After nearly 50 years in marine conservation, the founding director of the Dolphin Research Institute (DRI) says unless the community...

A Torquay environmental advocate has been instrumental in protecting coastal Victoria through volunteering and creating the Surf Coast...

A Melbourne theatre director has given up her day job after she was inspired by actor, Samuel Johnson, and is now the backbone of his...

Vicki Jellie the Founder and Director of Peters Project Foundation and the Australian Local Hero of 2017 recipient is leading her...

Harper with the members of the 7pm Project, 2010. Photo Darren Vowels. A battle against leukaemia in his childhood has been the trigger...

Idil Ali started performing spoken word poems a year and-a-half ago and now uses it to express her activism. “I talk about displacement...

Asha-Mae Chapman Ralph became politically engaged when she realised the drought that affected her parents’ farm for two years was a...

A Tarneit woman who is grieving the loss of her son and her partner disabled in a workplace accident say they are determined to act as...

A Gisborne mother is drawing on her experience of past tragedies to help others as a life coach. “It doesn’t define you, what happens to...

A Werribee based lawyer says she’s determined to work for change to address the causes of disadvantage rather than reacting to its...

A community worker came into what he thought was just another day at work, oblivious to the fact that he was about to save a child’s...

The creator of a non-profit family violence organisation in the western suburbs is calling for more to be done to help tackle the demand...