Sunday, 6 April 2014

KEY SENTENCES

- A fear of failing Australia's citizenship test is stopping refugees from applying to become citizens, a Victorian ethnic group says.
 
- “It's created a barrier with these types of people. They've been traumatise, never had education or been to school and the fear of failure is a big issue”.
 
- “The people feel 'why are they testing us, if they didn't want us, why did they bring us here?”
 
- The government also said there were fears the level of English used in the test had "crept up" to native speaker level, rather than the basic level supposed to be used.
 
- Since the test was introduced last October, 1,286 people failed it at their first attempt.

- "But if you take the big extremes, there is a big gap"
 

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Fred Hollows's biography



1929 - Born in Newzealand
1960 - Got a job in Australia
1965 - Became head of the eye department at Sydney hospital
1970 - Helped launch a national program to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australia
1980 - Travelled all over the world to help set up eye health programs in developing countries
1989 - Diagnosed by cancer
1993 - Died at the age of 64

 

Monday, 10 March 2014

Turning points and Achievments (Nelson Mandela)


Turning points

-           Nelson Mandela became increasingly aware of the unjust nature of South African Society

-          In 1944 helped to found ANZ youth league

-          Resigned from ANZ and work under ground

-          Arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in Robben Island prison

-          In 1990 released from prison

-          Lost his oldest son to H.I.V epidemic

-          Mandela retired

 

Achievments

-          In 1944 Found ANZ youth league

-          In 1952 opened the first black law firm in South Africa

-          In 1960 advocate armed struggle through the MK

-          Helped to keep other men’s sprits high and never compromised his political principle when offered early release

-          10th of May 1994 Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected state president of South Africa

-          Worked hard on H.I.V  Campaign

-          Mandela associated with many educational programmers and initiative such as make poverty history campaign

-          In 1993 awarded  the Nobel peace prize

 

Friday, 28 February 2014

Nelson Mandela Timeline

It always seems impossible until its done.

1918 - Nelson Mandela born in Quna-South Africa
1944 - Founded ANZ Youth League
1952 - Opened first black law firm in Africa
1960 - Government banned ANC - Mandela advocated armed struggle
1962 - Arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in Robbern Island prison
1990 - Released from prison
1993 - Awarded the Nobel Peace prize
1994 - Nelson Mandela inaugurated first democratically elected
1994 - 1999 President of South Africa
2013 - Died