Anti-Poverty Week supports the Australian community to have an increased understanding of poverty and to take action collectively to end it.
Since 2002, we’ve been active every year in the week around the 17th of October, the United Nations Day for the Eradication of Poverty. During this week, we encourage all Australians to take action and focus on positive solutions to end poverty. We work with our network of diverse voices and organisations in order to increase awareness of poverty in Australia and globally. At a national and state level we are reaching out to some new audiences who are not already at the forefront of this work including employers and those in rural and regional Australia as well as re-energising our connection with younger Australians.
Each year we choose an evidence-based solution to be a focus and partner with the leading campaign/organisation in that space to take action to end poverty. In Anti-Poverty Week 2022 we called on all our Parliamentarians to legislate to halve child poverty by 2030. In Anti-Poverty Week 2021 we called on governments to unlock poverty for families and children and all affected by pandemic poverty by raising income support above the poverty line and investing in social housing. We have supported the Raise the Rate for Good and Everybody’s Home campaigns each year since 2019.
See our APW Strategic Direction 2019-22.
In bringing positive solutions to poverty to the forefront of the conversation, we have created a helpful guide for you on How We Talk about Poverty in Australia. See also our note on Framing and cultural mindsets, September 2023.
We will be continuing to encourage a range of activities in regions, towns and cities from individuals and organisations focusing on this issue or any particular aspect of poverty they are most concerned about.
This year Anti-Poverty Week runs runs for TWO weeks from 15-27 October 2023.
You can stay up to date by signing up to our eNewsletter here.
See our latest eNews here:
- Anti-Poverty Week extended to take account of the Voice referendum, 31 August 2023 eNews
- Together we can end child poverty, 31 July 2023 eNews
- Reconciliation Week and Post-Budget News, 22 May 2023 eNews
- Time is now to help get key recommendations in May 9 Budget, 20 April eNewsProgress and setbacks on Homelessness, Poverty, Parenting Payments, 4 April 2023 eNews
- Poverty and homelessness, like violence is gendered, 8 March 2023 eNews
- APW 2022 wrap up and more, 31 January 2023 eNews
- Anti Poverty Week 2022 Key Events, 13 October 2022 eNews
- Poverty hurts us all, we can all do something about it, 29 September 2022 eNews
- Sign our pledge to halve child poverty by 2030, 25 August 2022 eNews
- Join our call to halve child poverty, 28 July 2022 eNews
- Gearing up for APW 2022, 27 June 2022 eNews
- Countdown to Federal Election, 16 May 2022 eNews
- Election, floods and Budget – grim outlook for people in poverty, 13 April 2022 eNews
- 20 years of acting on poverty 16-22 October 2022, 17 March 2022 eNews