AUSTRALIAN VALUES AND BELIEFS...

A belief is the certainty feeling on the meaning of something. It is a personal affirmation that we considered true. In the same idea, values are the states to which the people give importance like success, security, love, happiness, etc. If we analice what are the differences and similarities between beliefs and values, we would conclude that there are more the similar aspects that they have than differences. For example, australians have very strong beliefs which are reinforced by the tenets of the country's society. In other hand australians values are composed by respect women, democracy and diverse cultures and tolerance. If you compare their social values and beliefs many similarities appear.

Respect is one of the most important values in Australia, however this value has a deep relation with their social beliefs. Australian beliefs in loyal fraternity, equality and friendship. Australians have a deep respect for a wide diversity of European cultures such as English and American. "We also have Muslims here. It's quite strange. It's a bit like your eccentric aunt come to visit the family for a few days and she's still there two years later. You can't help wondering when she's going to go home so you can relax and be normal again", said Dr. Gyorgy Scrinis, research associate in the Globalism Institute at RMIT University. The respect is combined by a equality and friendly society.

About tolerance, Australia is an extremely tolerant country. In other research, Dr. Gyorgy says "We tolerate homosexuals. We just don't like them in our churches and we don't want them getting married or having equal rights. But we do tolerate their deviant practices as long as we can avoid thinking about them. Of course we know that same sex attracted people can have a hard time". In this case, we would be compare tolerance value with non discrimination belief finding a significant similarity in the feeling on the meaning of something and the states to which the people give importance.

Australia is a perfect example of how values and beliefs can share the same meaning, it depends on the strong personal and individual ideas that people have to feel around the general society. Maybe we would look for differences both values and beliefs considering several cultures which we can find in other countries however in a nation, feelins and thinkings in general are the same. We can conclude that will be strange to thinking an ethical society without strong values and beliefs.

Jiang Zemin...Famous Criminal who act under "Tolerance and Benevolence"

Jiang Zemin was the Chinese ex-president who praticed the most important genocide in the recent China history. However he murdered million innocent people in China by the belief in the principles, Benevolence and Tolerance like improvement in the ethical values of the people and by the simple practice of exercises and meditation. This essay will examine some arguments against and favor about how these ethical values were the reason to commit the assassination.

Zemin will have to confront the accusation of to have promoted the death of thousands of medical instructors of Falun Gong under horrible tortures, of to have promoted tens of thousand of illegal haltings and income caused in against of the will of the people in fields of forced works and mental hospitals under a regime of slavery and horrible tortures.

In Addition, the lawyer Carlos Iglesias indicated when presenting the complaint that the pretension of Jiang Zeming and its accomplices in these crimes of which they accuse themselves to them was the elimination of Falun Gong like national group and group with beliefs of high morality and ethics derived from the own essence of the Chinese town.

On the other hand, Zemi pretended to kill the Falun Group because considered its has a series of absurd concepts like "prominent coming of the aim of the world" and "promt destruction of to human", also it alleges that before it modern science is impotent and none government has remedy. These reasons were the basis by which Zemi make a decision to act according to Tolerance and Benevolence. Tolerance and Benevolence were the ethical values that his political and authoritarian familiy instil him during his childhood.

To sum up, I consider ethical values must to be the guide to improve our behaviour not the reason to kill people. Maybe Zemin confused the meaning of act into real Tolerance and Benelolence. If he was thinking in tolerance, he wouldn´t tortured or murdered under the direction of an organized plan to eliminate the national group called Falun Gong.

KEVIN RUDD... The values of this 26th Prime Minister of Australia

Kevin Michael Rudd has been considered one o the most important last Prime Minister of Australia thanks to his honesty, responsability, loyalty and respect however he was strongly criticised over its support for the United States in the invasion of Iraq while mantaining Labor´s position of support for the Australian - American alliance. This essay will examine some arguments against and favor about his moral, religious and political values during his labor leader.

Rudd has a Christian perspective to support his decisions and behaviour. The Christian perspective looks for create a communion between personal and social values with religious teachings. Rudd wrote in the essay The Month "If the churches are barred from participating in the great debates about the values that ultimately underpin our society, our economy and our polity, then we have rearched a very strange place indeed". For example responsability value helps him to make a decision that Australia becomes a member of the Kyoto Protocol like a signiicant step forward in the country´s efforts to fight climate change domestically, and he was honesty creating of a competitive economy believing in a free market economy.

Apart from this, Kevin Rudd gave assertive support in the Iraq war on 2006. He replaced 550 existing combat troop with new troops serving to create a peace plan to defend Israel´s actions. Loyalty was the determinat value expressed in this event by Prime Minister. Besides, during his Labor leader he supported the respect to workchoices legislation, climate change, global poverty, and debated in topics like therapeutic cloning and asylum seekers. However, people argue that loyalty was not ever his behaviour. He was strongly criticised by Howard government over his support for the United States in 2003 invasion o Iraq and subsequent operatiosn there, while mantaining Labor´s position of support for the Australian - American alliance.

On balance Kevin Rudd would be considered one of the most notable and valuable political person because he has proved with his actions, decisions and behaviour be a person with strong moral and religious values which helped to consolidate a good nation. Australians express positive points of view about his Labor leader. In my opinion he reached this fame thanks to practice values like respect, loyalty, responsability and honesty.

Seven Deadly Sins and Australia Values

In the thirteenth century, Dante listed the Seven Deadly Sins on the pathway to Paradise: Gluttony, lust, greed, envy, pride, anger and sloth. Now, almost eight hundred years later, people are still committing these seven and other sins in their common lifes.

Australians have an extreme beliefs about moral and religious traditions. However citizen are losing values like responsability, honesty and respect. Mortal sins are not officially listed, but include murder, abortion, perjury and adultery.

The Catholic Church divides sins into venial, or less serious, sins and mortal sins, which threaten the soul with eternal damnation unless absolved before death through confession and penitence.It holds mortal sins to be “grave violations of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes”, including murder, contraception, abortion, perjury, adultery and lust.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into Hell”.Although there is no definitive list of mortal sins, many believers accept the broad seven deadly sins or capital vices laid down in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great and popularised in the Middle Ages by Dante in The Inferno: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride.

Christians are exhorted instead to adhere to the seven holy virtues: chastity, abstinence, temperance, diligence, patience, kindness and humility. Whereas sin in the past was thought of as being an invididual matter, it now had “social resonance”.You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbour’s wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments, or allowing genetic manipulations which alter DNA or compromise embryos.

Mortal sins also included taking or dealing in drugs, and social injustice which caused poverty or “the excessive accumulation of wealth by a few”. Two mortal sins which continued to preoccupy the Vatican were abortion, which offended “the dignity and rights of women”, and paedophilia, which had even infected the clergy itself and so had exposed the “human and institutional fragility of the Church”. Hedonism and consumerism had even invaded “the bosom of the Church itself, deeply undermining the Christian faith from within, and undermining the lifestyle and daily behaviour of believers”.

Eastern Australian Catholics do not recognise the same distinction between mortal and venial sins as the Western or Latin Church does, nor does it believe that those people who die in a state of sin are condemned to automatic damnation.

What about Sydney and Australia values?

Democracy, respect for diverse cultures and tolerance are some of the values group that people find in Sydney.

Sydney population live and develop diferent kind of values in their lifestyle. They are a tolerant society, respect women, other people´s beliefs and democracy. It is frecuency find these values because australians in general love freedom and they are a very spititual peolple.

Australia and special city of Sidney is an extremely tolerant country. For example they tolerant homosexuals. Despite they do tolerate their deviant practices they do not like them in the churches or maybe getting married because asutralians have a strong religion beliefs. However they know that "same sex attracted people" can have a hard time. Sixteen percent of gays reported physical assault because of their sexuality and 46 percent reported verbal abuse. The goverment political view about these issues is dictates public laws to protect them.

Secondly australians respect women. They consider the womwn like one of the most wonderful God´s creation. This value is taught by religion temples on a weekly basis. The priesthood usually explain that woman are virtuous, intelligent, dedicated and loving. For this reason man have to give them respect, safety, stability, support and love. On the other hand australians have a deep respect for a wide diversity of European cultures such as English and American. Day after day Australia´s universities and companies welcome to foreing people to study and work into them. Most of the 90 percent of Sydney´s citizen have conscience to be gentle and friendly, to be adaptable, receptive and respectul with foreing and their cultures and beliefs.

All australians respect democracy except politicians. Nevertheless government respect the wishes of the people. It takes care to listen to the people and to their wishes. People can make decisions bassed in Australia legislation having freeedom to elect such as their Prime Minister. The past 24 of november, Kevin Rudd became a Labor leader thanks to obtain the 63 percent of the totaly citizen votes.

In conclusion, Australia and city o Sydney is a strong society built by religious, moral and political values. The role of government, religious beliefs and freedom feelings have allowed to improve and mantein values stable and deep into australian mind. Although they have developed a peaceful country is important to reinorce in other signiicant values like honesty and loyalty.

City of Sydney

There is no place in the world like Sydney.

The Town of Sidney is located on the Saanich Peninsula, on Vancouver Island, approximately 20 Kilometers north of Victoria, the Capital City of British Columbia. Sidney was incorporated as a village in 1952, has enjoyed steady growth, and is now a town with a population in excess of 11,000 people. It can be reached by air or sea from the mainland and is the primary business anchor for the Peninsula.

The gateway to Australia, Sydney is renowned as a dynamic and cosmopolitan city, combining excellent business and education facilities with great leisure. Sydney is one of the most favorite cities around the world.

The city has a sunny, moderate climate which contributes to Sydneysiders' relaxed lifestyle. There are five major national parks around Sydney with 8,000 square kilometres of open space.

Sydney offers a secure environment for families, with excellent facilities, transport and telecommunications.

Australia...

Australia is the most sixth large country of the World. Although its area is semiarid and desert, in Australia you can find different kind of animals, habitats and climates. In another hand, many people around Latin-American continent have a special preference for this country because they consider it an important center to learn English and because they can find several labor opportunities.

Australia is located in the south hemisphere occupying most of the 80 percent of the territory. The present national population (year 2006) is of around 20.6 million inhabitants, and is concentrated mainly in the great coastal cities of Sídney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaida. Also, the population is distributed by Indigenous people, Britain descendants and foreign people who have arrived from Asia, Europe and Latin America continents. In addition, exists different religions like Catholic, Islamism, Buddhism and Protestant.

Due to the old age of the continent, the little fertility of its grounds, and its different extremely variable climates and his prolonged isolation from the rest of the continents, biota Australian is only and diverse. Around 85% of the plants with flower, 84% of the mammals, more of 45% of the birds, and 90% of the fish of tempered coastal zones are endemic. For example, the native animal species include monotremes ((ornitorrinco and equidnas), marsupials, diverse species of kangaroos, koala and wombats, the demon of Tasmania and (extinct in 1930s) tilacino or "the tiger of Tasmania",and birds like the emú and cucaburras.

Australia offers contrast beyond the disposition of its relaxed inhabitants. The spectacular Great Barrier Reef along the Queensland shore is one is kind in the world. Uluru (famous for its towering red rock projection (348 m), Barosssa Valley (well known for its delicate wines), Flinders Ranges (bushwalks, salt lakes, national parks and gorges), Freycinet Peninsula, Kakadu National Park, Snowy Mountains, and The Kimberley (epitome of raw outback Australia with rivers, oasis, crocodiles etc) are the tourist attractions that you visit on your tour to Australia.

In addition, Australia allows the entrance of more than 90 thousand immigrants to the year. This number is in constant increase. The conditions of work in Australia are very good. The Australian labor market is very competitive because the opportunities depend on your labor capacities, professional profile and technical abilities.

About language, Australia is considered by the Latin Americans like a perfect country to learn and domain fundamentally English. For this reason each year many foreign people arrived into Australian schools or companies.

In conclusion, Australia is one of the most important countries around the world because offers different kinds of population, geography and biota, and many opportunities to foreign people.