Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are strong rich and diverse. Although in the area of Leongatha‚ Victoria were I currently work there are not a lot of local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures there is still a variety of different cultures and religions. Although extending to broader parts of Victoria‚ Melbourne and Wonthaggi there are more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The current centre I work ‘Leongatha Children’s Centre’ has a variety of different
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disasters and the improvement of responses and policies surrounded them and the chaos and devastation they cause. The articles analyzed will be Risk and regulation: can improved government action reduce the impacts of natural disasters by Robin Spence and Flood risk management in the United States and the impact of Hurricane Katrina by Gerald E. Galloway. These article explain the devastation natural disasters can cause and the regulations needed to prepare for such disastrous events. Spence says‚ “three
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New York State: Natural Disaster Sustainability Program: Preparing for the Next Major Hurricane It is an unfortunate reality that societies seem willing to invest in adequate flood risk reduction only after large disasters. The hurricane protection system of New Orleans was improved at a cost of about $14 billion after the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. The storm surge flooding of 1953 in the Netherlands caused enormous damage and the loss of more than 1‚800 lives. This prompted the development
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Project 2 Introduction This report looks at community service organisations and how they address diversity and also how they interect with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their communities. I will firstly look at the role of diversity in the workplace ‚ then move onto how these workplaces accommodate diversity and what access and equity is and if the organisations address this in there work procedures. I will then investigate how these organisations specifically include Aboriginal
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Low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA) are considered as one of the global health issues worldwide. In Australia‚ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community show remarkably higher rate of low birth weight and small for gestational age than non-Indigenous Australians. When mothers and babies are exposed to many risk factors‚ they negatively affect the fetal development‚ gestational period and their health. Low birth weight and small for gestational age are associated with
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How people lived in Australia around the turn of the century: * Living in 1900: * There was 3 categories in which how people lived and where they stood: * From lowest to highest it was the working class‚ the middle class and the upper class. * Working class: The lowest category and lived poorly and worked for long amounts for limited amounts of money and resources. * The middle class lay in the middle and was the group of people in society that had bigger better houses on their
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Summary The general area of that I choose to research was Kidney Health in Indigenous Australians. I looked at what factors affect the incidence of kidney failure‚ and possible solutions and preventions into this issue. I am curious as to why there is such a significant difference between Caucasian health and that of an Indigenous Australians. The findings of my report showed that the further an Indigenous Australia was from a major centre‚ the higher the rate of incidence among them was. However
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Stolen Generation The forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) children from their families was an Official Government policy in the early 1900’s. By the late 1980’s‚ there were more than 100 000 of ATSI descent children who had been taken away from their families and lost links with their language‚ culture and traditions; they are known as Stolen Generation. Between 1995 – 1997 The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) provided recommendations to reunite Indigenous
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The Health of today’s Indigenous Australians is burdened with chronic and communicable disease‚ infant mortality and morbidity‚ substance misuse‚ poor nutrition‚ emotional distress‚ increased hospitalization‚ lower levels of access to health care‚ and are at a greater socio-economic disadvantage than other Australians. This has become a national health priority as the decline in health in Indigenous Australians has led to a more than seventeen year gap in life expectancy than other Australians.
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The Limestone Coast region is located in the south-eastern part of South Australia‚ midway between Melbourne and Adelaide. There are seven local councils in the region including; City of Mount Gambier‚ District Council of Grant‚ Naracoorte Lucindale Council‚ District of Robe‚ District Council of Kingston and Tatiara District Council. In 2011‚ the population of the Limestone Coast region was 63‚075‚ with 70.9% of the population residing in the lower portion of the region‚ 40% in the City of Mount
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