Australians, be proud

There are efforts afoot to try and portray Australians as being mean and hard-hearted. That is fundamentally untrue. Here is our track record:-

 

Some stats on carers in Australia:

 

2.7 million unpaid carers in Australia

More than 770,000 carers are primary carers

300,000 carers are under the age of 24

150,000 carers are under the age of 18

Over 1.5 million carers are of working age

31,600 indigenous carers are over the age of 15

620,000 carers were born outside Australia

366,700 carers were born in non-English speaking countries

520,000 carers are over 65 years of age

The estimated annual replacement value of care provided in 2012 is over A$40.9 billion

 

It is estimated that carers provided 1.32 billion hours of unpaid care in 2010 with productivity loss estimated at A$6.5 billion

 

On average carers spend approx 40 hours per week providing care. It is estimated that carers of someone with a mental illness spend on average 104 hours per week in the caring role.

 

Source: ABS (2012) Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers

ABS (2008) Summary of Findings: ABS Census of Population and Housing, Health and Welfare of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

ABS (2003) Migrants, Disability, Ageing and Carers

ABS (2009) Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers

Access Economics (2010) The Economic Value of Informal Care in 2010days

 

Would someone like to put up other countries' stats regarding caring? What are the stats for Sri Lanka or perhaps Iraq? Let's examine the stats for Syrian volunteers. Let's see some stats so we can see how mean Australians are.

 

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Newscorpse.There that's better. 🙂
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@debra9275 wrote:

one of the fishermen who rescued the girls is named here she-ele

 

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/man-charged-with-attacking-two-young-women-camping-at-coorong-nat...

 

a Mr  Abdul-Karim Mohammed

 

lucky for those girls he was there


why was the story removed?

it says its not found. 

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Probably because it contains details that the police would rather weren't in the public domain
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/two-women-seriously-injured-at-salt-creek/news-st...

 

 

i don't know..

 

 

 

 

 

perhaps they've updated the story or changed the headline today

 

 

Mr Mohammed said it was a confronting scene.

“We were shocked when we seen her and then we go there’s something really bad going on here,” he said.

“She was just screaming, crying, yelling

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

@djilukjilly wrote:

I’m proud of the 2 Aussie fishermen who came to the rescue of those two women at Salt Creek.


So am I. True blue Aussie heroes.  

Did any of the newspaper accounts happen to mention the names of either of them?

 


there were more than 2 involved

in the rescue (coorong mayer praised

them as heroes) but only one name

has been mentioned for some reason..

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I think that man was named because he's the one who did the interviews... what other reason could there be that you're thinking??

 

he was one of the fisherman that drove the girl to the roadhouse and went back to search for the other girl

 

perhaps more names will be given later

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I think that man was named because he's the one who did the interviews... what other reason could there be that you're thinking??

 

 

not sure..the other fishermen was

also interviewed.  

 

i think i found the story from the

link that was not working:

 

A fisherman camped about 5km away, where the off-road track meets Tea Tree Point beach, said he saw a vehicle speed past him with a woman in the passenger’s seat.

“She was screaming, she was not in a good way,” he said.

 

The second woman, who was naked, had run through the sand dunes to the safety of other fishermen camped ­nearby.

 

“First of all she just started waving,” another fisherman, Abdul-Karim Mohammed, told Seven News.

“She looked at us. She didn’t know what was going on. She ran straight to the car yelling. She opened the back door, jumped straight in and like ‘Get me out of here, get me out of here. He’s going to kill us all.’

 

“First of all she had no clothes on so we just straight away gave her our jacket.

“She had some scratches and that on the legs. Look liked she’d been pulled around, dragged around and that.”

Mr Mohammed said it was a confronting scene.

 

“We were shocked when we seen her and then we go there’s something really bad going on here,” he said.

“She was just screaming, crying, yelling.”

 

Another fisherman said that “a girl came out of the dunes, waving her hands and screaming (and) naked, we didn’t know what was going on. She ran to the car, screaming hysterically, we realised something is wrong.

“She was telling us about her friend, her friend was lost in the dunes and she was worried about it.

 

“Her and her friend split up. They were running different directions ... She got away and she said ‘I want to find my friend’’.

The fisherman’s son said that “it just happened with perfect timing.’’

 

The fishermen were able to raise the alarm at the Salt Creek roadhouse about 6.30pm and police and paramedics were called.

 

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/two-women-seriously-injured-at-salt-creek/news-st...

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perhaps more names will be given later.

 

perhaps.

the great she ele was asking if their

names were mentioned...

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well, one has  been mentioned and shown- there are also names of the people at the road house mentioned... those who were interviewed obviously

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well, one has  been mentioned and shown.

 

 

yes, that is correct. 

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