Opinion
The number of reports of domestic violence related incidences typically surges during the Christmas-New Year’s break, due to alcohol, financial stress, a higher frequency of family gatherings, and families and couples spending more time together at home. This year has already seen a spike in incidents of abuse, thanks ...
Social Enterprise Day in 2020 is a good opportunity for the sector to reflect on where we are up to. Social entrepreneurship is still relatively young as a concept, and yet there has been so ...
Nourishing communities in times of hardship has more impact when driven by collaboration. FareShare, which operates one of Australia’s largest charity kitchens, recently delivered its 250,000th free, nutritious meal to the LaTrobe Valley and Gippsland ...
Do you know what day it is? We all know March 8 is International Women’s Day. We are all across IDAHOBIT Day and Harmony Day and International Day of the Girl Child. And so we ...
Commentary on the $3.9bn for the NDIS The government is yet to outline a strategy to address the $4.6bn underspend on the NDIS in 2019. One of the key reasons for this underspend is low access to supports including allied health ...
If you really want to understand the human face of the climate crisis in Australia, sit down with Rev. Stephen Robinson. Having spent more than 20 years as a disaster response chaplain helping people at ...
In little more than a few months, our lives have been turned upside down. Accessing health care services is no longer the same as it was in February. Due to restrictions on movement, it’s unclear ...
After a devastating six months of tragedy due to COVID-19 and the country’s bushfires, 2020 has left many Aussies in a state of flux, fear and frustration. Connection is now even more crucial as all ...
A Message from Uniting AgeWell CEO Andrew Kinnersly: The alarming rate of community transmission of COVID-19 across Victoria is extremely concerning to us all. The number of cases reported over the past month, particularly in ...
As the program manager of MCM’s Early Childhood Intervention Service (ECIS), I manage a passionate team of speech pathologists, occupational therapists and specialist teachers. Our team provides services to children from birth to seven years ...
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