Poverty
90% of people missing out on disaster payments during lockdown
August 26, 2021
With almost 90% of people on the lowest incomes in lockdown missing out on the disaster payments, ACOSS reiterates its call for the $200-per-week disaster payment to be extended to all people struggling to survive ...
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$530 billion lost in 2020 due to preventable blindness, study shows
February 18, 2021
A new Lancet Global Health report has found preventable blindness cost the global economy $530 billion AUD last year due to lost employment, with the greatest cost in East Asia at $116 billion AUD and ...
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Sustainability specialist, social entrepreneur join Global Citizen’s board of directors
February 4, 2021
International anti-poverty organisation Global Citizen announced the appointments of sustainability specialist Terence Jeyaretnam and social entrepreneur Anna Robson to its Australian Board of Directors. Jeyaretnam is a Partner at Ernst & Young (EY) in the ...
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