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Future Leaders is a national Initiative about leadership and the future of Australia. It seeks to involve, inform and inspire young people.
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Future Leaders echapters.
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“More than 80% of Australians and over half of the world’s population now live in cities: cities that are responsible, directly or indirectly …”
“Words are powerful. They can forge bonds of mutual respect and understanding, as they did when a nation apologised to all Indigenous Australians …”
“My idea for the past twelve years has been to develop an enjoyable program suitable for all Australian primary schools, with the aim of positively influencing children’s attitudes and behaviours about food …”
“Much of our agricultural land is presently straining under the ‘worst drought in living memory’: 80% of Queensland is drought declared …”
“You are being followed. Not by a person – by the 800-odd cookies dropped by websites on your own machine, by GPS and the apps that use it from your own phone …”
“The gross over-representation of Indigenous Australians in the criminal justice system is well recognised…”
“It’s Saturday morning, which means pancakes. After a long drive out to the quiet suburbs of regional Victoria, I arrive too late for the pancakes …”
“We live in a world forever changed by the terrorist attacks in New York City on 11 September 2001 that made people feel vulnerable …”
“I was born into a culture that has a tradition of storytelling. Indigenous cultures across Australia have cultural on “Dreamtime” stories …”
“The concept of sustainability has always been central to indigenous cultures. Native Americans believe that you have to consider …”
“What is this covering that we call the skin – this amazing envelope that contains some of the most extraordinary mechanisms in the entire body …”
“Terry Wallace was a tough footballer. During his time playing for the Hawthorn Football Club he was called ‘the Plough’ for his ability to burrow into packs of …”
“In recent decades, there has been an extraordinary technological revolution underway in which the very building blocks of life, our genetic codes …”
“Mental health problems are extremely common in the community and have a major impact on people’s day-to-day lives …”
“Throughout history people have relied on some form of doctor or other healer to help them and their families during times of illness, and to provide comfort …”
“A thirty-seat plane sat on the runway, its propellers spinning hypnotically in the darkness. The engine roared, a deafening thunder that threatened to blow my …”
“My interest in older people began quite early in my own life for three reasons. The first because my mother became seriously ill in her late fifties and I already …”
“On April 6, 2008 The Sunday Age reported:
True love never dies. But, in a sense, one of
Melbourne’s most moving little love stories ended
on Friday …”
“To the great surprise of many well-informed people in developed countries, malaria remains a major problem in the world today …”
“In its earliest imaginings by politicians and bureaucrats, Canberra was imagined as a city – and a national capital – in a landscape …”
“There is one measure which, if adopted in Australia, would make an important difference to this flawed democracy of ours …”
“It is not difficult to articulate the core elements of any human rights framework: we should acknowledge as inalienable rights those conditions that are generally …”
“One of the few philosophical precepts which is practically universal is captured in the Christian teaching: Do unto others as …”
“The ancient Chinese curse to live in changing times applies more to the health system in western countries than ever before …”
“One of the basic human drives is to find out more about ourselves and the world in which we live. This desire for knowledge …”
“It has only recently been widely recognised that many Indigenous Australians are unable to obtain primary evidence of their identity. This issue is identified by …”
“I begin with a few caveats. As a non-Aboriginal Australian, I am careful to avoid joining the legions of whitefellas who tell Aboriginal people …”
“When the Closing the Gap on Indigenous Birth Registration project was first conceived in 2009, there were many barriers to Indigenous Australians accessing …”
“It is clear from the chapters of this book that the majority of Australians do not experience any significant difficulty registering a birth and obtaining a birth …”
“Consider These Five Cases
1. Assisting a person to die: Terri Schiavo, an American
woman aged 41 years, was diagnosed as being in a persistent
vegetative state …”
“Bushfires have long been part of the European view of Australia’s landscape, captured in our literature …”
“‘Rage against the dying of the light’, so wrote the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, to his dying father in 1951. He is referring to his father’s impending death …”
“Gender equality’s great promise is that it benefits all people, children, life partners, workplaces, our economy and democratic culture …”
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