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  • 09 September, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    A history of help: 100 years of NRMA Insurance

    2025 marks a centenary of helping Australians protect what matters most. We reflect on our history and focus on what’s to come.

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  • Adelaide Fringe Festival
    28 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Paying it forward helps more people experience the Adelaide Fringe

    More people will have the opportunity to experience the magic of the Adelaide Fringe thanks to its community donations initiative, matched by NRMA Insurance.

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  • 09 September, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    A history of help: 100 years of NRMA Insurance

    2025 marks a centenary of helping Australians protect what matters most. We reflect on our history and focus on what’s to come.

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    History Preparedness Insurance
  • Adelaide Fringe Festival
    28 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Paying it forward helps more people experience the Adelaide Fringe

    More people will have the opportunity to experience the magic of the Adelaide Fringe thanks to its community donations initiative, matched by NRMA Insurance.

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    Events Stories of help
  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Helping Red Cross Earthquake Relief, One Cupcake at a Time

    This Moment of Help reaches from a playground on Gadigal-Wangal land, in Sydney’s Five Dock, across to a disaster-affected part of the world.

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    Stories of help
  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Helping turn tragedy to helping others

    It’s been 60 years since Lifeline answered its first call for help. Meet Ella who turned a family tragedy into helping others.

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  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Can-do in the country: Helping people live a connected life

    It’s a land of milk and honey, if you can only get to the supermarket. Distance between places is both a feature and a challenge of Australian rural life.

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  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Bringing Care to Regional Breast Cancer Patients with The McGrath Foundation

    In Australia, 57 new people are diagnosed with breast cancer every day. For regional and remote patients, access to specialised support can be life changing.

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  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Championing Koala Conservation: One Advocate's Journey of Help

    Abai, the koala joey. is one of many sick, injured or orphaned koalas Sue Ashton has seen in her role as Chairperson of Port Macquarie’s Koala Hospital & KCA.

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  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    The colour pink is the colour of Help

    At her family’s Pink Stumps cricket match for the McGrath Foundation, Jessica Keen is a whirl of activity, spreading her Moment of Help wide.

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  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Dedicated to Saving Lives: A Remarkable Journey with Lifeblood

    Renai's journey began with a simple act of kindness that has since transformed into a profound mission to save lives through donating blood.

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  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Field of Dreams: Help is a habit that runs deep in the bush

    In remote south-west WA, 94 year old Peter Thorn and son Michael have created the ultimate cricket pitch to help bring their remote community together.

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    Stories of help
  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    From heartbreak to help: a Sydney mum races to save babies’ lives

    Sophie Smith started running to raise millions of dollars to help save the lives of premature babies. Literally, making the difference between life & death.

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  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Helping to beat the scourge of ocean-borne plastic

    This Moment of Help takes place on the Whitsunday coast of Queensland, where turtles have long tangled with ocean-borne plastic & marine debris.

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    Stories of help
  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Helping hands as the River Murray floodwaters rise

    When preparing for the arrival of the River Murray floodwaters, Sonya Catalano, who joined the 15 strong NRMA Insurance team in Nganguruku country. This is her story.

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    Stories of help
  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    How this community garden is helping cultivate opportunities for resettled African refugees

    First sprouting in 2016 in Adelaide’s Davoren Park, this Moment of Help tells the story of a community garden that’s raising hope for resettled African refugees.

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  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    How a trip to a local tip started a cycle of help

    The inspiration for Hans Radowitz’s Moment of Help came at an unlikely place: the local tip near Bundanoon, in the NSW Southern Highlands.

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  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    NRMA Insurance helicopter crew playing Santa near Forbes, NSW

    Santa in the sky -a crew of volunteers from the NSW SES and RFS chopper in supplies and Christmas mail to help those cut off by floodwaters.

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  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Meet the Rural Fire Service that’s replacing fear with confidence through dedicated bushfire safety engagement

    Meet Deputy Captain Glenn O’Rourke, a volunteer of 26 years at Wollombi’s Rural Fire Service Brigade (RFS), who helps his community live bushfire-ready.

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    Stories of help
  • 06 February, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Running to close the gap – marathon runner Zibeon Fielding

    Healthy living is a marathon, not a sprint. And few people know that as well as Zibeon Fielding. Read more about how he helps indigenous health here.

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    Stories of help
  • 20 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Daydream Machine: Helping kids who are different, to shine

    This Moment of Help shares the story of one young man determined to help neurodiverse kids defy labels and change stigmas, all through music and creativity.

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    Stories of help
  • 20 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    A Fire Inside – A burning desire to help

    “His property was destroyed, all the koala enclosures, his own home, and he’d lost about 80% of the koalas he’d been rehabilitating – how can you not do everything to help"?

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    Stories of help
  • 20 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Helping kids change their future, and the world

    Food Ladder is a small Australian not-for-profit aiming to empower disadvantaged communities & schools through food and economic security. Read more here.

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  • 20 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    How “Mum Vina” helps bring a community together through cricket

    As the children of Cherbourg pour into the sports complex with wide smiles, Lavina Dyvenor awaits with bats, balls and an open heart. This is her moment of help.

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  • 20 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Humans and horses helping each other after loss

    When therapist Julie Walker brings Army veterans and first responders into the yard to meet her horses, the animals recognise fellow travellers in trauma.

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    Stories of help
  • 20 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Out of the fire: helping Brush-tailed Rock-wallabies thrive again

    The group of Brush-tailed Rock-wallabies is thriving thanks to the efforts of some very dedicated National Parks and Wildlife Service staff.

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    Stories of help
  • 17 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    The grant that supported Corowa cricket club’s resilience and helped fuel its recovery after a devastating flood

    With the help of a $15,000 NRMA Insurance community cricket grant the Corowa Cricket Club was able to repair and rebuild their grounds. Read more here.

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  • 17 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    NRMA Insurance community cricket club grant for Launceston Cricket Club

    An NRMA Insurance community cricket club grant to Launceston Cricket Club will help support women’s cricket in the region. Read more below.

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  • 17 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    One man’s fight against fires turns into building better homes

    The Black Summer bushfires may have destroyed homes and livelihoods, but it didn’t destroy one man’s fight to help build a better future for his community.

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    Stories of help
  • 17 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    The Secret Harbour Dockers’ wish to give back to its community of players is granted

    Secret Harbour Dockers Cricket Club is giving back to their community, thanks to the NRMA Insurance $15,000 Community Cricket Club Grant.

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  • 16 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    A Fire Inside – An unlikely friendship

    "Sometimes driving on the country roads after an inspection, I’d tear up just thinking about what our customers had gone through." – Jas Singh, Claims Assessor.

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  • 16 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Haka for Life founder Leon Ruri's Inspiring story

    Leon Ruri knows he could have been a statistic – one of the seven men who takes their life each day in Australia. Read more about Leons story here.

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    Stories of help
  • 16 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    The application that secured an NRMA Insurance grant to bring new life to Goolwa Cricket Club

    Helping to restore a local cricket club to its former glory: The 300-word application that secured an NRMA Insurance grant for Goolwa Cricket Club.

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  • 16 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Heroing the helpers behind our cricketers

    We’re applauding the volunteers and helpers who feed the sport with their passion & experience. Here is part 1 of our 4 part series.

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    Stories of help
  • 16 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Hope in the face of tough times – Paul Hosking

    Paul Hosking asks no questions as he provides food, clothing, company, encouragement and a little music to those in need.

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    Stories of help
  • 16 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    How the Pink Test is helping change lives, one nurse at a time

    Here is the story of one local nurse in Bordertown, in south-east South Australia, whose life took a turn when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

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  • 16 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    How we can all use our Fire Inside to join a new Australian army of helpers

    In Australia, 97 per cent of all disaster funding is spent after the event, with just three per cent committed to mitigation measures. The ARC aims to change that.

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  • 16 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    From needing help to giving help

    Caught in the Black Summer bushfires in NSW, Nadine De Santis vowed if she survived she would help her community. She couldn’t have imagined how huge her promise would become.

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    Stories of help
  • 16 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    For over 40 years, one man’s career has been defined by helping others

    South Australia’s Jim Debnam takes enormous pride in donning his orange uniform and helping his community through the South Coast unit of the SASES.

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    Stories of help
  • 16 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Helping migrant women fight loneliness

    How Tracy Cave, WA founder of the sister project, is helping migrant women fight loneliness in the suburbs.

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    Stories of help
  • 13 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    A Fire Inside – For ‘Spud’ it’s personal

    Judi “Spud” Hindson, Claims Assessor, has been in this industry for over 31 years. Learn more about how she helps people in her interview here.

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  • 06 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Heroing the helpers behind our cricketers. Part 2

    We’re applauding the volunteers and helpers who feed the sport with their passion & experience. Here is part 2 of us heroing the helpers behind our cricketers.

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    Stories of help
  • 06 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Heroing the helpers behind our cricketers. Part 3

    We’re applauding the volunteers and helpers who feed the sport with their passion & experience. Here is part 3 of our 4 part series.

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    Stories of help
  • 06 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Heroing the helpers behind our cricketers. Part 4 

    We’re applauding the volunteers and helpers who feed the sport with their passion & experience. Here is part 4 of our 4 part series.

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    Stories of help
  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Amazing foster mum – Noelene Lever

    As a single mum living in Sydney during the 1970s, this Bundjalung woman from the NSW North Coast began taking in unwanted or destitute children.

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    Stories of help
  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Changing lives one beat at a time

    Through her South Australian record label, Bianca Nilsson is bringing unheard artists to a global audience – and giving voice to people in the margins, too.

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    Stories of help
  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    First aid kit ready for action – Lisa and Darrell Bossley

    Lisa and Darrell Bossley are ready to help others – day in, day out. The Bossleys live beside a stretch of the Kings Highway that is known for its vehicle accidents.

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    Stories of help
  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Helping hands in the midst of bushfire crisis

    Having worked at NRMA Insurance for more than 13 years, Sally’s helped her fair share of clients but believes they’re more than that – they’re family.

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    Stories of help
  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Helping men speak up about their mental health – Lyndsay Walker

    5 years ago, former professional sportsman Lyndsay Walker’s life reached a crisis point. He discovered a new purpose by helping others as a mental health advocate.

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    Stories of help
  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    John Lyle from Monty’s Rest – continuing to save wildlife bushfire victims

    “It’s in my nature to help these animals. I can’t explain why I’m like that. But I am. And if I didn’t do it, they’d die.” says wildlife carer John Lyle.

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  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Marianne’s colourful cardies brightening kids’ lives

    Today, 87-year-old Marianne lives in a residential aged-care facility in Townsville. And she’s still knitting – not in exchange for food but for children in need.

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    Stories of help
  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Mercy mission – IAG’s Phil Silverman

    In disaster situations, assessors like to get in quickly to give people peace of mind. Due to roads damage, IAG Phil Silverman was in Melbourne, frustrated.

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    Stories of help
  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Small helpers. Big hearts. Get storm ready with NSW SES.

    It’s a rainy Saturday morning in Sydney’s Western suburbs and a gaggle of children, dressed as NSW SES helpers, are running around excitedly.  Read more here.

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  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Support for bereaved parents – Christelle Le Baccon

    Christelle Le Baccon’s son Lexi died in a kitesurfing accident in November 2019. She has used her pain  to help others by creating cuddle dolls donated to sick children.

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    Stories of help
  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Turning your home into a wildlife haven

    If you find a vulnerable animal, you can help to give them a greater chance of survival. Here are some ways you can help our wildlife.

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  • 05 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Water joy: How Yusra is helping encourage Western Sydney women to swim

    The Swim Sisters helps to give many women from diverse backgrounds in Western Sydney the chance to build their swimming skills.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Building bridges with local youth – Senior Constable Ian Burns

    For Senior Constable Ian Burns, Project Walwaay has not only changed hundreds of Indigenous kids’ lives, it’s kept him passionate about the police force.

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    Stories of help
  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Check in on mental health

    While many people do reach out to organisations such as Lifeline, sadly  others who suffer in silence. Its so important to check in with our loved ones & friends.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Help, like no-one else – Adam NRMA Insurance Assessor

    In the 11 years that he’s been an NRMA assessor, Adam has seen his fair share of disasters and is prepared for all. Read more about how he helps people here.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Help, like no-one else – Mandy NRMA Insurance Assessor

    For Mandy, being an insurance assessor is much more than a job. She genuinely cares about the people who need her help. Read more about her story here.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Making waves: Erika wades in for kids on the spectrum

    Autism Swim founder Erika Gleeson is on a mission to reduce cases of wandering and drowning with children on the autism spectrum.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Meet the boating barista – Garry White

    Garry White, 70, who retired from his desk job 20 years ago and retrained for his current role as a boating barista. Here is Garry's Story.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    NRMA helicopter pilot helps NSW RFS – Geoff Sprod

    Geoff Sprod has provided aviation support for NSW National Parks & Wildlife Services for more than a decade. Read more about his story here.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Redemption Songs

    Murray Cook's music programme is changing the lives of hundreds of men & women in NSW prisons, helping provide new skills for reintegration into the community.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Riding a wave – Disabled Surfers Association's Gary Blaschke

    Gary founded the Disabled Surfers Association, which helps foster friendship on the waves for people returning to the surf or discovering it for the first time.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    On the same wavelength

    As founder & director of Borderline Australia, Cody Schaeffer is helping  young people with mental health issues through camps & other activities. Read more here.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Supertee creator Jason Sotiris

    Jason Sotiris calls it “the moment”. It comes when a child has been in hospital for days, or weeks, or more. And suddenly something magical happens.

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  • 03 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Wombat lovers – Donna and Jade Stepan

    In the aftermath of last summer’s devastating bushfires, carer Donna Stepan found Chari, a bare-nosed wombat, struggling to survive in the blackened landscape.

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  • 02 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    All-round superstar – Olympian Patty Mills

    During lockdown in the US last year, Australian basketball superstar Patty Mills came up with an idea; an Indigenous youth basketball program. Read more here.

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  • 02 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Dog therapy – RuffTrack founder David Graham

    David Graham, better known as “Farmer Dave”, helps vulnerable teenagers with his transformational youth program called RuffTrack, in Sydney’s north west.

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  • 02 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Fighting Fire on the frontline – Edwina, a volunteer for NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS)

    When therapist Julie Walker brings Army veterans and first responders into the yard to meet her horses, the animals recognise fellow travellers in trauma.

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  • 02 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Help, like no-one else – Garry NRMA Insurance Assessor

    As an NRMA Insurance Technical Assessor for the past 10 years, Garry uses his decades of experience to assess everything from major-loss fires to floods.

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  • 02 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Helping business-owning mums through fires, floods and even a pandemic

    Carrie Kwan, a mother of two boys and a successful digital entrepreneur, knows all too well the challenges of running a business and a family.

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  • 02 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Helping to heal country – Indigenous cultural specialist Victor Steffensen

    For decades, Victor Steffensen has listened to the land. He’s helped Indigenous & non-Indigenous people connect with country & healed the Australian landscape.

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  • 02 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    How Refugee Migrant Children Centre (RMCC) are helping connect kids with technology

    The Refugee Migrant Children Centre (RMCC) helps migrant children acts as their lifeline to support, mentoring and community connectedness.

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  • 02 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Rebuilding first the land, from the ground up – Indigenous teachers Noel and Trish Butler

    “We've got a long way to go to share the knowledge of the longest-living continuous culture known to humans,” says Noel, a Budawang Elder from the Yuin Nation.

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  • 02 January, 2025
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Team Billie – volunteers who helped a sea turtle recover from a fatal blood disease

    When Manly green sea turtle Billie was diagnosed with a potentially fatal blood disease, a team of locals helped raise funds & nurse him back to health.

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  • 04 December, 2024
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    Every moment of help counts, when it comes to our Koala population

    Volunteer home carer Judy Brady is a dedicated local living on Birpai Land, Port Macquarie at the epicentre of the effort to help our injured koalas.

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  • 04 December, 2024
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    There’s something in the water that’s helping men's mental health at the Cronulla Gropers

    Founded by Lee Murphy and Jason Dorahy, the Cronulla Gropers is an early morning swimming group where men are invited to belong, connect and share.

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  • 04 December, 2024
    Community | NRMA Insurance Blog

    From Homeless to Helping Others – Nourishing a Community with Food & Hope

    From homeless to helping others. Josh Serafini, after turning his own life around, now volunteers with community dinners to give back, one meal at a time.

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