Neville Power has told a Senate hearing that the body lobbied the Prime Minister to use public money to expand the fossil gas industry.…
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Migration Council Australia has worked with Protein One—a Sydney-based award-winning digital design agency to develop a multilingual mobile app for Australia’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities about COVID-19, its impact and available support.…
Yesterday, the Federal Court of Australia ordered the Minister for Home Affairs to release an elderly man suffering multiple health conditions from Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA), citing the serious risk of infection from COVID-19 in the centre.…
Charities in the spotlight
As the Bob Brown Foundation joins the campaign to save koalas and their habitat in NSW, an online seminar hosted by the foundation last week saw koala campaigners reveal the extent of losses in koala…
When Anna Moresby was diagnosed with diabetes (type 1) as a four-year-old in wartime, her family were told she would not live to see her 30th birthday. Yet Anna has recently commemorated 80 years living…
Water infrastructure projects in the Nyah-Vinifera region led by state and federal governments have caused neighbouring forests and riverbanks to remain tinder dry. Despite being the largest river system in Australia, the Murray-Darling Basin is…
Health advocates
Finding out that your child has a rare genetic condition is hard enough. Discovering that it can progress into even more frightening conditions such as leukaemia and other life-threatening bone marrow disorders was truly terrifying…
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At all stages of life, people with an intellectual disability (ID) are at least two to three times more likely to have a mental disorder than the general population. Despite this, the right support can be difficult to find, and many people with ID experience substantial barriers to accessing mental health services. Few specialised…
The Fred Hollows Foundation (The Foundation) and The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmology (RANZCO) released a joint statement in June calling upon the eye health sector to consider equity of access to eye health care in post COVID-19 planning. 59 percent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
Environmental defenders
Plans by Cairns City Council to move on a spectacled flying fox camp in the area has thrust the species into the…
Beautiful Ningaloo – one of WA’s biggest ever conservation communications campaigns – kicked off today with a series of major print, radio and…
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) and supporters have called on Cairns candidates to kick start the economy with Reef safe clean…
The Tasmanian state government has intervened in Sustainable Timber Tasmania’s plan to close the Styx Valley for logging this month.…
As part of its global commitment to help regenerate Australia post bushfires, iconic French beauty brand, L’OCCITANE Australia has partnered with the charity partner…
Opinions from changemakers
To be forced out of your home, separated from your family, and placed into an internment camp with the chilling possibility of being tortured or forcibly sterilised based upon your…
AdaniWatch reveals chilling details of coercion and power used to threaten an Adivasi community As dams and mines expand across the Adivasi (a blanket term used to describe India’s indigenous…
As the world adjusts to the impact of COVID-19, nations have implemented action plans to help mitigate the virus, however new research has demonstrated that this decision-making made by predominantly…
The Foundation for Young Australians' Haley Zilberberg writes about how many international students are facing unqiue uncertainties thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. …
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