Poverty In Australia

Introduction:

How would you feel fighting to put food on your table, or struggling to afford the medicine you critically need? Good morning Mr. Robertson and fellow classmates. Poverty has been an unimportant issue to many of us Australian citizens for countless years now. Over 2.5 million Australians are below the internationally accepted poverty line, 105 237 of these people left without a home, 600 000 of them, children. That’s one in every ten people and over 17% of all children, struggling to give themselves the required intakes of food and water. This accurately describes how these people have to live every day; straining to provide not only the resources for their family, but the resources for themselves.

Curing poverty would not only decrease the likeliness of chronic illnesses, it would immensely reduce suicide attempts from high levels of psychological distress and lessen amounts of impairments with health development. More and more people are falling below the poverty line each year. We as a community must act upon this issue promptly to help reduce our nation’s poverty.

Argument 1:

Hypertension or high blood pressure is one of these. Hypertension is a common major illness mainly caused due to factors such as stress, depression or deprivation. Much of the disease burden of high blood pressure is experienced by people who are not labelled as hypertensive, most likely people who can’t afford regular health check-ups. Lifestyle changes have been recommended to lower blood pressure, before starting antihypertensive drug therapy. Illnesses such as these are taking innumerable amounts of innocent lives. Not the lives that we could help but the lives that we must help. A recent survey performed by the University of New South Wales showed the percentage of respondents that agreed with the following