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    Horizon March 2024

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    Brain Bee Challenge spurs high school student interest in neuroscience
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    Neuroscience, which studies the structure and function of the brain and nervous system, defines what it means to be human.

    Gender-wise philanthropy: why funding women helps everyone
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    Philanthropy traditionally tackles systemic issues that affect large parts of the community. But without a specific focus on gender, philanthropy can inadvertently entrench the very issues it’s attempting to solve.
    GenV set to tackle Australia’s biggest generational health challenges
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    Australia’s largest-ever parent and children study, Generation Victoria (GenV), promises to transform the health and wellbeing of Australians over the coming decades.
    How Artificial Intelligence is helping doctors treat patients with eating disorders
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    New technology promises to help treat a surge in the number of Australians suffering with an eating disorder.

    How Hip Hop and street dance culture is creating social connection and employment pathways
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    Hip Hop and street dance was created in the 1970s by some of New York’s most underrepresented voices and has continuously evolved to reflect the ever-changing fabric of our society.

    Umbrella Dementia Cafes
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    Umbrella Dementia Cafés - empowering people living with dementia and their family caregivers to stay socially connected to their community.

    Horizon June 2024

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    First Nations Kidney Health program urgently required to tackle hidden killer
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    First Nations peoples are significantly more likely to experience kidney failure compared to non-Indigenous Australians. While they are six times more likely to be on dialysis treatment for kidney failure they are unfortunately much less likely to receive a kidney transplant.

    Ngalurrtju Partnership sets new bar for conservation
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    The Australian Wildlife Conservancy is collaborating with traditional owners to preserve the Central Australian environment for generations.
    Oxfam program working alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
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    Oxfam Australia has launched a grants program that is supporting First Peoples’ local community organisations across the country to continue on their path to self-determination.
    How household surveys are helping the Adara Group change lives in Nepal
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    People living in Nepal’s remote Humla region high in the Himalayas face some of the harshest conditions on the planet. Most villages have lived without access to consistent electricity, clean drinking water, and proper health care, while only 1% of the rocky land is arable. But the situation is changing.

    Horizon September 2024

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    Viertel Fellowship recipient leads global efforts against tropical diseases
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    Professor Andrew Steer from Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) was awarded the Gustav Nossal Medal (April 2024), which acknowledges leading global health research across infectious diseases, nutrition and vaccine development.
    Finding an innovative solution to Australia's fast fashion waste
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    Thread Together is a pioneering Australian charity founded in 2012, committed to reducing clothing waste and providing essential clothing to people in need.
    New vision of inner ear paves the way for hearing loss treatments
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    An innovative 3D snapshot of the inner ear could help speed up the development of treatments for hearing loss, as well as pave the way for other medical insights to help fight disease.

    How social enterprises are transforming the jobs market
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    Beacon Laundry may operate like a commercial business, but it’s much more about people than it is about profit.
    New technology boosts dementia patient care
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    Dementia can be a lonely and challenging disease which can isolate nearly half a million people living with dementia from their 1.6 million carers. Innovative technology can provide support and connection by building awareness and empathy.

    Horizon December 2024

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    Bolstering regional Australians fight against blood cancer
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    The Leukaemia Foundation’s Regional, Rural and Remote (RRR) Blood Cancer Control Program is set to tackle the challenge of providing timely blood cancer diagnosis and support to Australians living outside of capital cities.
    How an inheritance and a tax bill helped build an enduring philanthropic legacy
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    Rosemary may not have had children, but family and the community were important to her. So when her uncle became ill, she didn’t hesitate to take time off work to look after him.

    More support for foster carers as numbers continue to decline
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    Australia is in the midst of a severe foster carer shortage as a generational change in attitudes and cost of living crisis threatens the country’s family support network for at-risk children.

    Why many older Australians are also victims of the housing crisis
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    A rising proportion of the estimated 700,000-plus older Australians who live in rental accommodation are falling into poverty or homelessness as the country’s housing crisis worsens.

    The Urbach Prize and Scholarship Winner Announced
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    The Urbach is designed to encourage exploration of Australian landscape painting by contemporary artists.
    Last updated: 11 April 2025