more accurate representation of Australia’s people‚ culture and land. The proposed design for the new flag includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flags‚ Southern Cross‚ Union Jack and a kangaroo which have been incorporated because I believe it represents the modern day Australian Identity and the traditional custodians of our land. Firstly‚ the Aboriginal flag has been included into the new design because it symbolises unity and national identity for the Aboriginal people and giving them
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Location: Crn. Deakin St and Rickard St - Mary St‚ Rhodes Event: Although the Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway was built to specifically commemorate the events of The Kokoda Trail‚ Papua New Guinea (July 1942 - January 1943)‚ the Walkway also commemorates all those who served and died in the Papua-New Guinea campaign of July 1942-January 1943. The Papuan Campaign: Port Moresby and Milne Bay The Japanese entered the war in December of the year 1941 and slowly forced their way towards the Australian
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My mon is a representation of the values and origins of the Morberger family. To the Japanese community‚ mon’s are a symbol of the family’s identity and name and were popularly used by the samurai to distinguish the social class and portray the honour of their family. (Encyclopaedia Japan‚ 2008). When creating my mon‚ I wanted to reflect the Japanese use of nature and symbolism to show the history of my family name and how different cultures came together to form our family. The most notable figure
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Jared Diamond is a biologist whose area of expertise is birds. His studies took him to Papua New Guinea‚ where he utilized his skills to study all of the bird species inhabiting the island. One day‚ a PNG inhabitant‚ Yali‚ came up and asked Diamond a question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo‚ but we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond argues that the answer to Yali’s question wasn’t racial inequality like so many people assume it is. Diamond began his research
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Fiji‚ Papua New Guinea (PNG)‚ Samoa‚ Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The remaining three member States – Kiribati‚ Marshall Islands and Tuvalu‚ are in the process of drafting and/or finalising their legislations. In addition‚ Fiji‚ PNG and Solomon Islands are collaborating national centres for OSH with the ILO International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (CIS). The increasing of international movement of Pacific Islanders under the Recognized Seasonal Employer schemes to New Zealand
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Jollibee Foods Corp.: International Expansion Executive Summary Jollibee was a company originally established by the Tan family in 1975 as a family-owned ice cream parlor in the Philippines‚ but was soon forced to change its market caused by the oil crisis of 1977 - a factor which would have inherently caused the price of ice cream to double. Already established in the food industry and having overcome the initial barriers faced by those entering it‚ the Tan family successfully diversified the
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South Sea Islanders worked for long hours under extremely harsh conditions while being underpaid on the plantations. The change in environment had a physical effect on them as they were introduced to new diseases‚ which generally resulted in death because the insignificant health care and no immunity. The new diet also contributed to the tragedy. An excess of 14 564 Islander labours died between the years of 1868-1906 as stated by the Queensland Government Department of Communities. Another issue they
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Steel in the Fall 2003 based on a recommendation from a friend. Many chapters of the book are truly fascinating‚ but I had criticisms of the book back then and hold even more now. Chief among these is the preponderance of analysis devoted to Papua New Guinea‚ as opposed to‚ say‚ an explanation of the greatly disparate levels of wealth and development among Eurasian nations. I will therefore attempt to confine this review on the "meat and potatoes" of his book: the dramatic Spanish conquest of the
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Jollibee was able to attain a competitive advantage over McDonald ’s by doing two things: (1) Retaining tight control over operations management‚ which allowed it to price below its competitor and (2) Having the flexibility to cater to the tastes of its local consumers. While Tony Kitchner was hired to develop these competitive advantages abroad‚ his international strategy of "planting the flag" and "targeting expats" was executed haphazardly and resulted in losses for the firm
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A Single Lucid Moment Robert Soderstrom‚ Peace Corps Volunteer Country: Papua New Guinea Dates of Service: 1996 As the plane buzzed back over the mountains‚ it was now just us and the villagers of Maimafu. My wife‚ Kerry‚ and I were assigned to this village of 800 people in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. It looked as if we were in for a true Indiana Jones adventure! The mountains were dramatic and thick with rain forest. No roads had ever scarred them. We had loaded
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