America, Britain, or Australia on rotting, overcrowded "Coffin Ships" (VOG). ... During the famine, British government officials rigidly adhered t...

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Why do so many American's oppose our government trying to protect their safety and good will? ... Sure, gun lovers state the government is trying to take away all the guns away from citizens. Also, that the government is going to control everything in our lives because citizens won't be able to revolt. It's best remembered that citizens make up the government, the military, other official jobs, and they also have families also. ... The state or government could lock up all guns, and the lawful owner, when the gun is needed, must sign them out. ...

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With stricter gun control regulations, the government can keep guns out of the hands of people who intend to misuse them or harm others with them Another reason for new regulations is that nations with stricter regulations in place right now have much lower rates of murders and gun accidents. Japan, Great Britain, Switzerland, Canada, Sweden, and Australia are six countries with stricter gun control laws and about the same population when combined as the United States. ...

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The same were for education; white people students and ethnically diverse student went to separate schools, and only schools for white students got funded by the government. ... Diversity has brought everybody together, African with American, European with Asian, Indian with Australian, etc. ...

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The American Revolution is not only significant to the United States as for Australia it marks the beginning of their own history where Britain's supremacy tries to take over other nations and influence their political ideologies upon them. ... There were several reasons for this, one being that the Indians still posed a threat to the British government and the other being that the French and Indian War which lasted seven years, left Britain in a huge debt. ... The edict forbade private citizens and colonial governments to buy land or make agreements with natives compelling the empire t...

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I feel we all have a right to privacy and wonder why the governments are not doing enough to protect are civil liberties. ... Its good to see at last the governments are trying to do something about this problem and not before time I might add. ... [GLOBAL COMMUNITY APPLAUDS EUROPEAN ANTI-SPAM VOTE May 31, 2002 - The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (CAUCE), EuroCAUCE, CAUCE India, CAUCE Canada and the Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk E-Mail, Australia (CAUBE.au) today applauded the decision by the European Parliament to protect European Internet users from the practice of...

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Active participation includes attending political rallies, meetings, and fundraisers, trying to influence government, joining interest groups, and of course voting. ... Accordingly, they make voting compulsory, as in Australia. ... They do not realize that one voice can make a difference in our government. ... Many people simply do not understand government process, and therefore choose not to become involved. ... The "burden" of registration could be taken out of the hands of the individual voters, and transferred to those of the government via some type of "automatic" registration (just when...

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Some feel that this media frenzy was caused, in large part, by the government of the United States of America. ... To the springing forth of the federal government to stop the trafficking of illegal drugs. These efforts by the government were followed by the education of America about the dangers of drugs. ... In essence the government wanted to change the public's attitude toward drugs. ... This led to efforts in 1972 by the federal government to stop the drug trade. ...

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The argument is that in reality, power is concentrated in the hands of a few, a very small group of people (an elite ) who manipulate the masses through control of the media, visible government leaders, with a right wing conspiracy version which argues that the elitist ideology is subversive, anti-capitalist, anti-individualist, anti-patriotic, pro-welfare, and pro-one world government, with the sole aim of undermining traditional American values. ... Mills ) argue that the corporate, executive, and military run the government elite. ... It exercises control by financing candidates, its contro...

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The government, social scientists, and other politicians and professionals have studied these tragic incidents to search for the possible correlation between the availability of guns and gun violence. ... REBUTTAL While opponents argue that limiting gun usage and ownership, background checks, and waiting period for gun sales will not reduce gun related violence, giant nations like Japan, Australia and Great Britain have lesser gun-related violence because they have stricter gun control laws. ... Other great nations such as Australia, Japan, and Great Britain have realized a success in reducing...

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Anticipating the possibility that an increasingly centralized and aggressive government might seek to restrict or abolish that right, they included the right in our Constitution. ... Isn't it ironic how laws like gun registration, made to reduce firearm violence, can instead arm criminals with the very guns the government so desperately wants to control access to. In addition to the foregoing, the danger posed by gun registration in the event the government turns on its citizens is obvious. Whatever check or balance gun ownership might provide on the government is completely nullified onc...

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Australia reported that there was a 20-25 percent increase in delinquency among males when they lowered their legal drinking age. ... So what actions is the government taking to prevent teens from buying alcohol? ...

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Two more executive orders in 1965 and 1968 prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, and gender, giving the federal government the power to enforce this prohibition [Hud99]. ... In a survey conducted by the American Council of Life Insurance, 85% of those polled believe that the "government should ensure that there is no discrimination" of women in the workforce. ... For example, Finnish people are seen as inferior in Sweden, and perform poorly on tests there; however, they perform well on tests in Australia, where they are not discriminated against. ...

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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is t...

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", not only shows Uncle Sam as a heroic Greek figure with the strength to hold up the world, but also shows that there was an unwillingness from the American government, or at least the people, to engage in more international warfare. ... They state that differences in the Constitution "have led many to conclude that there is something different about Americans and their vision of government that is reflected in their very different Constitution.... Contained within this unique document defined the conditions for free people with free rights, not from the government but from their cr...

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Those countries formed an alliance because of their similarities: they were all ruled under a totalitarian government , they shared the same goals, they were very aggressive and ambitious countries in search of new land and its resources, and they at around the same time all began conquering parts of the world near to them. ... Those countries had non-democratic governments, they were rearming, and they were not being peaceful. ... He means that other forms of government and Nazism could not stand togethe...

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The government and voluntary agencies have joined in order for the society to find ways to solve these issues and strive for equal opportunities for people from all income levels, and gender. ... I could not find any diversity statements within the Sai Gon Cosmetics website, although it does state that their products are exported to U.S, Australia, New Zealand, among other countries. ...

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