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Parramatta honours poor with Street Feast
The fifth annual Parramatta Street Feast brought together refugees, people experiencing hardship and local families for a day-long event that highlighted the human face of poverty and homelessness. Source: Parramatta Diocese.
Pope urges governments to support the poor
Before joining people for lunch yesterday, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the Jubilee of the Poor and prayed that all Christians would share “the love of God, which welcomes, binds up wounds, forgives, consoles and heals”. Source: OSV News.
‘Reality for families’ worsening, Foodbank report says
One in three Australian households went whole days without eating or compromised on meal choices in the past 12 months, according to a report released this week. Source: SBS News.
Vinnies highlights reforms to reduce poverty
At Parliament House in Canberra today, the St Vincent de Paul Society will share insights on how modest, budget-neutral reforms to Australia’s tax and welfare system could lift as many as one million Australians out of poverty.
Vinnies calls for appointment of Minister for Children
Reducing child poverty is not only a moral imperative; research shows it’s a sound economic investment, the St Vincent de Paul Society says this Anti-Poverty Week.
Dilexi Te ‘a reminder of the priority of the excluded’
Caritas Australia says Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te on poverty is a “forceful reminder of the priority of the excluded and those on the lowest ranks of society” in the theology and practice of the Church.
One in seven Australians lives below the poverty line, study reveals shows
There’s an urgent call to help those in poverty, as new figures reveal a soaring number of Australians living below the line. Source: 9News.com.au.
Prejudice against poor an inescapable challenge: Pope
Australian Catholics have been encouraged to study the first Apostolic Exhortation to be released by Pope Leo XIV. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
Raise JobSeeker and transform lives of nearly a million Australians
The rate of JobSeeker has failed to keep up with the cost of living and without action the number of people in need of support will grow, St Vincent de Paul Society NSW’s chief Yolanda Saiz writes. Source: SMH.