Birds of New Zealand

Chris Crutcher’s Whale Talk tackles a lot of important issues and topics facing teens and young adults. One of those is abuse. He tells about how different characters deal with and overcome their abuse through theme, tone, and modern connections. It is important to know that not everyone deals with abuse the same way, and that not everyone has someone to help them deal with their issues. Two characters in Whale Talk have been abused and they dealt with it in very different ways. One of the…

The Australian Strike at Wave Hill station(August 1966), commonly known as The Wave Hill “Walk off” symbolised a turning point in aboriginal rights, as Aboriginal workers abandoned their duties at the cattle station in protest of poor wages and working conditions. The strike soon shifted its motives and became an issue of humanitarian rights, as the Gurindji people were denied ownership of their stolen land. The issue swiftly became symbolic of maltreatment of Aboriginal people throughout…

kilometres north from the city of Adelaide (125 miles). The Flinders ranges stretch for over 430 kilometres. Starting at Port Pirie and ending near lake Callabonna 120 kilometers from Cameron corner, the junction of South Australia, Queensland and New South Wales. How where the ranges formed? Believe it or not about 8oo million years ago the Ranges where nearly completely under water. In that period great forces of nature and tectonic plates lifted the entire east coast of Australia out…

Though many people of the Australian population view Australia Day as a day off to relax, January 26th has always been divisive, with the remainder of the population seeing January 26th as Invasion Day in lieu of a day of celebration. The article ‘Australia Day nationalism walks in the footsteps of ugly precedents’ by Robin Tennant-Wood was written for The Conversation on the 14th of January, 2014 and has one main idea: the meaning of Australia Day has strayed and does not do justice in…

founding members – Australia and New Zealand. Starbucks already has significant establishments in Australia and New Zealand; having a partnership in Fiji would be ideal to complete its presence across the Pacific Partnership and also build out routes to small Pacific Presence Partners (i.e. Micronesia, Solomon Islands,…

New Zealand Community Water Fluoridation: Is It Justifiable? Dental caries (tooth decay) is a chronic disease that affects all ages, and remains one of the most predominant diseases in New Zealand. If left untreated, possible ramifications could include, tooth loss (which may result in an undesirable appearance), pain, and infection. Therefore from an early age, it is essential to establish and implement good oral health practices. Examples of these practices (although not limited to) are,…

(2004, 2014), Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) (2014, 2015), Anna Johnson (2004), New Zealand Educational Institute Te Riu Reo (NZEI) (2012), Johnathon Boston (2013), Expert Advisory Group on Solutions…

l the real New Zealand man please stand up? He is rugged, strong, unemotional and not to mention heterosexual. That is how the media in New Zealand presents the real New Zealand man. But what does it really mean to be a real NZ man? According to ‘Statistics New Zealand’ there’s a 60 percent chance that he’s overweight and a 27 percent chance he has hazardous drinking patterns, so at the average age of 79 he will probably die from heart disease, a stroke, respiratory disease or lung cancer.…

Introduction The Holistic Model defines health as a state of complete physical, social, spiritual and mental hauroa (Davies, 2013). Health Promotion is one of the five-core functions of public health in New Zealand (Davies, 2013). The process of health promotion is to facilitate people, to increase control over, and to improve their overall health and wellbeing (Green & Raeburn, 1998). Health promotion does not focus merely on the individual but moves beyond to focus on a range of…

deserve cyber bullying”, which highlighted the extent of bullying that now exists from 10 years ago. Since bullying is a topic which everyone talks about but does nothing or little about it, it made me think "how does bullying affect young people in New Zealand?" Base on the facts and figures gathered the affects of bullying on children is much more profound than what was once thought. Bullying is not a slowing or dying problem but instead growing this generation of school students, detentions…