Who: Council to Homeless Persons Chief Executive Officer Deborah Di Natale; Joal Presincula, who has experienced homelessness
What: Thousands of origami homes being displayed at parliament to show the scale of Victoria’s homelessness crisis
When: Wednesday August 2, 1pm - 2pm
Where: Victorian Parliament House steps, Spring St, Melbourne
Georgie Moore
0477 779 928
Matt Coughlan
0400 561 480
Victoria has recorded a new, all-time record high in poker machine losses with an annual total loss of $3.03 billion. “It has been more than a year now since the State Government promised to introduce sweeping reforms that were touted as Australia’s strongest gambling harm reduction laws and we are still waiting,” the Chief Advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform, Tim Costello, said. “And now we have another new record in pokier machine losses, these losses underscore devastating social harm across our community from financial hardship, health and mental health problems, family violence and breakup and suicide.” Total figures…
Penrith, July 30 at 7:15pm – This International Anti-Human Trafficking Day, join us for a poignant evening of cinema and advocacy at the screening…
Responding to the Rio de Janeiro G20 Ministerial Declaration on International Tax Cooperation published today, Oxfam International’s Tax Policy Lead Susana Ruiz, said: "This is serious global progress —for the first time in history, the world’s largest economies have agreed to cooperate to tax the ultra-rich. Finally, the richest people are being told they can't game the tax system or avoid paying their fair share. "Governments have for too long been complicit in helping the ultra-rich pay little or zero tax. Massive fortunes afford the world’s ultra-rich outsized influence and power, which they wield to shield, stash and supersize their wealth,…
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