Photo credit: @vostroll_ As Australia enters another dangerous bushfire season, more than 70 fires are currently burning across multiple states. For families in regional and rural communities, the fear is familiar: homes lost, communities disrupted, and lives rerouted overnight. But amid the national conversation, one group consistently remains invisible: children and their health. Why Children’s Health Must Be a Priority in Disaster Recovery Children process stress different

Recently in Sydney, a spectacular fundraising event raised more than $84 million for children’s health. It was awe-inspiring — a powerful display of generosity and a reminder that Australians deeply care about the wellbeing of children. But as someone who works in philanthropy and comes from outside the city limits, I couldn’t help but ask myself a difficult question: What about the country kids? Hyper Agency: How Philanthropists Change Systems, Not Symptoms While studying Ef

Growing up in a sixth-generation farming family on the Darling Downs, I learned early on that life on the land is about resilience, hard work and community. Farming is more than a livelihood, its a way of life, a legacy, and a responsibility carried across generations. Isolation never worried me (in fact, I enjoy it more now). Distance shapes you; it forges a kind of inner steel you don’t recognise until much later. I was raised on stories of generations before me waking up a