Category: Australia

Today we will be discussing a very serious topic that affects more people than you would expect, domestic violence. So far today police in Australia would have dealt with on average 641 domestic violence matters. Family, domestic and sexual violence is a major national health and welfare issue that can have lifelong impacts for victims…

Introduction Workplace discrimination is the process in which an individual treats another individual applying to, or in a workplace discriminatorily due to a personal characteristic such as race, sex, religion, or any other characteristic protected under the Fair Work Act (2009). Significance of Workplace Discrimination Workplace discrimination causes detrimental effects on a small scale to…

To be a citizen means you have your say and are part of making your community how it is. We all have rights and responsibilities, even just being in the state, such as the simple laws like ‘Don’t steal’ or ‘Don’t go through a red light’, those very simple yet recognizable laws that shape our…

Rights are those things that one is morally or legally entitled to do or have . They are the minimum threshold of equality in modern society. Today, however, the rights of certain sectors of society are not equal, rather they are frequently under recognised, depressed or absent depending on the societal group that individuals associate…

Each country and culture reflect its own songs and sayings related to the importance of homes and priorities of women. Australia has always been considered as a better place and a wealthy nation for living due to good health, and OECDs Better Life Index shows the same (Jericho 2017). However, safety of Australian women is…

In recent years, multiculturalism has been a highly controversial topic around the world. According to Chu et al., (2016), multiculturalism is the presence of various cultures, including races and religions, expressed through the thinking process, values, and communication. Most people would agree that Australia is a multicultural country. For me, multicultural Australia is a thriving…

Should the media be censored? Who should censor the media? And can self-censorship work? In order to answer these difficult questions, there must be an understanding of censorship laws, how censorship functions in society, specifically within Media Production and how the Media functions. Using a case study and law and ethics research, this paper will…

The death penalty – an old punishment thats been around for centuries. Although nowadays, most people oppose it, its actually a reasonable punishment in certain circumstances. In the opinions of many people and governments, to bestow upon someone who has done the worst of things, such as mass murder or rape, it can be a…

Governor Arthur Phillip founded the first British settlement in Port Jackson (Sydney Harbor) on the 26th of January 1788. Just over a week later the Aboriginals first saw the European settlers. The First Fleet carried around 759 convicts and 206 marines. They described Australia as terra nullius, which means wastelands that could be taken without…

This essay will look at how people smuggling and illegal immigration have evolved through time and how and what policymakers have and should do as a response. People smuggling is the act of assisting individuals to cross international borders without official authorization in return for compensation that is either financial or material (Hidalgo, 2016). This…