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Outline the Main Geographical Processes relevant to Coastal Management.
The main geographical processes are both good and bad. One huge problem with coastal management is pollution. Pollution of waste and anything is cuasing the coast to be rather dirty and is causing problems. The waste zone is where all the waste is more likely to occur the coastal hinderland and the inner continental shelf and anything between. The waste ruins the habitats for the fauna and flora of the beach life and it can effect tourism and any other type of publicity.
Sustainable management is using resources in a way that will meet the needs of the present population without endangering the furture generations' needs.
Long shore drift is the movement of sand, also known as deposition. Long shore drift is where the sand and any other material is moved down the coast/ shore.
Erosion is also a problem and that is when the sand underneath beach houses are eroded and then the houses may fall and slide or slide down the shore.

Practice Exam Paper Questions- Question 24

Question 1- Explain Australia's regional and global links with one nation from two of the following areas: aid, defence, migration, trade etc. 
Australia has quite a few regional and global links with other nations; they are based on different following areas. Two of its nations are:
Migration- Australia's links to do with migration are Malaysia and Indonesia. Australia for the past few years have been getting up to 6879 asylum seekers throughout a year. In 2009 there were 61 boats and 2849 people in total for the year. In 2010 there were 134 boats and 6879 asylum seekers in total for the whole year; and then in 2011 there was 28 boats and 1675 asylum seekers in total for the whole year. 
Aid- Australia's links to do with aid are the US and the UK. Australia and the US have a really close relationship together; the US provides Australia with protection in return for Australia to assist in any help required from the US.

Question 2- Examine the future challenges and responses for Australia to EITHER Human Rights OR Reconciliation OR Future population.
Australia faces quite a few challenges in the future; however one of the biggest challenges is that in the future, the population of Australia is going to increase dramatically. The population of Australia is going to be so high because of refugees and illegal immigrants; the population will increase that the offspring of Australian Citizens generation now will not be able to buy any space in the cities because it will all be taken because of the immigrants.

Question 3- Outline Australia's changing regional role and/ or global role in relation to the role of non- government organisations.
Australia's changing regional role and/ or global role in relation to the role of non- government organisations isn't very changing, Australia would have exceptions but they wouldn't completely change their systems. Australia couldn't just change their role but they could however help a little bit, otherwise it would be unfair to Australian citizens.

Defence Set to Give US more Military

1. Shared facilities are expected to include HMAS Stirling naval base in Western Australia, an army base in Townsville as the primary location for operations, the port of Darwin and the Bradshaw Field Training Area in the Northern Territory. However it will mean that the Americans will not just be offered space on a base, they will be there with what Defence calls "full knowledge and concurrence" with full access to intelligence and maintenance facilities.
2. At AUSMIN, Defence Minister Stephen Smith will meet his counterpart, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta. It is not clear whether Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd will attend.
3. The country that the US was reacting to the most is probably China.
4. As US planners looking for ways to move forces around the world more effectively broke the globe down into regions, Australian officials worked closely with them on the Asia-Pacific.
5. Other key areas for discussion at the talks will be cyber security, progress in Afghanistan and the state of the Joint Strike Fighter project. Australia plans to buy up to 100 of the revolutionary multi-role jets to replace the RAAF's F-111 bombers, retired last year, and its F/A-18 Hornets.
6. It does mean that Australia is thinking ahead in life and is thinking about the future and getting prepared just encase there is any reasons that there would be war.

GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM! REFLECTION

My initial reaction to the show 'Go Back to Where You Came From' was actually a great idea, however I didn't really like the sound of the show, as it sounds quite racist. I must say, I am not racist to immigrants but I must agree with these people, they are leaving their country and coming to Australia, but they are making Australia's population bigger and there will soon be no more space for people who have children because all of the available space will have been taken up, and even all the parks etc. will have been taken up because of the immigrants. I do understand that they are getting away from the horror's and the problems that are occurring in their country.

Only 3% of immigrants are refugees however it is increasing, but there are 93% of persons come only for a holiday or to live but they pay, and they come via plane and pay all the visas that are involved. 

Such a small number of people make such a big deal because most of the people don't want them here because they all had to pay to live here and the refugees are just arriving without having to pay and are just living in Australia without any fees whilst everyone else has to pay. That is why not mant people like them, and want them to stop from coming over.

Australia doesn't accept to many, they accept a couple a thousand a year, but there are plenty which are sent either back to where they came from or they are sent to Christmas Island or Malaysia. 

I agree with Australia by helping others in other countries but they should help the homeless and the people having problems here in Australia before they allow bringing in a lot of refugees; like helping some people from other countries is fine but not helping their own country before helping a lot of others isn't really the way to go. We should help the other people having problems in other countries but as said we should help our own people as well.

Refugees if accepted get a whole lot of support, way more than actual Australian citizens; the refugees get money, food, housing, etc. whereas the Australian citizens get nothing (no support from the government) especially for the people who need it.

A lot of of the Asian nations have signed the UN Refugees Convention as they are all working together to try and help the countries that are in trouble and that need help (mostly the countries that are killing a lot of people in their countries causing people to refuge to other safe countries meaning Australia. Sometimes Asian nations also get refugees, and so they don't want to have refugees so they are working together to try and defeat the caause of the reufugees leaving their countries.

Refugees in Malaysia have not signed the UN Refugee Convention because they do not like refugees at all, if Malaysia hets any refugees then they send them to jail or detention centres throughout Malaysia and they treat them so badly, because they still have the cane and so they cane the refugees, and they do a lot of horrible things to the refugees. It means that refugees should not go to Malaysia otherwise they will be sent to detention centres or other horrible things.

Trade- ASEAN

Trade- ASEAN Questions

1. The goal of the ASEAN meeting was to embark on annual meetings to improve and harmonize trade and investment policies as the bloc pursues an integrated regional economy by 2015.
2. ERIA is the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia and there plans are to draw up plans to review the scorecard for the 2015 ASEAN Economic Community to help countries identify commitments that will deliver the best results toward integration.
3. The AEC is the ASEAN Economic Community and they intend to help countried identify commitments that will deliver the best results towards intergration.
4. The three key areas of focus are on trade and transport, services, investment facilitation.
5. The group plans to meet at least once a year; that is when they are going to hold the dialogue.
6. They intend to keep possible tools members can use to pursue the effective reforms and also a data bank of all regulatory reforms ASEAN has made.
7. The chairman of the meeting last week was Date Lim Jock Hoi, and his title is Brunei Ministry of Foreign Affairs permanent secretary. The population of Brunei is 400, 000 and the GDP is $US 11.47 billion. This compares to Australia because Brunei is way smaller compared to Australia, with Australia having 22, 000, 000 (population) and having $US 924.84 billion.
8. I think economic integration is where trade is fair between the different states of the country such as between Queensland and NSW. This would allow all tarrifs and taxes which are placed upon trade between the states to be removed and make it easier to trade within the country.
9. I think that it is good that trade goes all around the countries and that we all swap trade and everything; that way we can all get something that's different from the country.
   

Military- China

Questions from the Article

1. What does the authour mean when he says that there is a 'strategic shadow' that looms over everything? How does this relate to the US?                                      There is a China dimension behind US President Barack Obama's decision to pull out of Afghanistan more quickly than his generals want. This relates to the US because the US's economic and national interests are centrally engaged, and the China challenge presents itself more strongly.
2. What does the author propose regarding uranium sales to India?                           The author proposes that China lies behind the likely push by Gillard cabinet ministers at December's Labor Party Conference to end the ban on Australian uranium sales to India. This is about the strategic relationship with India.
3. What mistakes does the author say that Gillard has made in the region?                The mistakes that the Gillard has made in the region are on illegal immigrants coming by boat, her East Timor solution, the premature announcement of the Malaysian people-swap deal, and the abrupt suspension of the live cattle trade with Indonesia, were all appalling mistakes made by Gillard against public service advice.
4. How has China save us from these mistakes? China has saved Australia from these mistakes because Southeast Asians are so disturbed by China's massive militarisation, and its aggressive actions in the South China Sea and East China Sea, that they are cleaving close to the US, and close to Australia as well.
5. What does the quote 'cleaving close to the US and close to us' mean?                   The quote 'cleaving close' means that they are clinging to/ that they are sticking to.
6. What has China forced regarding coordination btw Australia and the US? China lies behind the negotiations by Australian and US defence officials for much greater US military involvement in northern Australia. This will mean much more frequent visits by US warships and aircraft to the north, much more frequent joint exercising with our forces and the pre-positioning of US materiel.
7. Who will be conducting the Australia Defense Force Posture review? What were their former posts in the government?                                                               The Australian Defence Force Posture Review will be conducted by two former heads of the Defence Department, Allan Hawke and Ric Smith.
8. What five areas will they focus on?                                                                    The five areas they will focus on are  the rise of the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean rim as regions of global strategic significance; the growth of military power projection capabilities in the Asia Pacific; the need for disaster relief in the region; and "energy security and security issues associated with expanding offshore resource exploitation in our northwest and northern approaches".
9. What does the author suggest is the most important part of the review? Why?      The author suggests that the important part of the review is  The offshore area from Darwin west to the Pilbara is one of the greatest resource-rich areas anywhere on the planet because it abuts a part of Australia that is all but depopulated and without onshore infrastructure, including military infrastructure.
10. What does having a stronger military presence in the north of Australia do for the future? More or less conflict? Why?                                                                Having a stronger military presence in the north of Australia would be real dynamic driving this move is a need to support the US military presence in the region against the challenge of China's militarisation, and to put our own forces nearer the action should any nastiness take place. There doesn't necessarily mean that there would be more conflict; it would probably be there just for defence should any nastiness take place.
11. How is China leading an arms race in the Asia Pacific?                                       China is getting ready and well prepared; it is far ahead of Australia in terms of organisation for just in case of anything bad. China now deploys the largest fleet of attack submarines in the world. Australia's premier strategic analyst, Ross Babbage, has written of the fact that China has commissioned more than 40 new subs since 1995, and has nearly 500 fourth-generation fighter-bombers now in service. He cites China's first aircraft carrier, a succession of advanced stealth combat aircraft and a range of extremely sophisticated missile systems and huge numbers of missiles.
12. In 2008, what did Rudd predict for military spending in the region?                     Rudd said Australia needed to be prepared for "huge increases in military spending" here in our own region. He predicts a substantial arms build-up over time.
13. How did Brendan Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull get it wrong regarding China and Rudd get it right?                                                                                                The Liberals under Brendan Nelson and Malcolm Turnbull consistently got China wrong. Turnbull, as opposition leader, said of the white paper that it made no sense for Australia to base its long-term strategic policy on the highly contentious proposition that we are on an inevitable collision course with a militarily aggressive China; and Rudd got it right because he had a better relationship and understood the problem more than the other two did.
14. What does Australia seek to do with China?                                                 Australia seeks to become just like China; it wants to catch up with China and their organizations need to be better to do that.

Govt, Malaysia Sign Asylum Swap Deal Video

Video Questions

1. The deal between Australia and Malaysia includes sending 800 Australian refugees and 4000 Malaysian to Malaysia.
2. The rights that they were said to have respect and will be treated with dignity and will be provided with healthcare and education.
3. Malaysia normally treats illegal immigrants really badly, they are not given any rights to work in Malaysia, they are also placed all together in detention centres and in these centres they are caned as well as not being able to be let out into the community.
4. Children are being sent to Malaysia but will be taken care of, as they are the subject of review about their characteristics and their statuses.
5. The five hundred and over immigrants that arrive in Australia after the 7th May will now be processed in Australia rather than being sent from Australia to Malaysia.
6. The refugee advocates worry about the 800 asylum seekers because only 800 asylum seekers will be accepted (so said) but what happens when more come and so it adds up to more than 800; they will probably let them in, so they can't really give an exact number because there will always be more.
7. The goal of the 'swap' program is to deter asylum seekers from undertaking boat journey's to Australia.
8. I don't think it will work because no matter whether they have to face the Malaysian people because the Australian government sent them; where they have to face the poor treatment and the detention centres.