In our 24th year of acting to end poverty in Australia, we welcome your support and engagement, especially during Anti-Poverty Week, 11-17 October 2026.
We support three campaigns that are acting to end poverty: End Child Poverty, Raise the Rate and Everybody’s Home
Attend or Host an Anti-Poverty Week Event
See the range of public events in capital and regional cities around Australia in our What’s On Calendar.
We welcome any events that draw attention to the impact of poverty and ways to act to end poverty in Australia. See our comprehensive list of Ideas for Activities including:
- online lectures, debates, workshops and conferences
- in-person panel discussions, lunches, breakfasts
- drop-in advice, training and information sessions
- virtual competitions, exhibitions and tours
Make sure to tell us about your activity so we can add your event to our calendar or submit your event or activity HERE.
Help us Raise the Rate
Income support should be there to support people through tough times, not keep them in a struggle for survival.
But right now, members of our community receiving JobSeeker, Youth Allowance, and related payments are forced to make heartbreaking decisions between paying their rent or buying enough food and medicine.
Will you sign the petition calling on the Federal Government to raise the rate of JobSeeker, Youth Allowance and related payments to at least $82 a day?
Join the End Child Poverty campaign
The End Child Poverty campaign was launched by the Valuing Children Initiative in 2024 and with the strong foundation support of Anti-Poverty Week.
It highlights that over 1 in 6 children (17%) in Australia live in poverty with over one million children now in poverty.
The campaign calls for a nationally agreed definition of child poverty, a clear evidence-based framework for measurement and reporting as well as legislation with measurable targets to reduce child poverty by 2030.
We invite you to get involved with the campaign by keeping up with social media content Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram: @valuingchildreninitiave), share our content and pledge your support as an organisation.
You can also watch our video and have a discussion with your network about child poverty and what you can do to make a difference.
Join us now: endchildpoverty.com.au
Support Everybody’s Home
Sign the petition for a Fair Housing Future
Share the Roadmap to Reform
Everybody’s Home is calling on all candidates and parliamentarians to sign up to their Roadmap to Reform:
1. Raising the rate of JobSeeker and income payments
2. Coordinating nationally consistent protections for renters: Limiting rent increases, requiring longer tenancy agreements, and introducing minimum living standards
3. Phasing in tax reform: Reducing the capital gains tax discount for investors over the next decade and phasing out negative gearing handouts
4. Implementing a broad-based social housing program: Expanding social housing each year, working up to a social housing target of 940,000 new homes within the next two decades, with the help of revenue savings from tax reform
Download and share the Social Media tiles –
– in Anti-Poverty Week Promotion Kit – scroll down to Everybody’s Home Roadmap to Reform social tiles