The leading cause of ABI in kids, teens and young adults is an accident or physical trauma. Things like falling over and hitting your head, being hit on the head with an object either by accident or during a physical altercation, or being involved in a car accident. This type of injury is usually called a Traumatic Brain Injury, or TBI, because the damage to the brain is caused by an external force.
You can also injure your brain in a sporting accident, like during a high tackle in rugby or footy, by running into something, or running into someone. Most sporting codes now have strict guidelines about how to manage a concussion or head injury. The other, less common, causes of ABI include brain infections like meningitis or encephalitis, a stroke, drowning or any other situation where the brain goes without oxygen for a period of time.
Should I take them to the doctor? It is recommended that you always seek medical advice when someone has injured their head. This is part of the recovery process, which is usually significant in the first few weeks.
Kids and young people are incredibly resilient. This, along with support from their family during rehabilitation, is key to getting the best possible outcomes. Our brains are vital to everything we do — how we move, how we think, how we speak, how we behave and our emotions. Ironically, the Middleback Arts Centre is located in the same precinct that houses government and church employment and welfare offices. Jan Vrtelka, a Czech migrant, wrote dozens of letters to the Whyalla News in the mid-noughties.
He later published a selection of over 60 of them under the telling title of All for Whyalla. He too advocated developing coastal resorts and remaking the railway to Port Augusta — which had carried passengers for only two years before closing in — to ship cattle to Darwin for export to Asia.
He urged the introduction of dog-sledding on sand and land yachts on mudflats near the city. Whyalla, he thought, should plan for a city five times its present size: entice refugees to settle, he argued — perhaps having himself fled Soviet oppression. Ore mining in the Middleback Ranges brings modest benefits; as did the Santos natural gas development at Port Bonython on nearby Point Lowly in the s. BHP divested itself of the steelworks in to OneSteel, later taken over by Arrium Steel, with each transfer costing jobs.
Over the decade the total workforce in the steelworks — once 6,strong — fell to around 1, In April , Arrium called in administrators and offered the plant for sale.
Today, the future of the steelworks remains uncertain. Whyalla, where the outback meets the sea … or where the steelworks used to be? Fundamentally, the question is whether an industrial community can survive in the harsh environment of the upper Eyre Peninsula.
But amid the predictions of economic collapse and the social dislocation that would inevitably follow, optimistic voices are also heard. The local council has launched a rebranding that will, they hope, attract tourists. On the way to the airport I stopped off at a magnificent exhibition of quilts by the Whyalla Quilters.
His work has also been published in Griffith Review 9 and This piece is republished with permission from State of Hope, the 55th edition of Griffith Review. Articles are a little longer than most published on The Conversation, presenting an in-depth analysis of the economic, social, environmental and cultural challenges facing South Australia, and the possibilities of renewal and revitalisation.
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Skip to main content. Opinion Diminishing city: hope, despair and Whyalla. Twitter Facebook LinkedIn. A BHP promotional booklet extolling its climate, facilities, community amenities and lifestyle one my family almost certainly read ended: This, then, is Whyalla: a place where a young community leads a busy, sunlit life, a city which is growing, always growing.
Postwar boom upset the old stability Whyalla had been a tiny company town until the late s. Determinedly sunny despite it all High rates of chronic illness keep Whyalla Hospital busy.
Partly because of its isolation and perceived disadvantages, the state government and other agencies have long made special efforts to bring culture to Whyalla.
The opening of what is now the Middleback Arts Centre in has given Whyalla residents an impressive program of theatre, music, ballet and other performances. Nor is the culture all imported. The Whyalla Players have performed musicals annually since , and not just the traditional Rogers and Hammerstein or Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire, but also complex and recent works such as Phantom of the Opera or Cats.
Ironically, the Middleback Arts Centre is located in the same precinct that houses government and church employment and welfare offices.
Jan Vrtelka, a Czech migrant, wrote dozens of letters to the Whyalla News in the mid-noughties. He later published a selection of over 60 of them under the telling title of All for Whyalla.
He too advocated developing coastal resorts and remaking the railway to Port Augusta — which had carried passengers for only two years before closing in — to ship cattle to Darwin for export to Asia. He urged the introduction of dog-sledding on sand and land yachts on mudflats near the city. Whyalla, he thought, should plan for a city five times its present size: entice refugees to settle, he argued — perhaps having himself fled Soviet oppression.
Ore mining in the Middleback Ranges brings modest benefits; as did the Santos natural gas development at Port Bonython on nearby Point Lowly in the s. BHP divested itself of the steelworks in to OneSteel, later taken over by Arrium Steel, with each transfer costing jobs. Over the decade the total workforce in the steelworks — once 6,strong — fell to around 1, In April , Arrium called in administrators and offered the plant for sale.
Today, the future of the steelworks remains uncertain. Whyalla, where the outback meets the sea … or where the steelworks used to be? Fundamentally, the question is whether an industrial community can survive in the harsh environment of the upper Eyre Peninsula.
But amid the predictions of economic collapse and the social dislocation that would inevitably follow, optimistic voices are also heard. The local council has launched a rebranding that will, they hope, attract tourists. On the way to the airport I stopped off at a magnificent exhibition of quilts by the Whyalla Quilters.
His work has also been published in Griffith Review 9 and This piece is republished with permission from State of Hope, the 55th edition of Griffith Review.
Articles are a little longer than most published on The Conversation, presenting an in-depth analysis of the economic, social, environmental and cultural challenges facing South Australia, and the possibilities of renewal and revitalisation.
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Breadcrumb Home Newsroom Latest News. Professor Peter Stanley 21 Feb The long courses designed for the experienced orienteers challenged runners and walkers with the route choice of trekking over the top of hills - rough and stony, or travelling around, either to the right or left - with extra distance through the scattered trees.
The moderate and easy courses looped within the 'amphitheatre' of hills.
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