Recent News | Addison Road Community Organisation

30 April 2019

Dead Set

Poverty is a disease. Newstart is its major vector in Australia. Sign on and you become dysfunctional and grotesque, a creature excluded from a society trying to protect itself.

18 April 2019

No Start At All

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

27 March 2019

Ex-Socceroo Craig Foster to introduce the Mamma Penny initiative!

Addison Road Community Centre Organisation is pleased to announce a new joint initiative with Australian Muslim charity Penny Appeal Australia. Mums4Refugees...

21 March 2019

Raise the Rate: Newstart, Centrelink, ‘job providers’ and a system that dehumanises

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

14 March 2019

BOOK NOW – Rethinking the Urban Forest Conference 2019

Join us at the inaugural Rethinking the Urban Forest Conference on Friday May 24 2019. Bookings are now open, with...

13 March 2019

Say hello to Vege-Table Mondays!

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

7 March 2019

Subsidised Spaces for Lease!

Expressions of interest are OPEN NOW for two available spaces here at Addison Road. Hut 40A - 40sqm office space;...

27 February 2019

Whatever happened to the arts of peace?

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