Tag: Britain

  • The clause which compromises the UK free trade deal

    The clause which compromises the UK free trade deal

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    Angus Tangney
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    When the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in July 2016 many raised concerns about the potential for the British economy to find itself compromised as the trade which brought mutual benefits between the UK and the rest of Europe would be set to slow down.  Not to worry, with the British Government…

  • Pastoral Leases and the Australian Landscape

    Pastoral Leases and the Australian Landscape

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    Jo Bradley
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    By Claire Angelica In the 1800s, the British Crown was faced with the problem of governing a surge in squatting in Australia. Squatters were settlers who squatted in what was called the Crown’s “waste lands” (which meant outside the colony boundaries). They would graze cattle and sheep and with the growing wool industry, squatting became…