Gather and organise information about major Australian export industries.

• list countries to which exported, and/or graph percentages
• map the locations of the industry by shading a map of Australia
• map the export destinations by identifying the countries and using a key to indicate each product or service
• create a flow chart of the processes used in production and distribution
• explain how global interactions need to be assessed for their global implications eg the export of uranium

What is needed for fair trade? What are the challenges? List some non-exploiting products / companies.

Find examples where bans and boycotts have been imposed on countries and/or products.

CHALLENGE: Develop a chart of global versus Australian-made advantages and disadvantages.

Global communication systems

Explain the ways in which technologies and systems assist global interconnections, including communications eg postal, telephone, computer linkages, satellites. Construct a retrieval chart. Compile a list of benefits and problems of modern communication systems.

Global organisations

Describe universal human needs and rights and the efforts of organisations in meeting these needs. There are multiple copies available for United Nations, UNHCR, Amnesty International, and World Wide Fund for Nature. Look for more such as AusAID, Red Cross, Greenpeace, International Olympic Confederation. Which does Australia participate in? How?

Develop a data bank of AusAID programs, then select a case study to research in depth.

Find World Vision interactive maps. List aspects portrayed. Select one and fill in an outline map to contribute to class compilation.

Generalisation: What do global aid workers do?

Examine some organisations that support employers and workers, eg associations, federations, unions.

CHALLENGE: Compile and compare the response and action from various global organisations in a current emergency eg East Timor, Afghanistan ...

International agreements

Develop a list of international treaties and agreements, which encourage interdependence. Is Australia a signatory? Establish the reason for the treaty, and the benefits. (Summarise interview) Are there any disputes?

What international meetings and conventions have been held recently? Find one consequence or outcome for each. What is being held this year?

Environmental protection

What are the current global environmental protection concerns? eg pollution, depletion of ozone layer, greenhouse warming, management and conservation of coastal areas, ie Great Barrier Reef (shipping routes, tourist population, warming).How is Australia contributing to global efforts?

Which Australian areas are on the World Heritage Conservation List?

Government

Which Federal portfolios have global connections? Who are the current Ministers?

Take it personally

Identify, through a variety of media, situations where civic action has led to the improvement of community living eg worldwide protest against nuclear testing in the Pacific.

‘Think globally, act locally.’ List ways in which people act as a responsible citizen. What can you do?

Explore opportunities to show concern for the welfare, rights and dignity of all people.

• How does the school contribute to the work of community organisations, eg raising funds for famine relief.
• How could the school contribute? Select half a dozen and make a list.
• What is available to you as an individual? eg World Vision foster child
• What organisations are there for youth action? 

Draw conclusions about the criteria for exemplary global interaction.

Compile a glossary of terms such as discrimination, equality, fairness ...

Create a country fact file, or a world map display. What connection does Australia have with countries such as Turkey, Burma, Tibet, Antarctica, Afghanistan, East Timor, Papua New Guinea ... ?

Challenge

Undertake in-depth investigation of a current political issue, compiling a file on the various viewpoints on the issue, including the media's treatment and focus.
 

RESOURCES:books, videos, websites, media coverage, organisations, atlases with maps showing Australia’s imports, exports, air and sea routes etc, airline maps, speakers, meetings, interviews, fair trade gift catalogues

PHOTOCOPIES for GUIDED NOTETAKING:wheat export, coal export, greenhouse effect, fair trade, AusAID programs, ANZUS, Intelsat, globalisation for and against,

MULTIPLE COPIES for SKILL DEVELOPMENT, 5 groups of 6 rotating: United Nations, UNHCR, Amnesty International, WWF, Internet

ORGANISATION: outline maps of world - for imports, exports. Large outline map of world on public noticeboard, for all classes to add

GROUPS: trade, communication, organisations, aid programs, environment, internet, mixed - REF, atlases, gen, human rights

Notetaking proformas:

exports.htm fairtrade.doc comm.doc org.doc orgaid.doc

Ausaid.doc treaties.doc issues.doc Poverty case study Poverty answers

conventions.doc action.doc opinion.doc arguments.doc government.doc

UN UNHCR Amnesty WWF  aid workers

Look for connections, and changes in those connections, in one of these areas:

• environment eg world heritage sites, introduced species, acid rain, global warming / climate / greenhouse, ozone layer, uranium
• communication
• export industry
• communications technology
• country
• region eg Antarctica, rainforests, oceans
• global organisation
• aid program
• disaster / emergency relief
• treaty
• human rights eg women, children, refugees, famine and food security, poverty, ethical consumerism, landmines
• biography eg humanitarian

May Gibbs Memorial Library  |  Neutral Bay Public School

STARTERS: sources includeCountry reports. available at http://www.countryreports.org/

International agreements: ANZUS

International agreements - Environment :
party to:  Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling

signed, but not ratified:  Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol

International organization participation:
ANZUS, APEC, ARF (dialogue partner), AsDB, ASEAN (dialogue partner), Australia Group, BIS, C, CCC, CP, EBRD, ESCAP, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, NAM (guest), NEA, NSG, OECD, OPCW, PCA, Sparteca, SPC, SPF, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNMEE, UNTAET, UNTSO, UNU, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTrO, ZC

What are these? GATT, NAFTA

International conventions and meetings: CHOGM,

Exports - commodities:
                     coal, gold, meat, wool, alumina, iron ore, wheat, machinery and transport equipment

Exports - partners: Japan 19%, EU 14%, ASEAN 12%, US 9%, South Korea, NZ, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China (1999)

Imports: $77 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)

Imports - commodities: machinery and transport equipment, computers and office machines, telecommunication equipment /parts; crude oil and petroleum products

Imports - partners: EU 24%, US 22%, Japan 14%, ASEAN 13% (1999)

Debt - external:   $220.6 billion (2000)

Economic aid - donor: ODA, $1.43 billion (FY97/98)

Environment concerns: pollution, particularly depletion of the ozone layer, and management and conservation of coastal areas, especially the Great Barrier Reef. The largest coral reef in the world, is threatened by increased shipping and its popularity as a tourist site; limited natural fresh water resources