Australia

Modernism, Modernisation and Modernity in Australia, 1919 –1939 Lighting the Way: New technologies, new materials, new cities. Modernism transformed life in Australia across five tumultuous decades from 1917 to 1967 , it spans all aspect of Australian culture including art, design, architecture, advertising, film, photography and fashion. The process of modernisation has had a profound…

The Influence of Education & Public Morality in Australia during 1788-1900While Christianity played a crucial part in all aspects of Australian society throughout the pre-federation years 1788 to 1900, it had a significant impact on education and public morality. Th influence of Christianity in education was evident through the establishment of a separate education system…

When white settlement of Australia began in 1788 the continent was already inhabited by Aborigines. Aborigines did not have permanent homes; they lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle constantly moving to where food and resources would be. They did not build shelters or dwellings; nor did they wear clothing and they had tools and weapons made only…

Throughout history to present day, Australian culture has become the product of a distinct blend of established traditions and new influences. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the country’s original inhabitants, created the foundation for the land’s cultural traditions over 40,000 years ago. In addition, the rest of Australia’s people are migrants or descendants…

Aborigines where the first people to live in Australia. The word Aborigine comes from the Latin phrase ab origine, meaning from the beginning. Aborigines have lived in Australia for at least 50,000 years, and evidence for that people have been living there for about 130,000 years ago have been found at lake George near Canberra….

Aboriginal civil rights have been a highly debated topic in Australia for the past century. From the 1920’s to the constitutional referendum in 1967 many events occurred that shaped the advancement of Aboriginal rights. The sheer volume of significant events during this time period are too great to enlighten on all of them so I…

            Promissory or equitable estoppel has been developed by the courts for the purpose of ensuring that a party is faithful to a promise or representation made to another party who relies upon this promise or representation. This intervention by the courts prevents the party relying upon the promise from suffering injustice if the promise…

Introduction A few major salient Environmental facts of Australia are as follows:          With 0.3% of the world’s people Australia produces 1.6% of the world’s CO2 emissions (a greenhouse gas)          There have been high rates of species loss in the last 200 years–five times the global average for…

Native Title and its ramifications for Australian Law The Torrens Title System: A system devised to recognise provable ownership of land by Law. Australia initially adopted the British system using Title of Ownership, deeds of grant and following the doctrine on tenure where the Crown, is the ultimate owner of all lands (Gray et al….

Using the knowledge and experience of project management practitioners from across UK academia and industry, the Association for Project Management (APM) developed a competency framework which defined competence elements needed for effective project management (APM Competence Framework; 2008). The primary benefits of using the APM Competence Framework are that it ensures a common understanding of…