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With defence force personnel joining police in South West and Western Sydney, ACOSS, NCOSS and community sector organisations have expressed deep concerns and urged governments to listen to, respect and act upon the calls of local community leaders. Settlement Services International (SSI) CEO and ACOSS Board Director Violet Roumeliotis: “Many […]

The Indigenous Law Centre at the University of NSW continues to ask the community to support the ongoing push for a constitutionally protected Voice to Parliament. “This task is urgent,” says co-chairs Pat Anderson and Prof Megan Davis. “We must let parliament know that the Australian people support the Uluru […]

Governments across Australia must urgently redouble their efforts to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inequality, the Close the Gap campaign says, following the release of disappointing new data on the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. This week’s release of the first annual data report by the Productivity Commission […]

The Australian Council of Social Service welcomed the new $200 per week disaster payment for people in lockdown on social security payments who lost at least eight hours of paid work but expressed alarm that the Federal Government had again abandoned those with the very least – those who had […]

Angela Fredericks from the HometoBilo campaign is calling on as many people as possible to join an online event being held by the Tamil Refugee Council today, Saturday, July 31. Tamil Refugee Council (TRC) is an Australia based grassroots Tamil organisation advocating for the rights of Tamil refugees in Australia, […]