Elderly Australians can be assessed for home care ‘packages’ – funds to purchase services to enable them to keep on living in their own homes. This government funding has made providing these services a growth industry. Demand exceeds funding – many people have long a wait (some even have died) before their package comes through. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.
Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon – last for 2018.
How much does Australia spend on foreign aid? Not quite as much as we think. For the fifth most prosperous country in the OECD we rank 21st in generosity. Read more here on the Pro Bono website. Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.
The Australian Not-For-Profit sector is larger than Australia’s agriculture sector, it employs more than each of the retail, mining, manufacturing and construction sectors. Unlike these sectors it lacks a champion within the Australian government, as Krystian Seibert argues, ‘It’s time we had a not-for-profit sector ombudsman’. This week’s Pro Bono news Kneebone cartoon.
Today’s Pro Bono news cartoon.
‘Government called on to stop the war on charities’ , major Australian charities unite to oppose federal government moves to ‘silence Australians’– today’s Pro Bono News cartoon.
Butchers paper cartoon recording at the St Vincent de Paul Congress, St Aloysius College, Adelaide, 6-8 October. Keynote speakers Phil Glendenning (Director, Edmund Rice Centre) – ‘Daily Acts of Solidarity’, and Larissa Behrendt (Director of Research, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology Sydney) – ‘Sign of the times’, inspired the 180+ participants in “creating new solutions to ‘problem space’ opportunities”. Facilitators for the Congress were Future Friendly, Sydney Australia.
Today’s Pro Bono Australia news cartoon, inspired by Eva Cox’s opinion piece ‘Welfare needs a radical restructuring’. Pro Bono Australia is Australia’s leading news, jobs, events, research and funding resources for the not-for-profit and charity sector.
