Documentary Redraws Documentary Redraws Humans’ Family TreeHumans’ Family Tree

• Journey of Mankind• National Geographic- Spencer Wells

Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Part 2 of 13)

AustraliaAustralia• Type of Government:• Leader(s):

• Head of State- Queen Elizabeth II • Prime Minister- Julia GillardJulia Gillard (Labour Party (liberalLabour Party (liberal) as of 2010

– Took over for Kevin Rudd• Old PM (2008), John Howard (Liberal Party (conservativeLiberal Party (conservative) 11

years• Labour Party immediately ratified Kyoto, pulled Australian

troops from Iraq and apologized to aborigines for White Australia!

• Official language: • Religion:• Ethnicity: • Currency:• Independence:• Colonization:

– ‘Discovered by Captain Cook in 1770– First colony (penal colony) 1788– Gold discovered in mid 1900’s

Federal Parliamentary Democracy

English26% Catholic, 20% Anglican, 20% Christian

Australian dollar1901 UK

White- 92%, Asian- 7%, Aboriginal or Other- 1%

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• Environmental Concerns– Reefs, possums

, droughts…

• Aborigines– ‘White

Australia”

• Strong economy

• Regional Police

Force!!!– Australia withdr

aws Afghanistan Troops!

– Population growth

– Restricting immigration?

• IslamAboriginal Art

Great Barrier Reef…

Destroyed by 2050?

Lost Generation

Population growth– Restricting immigration

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New Yanks: why no one likes Aussies anymorePosted by Ben Groundwater: 3/07

• It used to be awesome being an Australian abroad. • When I first started traveling, only about 10 years ago, everyone loved an Aussie.

You walked into a pub, someone would hear your accent, and clap you on the shoulder and buy you a drink. "G'day," was an acceptable pick-up line.

• You'd find yourself the token conversation piece at get-togethers, where you could persuade people that you wrestled kangaroos for a living. Doors magically opened, hassles were incredibly smoothed over, with the help of an Australian accent.

• But it's all gone wrong ...• The disdain now shown for Australian travelers abroad (and by the occasional

worked-up reader on this blog) is pretty worrying for those of us who love to travel, and were used to being treated kindly purely because of our nationality.

• So what's happened to the lovable Aussie?• Firstly, we're suffering from a serious case of overexposure. The fact that Australia is

so far away from anywhere else used to mean that not many of us made it to foreign shores. Now, not only do we have air travel, but we have extremely cheap air travel, meaning that any person who can manage to scrape together a few hundred dollars can go and prop up in Phuket for a week or so.

• Sadly, there's also politics to consider. Australia used to be barely a blip on the world political radar (and mostly still is); however, we're not the innocent, fun-loving little country we used to be (and New Zealand still is - see how easy it could have been?). Like the Yanks, we've dived into an unpopular war, taken powerful sides on a huge world issue, and generally tried to push around a bit of weight that we don't have. You might say politics and travel shouldn't be linked; however, people overseas know what we're up to. It affects all of us.

New ZealandNew Zealand

• Type of Government:– Parliamentary Democracy

• Leaders– Chief of State: Queen Elizabeth II– Prime Minister: John Key (National

Party NP) • Official Language

– English, Maori, and Sign Language• Ethnicity

– 69.8% European– 7.9% Maori

• Religion– 14.9% Anglican/ 12.4% Catholic– 26% None/ 17.2% Unspecified

• Currency– New Zealand Dollar

• Independence– 1907 from UK

• Colonization– Treaty of Waitangi 1840: founding

document in NZ history. Two different versions?

– Sparked land wars between Europeans and Maori

Signing of the Treaty of WaitangiSigning of the Treaty of Waitangi

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• Aussie versus N.Z.

• Prejudice

News News

ItemsItems • Alternate Energy

Sources– Hydroelectric &

Geothermal– 70% renewable

electricity. – By 2025, former

PM Helen Clarke commits 90% will be renewable.

– 1980’s US Nuke beef

• Kiwi!

• Maori VS Aborigine

Arapuni: North Island

Benmore: South Island

Marae

HakaKA MATE! KA MATE! We're going to die! We're going to die! We were at war KA ORA, KA ORA! We're going to live! We're going to live! But now there is peace.KA MATE! KA MATE! We're going to die! We're going to die! We thought we were all going to die KA ORA, KA ORA! We're going to live! We're going to live! but now we are safe TENEI TE TANGATA PU'RU-HURU This is the man, so hairy because our leader, so strong and masculine, NA'A NEI TIKI MAI WHAKA-WHITI TE who fetched, and made shine the has unified us and brought back the sunny days of RA! UPANE! KA UPANE! sun! Together! All together ... ! peace. We are all working in harmony, side by side, A UPANE! KA UPANE! Together! All together ... ! moving in unison like the hairs on our chief's legs WHITI TE RA! To sun shines! to prolong these sunny days of peace.HI !Yeah!

Papua New GuiPapua New Guineanea• Type of Government

– Constitutional Parliamentary Democracy

• Leader(s)– Chief of State: Queen Elizabeth II– PM Peter Paire O'NEILL (2011)

• Official Language– Tok Pisin (Creole Language)– English– Hiri Motu (1%)

• (860 indigenous languages)

• Religion– Mostly Christian

• Currency– Kina

• Independence– From Germany (L) / UK (R) to

Australia in 1902– Independence in 1975

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– Competent in Many Languages

• Lingua franca– Language used for Convenience and Communication

• Creole Language– A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originated from a mixture of various languages

News StoriesNews Stories• World’s most diverse country– Language!– Tribal

• 80% of people live in rural homes without modern amenities

• Separatist movement in Papua (Indonesia)– Papua New Guinea does NOT want to be a part!

• Separatist rebellion on island of Bougainville was finally resolved with election of first autonomous government in 2005

– 1989-1997, 20,000 dead

• Papua New Guinea has one of the highest incidences of HIV and AIDS in the Pacific region rise!

– CIA Factbook

• Papua New Guinea is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor

• Relationship with Australia!– Australia has been a major supplier of aid

– relies on assistance from Australia to keep out illegal cross-border activities from primarily Indonesia, including goods smuggling, illegal narcotics trafficking, and squatters and secessionists provided peace-keeping forces

Fiji• GovernmentGovernment

– Republic• Leader(s)Leader(s)

– Prime Minister Laisenia QARASE Laisenia QARASE (since 10 September 2000); note - although QARASE is still the legal prime minister, he has been confined to his home island;

– Commodore Voreqe "Frank" BAINIMARAMA"Frank" BAINIMARAMA is interim prime minister under military regime (since coup in Dec 2006)

• Official Language– Fijian and English– Hindustani also spoken

• EthnicityEthnicity– 57.3% Fijian/ 37.6% Indian

• Indo-Fijians: Ethnic Indians brought to Fiji by the UK• Indigenous Fijians- Ethnic Fijian Polynesians

• ReligionReligion– 64.5% Christian/ 27.9% Hindu/ 6.3% Muslim

• CurrencyCurrency– Fijian Dollar

• IndependenceIndependence– 1970 from UK

Fiji’s Fiji’s HistoryHistory

• 1987 (MAY): Bloodless coupcoup by General Rabuka to overthrow the Indian dominated Government and make ethnic Fijians politically dominant.

• 1987 (OCT): 22ndnd coup! coup! Fiji declared a Republic, expelled from commonwealth of commonwealth of NationsNations

• 1989: Thousands of ethnic Indians Flee!• 1990: New constitution- discriminatorydiscriminatory against ethnic Indians…• 1997: New constitution- NON-discriminatoryNON-discriminatory against ethnic Indians• 1999: Ethnic Indian Chaudry elected Prime Minister• 2000: Civilian Coup!Civilian Coup!

– New PM held hostage by ethnic Fijian businessman George Speight. Ethnic Fijians storm Parliament Held hostage for 56 days…

• 2001 (AUG): Elections restore democracy. New PM- Fijian Laisenia Qarase. Speight first pardoned, now life in prison

• RACIAL TENSIONSRACIAL TENSIONS• 2006 (OCT): Tensions between PM Qarase and military chief Frank BainimaramaFrank Bainimarama• 2006 (DEC): Military coup!Military coup! Bainimarama takes executive power, puts PM Qarase

under island arrest. Fiji suspended from the Commonwealth.• SUSPENDS CONSTITUTION!!!SUSPENDS CONSTITUTION!!!

– 2009: Fiji's Appeal Court in April 2009 to declare the military government illegal Constitution suspended and Commodore Bainimarama reappointed as interim prime minister for a further five years. MILITARY GRIP

• 2009 (JULY): Hereditary Chief Epeli Nailatikau appointed President. Supports Bainimarama.

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