Oceania

=OCEANIA= Curious? Check this

=**GLOBALIZATION**= Web [|definition] Globalization benefits the Oceania area; especially Australia. Australia has benefited from globalization because it has since been able to export more crops such as wool, wheat, and minerals. The economy has become competitive and thus the standard of living of the people rose.
 * Pros **
 * countries are becoming equally powerful
 * increased free trade and communication
 * lowers poverty
 * promotes competition and leads to better manufacturing facilities
 * creates more peace
 * Cons **
 * counties are losing resources because the jobs are being shipped overseas.
 * corporate companies can potentially take over the world because there are many of them in every part of the world.
 * westernizing native cultures.
 * free trade is not fair trade and exploitation increases
 * some standards of living are dropping

= MIGRATION and COLONIZATION =

__Definitions__

 * [|Migration]
 * [|Colonization]

[[image:map_of_australia.jpg]]
= __Australia__ = The majority of the population is of foreign born decent and living in the western portion of Australia.
 * 74.5% of Lebanese-born,
 * 63.1% of Iraqi-born,
 * 63.0% of South Korean-born,
 * 59.4% of Fijian-born
 * 59.4% of Chinese-born

__Migration__

 * [|Australia]

= =

**Whats in the news?**
[|Indonesia]

Politics International Law and Organizations

__Systems of Government__
Australia: [|Click] Indonesia: [|Here]

__Organizations__
Australia is a member of the [|Commonwealth] of Nations.



Environmental
Australia has the largest per person greenhouse gases emissions footprint. Here's an interesting quote from interesting link number 3: ""If the rest of the world led the kind of lifestyles we do here in Australia, we would require three and a half planets to provide the resources we use and to absorb the waste we create." Australians Currently almost every aspect of Australia's environmental stability is being affected. They have water shortages, droughts, emissions, pollutions. Everything!

http://www.climatechange.gov.au/climate-change/impacts/water-resources.aspx

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/ecologicalfootprint/ausFootprint/default.asp

http://wwf.org.au/news/australians-have-one-of-biggest-footprints-in-the-world-wwf/

Week 4: Science and Technology http://newstrust.net/stories/934061/toolbar?go=edit_thanks This Article is from a New Zealand online newspaper and is about how some scientist believe that humans are the cause of Global Warming. For new Zealand finding a reason for global warming is probably a big deal because as they are an island they are probably sinking. Week 5: Economy http://newstrust.net/stories/982316/toolbar?ref=mp This article is about how in New Zealand a group of business people plan to help out NZs access to the rest of the world digitally with an undersea cable. Apparently this cable and the internet it will help connect NZ to rest of the world, will help to dramatically increase NZs economy for businesses and the like. Week 6: Trade http://newstrust.net/stories/1037509/toolbar?ref=mp This article is about how China is upset over a trial taking place because an Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd. is charged with espionage. China and Australia are trading partners and this company has apparently been taking advantage of that.

[] In this article the main topic is Obama who was suppose to be meeting with Australia prime minster to discuss trade ties between the United States and Australia. However this was canceled due to the issued with the health care in the United States.

TThis article is about how in Fiji an outbreak of Typhoid is taking over their people. So far 99 people have contracted the disease. Aparently Fiji has had problems with Typhoid inthe past because they are bad at organizing and the place is not that well health wise. Week 8: Terrorism and Security http://newstrust.net/stories/1273698/toolbar?ref=mp

This article is about how in Fiji they want to add more security against the threat of terrorism. Fiji probably has more of a cause to protect itself from the inside then from outside threats but they want to protect against both.

Also, relating to security and terrorism in Oceania, a woman from Indonesia was charged with harboring one of Southeast Asia's most dangerous terrorists. She was pregnant during the time of her arrest. More can be found in the article linked here.

[| http://newstrust.net/stories/1278245/toolbar?ref=mp]
In 2000, the Jakarta Stock Exchange was bombed, and then there were 4 more attacks. Terrorism was a prevalent issue in the early 2000's, but as counter-terrorism units captured and killed many leaders, terrorism became more insignificant.
 * Security and Terrorism in Indonesia-**

Terrorism and Security aren't big issues in other countries in Oceania, because they are mostly smaller nations that aren't near the Middle East, where most terrorism seems to spawn from today.

Week 9: Education __Papua New Guinea__
 * A little less then 50% of the population is able to read by the age of 15 [|Source]
 * Papua New Guinea spends only 2.3% of their GDP on education [|Source]
 * Only 21.1% of the population moves on to secondary education
 * The average educational life span is 6.1 years
 * The average education years of adults is 2.9 years

If you want more information, here is a few links to reference along with the sources above

encyclopedia of the nations commonwealth of nations

__Australia__

According to [] education is pretty good in Australia. 99% of the total population is literate. The expected number of years in a school on average is 16 for both sexes. The problem with the populous of the student body of the country is interesting enough though. 34% of students dislike school, and 60% find that school is boring. The country only spends 4.6% of its funding on education, witch is not that much. Statistically it seems that Australia has a fairly decent educational system set up and is self standing. __Micronesia__

So, things are alright for Micronesia as far as [|education] goes. There was a bit of a rocky start, what with not being able to afford many schools, and only sending people that received a federal scholarship to college, but then America came into the picture and threw some money at the problem. It also opened up its borders so that students from Micronesia could go to American universities. Couple decades later, education still isn't great, [|statistics] are a bit all over the place, but if someone really wants to get that edumacations, they can get it.



Week 10: Development

__Australia__ Micronesia:
 * Began to develop a new economical banking system
 * In there more recent years, Australia has been setting up programs for aiding others in third world countries
 * They are also hoping to develop their government farther with the ECP (Enhanced Cooperation Program)
 * The ministry has a review of all of their development on the government aid site. They keep track of most of the development in the Pacific Ocean Area, link found here: []

Micronesia's development bank released a report of its activities for stockholders and the public. It is evident from the chart of their investments that a large part of the bank's resources are going to developing their tourism business. Real estate and retail are the next two large sectors of development, which is surprising for a largely undeveloped nation to go for such sectors for investment.

__**Gender**__ The issues with gender have happened and still having all around. I was looking around about gender issues in different countries and something interesting about this issues came up. The gender issues is having problem mostly a lot around countries that are poor and countries that believe on religion a lot, all the rich country's like New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii (USA) doesn't really have that much issues with this but poor countries like Fiji, Easter Inland, Indonesia, Niue, and a lots more have problems with gender. Now when there issues with gender 98% of the time the females get problems with it, mostly because this is what need happening since begging of human kind.

http://www.ausaid.gov.au/keyaid/gender.cfm - Australian government website (this is specifically on gender equality).

http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/gender-pay-gap-shows-no-sign-of-abating/story-e6frfmd9-1225838010096 This article says otherwise. Women seemed to be underpaid 17% less than men in some recent news (as of March 2010).

Women's Rights:

In the country of tonga seven men decided to stand up for women's rights in their country and all of oceania. It came to the that they needed to help women who's rights weren't be respected. It came to them because of the way the country dealt with rape and assault cases.

http://globalfundforwomen.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/taking-on-the-challenge/