Access to, and participation in cultural events is a social justice issue, for creative industry workers, and for the public. Australians living outside of capital cities, with lower levels of education, and lower household incomes attend cultural activities at a lower rate than their counterparts. Socioeconomic factors inhibit access to the arts, and thus, to the coinciding benefits the arts can provide to health, social cohesion, and community building.
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Help starts at home
“We work alongside parents in their own homes. Every family has different needs, so the support they receive is tailored to their unique situation. We respond through a combination of home visits, group work, parenting education, and social events,” Michelle added.
100 days of Hoenig in hiding – where’s Ronny?
“Government members want to see councillors and mayors re-empowered—powers those opposite took from them over 12 years—to determine where the wastage is. I can tell the House one thing: This Government will fight for the ratepayers of this State. It will fight to ensure economic efficiency by empowering elected people in this State to run their councils and their cities, not by removing their authority and giving it to bureaucrats as members opposite have done.” – Ron Hoenig, Minister for Local Government
Simple steps to create habitat in your garden
Over 8000 food, water and shelter elements have been added to residences and businesses across Australia since August 2013 thanks to this initiative.
Winter and the hope it brings – theme for first poets’ breakfast
Inspired by the multiple poetry meetings and events in NSW such as ‘Poetica’ in Sydney (produced by Miriam Hechtman), the Gosford Poets and the annual Words on Waves Festival in the Central Coast and many more, Poets’ breakfast in Kincumber begins
Famous novel recreated for stage
Central to the story is an unorthodox love that develops between Mary, a career driven business executive in her mid-50s, and Tim, a handsome 25-year-old labourer with a mild intellectual disability.
Cities commission ditched but housing targets remain
“The previous Government left us with a planning system that included too many agencies reporting to too many ministers. It was a system that, put simply, wasn’t delivering enough housing for people in NSW.”
Opinion: Bank closures and outages are a social justice issue
As the least computer literate generation fades away the expectation that we will all be able to digitally serve ourselves may become a reality. It is a despicable and socially malevolent reality.
8000 farmers take a welcome stand on habitat
We need deep emissions reductions in this decisive decade for climate and we need to make genuine increases to biodiversity across the country.
$51 million for renewable hydrogen on NSW border
It will be powered by renewable energy from a Victorian wind farm and demonstrate renewable hydrogen’s compatibility with existing gas infrastructure.