And then, being Australians, everybody has a beer.

Australians served with courage and distinction throughout the war, in every theatre.

3,000 indigenous Australians participating in gatherings or workshops focused on local priorities

The Government supports a large number of welfare services for all Australians.

Australians can choose to have private health insurance to complement their Medicare coverage.

Life expectancy estimates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians born in the period 1996 2001 indicate that life expectancy at birth is around 18 years lower than the average life expectancy for all Australians.

What you learn when you go to Australia is the Australians are very competitive.

There are countless young Australians who feel valued merely because representatives listened to me here.

The child sex tourism laws have extraterritorial operation, following Australians wherever they go in the world.

The Australian Government believes that all Australians must have equal opportunity for access to higher education.

So, according to this, the Australians and the Japanese as well as the Mexicans are very happy.

The Attorney General's Department operates four specialist programmes intended to assist indigenous Australians achieve equity before the law.

Both levels of government work to ensure that a coordinated system of health care is available to all Australians.

We are now experimenting with bongos, pandas, elims, Sumatran tigers, and the Australians bless their hearts are playing with these things.

Australia's child sex tourism offences legislation ensures that Australians engaging in sexual activity with children while overseas may be prosecuted in Australia.

Ensuring that employees working in whole of government service delivery to indigenous Australians have the skills they need to deliver effective outcomes5

I have travelled the length and breadth of my country, chatting with young people and asking them what is important to young Australians.

Australians have about a third less heart disease than we do less deaths from heart attacks, heart failure, less strokes they're generally a healthier bunch.

And of course they said this was because of their fine moral standing, their exercise, because they're Australians and we're weedy pommies, and so on.

Australia's public insurance system, Medicare, covers all Australians through programmes that fund some or all of the cost of hospital care, physician care and pharmaceuticals.

The Committee welcomes the national consultations on eliminating prejudice against Arab and Muslim Australians and wishes to receive more detailed information on the results of such consultations.

A few months ago, two teenagers organized a youth conference in rural Australia to enable other young Australians who live in the outback to meet and share opportunities.

Young Australians want not only to be kept informed of what decisions are being made on their behalf, but also to be involved in those decisions that affect their lives.

The Australian Government aims to maximize the ability of unemployed Australians to find work and to create the conditions to foster strong employment growth and higher productivity workplaces in Australia.

This ground breaking regime is one of the toughest of its kind, containing very high penalties for Australians involved in sex offences against children under the age of 16 years while overseas.

The Prevention, Diversion, Rehabilitation and Restorative Justice programme is designed to address the underlying causes of offending, thereby helping to reduce the adverse contact experienced by indigenous Australians with the justice system.

The Attorney General's Department funds the Law and Justice Advocacy programme, which supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in their pursuit of social, cultural, economic and political rights through the legal system.

The Committee welcomes the adoption of a Charter of Public Service in a Culturally Diverse Society to ensure that government services are provided in a way that is sensitive to the language and cultural needs of all Australians.

The Committee notes with concern reports that prejudice against Arabs and Muslims in Australia has increased and that the enforcement of counter terrorism legislation may have an indirect discriminatory effect against Arab and Muslim Australians (arts. 4 and 5).

Europeans are buying gemütliche Alpine ski chalets, glamorous condominiums with Mediterranean views in the South of Spain, and, increasingly, villas in picturesque sites in Turkey, Hungary, and Croatia. Australians are buying oceanfront properties at the Sunshine Coast and the Whitsundays.

The current Australian government would not take such a step, and the opposition would be unlikely to do so as well. But more and more Australians are beginning to question the closeness and wisdom of our strategic ties to the US.

MELBOURNE For me, as for most Australians, summer holidays have always meant going to the beach. I grew up swimming and playing in the waves, eventually moving on to a body board, but somehow missing out on learning to stand on a surfboard.

But today, their commitment to a British identity is serving Australians poorly in their need to adapt to their situation in Asia. So it's particularly difficult to change course when the things that get you in trouble are the things that are also the source of your strength.

It also acknowledges the provisions introduced by the 1998 amendments to the Native Title Act regarding indigenous land use agreements, as well as the creation of the Indigenous Land Fund in 1995 to purchase land for indigenous Australians unable to benefit from recognition of native title (art. 5).

In the same year the ACSJC communicated with Justice Louis Joinet, Chairman of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, concerning the indefinite detention of two Australians at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and the denial of rights under the Third Geneva Convention and the Covenant of Civil and Political Rights.

The Australian Government has provided 60 million Australian dollars for emergency relief across the region, funding direct support by Australians sent to the affected areas, as well as the activities of United Nations agencies, non governmental organizations and international organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The role and sacrifice of Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, and South Africans have long been celebrated in history books, novels, and award winning films like Gallipoli. But the world hears very little about the 1.3 million Indian troops who served in the conflict, which claimed the lives of 74,187, with another 67,000 wounded.

Now financial institutions, too, are coming under fire for their involvement with fossil fuels. In June, I was part of a group of prominent Australians who signed an open letter to the heads of the country s biggest banks asking them to stop lending to new fossil fuel extraction projects, and to sell their stakes in companies engaged in such activities.

Our bodies get Vitamin D from the sun, but as dermatologist Richard Weller suggests, sunlight may confer another surprising benefit too. New research by his team shows that nitric oxide, a chemical transmitter stored in huge reserves in the skin, can be released by UV light, to great benefit for blood pressure and the cardiovascular system. What does it mean? Well, it might begin to explain why Scots get sick more than Australians ...

Indeed, only about 15 of Australians and 20 of Americans smoke, but in 14 low and middle income countries covered in a survey recently published in The Lancet, an average of 41 of men smoked, with an increasing number of young women taking up the habit. The World Health Organization estimates that about 100 million people died from smoking in the twentieth century, but smoking will kill up to one billion people in the twenty first century.

The Australian Government's economic policies have seen the creation of over 1.6 million new jobs, with over 53 per cent of these being taken by women (with the growth rate of female employment being 47.5 per cent higher than that for men), as well as strong earnings growth and reforms to taxation and income support policies directed at allowing Australians and their families to retain more of what they earn and to enhance support for families.6