The song “If Not Now Then When” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has won the inaugural Environmental Music Prize. The Environmental Music Prize aims to recognise Australian music with a pro-environment message capable…
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PARTICIPANTS of Australia’s mightiest marathon – Bravehearts’ 777 Marathon – are putting their best foot forward today, 27 June, to raise much-needed funds to support vital counselling and support services suffering from child sexual abuse. Now in its eighth year, the 777 campaign is one of the Bravehearts’ major annual…
LEADING Australian entrepreneur and philanthropist Chris Christofi has achieved his ambitious record-breaking goal to raise $250,000 for people experiencing homelessness following the Vinnies CEO Sleepout which took place at the Port Melbourne Timber Yard last night, 23 June. Mr Christofi,…
Charities in the spotlight
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…
THE Premier’s Award for Community Harmony at the 2021 Victorian Multicultural Awards for Excellence, was awarded to Sikh Volunteers Australia (SVA) for the significant impact they have made during the bushfires and pandemic. The Award…
Health advocates
TODAY, 22 June, is ‘b kinder day’, an initiative launched by flyhighbillie to empower children to make a difference through human kindness. flyhighbillie is a charity that assists children and young people in combatting bullying,…
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Every day, two Australians are diagnosed with MND and two die from the disease. Big Freeze 8 returns to the MCG today, Monday, 13 June where the iconic sporting ground will once again become a sea of blue, all in the name of Fight MND. The league’s eighth annual ‘Big…
Much-loved Australian shoe brand, Ugg Express, is imploring Australians to wear their uggs to work, school or the shops today, 1 June – the first day of winter – in support of people who are struggling with their mental health. Wear Your Uggs Day supports mental health organisation, The Black…
Environmental defenders
A YOUNG marine activist climbed onto the mooring line of the Antarctic toothfish vessel, Antarctic Discovery, this morning, 23 June, and hung…
There are a few days left for the public to vote for the winner of the inaugural Environmental Music Prize. The prize…
WHALE migration season has again come to the east coast of Australia with the first sightings being reported. Every year around May…
AN alliance of leading environmental groups has welcomed the Morrison Government’s declaration of two new marine parks off Christmas Island and the…
IT is the miraculous survival story we all need to read right now. Pretzel, a green turtle hatchling, has already survived a…
Opinions from changemakers
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…
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.…
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