Charity giving by postcode

For a fascinating look at which areas of Australia give what sorts of money to charity try this website (you can search by postcode!) www.bus.qut.edu.au/research/cpns/postcode.php
How 'giving' is your postcode?
You can find out how much the taxpayers in your postcode claimed in their 2005-06 individual income tax returns for deductible gifts by using the search function.
Louise

Comparitive statistics for Local Government Areas

Our Community, with the support of social demographer Hayden Brown from the City of Greater Dandenong, has produced some easy-to-use summaries of Australian Bureau of Statistics social indicators for all NSW municipalities. The tables enable easy comparison between LGAs and state averages.
http://www.ourcommunity.com.au/funding/funding_article.jsp?articleId=3537

STATE LIBRARY of NSW
Louise

BELONGINGS ideas list now available

In 2009 the HSC students stop doing the subject "Journeys" and start doing the subject "Belonging". This means they will be coming in asking for texts (fiction, non-fiction, dvd's etc) to read or watch about this theme. On the www.insidebreak.org.au
website is a list of ideas for the students to use, also on this website is a list of theme words of relevance to the topic. Always remind the students to check with their teachers about the suitability of the text they have chosen.
Louise

Issues today - school violence

Visit the School Angels website to see how local communities are working together to stop violence and bullies in schools http://www.schoolangels.com.au/ The School Angels are regional groups designed to help better support schools with resources sharing, aid, management, counselling and anti-violence and tolerance programs. The School Angels is about parents, teachers and schools helping each other. Anti-violence needs to be taught at school, as does tolerance education.
Louise

Portals to the World - Country information

Library of Congress, Portals to the World.
"Each link opens a country page where more links pages under each topic are given.... These pages link you to the best web pages available for every and any country." [as featured in FreePint 10 April 2008] http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html

Louise

Youth Homelessness

If you are interested in the NYC report, you also might be interested to read the article by David McKenzie (NYC Commissioner) and Chris Chamberlain that was published in the March issue of Youth Studies Australia. It is based on their most recent survey of student homelessness in Australia.
Their paper reveals that there has been a decrease in youth homelessness, largely as a result of the implementation of programs that have reconnected families; however, they stress that rates of homelessness are still high among Indigenous youth, young people from single parent and blended families and, not surprisingly, teenagers who have been in state care and protection. For example, Indigenous young people make up 3.9% of Australia's young people aged 12 to 18 years, but they make up 19% of Australia's homeless young people.
For more info, check out the YSA page on our website: http://acys.info/journal/overview or write to us!
There are more YSA articles on homelessness at: http://www.acys.info/journal/indexes/subjects/housing_homelessness
And more information on homelessness resources at: http://acys.info/topics/homelessness

Information posted by Louise

Year 12 Geography

These sites were all mentioned at a recent seminar
• http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/globalcities/default.shtm A must for studying Urban Places covers World Cities and Mega Cities.
• http://www.megacitiesproject.org/default.asp A useful site, quick statistics and some solutions to problems of living in Mega Cities
• http://www.megacities.uni-koeln.de/index.htm A site with lots of useful links for information about Mega Cities • http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/group.html This site presents the idea of Alpha, Beta and Gamma cities, it is useful for students as they consider the operation of global networks and the role of cities within these networks.
• http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PhotoAlbum31.html Worth a visit due to the visual nature of the site
Louise