"I tend to be dreamy and not present a lot. It’s the only time I am wholly invested in something and totally in the moment.”

We are catalysing change in many areas... serving our community with our largest and most diverse programme delivery in five years.

Jimmy Barnes: “There’s too many people in Australia going hungry."

At the ACOSS National Conference 2019 in Canberra this week Addi Road's work on the Raise the Rate campaign was recognised.

Political language being used in Australia indicates we blame individuals for their sudden distress and poverty.

The Mad Pride Festival is here. As the t-shirt slogan puts it, "Hear us. Don't fear us. Walk with us."

"Listening to you and some of these callers there's a sense of dehumanisation about these experiences that is difficult to comprehend if you haven't been through it."

Our Councils that claim green credentials need to be careful they don’t head down the path of superficial 'green virtue signalling'... The intended Inner West Council Tree Policy has the capacity to destroy our inner urban trees and canopy.

Members of Addi Road's Inner West 'Raise the Rate' Group attended the Newstart Senate Inquiry today in Sydney. More power to everyone who spoke up about their struggles and the abuses they have battled through.

"It's very difficult to come together in a real physical way and very easy to feel that you're on your own. So it's really great Addison Road Community Organisation is putting together a day like 'Community.a.Fair' for Mental Health Month."

Just months after the Inner West Council (IWC) supported Addison Road Community Organisation’s 'Rethinking the Urban Forest Conference', which attracted experts and participants from around Australia, IWC appears to have reset its policy thinking on tree canopy to destruction mode.

2SER-FM Weekend Breakfast host, Jess Klajman, spoke with our Programs Coordinator, Mina Bui Jones, about ‘Memory and Landscapes’, an Addison Road Community Organisation event happening this Sunday morning, 8th September, 10am-12pm, exploring the hidden and 'lost' waterways running beneath Sydney’s Inner West.

Meet Jay, Team Leader at the Food Pantry: "The reason I love rescuing food is because the amount of over-production is causing too much waste in the system.”

Kruno Velican learnt from a very early age not to take food for granted. Growing up in Croatia, Kruno fondly...

Tune in here for news on our children's book, The Hollow Tree; Addi Road's NAIDOC week celebration day, 'Community A. Fair'; recent problems with malicious damage of the Centre; and a forthcoming Public Schools Arts Festival.

The Addison Road Community Centre Organisation is delighted to announce the creation of a new opportunity for Indigenous artists to...

This report on Addison Road's inaugural 2019 Rethinking the Urban Forest conference features the birds-eye views of Jayda Bicer, who kept an illustrated record of the speakers and their ideas across the day.

Please tune in and listen as Mark Mordue talks to Eastside Radio about his journalism background and writing poetry, and how he came to be involved with a new children's book called 'The Hollow Tree' - written with a lot of help from children of the Inner West and all his friends at Addison Road Community Centre Organisation!

Our amazing Food Pantry has been featured in the June 4 issue of the Inner West Courier! Read the story here - and our CEO Rosanna Barbero's response.

“An architect might have a vision. Look at my wonderful green vision. They get permissions from councils and other bodies. Along the way to it being developed the money runs out. And suddenly the green bits fall off first. Eventually you have a non-green landscape. The notion of amenity has gone.” - Dr Peter Davies in a report from City Hub, Sydney.

"We've gone from planted Australian suburbs of the post-War period to a different kind of Australian dream: more built up and denser, an unregulated death by a 1000 cuts to the urban forest."

Can a dying tree save a city? A major new conference called ‘Rethinking the Urban Forest’ is being convened this Friday in Marrickville at the Addison Road Community Centre. It will look how we can create a greener, better city for living creatures of all kinds, ourselves included.

Addison Road Community Centre Organisation is absolutely thrilled to have been awarded Highly Commended with a National Trust Heritage Award for the Addison Road Community Centre Conservation Management Plan.

A report on a February visit by Anthony Albanese, the Member for Grayndler, to the Greek Theatre at Addison Road Community Centre. Albanese acknowledged the Centre “embodies the diversity that is here in our community; and it embodies the creativity.”

We used to be a society. Now we’re an economy. Nowhere is this dehumanising and destructive reality more apparent than...

It barely made the news. But today is the 25th anniversary of the last time Newstart was raised in real...

Beginning on March 18 2019, members of the local community are invited to come to the Addison Road Food Pantry...

Alexander Wells is a writer, historian and volunteer for the Living Museum program here at Addi Road. After working on...