THE decision to list koalas as an endangered species on Australia’s east coast is a grim but important outcome that requires urgent action, according to animal welfare and conservation groups. Today’s announcement by Environment Minister Sussan Ley follows a joint nomination by the International Fund…
EDUCATION-to-employment provider Generation Australia will embark on a three-year partnership with Bank of America to support First Nations Australians into in-demand roles as a result of a $2.5 million (US$1.8 million) funding commitment from the bank. Generation Australia builds demand-led education-to-employment programs…
RSPCA Victoria says not to wing it when it comes to pet care. After an influx of chickens and roosters into shelters and an increase in cruelty reports, RSPCA Victoria is urging all owners or potential owners to do their research before…
On World Pizza Day, 9 February, Domino’s will host its inaugural Domino’s for Good Day – a national ‘Doughraiser’ event set to raise funds for Domino’s registered charity, Give for Good! Domino’s for Good Day will see the company and its franchisees…
One year after the battle for Yemen’s resource-rich Marib governorate escalated, the humanitarian situation has worsened as shifting frontlines, airstrikes and landmines have displaced nearly 100,000 people, many of whom have already fled multiple times, Oxfam reports. In January, 43 airstrikes hit…
The Federal Minister for the Environment, Ms Sussan Ley, failed to protect the takayna/Tarkine’s resident masked owls last month when she gave the giant Chinese mining company MMG the go-ahead for 14 kilometres of roadworks and 170 drill sites in the Tasmanian…
70 per cent – or seven in ten – Australians are unaware that, when combined, blood cancers are the second most diagnosed cancers in the country, The Leukaemia Foundation has today, Monday, 31 January, revealed. They have also released concerning new figures…
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.…
