Sudanese Perspectives on Resettlement in Australia

Historical perspectives on indigenous health in Australia.

In spite of much effort over the past 25 years, the life expectancy of the indigenous people remains nearly 20 years behind the non-Aboriginal white population of Australia. These figures compare unfavourably with the improved life expectancy over the past 25 years of other indigenous peoples, such as the New Zealand Maori and the American Indian populations. By 1990-94, the average Australian ...

Perspectives on Horticultural Therapy in Australia

Human awareness of plants in Australia goes back 50,000 years when the aboriginal first began using plants to treat, clothe and feed themselves. The European influence came in 1778 with the First Fleet landing in New South Wales. Australia’s earliest records of using horticulture for therapy and rehabilitation were in institutions for people with intellectual disabilities or who were incarcerat...

Research on GIS Based Reservoir Resettlement Data Management System - An Example of Guangdong Reservoir Resettlement Project

Reservoir resettlement management is the fundamental project to the success of construction of reservoir. Due to the diversity of types of engineering data and trivial content as well as wide range of covers, modern technologies like GIS are required to build the information system and to achieve systematic management of data which can be displayed through diverse methods in order to satisfy re...

Creating White Australia: new perspectives on race, whiteness and history

International perspectives on rural nursing: Australia, Canada, USA.

This article compares and contrasts nursing practice in rural areas based on selected publications by nurse scholars from Australia, Canada and the USA. By no means is the analysis complete; rather this preliminary effort is designed to provoke interest about rural nursing in the global village. The information can be used to examine the rural phenomenon in greater depth from an international p...