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$2.6M for Indigenous Language Projects

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 20th February 2014 - Forty-two new projects aimed at preserving Indigenous languages will share $2.6 million in Federal Government funding. Announcing the latest recipients of the Indigenous Languages…

Call to Increase Refugee Numbers

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th February 2014 - The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) has urged Australia to increase the number of refugees it accepts under its annual offshore humanitarian program. Releasing RCOA’s…

SA Launches Historic Volunteering Strategy

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th February 2014 - South Australia has launched a Volunteering Strategy in partnership with government, councils and business, plus a government promise of added ‘volunteer thank you’…

Grants and Partnerships Aim to Keep Youth Safe Online

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 18th February 2014 - Keeping young people safe online was the focus of two separate announcements around grant funding and cross-sector partnerships last week. Both announcements were made to coincide…

Analysis

Not for Profit Reform “Back to the Future?”

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 13th February 2014 - The Coalition Government’s attempt to wind back the policy clock in the Not for Profit policy space sees Social Services Minister, Kevin Andrews, leading the charge in unpicking…

Charity Regulator Staff Offered Voluntary Redundancies

Staff Reporter, Thursday, 13th February 2014 - Staff at Australia’s beleaguered charity regulator, the ACNC, have been offered voluntary redundancies as part of a major public service jobs cutting move by the Australian…

Anti-Tobacco Push Resurfaces

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 12th February 2014 - Australian anti-tobacco campaigners are leveraging last week’s announcement by a US retail chain that it would stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its…

Court Action Over Disability Payment Scheme

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 21st January 2014 - Lawyers for 10,000 intellectually disabled workers in Australia have sought a court order over the Federal Government’s latest payment scheme. Compensation law firm, Maurice…

Spotlight

High-end Healthcare – For Good

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 15th January 2014 - A luxury incarnation of an everyday service promises to balance healthcare in suburbs where rich and poor live side-by-side, writes journalist Nadia Boyce. Six months ago, Melbourne’s…

Feds Flag Social Services Merger

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 14th January 2014 - Federal Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews has flagged a plan to merge the Social Services and Human Services Departments into a mega community agency. The proposal is ostensibly…

Multi-million Dollar Plan to Tackle Homelessness

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 14th January 2014 - A Victorian homelessness peak body has called for the State Government to invest $54 million over four years to get rough sleepers off the street. In its pre-Budget submission, the…

People with Disability to Help Form Aid program

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 14th January 2014 - People with disability are set to play an active role in developing Australia’s foreign aid program moving beyond 2015. The Federal Government strategy, announced last December…

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