Mission “The mission of The Walt Disney Company is to be one of the world's leading producers and providers of entertainment and information. Using our portfolio of brands to differentiate our content, services and consumer products, we seek to develop the most creative, innovative and profitable entertainment experiences and related products in the world”.
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The Walt Disney Company is a diversified multinational American mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA. It is the world’s 2nd largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue, after Comcast. It was the leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into level-action film production, television,
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The Commonwealth of Australia was formed in 1901 as a result of an agreement among six-governing British colonies, which became the six states. The Commonwealth also includes two territories – Northern Territory, and Australian Capital Territory.
• A governor-general represents the British monarch who is the designated head of state.
• Government Format: the Queen (Head of State), Governor-general, and Prime Minister.
• House of Representatives: 150 members – single seat constituencies – election every 3 years.
• Senate: 76 members – all states elect 12 regardless populations – elected every 3 years.
Economic • Australia has an enviable, strong economy with a per capita GDP on par with four dominant West European economies – USD 37,493
• Australia’s abundant and diverse natural resources attract high level of foreign investment, and include extensive reserves of coal, iron ore, copper, gold, natural gas, uranium, and renewable energy sources.
• Australia also has a large services sector and is a significant exporter of natural resources, energy, and food.
• The Australian economy grew for 17 consecutive years before the global financial
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Technological • Information and Communication Technology: household access to the internet has growth from 1.1 million households in 1998 to 4.7 million in 2005-06 – there were 6.7 million active internet subscribers in Australia in September 2006
• Research and Innovation: expenditure on research and development (R&D) in Australia reached more than $15.7 billion in 2004-05 – Australian business accounted for the higher expenditure on R&D about 54%, followed by higher education 27%
Environmental • Australia is a large island continent and is one of the most biologically diverse countries in the world, with a large portion of its plants and animals and ecosystem found nowhere else. About 5% of Australia is national parks that provide excellent places from which to experience such diverse habitats as rainforests, deserts, coral reefs and woodlands, and the plant sand animals that inhabit
The fact that Australia was considered as a global nation, which was ‘open to multiple international cultural, political and economic influences (pp.222), was very contentious. Sheridan makes it clear that Asia involvement has shaped Australia, acknowledging the positive and necessary changes in areas including culture, economy, education, defence and more. Knight indicates that Australia was encouraged to begin the desire for economic gain and civilisation. He states ‘Australia thus inherited from Britain a European country, its sense of cultural identity and its feeling of superiority towards Asia and Asians’(pp.223). This demonstrates that Australia views towards Asia were constantly changing leading to an increase in problems examples including smuggling and entering legally from other states.
Personal History Colin Barnett was sworn in as Western Australia's 29th Premier on 23rd September 2008. Mr Barnett was State Development Minister from 2008 until early 2016 and currently holds the Tourism and Science portfolios. He is committed to broadening Western Australia's economy based around the State's comparative advantages in mining, oil and gas, agriculture, tourism and science. Western Australia's natural resources, unique environment, enviable lifestyle and reputation for high quality education and research, have, and will continue to be, central to the Barnett-led Liberal National Government’s plans to continue to strengthen the economy and create jobs.
Formed in 1957, the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders commenced their campaign with a series of petitions displayed in Source 4 that called for a referendum. This had the effect of not only mobilising support for a change to the constitution but also of informing the public of the issues facing Aborigines. Over the course of the campaign, more than 100,000 signatures were collected and presented to the Parliament in 94 separate petitions (NMA, n.d.). This was a key factor in changing politicians’ minds and the government’s stance (Koori Mail, 2007). A key factor of the support of the referendum by non-indigenous Australians was the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders ‘Yes’ campaign.
Australians supported the decision to go to war very enthusiastically in 1914 mainly because they were very loyal to England but of course, there are other reasons which influenced their decision. Because Australia was extremely loyal to their ‘mother country’, they of course did not hesitate in following Britain’s declaration on war. Australians had very little experience before World War 1 which started on the 28th of July, 1914 and continued until the 11th of November, 1918. It was said that the cause of World War 1 was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife, Sophie who was the Duchess of Hohenberg, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. World War 1 was also known as ‘The Great War’, it was supposedly the war to end all
The Whitlam Government was made up of the members of the Australian Labor Party and ran in power from 1972 until its dismissal in 1975. The Whitlam Government was responsible for implementing Healthcare and Social Security and important changes to areas of Australia’s education, women, economy, defence, nationality, democracy and immigration. The Whitlam government only served for three years and was actually dismissed by Sir John Kerr; The Governor-General in 1974 appointed by Whitlam, this raises the questions what really where the successes and failures of the Whitlam Government?
America became the prime candidate, as they were a direct opposition to communism and had ideals that acutely aligned with Australia. This compelled Australia to
During World War 2 (1939 – 1945), Australia had a variety of impacts on both its government and its people. The war had a great effect on the place of indigenous people in Australia as indigenous men and women joined services throughout the country. The Aboriginal Australians, both the men and the women had contributed in the second Great War. Meanwhile, when the Aboriginals of Australia had jobs during World War 2, Australia’s economy boomed with the help of the war as many Australian troops had gone out to fight for the British. The economy had boomed during the period of the Second World War as Australian products could be produced as well.
An Australian Republic is about us — not the Queen, not Prince Charles or the world economy. We should do it now, without delay. As Nelson Mandela once said, “ For to be free is not merely to cast off one 's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” Until we break our last Constitutional links to the mother country, our nationhood is incomplete. Now after just over 115 years of Federation, Australia must finally join the world of nations as a full equal, unshackled to any other nation.
Persuasive Speech Ah Australia. The land of opportunity. The land of freedom and equality. The land of wealth and good health. The lucky country.
The second opposing argument is that it would not improve our international relations and it is true but the only country that is getting effected is Great Britain and nothing as to change with the relations we have with other countries, so the other counties will not like it but they will get over it and like America back in 1776 people have moved on and our relationship will not change. The cost of becoming a republic is expensive but Australia has the money so it is not a problem for
As the world grew more populated, to many Australians it seemed that Great Britain was both a physically long way and also very different to Australia. The Australia of pre World War II was now very different to the Australia colonised by the British so many years earlier. In 1919, Australia had, for the very first time, been considered a fully self-governing nation and was asked independently of Great Britain to be a part of the Treaty of Versailles (Carrodus, Delany and McArthur, 2012). Prior to this, Britain was responsible for all political agreements for Australia (Museum of Australian Democracy).
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report presents an analysis of The Walt Disney Company. It is one of the global’s leading manufacturers and providers of entertainment. The company manages through its five business segments which includes parks and resorts, media networks, studio entertainment, consumer products and interactive. The Disney’s objective is to be one of the world 's leading manufactures and companies of entertainment and information, by using its portfolio of brands to differentiate its content, services and consumer products.
Disney pursues vertical integration by increasing its distribution channels for its products in house. This allows Disney to not only have control over the entire product my beginning to end consumer, but it also allows for Disney to increase its profits by cutting costs. An example of this in the case is that Disney creates its own content in-house for its channels like ABC. When Disney first acquired ABC, ABC had deals with Dreamworks, which was a rival company created by a former Disney employee, to finance jointly the cost of developing new TV shows. For Disney, this deal made no sense for them once they purchased ABC because Disney has their own production studio.
Disney: The Rise of Animations The animation of movies and television have been constantly evolving and changing the entertainment industry. Disney is one of the top industries that has been expanding their business through their box office animation movies. Disney is one of the top animated studios alongside: DreamWorks, Warner Bros Animation, Studio Ghibli, Blue Sky Studio, and Illumination Entertainment. Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first full-length animated film.
1 Overview of Company Since it was founded in 1923, Walt Disney Company has become a world-famous entertainment and media company, and its turnover brings it to the second place among global media companies (after Time Warner). It is constantly working to provide people with the most special entertainment experience, and has been adhering to the company 's good tradition of quality and innovation. After years of development, Walt Disney is already a successful transnational corporation and its operations involve in parks and resorts, consumer products, media networks, and studio entertainment these four industries. By the end of September 2017, its media network is the most profitable business which the revenue is 42.6% of the total while