AOS 1 JUST THE IMPORTANT STUFF

Question 1

ASEAN

Answer 1

ASEAN bans Myanmar from annual conference in October 2021 after overturning of 2020 election

Question 2

UNCLOS

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Australia asylum seeker policy

Answer 3

Asylum seekers arriving by boat banned from obtaining a visa to resettle in Australia July 2013

Question 4

BREXIT

Answer 4

Referendum in 2016: 58% voted to leave and 42% voted to stay

Question 5

Operation Peace Spring

Answer 5

Turkey invaded Syria in 2019 - concerned that SDF was working with terrorist group PKK seeking secession from Turkey

Question 6

NK sanction

Answer 6

Resolution 2375, September 2017 - banned North Koreas exports of textiles and labourers, and imports of oil

Question 7

Glencore/Zambia

Answer 7

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%

Question 8

Catalonia

Answer 8

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

Question 9

UMISS

Answer 9

UN Mission In South Sudan extended by unanimous agreement in UNSC - 2021 (collaborative peacekeeping)

Question 10

unpaid membership fees to UN

Answer 10

US owed $1.3 billion of unpaid membership fees as of January 2019

Question 11

Rome Statute

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Laurent Gbagbo

Answer 12

former president of the Ivory Coast. Evidence against him was deemed insufficient and the defendant was cleared of crimes against humanity charges

Question 13

Mahamat Said Abdel Kani

Answer 13

committed to trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Bangui, Central African Republic, as commander of the ‘Seleka’ rebel alliance

Question 14

charges against US soldiers in Afghanistan

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Uganda - President Museveni

Answer 15

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

Question 16

US in IMF

Answer 16

US has 17% of vote in IMF and veto power over decisions – contributes the most funds

Question 17

Pakistan budget

Answer 17

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

Question 18

economic analyst Abdul Khaliq quote

Answer 18

“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.”

Question 19

2019 loan to Pakistan

Answer 19

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

Question 20

2022/3 update in pakistan

Answer 20

• IMF agreed to $1.17 billion in 2022
• 2023 – IMF and Pakistan in urgent talks, Pakistan claims to be ‘days away’ from default

Question 21

NOPSEMA

Answer 21

(The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority)

Question 22

National day of Action

Answer 22

paddle-out protests 23rd November 2019

Question 23

former federal resources minister quote

Answer 23

“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

Question 24

NOPSEMA gives Equinor approval for oil drilling

Answer 24

December 2019

Question 25

Equinor withdraws

Answer 25

February 2020

Question 26

islamic state captured and maintained territory

Answer 26

2014-2018 including Iraqs second largest city Mosul

Question 27

IS forced out of all territory

Answer 27

March 2019

Question 28

Large scale attack on Paris

Answer 28

2015 - 120 deaths

Question 29

population under IS control

Answer 29

roughly 8 million

Question 30

Lone wolf attack

Answer 30

15 year old boy from NSW shot civilian police employee in October 2015

Question 31

Counter terrorism law

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Google web searches

Answer 32

93% of mobile searches and 70% of desktop searches

Question 33

google 2022 annual revenue

Answer 33

$US 282 billion

Question 34

users in google database

Answer 34

4.5 billion globally

Question 35

former PM Scott Morrison quote

Answer 35

‘Australia will not respond to threats’

Question 36

google threatens to withdraw search engine and posts warnings about proposed law

Answer 36

Australia January 2021

Question 37

law passes in australia (google)

Answer 37

February 2021

Question 38

Google France quote following long months of negotiations

Answer 38

‘Newspapers would be remunerated based on contributions to political and general information, daily volume of publications and monthly internet audience’