The Flood Last winter‚ we drove up to New York to visit my grandparents for Christmas. The plan was to spend the holiday there‚ and take a train into New York City the next morning. My grandparents live in Syracuse‚ so it ended up being about a six hour train ride. When we arrived and stepped out onto the street from Penn Station‚ my jaw literally dropped. The city was amazing. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. It was late at night and the streets were as full as they would be during
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climate change such as drought‚ flood‚ and cyclone‚ the environment such as pollution‚ deforestation‚ desertification‚ pest infestation or combinations of these‚ or the destroy of ozone layer will contribute to the green house effect. People’s homes are wiped out and livelihoods are destroyed. Poverty‚ population pressures and environmental degradation mean that increasing numbers of people are vulnerable to natural disasters. In Australia‚ natural disasters such as floods‚ bush-fires and tropical cyclones
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colleagues at Top beer Co.‚ Ltd. with whom you have done business for many years. We should like you to send us a price list regarding your products and delivery time. The Cruz Company is a wine dealer company based in south east of Brisbane‚ Queensland‚ Australia. The main purpose of the company’s business is to provide the local Asian communities with Asian brand wines and related products. As the increasing demand of Asian beers‚ so our company is willing to import the beer from your company
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Australians‚ who may I add‚ condemn Terrorism as much as the next white man does. Yet due to the prejudices of the Australian white culture there appears to be a fear of Impending doom if we continue to allow Muslims to be Muslim. Recently in southern Queensland we have seen a state MP introduce a bill to ban Mosques. It is as if there is an uneducated fear of difference in Religious belief. I believe you would recall Australian Author‚ Kate Grenville’s book The lieutenant? Which you reviewed two papers
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2009). There was a massive demand of natural recourses from these developing countries hence encouraging export of minerals on large scale. This sudden boom in export contributed in development of Australian economy. Australian states such as Queensland (QLD) and Western Australia (WA) which has abundant natural resources has experienced huge rise in economy where as Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) experienced slight increase (ABS 5625.0). This led to establishment of huge companies and industries
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My dad‚ Eddie Mabo‚ a man who changed history * BY: SARAH ELKS‚ NORTH QUEENSLAND CORRESPONDENT From: The Australian June 01‚ 2012 12:00AM 9 comments * Increase Text Size * Decrease Text Size * Print * * Recommend | * 513 | * * Tweet 0 * * Eddie Mabo fought and won a 10-year battle on land rights. Source: Supplied GAIL Mabo was a teenager when her father Eddie‚ a proud Torres Strait Islander
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In 2001 the Queensland Police Service (QPS) embarked on research to develop an incident command system (ICS)‚ specific to QPS needs‚ to be utilised for the efficient and effective management of an incident regardless of size or scale (QPS 2016‚ p. 1.7). This was incorporated after consultation with operational managers and a review of a number of incidents‚ which identified the need for an ICS and relevant training to be implemented into the QPS training curriculum. QPS senior management identified
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implement Justice Reinvestment models to prevent crimes at the ‘front end’‚ addressing underlying causes of crime rather than bulk of funding being spent on ‘back end’‚ in prisons (Gooda‚ 2013). Justice Reinvestment model has been adopted in North Queensland community which has had successful outcomes (Hudson‚ 2013). A Family Responsible Commission was formed‚ led by chosen community elders to change the social norms of their community. Individuals and families require support would be referred to the
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technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary academia‚ disasters are seen as the consequence of
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Topic: Reciprocity is an underlying principle expressed throughout Aboriginal societies. Outline and illustrate the importance of this fundamental concept in the economic‚ social‚ spiritual and political spheres of Aboriginal life. Introduction Reciprocity is a fundamental and inflexible feature of Aboriginal societies of Australia. The importance of the reciprocity and sharing concepts are shown in the economic‚ social‚ spiritual and political spheres of Aboriginal life. This paper will first
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