Gambling Impact Society (NSW) Inc
Resources available for ordering
The Society works to improve community awareness about problem gambling and a reduction in harm from gambling activities. Resources include: Less Than Even: The Hidden Costs of Gambling DVD; Against the Odds: Youth & Gambling CD; Women & Gambling Information Kit.
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Purchasing Christmas Cards from NGOS
A links list from communityNet
communityNet has compiled a list of Australian NGOs offering Christmas cards for purchase to assist their cause.
Please let us know of any others you know about.
Click here to go to list.

Caring for Older Australians: Research to Practice Briefing 1
SPRC & The Benevolent Society
Caring for older Australians: Care workers and care practices that support and enable good care draws on Australian and international research to examine the day-to-day working practices of paid community care workers...
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Public holiday payment arrangements over Christmas 2008-Australia Day 2009
Centrelink
Centrelink makes special arrangements every Christmas, New Year and Australia Day holiday period. Payments that are made automatically will not be delayed by the holidays but some payments may be made earlier than usual.
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Keeping giving going: Charitable bequests & Australians
Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT
This study aims at a better understanding of those Australians who make a charitable bequest and those who might. It offers individual charities, and the sector as a whole, empirical evidence to support and extend the anecdotal knowledge...
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Nurse Practitioner Scholarship Round Open
Department of Health & Ageing
Applications for the 2009 Nurse Practitioner Scholarships are now open. The scholarships will provide up to $15,000 a year for two years to nurses to upgrade their skills to become nurse practitioners.
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Stop Child Abuse Now: Campaign & Research Report
Australian Childhood Foundation (ACF)
The Australian Childhood Foundation and Child Abuse Prevention Research Australia at Monash University have launched two important outcomes for Australian children: the findings of a research report about the Cost of Child Abuse in Australia and a campaign website...
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Home Pool Safety Checklist & Factsheets
The Royal Life Saving Society Australia
Every year over 35 Australian children under the age of five drown. The Royal Life Saving Societyof Australia is reminding every home pool owner to check, fix and maintain their home pool this summer to help eliminate child drowning.
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Report calls for programs that divert Indigenous young people from incarceration
Australian Human Rights Commision, 14 November 2008
A new report released today by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma calls for the 'skilling up' of existing services that work with Indigenous young people with cognitive or mental health issues...
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