Backbencher

I read the newspaper called The Age on May 6 and found a few articles very interesting. The first one that caught my eye was about a little girl that was struck by a car yesterday when she was being pushed in her stroller across a crosswalk. She was hit by an 80 year old man and went flying. She is unconscious and very sedated. They expect her to be on life support for at least three weeks. The thing that is unbelievable about this story is that in 2003 a car crashed into her daycare center and she was trapped underneath the burning car. She lost both her feet and some fingers and 85% of her body was burned. I cannot believe the trauma and bad luck such a young child could go through. The reason I was drawn to this article is because I have a passion for children. Most of my jobs have been with children and I hope to be a school speech pathologist someday. I feel this has do with the study of Australia and New Zealand because it shows the care and support the people have for their country. I think they maybe shouldn’t allow their elders to drive after a certain point. I feel that this accident could have been prevented.
The other article that caught my eye was about a town that we have studied in this class- Alice Springs. The town camps that are known for their domestic violence, high crime rates, and poverty will undergo a $30 million facelift. With this facelift they plan to decrease all of these conditions. I chose this article because it shows how the country wants to turn the horrible into a benefit.