With Test cricket at a crossroads,pink test gives fans day in the sun

With Test cricket at a crossroads,pink test gives fans day in the sun

After consecutive years frustrated by rain,a pink-tinged SCG was reminded just how good Test cricket can be – raising more than $4 million in the process.

  • byAngus Thomson

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This year,make a resolution that will actually make a difference
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This year,make a resolution that will actually make a difference

Only 8 per cent of people are still keeping their resolutions by year’s end. Here’s why make them and quit them – plus an idea for something better.

  • byBarney Zwartz
‘It feels good helping someone who helps others’:How Jess brought Christmas cheer to Maree

‘It feels good helping someone who helps others’:How Jess brought Christmas cheer to Maree

Maree Minns has a history of volunteering,knitting clothes and toys for children displaced by war. She struggled to cook Christmas lunch this year due to recovery from ill health,but volunteer Jess brightened her day.

  • byNajma Sambul
Renewed push to double charitable giving as demand for help swells

Renewed push to double charitable giving as demand for help swells

While Australians continue to be generous,charities remain under pressure as our donations lag behind other countries.

  • byRachel Clun
‘I feel loved’:St Mary’s House of Welcome brings Christmas to Melburnians sleeping rough

‘I feel loved’:St Mary’s House of Welcome brings Christmas to Melburnians sleeping rough

Every Christmas Day,this Fitzroy organisation provides people experiencing homelessness with everything from a three-course lunch to presents to hot showers.

  • byJewel Topsfield
Exhausted but exhilarated:Caring couple host free Christmas BBQ for hundreds of people

Exhausted but exhilarated:Caring couple host free Christmas BBQ for hundreds of people

A kind-hearted couple who volunteer for charity seven days a week spent Sunday giving out free food.

  • byCarolyn Webb
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Twelvefold surge in demand for Melbourne food bank on the brink

Twelvefold surge in demand for Melbourne food bank on the brink

Collingwood charity The Wellington provides more than 500 people with fresh fruit and produce every week. It is facing imminent closure.

  • byBroede Carmody
Tattooed alms:Charity and artists team up for struggling families

Tattooed alms:Charity and artists team up for struggling families

A handful of Brisbane tattoo artists will come together to tattoo as many people as possible in exchange for Christmas toys to be donated to St Vincent de Paul.

  • byJocelyn Garcia
Telethon Kids Institute to drop Telethon name

Telethon Kids Institute to drop Telethon name

In a statement quietly released on Thursday the institute said it had mutually agreed with the Channel 7 Telethon Trust to rebrand next year.

  • byHamish Hastie
How Rev Bill Crews donates Christmas meals – did somebody say Menugod?

How Rev Bill Crews donates Christmas meals – did somebody say Menugod?

Diane,aged 79:“Anyone who volunteers their time is a superstar.”

  • byTim Barlass
After 50 days in a row of 50-kilometre runs,Jack’s still leader of the pack

After 50 days in a row of 50-kilometre runs,Jack’s still leader of the pack

Jack Hanley’s endurance challenge started in mid-October with the Melbourne Marathon and involved weekly circuits of the Tan,Caulfield Park,Albert Park and a treadmill in a gym.

  • byJack Latimore