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Maggie Coggan is a journalist at Pro Bono News covering the social sector.

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‘Things need to change’: Widespread complex mental illness discrimination revealed

Maggie Coggan, Monday, 12th October 2020 -  A national program to change attitudes around complex mental illness is needed to ensure all Australians can live free from stigma, SANE Australia says. 

Five ways to take care of your mental health during unemployment

Maggie Coggan, Monday, 12th October 2020 -  Losing your job can take more of a toll than you might realise. With World Mental Health Day taking place on Saturday, we take a look at how you can stay mentally healthy during your hunt for a job. 

Creating change from the grassroots up

Changemaker

Maggie Coggan, Monday, 12th October 2020 -  For over 20 years, Melissa Monteiro has been fighting for grassroots social change in Sydney’s West as the head of the Community Migrant Resource Centre. She’s this week’s Changemaker. 

A degree to spark imagination

Maggie Coggan, Saturday, 10th October 2020 -  A new university is aiming to equip its students with the skills to organise change and fight for a fairer world

Mental health scores unprecedented budget spend

Budget

Maggie Coggan, Thursday, 8th October 2020 -  But advocates say the government missed the mark on delivering the recommendations of the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into mental health 

Pacific funding boost to come at a cost

Budget

Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 7th October 2020 -  Australia’s foreign aid budget does not go far enough to address the threat to global progress on poverty that the pandemic poses, advocates say. 

Social housing left high and dry in 2020 Budget

Budget

Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 7th October 2020 -  Housing and homelessness advocates say this year’s budget was a “missed opportunity”. 

A native brew for success

Spotlight

Maggie Coggan, Wednesday, 7th October 2020 -  Gulbarn is a native bush food used by the Alawa people for thousands of years as a medicine. Now, Samara Billy is sharing the plant with everyone as a delicious tea, and using it to bring jobs and money into her community, writes Maggie Coggan in this month’s Spotlight on social enterprise. 

Victorian social enterprise strategy gets a refresh

Maggie Coggan, Tuesday, 6th October 2020 -  The updated strategy will identify key priorities and focus areas for growing and supporting the sector 

Community comes to the rescue of Lentil as Anything

Maggie Coggan, Monday, 5th October 2020 -  The vegetarian pay-as-you-feel restaurant chain raised more than $150,000 in just four days

Cross-sector leaders unite to push for climate action

Maggie Coggan, Monday, 5th October 2020 -  A high profile board will help develop new strategies, partnerships and investment for climate action
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