AOS 1 JUST THE IMPORTANT STUFF Flashcards
ASEAN
ASEAN bans Myanmar from annual conference in October 2021 after overturning of 2020 election
UNCLOS
United Nations Convention on the Law Of the Sea dictates that any area of sea within 200 miles of a state’s coastline is that states sovereign territory
Australia asylum seeker policy
Asylum seekers arriving by boat banned from obtaining a visa to resettle in Australia July 2013
BREXIT
Referendum in 2016: 58% voted to leave and 42% voted to stay
Operation Peace Spring
Turkey invaded Syria in 2019 - concerned that SDF was working with terrorist group PKK seeking secession from Turkey
NK sanction
Resolution 2375, September 2017 - banned North Koreas exports of textiles and labourers, and imports of oil
Glencore/Zambia
Zambia raised taxes on the copper sourced by mining corporation Glencore in 2014 from 6% to 20%. When Glencore threatened to withdraw from Zambia, the taxes were dropped to 9%
Catalonia
2017 Catalonian independence referendum resulted in a 90% vote for independence. The were jailed, leading to backlash from secessionists in 2019. Included movement in Barcelona of over 1 million people
UMISS
UN Mission In South Sudan extended by unanimous agreement in UNSC - 2021 (collaborative peacekeeping)
unpaid membership fees to UN
US owed $1.3 billion of unpaid membership fees as of January 2019
Rome Statute
The 1998 rome statute came into effect in 2002 after 60 states had ratified, alleged crime must have occurred after July 2002 to be tried
Laurent Gbagbo
former president of the Ivory Coast. Evidence against him was deemed insufficient and the defendant was cleared of crimes against humanity charges
Mahamat Said Abdel Kani
committed to trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Bangui, Central African Republic, as commander of the ‘Seleka’ rebel alliance
charges against US soldiers in Afghanistan
In 2018, the ICC stated that they could bring charges against US soldiers accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the United States’ occupation of Afghanistan, however the then US Secretary of State John Bolton claimed this was an infringement of the state’s sovereignty and refuted the ICC’s jurisdiction
Uganda - President Museveni
Uganda, all cases that have been prosecuted are from the Lord’s Resistance Army: a rebel group opposing President Museveni and the National Resistance Movement. By referring the LRA to ICC prosecutors, President Museveni and the NRM remain in power and have reduced any political opposition
US in IMF
US has 17% of vote in IMF and veto power over decisions – contributes the most funds
Pakistan budget
Pakistan’s democracy requires the support of the military to stay in power (high military spending) the 2020/21 budget assigned $7.85 billion to military spending and only $151 million to health services
economic analyst Abdul Khaliq quote
“Pakistan is in a perfect debt trap. Its economy is running purely on debt. Obviously, this will not be sustainable for long. Sooner rather than later it will come to the inevitable – default.”
2019 loan to Pakistan
2019 loan was $6 billion and had the following terms:
* Devalue Pakistani Rupees
* Pay off $37 billion to international creditors within loan period
* Appoint IMF officials as advisors to government
* Increase taxes
2022/3 update in pakistan
- IMF agreed to $1.17 billion in 2022
- 2023 – IMF and Pakistan in urgent talks, Pakistan claims to be ‘days away’ from default
NOPSEMA
(The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority)
National day of Action
paddle-out protests 23rd November 2019
former federal resources minister quote
“The (then) Liberal and National Government remains committed to encouraging the safe development of Australia’s offshore petroleum resources.” (then) Federal Resources Minister Keith Pitt – 2020
NOPSEMA gives Equinor approval for oil drilling
December 2019
Equinor withdraws
February 2020
islamic state captured and maintained territory
2014-2018 including Iraqs second largest city Mosul
IS forced out of all territory
March 2019
Large scale attack on Paris
2015 - 120 deaths
population under IS control
roughly 8 million
Lone wolf attack
15 year old boy from NSW shot civilian police employee in October 2015
Counter terrorism law
Justice Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act in Victoria, 2018 allows individuals to be detained without a court order or a warrant for up to four days for an adult and 36 hours for a child
Google web searches
93% of mobile searches and 70% of desktop searches
google 2022 annual revenue
$US 282 billion
users in google database
4.5 billion globally
former PM Scott Morrison quote
‘Australia will not respond to threats’
google threatens to withdraw search engine and posts warnings about proposed law
Australia January 2021
law passes in australia (google)
February 2021
Google France quote following long months of negotiations
‘Newspapers would be remunerated based on contributions to political and general information, daily volume of publications and monthly internet audience’
