over 92 deaths occur each year from floods. Again we cannot get away from the need of rain‚ but is there really a need for flooding?
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au/website/cityCouncil/strategies_plans/maleny_approved_concept_plan.asp Cooroora Historical Society Inc Davies‚ S.J. and Salmon‚ M. (1995). An Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessment of the eastern Portion of the Maroochy Shire. Queensland: The University of Queensland‚ St. Lucia. Foundation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research (1999). Traditional owners join council in wetlands plan. Retrieved March 10‚ 2008‚ from Actionhttp://www.faira.org.au/lrq/archives/199912/stories/traditional-owners
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Walker (NW) following a motor vehicle accident (MVA) she was involved in. NW death was considered a reportable death‚ thereby subject to a coronial inquest. The focus of this essay is to discuss the legal and ethical considerations faced by the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) in regards to their involvement in the MVA and how their actions may have impacted on the death of NW. 2.0 Discussion 2.1 The facts On the morning of the 17th may 2005‚ the QAS were dispatched to a MVA involving NW. NW
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References: Andresen‚ Brit & O’Gorman‚ Peter Timber tectonic Brisbin‚ Chris Drawing out the ‘Anatomy of the Edge’: In-between-ness in the verandas of south-east Queensland Frampton‚ Kenneth Rappel a L’Ordre: The Case for the Tectonic
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Expierence has shown that every time we have a heavy rain fall ….a large sections of our base get flooded by rain water. Some time …just like today most offices in the Well system‚ OWS and Petrotesting also get flooded. This morning while it was raining we had to cut off electric power supply to the OWS and Petrotesting sections of our base as the level of the water in the offices was high enough to cover some electrical power suckets on the walls. Also back in my own office I observed some
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Redcliffe Peninsula‚ situated on the coast of South-East Queensland. The ancestral homelands of the Ningy Ningy people extend from the Pine River in the south to Elimbah Creek in the north; and from Old Gympie Road in the west to Pumicestone Passage in the east. The Ningy Ningy dialect is from the Kabi language group and is called Oondoo. Fairhall‚ P. (1989)‚ ’Ningi Ningi - Our First Inhabitants’‚ Redcliffe Historical Society Inc.‚ Queensland. I was able to find this book easily in the Moreton Bay
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The external environment of the theme park industry on the Gold Coast plays a significant role in determining if the industry is profitable. According to Hubbard‚ Rice and Beamish (2008)‚ the external environment is the factors outside the organisation that influence strategy and is made up of two environments; the macro-environment and the industry environment. The macro-environment includes the general factors that affect growth of an industry‚ whereas an analysis of the industry environment determines
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Bangladesh Floods 1998 [pic] ----------------------- Prediction: ← Bangladesh is built on delta and floodplain of the Ganges‚ Brahmaputra‚ Meghna River‚ this area is expected to flood. ← The annual flood is expected and is needed to make the land fertile for farming. ← Upwards of 300 million people live on the Ganges delta‚ and this is increasing. Effects: ← 2379 people died. ← Destruction of communication network meant it was impossible to deliver food and medical
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Historic Flood Hits Minot The sounds of a siren crushed the hearts of an entire city as water overcame the dikes and flooded the streets. The people of Minot‚ North Dakota heard the siren and knew that their lives were about to greatly change. The Souris River topped the dikes in Minot on June 22‚ 2011. About twelve thousand residents were evacuated out of their homes after a desperate attempt to build sandbag walls around their houses and neighborhoods. All that the residents were able to do was
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1927 Mississippi Flood In one of most powerful natural disasters in the 1900s‚ the Mississippi river flooded which caused severe damage around the states of Arkansas‚ Illinois‚ Kentucky‚ Louisiana‚ Mississippi‚ Tennessee‚ Texas‚ Oklahoma‚ and Kansas. The flood was caused during a large rainfall that lasted approximately 18 hours; the rainfall caused an overflow in the Mississippi river that overtook the banks. This flood wreaked havoc amongst the citizens in its path. The disaster caused over
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