With over 40% of young Australians saying they want to be an entrepreneur when they grow up we launched the First Pitch For Kids competition to provide them a stage to showcase their ideas! This is a free, national competition, open to all primary and secondary school students across Australia. Simply form a team, create your pitch, record it and enter the competition to win!All the details can be found at www.firstpitch.com.au
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If you watched the Paralympics, then you might be familiar with goalball. If unfamiliar, it's a three person a side fast paced game designed for people with visual impairment. They use a ball with bells embedded in it and each team must try to throw the ball in their opponent's goal.Jade, a keen goalball player, talks us through how they got into the sport and how it's important for disabled people to have the same access to sports like this rather than people being dismissed for having a disability.Click the link to find out more:https://www.scope.org.uk/news-and-stories/paralympics-goalball-scope-jade
The Women of Australian Legal Technology Association (WALTA) have released a research paper on ‘Diversity in Legal Tech - it’s time for action’. Sponsored by PEXA and researched in partnership with Alpha Creates, the paper highlights the data around diversity in law and legal technology in both a domestic and international landscape, and then focuses on three call to actions on what can be done and how we can make a difference - greater and more eligible funding, amplifying female voices, and making women in legaltech visible. To download the full report, head to https://alta.law/research-reports/ and join the WALTA movement!
Eden Private Hospital on the Sunshine Coast (Queensland) has opened a new 24-bed unit at Cooroy hospital to combine mental health services and rehabilitation under one roof. The unit will treat a range of disorders from depression and PTSD for veterans and first responders to a community-based eating disorder program. New services also include adolescent and perinatal care as part of 2021 Federal Budget $2.3 billion initiative toward mental health and suicide prevention. | https://www.hospitalhealth.com.au/content/design-in-health/article/mental-health-facility-transforms-treatment-on-the-sunshine-coast-880800897
