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Effective Altruism Australia is a tax deductible institution that partners with charities which are the most effective at saving and improving lives.

29/10/2026

How do you know if your overseas donations are actually making a real-world impact? 🤔

Our latest episode is now live on , featuring our guests:
Louise Pfeiffer, Regional Director, Asia Pacific at The Life You Can Save
Heidi Nicholl, President of the Humanist Society
Grace Adams, CEO of Effective Altruism Australia

Together, we explore whether charities can inadvertently cause harm, how we measure real impact, the ethics of extreme wealth, helping people across cultural boundaries, and the difficult choices between helping people, animals, and future generations.

Because wanting to do good is the beginning. The harder question is: are we doing more than good?

Full podcast link in bio 🔗

28/10/2026

Hu Pennington gave one of his kidneys to someone he'd never met. His donation started a chain of seven transplants.

At EAGxAustralasia 2026 he's giving a talk: How to give away a spare kidney.

Hu is on our board. His story with Hack on triple j: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-11/altruistic-kidney-donation-hu-pennington-triple-j-hack/107242376

27 to 29 November, Melbourne Connect. Applications close 8 November: https://effectivealtruism.org.au/get-involved/eagx/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=eagx26&utm_content=speaker_pennington_eaa

25/10/2026

When Peter received the $1 million Berggruen Institute Prize, he gave it away: half to effective charities helping people in extreme poverty, and half to organisations working to reduce animal suffering, especially factory farming.

In this excerpt from his conversation with Rich Roll, Peter discusses why, once our own needs are met, giving can be more rewarding than spending.

23/10/2026

Applications for EAGxAustralasia 2026 close 8 November.
Three days of talks, workshops and one-to-one meetings with people working on the problems you care about. Melbourne Connect, 27 to 29 November.
https://effectivealtruism.org.au/get-involved/eagx/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=eagx26&utm_content=closing_d1

13/10/2026

Maximising our positive impact starts with using data, evidence, and reason to guide our decisions.

By applying thorough evidence-based frameworks to our careers, volunteering, and donations, effective altruism helps us direct our resources where they are likely to do the most good.

Our latest episode is now live on ! Link 🔗 in bio.

12/10/2026

How many people could 1% of your income help?

For most of us, 1% may not dramatically change our lives. But directed to highly effective charities, it could help protect people from preventable disease, improve lives and create extraordinary impact.

See what your 1% could do: effectivealtruism.org.au/what-could-your-1-do/

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04/10/2026

An enquiry into morality from a Humanist perspective.
A snippet from our podcast hashtag , now live!

Listen to the full podcast - link 🔗 in bio

Together, we explore whether charities can inadvertently cause harm, how we measure real impact, the ethics of extreme wealth, helping people across cultural boundaries, and the difficult choices between helping people, animals, and future generations.

Joining the conversation:
Louise Pfeiffer Regional Director, Asia Pacific at The Life You Can Save
Dr Heidi Nicholl, President of the Humanist Society of Victoria
Grace Adams 🔸, CEO of Effective Altruism Australia

Because wanting to do good is the beginning. The harder question is: are we doing more than good?

29/09/2026

The US Department of War posted “Americanism, not effective altruism,” and President Trump dismissed concerns about AI as a “hoax.”

But what does effective altruism actually stand for?

It asks how we can use our time and resources to help others as much as possible, whether that means reducing extreme poverty, ending factory farming, preventing pandemics or making advanced AI safer.

Swipe through for the context behind the headlines, then read the full article by Effective Altruism Australia CEO, Grace Adam’s on the Effective Altruism Australia website

28/09/2026

Meet some of our speakers for EAGxAustralasia 2026.

Safeena Husain, founder of Educate Girls, on turning an enormous problem into a measurable, scalable solution.

Louise Pfeiffer, Regional Director, Asia-Pacific at The Life You Can Save, on Profit for Good: shifting business norms to direct more funding to the world’s most pressing problems.

Robi Rahman, Senior Data Scientist at MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute), on careers and research directions in technical AI governance.

Polina Povarova, Executive Director of FarmKind, on the case for animal donations.

More speakers to be announced.

27 to 29 November, Melbourne Connect. Apply now: link in bio ✨

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