Don’t like the names on the Australia Day honours list? There’s a lot you can do about it

Don’t like the names on the Australia Day honours list? There’s a lot you can do about it

If we as a nation want to see “more people like us” reflected back to us through our honours system,we all need to be proactive by nominating those Australians who deserve our recognition.

  • byShelley Reys

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I won’t be spending Christmas with family – it will be the best day ever

I won’t be spending Christmas with family – it will be the best day ever

I am a Grinch of sorts but last year I hit the “Christmas spirit” jackpot and plan to do the same again.

  • byWendy Squires
‘Tireless’ community volunteer wins Victorian Senior of the Year

‘Tireless’ community volunteer wins Victorian Senior of the Year

“Every day of her life” award-winner Moira Waye does something to help her community,says a colleague.

  • byCarolyn Webb
From her NSW coastal home,Liz saw the Russian invasion. And launched a battle plan

From her NSW coastal home,Liz saw the Russian invasion. And launched a battle plan

With Ukraine’s hospitals desperate for more medical equipment,one Aussie is organising supplies – and an eclectic band of volunteers to get them there.

  • byDavid Crowe
Declining rate of volunteering heralds ‘collapse in community life’:minister

Declining rate of volunteering heralds ‘collapse in community life’:minister

Andrew Leigh wants to hear from Australia’s charities about ways to boost rates of volunteering and donations as a step to addressing a broader crisis in civic life.

  • byKatina Curtis
Here’s how to cheer-up school-leavers:compulsory national service

Here’s how to cheer-up school-leavers:compulsory national service

Our teenagers need to get away from screens. Meanwhile,the nation is crying out for help. We must conscript the young into public service for their good and ours.

  • byJulie Szego
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Why Alexa has gone back to primary school at age 18

Primary Ethics has appointed one of its youngest-ever volunteer ethics teachers,as it seeks to expand in regional and rural NSW.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Saving cats and dogs:Pet rescuers do it fur the love

Saving cats and dogs:Pet rescuers do it fur the love

A network of volunteers who rescue stray cats and dogs in northern Victoria and bring them to Melbourne for adoption say they are saving more than 3500 animals a year.

  • byCarolyn Webb
Seven decades fighting fires for the Emerald community

Seven decades fighting fires for the Emerald community

Graeme Legge,86,has been a volunteer firefighter since he was 15 years old.

  • byCarla Jaeger
At Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens,it’s always gardening season

At Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens,it’s always gardening season

Every morning for 40 years plant-obsessives have been meeting at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens to take part in its volunteer program.

  • byRobin Powell
Sydney Olympics boss seeks 1500 volunteers for cycling championships in Wollongong

Sydney Olympics boss seeks 1500 volunteers for cycling championships in Wollongong

Australia is hosting the UCI Road World Championships for the second time,with the event set to will attract superstars of the sport.

  • byJosh Dye