Youth Homelessness in Australia

Questions

1. What are the demographics of young homeless people in Australia?

There are many homeless shelters around Australia and many homeless people live in the country and rural areas. The majority of homeless people are found in large cities like Sydney and Melbourne.

2. How does being homeless affect a young person?

They can become depressed, helpless, feel lonely, have mental and physical illnesses which may even lead to death. They can not go to school and ans changes the way they think about life

3. What are some causes of the rise in youth homelessness in Australia?

Some causes of the rise in youth homelessness are: family breakups, sexual abuse, assault, mental illness, gambling or drug addiction

4. What aspects of the current welfare system can inhibit of young homelessness  have on Australian society?

Homelessness makes young people feel vunrable and too scared to ask for help. Also many homeless people who want to find shelter are often not able to get any because there are too many people.

Stereotypes:

dirty-negative
poor-negative
alone-negative
venerable-negative
misunderstood- in the middle
helpless-in the middle

 

1. How are characters who are homless protrayed in  movies or in television ?

Television and movies make homeless people seem dirty, uncared for, not worth anything and depressed.

2. Do you think that these protrayals are accurate, and why?

No i dont think that they are accurate because homeless people are not given the chance to speak up for themselves and they are misunderstood because none of us knows what we are dealing with.

3. Do the same steryotypes apply to young homeless people?

most of the time no, because they are young which means that they probably had a eg family breakup so people will feel sorry for them

 

Discrimination article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/18/gay-couple-win-case-hoteliers

Discrimination

   

Sudan

Sudan is a country in North Africa and is considered to be a part of the middle east. It is bordered by Egypt and the Red sea. The people of sudan have suffered a long history of poverty and war. Sudan is a very hot and dry country and is a desert. Sudan has been at war with itself for more than three quarters of its existence. This conflict is made by the cultural and religious sides that characterize the country. 450,000 people have been murdered, 2.5 million are hungry, and 4.5 are displaced. It is a crisis that is complicated, multi faceted, and complex.

Some organisations that are helping Sudan are:

• http://www.savedarfur.org/
• http://www.wfp.org
• http://www.dec.org.uk
• http://www.oxfam.org.uk
• http://www.islamic-relief.com

These organisations are helping Sudan by:

Providing shelter, clean water and sanitation as well as food to refugees. Having small children vaccinated against disease, providing basic needs eg food, blankets and providing educational services, shelter material, mosquito nets, blankets, kitchen utensils, and the distribution of seeds and tools to the people of Sudan.

Poverty

Definitions

• Poverty in its simplest form is the lack of the basics required for quality of life. These basics begin with food, clothing, shelter, and clean drinking water.
• the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support
• The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.

Destribution of poverty

 

Roughly 1.1 billion people currently live on less than US$1 per day. Definitions and measures of poverty, however, can extend beyond a lack of monetary or material resources to include indicators of health, education, psychological suffering, empowerment, and environmental stability.

• Almost two in three people lacking access to clean water survive on less than $2 a day, with one in three living on less than $1 a day.
• More than 660 million people without sanitation live on less than $2 a day, and more than 385 million on less than $1 a day.
• 1.8 billion people who have access to a water source within 1 kilometre, but not in their house or yard, consume around 20 litres per day. In the United Kingdom the average person uses more than 50 litres of water a day flushing toilets (where average daily water usage is about 150 liters a day. The highest average water use in the world is in the US, at 600 liters day.)
• Some 1.8 million child deaths each year as a result of diarrhoea

Causes of poverty

 

 

 

Justice and Injustice Pictures

Injustice

 

These two pictures show injustice because they show that children are not being equally treated and that
they are having to beg for food to survive through the day. The second picture shows a Japanese boat
capturing as whale and bringing it onto the boat to kill and sell/eat. This is injustice because the
whales do not deserve to be treated this way and that they are being hunted and killed.

 

The first picture here shows that forests are being cut down by machines. This destroys many animals habitats
and kills many animals. The animals have no where to go and no food to eat because their homes are being
destroyed and they will eventually going to die from either injuries, starvation or loss of habitat. The second
picture shows a young boy who is starving crouching on the ground. This picture shows that many people are
not as lucky as we are and that we should be very grateful for the things that we have because  they do not even
have basic essentials to live. eg. food, water, clothes shelter.

Justice

 

The two images above are the scales of scales of justice and the judges gavel. the scaled of justice represent that
every side to court is examined equally and that justice will always be served. The second picture is a object that
is used by a judge to have order in a courtroom or to stop and start the court.

This picture is someone with handcuffs around their hands. This symbolises that they are getting judged for what
they have done and are getting properly punished for it and getting justice for what they have done.

Lady Justice

What each symbol represents;

-Blindfold – Impartiality, Freedom from corruption of the senses
-Scales – Each side is to be carefully examined
-Sword – Power of law
What does justice mean?

-Justice behavior or treatment
-The quality of being fair and reasonable
Origins of Lady Justice

Lady Justice was originally known as the goddess Themis. In Greek Themis means ‘order’. Her other names are Justicia or Justice. She is also associated with the goddesses Astraea, Dike, Eirene, Eunomia, Fortuna, Tyche, and Ma’at.