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T Block Recycling Hub 03 June 2022 Did you know that despite Australia being a world leader in paper and cardboard recycling, that we still consume around 230kg of unrecycled paper per person per year1? Did you know that Australians used around 3.4 million tonnes of plastics in Australia in 2017-18, but only recycled 9.4% of that2? Given these alarming figures, the team at the Climate and Sustainability Program knew that systemic change was needed and wanted to demonstrate to the wider community at the North Metropolitan Health Service that they could make a difference every day. Introducing the T Block Recycling Hub! The Recycling Hub has been created as a one stop shop for T Block’s recycling needs. Using recycled repositories to collect items such as soft plastics, e-waste, bread tags and oral care products, the collected material will be transported to various programs3, 4 that will recycle the material and c... -
Aboriginal Health Promotion Coordinator awarded Scholarship 30 May 2022 Our very own Aboriginal Health Promotion Coordinator, James Gibson, has been awarded the Rob Riley Memorial MBA Scholarship to undertake a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Curtin University. The Rob Riley Memorial MBA Scholarship honours the memory of Rob Riley by supporting and encouraging Indigenous students in business studies. Rob Riley was a prominent Aboriginal activist and community leader who tirelessly advocated for social justice for Aboriginal people in Australia. Over his life, Rob held many influential roles such as CEO of the WA Aboriginal Legal Service, Chairperson of the National Aboriginal Council and was a senior advisor to the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs. He established Curtin's Centre for Aboriginal Studies and was awarded the Human Rights Medal in 1996. In making his application for this scholarship, Krista Coward MHPHDS Manager of Health Promot... -
Reforming Frankland 27 May 2022 With the vision for Frankland Centre to become a more rehabilitation focused facility in the near future, there has been a significant push to offer the patients more diverse and engaging programs to assist with their potential transition back into the community. The Exercise Physiology department has had a significant boost in the last few months as they were able to replace and upgrade the majority of the old exercise equipment within the Frankland Centre. This upgrade to the facilities, has allowed the two Exercise Physiologist’s (AEP), Stephen and Tony, to offer more clinical and rehabilitation focused exercise to the patients than they were able to provide previously. The main catalyst for this change is the purchase of a Pilates Reformer which has become an instant success and hit with the patients. The reformer was invented by Pilates founder Joseph Pilates. It is a bed-like... -
Embrace Makuru season 26 May 2022 Makuru is a polarising season; it has its passionate lovers and haters. But whichever camp you fall in, there is no stopping the chilly tide. Submission and embrace is what the doctor orders for the coming cozy months. Appropriately represented by the icey palette of blue, Makuru is the coldest and wettest season of the Nyoongar calendar. Driving glacial winds north from our Antarctic neighbour, dramatic Thor-esque sky shows and churning oceans, traditionally the Nyoongar people would retreat from the coast to take mia mia (shelter) inland by the kaarla (fire). The knock-on effect was a change in food-sources from seafood to the rich land-grazing animals such as kangaroo, which not only provided the protein sustenance for cold months but also the warmth of their skins to be used as bookas (blankets). Never to be wasted, even the kangaroo bones were carved into hunting tools such as gidji... -
DonateLife wins Best Campaign! 25 May 2022 We are very proud to announce that last weekend, the DonateLife Week 2021 awareness campaign won best Government-sponsored campaign (external site) at the annual Mumbrella CommsCon Awards! We were a top three finalist up against highly successful awareness campaigns — the COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign and the Still Six Lives Campaign. Reaching our target of 100,000 new registrations on the Australian Organ Donor Registry in 2021 and the amount of media coverage and activity around the country was a huge achievement, and we were thrilled to accept this award on behalf of the whole DonateLife Network. We are very excited about this award, it is great recognition for us as a team and motivation to go even bigger and better this year for DonateLife Week 2022! SAVE THE DATE: Sunday 24 July to Sunday 31 July. Resources will be updated over the coming weeks here DonateLife Week | DonateLi...
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18/10/2023