TAGS – Thesaurus of Australian Government Subjects This Thesaurus was developed as a result of a Project known as the Australian Whole of Government High Level Subject Thesaurus Project‚ sponsored by the National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE). The purpose of the Project was to develop a high level thesaurus of subject terms for use by Government agencies‚ which all agencies may use in the AGLS Subject element to describe their resources. AGLS Metadata facilitates discovery and
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the Indigenous people of Australia. They live in all parts of the country‚ from major cities to remote tropical coasts and the borders of the central deserts. They are not one group‚ but comprise of hundreds of groups that have their own histories‚ beliefs and values‚ languages and cultural traditions. The health status of Indigenous people pre-invasion is difficult to assess in ways comparable to current data. However‚ there is strong evidence that
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2013‚ pp 10)(Australian Health Practitioners Regulatory Agency 2012). 2a). Discuss two primary health care strategies which aim to combat health issues such as poor nutrition‚ diabetes‚ obesity or tobacco smoking in aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities. The prevalence of diabetes among Indigenous people‚ is estimated to be over 3 times the rate of non-Indigenous people. Indigenous people have a higher prevalence of overweight or obesity and related chronic
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hopeless struggle of an Aran woman and her helplessness against the fate. Ernest A. Boyd (American critic and author) in ‘The Contemporary Drama of Ireland’ states that ‘Riders to the Sea’‚ sums up the essence of the "constant struggle of the Aran islanders against their relentless enemy‚ the sea." The protagonist in J. M. Synge’s one-act play Riders to the Sea‚ Maurya‚ is an old Aran fisher-woman‚ whose name echoes the Greek word moria‚ meaning fate. Riders to the Sea does not fit the mold of classic
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do not take offence to anyone wishing me season’s greetings and I do reciprocate these greetings out of respect for their beliefs. I believe we as community service workers have an obligation to acknowledge The Aboriginal and Torrens Straits Islanders as the Caretakers of the Australian land and their past and present links to the land. We as community workers need to accept without challenging and being judgemental choices made by all clients. We need to accept that clients will have different
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are unaware they are at high risk. Some groups have a higher risk for developing type 2 diabetes than others. Type 2 diabetes is more common in African Americans‚ Latinos‚ Native Americans‚ and Asian Americans‚ Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders‚ as well as the aged population. “It is a dramatic and bothersome increase that’s consistent with a chronic disease epidemic‚” says Frank Vinicor‚ director of the CDC’s diabetes division. CDC is working on the National Diabetes Prevention Program
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Legal essay Human rights are protected under Australian law in three key ways; statute law‚ the constitution and common law. It could be argued that if Australia adopted a bill of rights‚ human rights would be more clearly defined‚ consistent in all states and territories and more easily understood. Human rights are protected in Australia through statute law. Statute law refers to laws made by parliament‚ also known as legislation. Moreover statute laws set up administrative bodies whose responsibility
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Captain cook. James Cook was born in 1728 in Marton‚ England. in 1771 Cook was promoted to the rank of commander. In 1772‚ in command of the Resolution‚ and accompanied by another ship‚ the Adventure‚ he set out on his second great expedition‚ a search for the fabled southern continent‚ Terra Australis‚ of which Africa was thought to be a part. He entered the South Pacific‚ where he sailed along the edge of the Antarctic ice block; on Jan. 16‚ 1773‚ he made the first crossing of the Antarctic
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Australian Aborigines - Indigenous Australians There are several hundred Indigenous peoples of Australia‚ many are groupings that existed before the British annexation of Australia in 1788. Before Europeans‚ the number was over 400. Indigenous or groups will generally talk of their "people" and their "country". These countries are ethnographic areas‚ usually the size of an average European country‚ with around two hundred on the Australian continent at the time of White arrival. Within each
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in Panguna‚ Papua New Guinea on the island of Bougainville. Islanders had no benefit from this. Very little of earnings were given to island workers. ‘Wontok’ system of redskins taking jobs‚ elbowing locals out of jobs Devastates ecology of the area. Affects locals who rely on nature. Water undrinkable Killed plants and animals Destroyed rainforests Social injustice. The Australians damaging ecology and locals suffer. Islanders fight back to try and get mine closed. Redskin soldiers come
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