This Starlight Day, Friday 7 May, Starlight Children’s Foundation (Starlight) needs your help to raise $650,000 to give happiness to thousands of sick kids and their families. As Starlight’s biggest national fundraising day, Starlight Day celebrates the positive impact its vital services…
The Heart Foundation has launched a program to motivate more people to take up regular walking, as new research reveals Australians’ alarmingly high complacency about physical activity and heart health. In a Heart Foundation survey of more than 7,000 Australian adults, two in three…
Several targeted vaccine programs introduced to the Australian National Immunisation Program (NIP) last year exposed the limitations of the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR), according to the authors of a perspective article published by the Medical Journal of Australia. Dr Jane Tuckerman, from the Murdoch…
SHAKE It Up Australia Foundation invites Australians to Pause 4 Parkinson’s in April, by hosting a fundraising event with family, friends or colleagues, or by simply donating to mark World Parkinson’s Day on 11 April 2021. Clyde Campbell founded Shake It Up…
With pressure being placed upon China by Australia to deliver facts on the origins of COVID-19, the bilateral relationship between both nations is deteriorating. Although China continues to deny that the corona virus epidemic started in Wuhan, Australia has called for independent investigations into the source of the…
ON World Health Day, April 7, Australians are being urged to get behind the 220,000 men across the country living with or beyond prostate cancer to ensure that no one battles the disease alone. The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) has…
Mission Australia’s Youth Survey 2021 is now open. Young people aged 15-19 across the country are encouraged to have their say. Celebrating its 20th year, the Youth Survey is the largest online survey of its kind and provides an important insight into the experiences and views…
FOUNDING Director of The Fred Hollows Foundation Gabi Hollows has been named one of the top 25 Australians generating positive social change in the Impact 25 Awards. In addition, Gabi received the Judge’s Choice Award for Collaboration at a virtual ceremony last…
A coalition of 13 walking, bike riding, transport, health and research groups are urging the Victorian Government to make it easier for people to walk and ride as more Victorians return to working onsite. The coalition has released the Streets are for everyone consensus…
New research from headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation has found one in three young people have experienced someone spreading a rumour (33%) or posting mean or hurtful comments (35%) about them online. The research, released today to coincide with National Day of Action…
