Essays Tagged: "Northern Territory"

Australian assimilation policies of the 1930's.

biggest such case Peter Gunner and Lorna Cubillo told the Federal Court they were stolen under the Northern Territory's alleged policy of removing part-aboriginal children. But after a year of taking ...

(4 pages) 79 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

All about Australia

k, tea. They also speak English as the official language with their own Australian terms.CLIMATEThe northern third of the Australian continent lies in the tropics and is warm or hot year round. The re ... l terms. A matilda is a bedroll and to waltz is "to tramp the roads."Every Australian state and the Northern Territory has its own law about education. The federal government regulates education in ot ...

(8 pages) 150 0 3.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Euthanasia: is it just?

uth Australia passed the Natural Death Act in 1983, Victoria the Medical Treatment Act in 1988, the Northern Territory the Natural Death Act in 1988 and the Australian Capital Territory the Medical Tr ...

(7 pages) 66 1 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Aboriginal injustices and breif history recap

carried out in the spirit of freeing the land from a pest. Under Whitlam certain land rights in the Northern Territory were granted. In 1992 the High Court finally discovered the existence of native t ...

(2 pages) 40 1 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Euthanasia: An Informative Essay

The first person to be legally voluntarily euthanised in Australia was Bob Dent in the Northern Territory, in the year of 1996. This controversial issue has raised many dilemmas throughou ...

(2 pages) 106 1 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Business report for Qantas

and external stakeholder and what duties Qantas has to them.2. Legal Classification:Queensland and Northern territory aerial service (QANTAS) limited is a public company that operates all over the wo ...

(6 pages) 269 0 4.4 Jun/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Mandatory Sentencing

of Parliament setting a fixed penalty for the commission of a criminal offence. On March 8 1997 the Northern Territory sentencing Act and the Juvenile Justice Act come under amendment. From this date ... CINGThe primary motivation behind mandatory sentencing was a perception that property crimes in the Northern Territory and Western Australia were too high. The assumption that a tougher system of sent ...

(8 pages) 145 0 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Aboriginal cooking methods, Aboriginal dreaming, Aboriginals in jail and custody

at is true. Religion is some peoples' way, spiritualism is theirs.The Rainbow Serpent came from the Northern Territory while Australia was still in its dreaming stage. It traveled over the country, cr ... ; up to over 20* times in Western & South Australia.At almost any time, up to 80% of inmates in Northern Territory 'Correctional Facilities' are of aboriginal descent. Whatever the intent, mandato ...

(5 pages) 29 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Oral on the fall of the Berlin wall, Rise of the German People and Relevance to Australia

rring in our peaceful nation. Imagine a split nation. No longer a whole, but instead a southern and northern Australia.Southern Australia:New South WalesVictoriaSouth AustraliaTasmaniaNorthern Austral ...

(4 pages) 14 0 3.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Australian Geography

ustralia is from November to April. The cyclones mainly affect the coastal lands of Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia as far south as Perth.DroughtDroughts occur when there is a ...

(3 pages) 23 1 4.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences > Geography

Aboriginal Customary Law

nactment of legislation to recognise Aboriginal land, or to allow claims to be made to land, in the Northern Territory, South Australia and elsewhere; ? Attempts to establish representative Aboriginal ...

(4 pages) 15 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Mexican War

e war were the Texas Revolution, the inability of Mexico to establish firm political control of its northern regions, and the expansionist movement in the United States.Mexico had trouble keeping cont ...

(2 pages) 55 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Euthanasia

legal in all states of Australia (www.medterms.com/script.) Euthanasia was legalized briefly in the Northern Territory under, The Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995. By 1999 it was abolished. Curre ...

(7 pages) 34 0 5.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia

Australian Geography - tropical cyclones

Australian states. The two most commonly affected states are Queensland and Western Australia. The Northern Territory is affected by cyclones very occasionally. New South Wales on very rare occasions ... ralia in the Indian Ocean, or off the NE coast in the Coral Sea . The Arafura Sea off the NW of the Northern Territory may also see the formation of cyclones but not to the same degree as the latter t ...

(7 pages) 25 0 1.8 Oct/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Austrailian aborigines

n territories; New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory. The city of Sydney, in New South Wales, is the largest city with a population of ... rassland, shrubland, and desert. The interior is comprised of desert, shurbland, and grassland. The Northern Territory, the location of most aboriginal clans and tribes, has woodland along the coast a ...

(8 pages) 39 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

North American Indian Relations with the French and the British

ons struggled for control of North America. The British and French both competed for control of the northern territory and their relationship with the natives was influential for establishing power in ...

(2 pages) 18 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Australia - A Unique Continent

uth Wales, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory. The Northern Territory is approximately five times bigger than the United Kingdo ... des; Koala's, Kangaroos and possum, just to name a few.ONLINE RESOURCESWEB PAGES:Britannica Online, Northern Territory, [Accessed 4 March 2009]Available: http://student.britannica.com/comptons/article ...

(4 pages) 16 0 3.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Changing Government Policies Concerning Aboriginal Peoples

l Peoples2.To ensure they lived separately from whites3.To 'keep and eye on them'All states and the Northern Territory had reserves or missions where aboriginal peoples were expected to live. These re ...

(4 pages) 33 0 5.0 Aug/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Manifest Destiny

size by about 20%.Because of the imperialistic attitudes in the US, we went through conflicts over northern territory as well. In the Northeast, Maine settlers fought the Aroostook War against New Br ...

(3 pages) 1368 0 3.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

ing European countries of the Netherlands and Belgium. There was a fourth jurisdiction, Australia's Northern Territory, but its Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 was overruled within a year of its ...

(6 pages) 17 0 0.0 Oct/2010

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine