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  Australia
Australia is both the name of the world's smallest continent, and the short form of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Australia is a Constitutional monarchy, with the 'Queen of Australia' reigning as head of state.
The Commonwealth of Australia is a constitutional monarchy: the Queen of Australia is the official head of state and is represented by the Governor General.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/Australian.html   (801 words)

  
 Australia Regional Country Australia
Australia’s vegetation is predominantly evergreen, ranging from the dense bushland and eucalyptus forests of the coast, to mulga and mallee scrub and saltbush of the inland plains.
Australia’s population was growing at 1.0 percent annually in 1997 The principal reasons for this growth were the continued high level of immigration and the associated increase in the numbers of younger people in the childbearing and childrearing age groups.
Australia was a principal whaling nation until the late 1970s, when it agreed to halt most whaling activities in cooperation with an international effort to maintain the whale population.
www.latifm.com /look/Regional_Australia.htm   (17029 words)

  
 Australia
Australia is the 6th largest country in the world and is only slightly smaller than the U.S. Before the British arrival in 1770, the continent was inhabited by the native Aborigines.
Australia is still considered to be in the Industrial age of energy resources with a shift towards more renewable energy sources in the near future.
Australia is mainly in the Industrial age due to its monetary economy yet it's type of economic system is moving into the Information age.
www.csudh.edu /global_options/375Students-Sp96/Australia/toc.html   (1762 words)

  
 National Party of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Country Party was formally founded in 1922, from a number of state-based parties such as the Victorian Farmers Union (VFU) and the Farmers and Settlers Party of New South Wales (NSW).
The VFU won a seat in the House of Representatives in 1918, and at the 1919 federal elections the state-based country parties won seats in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia.
This was the period of the Country Party's greatest power as was demonstrated in 1962 when McEwen was able to insist that Menzies sack a Liberal Minister who claimed that Britain's entry into the EEC was unlikely to severely impact on the Australian economy as the whole.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Party_of_Australia   (1739 words)

  
 Australia (08/06)
Australia's comparative advantage in primary products is a reflection of the natural wealth of the Australian continent and its small domestic market; 20 million people occupy a continent the size of the contiguous United States.
Australia was one of the founders of both the United Nations and the South Pacific Commission (1947), and in 1950, it proposed the Colombo Plan to assist developing countries in Asia.
Australia also is active in meetings of the Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government and the Pacific Islands Forum, and has been a leader in the Cairns Group--countries pressing for agricultural trade reform in World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations--and in the APEC forum.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2698.htm   (4404 words)

  
 Australia Country Analysis Brief
Australia ’s oil reserves, mostly located offshore of the northwestern and southeastern parts of the country, are estimated at 3.5 billion barrels (Oil and Gas Journal, 1/1/04), a 20% increase over 2001 reserves.
Australia ’s natural gas consumption is projected to grow twice as fast as the consumption of other energy sources in the next two decades, and it is expected to account for 24% of total energy consumption by 2020.
Australia is estimated to contain 90.5 billion short tons (Bst) of coal reserves, the majority of which are concentrated along the country’s eastern seaboard.
www.eia.doe.gov /cabs/australia.html   (4822 words)

  
 CLP - Country Liberal Party
The Country Party emerged in the late 1960's when the then stronghold of Alice Springs successfully presented Sam Calder as a candidate in the 1966 election under that Party's banner.
The fledgling Liberal Party group in the Darwin area gave their complete support to Sam Calder in 1966, 1969 and 1972 knowing full well that a non Labor candidate would require total unity to be successful.
In 1979 the Country Liberal Party established "an association" with both the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Country Party of Australia.
www.clp.org.au /aboutCLP/history.asp   (304 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Australia
The nationhood of Australia was forged on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey on April 25,1915.
Australia cemented its bond to the United States by participating in the Korean War in the early 1950s and the Vietnam War a decade later.
The country was thrown into a constitutional crisis in 1975 when its governor general dismissed Whitlam from office over a technicality.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/australia   (1099 words)

  
 Irony Party of Australia Foreign Policy Statement
In general the approach of the Irony Party of Australia to foriegn policy is substantively at odds with that of the current Government.
As the Irony Party in general supports localisation of politics and the reclamation of territories by smaller communities, in general we are bound to the advocacy of actual and symbolic self-government by all peoples of their own affairs.
The Irony Party's policy on Iraq is founded on the belief that we are engaged in an ongoing war in that country motivated by the desire for the maintenance of Western global hegemonic power.
www.ironyparty.org /ironypolforeign.htm   (1468 words)

  
 Australia
Australia's advanced market economy is dominated by its services sector (71% of GDP), yet it is the agricultural and mining sectors (8% of GDP combined) that account for the bulk (52%) of Australia's goods and services exports.
Australia also is active in meetings of the Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government and the Pacific Islands Forum, and has been a leader in the Cairns Group--countries pressing for agricultural trade reform in World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations -- and in the APEC forum.
Recent Presidential visits to Australia (in 1991, 1996 and 2003) and Australian Prime Ministerial visits to the United States (in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005) have underscored the strength and closeness of the alliance.
www.infoplease.com /country/profiles/australia.html   (3257 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Country profiles | Country profile: Australia
Australia's foreign policy has shifted in the past 20 years or so from Europe and the US to its near neighbours.
He has highlighted Australia's robust economy, and the approval of a free trade agreement with the US in 2004, as being among his government's key achievements.
Australia's parliament has a lower chamber, the House of Representatives, and an upper house, the Senate.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1250188.stm   (1155 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: Asia : Australia
Australia should provide strong leadership to restore the credibility of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Human Rights Watch said today when the country was elected to chair the Commission's next annual session, which begins March 15.
Australia is the only country to grant temporary status to refugees who have been through a full asylum determination system and who have been recognized as genuinely in need of protection for 1951 Refugee Convention reasons.
The conduct of all warring parties in Iraq will be under unprecedented scrutiny and they should strictly adhere to the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing letters to the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Iraq.
www.hrw.org /asia/australia.php   (1122 words)

  
 Australia a Muslim nation: advisor | | The Australian
AUSTRALIA is a Muslim nation, the head of Prime Minister John Howard's Muslim advisory board says.
Dr Ali said multiculturalism was Australia's destiny but Muslims, as latecomers, were being disadvantaged.
But Dr Ali has been inundated with complaints from angry Muslims since the story appeared and Australia's most senior Islamic cleric called for him to be ostracised.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20545617-1702,00.html   (428 words)

  
 The CIA in Australia
Allegations and information are available in Australia and overseas, and have been for a long time, but we are all faced by the iron curtain of American intelligence and Australian secrecy, the unavailability of such information to the public.
The only reason the CIA would get involved in supporting certain political parties or undercutting other parties would be because we had the money and the expertise and so forth to be able to do it and this would be viewed as a cooperative venture because the host country welcomes us.
What you in Australia must understand is that you are more to blame than the CIA is because you want this to happen, you want a certain administration in control and you don’t want another administration in control.
www.williambowles.info /spysrus/cia_australia.html   (19508 words)

  
 LDP - Liberal Democratic Party
The party had a stand at an antique gun trade show in Brisbane and attracted significant support and interest.
The LDP presence at this latest venue is part of a push to increase membership and establish the party across the country.
The Liberal Democratic Party occupied a display booth at this year's Sporting Shooters Association of Australia (SSAA) SHOT Show held at Cecil Park on the 20th and 21st of May 2006.
www.ldp.org.au   (425 words)

  
 Australia Country Page
Cargill Australia was established in 1967 to serve the country’s large grain export industry and has since extended its involvement into several other agricultural and industrial areas.
The Riverine and the North West Slopes and Plains of New South Wales are renowned for their fertile soils, open grazing country, clean air and artesian water, which make them perfectly suited for raising quality cattle.
Cargill Crop Nutrition Australia is the exclusive export marketer of up to 500,000 tons of phosphate fertilizer from the WMC plant in Queensland, Australia.
www.cargill.com /worldwide/australia.htm   (498 words)

  
 Radio Australia - News - Australian PM: country should carry burden of Pacific   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Australian Prime Minister John Howard says the international community expects Australia to carry its share of the burden in the Pacific and the country should accept that.
Speaking at a Tasmanian Liberal Party Conference in Hobart, Mr Howard said he thinks most Australians support the move.
And the rest of the world rightly says to Australia you are the biggest and wealthiest and most capable country in the region.
www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1724997.htm?Australia   (273 words)

  
 Australia Travel, Tourism and Party Guide ­ PubClub.com!
The Sydney Opera house is one of the country's most recognizable landmarks.
rom the magnificence of Sydney to the far reaches of the Outback, Australia provides a cultural and landscape diversity that is matched by few other countries in the world.
This is a huge country – it takes up an entire continent, for example – so you can't exactly cruise the Great Barrier Reef in the morning and be back in Sydney in time for dinner.
www.pubclub.com /australia/index.htm   (218 words)

  
 'Labor Can't Govern!' United Australia Party-United Country Party election advertisement, 1943.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
'Labor Can't Govern!' United Australia Party-United Country Party election advertisement, 1943.
As Britain has proved, the strongest wartime government is that combining the best brains from all parties.
In Australia, the United Australia Party and the United Country Party have repeatedly urged Labor to collaborate along these lines.
john.curtin.edu.au /ww2leaders/politics4.html   (139 words)

  
 Liberal Party of Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Liberal Party Policy documents released during the 1998 Election campaign
Beyond Ideology - - Philosophical and policy differences between the liberal and conservative wings of the Liberal Party are discussed in a speech by Tony Abbott, the Minister for Workplace Relations in the Howard government.
The Liberal Party and the Philosophy of Benevolence - a speech delivered by John Howard in March 2001 in which he discussed social policy and his philosophy of benevolence, volunteerism and the responsibilities of the business sector.
www.australianpolitics.com /parties/liberal   (166 words)

  
 Irony Party of Australia Electronic Pamphlet
The recent successes of Australia's resource industry have led to a glut of newspaper articles, television segments, and web pages devoted to congratulating executives for their perspicacity and insight in digging stuff out of the ground in order to gratify massive - indeed, seemingly inexhaustible - demand from overseas industrial giants China and India.
Now, though, in an unprecedented coup, the Irony Party of Australia has obtained pictures of alien worlds beyond even the wildest dreams of the US-based Space Agency.
The Irony Party of Australia, though, warns in this telling, succinct pictorial tableau that the process of substantial Constitutional reform inherent in the allure of Republicanism is fraught with pitfall and potential disaster.
ironyparty.org /pamphlet   (1626 words)

  
 PARIAH - People Against Racism In Aboriginal Homelands
NT Country Liberal Party, after 26 years of uninterupted rule over Aboriginal lands
The Windschuttle revisionists self-blinded to contemporary injustices that underline a history of
Archived by the National Library of Australia for preservation as a site of national significance and lasting cultural value.
www.country-liberal-party.com   (949 words)

  
 ARRLWeb: International Third Party Traffic
This is all right as long as the US has signed an official third-party traffic agreement with that particular country, or the third party is a licensed amateur.
The IARU is the alliance of Amateur Radio societies from around the world; Region 2 comprises member-societies in North, South and Central America, and the Caribbean.
Note: At the end of an exchange of third-party traffic with a station located in a foreign country, an FCC-licensed amateur must transmit the call sign of the foreign station as well as his own call sign.
www.arrl.org /field/regulations/io/3rdparty.html   (368 words)

  
 The racism we describe - is Australia wide
The racism we describe - is Australia wide
Adelaide alcohol-free plan draws angry claims of racism.
The head of the Nunkuwarrin Yunti health and community centre, Polly Sumner, said yesterday that the council and previous councils were basically "not prepared to do anything constructive about solving the problem - they just want to shift it somewhere else".
www.country-liberal-party.com /pages/hotels_p7.htm   (497 words)

  
 Political Resources on the Net - Australia 1 (Parties)
Socialist Party of Australia Trotskyist organization, section of CWI
Socialist Equality Party Australian section of the ICFI
Liberty Australia Full resources on the facts of Australia's recession
www.politicalresources.net /austral.htm   (128 words)

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