...the beautiful city of Perth found in Western Australia. Perth is the Capital and largest city in Western Australia. The city has an estimated population of 1, 7000,000 people with the average age being 34. The Metropolitan area in Perth is located south West of Western Australia between the Indian Ocean and low costal escarpment. Perth‘s population is in eighth place for the world’s most livable Cities (The Economist’s 20011.) I ‘am very much looking forward to the hot weather and we will have to pay attention to the heat advisory often. There are many attractions and restraints in store for us once we land. The attractions we have chosen were based on our love for animals, knowledge and research. My husband and I thought about the many different ways to Travel to Perth from Nashville TN. The most reasonable way we came up with was by Plane because we would be crossing over the Pacific Ocean. I tend to become sea sick so the option of traveling by boat was out of the question for me. There is an adventures option which would be to drive across country kayak across the Pacific Ocean and then take a ferry or continue to Kayak into Perth. I’ am not looking to venture to travel for my own leisure. My husband and I decided to travel by plane costing us $2,252.00 and we would be on the plane for an average of 29 hours and 15 minutes. I am sure driving across country and Kayaking would take much longer. On our flight we will have two stops before landing in Perth Australia, I am looking...
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...cultural and economic phenomenon which entails the movement of people to countries or places outside their usual environment for personal or business/professional purposes. These people are called visitors (which may be either tourists or excursionists; residents or non-residents) and tourism has to do with their activities, some of which imply tourism expenditure. The concept of hospitality underpins much of what the tourist experiences when travelling, namely the consumption of food, drink and accommodation away from the home environment (Page & Connell, 2006). It is a broad service industry. It includes lodging, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line and the other factors of tourism industry. The competition and usage rate is an important variable for this sector. A Review of Tourism and Hospitality Product: Barrack Square Barrack Square is situated right on the Swan River. You can find restaurants, shops, Swan Bells and the Barrack street. There is also jetty to catch a ferry. There are 6 jetties (Greater Perth Street Directory, 2011). It is quite a green place with many trees, and flowers instead of being a busy area. The Swan River was important to the economy of the colony and had strong impact over the patterns of settlement .When the Swan River Colony got settled in 1829. Shipping was able to travel up river from Fremantle, the main landing site, to Perth...
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...Australians. "I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me!" Dorothea Mackellar [ (Baskerville, 2009) ] You could easily spend three to four weeks discovering all of Australia. However if time were limited, then a short weeklong “walkabout” to the area of your choice would do. Australia is divided into six states each with a different landscape and cultural difference: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, and Western Australia. AUSTRALIA Prepare for your Australian trip, by learning about the currency; how to place a phone call; and what to do if a medical or safety emergency happens. Approximately, 85 percent of the people of Australia live in the southeastern quarter of the country, especially in large cities along the coast. The vast interior of Australia is too dry to support a large population, and few people live there. The eastern Highlands, sometimes called the Great Dividing Range because their slopes divide the flow of the rivers in the region. Australia lies between the Indian and South Pacific oceans. Australia is often referred to as being “down under” because it lies entirely within the Southern Hemisphere. (Scott Fetzer Company, 1987) FACTS ABOUT AUSTRALIA * Currency is Australian Dollars (AUD) and currency exchange...
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...10 Retail trading hours regulation Key points Restrictions on shop trading hours have varied objectives, including the opportunity for some small businesses to trade without competition from larger retailers and to reduce the need for retail employees to work outside ‘traditional’ working hours. For consumers, restrictions on trading hours impinge on consumer choice regarding when (and where) to shop, causing inconvenience and congestion costs. For retailers, there are efficiency costs and administration costs in complying with state trading regimes. But the largest costs are reserved for those retailers who are prevented from trading to the extent they would like: they forego trade to other retailers and also to other avenues of discretionary consumer spending. Changes in social patterns have contributed to decisions by state and territory governments to liberalise trading hours regimes over time. But for all states, some trading restrictions still remain and they continue to discriminate between retailers on the basis of products sold, size and location. Beyond the deregulated ACT and Northern Territory, restrictions on trading hours apply with varying levels of intensity. Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland are the most restrictive states. Some of the regulated states have also established geographic shopping districts or regional trading precincts which have created significant ‘boundary’ anomalies that fundamentally distort retail markets. Onerous and...
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...1 Home Healthcare The business is all about providing non-medical aged care to the elderly, so that they can hopefully stay in the comfort of their own home, rather than have to move to an aged care facility. Our services will be kept pretty simple, but will be tailored individually to each customer. The structure of the business will be pretty simple to start with, I’ll be the main boss overseeing everything, and doing a bit of work myself, with a couple of employees, and that will increase as the business grows. The business will be innovative in the way that it connects with other groups and businesses. We will also be the first private South Australian company that receives Health and Community Care funding from the government. Currently, only private businesses in Perth and Victoria are receiving this funding. 2 As I said before the business will focus on helping the elderly in everyday activities. Our services will include things like • Support services such as gardening, lawn mowing, cooking, cleaning, transport, food shopping, phone up service • Mental/physical stimulation sessions • and we can fit out the house out with equipment needed in order for person to stay at home This will all be individually tailored to the customer and what they want or need. As you can see on the screen the age profile of the Australian population is set to become a lot older. There is going to be need for a lot more aged care in our country. This generation have...
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...[pic]Top of Form Aboriginal Australia [pic] Find out how you can connect with the world’s oldest living culture. Discover it the same way Aboriginal Australians have passed it down for at least 50,000 years - through art, dance, myths, music and the land itself. See Aboriginal art and contemporary dance in the cities. Or head to the outback and listen to Dreamtime myths of creation by the campfire. Let Aboriginal Australians help you understand this ancient land and its spirituality and wonder. Six special places you can connect to Aboriginal Australia [pic] Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory Visit Uluru and you’ll see why the rock and surrounding land have such huge spiritual significance for the Anangu Aboriginal people. According to their creation myths, ancestral spirits formed Uluru, which lies in Australia's red centre like an enormous, moody heart. Aboriginal guides will share these ancient tales as you walk around the rock’s base. Just 32 kilometres away is another sacred site - Kata Tjuta. You’ll be awestruck by these steep, rounded, russet domes over 3,500 hectares. [pic] Kimberley, Western Australia Featuring vast horizons and ancient gorges, the Kimberley region is one of the world’s last great wilderness areas. See Wandjina figures painted in caves and the mysterious Gwion Gwion paintings. Ride a camel on Broome’s breathtaking Cable Beach and 4WD the red-dirt road along the Dampier Peninsula. Learn the legend of the orange and black beehive...
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...the tourism industry in favor of previous descriptions. The term ‘backpacker’ is extensively used by tourism market in Australia and New Zealand. In recent years, this type of terminology has begun to be used globally. (Hannam & Ateljevic 2009) A backpacker can be defined as “a traveler aged 15 years or above who spent at least one night in night in either backpacker or hostel accommodation during travel in Australia”. (Tourism Victoria 2009) From an economic and management perspective, backpacker tourism has the potential to develop into another important market niche. (Hannam & Ateljevic 2009) Backpacker tourism is a major growth market in Australia, which is stimulated by the desire for new experiences and learning about other places and cultures. As a result, backpackers tend to have more...
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...CURRICULUM VITAE Graeme Anthony CROOK June 2013 PERSONAL DETAILS NAME CROOK Graeme Anthony PRIVATE 12 Wood Cres, One Tree Hill ADDRESS South Australia, 5114 TELEPHONE Home (08) 8280 7670 Mobile 0417 805 422 EMAIL gcrook@internode.on.net DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1955 BIRTH PLACE Hampton Court, Middlesex, England Australian Resident since August 1964 MARITAL STATUS Married with two children, aged 24 & 18 EMPLOYMENT RECORD * July 2011 – present Research Manager – CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork (Pork CRC) * Manage a Portfolio of Research Projects in the Pig Industry to be valued at $138m over the eight year period - 2011-2019 * Manage the transition of 25 projects from previous CRC (2005-2011) * Develop and implement a Project evaluation process * Manage the Project evaluation and approval process for the four Research programs * Conduct an annual strategic review and Economic Impact assessment of portfolio * Develop, implement and manage a Web-based Research Project Portfolio Management system * Manage a project involving research infrastructure with eight organisations nationally * Manage a national benchmarking project * Develop and manage the Corporate website – www.porkcrc.com.au December 2007 – June 2011 ...
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...Lecture 2 Demand & Supply a market is a ‘place’ (an institution or arrangement) where buyers and sellers come together (interact) to buy and sell (exchange) G/S’s and resources, … the product market is the market where G/S’s are traded the factor market is the market for resources (land, labour, capital) in the free market system, the forces of demand & supply determine: the Q of each G/S produced and sold the P at which each G/S is sold so the price mechanism involves producers changing supply in reaction to consumer demand changes in the free market, there are not many government restrictions on the operation of the markets eg: war in the Middle East price of petrol increases long hot summer price of ice-cream increases cold or frosty weather price of oranges increases Demand Demand or the Demand curve: a curve or graph showing the inverse relationship (negative slope) between the price of a G/S and the quantity demanded of that G/S (per time period), ceteris paribus. The graph can be drawn from a table of data. Quantity demanded (Qd ): the amount of a G/S that buyers (consumers) are willing and able to buy at each possible price see figures 3.1, 3.2 individual demand: the demand by a single consumer of a G/S market demand: the demand by all the consumers of a G/S market demand curve: is the sum of all the individual demand curves for a G/S see figure 3.3 Draw a graph of your own and put some data on it. Give the graph a title (say what the product is) and put all the...
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...organisation of kin groups exists within the Nyungar moiety. For example, Nyungar scholar Leonard Collard defines Nyungar culture as being matrilineal, which means all identity is inherited from the maternal bloodline, not the paternal. Hence, Collard can be immediately identified as a descendant from the “Perth type” Nyungar classification because the remaining three groups (“Bibelmen”, “Nyakinyaki” and “Wudjari” types) are patrilineal moieties. Moort can be defined as the “set of family relations that bind the [a particular group of] people together and that lend each individual a place within the community”. Today, families are initially identified from their matrilineal surname. Reference is also made to place since a particular family is identified in relation to an area. As Nyungar ethnographer Sandy Toussaint notes: “Everyone has a place in the Nyungar network, which is generated by knowing one’s relationship to others… Nyungars retain knowledge about kin which is based on particular families being socially and historically tied into specific knowledge.” Thus, a Nyungar person wishing to identify himself simply needs to provide his mother’s name and place of birth in order for the interlocutor to identify him. A typical introduction may be as follows: “My father was Will Nannup, a Nyungar man who belonged to the Balardong Yued People, and he was also connected to the Bibbulmen… my mum was Alice Bassett and she was from the Pilbara.” Of special interest is...
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...opinions on how the tragedies are formed. I will begin my comparison of the female heroines that I will be discussing, with Giselle. Figure 1'Giselle and Count Albrecht' The Russian Ballet Giselle is a poor peasant’s daughter who falls in love with Count Albrecht. Count Albrecht’s character plays the main part in the protagonist Giselle’s downfall during the ballet, as he breaks her heart when she learns that he is betrothed to another higher socially standing figure. The fact that Count Albrecht has ultimately deceived and abandoned Giselle, raises questions of morality and courtship between the classes and also fair play in love and romance. If it had not been for Count Albrecht’s deceit would Giselle have fallen for him in the first place? Given the fact that he lied to her regarding his intentions and...
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...Assignment Two: Crown (Casino Operations) Issue One: The chosen organisation is Crown, with our team’s focus specifically on casino operations in the High End and Mass Market segments to allow a more detailed analysis of the marketing mix and future direction of the brand. Crown has a strong value proposition, highlighted as the Asia Pacific leader in integrated gaming, entertainment and resort facilities, with gaming operations in a broad and highly lucrative market segment both within Australia and overseas. In Australia alone, over 70% of age appropriate citizens participate in some form of gambling activity in a market worth over $20 billion annually (Australian Productivity Commission Report on Gambling – 2010). According to the same APC report, casino gaming now makes up over 20% of the total gambling market and the use of poker machines in both casino and club environments has increased from 29% to 55% of spend in the last 20 years. Whilst a strong customer centric approach is essential for Crown to secure market share and build long term, loyalty based relationships with customers, the business also represents an example of both product and market orientation in its approach. The product orientation is indicated through Crown’s continuous development of table games and customer service programs, with the market orientation indicated through Crown’s detailed understanding of customer needs across its target markets (VIP, High End & Mass Market) and its delivery...
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...Shortfall of skilled submariners In our case, there is a shortfall of skilled submariners. We could analyze the problem in different levels. External factors: 1. Cost-cutting strategy in Australian Defense Force between 1990(Nineteen-ninety) and 2001, personnel numbers were cut from 95,000 to 45,000 2. Dangerous Nature job of submarine According to News Ltd newspapers reported, February 12, 2003 There was an accident happened on HMAS Dechaineux when 55 sailors were 20 seconds from sinking to the bottom of the ocean two years ago when the submarine was flooded off the coast of Perth. It began when water flooded into the submarine's lower engine room after a seawater hose failed as the Dechaineux was at its deepest diving depth. Dechaineux crew members managed to stop the flood and rescue Seaman Geordie Bunting from the engine room. Internal factors: - Inefficient submariners, three of the six 45-crew submariners are non-operational. - High requirements: Include: 1. High standard of physical fitness (as table show) most of them are not easy to achieve. 2. Technical skills and an unique mental resourcefulness: sailors in both technical skills and an unique mental resourcefulness that enable them to endure being submerged for months at a time in close quarters. 3. Personel charateristics: submariners must be introverted and extroverted, meaning they must be able to build a close-knit camaraderie with fellow crew members, as well as being able to cope mentally with...
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...It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. Reliable sources indicate that the Cosa Nostra laid out no more than six thousand dollars last year for personalized stationery, and even less for staples. Futhermore, they have one secretary who does all the typing, and only three small rooms for headquarters, which they share with the Fred Persky Dance Studio. Last year, organized crime was directly responsible for more than one hundred murders, and mafiosi participated indirectly in several hundred more, either by lending the killers carfare or by holding their coats. Other illicit activities engaged in by Cosa Nostra members included gambling, narcotics, prostitution, hijacking, loansharking, and the transportation of a large whitefish across the state line for immoral purposes. The tentacles of this corrupt empire even reach into the government itself. Only a few months ago, two gang lords under federal indictment spent the night at the White House, and the President slept on the sofa. HISTORY OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES In 1921, Thomas (The Butcher) Covello and Ciro (The Tailor) Santucci attempted to organize disparate ethnic groups of the underworld and thus take over Chicago. This was foiled when Albert (The Logical Positivist) Corillo assassinated Kid Lipsky by locking him in a closet and...
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...Ryan G. Ritchie December 13, 2015 Leadership Biography Review Book Reviewed: McCasland, D. (1993). Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Discovery House. Introduction and Thesis In the shadow of the Nile River, at the Cairo War Cemetery, surrounded by more than 2,000 British soldiers from World Wars I and II, there is a headstone that reads, “REVREND OSWALD CHAMBERS - BELIEVER IN JESUS CHRIST.” Nothing greater or truer could be said of any individual that has graced this earth. Although his death was tragic and unexpected, God used that event to unleash the power of his life’s work. God does what He pleases, and His plans are not always known to us. Many questioned why God chose to take a devoted man like Oswald Chambers from this earth at such a young age. Not among these was his wife, Gertrude “Biddy” Chambers. In the wake of his passing, she continually prayed the words of Psalm 142:7, “Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise Thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for Thou shalt deal bountifully with me.” She sent a cable to loved ones that simply read, “Oswald in His presence,” and then quickly went back to the work of war relief in Cairo. History will remember Oswald Chambers through the words of the best-selling daily devotional ever written, “My Upmost for His Highest.” This paper will explore what his upmost looked like; the critical incidents of his life and how God used his wife, Biddy Chambers, to bring his ministry...
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