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Background: Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name of Great Britain. Six colonies were created in the late 18th and 19th centuries; they federated and became the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The new country took advantage of its natural resources to rapidly develop its agricultural and manufacturing industries and to make a major contribution to the British effort in World Wars I and II. In recent decades, Australia has transformed itself into an internationally competitive, advanced market economy. It boasted one of the OECD's fastest growing economies during the 1990's, a performance due in large part to economic reforms adopted in the 1980's. Long-term concerns include pollution, particularly depletion of the ozone layer, and management and conservation of coastal areas, especially the Great Barrier Reef.




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My PhD journey I use the metaphor of an expedition to describe my PhD journey in a preface of my research proposal and thought I share it with you. Let me know if you want to join me on this journey! My interest in this study is linked to the aim of achieving a PhD degree. These two interests are interlinked and metaphorically represent a journey or expedition into an unknown land. I use this metaphor to describe how I see and will approach my study. The goal of my expedition is to find a place (my theory), however, I do [View Full Entry]

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Lions, Tigers, Koalas oh my! All of the wildlife that exists in Australia is also contained in the Taronga Zoo. We are not really site-seers for zoos, but it was really impressive. You can take a quick ferry boat ride from Cirqular Quay to the Taronga Zoo. After being dropped off you just see trees and tons of a lot of green vegetation. We took the cable car to the top of the mountain after checking in to be able to walk down the hill and see the animals. The first animals you come accross (or at least the ones we [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 4th 2009 | 20 Views | [diary=450278]

Look I can hold on with just my nails...
Check out my tongue!
Tall animals

Dear all welcome to our new additions to the blog and love to our existing avid readers(we hope!) We left you last heading into perth for 2 weeks, we need to tell you, don't always trust navman as the following story shows. We left GinGin just 50 odd kms north of perth to head in early monday morning so we could set up at the caravan park and take our car for service. So we drove on the highway and suddenly navman tells us to turn right. We thought wrong so we ignored, then it told us 10 kms down the [View Full Entry]

fartravellers - Gina McPherson | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 26th 2009 | 54 Views | [diary=448252]

dinner in Kalbarri
gina youve changed
Happy birthday Claudia!

Travling by plane..........very very tiring!!!! We left portlaoise at 11.30am on friday and arrived in sydney at 7am on sunday australia time ( about 10pm saturday at home ). We flew from dublin to heathrow first, took a while to get through security there, was kinda weird because since we were going from london to singapore we were going through the security for people going to that general area ( hong kong, thailand etc ) Everyone was either asian and wearing turbans- i didnt fit it - haha. Got on the plane a few hours later for singapore, 12 hour flight [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 26th 2009 | 38 Views | [diary=448296]


By naess
October 26th 2009
indy race Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Surfers Paradise
hele forgje uke blei det ikke mye skole. fordi di holdt på og rigge opp til indy, så hele veien var rett og slett sperret av. ikke at vi tok det så veldig tunkt, vi benyttet tiden til andre fornuftige ting som, male, surfe, bade og litt skole. på tirsadg kom en kamerat av meg og sandra fra sydney, mich. kjempe kar som vi har møtt i bali. i og med at han kom måtte vi en liten tur på casino, denne gangen ville vi prøve og spille litt. noe jeg også gjorde, men uten hell. tror ikke det er helt [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 26th 2009 | 31 Views | [diary=448300]

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24-10-09 Well today we are having an easy day, Den went to get a Battery box & leads to put the 2nd box under the bed. The Gold Coast V8 car races were on & Den had a lovely avo watching the races & I had a nana nap. We had tea & I caught up on my blag & diary, after watching TV we went to bed. 25-10-09 Today we went to get some fresh vegies from the “Veggie Trail” & we could not believe that the marketer’s get their water from a dry looking Gascoyne River (no water in [View Full Entry]

Cobb and Co 4 - Michelle and Dennis Shaw | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 26th 2009 | 24 Views | [diary=448327]

2   24-10-09  See I do have a tan
3   25-10-09    Chinamans Pool Carnarvon
8   25-10-09    River Gums Cafe Carnarvon

After leaving the majestic Grampians we made our way back to the coast, our first port of call being Mount Gambier. After two beautiful sunny days in the Grampians NP, we were not expecting the nice weather to last and we were not disappointed! Driving through hail to get there it continued to rain for pretty much the next week with only a few brief sunny periods. Mount Gambier appears to be famous for its limestone caves, “blue” lakes and the youngest volcanoes in Australia. We camped next to Mount Schank (one of the volcano craters) and took a drive down [View Full Entry]

cruizin in the green machine - Hayley Charlton | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 26th 2009 | 32 Views | [diary=448348]

Richie at Ump sinkhole
Beautiful colour of Limestone coast  ocean
Lobster fleet at Southend

Day 183 - Cape Range National Park A quick birthday shout out is in order today, Happy Birthday Tirion Hallett - grand daughter of Wayne, Darryl's Brother! So does that make little Tirion our great neice?! We don't know, but we do hope you have a really lovely day! Oh my goodness it’s so awesome here, it really makes us feel blessed to be waking up to such fantastic scenery. I keep waking up really early here so head off again for a good walk. The morning sky looks really angry today though and I wonder if there’s a storm brewing. [View Full Entry]

Darryl and Sarah - Wallaby Wanderers | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 31st 2009 | 38 Views | [diary=449572]

Darryl's bird spotting
Under the sea
Just shoaling around

By Sicknote
October 26th 2009
Melbourne Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » CBD
Just back from a weekend in Melbourne and I can confirm that they do have trams, tree lined streets and a dirty great cricket ground. Wasn't sure what to make of it at first: it is a lot different to Sydney (as people never tire of telling you) and the wide boulevards do make it feel a little more European, but it's all a bit more complicated than that. I guess it's true that it's a more stylish place (I fitted in wonderfully, obviously) and the food was good, but there's something above and beyond all that that slowly creeps up [View Full Entry]

Sicknote - Stuart Page | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 29th 2009 | 49 Views | [diary=448467]

Down by the Yarra.
One of the chocolates she did like.
Federation Square.

By Sicknote
October 26th 2009
St Kilda. Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne » St Kilda
As I've said before, I liked St Kilda. Thought the tram ride was going to kill Ange (won't go into the details, but an old boy wouldn't let her sit down even though she was sick because he was saving the seat for his wife who was already happily seated at the front of the tram), and when we got there it was blowing a gale, but in the end it all turn out for the best. For a start, Ben and Jerry's were giving away free ice cream, and secondly the wood fired pizza we had was very tasty. You've [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 29th 2009 | 51 Views | [diary=448471]

And another.
Luna Park.
Ange's bridge.