Southport

The A.B Paterson College Early Childhood Centre has established a relationship with the above services in order to connect parents directly to the key person in charge, to support families towards a good outcome. These relationships assist in maintaining and fostering positive, safe and supportive community partnerships between the home and the centre. Creating such relationships builds trust with each child and their families, to the point where they are comfortable to reveal any doubts either large or small to the educators (McArdlle, 2009). Features of the region/town: The centre is located in Arundel on the Gold Coast with an area population of 10,351(Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2015). The area is viewed as an ‘aged population’ as 65.8% of the resident population are aged 40 years or older with 14.2% being aged 0 to 14 years and 20% aged 14 to 40 years (ABS, 2013). The average family composition consists of two parents and two children with 45.1% of the population being married with at least two children (ABS Census, 2015). Research (ABS, 2015) shows that 60.9% of the area population are Australian born, with 14.3% speaking another language in the home and only 1% being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The main language other than English, spoken in the home is Japanese at 12.2% and Mandarin at 2.1%. Furthermore, 45.8% of people had both parents born in Australia and 42.1% of people had both parents born overseas. The most common responses for religious…

railway networks helped bring about the growth of seaside resorts during the latter half of the nineteenth century in Europe and the USA, and this growth can be seen as the result of a partnership between the public and private sectors” (Fletcher, et al., 2013). Here Fletcher explains how the origins of a destination, such as Southport, began due to the relationships between the public and private sector companies. Like any tourist destination, in order to be successful public and private…

Hidden in a picturesque Surfers Paradise side-street, unpaid helpers at the Gold Coast and Hinterland Historical Society work tirelessly to preserve local history. However, senior volunteers warn Gold Coast history is under threat of disappearing, advising it may never be recovered if this occurs. Former Historical Society President and fourth-generation Gold Coaster Bob Nancarrow believes ignorance poses the greatest danger, explaining many residents are unaware the Gold Coast even has a…

Currently the Southport volunteer fire department is experiencing major issues that are impacting the department. The department is struggling to figure out how to resolve major issues. These issues resolve around how can the volunteer fire department better serve the citizens in the Village of Southport and the Town of Fairfield. This requires the department to focus on working towards its mission and strategic goals. The mission of the fire department is to protect the lives and property of…

Unlike Palm Beach, Southport Spit predominately sits on native reserve. The width of Palm Beach and Southport Spit from the water’s edge to fore dune was 37 meters and 40 meters (table 4). The average wave height at Palm Beach and Southport Spit was 0.6 meters. These waves transport, deposit and erode materials such as sediment and sand, dynamically changing the shape of the coastline overtime. Currumbin Creek flows water through to Palm Beach. The word Currumbin is of native origin and means…

Introduction The Southport Volunteer Fire Department is in great need of an overhaul of its outdated rules, regulations and policies. The department has witnessed over the past several years a serious decline in its membership and the ranks are growing thin due to older members retiring. In order to save the fire department, it was determined that the department could benefit greatly from doing a strategic plan. A strategic plan will result in the department overhauling, its outdated rules,…

The 340 page book Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks is easily the best book I've ever read. Safe Haven is all about Katie moving to a new place with a secret that nobody knows. She meets the convenience store manager Alex and his kids and instantly falls in love whether she wants to admit it or not. In the beginning of the book Katie runs away from her home in Boston, Massachusetts for a unknown reason and comes to the small town of Southport, North Carolina. Katie runs away from Boston with a…

completely different.” (Stephen King). In Nicholas Spark’s novel Safe Haven and Marty Bowen’s movie Safe haven this is the case. In this story a wife that is being abused runs away for abusive husband. Her husband, an investigator, tries to find out where she went. After finding love she starts to make a new family; however, her abuser finds out and threatens her new family. When a movie is made from a book, they are usually similar; however, movie directors try and twist the plots around.…

‘The American Dream’ reflects what we see as the kind of equality of opportunity that can exist only in a class system. It is a belief that all people, regardless of the conditions into which they were born, have an equal chance to achieve success. However, there is also presence of caste system that allows the higher class to remain in their position whilst making it difficult for lower classes to move upwards despite their efforts. Social inequality is rooted in our capitalist system that is…

Call me a book nerd or a geek, but this assignment actually made me think quite a bit. I have read quite a few books, but one that I constantly remember making an impact on me when I read it, and even after I put it down, is “Safe Haven” by Nicholas Sparks. You’re probably thinking that this author just fills his books with sappy, unrealistic love stories and tragedies, and in all honesty I believed that too in the beginning. However, within the first chapter, I noticed a story that represented…