Last night’s Federal Budget has failed to include the stimulus investment in social housing urgently needed to respond to growing homelessness and includes a $41.3 million cut to homelessness services from July 2021. Homelessness Australia Chair, Jenny Smith, said: “Tonight’s budget is…
On the eve of the RSPCA’s newest biggest annual national fundraising appeal, pyjama king Peter Alexander and the Petbarn Foundation have been named as the first national matching partners, amplifying the benefit of every dollar donated by the community. “It’s been a…
The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) has written to five State Premiers to warn them to prepare for the Federal Government’s latest move to strip financial assistance from more than 500 refugees and people seeking asylum previously transferred from Papua New Guinea…
20-years since Cathy Freeman won gold at the Sydney Olympics, the Cathy Freeman Foundation is calling for people to participate in a virtual run event to foster Indigenous education. The inaugural Stride for Education challenges participants to run, walk or wheel up…
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) has urged the federal government to extend its COVID19 safety nets, as new data shows a four-fold increase in numbers accessing its foodbank.…
Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of young people (aged 13 to 17) in Australia are doing better than they had expected they would be at this point, new national research by UNICEF Australia has found. However, there are a significant proportion…
Wealthy nations representing just 13 percent of the world’s population – including Australia – have already cornered more than half the promised doses of leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Oxfam warned this week as health and finance ministers of G20 countries meet to…
Indigenous deaths in custody continue to rise amid unambitious parity targets and opaque reporting systems.…
A survey of people on JobSeeker released on Friday by the Australian Council of Social Service lays bare the grim outlook for people without paid work in this recession.…
At the age of 22, Warren Davies became a farmer. He had moved to the Goulburn Valley as a teenager to help his parents run a dairy farm and after many years of farm work, he decided to buy a few hundred…
