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The paper argues that globalisation has led to key reforms in Australia including floating the Australian dollar, deregulating the financial services sector, decentralization of the labor market, and implementation of a national competition policy. The paper describes how these sweeping changes have opened the door for global commerce and have been beneficial for Australia in many ways. The paper explains that for one, the labor market is now characterized by greater flexibility which supports Australia in the globally competitive environment. The paper also relates that Australia is enjoying significant growth in exports and has benefited from changes and growth in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The paper shows how overall, globalisation clearly bodes well for the nation as a whole.

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"The current study explores the benefits of globalisation in Australia in relation to economics and finance. Specifically, the current study argues that globalisation has led to key reforms in Australia including floating the Australian dollar, deregulating the financial services sector, decentralization of the labor market, and implementation of a national competition policy. These sweeping changes have opened the door for global commerce and have been beneficial for Australia in many ways. For one, the labor market is now characterized by greater flexibility which supports..."

Tags:australia economics, australia finance, australia gl

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This paper analyzes the conditions under which Britain and Australia joined forces during World War I against Germany. First, the paper describes how Germany posed an imperative threat to Britain's existence. Then, it discusses how this declaration aligned Britain and Australia as an imperial Dominion of Britain as allies in the war against Germany. Finally, it shows the outpouring of public support and imperial allegiance that was observed as citizens began celebrating and rallying in the streets. The paper concludes by citing how Britain was Australia's major trading partner, thus the alliance was a natural offshoot of this long-standing relationship.

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" On August 4, 1914, Britain determined that Germany posed an imperative threat to Britain's existence. This declaration aligned Britain and Australia as an imperial Dominion of Britain as allies in the war against Germany. Immediately an outpouring of public support and imperial allegiance was observed as citizens began celebrating and rallying in the streets. Britain and Australia's alliance did not occur by happenstance. Britain was Australia's major trading partner and primary provider of security against pacific aggression and the source of cultural identity..."

Tags:ww ii, germany, australia

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This paper discusses components involved in an American firm opening a restaurant in Australia. It additionally describes Australia as a modern, diversified economy. Various barriers to market entry are presented. Australian government policy on foreign direct investment and business regulations are also described.

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"The New Hampshire Business Review comments that Australia is a dynamic advanced economy wholly integrated into world trade. The article adds that Australia has a modern and diversified economy along with high gross domestic product per capita supporting a broad industrial base. The language and to a large extent the cultural environment and business practices are similar to those in the United States. In addition customer expectations concerning price quality and service for industrial and consumer goods are similar to those in the U S..."

Tags:Business, foreign, trade deal, negotiation, labor problems, short work week, Australia

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The paper discusses how in 2003, Australia adopted the standards of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) under the impetus of the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB), following a 2002 statement by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The paper explains that after this, Australian accounting standards will be equivalent to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and will be legally binding. The paper discusses how the adoption of these standards brings Australia into line with other nations and serves to smooth certain operations and improve the viability of certain financial instruments.

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"In 2003, Australia adopted the standards of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) under the impetus of the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB), following a 2002 statement by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). After this, Australian accounting standards will be equivalent to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) and will be legally binding. The adoption of these standards brings Australia into line with other nations and serves to smooth certain operations and improve the viability of certain financial instruments. The move has been hailed by some and criticized by others, but the adoption of international standards is likely inevitable in an increasingly globalized environment..."

Tags:australia, accounting, standards

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The paper outlines the issues of the greenhouse effect in Australia. The paper gives group and individual viewpoints on the subject, listing proposed options that might solve this problem. The paper further examines how Australia relates to the international community on this issue. The writer concludes with a personal opinion as to the best solution to this problem.

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"The Australian Government (2005), in an effort to better battle further environmental damage to its land, either by its own actions or through the actions of others, acknowledges that for the last several years and decades, "the national and international focus has predominantly been on strategies to reduce greenhouse emissions," and that despite its own readiness to fix the environment, there has been on the part of others "an unwillingness to devote serious attention to adaptation strategies." The problems which the Australian Government (2005) has identified and begun to battle have resulted in such environmental and weather effects as "an increase in annual national average temperatures..., more heatwaves and fewer frosts..., more frequent El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events..., reductions in average rainfall and run-off..., more severe wind speeds in cyclones..., an increase in severe weather events..., and a change in ocean currents.""

Tags:australia, greenhouse, environment

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This paper explores regional development in Canada and Australia. It summarizes some of the main characteristics of regional development policy in Australia and in Canada and provides an example from each which highlights a major difference.

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"Canada and Australia have many things in common making the differences between these two countries even more striking. For example both nations are large and resource rich. Both nations have relatively small ..."

Tags:canada, australia, regional development policies, government intervention, wealth redistribution, global economy, competitiveness

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The writer of this paper defines terra nullius as a legal acquisition of land and delves into its significant impact on Australia. It is under this particular definition of legal land acquisition that Britain claimed ownership of Australia. This paper discusses in historic detail how terra nullius affected many aspects of Australian society both in negative and positive ways.

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"What needs to be realized is that this original land claim was based on a violation of international law. The land claimed by the British would not fall under the concept of terra nullius because aboriginal tribes were in possession of the land. The land did not "belong to no one" and there were ownership claims to the territory albeit based on heritage rather than British law. The natives of the land were pushed off of ancestral lands at the cost of lives and lifestyle. Therefore, British colonization and later Australian sovereign rule is based entirely upon false claims and violations of recognized international law."

Tags:aborigine, uk, britain, australia, land, law, continent, population, society, history

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The purpose of this paper is to inform readers about McDonald's in Australia's international history, product line and marketing environment. This paper takes an in-depth look at several aspects of this company, including its competition, environmental factors, the variance of products between the United States and Australia, pricing, and promotional materials and tactics.

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"The first McDonalds franchise was opened in Des Plains, Illinois in 1954 by a man named Ray Kroc. Ray was familiar with the McDonald brother's operation in California. He liked the simplicity of their menu, which included burgers, fries, soft drinks, and milkshakes. At the time, the McDonald's brothers were not planning on expanding their business. Ray Kroc saw the great potential of this type of restaurant and propositioned the two brothers. He wanted their permission to open a similar operation and agreed to pay them .05% of revenues. They accepted his offer and McDonald's stores began to take off! By 1960, Kroc had already opened 200 McDonald's restaurants throughout the United States by franchising out the McDonald's name to local entrepreneurs. In 1961, Kroc bought the McDonald brothers out for 3 million dollars, and by 1965, the company was public and now named McDonald's Corporation. Today, McDonald's has restaurants on 6 continents and in 120 countries. The total amounts to over 20,000 restaurants and serves about 28 million people daily. (http://www.mcdonalds.com.au/home/)"

Tags:analysis, australia, business, company, environmental, fast, food, foreign, marketing, mcdonalds, pricing, product, promotion, strategy

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This paper examines the systems of management and authority practiced in Australia with regard to organic farming. In order to be considered a registered organic farmer, strict rules need to be followed. This paper discusses these regulations and interviews individual farmers about their reactions and attitudes.

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"The attitudes that prevail in organic farming in Australia are not surprising if we look to other work on broad dimensions of Australian culture, dimensions that we should certainly expect to see reflected in management style. One such index to cultural dimensions that is widely used is Hofstede's dimensions. Hofstede created a quantitative method for measuring aspects of culture that extend widely across different arenas such as a value for individualism as opposed to collectivism and "masculine" as opposed to "feminine" traits."

Tags:farmer, farm, farming, organic, australia, management, style

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This paper presents a general analysis of the impact tourism development has on regional areas, both positive and negative. It uses regional Australia as an example to analyze the situation in more detail. It explains positive economic developments but occasional negative social effects.

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"In recent decades, regional Australia has unquestionably been suffering from a downturn in both population and facilities (Hall, 1998, p 272). Whilst the reasons for this are many and varied, they are mostly outside the scope of this essay and thus will not be discussed here. However, it is the resultant state of this situation which highlights the benefits of tourism development to regional Australia. An increase in the urbanization of Western society, Australia included, is responsible for the shrinkage of the agrarian society and consequent downturn in the fortunes of regional areas (Sharpley, 1999, p 285). Thus tourism development in regional Australia stimulates regional development as it promotes economic growth and employment generation. However, whilst this is the case, there are also factors that are preventing the occurrence of the tourism development of regional Australia. I will firstly discuss the benefits of regional tourism development in greater detail before proceeding with the discussion of the preventative factors."

Tags:australia, development, regional, society, tourism, urbanisation, western, urbinization