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Nicholas Marchesi and Lucas Patchett, who were named the 2016 Australians of the Year for founding the Orange Sky Laundry service for homeless people, tell the 2017 nominees to keep challenging themselves regardless of who takes away the award.
Topics: awards-and-prizes, human-interest, charities, community-and-society, charities-and-community-organisations, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A man's hands eating breakfast and cup of tea
Topics: homelessness, poverty, charities, domestic-violence, darwin-0800
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There are calls to expand free meal services across Darwin, after a charity's ad-hoc breakfast program evolves into a first aid and welfare initiative for the homeless, sick and abused.
Topics: health, charities, poverty, domestic-violence, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, food-and-beverage, darwin-0800
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Consumers are responding in droves to a growing trend of "experience-based" donating, where some of the purchase price of a food item goes to charity.
Topics: food-and-cooking, food-and-beverage, charities, perth-6000
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An Australian charity buys 150 Brahman breeders for its Cows for Cambodia program, which loans cows to poor families.
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| UpdatedCampbell 'Bumble' Remess continues to inspire people around the globe by auctioning off his famous handmade bears and hosting his first gala dinner where $26,000 is raised for cancer research.
Topics: children, human-interest, charities, cancer, hobart-7000
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The director of the controversial Freedom Centre says no decision has been made to relocate the ex-prisoners living at Ellendale following a meeting with Tasmania's Attorney-General.
Topics: community-and-society, charities, government-and-politics
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Samaritan Aviation boat planes are saving remote Papua New Guinea villagers who desperately need lifesaving medical treatment.
Topics: community-and-society, charities, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, health, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedRemote villagers in Papua New Guinea will no longer need to travel for days in canoes to access lifesaving medical treatment, thanks to the the help of Samaritan Aviation's "flying ambulance".
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The woman behind the controversial Ellendale centre housing convicted sex offenders is remaining defiant against government moves to relocate it.
Topics: crime, sexual-offences, charities, community-and-society, states-and-territories, ellendale-7140
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| UpdatedAttorney-General Vanessa Goodwin steps in to try to relocate convicted sex offenders being housed in the small Tasmanian rural town of Ellendale.
Topics: government-and-politics, sexual-offences, charities, ellendale-7140, tas
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The soon to close Shane Warne Foundation is cleared of any unlawful conduct by Consumer Affairs Victoria after the watchdog investigated the charity over its finances.
Topics: charities, community-and-society, sport, cricket, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedJack Barden overcame serious injury and substance abuse after returning from duty in Afghanistan. Now he wants to inspire other war veterans dealing with physical and mental scars.
Topics: veterans, unrest-conflict-and-war, charities, lennox-head-2478, australia, norway
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A charity bus has been recovered and returned to the Salvation Army after the organisation's Darwin offices were trashed and the vehicle stolen overnight.
Topics: crime, charities, anula-0812
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| Updated"I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy" says a man in outback Queensland who endured blistering sun and heavy rain to set the world record for the longest continuous game of lawn bowls and raise vital funds for his club.
Topics: charities, charities-and-community-organisations, community-and-society, sport, cloncurry-4824
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The urge to run is an instinctive reaction in an earthquake, but Cairns-based Nepalese expatriate Som Tamang has taken that one step further by creating a charity event to raise money for victims of the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, earthquake, relief-and-aid-organisations, community-and-society, charities, charities-and-community-organisations, cairns-4870, qld, nepal