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	Women & Politics in South Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parliamentary politics in Australia is a competitive domain which has been set up for men, by men with no regard for women and which reflects male values.
		In Australia the Women's Electoral Lobby is a feminist non-party organisation established in 1972 to raise the profile of women's issues in the political arena.
		The Committee recommends that political parties be encouraged to reform outdated structures, selection procedures and attitudes to ensure the removal of barriers preventing women from fully participating in political life.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /women_and_politics/parl4.htm (6520 words)

	John Howard's Australia Day Address to the National Press Club [January 25, 2006]
		Australia is a magnet for people from all corners of the globe not because of what it might become, but because of what it has become.
		Australia is a liberal democracy with global political and economic interests and a proud history of defending freedom against its enemies.
		Australia is one of only a handful of nations to have carried the torch of democracy through a turbulent 20th century.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2006/01/06-01-25_howard.shtml (4233 words)

	Politics of Australia and Canada compared - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canada, being the first of the colonies to peacefully gain independence, became a model that was followed by Australia and the other Dominions.
		Canada and Australia both have strong multiparty systems with many parties represented in their legislatures as opposed to two (as in the United States).
		Australia and Canada both tend to fall somewhere in the middle between the United States and Europe in terms of how extensive a welfare state they have.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Australia_and_Canada_compared (2639 words)

	Canada - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Canada is the second largest country in the world but has about the same population as the state of California, which is about 4 percent of Canada’s size.
		This is because the north of Canada, with its harsh Arctic and sub-Arctic climates, is sparsely inhabited.
		Canada is also the world’s second largest producer of pulp, the third largest producer of sawn lumber, and the world’s largest exporter of softwood lumber.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761563379___0/Canada.html (18552 words)

	Politics of Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The government of Australia is a federation in the context of a constitutional monarchy, and Australians elect state and territory legislatures as well as a bicameral Parliament of Australia based on the Westminster System.
		Australia has become increasingly involved in the internal difficulties of its smaller neighbours, such as Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji and Nauru.
		The list of political parties in Australia comprises the names and federal leaders of significant political parties as well as the names of other parties, including formerly significant parties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Australia (1013 words)

	Politics of Canada
		Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a federal system, a parliamentary government, and strong democratic traditions.
		The political system under which Canada operates was first set forth by the British North America Act (commonly treated as the "Constitution") adopted by the British Parliament in 1867.
		Canada's parliament consists of an elected House of Commons and a Senate whose members are appointed by the Prime Minister alone without the review or concurrence of anyone.
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Canada.html (3760 words)

	Australia Canada Embassy In
		As a result of political forces and judicial interpretation, the power of the British Parliament is steadily waning in favor of increased Community power, in a manner akin to that occurring in relation to the distribution of central and regional power in Canada and Australia.
		Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Ottawa - The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Canada is the embassy of Iran in Ottawa, Canada.
		The Commissioners of Canada's northern territories of Nunavut, Yukon and the territorial commissioners.
	in14.mfedbank.com /australiacanadaembassyin.html (1179 words)

	Politics of Australia information - Search.com
		The government of Australia is a federation, and Australians elect state and territory legislatures as well as a bicameral Parliament of Australia based on the Westminster System.
		Australia has become increasingly involved in the internal difficulties of its smaller neighbours, such as Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji and Nauru.
		The list of political parties in Australia comprises the names and federal leaders of significant political parties as well as the names of other parties, including formerly significant parties.
	www.search.com /reference/Politics_of_Australia (1169 words)

	They Said It (Daily Political Quotes) - June 2002
		Stott Despoja does not have to be remotely politically savvy to fool either the sheep or the mediocre, of which there is always an abundance in her party and the community generally.
		As cunning politically as a bagful of monkeys and basking in the testimonials of colleagues who have elevated him to a pantheon of Australian political geniuses, the PM has entered his salad days - and may just be starting to believe his own propaganda (very risky!).
		Political correctness, a critique developed at the end of the 1980s to describe outrageous discrimination and bogus logic on American campuses, landed on these shores in the mid-1990s as an all-encompassing description of the political language of Paul Keating and the ideas he promoted.
	australianpolitics.com /words/daily/2002-06.shtml (18518 words)

	U.N.: Canada not pulling out of Kyoto pact - CNN.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Canada's Conservative government, elected in January, has said the Kyoto commitments it signed up to are unachievable, prompting fears it would follow the United States and Australia and pull out.
		Canada has struggled to keep a lid on its emissions of the heat-trapping gases that scientists say risk causing catastrophic change to the Earth's climate.
		Under Kyoto, Canada has to cut its emissions by 6 percent by 2012 compared with 1990 levels, but it is exceeding this by about one-third and its emissions are on the rise.
	www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/americas/11/09/canada.kyoto.reut/index.html (658 words)

	Australia
		The family, who are of Indian Muslim background with four children were Zimbabwean farmers who sought refuge in Australia after they were forced to flee their farm near Masvingo in 2001 because they were threatened and their farm occupied by the so-called war veterans.
		Australia was then forced to take him back and he was sent to the refugee detention center in South Australia.
		In the 1800’s Australia was a convict colony that competed with the US and Canada in accepting new migrants.
	www.smc.org.ph /amnews/amn040531/pacific/australia040531.htm (4591 words)

	Overlawyered: Australia Archives
		Australia: "A settlement between a leading Melbourne private school and a parent who said her child had not been taught to read properly could result in increased litigation between parents and schools, a principals group has warned." Yvonne Meyer faulted Brighton Grammar School for not placing enough emphasis on phonics-based instruction for her child.
		Australia: 28-year-old James Samuel Steward, who "was serving a three-year sentence at Goulburn jail when he overdosed on illegally acquired methadone in May 1998", is now "suing the state for more than $4 million.
		Australia is in an uproar after a New South Wales teacher, Jeff Sinclair, won a A$28,000 payout for "psychological injury" for being fired for starting a relationship with a 15-year-old student a third of his age.
	www.overlawyered.com /australia (6722 words)

	Democracy Matters - The Politics of Democracy: An Empirical Analysis
		In addition to this information on the form of public support for political efforts, I have provided data on voter turnout rates and government expenditures for "personal security." The voter turnout rate is defined as the total vote in elections to national assemblies during the 1990s as a percentage of the voting age population.
		The countries with the least public funding of politics and lowest turnout rates are the ones with the lowest share of GDP devoted to "personal security" in the form of education, health and pensions.
		A powerful movement to democratize the political system will be born only when large numbers of people believe that their own interests are advanced by a political system of greater equality.
	www.democracymatters.org /article.php?cat=moneyinpolitics&select=426 (2659 words)

	Australia vows to oppose separatists \| \| The Australian
		Australia and Indonesia will next week sign the security agreement, which reinforces cooperation on defence, police, intelligence and counter-terrorism.
		It comes as the countries move to repair relations, damaged earlier this year when Australia granted temporary protection to 43 asylum seekers from the separatist Indonesian province of Papua.
		He said Australia and Indonesia's relationship had had "its ups and downs", but the latest agreement was a historic move.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20735481-1702,00.html (536 words)

	Canada set to ditch consensus politics - World - theage.com.au
		AN UNASHAMEDLY right-wing politician is poised to shatter decades of middle-ground consensus in Canada's general election that began last night.
		But most who have watched him during 20 years in politics say he is far from the typical Canadian consensus-seeking mould that has typified leaders of both left and right for decades.
		In the lead-up to war in Iraq, Mr Harper gave voice to the minority who were uneasy that Canada's old allies in America, Britain and Australia were about to engage in a conflict without Canadian units at their side.
	www.theage.com.au /news/world/canada-set-to-ditch-consensus-politics/2006/01/23/1137864861750.html (688 words)

	Newsvine - An introduction to Australian politics
		Australia was originally inhabited by Aborigines, who lived in a tribal culture was anywhere up to 40000 years before white settlement.
		Either way, the Australia Act of 1986 relegated the British Monarchy to the status of a figurehead (as the monarchy is in England) and formally severed all ties to British rule and British parliament.
		Australia was involved in slave trading ("Kanaka trade) in the Pacific up to the late 19th century, Thus 40,000 of the 150,000 population of Fiji died in 1875 within a year of introduction of measles from Australia.
	fipe.newsvine.com /_news/2006/11/10/436975-an-introduction-to-australian-politics (4152 words)

	Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		American Politics: This site is aimed at those students studying American Politics at an Advanced level (17 to 18 year olds) and most sections have been updated to include the 2000 election result and issues that have arisen in the current government of George Bush.
		Politics in Britain: 1750-1950: An encyclopedia of politics in Britain between 1750 and 1950.
		Political Cartoons: The Political Cartoon Society is a non-profit making organisation for those interested in History and Politics through the medium of cartoons.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVpolitics.htm (9607 words)

	Canada gets poor marks in international health survey of doctors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The survey of more than 6,000 doctors in seven countries gave Canada poor marks on several aspects of patient care, including wait times for tests, use of electronic medical records, doctors available after hours, multi-discipline teams to treat chronic illness and financial incentives for improving quality of care.
		The survey suggested Canada has a long way to go on many fronts to catch up with the other countries, which included the United Kingdom, Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia and Germany.
		Since 2001, Canada has invested more than C$1 billion in initiatives for accelerating information technology, said Fedyk, but most of the money is going to hospitals first.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/health/061102/x110230.html (750 words)

	Australian Monetary System : Money Creation in Australia
		In Australia, coins are made by the Commonwealth Government at its Royal Mint in Canberra and banknotes are printed in Melbourne by Note Printing Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia which in turn is wholly owned by the Commonwealth Government.
		A minor scandal erupted in Australia during the year 1999 when it was revealed that influential radio talkback presenter, John Laws, had accepted payment of half a million dollars from the Australian Bankers' Association for more favourable on-air comments about the banks.
		Australia's own government established Commonwealth Bank achieved some impressive successes while it was "the peoples' bank", before being crippled by later government decisions and eventually sold.
	dkd.net /davekidd/politics/money.html (3679 words)

	Politics of Australia - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The government of Australia is a federation, and Australians elect state and territory legislatures as well as a bicameral Parliament of Australia.
		Australia has become increasingly involved in the internal difficulties of its smaller neighbours, such as Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji and Nauru.
		The list of political parties in Australia comprises the names and federal leaders of significant political parties as well as the names of other parties, including formerly significant parties.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1119 (733 words)

	Canada
		While the first Jews came to Canada in the eighteenth century, the bulk of the community is descended from twentieth-century immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia in the first half of the century and, more recently, from North Africa and the Middle East.
		Canada became involved in the international scandals that erupted in 1997 concerning the whereabouts of gold looted by the Nazis during the Second World War.
		In Canada antisemitism is not a significant factor in mainstream politics.
	www.axt.org.uk /antisem/archive/archive2/Canada/canada.htm (6699 words)

	Aristotle -- Politics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		So the study of politics will only be useful to those who have the experience and the mental discipline to benefit from it, and for Aristotle this would have been a relatively small percentage of the population of a city.
		And here we see the link between ethics and politics in a different light: the role of politics is to provide an environment in which people can live fully human, ethical, and happy lives, and this is the kind of life which makes it possible for someone to participate in politics in the correct way.
		This is another aspect of political science that is still practiced today, as Aristotle combines a theory about how regimes ought to be with his analysis of how regimes really are in practice in order to prescribe changes to those regimes that will bring them more closely in line with the ideal.
	www.iep.utm.edu /a/aris-pol.htm (18373 words)

	City Mayors: Canadian hub cities
		And since Toronto happens to be in Canada's biggest province, the extent of its influence on the provincial economy is smaller compared to hub cities in smaller provinces with fewer cities.
		Canada should strategically focus municipal investments in its hub cities instead of spreading funds across the country on a per-capita basis, says the Conference Board of Canada.
		The study, Canada’s Hub Cities: A Driving Force of the National Economy, identifies eight economically-leading large cities that function as ‘hub cities’ for their province—Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton, Regina and Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal—and a ninth city, Halifax, that functions as a hub city for the Atlantic provinces.
	www.citymayors.com /politics/canada_hubs.html (1874 words)

	Health Care Models: Canada and U.S. Compared- Reclaim Democracy.org
		In Canada, the long waits stirred a public outcry and a government inquiry when a 63-year-old heart patient at St. Michael's died in 1989 after his surgery had been canceled 11 times.
		Despite Canada's lower health-care spending, patient outcomes in a number of areas, including cancer and heart disease, are similar.
		Overall, life expectancy in Canada is 79.4 years, compared with 76.8 years in the U.S., the OECD says.
	reclaimdemocracy.org /weekly_2003/canada_vs_us_healthcare.html (2362 words)

	Canada Country
		Canada pays more than three times as much for drugs as Europe despite the fact that drug prices are government imposed; the government is deliberately handing money over to pharmaceutical corporations (most of which are American corporations at that).
		Canada is better than New Zealand (whose economy went into meltdown after the right-wingers got done with it) but if I recall correctly worse than Australia (which still has a participatory democracy).
		Canada makes chemical and biological agents (one step away from "weapon") on the dubious grounds that it takes expertise in manufacturing these agents in order to create counter-agents, and that such expertise is critical even though by far the biggest producer of these weapons/agents is the USA, a supposedly friendly country.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?CanadaCountry (4805 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Supplies are 1.3 million head higher than in 2002, before the discovery of mad-cow disease in May 2003 prompted dozens of nations to ban imports of Canadian cattle and beef.
		The Canada herd declined even as the country's slaughter increased 1 percent in 2005 after rising 28 percent in 2004 from 2003.
		The number of sheep in Canada fell 6.2 percent to 919,000 head on Jan. 1 compared with 980,000 a year earlier, Statistics Canada said.
	www.furl.net /forward.jsp?id=7089277 (329 words)

	Deltoid » canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mundt’s error is inexcusable, since the “Statistics Canada” reference contained data for 74-81 and he failed to compare these numbers with the “Scarff 83″ numbers.
		It is also interesting to compare firearm homicide rates and non-firearm homicide rates.
		Of course, here is the big kicker in Canada: Let’s say you do believe that the pre-1977 murder rates are more than the post-1977 murder rates enough to make it worth your while.
	timlambert.org /category/guns/canada (1302 words)

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