Join the Zombie March against poverty as part of the national week of action, “Break the Poverty Machine”: 3-5pm, Saturday 13th of March, Addison Road Community Centre. Come in black, and get dusted with flour to become one of the living dead. Event will be filmed.
A report from behind the frontlines of unemployment and poverty in Australia, where Mark Mordue responds to a normal day at Addison Road Community Organisation’s Food Pantry.
As Christmas approaches, we felt it was important we remember our Community.a.Fair event during Mental Health Month last October.
We are catalysing change in many areas… serving our community with our largest and most diverse programme delivery in five years.
Political language being used in Australia indicates we blame individuals for their sudden distress and poverty.
Addison Road Community Organisation has a new address from today, with a new street sign in our Centre’s grounds to mark the occasion – ‘Raise the Rate Drive’.
“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.”
“One in five Australians say they ran out of food at least once in the past year and were unable to buy more, according to a new Foodbank report, with food charities pointing to an alarming 22 per cent spike in people seeking emergency food supplies.”
The illusion of trickle down economics is being laid bare. Money does not trickle down, it trickles up! Leading economists and business groups are all coming around the argument that Newstart should be increased – not simply because of social justice issues, but to get the economy moving.
Yesterday, the Living in Australia report was released based on the findings of the HILDA (Household, Income, Labour Dynamics in Australia) survey. We are becoming poorer and poorer as a nation. Deeply stressed; and evermore deeply divided.
