This is from a Australian Institute of Criminology report.

Australian House of RepresentativesWikimedia By Harishrawat11 (Own work) CC BY SA 3.0)There have been strong reactions to a decision on 2 October 2014 by the presiding officers of the Australian parliament concerning the burqa.

For example, Article 17 of the Convention has been implemented by the Australian Privacy Act 1988.

The Convention on the Elimination of the Discrimination against Women is not directly implemented in Australian law.

Encouragingly, there is a growing acceptance among non participants of Australian Group measures as an international benchmark for effective export control.

As part of the conditions in issuing permits, the Australian Safeguards and Non Proliferation Office (ASNO) requires that certain chemical security measures be implemented for non proliferation and counter terrorism purposes.

Two Australian Football League teams have hinted that they are looking into tests that would indicate an athlete s likely height, stamina, speed, and strength.

Together with the Australian chapter of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, it had organized an international symposium on humanitarian demining techniques and cooperation in Kunming, China, in 2004.

As soon as a party is listed by the United Nations, its assets are frozen under Australian law and its name automatically incorporated onto a list maintained by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (see www.dfat.gov.au icat freezing_terrorist_assets.html).

India should take to heart former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd s prescient observation that China, a nation of foreign and security policy realists, respects strategic strength and is contemptuous of vacillation and weakness.

Because it is traded in developed and liquid markets that have no capital account restrictions, many investors have bought or sold it according to their view of China s economic prospects.

Nowadays, capital flows are driving up the Swiss franc, the Swedish and Norwegian krone, and the Canadian and Australian dollars, causing profound dislocations in these small economies as their products and services become uncompetitive.

Australia has dedicated numerous public awareness raising activities to the commemoration of the International Year, such as the Australian Youth Olympic Festival, the 2005 Summer Deaflympics, sport leadership grants for women in rural and remote communities and the indigenous sport and recreation programme.

So Australia s refusal to emulate the United States in recognizing that India merits an exception on nuclear supplies rankles Indians. In fact, India has all the uranium it currently needs from other suppliers the issue is one of principle.