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Changemaker

Always Respect Your Elders

Wendy Williams, Monday, 17th October 2016 -  Anne Fairhall is a Victorian volunteer and carer advocate for people living with dementia. She is this week’s Changemaker.

Rooming House Tenants Pay High Price for Living in Poverty

Lina Caneva, Wednesday, 12th October 2016 -  A six-month snapshot of Melbourne rooming houses has revealed a significant ongoing problem of illegal properties, exorbitant rents and poor conditions in accommodation run by both for-profit and not-for-profit organisations.
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Podcast: Australia’s True Colours – What Is Racism?

Ellie Cooper, Tuesday, 11th October 2016 -  In a striking contradiction, Australia is held up the world over as both a shining example of a multicultural success story and as a nation that is racist and hostile to immigrants.
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Australia Ranks 21st in Best and Worst Countries to be a Girl

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 11th October 2016 -  A new report – published on the International Day of the Girl Child – on the best and worst countries to be a girl, reveals that Australia has been outranked by countries including Serbia and Slovenia and placed at a lowly 21st out of 144 nations
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Care Leavers Launch Police Protest

Wendy Williams, Tuesday, 11th October 2016 -  A national peak organisation for people who grew up in Australian orphanages, children's homes, and foster care is launching a protest calling on police across the country to apologise for their “historic failure” to protect children from institu

Homelessness Tackled ‘Head On’ With 30,000 New Homes in Vic Strategy

Ellie Cooper, Tuesday, 4th October 2016 -  The body tasked with creating Victoria’s 30-year infrastructure strategy has recommended 30,000 new affordable homes be created and has put social housing as one of the state’s top three priorities.

Single Working Women Locked Out of Rental Market

Ellie Cooper, Tuesday, 4th October 2016 -  Single working women are being locked out of Melbourne’s rental market, with only 25 per cent of suburbs affordable today, compared to 50 per cent a decade ago.

Opinion

Youth Justice System Needs Balance

Julie Edwards, Tuesday, 4th October 2016 -  Has Victoria learned nothing from the outcry around the abuse and brutalisation of young people within the Northern Territory’s youth justice system – we don’t need a “supermax” prison to house our youth, writes Julie Edwards, CEO Jesuit So

Noise Impact Charity Challenges Regulator Over Revocation

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 29th September 2016 -  A charity that researches and advises on the impact of industrial noise, including wind farms, is challenging a decision by the charity regulator, and the subsequent loss of its tax deductibility status, in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
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Most Australians Have No Idea Extreme Poverty Has Halved

Ellie Cooper, Friday, 23rd September 2016 -  Over the past two decades the number of people living in extreme poverty has more than halved, but 89 per cent of Australians believe the problem has stayed the same or worsened.

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