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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Party quota issue merits a rethink
Posted on 04 Aug 2025
The new leader of the Liberal Party, Sussan Ley, wants to increase the proportion of women…
Opinion
When community consultation brings unintended consequences
Posted on 25 Feb 2026
A Victorian suburb's hot debate about whether trains should live underground or in the sky ended…
One shot every seven seconds: How Mick hopes to set a world record for charity
Posted on 15 Oct 2025
Starting at noon on Friday, at Brisbane’s Golf Central practice range, next to the airport, Mick…
Van life: Wash, rinse, connect, chat and repeat
Posted on 07 Oct 2025
Friday is National Homelessness Day, highlighting the needs of those sleeping rough or without a…
The endless drive of Professor Stephen Li: “Please let me do a bit more”
Posted on 30 Sep 2025
Professor Stephen Li, the chair of CASS, was named Volunteer of the Year at the recent Third Sector…
How Abbe Horswill works to evict human trafficking from the hotel industry
Posted on 24 Sep 2025
International hotel chains play a surprisingly large role in thwarting human trafficking and child…