2025 recapped: the hits, the heated debates and the heroes
Posted on 17 Dec 2025
For this final Community Advocate edition of the year, we reviewed a whole year’s worth of stories…
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Corporate ‘donations’: all sizzle and no sausage?
Posted on 10 Dec 2025
The Australia Institute has called on the federal government to force Australian businesses to be…
Economic empowerment key to recovery from trauma of modern slavery: report
Posted on 10 Dec 2025
Economic empowerment is essential to enabling recovery, restoring agency and preventing future…
The Vincent Fairfax Fellowship: 30 years of nurturing ethical leaders
Posted on 09 Dec 2025
The late Sir Vincent Fairfax is remembered as a business leader, a chairman of AMP, and an active…
Single mums, First Nations and homeless the real winners in award-winning impact efforts
Posted on 08 Dec 2025
A pioneering welfare effort that helps solo mums into self-employment, a First Nations-led impact…
Workers with disability facing higher levels of discrimination and harassment: report
Posted on 03 Dec 2025
Today is the International Day of People with Disability, but for many, there is little to…
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Children in poverty should be seen and heard
Posted on 30 Mar 2025
In a speech at the recent Catholic Social Services Australia conference in Sydney, Professor Sharon…
Opinion
The King’s Birthday: a public holiday in search of a purpose
Posted on 03 Jun 2026
Why exactly are we still getting a day off to celebrate a day that is not the actual birthday of…
People with Purpose
People with Purpose: Giving it all you’ve got
Posted on 28 Jan 2025
After a decades-long career learning what makes philanthropy tick, Genevieve Timmons, the author of…
People with Purpose: You’ve got male
Posted on 15 Jan 2025
As a member of the leadership team at the Man Cave, Australia’s leading preventative mental health…
Purpose led people of 2024
Posted on 16 Dec 2024
There are thousands of people working and volunteering in the charity, not-for-profit and community…
People with Purpose: Doubling down on dementia
Posted on 10 Dec 2024
A community-wide approach is needed to help the increasing numbers of Australians battling…