During Reconciliation Week 2021 we were proud to launch our Reconciliation Action Plan. This is just the first step in an ambitious plan that we hope will deepen and develop further opportunities within our services to improve outcomes for First Nation and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities. During Safe Sleep Week in March 2022, […]
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Swim For Red Nose In Loving Memory Of Dylan
Chloe is currently studying for year 12, is a swimmer and dedicated younger sister. To help raise funds for Red Nose, through the month of April 2023 she has been swimming to hit her target of 45km. Read her story! We sat down with Chloe to talk to her about why she is passionate about […]
Red Nose Partners With Scape Student Accommodation
Students living at Scape residential accommodation can now donate their pre-loved goods that help to generate funds for Red Nose. Students living at Scape accommodation are being encouraged to donate their unwanted goods to help raise funds for Red Nose. As part of a new and exciting partnership with Scape – Australia’s largest provider of […]
Red Nose Awarded 3.2 Million For New Healing Through Community Program
Today, Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, Hon Ged Kearney MP and Assistant Minister for Indigenous Health Senator Malarndirri McCarthy, announced the recipients of the Stillbirth and Miscarriage Support Grant. Red Nose gratefully accepts the funding for their brand new program Healing Through Community The 3.2 million over three and a half years will […]
Almost 30,000 Australians Petition Parliament For Hospital Bereavement Rooms
Almost 30,000 Australians petition Parliament for hospital bereavement rooms & stillbirth suites as the nation marks its 4th annual Say Their Name Day Today – Saturday 25th March – is Say Their Name Day, a day where Australia says goodbye to the silence that sadly all too often follows the devastating death of a baby. […]
Red Nose Australia Supports Petition For Bereavement Suite Or Room In Every Hospital In Australia
After the stillbirth of her son, Huxley, at 20 weeks in September 2020, Port Stephens, NSW woman Sophie Toneguzzi has started a petition for the House of Representatives (the House) to provide a dedicated bereavement suite or room in every hospital in Australia. Parents who experience a miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, and baby or child […]
Red Nose Receives Funding From The Freemasons For Its Treasured Babies Program
Thanks to a generous grant from Freemasons Foundation Victoria of $10,000, Red Nose will be able to buy much needed materials for our Treasured Babies program. “This beautiful program provides miniature burial clothing, mementos and coffins for parents who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death. In the last 12 months alone, our dedicated […]
Calls For Help
Zave, Volunteer on the Red Nose Grief and Loss Support Line, shares the story of a call she answered over the holiday period. Over the Xmas / New Year break, I was volunteering on the support line when the phone started ringing late in the evening. I answered immediately. A distraught mother had just found […]
Help Red Nose By Being A Clothing Collection Champion
Red Nose’s communication manager, Fiona shares how she encourages friends and neighbours to donate clothes, and bric a brac to help save little lives and support grieving families.
Parents Unaware Of The Risks Of Covering Prams With Dry Fabric
It’s Safe Sleep Week from March 6 – 12, 2023. Safe Sleep Week is Red Nose’s annual national awareness campaign to help save little lives. Twenty-nine per cent of parents believe that babies’ prams should be covered with a plastic cover, muslin, or blanket, to protect their babies from the sun, a survey by Red […]
Craig Heatley Resigns As Red Nose Chair After 10 Years Of Service
After a decade of service on the Red Nose Board, Craig Heatley has announced his resignation as Chair, effective March 31, 2023. A dedicated and passionate leader, Mr Heatley first joined the Red Nose Board of Directors in 2012 and has served as Director, member, and Chair since 2017. Throughout his tenure, Mr Heatley has […]
The Story Behind The Wiggles Support Of Red Nose
For over thirty years, The Wiggles have made it their mission to help Red Nose Australia raise much-needed funds and awareness for eradicating sudden and unexpected death in infancy in Australia. Heartbreakingly, there is a deeply personal reason behind this – the devastating death of Bernadette Field, daughter of The Wiggles’ former Managing Director Paul […]
Red Nose Warns Against Using Inclined Sleepers
Red Nose is urging parents to reconsider using inclined baby products in the wake of a popular baby sleeper which has now been linked to 100 infant deaths in the United States. Inclined baby products are often marketed as ‘baby sleepers’, ‘rockers’ or ‘bouncers’, with many claiming that they may help settle babies and ease […]
Treasured Babies Recognised At The Hesta Excellence Awards
It was an honour for the Treasured Babies program to be nominated as a finalist at the 2022 HESTA Excellence Awards for the Outstanding Community Award for Team Excellence. The Treasured Babies Program began in 2002 as an initiative of bereaved parents who recognised the need for families to be supported with appropriately sized clothing, […]
A New Program Launched Sms4Deadlydads
SMS4DeadlyDads has officially launched in the Kimberley! SMS4DeadlyDads sends short texts with tips, info and support to soon-to-be and new First Nations dads. SMS4DeadlyDads was first developed as a research project at the University of Newcastle (SMS4dads.com). The messages have been co-designed in consultation with an Advisory Group of senior First Nations men representing First […]
Safe Sleep Advice For Carers
First-time grandmother Libby Olifiers shares with us the impact of learning about Safe Sleeping and how it has helped renew her confidence and grow a stronger bond with her daughter.
