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Passionate Australians who want to challenge the status quo and create or make a positive impact on Australian society can bring their ideas to life in 2019 by applying for a Churchill Fellowship.

This unique, prestigious, yet accessible award is awarded to more than 100 Australians each year, enabling them to travel for four to eight weeks to countries around the world, so they can meet and work with leaders of influence to gain and exchange knowledge and experience for the betterment of themselves, their industry …

With tickets selling fast and early bird discount ending next week, time is running out for Australian not for profits to secure a 25 per cent discount for the Connecting Up Transform Conference at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) from 8-10 May.

Australia’s premier not-for-profit technology conference, with a strong complementary focus on philanthropy, fundraising, marketing and social media, Transform 2019, will see world-class speakers and not-for-profit sector leaders converge on MCEC for master classes, panels, plenaries, a 35-stand not-for-profit technology expo, Australian Not-for-Profit Leadership …

Tanya Dupagne is the director and founder of Camp Kulin, a youth program to help children in rural Western Australia affected by childhood trauma, get back on track. She’s this week’s Changemaker.

Despite warnings from friends about moving from Perth to a tiny Western Australian community of 300 people in 2013, Dupagne saw an opportunity others didn’t.   

Having worked in youth camps that helped underprivileged children in the US, she knew there was the potential to do the same for kids affected by childhood trauma in …