Call for Nominations: Helping our vets support our wildlife From today, nominations can be submitted via: www.wildlifeheroes.org.au/wildlife-friendly-vets/ Just over twelve months on from Black Summer, the worst wildlife disaster in modern history, the New South Wales floods have brought further devastation to…
The Westernport Bay community is celebrating today after Victorian Planning Minister Richard Wynne rejected a proposed gas import terminal at Crib Point. The controversial project faced sustained and overwhelming opposition from a broad alliance of groups, including fishing businesses, the tourism industry,…
Joint Media Release from Djirra and Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service: We call on the Victorian Government to immediately establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner. The Commissioner must be sufficiently resourced and empowered to undertake an independent review into…
Mission Australia, the St Vincent de Paul Society, Wesley Mission and The Salvation Army have joined forces to call on the Federal Government not to cut $57 million from homelessness services. The homelessness charities warn that the impending cuts will leave frontline…
The Victorian government’s welcome announcement of a five-billion-dollar investment in social housing last year was recently bolstered by the extension of an additional 2500 homes to be created by the project. The Big Housing Build will be delivered over four years and…
The eX-detainee Refugee community demands the Australian Government and Medical advisory groups include us in the vaccine priority list. The eX-detainee community in Australia is one of the most disadvantaged communities in Australia and subjected to systemic oppression and abuse. eX-detainees are also…
New data released by the Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services 2021 released on 20th January 2021 confirms that of the low-income households renting private rental homes, 50.2% are facing rental stress and are therefore at risk of homelessness – which has…
The release of 15 more refugees from the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention centre in January is welcome news, particularly following the release of 46 people also in January and the one man resettled in the U.S. on 28 January from the…
