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Creating Supportive Communities Around People Doing it Tough

Contributor, Tuesday, 3rd April 2018 -  How Gather My Crew, a new online rostering tool, is encouraging a digital community revolution.
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Victorian Agency to Address Root Cause of Family Violence

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 29th March 2018 -  A new family violence prevention agency has been launched with the aim of tackling gender inequality as a root cause.

Opinion

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Why Family Violence Leave Should Be Paid

Kate Farhall, Thursday, 29th March 2018 -  Financial hardship can bind women to abusive relationships, writes, Kate Farhall, a Postdoctoral research fellow at RMIT University in this article which first appeared in The Conversation.
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‘Selfie Generation’ Most Likely to Volunteer

Wendy Williams, Thursday, 29th March 2018 -  Millennials and Gen Z are the demographic most likely to volunteer with a community organisation, according to new research.

Opinion

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It’s Time to Make Hearing Health a Priority

Hamish Fairlie, Thursday, 29th March 2018 -  Disability should be perceived as a spectrum, writes 17 year old Hamish Fairlie, who took the floor at the 2018 Power of Speech event on Monday to set the record straight around what deaf people can achieve and to address politicians on the need for
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NFPs Turning to Social Enterprise to Overcome Funding Challenges

Luke Michael, Tuesday, 27th March 2018 -  Australian not for profits are looking to overcome funding and resourcing challenges by establishing a social enterprise, a new insights report has found.
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Unpacking The Challenges of Specialist Disability Accommodation

Contributor, Tuesday, 27th March 2018 -  A look at some of the key issues surrounding Specialist Disability Accommodation, ahead of the upcoming Shaping the Future of Disability Housing national conference.
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Community Infrastructure That Delivers Social Outcomes

Contributor, Tuesday, 27th March 2018 -  Brimbank City Council’s new infrastructure project in St Albans, in Melbourne’s West, will use the development of a leisure and community centre as a way to deliver population-level social and health improvements.
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ABS Looks To Broaden Volunteering Census Data

Luke Michael, Monday, 26th March 2018 -  A consultation on volunteering data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has found that statistics on informal volunteering are a critical data gap that needs to be addressed, in order to better inform policy development and effective servi

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Where’s The Map? Navigating Australia’s Housing and Aged Care Systems

Contributor, Thursday, 22nd March 2018 -  For older people who are in housing stress and in need of aged care services, they have two disparate systems – both confusing individually, let alone together – to navigate, write Dr Victoria Cornell, Dr Alice Clark, and Jane Mussared.
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