The Gap, Queensland

Sort By:
Page 3 of 29 - About 284 essays
  • Decent Essays

    Parliament, representing Queensland as the Liberal Party Senator in the 1972, 1974, 1975, and 1980 elections (National Film and Sound Archive, 2015). While Yunupingu was the first Indigenous Australian to become a school principal, and shed light internationally on the mistreatment of Australian Indigenous people through his band ‘Yothu Yindi,’ (National Library of Australia, n.d.). Both men were strong Indigenous rights activists, and inspired a nation to bridge the gaps between Indigenous Australians

    • 813 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    Council to rebrand the city of Logan. Throughout Southeast Queensland the term “Bogan from Logan” is quite well know. The objective of this opportunity analysis is to rebrand Logan as a major manufacturing hub in Australia; the end goal is to replicate the success of cities like Stuttgart in Germany, so can Logan generates more economic activity. Company Background Logan is a small densely populated city located in South East Queensland and is best described by conveying an understanding of its

    • 1896 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Your Clients: 1. Please identify the Scenario context for your assessment as mentioned above: For the context of this assessment I will work under Scenario 2. This states that I am not a current employee of the community service sector and will use a future workplace as a frame of reference for this task. The future workplace is The Moreton Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service (of Morayfield). 2. Please describe the local community organisational context for the Aboriginal

    • 3278 Words
    • 14 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Brief overview: Australian is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Emergency medical services in Australia are granted by state ambulance services, which are separated of each state or territorial government, and by St John Ambulance in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Ambulance service in Australia can be serialized into two groups; the statutory

    • 1068 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    On April 11, 2014, Cyclone Ita roared through Queensland, Australia leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. One of the strongest Category 5 storms ever recorded, winds were recorded at over 110 miles per hour before landfall. While destruction in Queensland and the surrounding areas was immense, the offshore damage to the Great Barrier Reef was catastrophic. Many places of the reef were left with no living coral structures and entire portions of the ecosystem were erased from the seabed (Zolfagharifard)

    • 933 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia

    • 1461 Words
    • 6 Pages
    • 32 Works Cited

    Terra Nullius was once apparent in Australian society, but has now been nullified with the turn of the century and the changes of societal attitudes. With the political changes in our society, and the apology to Indigenous Australians, society is now witnessing an increase in aboriginals gaining a voice in today’s society. Kevin Rudd’s apology as described by Pat Dodson (2006) as a seminal moment in Australia’s history, expressed the true spirit of reconciliation opening a new chapter in the history

    • 1461 Words
    • 6 Pages
    • 32 Works Cited
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    legal system (United Nations 2004). 1.4 Thesis Sentence: 1. Two significant concerns on Indigenous Australian after Europeans settlement are health and housing issues.Some of the effective efforts to reduce these problems are Close the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes National Partnership Agreements,The National Partnership Agreement on Indigenous Early Childhood Development, The National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing (NPARIH) and The National Affordable Housing

    • 1683 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Supporting Aboriginal students for successful literacy outcomes is fundamental to reciprocal satisfaction in learning for both teachers and Aboriginal students, families and wider communities. Unfortunately, many Aboriginal students do not have the benefit of shared reading experiences at home prior to their formal school entry, which significantly disadvantages Aboriginal students as they try and negotiate one-way learning in the Australian education system (Bonney, 2015; Harrison, 2011, pp. 90

    • 271 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Best Essays

    Aboriginal Land Rights within Australia Essay

    • 1885 Words
    • 8 Pages
    • 30 Works Cited

    Indigenous Australian part of the stolen generation (www.creativespirtis.2008). The loss of ones culture and identity was deemed worse then being poor and living in sub standard living with their families. The case of Mabo v Others v State of Queensland (No.2) (1992) 175 CLR 1 (www.austlii, 1993), rewrote common law as the court ruled in a six to one majority, that the people of

    • 1885 Words
    • 8 Pages
    • 30 Works Cited
    Best Essays
  • Good Essays

    In recent years, Queensland has made changes to legislation in this area of law after seeing an increase number of negligent claims. Professional negligence claims include all areas of the health industry, workplace incidents particularly within the building industry, education and personal industry. The statement “the common law approach to negligence is all that is needed to effectively regulate this area of law”, is not entirely true as a more detailed and harsher approach to negligence, such

    • 1907 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays