The main principle of the recently updated Children’s Act (2004) is to protect children and make sure their health and well-being is paramount. The Act was updated due to mistakes made in the Victoria Climbe case as well as various other reasons. The Victoria Climbe case involved an eight year old girl who was failed by local authorities she later died from her injuries in February 2000 after being tortured and starved to death by her great auntie and her boyfriend. Victoria was brought to London, England for a better life from the Ivory coast by her aunty and the abuse started once she moved in with her boyfriend Carl.
After the tragedy, Rosie’s advocacy work has forced an extraordinary national focus on family violence, with the Victorian Labor government founding Australia’s first royal commission
“There is no greater problem in family law today than the problems of adequately addressing child protection concerns in proceedings under the Family Law Act.” (Family Law Council, 2009, p. 15). Over the past decade there has been two main reforms which are reducing the overall number of child abuse related reports in Australia (AIFS, 2014). One of these is improved intake and referral pathways into family support services for vulnerable and at-risk families (AIFS, 2014). The primary assumption supporting this contemporary reform regarding child protection agendas has been credited to families being able to access “the right services at the right time” (Adamson, Bromfield, Edwards, Gray, Hilferty, Katz, et al., 2010).
Every page is littered with the horrors and trials these individuals faced at this wretched time in history where a whole race was nearly eradicated at the hand of a tyrannical leader that manipulated millions. Now all we can do is learn from the past, educate our youth of these injustices and not allow the past to repeat
Jeremy Smith writes about the American policy’s negative effects on immigrants, particularly unaccompanied minors to unearth why they are criticized so harshly. Rodrigo Smith was a fourth grader in Berkeley California when he was deported to Mexico long after his tourist visa expired. As a result, his classmates asked, “How is that fair?” When they worked together to create a video to bring his spirits up, they showed more empathy and comfort than an abundance of humans on our planet. Despite the emotional punch this anecdote lands with readers, it is not an effective piece of writing on its own.
In Australia, refugees and asylum seekers are treated like the enemy in a war: the target of a highly resourced, military-led “deterrence” strategy complete with arbitrary detainment, detention camps, guards to terrorise them, forced deportations and the violent suppression of those who protest. Australia is failing to meet the standards required when regarding the treatment of asylum seekers. It is fact that asylum seekers make up less than 3% of Australia’s annual immigration yet the idea is being distorted to that of which they will overpopulate a country that prides itself on being a multicultural society. I want to shed light on the misconception that asylum seekers are not ‘legal’ when in actual fact it is a human right to seek freedom.
Picture book review: Stolen girl August 2015 ‘Stolen girl’ written by Trina Saffioti and illustrated by Norma MacDonald, is a touching, emotionally stirring picture book about the tourment a young aboriginal girl experiences when she was taken away from her mother, by the Australian government. The story takes place in a children’s home and is told with the use of small bursts of detailed paragraphs and intense, colourful and melancholy illustrations. Written for 8-10 year olds, the purpose of the book represents the experiences of children who were a part of the stolen generation in the 1900s-1970s. In this time period it was government policy in Australia that each indigenous Australian child was to be removed from their families as the
It seems illogical for a child living in the poorest and worst urban areas to feel a sense of inspiration to go out and strive for a better future when everything around him represents the idea that the government does not want him to succeed. These impoverished
With over 300,000 Australians going into debt and many losing their homes the clearly destructive activity shouldn’t be continued. These losses are not comparable to the families and friends that suffer as their relationships are broken
They are thrown into a category with all other parents who have had their child or children placed in the foster care system for reasons other that incarceration. This article shows shows how incarcerated mothers are expected to be able to achieve the same steps to rehabilitation as ‘free’ mothers—which is unrealistic. The time frame used is also unfair to incarcerated mothers because sentencing times are often longer then the system is set up for. Parents are required to attend court dates that are twelve months apart from each other and within these twelve months the mother is expected to be able to care for the child or children otherwise her rights as a parent will be terminated. Realistically, a mother that is incarcerated will not be able to have everything sorted within twelve months; therefore, a system other than the foster care systems needs to be put in place for this type of
Emma Davidson Heather Kent English 1B 24 April 2023 America is a nation that was built on immigration, but though immigrants in the U.S. today continue to support and uphold the virtues of this country, many face the constant, looming threat of expulsion to a foreign place that is not their true home. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants have come to the U.S., fleeing poverty and political turmoil, and a vast amount of these illegal aliens were children when their parents brought them into the country. In 2001, the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors or DREAM Act was proposed to protect these children, often called “dreamers,” but the act was opposed in Congress. Naturally, the issue of the numerous
Bicycle thieves is a Italian film which was made in 1948 Directed by De Sica and . After the end of World War 2 Antonio Ricci who was unemployed and is struggling to support his family is given a job hanging up posters around the war torn of Italy Rome He was happy at that time because he was given a chance to have a job and support his family. His wife, Maria had to sell the family 's bed linens so Ricci bike could be reclaimed and he could use it.
The US notes 1.8 video mainly focused on the change that occurred during the progressive era, and why it was so important. It described the difference between Gilded Age presidents, that employed laissez-faire, and the progressive presidents. During the Gilded Age, the government left supporting the economy to companies. The government usually stayed out of economic issues, except when labor unions threatened companies, where the government supported the companies over the workers. During this period, corruption was also a major issue because of the spoils system that was in place.
The film Bicycle Thieves (1949) directed by Vittorio De Sica, is an Italian Neo-Realistic film set in post-war Italy. The film follows Antonio Ricci and his son Bruno on a quest to retrieve his stolen bike in an attempt to remove himself and his family from the cycle of poverty. Bicycle Thieves (1949) discusses themes of struggle and desperation causing one to sacrifice their morality and become the evil they initially fought. De Sica expresses such themes to the viewer through the culture of poverty and the continuous pain that poverty is capable of inflicting. De Sica also employs simplistic narrative, dramatic sound, and mise-en-scene that highlights the depressing nature of poverty.
How do boxes make decisions for you? If you read on you will see why according to the story “What’s Inside” by Avi. This story is about the narrator who had to make boxes for his school project. He had loved it a lot so he made two for his parents for Christmas. For the Christmas party he saw his cousin, Danny, staring at the boxes.
