Monash Sustainability Institute: Programs and Initiatives Australian Bushfire Arson Prevention Initiative 40‚000 bushfires fires significant detrimental effects human life communities ecosystems economy current responses to bushfire arson prevention do not reflect the magnitude of the impact of fire on our community Monash Sustainability Institute’s arson experts are on the case Dr Janet Stanley‚ and senior research fellow Paul Read Key initiatives: people focused solutions are at the
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1 ARTICLE 1 ROBBED OUTSIDE SUBANG HOUSE SUBANG JAYA: An octogenarian fractured his spine after being robbed in broad daylight by two motorcyclists in front of his house in USJ 2 here last week. A.Vadivelu‚ 82‚ who now cringes every time he hears the sound of motorcycles‚ said the drama unfolded at 5.45pm on Feb 13‚ the fourth day of Chinese New Year‚ when he decided to take his regular walk. Vadivelu‚ who is the deputy chairman of USJ 2 and USJ 6 Rukun Tetangga‚ said he had just stepped
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the relationship between Henry Lawson’s short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ ‚ with a strong‚ courageous and determined woman that deals with the severe‚ unmerciful Australian outback. The painting ‘Battling Bushfires by the Alan J. Benge in 2007 illustrates a woman‚ face to face fighting against a bushfire encroaching on her land. Another Henry Lawson short story “The Loaded Dog” is about a dog that innocently takes a stick of dynamite‚ sparking it as he runs past the camp fire‚ then tries to play with
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hazards that occur is droughts and bushfires. Due to Australia being one of the most arid lands in the world they are prolonged to droughts‚ thus the impact it leaves on the environment no other country will experienced. The result of these droughts are land areas become less productive as a result of the topsoil being blown away taking many year to restore into they natural forms. The prolonged droughts usually break into to massive bushfires. These bushfires must be contained as they can reek
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Bundle of services 7 Core service 7 Peripheral services 7 Feasibility of the project 7 Section 3: Target Market Customers 8 Section 4: Current and future implications 9 Three current issues 9 Threat of road construction 10 Bushfire 10 Revegetation project 10 Three factors that have future implications 10 Urbanization 10 Industrialization 11 Climate change 11 Section 5: Service concept 11 Section 6: Conclusion 12 References 13 Appendix 1: Management Zones
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start and change. Distinctive imagery is created through the similie of the trees being “primitive totoems” of the ground metaphorically ‘a carpet of ash’ Through only this moment‚ Luke realises the extent of his greif. We are also foreshadowed the bushfire in random parts of the novel the “thin stunted sticks” and “the casuarina’s a very dry” the effectof this _____ in addition to this‚ the flashback also reveals to the reader a more complex reason for Luke and Anna’s desire to move from their old
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examples of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. One of the many extraordinary things that they do is put their lives in danger to help protect and save people and animals as well. An iconic image that remains in our minds after the 2009 bushfires is when fire fighter David Tree offered his bottle of water to a
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17. In Christo and Jeanne Claude’s Umbrella Project‚ what two factors connect the two different sets of umbrellas to their locations? _______ and _______. 18. What aspect of ancient Australian ideology did Erna Motna include in his painting‚ Bushfire and Corroboree Dreaming? 19. Wu Chen’s landscape‚ The Central Mountains‚ raises an ordinary landscape scene to a higher level of beauty‚ what the Chinese call _______. Essay Questions 20. How did Christo and Jeanne-Claude conceive the
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from possible death. Another would be fighting against the bushfires to proect her home and the floods to protect a dam which her husband spent a long time digging out. She shows love and devotion to her children by defending them against the sanke. Although she is tired‚ she stays away to make sure that none of her children are attacked. Her willingness to keep the place in order is nothing short of amazing. She has fought off bushfires and floods just so they do not lose their possessions. Her
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Concentrations of greenhouse gases are now higher than at any ever in the past 800‚000 years with an average surface temperature rise of 0.7°C over the past 100 years. Climate change causes weather patterns to change resulting in long droughts severe storms‚ bushfires and rising sea levels. Climate change occurs around the world due to the greenhouse gases trapping the heat in our earth. E.g. global warming and climate change is occurring in north and South Pole due to a rise in the earth’s surface tempters causing
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