·         Turning points:

·         Became increasingly aware of the unjust nature of South African Society

·         Mandela had to resign from the ANC and work underground

·         Sharpeville massacre of 63 black South African’s changed the whole political climate

·         Life at the prison

·         release in 1990

·         lost his eldest son

·         Retiring

Achievements:

·         finish his degree and qualified as a Lawyer

·         Opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa

·         helped found the ANC Youth League

·         helped to keep other Men’s spirits high 

·         First democratically elected State President of South Africa

·          many prestigious awards

·         Awarded the Nobel Peace Prizejointly                              

 http://www.writespirit.net/authors/nelson-mandela/biography-mandela/

http://www.racismnoway.com.au/teaching-resources/factsheets/60.html

Fred Hollows (1929 - 1993)

1929 - was born in New Zealand

1960 - got a job in Australia

1965 - was head of the Eye Department at a Sydney hospital

1970 - helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians

1980 - was travelling all over the world to help set up eye health programs in developing countries

1989 - was dying of cancer

 1993 - died at home surrounded by his friends and family

Time line

http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/heroes/sykes.html

1943 - born in Townsville Australia

1950 - her son was born

1980 - She graduated at Harvard University in the US, doctorate in education.

1994 - awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal

1967 - became an activist in the lead-up to the landmark

1970 - moved to Sydney

1970 - began writing and in a 10-year period as a freelance writer, contributed many more articles on Aboriginal disadvantage and indigenous politics to various outlets

1971 - her daughter was borne

1972 - was one of the founders of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

1975 to 1980 - Sykes was an adviser on Aboriginal health and education to the NSW Health Commission and her first book of poetry

1979 - published Love Poems and Other Revolutionary Acts

1981 - she ghosted the award-winning autobiography of well-known NSW indigenous social worker

2002 - was immensely frustrated to be left paralysed on one side and unable to walk

2010 - died at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney after failing to recover from a stroke suffered eight years ago

Thousands of students stranded without enrolment as TAFE chaos continues

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/thousands-of-students-stranded-without-enrolment-as-tafe-chaos-continues-20160423-godfe6.html

Annual Greenhouse Emissions by Sector

About the Emissions Inventory

EPA develops an annual report called the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (Inventory). This report tracks total annual U.S. emissions and removals by source, economic sector, and greenhouse gas going back to 1990. EPA uses national energy data, data on national agricultural activities, and other national statistics to provide a comprehensive accounting of total greenhouse gas emissions for all man-made sources in the United States. EPA also collects greenhouse gas emissions data from individual facilities and suppliers of certain fossil fuels and industrial gases through the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. 

Globall Warming Statistic

Global warming is among the most alarming environmental issues that the world faces today. This phenomenon does not simply involve the significant rise in the earth’s temperature but a lot more. The adverse effects of global warming have become more and more apparent since the dawn of the 20th century, with more hurricanes and tropical storms causing massive destruction in different areas around the world, more animal species losing their habitats and becoming extinct, and more people dying because of too much heat.

Jalal brothers, who post fake drive-by shootings, bomb threat videos on YouTube and Facebook, arrested

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-25/jalal-brothers-arrested-counter-terrorism-police-over-pranks/7198874

Note:

• Three brothers arrested, facing firearms, assault charges over social media clips
• Videos are not simple "childhood pranks", police say
• Pranks causing alarm, anxiety in wider community

Summery

Three Melbourne brothers, known for posting prank videos in which they imitate terrorists by filming fake bomb stunts and drive-by shootings, have been arrested.

Police said Counter Terrorism Command detectives executed a warrant this morning in South Morang, in Melbourne's outer north east.

Assistant Commissioner Ross Guenther police did not see the videos as simple "childhood pranks"."Our response has been very much driven by the change in nature of those posts, the escalation in the type of content that's been there," he said. 

Personal Reflection:

This behaviour is not OK, it does not promote social cohesion, it promotes poor behaviour

Immigration to Australia: 1992 and 2002

Australia’s migration history

Australia’s migration history

The nineteenth century

In 1788, when European settlement began, Australia’s Aboriginal population was about 400,000. Today, over 20 million people live here. Migration has been the main driver for this change. In New South Wales, four out of every ten people are either migrants or the children of migrants.

Clearly Australia has a rich migration history. However attitudes to migration and particularly to the ideal source of migrants have changed considerably over these 218 years. The first migrants were decidedly involuntary, the convicts transported from Britain, Ireland and, to a lesser degree, other British colonies. Altogether 80,000 arrived in New South Wales between 1788 and 1840. From the 1830s they were joined by small numbers of voluntary migrants, again principally from Britain and Ireland. Some came under their own resources, others with assistance from one of the public or private schemes then available.

However, with the discovery of gold just outside Bathurst in 1851, the nature of Australian migration changed completely. People arrived in far greater numbers and from more varied backgrounds than ever before. Between 1851 and 1861 over 600,000 came and while the majority were from Britain and Ireland, 60,000 came from Continental Europe, 42,000 from China, 10,000 from the United States and just over 5,000 from New Zealand and the South Pacific. Although Australia never again saw such a rush of new immigrants, the heightened interest in settling here remained. By the time of Federation the total population was close to four million of whom one in four was born overseas. Many had been given assisted passages. Whilst the majority were of British or Irish extraction, there were significant numbers of Europeans, particularly Germans, and Chinese.