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Social research into the Great Australian Bight to look at potential community effects of oil and gas exploration
South Australia's University of Adelaide is researching the social structure of Eyre Peninsula communities to determine potential impacts from oil and gas exploration in the Great Australian Bight. It is part of a four-year, $20 million collaborative science program between oil giant BP, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the South Australian Research...
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Muslims in Australia and their aged care needs: an exploratory study with special reference to South Australia
The report provides insights into Islam and Muslims so as to put the issue of Muslim aged care into proper perspective; it also provides opportunity to clarify some concepts in the context of Muslims, such as culture, ethnicity, and spirituality.
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Australian curriculum: languages - Foundation to Year 10 curriculum design
The purpose of this document is to describe a common design and curriculum development process to help in developing language-specific curricula for Foundation to Year 10 as part of the Australian Curriculum.
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Developing job quality benchmarks in Australian aged care services
This report uses detailed analysis of the National Aged Care Workforce Census and Survey, 2012, to identify benchmarks of job quality for Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) and Community Care Workers (CCWs).
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Empowering Indigenous communities to prevent child abuse and neglect
In some jurisdictions of Australia, the rate of Indigenous children in foster, kinship and residential care on any one night has reached almost one in ten. This rate is almost ten times higher than non-Aboriginal children and has steadily increased over the past decade. Contrast this with rates of non-Indigenous children in out-of-home care, which...