SUICIDE prevention isn’t just a health issue, says Suicide Prevention Australia on World Suicide Prevention Day this 10 September.…
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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 the material legacy they’d like to leave…
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HOW many people with spinal cord injuries do you know? How do you feel when you see someone using a wheelchair?…
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SEPTEMBER is Debris Month of Action, with this year campaigners drawing particular attention to two huge threats, plastics and benthic litter, to our water environments. The month is an initiative of the PADI AWARE Foundation, a publicly funded not-for-profit global charity whose…
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IT might have a ferocious appetite and a sex drive to match, but the endangered silver-headed antechinus has become the new poster boy of post-bushfire wildlife recovery. In a May-June search funded by WWF Australia, researchers from the Queensland University of Technology…
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YOUNG Sydneysiders from seven of the world’s major religions have published an unprecedented manifesto for intercultural harmony. Taking as its logo the world-renowned Harbour Bridge, The Sydney Statement seeks to transcend theological and cultural differences and connect believers, whatever their faith, in…
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HUNDREDS of Adelaideans have demanded the federal government show compassion for Afghanistan. Members of Adelaide’s sizeable Afghan community – who fear for their families and country in the wake of the Taliban takeover – organised a candlelight vigil Saturday night in Victoria Square.…
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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 government payments that are universal, unconditional and adequate enough to live about…
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THE Spanish ambassador to UNESCO has revealed details of the Australian government’s negotiations to avoid an “in danger” listing for the Great Barrier Reef. Last month, the Morrison government succeeded in its bid to stop the World Heritage Committee declaring the reef…
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CERVINE pests are destroying the environment, farms, Aboriginal heritage and the economy due to the authorities’ inaction on the Apple Isle. The claim in a new report issued by The Invasive Species Council accompanied a warning that a million feral deer could…
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