NUTRIEN Ag Solutions, Australia’s largest agricultural services and products provider has united with Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal (FRRR), donating $250,000 annually to fund community projects in its name. The joint program aims to award not-for-profit organisations in remote, rural and regional…
NEW research from the University of California shows menthol cigarettes keep smokers hooked. The new study of almost 6000 smokers across the US found that menthol smokers were 53 per cent more likely to keep smoking when compared with a control group.…
AN interactive web-based map allows women and gender diverse people to record experiences of discomfort in public spaces. The YourGround map, designed by CrowdSpot and in collaboration with Monash University’s XYX Lab, geographically pinpoints location-based incidents. Isabel, a 20-year-old female from Camberwell…
NEW funding announced by the New South Wales Government could save Australia’s grain belt from fatal mice infestations. Professor of Biomedicine at University of Adelaide Dr Paul Thomas will lead a team, in collaboration with the CSIRO and the Centre for Invasive…
CAMPAIGNERS for the nation’s most vulnerable have told Canberra to suspend punitive and ineffective mutual obligation requirements, which are causing stress and mental health illness for unemployed and underemployed people struggling through COVID.…
MORE than fifty percent of people living with chronic pain feel stigmatised because of their condition, according to new data released today by Chronic Pain Australia. For Rachel O’Dowd, a slight twist of the ankle led to 18 months of chronic pain.…
Give for Good, Domino’s registered charity, has today announced a national partnership with Rural Aid – Australia’s leading rural charity. Over the three-year partnership, Give for Good will donate $150,000 per year ($450,000 in total) to help accelerate the expansion of Rural…
Today, hundreds of students across Australia are expected to stage a walkout to demand better consent education, while the NSW Parliament will debate the Chanel Contos petition that received over 42,000 signatures calling for better consent education. Our Watch CEO Patty Kinnersly…
Refugee Week runs from Sunday, 20 June to Saturday, 26 June, 2021. By Gregory Rohan, Director and Solicitor, Immigration Advice and Rights Centre (IARC). Last month, in a submission to a Senate inquiry examining the fairness of Australia’s family visa system, the…
Australia Post does more than deliver mail and parcels, take passport photos and process bill payments. The business juggernaut gives money away as well. Australia Post’s 2021 Community Grants program is now open for applications from not-for-profit organisations for individual project funding…
