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The Macquarie Dictionary defines ‘change’ as revolutionizing, substituting, altering, and modification. Change is every shift that occurs in a person, in an environment, and in a state of any kind. On a community level change is occurring each and every day, socially, technologically, economically, environmentally and politically. These impact our lives in ways that we are rarely aware of. Australia has undergone great social change such as: urbanization, the loss of religious belief, the influx of non-Anglo Australians, the rise in divorce rates and single parent families, the number of woman in the workforce, and so forth. Technology has gone full circle in recent decades. Not only including improvements in computers, the internet and cable and satellite television, but innovations such as the birth control pill, which ‘enlightened’ women from the encumber of unexpected pregnancy. Economic change is not only on a community level but also on a personal level as it affects everyone’s life at some level. Uproars like surges in redundancy, oscillations in the cost of fundamental commodities, and double income families on lifest