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    Community Gardens as Possible Alternative to Industrial Agriculture Using Case Studies in Queensland, Australia Brief History and Context: Community gardening is “a solution emerging from grassroots environmental and food movements” (Nettle 2010) While community gardens are often discussed as a progressive, new practice in sustainability, community gardens have actually been cultivated “since at least the nineteenth century,” when community gardens were grown by many working-class neighbourhoods

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    In general, Aboriginal health services are ineffective. This is due to a wide variety of factors, but mainly due to a lack of trust/cultural miscommunication which is a catalyst for many other factors. This lack of engagement is due to a variety of factors, such as lack of access to health care, lack of aboriginal representation in the health workforce, ect. Overall, the difference in mortality rates between indigenous and non-indogneous peoples proves to highlight the need in the health community

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    self-determination, multiculturalism and the Howard Government’s mean-spirited practical reconciliation (Harrison & Sellwood, 2016); and how Indigenous Australians struggled to earn the equality (Miller, 2012) to reach the current policy of ‘Closing the Gap’. What this week’s learning have highlighted that today Australian classrooms acknowledge, respect and deliver Indigenous Australian histories more adequately than ever before. I now understand that Indigenous perspectives would help students to learn

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    6 Task 2 7   Task 1 (K2) The issue I will be investigating within this report involves the number the level of licence held by drivers and how this influences the overall number of fatalities within Queensland. This issue is paramount due to it intertwines with the health and safety of Queensland motorists. I will display the key points of this issue through the use of data such as box plots, tables and scatter plots which I will then conduct an analysis through statistical calculations and assumptions

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    Roles Responsibilities and Relationships of Project Team members: Electrical: Rolling Stock, air conditioning, traction, ventilation Signals and Telecom, AFC Procurement of stores and computerisation Smooth function of the metro rail by maintaining smooth supply of electricity Rolling Stock: Review of design, tender, management contract for procurement of rolling stock. To monitor the schedule of production of training in order to match the rolling stock requirement of opening and closing of different

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    In Queensland schools, the Middle Phase of Learning is a distinct period for students in the Year 4 to Year 9 cohorts. It is divided into two phases. The onset of the Middle Phase of Learning is a time of transition, many learners are keen to discover and investigate an extensive range of learning experiences. However, some learners begin to lose interest and progress in learning may diminish. The subsequent phase for learners, is filled with challenges. Physical, emotional, intellectual and social

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    Queensland’s Audiological and Hearing Aid Experts From basic hearing loss treatment to implant technology and more, Clarity Hearing Solutions offer comprehensive audiological services throughout Queensland. Our services include: Full diagnostic paediatric Audiological assessments (3 years and below) Otoscopy, cerumen removal if present, full immittance measures including Acoustic Reflex testing and Tympanometry, Otoacoustic emissions (OAE), Visual Reinforcement Observation Audiometry (VROA), Auditory

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    High Risk – Low Return: The case against uranium mining in Queensland Australian Conservation Foundation Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Electrical Trades Union Friends of the Earth North Queensland Conservation Council Queensland Conservation Council Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance The Wilderness Society Cover picture: Mine tailings dam failure at Merriespruit, South Africa gold mine. On the day of the failure 50mm of rain fell in 30 minutes, comparable to flooding rain quantities

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    defining health issues and directing efficient health service delivery by establishing needs assessment, goals and priorities (Thomas 2004). Health service planning focuses on alignment of health service delivery with changing patterns of need (Queensland Health 2010) and also guides about improvement of health system and health outcome (Victorian Department of Health 2013). This report gives a brief overview about the case study in health service planning for changing a Paediatric care model in

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    I am now searching how the student visa program after 1925 influenced the pattern of human recruit and rejuvenation of Chinese Australian enterprises. In the last several months with support by my ARC DECRA grant (DE150101523-- history of enterprising Chinese Australians) I had collected records in Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne on Chinese students who became merchants after their education in Australia. The outstanding cases of Chinese merchants who transformed from students demonstrate

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