The Opening of the First Parliament in 1903

Tom Roberts is considered a legend in Australia:I was born and bred in Australian, I was unaware of this magnificent painting. My 2020 Summit submission should be about reinstating our unique Australian culture and national identity.

Then, in 1900, upon the federation of the Australian states, Roberts was approached and asked to build upon this symbol of nation identity by painting Opening of the First Parliament (1903) (Shore 21). Although it would not be outside or of his beloved Australian bush, Roberts was tempted by the fame and money it promised, so he accepted. He spent over two years on this massive (eighteen feet by twelve feet) canvas, traveling around the world in order to portray accurately each of the two-hundred and fifty people present (Shore 22). Upon its completion, when he received no offers of work and little hint of fame, the artist became very depressed, entering into what his son referred to as his “black period” (qtd Shore 25).

The Tom Roberts Festival is held every five years in Inverell, New South Wales, where Roberts created many of his sheep industry paintings, including The Golden Fleece and Shearing Shed, Newstead (“About Tom Roberts”).

http://blogs.princeton.edu/wri152-3/s06/afsmith/a_true_australian.html

Summit 2020 and my vision for the future

Mr Rudd's top idea

I agree with Mr Rudd's functionalism unit.

The Prime Minister announced that he would like to continue the “national conversation” through the Australia 2020 website.

Available http://www.australia2020.gov.au/report/index.cfm

I believe that Australia, as a young country, needs to reconnect with its unique national identity and culture. To have the strongest sense of leadership is to preserve our heritage, culture, families and natural resources...I agree with the following proposals from the 2020 summit

The productivity agenda
One Curriculum: Create one national curriculum with freed up funds going to children in schools
Options for the future of Indigenous
Individual learning and health compacts (case management)
Population, sustainability and climate change
Australia will be the world’s leading green and sustainable economy
We will have harnessed the potential of our natural assets and human resources to turn the challenge of climate change to our advantage
The future of Australian Governance
Bill or Charter of rights for all Australians, including Indigenous Australians
Strengthening communities, supporting families and social inclusion
Establishment of the Housing Foundation to fund responses homelessness
Towards a creative Australia

Develop a national culture and design strategy and policy

Available http://www.australia2020.gov.au/docs/plenary_stream_report_lowres.ppt

Kookaburra photo http://www.sydneynature.com/birds/big/kookaburra2341.jpg

butterfly image: http://museumvictoria.com.au/bioinformatics/butter/images/clear.jpg

The Amazon globalisation formular

The AMAZON FOREST since TIME IMMEMORIAL is reduced to PILLAGE.. UGLINESS.. NEVER TO BE A RAIN FOREST FOR CENTURIES

(a)JULIES COMMENTS :Is globalisation the rich mans alter ego ????

Max Webers perspective confirms my view of rich man's alter ego

Adam Smith's invisible hand is no longer invisible

View my sociology research: View at bottom of page
Anti globalisation player: Green peace

(b)Brazilian authorities seize illegally logged Amazonian timber
The Brazilian environmental agency seems to have finally woken up to the problem of illegally logged Amazonian timber leaving their shores.The companies connected with the shipment were slapped with fines totaling over 100,000 Euros.It’s the first time in two years that the Brazilian authorities have taken this sort of action, and it follows Greenpeace’s recent blockade at the French port of Caen.
And thanks to companies slashing and burning the rainforest in order to make a quick profit, the rate of deforestation and resulting greenhouse gas emissions, are actually increasing. Brazil is now the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, behind the US, China and Indonesia.
Rogue companies operating illegally are driving much of this devastation. Greenpeace’s report – ‘A Future for Forests’ estimates that up to 80 percent of the timber from the Amazon rainforest is illegally logged. And, it isn’t just the environmental impact of these companies’ activities that is worrying. Illegal logging encourages land grabbing by farmers and speculators, and fuels corruption and violence.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/brazilian-authorities-seize-il

Research article will be http://www.globalisationguide.org/02.html

(c) Cuff, E. C, Sharrock, W. W, and Francis, W. D. Perspectives in Sociology: Max Weber page 42 states

For Weber the capitalist business has two characteristics:
(1)capitalist business was kept in continuous operation and existence
(2)this ceaseless operation was in the service of the relentless accumulation of profit
Summary of Rational capitalism or western capitalism

The unrelenting commitment to means-ends makes rational capitalism what it is.

(1)The capitalist business continues to accumulate profit even thought there is no practical need for it, even though the level of profits exceeds what its recipients can ever spend.

(2)Rather than being acquired for use, seemingly wealth is sought for its own sake, and the aim of business is the ceaseless expansion of profits.

(3)This pursuit of ever greater profit is not driven by greed or grandiosity of ambition. Instead it is seen as morally righteous, with the resultant profit being the just desserts of the capitalists of their industry

Peace Doves in the Patriachial War System

Julies comments: Sudan : scorched earth, villages burned to the ground, children orphaned, mothers forced to leave their sick children behind, 1.2 million refugees living in borderless camps, Sudanese men who send their women out to gather firewood because Rape is the lesser evil than being the men being Murdered by the rebels ..
Sudan is The Violence that Knows No Borders , the Violence that Has No Conscience.
United Nations :
Two men who carry the olive branch to each African President
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Secretary General Kofi Annan