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Nauru ‘Not Safe’ – Senate

Xavier Smerdon, Wednesday, 2nd September 2015 - Asylum seeker advocates have called for the Nauru detention centre to be shut down after a Senate inquiry found that it was not safe and that women and children had been subjected to sexual assault and rape.

Australia’s New Aid Paradigm

Ellie Cooper, Tuesday, 1st September 2015 - A peak body for Australian aid organisations has welcomed the release of a new Government strategy aimed at engaging the private sector in aid and development which it says coincides with its own research on partnering with business on “shared valu

Mutual Succeeds in NSW Home Care Bid

Ellie Cooper, Tuesday, 1st September 2015 - The NSW Government has sold its Home Care Service to mutual provider, Australian Unity, in a move that is said to be the first of the new wave of public service mutual propositions.

Opinion

Accounts of Disability Abuse ‘Horrifying’ – Senator

Ellie Cooper, Tuesday, 1st September 2015 - The abuse of people with disability remains seemingly invisible despite a Senate Inquiry into the issue and more must be done to expose it, writes the Chair of the Inquiry, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert.

Women Should Return to Work – Government

Lina Caneva, Monday, 31st August 2015 - The Abbott Government has called on women who have had children to rejoin the workforce, suggesting that it may let them keep some of their welfare payments if they do so.

Opinion

Connected Communities: How Australia’s Social Capital Has Declined

Andrew Leigh, Thursday, 27th August 2015 - One of the central challenges of the decline in social capital is that the factors driving it are not things we would want to reverse, writes Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Andrew Leigh.

Cash for Charities Fighting Illegal Dumping

Xavier Smerdon, Thursday, 27th August 2015 - The West Australian Government will pilot a new program to provide financial support to charities which implement measures to reduce illegal dumping at their premises.

NFPs Address National Reform Summit Issues

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 27th August 2015 - Australia’s policy solutions should be more creative around revenue and expenditure and housing affordability must be one of the keys to reform, according to Not for Profit leaders attending a national summit in Canberra.

Call for Royal Commission Into Disability Abuse

Xavier Smerdon, Thursday, 27th August 2015 - A coalition of peak disability organisations is calling for a Royal Commission into violence, abuse and neglect against people with disability in Australia, describing the abuse as a “national epidemic”.

Australian Disability Enterprise Contracts Extended

Xavier Smerdon, Thursday, 27th August 2015 - The Federal Government has commitment more than $650 million to extend Australian Disability Enterprise (ADE) contracts for the next three years.

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