THE Australian Government, and the Australian Antarctic Division, yesterday, November 25, announced that they are abandoning plans to build a 2.7km-long concrete runway at Australian-owned Davis Research Station in Antarctica. After a vigorous anti-runway campaign,…
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CITI Australia’s philanthropic arm CITI Foundation provides community partners over $1 million to help disadvantaged Australian youth find their feet in the workforce. The grants are part of the Pathways to Progress program which launched in 2014 as a job skill-building initiative that aims to equip young people with employability…
UNITY, a new program in Western Sydney, is equipping young girls and gender diverse youth with the tools to understand consent and build healthy relationships for their future selves. The early intervention program was launched by Outloud, an intersectional, CALD-focused…
Charities in the spotlight
SOME children find it difficult to make friends, especially those living with special needs or disadvantage. Some parents know all too well, if their child doesn’t get invited to parties or their peers don’t show…
THE inaugural CAF Worldwide Symposium on Philanthropy kicks off at noon on Tuesday, 9 November, 2021. A four-hour online event presented by Good2Give in partnership with Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) will report current trends in…
SUICIDE is the leading cause of death in Australians aged 15 to 49. Nic Pestalozzi has not had a family member or friend take their own life. “I have a friend from interstate who knows…
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.…
Health advocates
WHEN Michelle’s twin daughters, Ruby and Emily, were born she had never heard of 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. The syndrome, which affects 1 in 1000 births, is one of the world’s most undiagnosed syndromes because it…
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IN a world without leukaemia, 18-year-old Blake Wilson from Dunsborough, Western Australia would have graduated from St Mary Mackillop Catholic College in November 2020. Instead, Blake’s family watched thousands of school graduates descend on the town during Leavers Week last year as they mourned the loss of their beloved Blake…
GROUPS of Australian children, aged 6 to 18, recently attended camps around the country where they did many things for the very first time. Things including uncovering their heads in public, seeing themselves represented, speaking about their bodies and interacting with people like them. Activities many might take for granted,…
Environmental defenders
THIS year National AG Day is celebrating the vital work performed by the agricultural industry, with a call for all Australians to…
WORLD Vegan Day on Monday November, 1 heralding the start of World Vegan month, coincided with the COP26 Glasgow climate change summit…
ANTHONY Chesler, CEO at Thread Together, said the charity exists to solve two problems with one solution. First is saving landfill and…
AUSTRALIA’S recycling rate has increased by 53 per cent in the last 25 years as more people embrace the circular economy by…
WHILE Australia’s climate change policy ranked last in the latest Climate Change Performance Index, a new report has identified six clean export…
Opinions from changemakers
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.…
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…
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