22.05.2013 Crikey Blogs
This looks like an interesting project, using digital connections to engage the wider community in developing innovative solutions to a public health problem.
20.05.2013 Monash Weekly
CLAYTON is set to test a new domestic violence program that aims to break the cycle of abuse against women.
Generating Equality and Respect is an Australian-first campaign of tested prevention programs that will be implemented across the community.
15.05.2013 Infoxchange Australia
VicHealth is committed to promoting the health and wellbeing of all Victorians.
To ensure an equitable health promotion approach, we have adapted and applied the work of the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health to the Australian context, and ...
14.05.2013 Daily Life
It's been just over a week since three women in Cleveland, Ohio, secured their escape after a decade in captivity, and details of the situation are still emerging.
14.05.2013 Maroondah Weekly
ARTISTS commonly refer to their craft as a release, an escape from reality. The overarching, healing effect that art has on both the artist and audience can be heightened in situations of grief and trauma.
13.05.2013 Rural Weekly
LAST week I was in Melbourne attending VicHealth's Sowing the Seed information day at the Melbourne Convention Centre.
VicHealth - the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation - is a semi-autonomous State Government agency, funded through alcohol and tobacco ...
10.05.2013 Australian Football League
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2013 Indigenous Round TVC The AFL celebrates 20 years since Nicky Winmar's iconic gesture
FOOTBALL changed when Nicky Winmar lifted his shirt, pointed at his skin and took a stand against racism in 1993, and 20 years on today's generation ...
10.05.2013 Sky News Australia
Western Australia's Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has urged Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to consider banning alcohol advertising during live sporting broadcasts.
09.05.2013 ABC [World Today]
Victoria's Immigration Museum is conducting a groundbreaking survey of cultural identity. Its asking all Australians to contribute their views online to questions about issues like racial equality, asylum seekers and even Australia Day. The program began ...
07.05.2013 Australian Policy Online
Chris Ives, Cecily Maller | The Conversation
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Growing out versus filling in: how about we all grow up?
Growing out versus filling in: how about we all grow up?
By Chris Ives, RMIT University and Cecily Maller, RMIT University
It’s a debate that’s ...
07.05.2013 Netball Victoria
Forty-two Victorian netball clubs were recently awarded grants from the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) as part of the Active Club Grants Program.
29.04.2013 Monash Weekly
Ailing health in remote indigenous communities has been a national concern. But on our doorsteps, an Aboriginal co-operative is trying to reverse a set of sick looking statistics.
29.04.2013 ABC [Lateline]
Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author Michael Moss discusses his book 'Sugar, Salt, Fat' and how food manufacturers have managed to get us hooked on their products.
29.04.2013 The Age - AFL
Health groups have called for a ban on alcohol advertising during televised sport, after new research revealed up to a fifth of last year's AFL and NRL grand final broadcasts featured alcohol promotions.
25.04.2013 Latrobe Valley Express
THE sport that time forgot, squash, is set for a female fight-back at Morwell Squash and Fitness centre.
Previously the second biggest sport in Australia behind netball, squash participation has declined in recent years, but a new 'Hits and Giggles' program ...