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A recent study Spiritual Beliefs Associated with Better Drinking Outcomes by Steven Dubovsky, MD has found that people who have a religious or spiritual aspect to their lives are more able to have a balanced approach to potentially addictive substances such as alcohol and drugs. The study found that “Changes in beliefs over 6 months [...]
30,000 Australian children were proven to have been abused or neglected in 2009*. This year National Child Protection Week falls between September 4 and 10 2011. This year's theme is Play Your Part to keep children safe. National Child Protection Week is a national campaign held annually throughout Australia to raise awareness of child abuse [...]
Leading experts including the AER Foundation are urging the Federal Government to make new alcohol health warning labels mandatory to help reduce the harms caused by alcohol. They want to get the message out there that drinking any alcohol can harm unborn babies, damage young developing brains and increase the risk of cancer. The Australia and New [...]
The Highfields Rugby League Club in Queensland has come under fire for running a fundraising evening with the theme of "Porn and Prawn". The event, held at Cabarlah Community Hall, included strippers, prostitutes and alcohol. The Queensland Rugby League is furious that the event was allowed to happen and have asked the club to explain [...]
Net Savvy: Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) is a national non-profit organisation of more than 1,500 members (organisations and individuals), working to create better futures for Australia's children and young people. ARACY pioneers preventive action to improve the health and wellbeing of children [...]
The sultry gaze of Thylane Lena-Rose Blondeau is very confronting. Before you is the look of a seductive young woman, but it is encased in the body of a young child. These high end fashion shots of a child in full make up and draped over a sofa in a very sexually provocative pose make [...]
Australian Vogue has broken with 50 years of tradition by featuring a plus size model in its September issue. Australian born Robyn Lawley appears in the 10 page spread called Belle Curve and models clothes by Australian designers such as Alex Perry, Willow and Carla Zampatti. Vogue Italia is calling it the "Now Shape", the [...]
It is an age old debate; does a simple smack teach a child to behave? Recent research conducted overseas says that rather than teaching a child to behave, it actually stops them developing their own forms of self discipline which are vital for coping with tasks later in life, like school and self control in [...]
The latest research has found that young women regularly have more than 20 standard drinks during a good night out. This means they often blow in excess of $300 in an evening. It seems that changes in social and moral behaviour are behind young women drinking more. This soar in alcohol consumption by “girls that [...]
55% of people who suffer work related stress take 5 or more sick days in a row.* New research that will be published later this year took 3,000 workers and explored their mental health issues. They found that about 20% of the working population experience mild depression. These workers took twice as many sick days [...]
