Australian Public Service Essays

Cheerios: The Heart Healthy Heartwarming Brand The world is commonly attracted to the imagery of wholesome loyal family love with the idea of simple family life as open and inviting with nothing but trust and good intentions in sight, and that’s exactly what advertisers take advantage of being the masters of manipulation that they are using both obvious and subconscious methods to appeal to their audiences. An example of this could be found in a popular Cheerios ad from General Mills. The scene

in the advent of television because it provides an excellent combination of pictures, words, music, and animations. Particularly, Ad Council, a non-profit organization, joins with various sponsors to produce and promote unique collaborations of public service announcements. The organization has found ways, using multimodal interfaces, to stimulate action against many problems in the world that primarily concerns Americans (e.g., texting and driving, dating violence, and child hunger). Accordingly,

of citizens. Furthermore, while the act of government intervention can be justified as being in the best intentions of the collective good, what constitutes as ‘best intentions’ is debatable and the subsequent effect of intervention may act against public interest. Contrasted against the successful anti-natalist policies of Singapore, China’s anti-natalist ‘One Child Policy’ had a less-successful run, and the implementation of this policy had severe repercussions on the socio-cultural sphere of China

One of the most publicised protest actions for Aboriginal rights was the Australian Freedom Ride in 1965. This come about after the Civil Rights Movements in the United States as it inspired many Australians. The Australian Freedom Ride involved a group of students from the Sydney University touring through New South Wales, on a bus. They stopped in many country towns attempting to expose the Aboriginal discrepancies in living, health and education. With the aim being to publicise and potentially

Aboriginal are the original natives of Australia. They are the Indigenous Australians that lived in Australia and its islands prior to colonization by the European. Aboriginal people are characteristically different culturally and ethnically from Tiwi people, Torres Strait Islander people, and Noongar people (O'Halloran, 2012). Australian Aboriginal people are recognized as one of the oldest existing cultures in the world with approximations ranging from 450,000 to 110,000 years (O'Halloran, 2012)

The Public Health issue that will be discussed in this essay is Indigenous health. Throughout this essay, a closing the gap report by the COAG reform council will be analysed as it examines the policies and strategies that have been implemented to deal with this serious public health issue, that is Indigenous health. Other important parts of the public health issue, such as cost effectiveness (economic), efficiency and impact on social equity will all be discussed as well. This is the fourth report

Ever since the first settlers arrived in Australia right up to the end of the 20th century indigenous Australians had limited rights compared to whit Australians. One of the biggest problems was that there were different laws and treatment of aboriginals depending on what state they resided in. The year of 1967 was a big year for indigenous rights as a referendum was held to give the federal government the power to make laws for all aboriginals. Many factors and events influenced the overwhelming

people's health is still far below their non-indigenous counterparts. To rectify this, a human rights approach must be utilised, as by turning human rights from purely legal instruments into effective policies, practices, and practical realities, the Australian Parliament can redress its ongoing failures to incorporate Indigenous perspectives. The implementation of damaging legislation and policies created a system in which Aboriginal people were denied their human right to health, this system still governs

There are many Indigenous role models who have impacted and contributed to Australian society. It is important for people to recognise the contributions and achievements Australian indigenous people have made. Through research this assessment explains in detail the upbringing and life events of Gladys Elphick and the contributions she has made to Australian History. Gladys Elphick grew up on the Yorke Penisula, where she was born on the 27th of August 1904 (Fisher, 2007). At eight months old Gladys

This essay will provide a critical analysis based upon a created organisation. ‘Country Australia Remote Education Support’ (CARES Inc.) was created to ‘offer support services to the parents and children from remote areas, transitioning into boarding school’ (CARES Inc. mission statement) This organisation is a non-profit, government-funded organisation, located within the Gold Coast. The chosen structure of CARES Inc. will be analysed, and explained throughout. Additionally key legislative and statutory

changed their lives, and the lives of future generations. Equality between Indigenous and Non-indigenous Australians has been achieved to a certain extent since European Settlement. However, there are various areas in which equal rights and opportunities are yet to be attained. Before European settlement it is believed that the whole continent was occupied by at least 750 000 Aboriginal Australians. They lived under a system of land ownership with

had multiple campaigns to try and uphold the same rights as white people. The 1967 referendum was a public vote to determine the public 's opinions of two aspects of the Australian constitution (a written statement which outlines the country 's rules and regulations) that related directly to Indigenous Australians. The forerunner to the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League (VAAL) was the Australian Aborigines League (AAL) founded in 1932 by William Cooper, an ex-resident from Cummeragunja. The

explores three marginalised groups and discusses some of the reasons why they are marginalised and the effects on those within these groups. Exclusion from areas such as employment and other services and opportunities that other Australian 's take for granted, is a result of the marginality of indigenous Australian 's, woman, and those with

Perkins Charles Perkins was essential in the changing rights and freedoms of Indigenous Australians in the period 1945 until the present. Charles Perkins is an Aboriginal activist who was involved in the Freedom Rides while he was a third year arts student at the University of Sydney and the president of SAFA, Student Action for Aborigines. Through his role leading the Freedom Rides, he helped to desegregate public facilities in country towns, improved housing conditions and made White Australia in

“By 1990, no Australian child will live in poverty.”. This was the enthusiastic, over reaching and misapprehended statement made famous by then Prime Minister Bob Hawke during his 1987 election pledge. As was noticeable throughout the late twentieth century, and as is still evident in today’s society, this notion didn’t completely achieve what it had hoped to. This, however, is despite the many aims and initiatives put in place by the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments during the decades of the

A key value in Australian society is freedom of religion and equality for all. However, the major religion in Australia is Christianity with around 61% of the population identifying themselves as Christian, according to national Census from 2016. The Christians in Australia

for rights and freedoms of Aboriginal people in Australia. Introduction - Charles Perkins made major contributions to the rights and freedoms of Aboriginal people. In the past, Australia did not recognise the rights and freedoms of Aboriginal Australians due to European settlements, when they arrived in 1788, they did not understand the aboriginal culture. They looked for signs of land ownership and found none. They claimed Australia as ‘Terra Nullius’ (No Body lands). However, many individuals

Strait Islanders experience many disadvantages compared to most of the Australian population. The Indigenous people of Australia experiences vast inequality compared to non indigenous Australians including a significantly shorter life expectancy, higher rate of infant mortality, lower levels of health and poorer levels of education and employment. Since the colonisation of Australia by the British in 1778, Indigenous Australians have experienced significant disadvantage, discrimination and injustice

The US Freedom Rides of 1961 marked a very important event in American history as well as Australian history. In 1961, civil rights activists used the means of peaceful protest to challenge segregation on public buses. The protests carried out by the African-Americans in the southern of the United States sparked inspiration for Aboriginal activism in Australia in 1965. Charles Perkins, an Aboriginal activist played a pivotal role in influencing activism in Australia through his opinions. At the time

people of “white” backgrounds could vote simply “Yes” or “No” to allow give Aboriginals Australian Citizenship and include them in the Census