By ELLESSE ALBERS
The car is packed full to the brim, and the kids are squealing, squashed in the back seat. As the car pulls out of the driveway, the setting sun flickers on the bonnet. You sigh. [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
By JO JOHNSON
Drinkers in the ACT will continue Australia’s binge drinking culture, with industry officials claiming more has to be done to educate staff. [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
By KRISTYN COMINO
A newborn reaches up from her crib, wrapping her tiny fingers around a comforting bigger hand. The baby laughs when a toy is waved in her face and then starts dancing to the nursery rhyme it plays. At lunch time she cheerfully feasts on mushy apples for a while before starting to cry hysterically and throwing the food up the walls. [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
By JASON PARIS
The community health care system provides the safety net within our society. From emergency accommodation, drug and alcohol programs, aged care to counselling, this system ensures that people fallen on hard times are assisted. However there are severe problems including budget cuts, staff shortages, increased workers demands and a faulty system that are cutting away at this safety net in centres all around Australia. [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
By IAN FENTON
From the first of January 2010 all government university scholarships will be administered and distributed by Centrelink as part of the government’s plans to increase the percentage of 25-34 year olds with a bachelor degree from 29% to 40%. [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
This year’s ACT Budget figures show half a million dollars set aside for energy efficient streetlight upgrades. But in Canberra’s inner north, streets have yet to see the upgrades, and according to Territory and Municipal Services, they aren’t likely to in the near future. BEN LISSON reports. Click to hear
{ 0 comments }
By JESSICA NAIRN
A third of Australians are now using a complementary medicine at least once a year, according to The National Prescribing Service, however the regulatory balance remains tipped in favour of commercial, over consumer interests. [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
By SAM HUNT
“You need to think like a Ninja,” said the 23-year-old graffiti artist Darren yesterday, in describing how to get away with illegal graffiti. “Use shadows, cover, and ambient noise to your advantage to go undetected… Work when the chance of being seen by anyone is slim. 2am early in the week is ideal, never work on a Saturday night.” [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
By MEREDITH BACON
Preparing children to start school has its challenges, but if you are a parent of a child with autism or asperger’s syndrome, or a physical disability or mental illness, that task will probably be even more daunting. [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
By TAMARA CANDY
Across the territory and Australia disabled persons are beginning to be employed by companies who never would have employed them in the past. Just visit your local McDonalds and chances are that a mentally disabled person working behind the scenes. Low-end cleaning and labour jobs are now seeking to employ mentally disabled people for extra incentives from the government. [click to continue…]
{ 0 comments }
