Australia has a widespread multi-cultural population. Melbourne, for example has a Greek community second only to Athens in number! The Australian way reveals a stable, secure, relatively wealthy community with a general attitude of "she'll be right".The Australian Labour Party was in power from 1983 to 1996 and was led by Paul Keating untill they lost the last Federal election in 1996. The other major political party, the Liberal Party is led by Mr John Howard, who are now in power.
Famous sayings of the two leaders:
Paul Keating (in the 1980s): "Australia is in danger of becoming a banana republic."
(About John Hewson, the then leader of the Liberal Party, stated during answer time in Parliament) "There he sits like a Tony Barlow doll all dressed up but with no place to go!"
John Howard (recently): "After 5 minutes of economic sunlight the Prime Minister talks about slowing down the economy."
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The The Parliament of the Commonwealth of AustraliaYou must visit the electronic Hansard (official record of what the politicians said in Parliament) and do a search on words like "dirty" or "contempt" under the 1995 House of Representatives Hansard..
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Return to the main selection options. The Armidale Politics PageIn order to make political and constitutional research available to anyone via the Web, Graham Maddox and Tod Moore of the UNE Politics Department have created a regularly updated Australian politics site. This is intended to be useful to students studying Australian Civics, to those who wish to pursue the study of politics at university level, and to the casual websurfer as well.
Return to the main selection options. LaborNetThe Labor Council of New South Wales is one of the oldest, most important and most influential union bodies in Australia ... The date of founding of the New South Wales body, originally the Trades and Labor Council of Sydney, in 1871, actually makes it one of the oldest peak union councils in the world; the English trades councils only date from 1860 when the London body was formed, and the English Trade Union Congress only began in 1868.
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Political Science in AustraliaInformation provided by the Department of Political Science at the Faculty of Arts, Australian National University.
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