PROSTATE Cancer claims the lives of nine men every day and is the most common cancer amongst Australian men. Despite the pervasive nature of this disease, many suffer in silence, leading to an increased likelihood…
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Featured in our September Digital Edition: How solar lights are illuminating our future, mutant mice solving the NSW plague, first Australian boccia Paralympic medal in 25 years, and Australia’s responsibility to Afghan refugees. Read these stories and many more in our digital edition, available on Issuu today for $2.50. By supporting…
THE COVID-19 pandemic has put a stop to the many ways we express love and affection; dinner with friends, visiting grandparents, weddings. But perhaps the most difficult sacrifice is the simplest of all; a hug from a loved one. SLAK…
Charities in the spotlight
OVER one hundred charities are encouraging Australians to leave gifts in their wills to ensure their ideals live on. Include a Charity Week, which runs from 6-12 September, aims to get people thinking about how…
What a dilemma; Bravehearts White Balloon Day on Friday, September 10, without balloons.…
OZCHILD has launched Treatment Foster Care Oregon program (TFCO) in South Australia, just in time for Foster Care Month this September. Developed as an alternative to residential care, TFCO is a targeted intervention for children…
56 Australian women and 20 children were killed in 2020, most at the hands of someone who once loved them.…
DEMAND for support services for new parents has soared over the past year as COVID-19 has created additional anxiety and crisis for families. COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions are placing additional stress on parents dealing with…
Health advocates
The Australian Human Rights Commission has launched an online portal that aims to increase employment opportunities for Australians living with disability. Put in motion on Wednesday, 1 September 2021, the website contains a litany of…
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VERY few people write letters or notes anymore, so it is a welcome surprise when one arrives in the mail. There is an instant sense of belonging because someone took the time to sit down and put pen to paper. Australia Post is helping Australians stay connected by delivering more…
ONE in three current and former athletes are struggling with troubling relationships to food and worsening body image during the pandemic, according to new research published by Swinburne University. The University’s lead researcher Dr Georgina Buckley found current and former athletes are a particularly high-risk group for disordered eating. “Disordered…
Environmental defenders
THE Australian Marine Conservation Society and World Wide Fund for Nature Australia have welcomed Australia in its support for a global agreement…
SEPTEMBER is Debris Month of Action, with this year campaigners drawing particular attention to two huge threats, plastics and benthic litter, to…
THE Morrison Government thumbed up a $50 million grant for a drilling program in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin on August 25,…
Asthma Australia is taking a robust approach to bring awareness to deadly air pollution levels in Australia as today kicks off National…
EXPORTING ants from Australia poses a global biohazard risk a new investigation by the Invasive Species Council has found. International and Australian…
Opinions from changemakers
Silence - in our schools and briefly in our playgrounds, on our sporting fields, everywhere but online and in social media. That is what is greeting our kids.…
Today Tuesday, 31 August, is International Overdose Awareness Day An Opinion Piece by Mary Malak, CEO of Humanity Matters With the pressure and isolation caused by the current COVID-19 lockdowns,…
I AM in favour of a universal basic income. So are 77 per cent of Australians, according to a new Anglicare survey. Basic income schemes propose citizens and residents receive…
In August 1962, I turned ten in the isolation ward at Melbourne’s Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital.
It wasn’t jail, but it felt like it was; I was alone, scared and hadn’t…
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