The Audi Foundation, a corporate philanthropic foundation set up by Audi Australia and the Audi Australia Dealer Network, is marking a significant milestone in 2022: five years of supporting progressive Australian charities to drive meaningful…
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The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed a proposal to increase gill net-free zones in the Great Sandy Marine Park. The Queensland Government made the announcement on Friday, 23 September as part of its draft zoning plan for the marine park, which covers a 6,000 km2 area that includes Hervey…
Tom Bozic is on a mission to visit nearly two-dozen Return and Earn machines across Sydney, New South Wales, by bicycle to raise much-needed funds for people living with autism. Tom is president of the Sydney Autism Community Lions Club…
Charities in the spotlight
Today is the start of Include a Charity Week which raises the profile of charitable gifts in Wills and provides an opportunity for supporter charities to convey their importance. Include a Charity has revealed the…
ISLA is one of the “Little Ambassadors” for the 2022 Good Friday Appeal. The eight-year-old is in remission after spending half her life in treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Isla’s parents knew something was wrong…
OVER three billion animals were killed or displaced in the Black Summer bushfires of 2019-20 – 60,000 of those were koalas. The fires burnt about 24 million acres and confirmed the trend of worsening fire…
ONE in five Australian children are not meeting the international benchmark for reading, the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF) has revealed. To combat this concerning statistic, BIG W, one of Australia’s most loved brands…
TALKING about mental and emotional well-being can be confronting. These conversations are often avoided in the workplace, especially in the blue-collar industry. Tradies Ed Ross and Dan Allen are turning this invisible and debilitating issue…
Health advocates
Feel the Magic, one of Australia’s leading charities offering holistic, evidence-based face-to-face and virtual support services to children and families who are grieving the death of a parent, guardian or sibling, today announced that its…
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Women in prisons in Australia often come from backgrounds of disadvantage. Women and Mentoring (WAM) seeks to address these imbalances by offering an early, unique intervention program in Victoria that supports women and those who identify as women, when they have had contact with the justice system. WAM supports women…
On World Suicide Prevention Day, 10 September, The Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health (“Jilya”) will hold a fundraising gala dinner to address the shocking rates of Indigenous child suicide in Australia. Data from the National Mortality Database and the Australian Bureau of Statistics Causes of Death from 2016 to…
Environmental defenders
CommBank is continuing its support for communities impacted by the catastrophic flooding across New South Wales and Queensland after distributing a further…
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s proposal to reject Clive Palmer’s Central Queensland Coal project is the right decision for the Great Barrier Reef…
The new State of the Environment report paints a concerning picture of the health of our oceans and lands and shows we…
The decision to list the world’s largest gliding marsupial, the greater glider, as an endangered species must be followed by urgent action…
The song “If Not Now Then When” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has won the inaugural Environmental Music Prize. The…
Opinions from changemakers
This week is Include A Charity Week, and on Monday, 5 September, it was the International Day of Charity. With the cost of living rising, Action on Poverty CEO Brayden…
The theme for this year’s Volunteers Week is ‘Better Together’ and Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR)’s CEO, Natalie Egleton, believes that theme could not be more true. In…
I HAD no idea and was horrified that a 10-year-old Australian child could go to jail. In July this year, I wrote my first opinion piece for the Advocate. It…
IF more of the world’s wealthiest people thought like Australian tech icon Melanie Perkins, we could very well live in a more equitable and just society. Ms Perkins is the…
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