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Government Services
Smartraveller helps Australians travel overseas safely, reduce their risks and avoid problems.
Services Australia supports Australians by efficiently delivering high-quality, accessible services and payments on behalf of the government.
Australia Taxation Office aims to be a leading tax and superannuation administration, known for our contemporary service, expertise and integrity.
Medicare pays for some or all of the costs of various medical services, including services delivered in public and private hospitals.
Australian Electoral Commission delivers free and fair federal elections for Australia.
Australia Post creates connections and opportunities that matter to every Australian.
Department of Veteran Affairs supports those who serve or have served in the defence of our nation and commemorate their service and sacrifice.
Healthdirect helps Australians actively manage and improve their health by providing trusted information and virtual services anywhere and at any time.
1800RESPECT provides national domestic, family and sexual violence counselling, information and support service.
National Relay Service helps you if you’re d/Deaf or find it hard to hear or speak to hearing people on the phone.
Fair Work Ombudsman provides information about your bereavement leave entitlements.
Australian Death Notification Service provides free service to help you notify so you know who they are advising on your behalf.
Department of Health Victoria supports Victorians to be the healthiest people in the world.
Apply for a Death certificate
State of Revenue
Other Services
Returned and Services League helps Australia’s Veterans and Defence families enjoy better opportunities in all aspects of their lives.
The Australian Bereavement Register stops unwanted direct mail being sent to your loved one.
The Ageing Revolution makes a positive and tangible difference to the lives of older people, their friends and their families – that’s just about everyone.
Australian Psychological Society improves the lives of Australians through psychology.
Sorrento Ghost Tours offers 12 Historical locations, at least 8 of which are believed to be occupied by Ghosts, including the Continental Hotel, Athenaeum Cinema & the Masonic Lodge.
Dementia Doulas International finds like-minded people dedicated to assisting you to make a difference to the end-of-life experience for someone living with dementia.
Dementia Australia empowers the estimated half a million Australians living with dementia and almost 1.6 million people involved in their care.
The Wicking Dementia Centre forefront of translational research and support for issues confronting people with dementia and their carers.
The Dementia Centre improves the quality of life for people with dementia, their families and those who provide their care. Founded in 1995, our approach is proven in practice, defining and informing the provision of care worldwide.
QLD Brain Institute unlocks the mysteries of the brain to generate new knowledge, understand learning and memory, and develop new technologies to improve lives, and diagnose and treat brain disease and mental health.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare produces authoritative and accessible information and statistics to inform and support better policy and service delivery decisions, leading to better health and wellbeing for all Australians.
Positive Approach to Care enhances life and relationships of those living with brain change by fostering an inclusive global community.
Rural Health Connect links people to psychologists over video calls and phone calls.
Sophie's Legacy aims to honour Sophie by helping to make the vet industry safer.
Dementia Support Australia supports over 50,000 clients and 97% of aged care homes across every state and territory in Australia.
Institute of Professional Organisers understands the needs of individuals and businesses in this industry, and strive to create opportunities for growth and connection that enable our members to flourish as professionals.
Translating and Interpreting Service provided by the Department of Home Affairs for people with limited English proficiency and for agencies and businesses that need to communicate with their non-English speaking clients.
Grief & Bereavement
Griefline supports Australians navigating loss and grief.
Grief Australia provides everyone with the help they need, while fostering greater recognition and a deeper understanding of the grief experience, for all Australians.
National Association for Loss and Grief aims to assist and support people who are grieving a loss
LightsOut empowers people by increasing their knowledge and awareness about dying, death, and grief.
Caring at Home aims to increase access to quality and timely end-of-life care for patients who choose to be cared for, and die at home, if possible.
The Compassionate Friends assists bereaved families in the rebuilding of their lives after the death of their child, and to support their efforts to achieve emotional and mental health.
WINGS of Hope aims to help those bereaved by suicide by reducing isolation and preventing harm.
StandBy assists people and communities bereaved or impacted by suicide.
Motherless Daughters Australia aims to help women, girls, and families navigate the emotional distress and lifelong impact caused by the loss of their mothers.
It’s Okay not to be Okay advocates and creates change in mental health, grief and suicide prevention.
Speak & Share influences the community culture and educate on mental health strategies so that family, friends and the community should never again see any one in Australia suffer from the devastating impacts of mental health.
Grief Link gives online information for the bereaved and grieving, carers, friends and colleagues.
Refuge in Grief gives you the skills you need when life goes horribly wrong.
Sands provides individualised care from one bereaved parent to another, giving them support and hope for the future, following the death of a baby.
Thirrili aims to contribute to the broader social wellbeing of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Ladybird Care Foundation provides bereavement care that supports and empowers grieving families to find hope and purpose once again, creating pathways for healing.
Forever Held supports bereaved parents through the provision of short-term retreat accommodation at no cost.
Sad Dads Club helps fellow bereaved fathers navigate life after loss by nurturing a supportive community and providing access to mental health services.
The Grief Cocoon creates a world where no one grieves alone because they’re empowered with creative tools, resources, and community that allows them to live a better life alongside grief.
Phoenix Gateway integrated healer, author, researcher, alchemist, teacher and lifelong student of learning and accessing higher knowledge and wisdom.
SANE leads national mental health organisation for people with complex mental health issues in Australia and for the families and friends that support them.
Baby, Child and Youth
Red Nose Grief and Loss provides love, hope, understanding and support to families facing the devastating loss of their child.
Precious Wings ensures all families who have lost a child have a feeling of ‘not being alone’ when leaving hospital with empty arms, and that they receive the support they need to navigate this difficult grief journey.
Bears of Hope provides support for families who experience the loss of their baby.
Love From Dad assists and helps you find your feet in the days, weeks, months and years after the devastating loss of something so close to your heart, your child.
Prepare Foundation empowers fathers to thrive in their fatherhood journey, creating a positive and lasting impact on their lives and the lives of their families.
Bloss - Riverina Pregnancy & Baby Loss Support provides support to people who have experienced the loss of a baby, through pregnancy, stillbirth and neonatal loss.
Gidget Foundation supports the emotional wellbeing of expectant and new parents to ensure they receive timely, appropriate and specialist care.
Pink Elephants provides the latest resources, information and peer-support for anyone impacted by early pregnancy loss.
Rebecca Jane Foundation provides a simple but beautiful farewell to babies between the ages of 20 weeks gestation (or registered birth) and one year of age, where their parents will incur a significant financial impact by providing a farewell for their angel baby.
PANDA – Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia supports the mental health of parents and families during pregnancy and in their first year of parenthood.
Children by Choice offers decision making counselling, evidence-based information on pregnancy options, referrals to health and support services, and post-abortion counselling and support, to clients across Queensland.
Stillbirth Foundation Australia raises funds to reduce the incidence and impact of stillbirth through research, education and advocacy.
Alannah & Madeline Foundation strengthens the rights of children and young people to live free from violence and trauma wherever they live, learn and play.
Lionheart Camp for Kids empowers bereaved children and families to navigate their grief journey through education, peer-support, strength-building and resilience.
Feel the Magic provides early intervention grief education programs for kids aged 7 to 18, who are experiencing pain and isolation due to the death of a parent, guardian, or sibling.
Wombat’s Wish supports children and young people after the death of their parent/carer, with our outreach encompassing the entire state of Victoria, Australia.
Kids Helpline provides counselling service for young people aged 5 to 25.
Headspace provides early intervention mental health services to 12-25-year-olds.
National Centre for Childhood Grief needs of bereaved children and young people aged 3 to 18 years.
Canteen supports 12-25 year-olds dealing with their own diagnosis, a close family member’s cancer or the death of a loved one. O
MacKillop Seasons provides a safe space for children, young people and adults to learn knowledge, skills and attitudes to understand and respond to experiences of change, loss and grief.
Young Carers Network supports young people under 25 caring for a family member or friend.
Redkite offers financial, emotional, and educational support for people with cancer aged up to 18, as well as their families and networks.
Cancer Council Australia
The Willow Tree Foundation supports families in making social, emotional and spiritual end of life plans for their child, adolescent or young adult is the focus for The Willow Tree as we grow.
Perinatal Mental Health Week supports and de-stigmatise perinatal mental health issues.
Penthos provides grieving parents a fully donor-funded, specialist therapy program for couples suffering unresolved grief following the loss of a child.
Wish Collective makes the path to parenthood a little less lonely.
The Vilomah Community guides and supports families as they are walking this journey. Our purpose is to ensure no family walks the journey of pregnancy and infant loss alone.
Amber NT supports Territorians through the unimaginable loss of a child for any reason, from conception to 18.
Daddys with Angels supports every family member grappling with the loss of a child. We offer resources and guidance to help navigate the aftermath of a child bereavement, at any age or gestation.
4Louis supports anyone affected by miscarriage, stillbirth and the death of a baby or child.
The Lily Mae Foundation supports parents and families after a stillbirth, neonatal death, miscarriage or medical termination.
Beyond the Rainbow creates & donates care boxes & packs statewide for families who lose children through pregnancy, stillbirth and early infancy.
Birthline Pregnancy Support Inc offers a number of counselling options and other supportive services to assist you in what you need to make an empowered and informed decision.
Adult
Lifeline provides all Australians experiencing emotional distress with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services. We exist so that no person in Australia has to face their darkest moments alone.
Beyond Blue helps all people in Australia achieve their best possible mental health.
Solace provides grief support for those grieving over the death of their partner
Open Arms gives free mental health support and resource to veterans and their immediate families.
MensLine Australia offers free telephone and online counselling service offering support for Australian men anywhere, anytime.
Gotcha4Life inspires and enables people to take action to build their mental fitness.
Suicide Call Back Service gives free nationwide service providing 24/7 phone and online counselling to people affected by suicide.
Headtohealth offers access the mental health and wellbeing services that are right for them.
Homicide Victims Support Group Australia Inc. provides a world first trauma recovery centre. It has been built to provide even more help where it is needed.
Amber Community (formerly Road Trauma Support Services Victoria) provides counselling and support to people affected by road trauma and address attitudes and behaviours of road users through education.
Victims of Crime Support Agencies
Compassionate Communities Australia grows connectedness and compassion, working together, to create a supportive environment for those in need.
palliAGED Nurse helps nurses care for older people who have a disease or illness that cannot be cured or who are becoming frail.
Ianacare empowers and equips family caregivers with the resources they need and deserve.
Mentis Assist manages mental health service providers supporting people with mental illness and psychiatric disabilities.
Roses in the Ocean provides a safe place for people with a lived experience of suicide to connect with others with a similar lived experience for a chat, in a shared space of compassion, understanding and respect.
Heart Matters Australia empowers communities with the knowledge, skills and equipment to increase the survival rate of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest.
Joy Diving Australia alleviates suffering, and to help neurodivergent people live a purposeful and passionate life, free of stigma, shame and discrimination.
Social Health Australia ensures that this support be made accessible for anyone who may need it, regardless of age, culture, disability, gender identity, or belief system.
End-of-life Planning, Palliative Care & Carer Support
Palliative Care Australia (PCA) believes high quality palliative care should be available and accessible to people living with a life-limiting illness when and where they need it.
CareSearch offers great resources about some of the diverse populations in Australia and why palliative care matters for them.
The Organ and Tissue Authority (OTA) leads the Australian Government’s national program to improve organ and tissue donation, so more Australians have access to a transplant.
Advance Care Planning Australia enables Australians to make the best choices for their future health and care.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Go Gentle promotes choice at the end of life, including the option of voluntary assisted dying.
Voluntary Assisted Dying South Australia campaigns and advocates in South Australia for the health benefits of legal voluntary assisted dying.
Dying With Dignity provides support and advice for people accessing or seeking to access VAD, their families and carers, and health professionals.
The Northern Territory Voluntary Euthanasia Society (NTVES) promotes palliative care services in the NT to ensure voluntary euthanasia/voluntary assisted dying is not sought due to inadequate palliation.
The Australian Patients Association (APA) protects the rights and interests of patients, improving the patient experience and their health outcomes. Our main roles are providing patient advocacy, information and support.
Dying to Know Day empowers all adult Australians to be strong self-advocates for their own personal planning when it comes to their future.
Carers Australia represents Australia’s unpaid carers, advocating on their behalf to influence policies and services at a national level.
End-of-Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC) provides information, guidance, and resources to health professionals and aged care workers to support palliative care and advance care planning to improve the care of older Australians.
Carer Gateway offers practical information, resources, and counselling for carers.
Carer Help provides information for people caring for someone at end of life.
Willow EOL Education Program gives you access to Willow’s expanding end-of-life education and planning tools and products.
End of Life Doula Directory helps clients find the support they need through a comprehensive listing of end-of-life doulas in Australia.
Better Health Victoria supports Victorians to be the healthiest people in the world.
Natural Death Advocacy Network grows Australian network and advocates partnership of community facilitators, professionals, activists and educators working to enrich the experience of death and dying.
QUT seeks to equip our students and graduates with the skills they'll need in an increasingly disrupted and challenged world.
Choice helps you understand what an advance care directive is and the legality of an ACD.
The Groundswell Project conveys in terms of your thoughts, values and memories.
Your Life Assist provides resources that inform, support and connect people, and to encourage greater participation and a wider range of choices in their decision-making about significant lifestyle transitions that may occur at any stage of life.
Older Persons Advocacy Network offers a wide range of advocacy services for Australians and can help you understand and exercise your rights, access aged care services and solve aged care problems.
The Postage empowers you to control your legacy and build your will-based estate plan in as little as 10 minutes.
Life Rites focuses and personalises end-of-life services guide you and your family through end-of-life and after-death care.
CALI advocate for national policy settings that expand Australians’ access to the life insurance protection that suits them when they need it most.
Catholic Healthcare promotes the dignity, life and spirituality of older people through connected and inclusive communities.
Digital Health offers a vital part of a modern, accessible healthcare system designed to meet the needs of all Australians.
Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing builds the capacity and capabilities of Australian aged-care providers to deliver services that are welcoming, inclusive and accessible.
Peninsula Home Hospice provides specialist palliative care in the home that optimises quality of life and honours the hope for comfort, choice, dignity and peace.
Preparing the Way empowers people with choice at the end of life and support them and those close to them with trained end of life doulas.
Finance, Trusts, Superannuation, Accounting and Administration
Sage Executor Solutions coordinates and manages the deceased estate administration workload associated with searching, reading, comprehending and decision making when a person dies, saving our clients in excess of 100 hours in precious time and energy.
National Debt Helpline reaches out to a financial counsellor by calling the National Debt Helpline on 1800 007 007.
Salvation Army provides assistance with funeral expenses. Contact your local Salvation Army office for information.
St. Vincent de Paul Society offers support for funeral expenses.
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners inspires confidence in families planning their assets across generations by setting and upholding high professional standards, informing public policy, promoting education, and connecting practitioners globally to share knowledge and best practice.
Succession, Asset Protection & Estate Planning Advisers Association supports the growing speciality of succession, asset protection & estate planning.
Institute of Certified Bookkeepers promotes and maintains the standards of bookkeeping as a profession, through the establishment of a series of relevant qualifications and the award of grades of membership that recognise academic attainment, working experience and competence.
Australian Bookkeepers Network provides a complete range of products and services designed especially for bookkeepers.
Australian Superannuation Fund Association influences public policy settings which ensure the best retirement outcomes for fund members.
The Insurance Council of Australia drives force behind the industry’s collective strength, ensuring that insurance is accessible to all Australians.
Certified Practising Accountant Australia get in touch CPA Australian office.
Public Guardians
Funeral Support
Australian Funeral Directors Association optimises the funeral experience and ensure quality delivery of service to the wider community by enhancing and promoting professional funeral standards.
Australian Home Funeral Alliance aims to foster a healthier culture around death and dying.
Funeral Celebrants Association Australia offers a support network for funeral celebrants, families, and members of the funeral industry.
Sustainable Funerals Group ensures that all Victorians have access to professional, dignified funeral services no matter their circumstance.
Bereavement Assistance meets the growing need of the Victorian community falling below the poverty line by providing financial relief and emotional support for people affected by death
Potters Field Funerals provides service in all areas of Melbourne and regional Victoria, providing affordable and meaningful farewells suited to your budgets and requirements.
Tender Funerals aims to ensure all Australians can access meaningful and affordable funerals.
National Funeral Directors Association aims to keep funeral directors up-to-date with developments and industry legislation as well as identifying emerging pathways to success for funeral directors.
Australian Federation of Civil Celebrant provides professional celebrant for ceremonies for all occasions.
The Celebrants Network Inc. promoting civil ceremonies and celebrations for everyone; marriage celebrants; memorial and funeral celebrants; family and naming celebrants, celebrants for all occasions.
Australian Cemeteries and Crematorium Association provides leadership, professional services and development, communication and networking platforms to the cemetery and crematorium industry.
Master Stone Masons Association Victoria guides you through this process with integrity, compassion and professionalism.
Flower Industry Australia offers representative body for Australian flower growers and florists.
Holistic End of Life and Deathcare Australia grows the holistic end of life, deathcare, after death and funeral care space in Australia.
Green funerals in Australia seeks to make as little impact upon the environment as possible.
Australian Natural Burial Project promotes a movement that links meaningful end-of-life rituals with positive environment action.
Natural Grace Holistic Funerals provides the opportunity to choose what is right for you, your family, and the people you love is vital.
Sally Cant offering the very highest in standards, and options for your ceremony.
Alluvium Water Cremations honours your loved one with a delicate and environmentally responsible farewell.
Barry and Annette Lett Funeral Directors provides a caring environment in which to arrange a highly personalised funeral service.
The Earth Funerals Project enables Australians to choose a cremation service that is carbon positive and contributes to environmental restoration.
Green Burial Council inspires and advocates for environmentally sustainable, natural death care through education and certification
Geeveston Public Cemetery offers Natural Burial sites set within the natural bushland area on the cemetery grounds.
Heaven and Earth Eco Burial develops products that reduce toxic, unsustainable and non-biodegradable products being interred in the earth.
Southern Cryonics builds and operates Australia’s first cryonic storage facility.
TJ Scott & Son Funeral Home welcomes the chance to create personalised services.
The Last Hurrah Funerals Melbourne offers authentic and unique funerals, free cardboard caskets and gentle and compassionate help when someone dies.
LGBTQIA+
ACON offers community health, inclusion and HIV responses for people of diverse sexualities and genders
QLife talks about a range of issues including sexuality, identity, gender, bodies, feelings, or relationships.
Silver Rainbow supports people who are beginning to access ageing & aged care services.
HERE connects people of diverse gender and sexuality, their loved ones, and service providers in NSW to care, support, and resources.
The Alternatives to Suicide focuses of Alternatives to Suicide lies in mutual connection and relationship.
Discharged specialises in running peer support groups for people with personal experience of suicidal thoughts or feelings.
Charlee provides a hub made by LGBTIQA+ people who have thought about suicide, lived through suicide attempts, supported others in distress and live with the pain of loss through suicide
Support After Suicide Hub (SASH) supports and connects LGBTQIA+ people who have lost someone to suicide. SASH has information, resources, and an online community forum for LGBTQIA+ people bereaved by suicide aged 18+ to connect with each other.
First Nations
First Nations guides and supports during these times. Additionally, contacting community organizations directly for information tailored to specific regions is recommended.
13YARN supports line for mob who are feeling overwhelmed or having difficulty coping.
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) provides advice and guidance to the Australian Government on policy and budget matters and advocates for community-developed solutions that contribute to the quality of life and improved health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet contributes to improving the health of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and assist in ‘closing the gap’ by facilitating the sharing and exchange of relevant, high-quality knowledge.
Victorian Aboriginal Funeral Service provides community based culturally strong funerals and care for grieving community members and has been doing so since the 1970s.
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies assists you with your Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family history research.
Koorie Family History Service nurtures, honours and celebrates the continuing cultures and Songlines of the First Peoples of south-eastern Australia.
NSWALC Funeral Fund provides community benefits to members of Local Aboriginal Land Councils and the wider Aboriginal community, the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC) offers Land Council members, and Aboriginal people resident in New South Wales the ability to seek limited financial grants under a Community Benefits Scheme.
The Aboriginal Funeral Transport Program (NSW only) provides assistance with transport for Aboriginal communities throughout New South Wales, including metropolitan Sydney, to attend funerals within NSW.
National Indigenous Critical Support Service provides support to individuals, families and communities impacted by suicide loss.
Nomuckerlener First Nations Training, Consulting and Mentoring helps improve businesses and individuals understanding of First Nations culture to help create a culturally sensitive environment for colleagues and clients.
Pay The Rent allows for a Sovereign Body of First Nations people to make decisions about how the money is allocated, while an Administration Arm of conscientious non-Aboriginal people undertakes the logistical and administrative work.
Legal Support
Coroners Courts
The Law Society
Legal Aid provides assistance with legal problems, especially to people who are socially or economically disadvantaged.
Will It Your Way helps you contact a will maker in your area and start your Will process.
Doyles List gives the premier Asia-Pacific Directory of Leading Lawyers, Law Firms & Barristers.
National, Law Council of Australia promotes the administration of justice, access to justice, and general improvement of the law.
Financial Rights Legal Support provides free nationwide legal advice and financial counselling services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Supreme Court Probate
End of Life Law in Australia provides accurate and practical information to assist you to navigate the challenging legal issues that can arise with end of life decision-making.
State Trustees providies financial and legal services at important life moments.
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia Limited helps achieve the best retirement outcomes for fund members and there are a number of ways we work towards this.
Greg Russo Law experts in succession law, and we operate with professionalism and passion to achieve successful outcomes for our clients.
Ancestry & Genealogy
Trove explores amazing collections from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It’s free and available online all day, every day.
The Society of Australian Genealogists welcomes enthusiastic amateurs alongside professional genealogists, sharing a passion for family history.
National Library of Australia offers a strong national focus in all that we do, and cooperating with others who share our goals, we support learning, creative and intellectual endeavour, and contribute to the continuing vitality of Australia’s diverse culture and heritage.
The National Archives of Australia strengthens trust in democracy and improves government transparency and accountability by connecting Australians to government decisions and activities.
Genealogical Society of Victoria (GSV) obtains access to our collections, webinars and research services. Benefit from a wide range of supportive special interest groups, workshops, classes and knowledgeable individuals.
Selling Assets & Personal Belongings
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) provides information on consumer rights, fair trading practices, and business regulations.
RedBook provides car prices, values, vehicle identification and pricing information in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Fast & easy car valuation for buyers & sellers
The Auctioneers & Valuers Association of Australia offers Australia’s peak national body of Auctioneers and Valuers of fine art, antiques and collectables, goods, chattels, plant and equipment.
Australian Antique and Art Dealers Association (AAADA) represents antique and art dealers in Australia and can provide valuable industry information.
Motor Traders Association of Australia represents retail motor trades businesses including retail, service, repair recycling and associated industries
Boating Industry Association Ltd (BIA) offers peak industry body in Australia that represents the interests of boating
Australian Valuers Institute fosters professional excellence amongst members through education, accreditation, publication and other services with an emphasis on professional ethics to protect the public.
National Real Estate Association builds the professional standing of real estate professionals within the community and to build educational pathways for its members through ‘work-based learning’ that is through professional practice.
Pets
Griefline shares information about how to cope and support yourself through your grief.
RSPCA Australia provides information on pet loss
Pets and People shares the loss of your pet with people who will understand and support you.
Cleaning Services
National Australian Cleaners Association serves the improvement of service standards in the Australian cleaning industry through innovation, business operation guidelines and support for registered members.
A Hand to Help works with clients, families and deceased estate managers to respectfully clear a home.
1800 Got Junk offers rubbish removal services for your home or business.
Calm Space has practical and effective approach to organising and decluttering your home and life.
The Home Edit offers tools, tips, solutions and inspiration, for transforming your everyday.
Online Security, Privacy and Document Storage
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner conducts investigations, reviewing decisions, handling complaints, and providing guidance and advice.
Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) leads the Australian Government’s efforts to improve cyber security.
eSafety Commissioner focuses on promoting online safety for Australians. It provides information and resources on a wide range of online safety topics, including privacy.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Australia's integrated corporate, markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator and we serve the Australian community.
Stockbrokers and Investment Advisers Association offers the professional body for the stockbroking and investment advice industry in Australia, representing 8,000 professionals.
Helpful Applications
In Tough Times endoreses by medical and mental health professionals for the friends and family of people who may be at risk of self-harm. Strongly supported by people who have lived experience.
HELP helps ‘take the lead’ and feel confident in coordinating the practical and emotional support that a family needs as they come to terms with a loved one reaching palliative care or end-of-life.
BillWill saves time and stress for your executor and loved ones, knowing this crucial step is taken care of. In less than 10 minutes, you can create and update a secure record of your bills and subscriptions and leave clear instructions on what to do with them.
Louise Rosati transforms life stories into atmospheric and meaningful audiobooks.
Touchstone Life Care provides confidence that your care choices will be heard, and peace of mind that your doctors and loved ones know your wishes.
Carked It! game about Life, Death and Beyond.
End Stage Matters reclaims the old ways of familiarity with death and dying, and with acceptance in our culture of the natural order of things; an embracing of our impermanence and preparation for death, and in so doing, to live life more fully.
Insight Timer offers a vast range of meditations
A Moment With it’s a place to privately, and simply, create and share stories, and preserve those unique and authentic voices.
After Cloud it’s your private place to securely store memories, thoughts, wishes and important or meaningful information that you can share with your loved ones.
Record Me Now makes video legacy for yourself, your family and loved ones.
Event Live effortless live streaming platform for the most important moments of your life.
Funeral Bookings helps plan a funeral, compare prices, read real reviews and book and pay online all from the comfort of your home.
Cake supports on death, grief, and mortality.
Your Life Talks share your life story & create a family keepsake, & ensure your family knows your future wishes, in our easy-to-use free App.
Books, Podcasts, Videos & Films
Still Parents Podcast challenges societal norms and encourage men to embrace their emotions rather than conform to traditional expectations.
Good Mourning Podcast expert grief support and candid conversations on life after loss.
Discussing Choices – Indigenous Advance Care Plans successes by working respectfully with the local Anindilyakwa people, empowering them to express their end-of-life wishes by outlining the various aspects of an Advance Care Plan in a culturally safe and appropriate way.
Better off Dead Andrew Denton investigated the stories, moral arguments and individuals woven into discussions about why good people are dying bad deaths in Australia – because there is no law to help them.
The Bottom Drawer Book shows ideas, funeral plans, and your life’s reflections will sit quietly in its pages until they’re needed.
Holding you. Holding your child a resource provided by Natural Grace when supporting families through children and baby funerals.
The Compassion Project. A Case for Hope & Human Kindness from the Town That Beat Loneliness heartening to read the background story of a group of healthcare workers and community members linking together to connect socially isolated individuals and to really make a difference to their wellbeing.
The Art of Being a Healing Presence Jim Miller teamed with hospice chaplain Susan Cutshall to create a book about how to be with others in a way that's compassionate, nurturing, healing, and potentially even transforming.
Dying to be Me Anita freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, 'being love,' and the true magnificence of each and every human being.
The Five Invitations shows us how to accept and embrace dying in the midst of a death-denying era and explain how death can be the guide we need to wake up fully to our lives.
Finding Fwebbers is a wonderful story for children and adults to share together following the death of a loved one.
A Better Death emphases on advocacy, leaving a legacy, and staying true to our deepest convictions, Dr Srivastava tells stories of strength, hope and resilience in the face of grief, and offers an optimistic meditation on living and dying well.
Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart explains the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss.
How to prepare for your own death allows you to have a say in everything, from what song is played at your funeral, to what happens to your body and your stuff when you’re gone.
A free ebook to support someone who is grieving designed this guide to assist you as you walk alongside someone as they navigate their grief journey.
The Inaugural Issue of The International Journal of Disability Policy and Advocacy (IJDPA) interdisciplinary journal will examine a wide range of issues related to disability including health, human rights, accessibility, transportation, sexuality and housing.
The Body Keeps The Score is the inspiring story of how a group of therapists and scientists— together with their courageous and memorable patients—has struggled to integrate recent advances in brain science, attachment research, and body awareness into treatments that can free trauma survivors from the tyranny of the past.
discover how the body reacts to your thoughts and situations and how to change negatives into healthy postives.
How to sit with someone who's dying sitting with someone who is dying, particularly when they’re someone you care about, is something many of us find overwhelming.
Carers of loved ones with dementia supported to navigate ‘tiring, isolating’ reality a lot of people are out there, not telling people their family member’s got dementia.
Let's talk about dying - Peter Saul we can't control if we'll die, but we can "occupy death" in the words of Dr. Peter Saul.
I Help People Die For A Living - Refinery29 we focus on Alua Arthur, who calls herself a Death Doula, helps people prepare for death physically, mentally, and spiritually at Going With Grace.
Six myths about grief to bust for yourself, and your loved ones you may never experience love, but you’ll definitely experience grief.
Being Mortal follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life.
Andrew Denton on Assisted Dying at the National Press Club the pain of watching the slow death of his Denton Press Club beloved father, Kit Denton, prompted renowned broadcaster Andrew Denton to establish an advocacy group for voluntary assisted dying called Go Gentle Australia.
How to do a Good Death Jane relates her experience of helping her husband have a "good death" and what she learnt from the process - and how it can help us all prepare for that 100% chance - the chance that we might die some day.
What does a Death Doula do? people are often curious about my work as a death doula.
Ode To An End she serves dying people as a non-medical professional, working to make death and grief a more supported and realised experience for both the dying person and those around them.
Dying with an End of Life Doula Mariana provided many of the support services these people need to live fulfilling lives in their own home – often until their dying day.
Goodbye My Dog following three families as they honour and treasure the last precious days with their beloved dogs.
Conversation with BJ Miller St Vincent’s Private Hospital Melbourne presents conversations with BJ Miller who is a triple amputee who found his calling in hospice and palliative care.
Reclaiming The End Of Life As A Human Experience BJ Miller, MD reminds us to consider the fullest view of what it means to be human - from the messy, uncomfortable issues that arise around dying to the delight of being alive in our bodies - as a path to understanding the possibilities available to open to design for the end-of-life experience.
Living with Death Podcast we invited BJ Miller back to talk about death using as our guide his recent NY Times editorial What Is Death? How the pandemic is changing our understanding of mortality.
What really matters at the end of life BJ Miller is a hospice and palliative medicine physician who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients.
The Truth Of It Video Series: Palliative care learn about patients’ and caregivers’ unique experiences as well as their common threads of emotions, coping and perspective.
The Project End of Life Doula capture Helen Callanan Helen talks about the role of an End of Life Doula, helping people talk about and plan for their death.
Compassion and the true meaning of empathy Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row).
Three steps into the heart of home funeral three steps into the heart of home funerals.
Doula Connections provides information on end-of-life doulas and how they can support you.
Cake life-changing books can help you address your own feelings about a range of difficult topics.
Life and Beyond journal where you write down everything your family needs to know when you die.
Touchstone Life Care provides confidence that your care choices will be heard, and peace of mind that your doctors and loved ones know your wishes.
The Conversation talking about death and dying - can we be forced to live despite our wish to have our lives end at some natural point.
Your Life Talks helps finding a way to start these discussions with someone special.