Kevin Rudd and North Korea

1. Kevin Rudd is the foreign minister of Australia with his job ensuring that he looks after Australia's relations and issues with other countries. He also has to build relationships, his job is known to be the 2nd highest and most important under the prime minister.He looks after areas like trade, defense and security.
2. Kevin Rudd is concerned that Korea may be a threat to Australia with all their weapons and nuclear power. Korea is growing more aggressive and showing the world of their stonger abilities and capabilities.
3. Kevin Rudd was at the ASEAN Regional Forum to express his concern.
4. Korea attacked a South Korean naval frigate with torpedoes , shelled civilians’ homes across the border  and defied two UN Security Council resolutions by pursuing an enriched uranium weapons program.
5. Kevin is concerned that Australia's ties with North Korea are weakening and Korea being a large threat as they have this nuclear power and strength shown by the torpedoe attack making australia aware that Korea could be a major threat to our countries security. 
6. Kevin wants to bring the tension down between North Korea and the world, and show the world North Koreas growth in technology and weapons system. Kevin is making sure and showing the world that Australia has backing up from North Korea. This shows the world that Australia's relation is strong and will hopefully grow stronger.
7. This relationship will strengthen Australia's major allies as they also want the backing of North Korea, more countries will want to side with Australia as they know of North Korea's nuclear strength. However if countries disagree with North Korea's methods then Australia may lose allies and gain threats.

(Australian Aid) Foreign Aid Review

Outline of the Foreign Aid Review article:
- That australia is increasing its money and support.
- There is not a real need for australia to be sending all of this money as poverty is slowly coming to a halt.
- Most countries are now gworing by themselves.
- Australia is now looking for more of an image.

The authors point of view on the story is that there is no true need for all of this earned Australian money needs to be sent out to other countries to solve their issues.
The reason Australia is giving such vigorous amounts of aid I believe is that they are trying to get a stronger image of our country in the eys of other countries to make them more significant in the large world we have today.

They are giving more money for various reasons. The benefits of giving aid give Australia stronger relationships with the people and countries they are supporting. It also helps bonds with countries and may oblige them to defend Australia if help in defense became neccesary. The negatives are that Australia could be using this money too help solve problems or support infrastructure in Australia itself.

Mapping

1. What is it about the pressure system stalled over Australia that relates to the weather over the next 4 days? -----There is a frequent high pressure regions or anticyclones. This creates clear skies and fair weather usually occur in these regions. There are chances of cloud cover which are shown in the diagrams.
2. What is the air pressure in each of the next 4 days for each of the capital cities? How does this correspond with the predicted weather for these cities? -----
3. Adelaide

   DAY	AIR PRESSURE	WEATHER CONDITIONS
   Thursday	1030	Fine, cloudy
   Friday	1027	Fine, cloudy
   Saturday	1020	Fine, partly cloudy
   Sunday	1021	Fine, cloudy

   Perth

   DAY	AIR PRESSURE	WEATHER CONDITIONS
   Thursday	1020	Sunny
   Friday	1016	Partly cloudy
   Saturday	1016	Sunny
   Sunday	1017	Possible Storm

   Melbourne

   DAY	AIR PRESSURE	WEATHER CONDITIONS
   Thursday	1026	Mostly cloudy
   Friday	1027	Fine, partly cloudy
   Saturday	1019	Mostly cloudy
   Sunday	1024	Mostly cloudy

   Brisbane

   DAY	AIR PRESSURE	WEATHER CONDITIONS
   Thursday	1016	Sunny
   Friday	1020	Fine, cloudy
   Saturday	1021	Fine, cloudy
   Sunday	1017	Fine, cloudy

   Sydney

   DAY	AIR PRESSURE	WEATHER CONDITIONS
   Thursday	1018	Fine, partly cloudy
   Friday	1024	Fine, cloudy
   Saturday	1017	Fine
   Sunday	1016	Fine, partly cloudy

1. 20 feet on the map equals 6.1 metres.
2. 1 miles equals 1.6 kilometres.
3. 859-680= 179/2.38

Mexico city in 5 images

Mexico City Cathedral in the centro. The cathedral has a lot of history behind it and has been recently rebuilt due to a earthquake not many cities have such a significant cathedral in the centre of their city.

The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) is the most important cultural center in Mexico City as well as the rest of the country of Mexico. It contains very famous art which is unique to a city such as this one.

Ballet Folklórico de México is a ballet ensemble in Mexico City. For five decades it has presented dances in costumes that reflect the traditional culture of Mexico. Seeing something like this really gives an insight into Mexico City and their history.

The National Palace, was the seat of the federal executive in Mexico. It is located on Mexico City's main square. This site has been a palace for the ruling class of Mexico since the Aztec empire

This is an artefact from The National Museum of Anthropology in Chapultepec. It is one of the most extensive of its kind in the world.  There are rooms that house archaeological artifacts (originals or replicas). There is an extensive amount of cultures and voted by some people as the best museum in the world