NewsMatch Alert: Press Release Summary | 4 October 2024
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Australia has only six years left to restore ecosystems and avoid catastrophic climate change
Restoration Decade Alliance (RDA) is a network of Australian restoration organisations
Australia has just six years to restore native ecosystems in Australia, warn a collective of nature experts, urging governments to swiftly “lift their game” and invest in restoring our waterways and lands to prevent biodiversity collapse and catastrophic climate change. The Restoration Decade Alliance (RDA) is a network of Australian restoration organisations that includes OzFish Unlimited , WWF-Australia and Landcare Australia .
SPANA warns the climate crisis is driving working animals and communities to collapse
On this year’s World Animal Day, SPANA (the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad) is calling on world leaders to consider working animals during the upcoming COP29 event in November. In line with the theme of this year’s World Animal Day on 4 October 2024 (‘The world is their home too’), SPANA is shining a light on the often-overlooked impact of the climate emergency on working animals.?
Media alert: March for nature
Hundreds of people will take to the streets of Sydney tomorrow (Saturday, 5 October) for a big and powerful rally demanding the Albanese government take action to protect Australia's precious species and landscapes.?The rally coincides with preparations for next week's world-first Global Nature Positive Summit hosted by the?Albanese government and stalling negotiations in parliament to fix our broken nature laws.
Conflict 'deepens and amplifies' gender inequality - new global survey
New global research involving over 10,000 children and young people from 10 countries has found that gender profoundly influences how conflict is experienced. The study, by child rights and humanitarian INGO Plan International, offers in-depth insight into growing up in conflict, based on a survey and first-person accounts of?15- to 24-year-olds from countries including Sudan, Palestine, Ethiopia, Lebanon and Ukraine.
New drug could be answer to an overlooked yet devastating type of dementia
Monash University researchers are assessing a new drug that could be a game changer for the dementia that has struck US actor Bruce Willis, and countless others as young as 35: behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).?Unlike other types of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s Disease, there are no treatments; but a new drug — sodium selenate — was shown to be safe and well tolerated in people living with bvFTD, as outlined in the team’s 2022 study.?
Slater and Gordon secures third settlement in Get Your Super Back campaign
Thousands more Australians will be entitled to get their super back after Slater and Gordon secured a $50 million settlement on behalf of ANZ and OnePath superannuation customers. The no fault settlement, the third settlement of Slater and Gordon’s Get Your Super Back campaign, has been reached with ANZ and its former subsidiaries, OnePath Custodians Pty Ltd (OPC) and OnePath Life Limited (OPL) (now Zurich Australia Limited).
Island doses Phase 2a subjects in its ISLA-101 Phase 2a/b PROTECT clinical trial; investors invited to 8 October webinar
Australian antiviral drug development company, Island Pharmaceuticals Ltd (ASX: ILA; Island or the Company) is pleased to announce it has dosed all subjects in the Phase 2a component of its ISLA-101 Phase 2a/b clinical trial in dengue fever. The study, known as PROTECT, is a cutting edge clinical trial design that capitalises on years of research by the?U.S. Army to develop an attenuated strain of the dengue virus, which can be used to examine a dengue infection in a highly controlled setting.?
RMIT aerospace student named Victoria's most entrepreneurial at international education awards
Aerospace engineering student Preetham A. has won the new entrepreneurship category at the Victorian International Education Awards 2024. Akula is known for beverage start-up Dropout Chaiwala and has since established Akula Tech , which is expected to launch its first satellite next year.?Akula was recognised alongside his peer Ajmal Abdul Azees , a finalist in the research category, who developed the world's first hybrid cochlear implant.
Technology investment set to surge in Australia as 99% of marketers and agencies face data challenges, Lotame | Cint report reveals
Lotame, the global technology company that makes customer data smarter, faster, and easier to use for digital marketers, today released findings, ‘The State of Data Collaboration: A Global Perspective’, a report on marketer and agency data challenges and the solutions they use, or plan to, fielded by Cint. The report found that data challenges are ubiquitous, as is planned investment in marketing and data technology, with data collaboration platforms delivering multiple tangible benefits.
Dental peak body responds to Greens’ super clinics announcement
The Greens’ announcement that it wants the Labor Government to set up 1,000 super clinics staffed by dentists, doctors and other health practitioners if it wants Greens’ support in the event of a hung parliament, has the Australian Dental Association (ADA) questioning how practical the plan is. “While the ADA thinks the idea has merit in principle, as ever the devil is in the detail including actually securing the $54 billion over a decade to fund this,” said ADA President Dr Scott Davis .
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Greens Primary Health Care Policy: A welcome change of direction
Doctors Reform Society
“Whilst the new Greens policies to support Medicare item numbers and bulk billing incentives would bring some immediate relief to patients struggling to access affordable primary care, it is the longer-term goal of establishing entirely public Primary Health Care centres that could be the gamechanger our health care system badly needs” says Dr Scott Douglas, President of the Doctors Reform Society.
Free doctor telehealth consults in cost-of-living measure – Aussie first
More than 2.2 million Aussies will have access to several free telehealth consults with doctors, in a private health insurance first, as part of a cost-of-living health measure, aimed at also relieving strains on emergency hospital departments and GPs. Through Bupa’s digital health platform, Blua, eligible Bupa health insurance members will pay zero out of pocket costs for three telehealth bookings per person, per year, as part of their policy.
Mosaic Property Group acquires landmark Kangaroo Point peninsula site from Woolworths; Set to deliver luxury residences and new Woolworths supermarket
Mosaic Property Group, a leading force in South East Queensland's development landscape, has secured a prized 3,195 sqm mixed-use site at 25 Ferry Street, Kangaroo Point, from Woolworths. Acquired for an undisclosed sum, this prime site, vacant for over 30 years, represents a pivotal milestone as the first major development of notable scale on the Kangaroo Point peninsula, in Brisbane's Dockside precinct, in over a decade.
New proposal reimagines plans for Pyrmont Peninsula
The City of Sydney is inviting community feedback on changes to planning rules on height and floor space in response to NSW Government plans for the Pyrmont and Ultimo area.?The draft proposal is open for community consultation until 13 November 2024 after the NSW Government gave its approval.
President José Ramos-Horta to visit UNSW Sydney
UNSW Sydney is delighted to welcome Timor-Leste’s President Dr. José Ramos-Horta to UNSW Sydney. During the visit on Tuesday 8 October, the President will meet with UNSW senior leadership and participate in a number of forums on social justice, human rights and legal issues, as well as important discussions relating to water and food security and economic empowerment.
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra returns to Sydney Coliseum Theatre with a stellar line-up of vocalists for What the World Needs Now: A Celebration of Burt Bacharach
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is returning to the stage of Greater Sydney Coliseum Theatre at Rooty Hill this December to celebrate one of the greatest songwriters of all times, Burt Bacharach. What the World Needs Now: A Celebration of Burt Bacharach will feature notable voices David Campbell, Emma Pask, Elise McCann and Thndo performing chart topping songs performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of highly regarded conductor Benjamin Northey.
What will bring world’s brightest to Sunshine Coast?
An event that attracts the world’s brightest young minds is coming to the Sunshine Coast for the first time in a major coup for our region – and nation. The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is the world championship mathematics competition for high school students. IMO is held in a different country each year. The first was held in 1959 in Romania. It now attracts more than 100 nations and 620 students. From July 10-20, 2025, it will be held at the Sunshine Coast Convention Centre at Novotel Twin Waters.
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