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Australia underwent significant amounts of modernisation and urbanisation from the 1950s onwards, and the 1970s saw significant amounts of unrest across the country, leading to a large and developed [[Social Democracy|social democratic]] welfare state in order to placate the masses. It began to be slowly dismantled over the 1980s to the 2010s, which saw Australians also gain access to the internet at the same time as work became insecure and rent soared.
Australia underwent significant amounts of modernisation and urbanisation from the 1950s onwards, and the 1970s saw significant amounts of unrest across the country, leading to a large and developed [[Social Democracy|social democratic]] welfare state in order to placate the masses. It began to be slowly dismantled over the 1980s to the 2010s, which saw Australians also gain access to the internet at the same time as work became insecure and rent soared.


== Libertarian Socialist Organizations ==
== Analysis ==
* [[Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (Australia)|Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation]]
 
* [[Earthworker Cooperative]]
=== Positives ===
* [[Food Not Bombs]]
* Australia is a highly developed country, with the world's 14th-largest economy. It has a high-income economy, with the world's tenth-highest per capita income. It is a regional power and has the world's 13th-highest military expenditure. Immigrants account for 30% of the population, the highest proportion in any country with a population over 10 million. Having the third-highest human development index and the eighth-highest ranked democracy globally, the country ranks highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom, civil liberties, and political rights, with all its major cities faring well in global comparative livability surveys.
* [[Industrial Workers of the World]]
 
* [[Jura Books]]
=== Negatives ===
* [[Melbourne Anarchist Club]]
C''ontent warning: discussion of racism, sexual assault and genocide ahead''
* Australia has issues with sexism, despite it having been reduced massively in the past 60 years. There is still a major wage gap that effects women, and sexual assault. Numerous Australian women have experienced domestic violence in their homes.  In 2018, it was reported that one in two women have experienced sexual
harassment and one in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence. In 2018, it was reported that one in five Australian women have experienced violence by an intimate partner since the age of 15. As a result, intimate partner violence is the largest contributor to ill health, death, and disability for many women. This is larger than any other contributor to ill health for women such as obesity, alcohol, and illicit drugs. However, men are much more likely to be homeless, commit suicide or be arrested by police.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_Australia Gender inequality in Australia]</ref>


== Major Social Struggles ==
== Major Social Struggles ==
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* [[Matagurup Refugee Camp]]
* [[Matagurup Refugee Camp]]
* [[Yakka Munga Blockade (2019)|Yakka Munga Blockade]]
* [[Yakka Munga Blockade (2019)|Yakka Munga Blockade]]


== Libertarian Socialist Organizations ==
* [[Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation (Australia)|Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation]]
* [[Earthworker Cooperative]]
* [[Food Not Bombs]]
* [[Industrial Workers of the World]]
* [[Jura Books]]
* [[Melbourne Anarchist Club]]
== Notable Australian People ==
== Notable Australian People ==
* Celeste Liddle
* Celeste Liddle
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* Wendy Bacon
* Wendy Bacon
* Willem Siebenhaar
* Willem Siebenhaar
[[Category:States]]
 
== References ==
<references />[[Category:States]]
[[Category:Oceania]]
[[Category:Oceania]]
[[Category:Australia]]
[[Category:Australia]]

Revision as of 02:22, 7 July 2020

</image> <image source="map"></image> <label>Type</label> <label>Level</label> <label>Location</label> <label>Inhabitants</label> </infobox>The Commonwealth of Australia is a colonialist, capitalist, liberal state located in Oceania, near the states Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, New Caledonia (French Colonial Possesion) and the Solomon Islands.

History

See Also: Aboriginal Australia, History of Australia and Timeline of Australian Atrocrities

Australia was first discovered around 90,000 years ago by Aboriginal Australians who had come from an unknown region in Southern or Southeast Asia. Aboriginal Australians soon settled the whole continent, living as foragers and domesticating wild dogs (dingoes). Around 4,000 years ago, Aboriginals developed agriculture, fish traps and permanent settlements of around 10,000 people.[1]

Dutch ships made various landings and explored some of Australia throughout the 1600s. (although it is theorised that Portugal, China or an Islamic Caliphate contacted aborigines first). It became a region of the British Empire in 1788 (illegal under Britain's own laws, given the existence of Aboriginals), in order to stop the French Empire from taking it and to make up for land lost in the American Revolution in 1775.

Australia underwent significant amounts of modernisation and urbanisation from the 1950s onwards, and the 1970s saw significant amounts of unrest across the country, leading to a large and developed social democratic welfare state in order to placate the masses. It began to be slowly dismantled over the 1980s to the 2010s, which saw Australians also gain access to the internet at the same time as work became insecure and rent soared.

Analysis

Positives

  • Australia is a highly developed country, with the world's 14th-largest economy. It has a high-income economy, with the world's tenth-highest per capita income. It is a regional power and has the world's 13th-highest military expenditure. Immigrants account for 30% of the population, the highest proportion in any country with a population over 10 million. Having the third-highest human development index and the eighth-highest ranked democracy globally, the country ranks highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom, civil liberties, and political rights, with all its major cities faring well in global comparative livability surveys.

Negatives

Content warning: discussion of racism, sexual assault and genocide ahead

  • Australia has issues with sexism, despite it having been reduced massively in the past 60 years. There is still a major wage gap that effects women, and sexual assault. Numerous Australian women have experienced domestic violence in their homes. In 2018, it was reported that one in two women have experienced sexual

harassment and one in three women have experienced physical or sexual violence. In 2018, it was reported that one in five Australian women have experienced violence by an intimate partner since the age of 15. As a result, intimate partner violence is the largest contributor to ill health, death, and disability for many women. This is larger than any other contributor to ill health for women such as obesity, alcohol, and illicit drugs. However, men are much more likely to be homeless, commit suicide or be arrested by police.[2]

Major Social Struggles

1788-1899

1900-1959

1960-1999

2000-2019


Libertarian Socialist Organizations

Notable Australian People

  • Celeste Liddle
  • Chummy Fleming
  • David Andrade
  • Dave Andrews
  • Geoff Mullen
  • Germaine Greer
  • Harry Hooton
  • Iain McIntyre
  • Jas H. Duke
  • John Arthur Andrews
  • John Englart
  • John Flaus
  • John Kinsella
  • John Zube
  • Joseph Toscano
  • Juanita Nielsen
  • Julie McCrossin
  • Michael Matteson
  • Monty Miller
  • Ned Kelly
  • Peter McGregor
  • Pi O
  • Richard Sylvan
  • Van Badham
  • Wendy Bacon
  • Willem Siebenhaar

References

  1. ↑ Bruce Pascoe (2014) - Dark Emu
  2. ↑ Wikipedia - Gender inequality in Australia
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