poverty

Millions of Australians face hygiene poverty

Menchie Khairuddin July 9, 2024

Millions of Australians are living in hygiene poverty as the cost-of-living crisis leaves many unable to afford soap, shampoo and deodorant. New research reveals that

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Governance, Poverty

ACOSS strongly commends Senate call to urgently act to end poverty in Australia

Menchie Khairuddin March 5, 2024

ACOSS strongly commends the Senate Community Affairs References Committee’s call to urgently act to end poverty in Australia including revisiting the rate of income support

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World, Humanitarian Crisis, philanthropy, Foreign Aid, Economic Development, Poverty

Global Citizen calls on various sectors to make financial commitments and end extreme poverty

Lourdes Antenor April 21, 2022

Global Citizen, the international advocacy organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty, today announced the launch of the Global Citizen Impact Funds Powered by NPX, a series

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Child Protection, Health

ACOSS joins AMA’s call on improving child health and wellbeing

Lourdes Antenor February 23, 2022

ACOSS joins the AMA’s call for a focus on improving child health and wellbeing. ACOSS is pleased to join with the Australian Medical Association (AMA)

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Child Protection, Social Affairs, Youth, Poverty, Governance, Health

CEDA: more Australian children condemned to poverty without urgent action

Lourdes Antenor December 2, 2021

Australia is committing between 280,000 to 550,000 young Australians born in the next decade to future poverty unless urgent action is taken to tackle disadvantage, a

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Featured CEO, covid-19, Foundation

Female CEO shares Compassion in a male dominated industry

Pearl Dy September 22, 2020

This year has been a year of change even before COVID for Clare Steele. Last year she lived in Five Dock with her family, where

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News, Policy, Volunteering, Community Organisations

Young women encouraged to lead on gender equality

Pearl Dy June 18, 2020

Middle age women have emerged as the newest face of poverty in Australia and the newly appointed high-profile head of the nation’s leading feminist organisation, Helen

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Opinion, Featured

For International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Banking CEO says financial institutions must partner with NFPs

Andrew Cairns October 17, 2019

Andrew Cairns talked about how banks and other financial institutions should look at partnering with not-for-profits to provide more comprehensive support. We are considered the

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Community Organisations, Charities

ACOSS: “Not the time for more tax cuts”

Gali Blacher March 18, 2019

Unlike tax cuts, raising Newstart and the minimum wage will effectively reduce poverty and boost the economy, argues The Australian Council of Social Service’s submission to the

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Governance

Welfare charity not happy with “poverty shaming”

Gali Blacher January 10, 2017

Poverty shaming brought to light.

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