Hearing loss affects around one in six Australians, and is predicted to rise to 25% (one in four) by the year 2050.Along with old age, other causes of hearing loss include accidents and exposure to excessive loud noise. While workplace noise was sighted as the main cause in the past, the focus has now shifted to the personal listening devices worn by young people, which have the potential to cause permanent hearing damage if the noise is excessive and prolonged.

As well as the cost to our health and wellbeing, hearing loss is estimated to cost the nation billions of dollars every year in lost productivity.


Hearing Awareness Week is an initiative of the Deafness Forum of Australia to raise awareness of this often underrated and under-reported condition.

The Black Dog Institute has agreed to partner with the NSW Government in a program to provide mental health skills training to regionally-based workers.

Minister for Better Regulation, Matt Kean, said the training to employees and owner operators from small to medium-sized businesses would help build strategies and the capability to proactively manage their mental health and support others in the workplace.

​International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

International Women's Day (IWD) has occurred for well over a century, with the first​ ​IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Prior to this the​ Socialist Party of America, United Kingdom's Suffragists and Suffragettes, and further groups campaigned for women's equality.

Today, IWD belongs to all groups collectively everywhere.

IWD is not country, group or organization specific.​
Make IWD your day - everyday.

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