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Australia, 16 December 2023 – Nyrstar, an international producer of critical minerals and metals today welcomed the release of a revised Australian Critical Minerals List and the introduction for the first time of a list of Strategic Minerals that includes zinc, the fourth most used metal on earth. The company acknowledged the detailed and … Continued
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MEDIA STATEMENT – 14 December 2023 Permanent Ceasefire urgently needed to ease suffering in Gaza The National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) has renewed its call for there to be peace in Gaza and supports the Australian Government’s call for urgent international efforts to bring about an immediate and sustainable ceasefire. “We are praying … Continued
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MEDIA STATEMENT Wednesday 13 December, 2023: For immediate release Australian aid agencies welcome Australia’s calls for a ‘sustainable ceasefire’ in Gaza: ‘Every day we do not have a ceasefire more children will die’ Eight of Australia’s biggest aid and humanitarian agencies have today welcomed a joint … Continued
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Media release | Tuesday, 12 December 2023 The NSW government must urgently build more social housing and fully fund homelessness services after new statistics showed homelessness remaining shockingly high. Data released today by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare showed 68,400 people used homelessness services in NSW in the most recent financial year. Demand … Continued
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Media release | Tuesday, 12 December 2023 Victoria’s peak body for homelessness says rising housing stress, evictions and the number of working people who cannot afford a place to live underscores the need to build at least 6,000 new public and community dwellings a year. The Australia Institute of Health and Welfare’s annual specialist homelessness … Continued
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5.12.23 DENTAL PEAK BODY POISED TO WORK WITH GOVERNMENT TO IMPLEMENT SENATE REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS THE AUSTRALIAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION (ADA) today announced it was ready to work with the Albanese Government to put into practice some key recommendations form the Senate report into dental access. The Final Report into the Provision of and Access to … Continued
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04/12/2023 It is with much sadness that Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) acknowledges the death of Peta Murphy MP. In Peta’s maiden speech to Parliament in 2019 – after she was elected to represent the federal seat of Dunkley, Victoria – Peta told our country that she had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. In … Continued
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Media release | Thursday, 30 November 2023 Labor is trusted over the Coalition to manage the cost of living crisis even as more people struggle to make ends meet, new research from the Australia Institute shows. The survey of 1,379 people found the highest income earners on more than $200,000 were the only group that said … Continued
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Media release | EMBARGOED until 12.05am Thursday, 30 November 2023 More than six million Australians expect to receive presents they will not use or wear and the bulk of these unwanted gifts are destined for landfill, new Australia Institute research shows. Nearly a third of the 1,379 people surveyed expect to receive Christmas presents that … Continued
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Australia’s peak body for climate and health, the Climate and Health Alliance, is currently represented at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) by our Policy and Advocacy Manager, Chelsea Hunnisett. This year will be the first year health has been featured as a key focus of global climate discussions. The COP28 Presidency has … Continued
