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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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…
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…
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…
Domestic violence workers in supporting roles invited to centre stage
Posted on 03 Dec 2025
Tonight, in Adelaide, the people least likely ever to be accused of doing what they do for…
Featured
How NFP leaders can avoid becoming ‘political trolls’ on social media
Posted on 24 Mar 2025
Political commentator and advocacy expert Angus Crowther, who works with not-for-profits wanting to…
Opinion
Rebuilding trust, reducing grievance: the NFP sector must be part of the solution
Posted on 24 Jun 2026
It seems like an oxymoron to talk to about building trust in a global environment where it’s…
People with Purpose
People with Purpose: Food for thought
Posted on 29 Oct 2024
Volunteer worker Lisa Milkvoci says Transit Soup Kitchen is much more than a food relief…
People with Purpose: Poverty is everyone’s problem
Posted on 15 Oct 2024
The Antipoverty Centre’s Kristin O’Connell has first-hand experience of living in economic…
Brodie’s mission to make life fairer for people out west
Posted on 10 Oct 2024
Brodie Lewis is the business manager at Great Southern Community Legal Services in Albany, Western…
People with Purpose: From ‘outsider’ to agent of change
Posted on 08 Oct 2024
If not-for-profits are not challenging the status quo and striving for a more just society, they…