Social Welfare in Australia Social security in Australia is a system of social welfare payments provided by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. These payments are administered by the Department of Human Services. Most benefits are subject to a means test. Payments are made to a variety of groups of people; Indigenous students and New Apprentices‚ age pension‚ assistance for isolated children (families with a child who lives a fair distance from school)‚ carers‚ disability support pension
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As Albert Einstein once said‚ “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” A society with no understanding is set up for failure. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies‚ the children’s society is filled with hatred and greed. The children lose their moral judgement fighting each other trying to gain control over a limited supply of necessities‚ equality of human power‚ and limited affection. This causes havoc leading the group into a spiraling path of destruction
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arrests of females under the age of 18 in 2001‚ between 1992 and 2001 the arrests of juvenile females generally increased more than the male category. The racial composition of the juvenile population in 2001 was 78% white‚ 17% black‚ 4% Asian/ Pacific Islander‚ and 1% American Indian. Most Hispanics were classified as white in contrast to their representation in the population‚ black youth were overrepresented in juvenile arrests for violent crimes‚ and to a lesser extent‚ property crimes of all juvenile
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What Is a Communal Family? The word commune has various meanings to different people. The term communal family refers to two or more groups of families that live together and share facilities in some form of society. It is actually a form of communal living forum. A communal family is a combination of two or more families living together. It portrays a picture of a huge number of adults and children living together in some form of society. A communal family is two or more families living together
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United States Imperialism from 1870 to 1916‚ one finds that there are three main factors. These major factors of United States Imperialism in this time period are: Hawaii‚ the Spanish-American war‚ and Theodore Roosevelt. In this time period Hawaiian islanders were very happy to live traditionally‚ but Americans were not content with the traditional ways of the Hawaiians (Buschini‚ n.pag.). Even though America seemed to be on the road to imperialism with Hawaii‚ the Spanish- American war actually set the
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infected foot I think this helped point out how the isolation of the island although romantic it can be treacherous as the nearest hospital was 200 mile away and would not of made it. Luckily one of the things Bruce brought as a present for the islanders was anti-biotic but in curing this man’s foot it used half of the supplies he brought‚ they mainly use traditional medicine on the
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Robert Louis Stevenson was a Victorian celebrity famous for his Treasure Island (1883)‚ Kidnapped (1886)‚ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1885). He was a poet and his famous poetry collection A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885) is constantly reprinted. He wrote about the south pacific Sea Islands broadened the imagination of millions of British Readers giving them insight into far lands and strange communities. He wrote the beach of Falesa after he travelled to Samoa in 1889. The edition
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to obtain adequate health‚ food‚ housing and clothing that the rest of society can afford‚ find it difficult to ensure an adequate standard of living or are often unemployed and rely on social security and services. Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders (ATSI) fall into this category and make up a large amount of the people who are socioeconomically disadvantaged. A study by the ‘United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ in 1998 found that unemployment rates for Indigenous
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Synge as a playwright John M. Synge started his career with poetry imitating Wordsworth which didn’t give him fame or fortune. World least expected to get a great dramatist out of him at that point of time. Only by middle age‚ he started exploring the dramatist in him. Synge was a true patriot who preferred kingdom of Ireland to kingdom of God. He was slowly developing atheist spirit which the contemporaries especially Maud Gonne. The deeply religious Gonne rejected so many of Synge’s manuscripts
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MELOS AND INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS Fear‚ honor‚ interest--Thucydides could scarcely have phrased it better. The classics can help American business leaders sort out situations of power balance. In 416 BC the leadership of the Greek city-state of Melos opted to fight the mighty Athenian empire rather than accept vassal status. Athens had been at war against Sparta‚ to the south in the Peloponnesus‚ more or less continuously since 431 BC. Athens had been unable to make much headway on land against
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