Anti-Poverty Week

APW22 Symposium: Let's Work Together to Halve Child Poverty by 2030
2022-10-17 08:30 - 13:00 (Australia/Perth) | Government House, 13 St Georges Tce, Perth, Western Australia, 6000, Australia
This half day symposium will be held during Anti-Poverty Week 2022 to explore what contributes to child poverty, its impact on the lives of children and their families, current impediments to addressing it as well as avenues for its resolution.
Registration: 8.30am – 8.50am
Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm
Location: Ballroom, Government House, 13 St Georges Tce. Perth
Registration: REGISTER AT EVENTBRITE
Speakers and panel members include:
The Hon Dr Anne Aly MP Minister for Early Childhood Education; Minister for Youth
Jacqueline McGowan-Jones Commissioner for Children and Young People
Associate Professor Francis Mitrou Program Head, Population Health; Telethon Kids Institute
Glenda Kickett Manager, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Engagement and Therapeutic Services, Aboriginal Children and Families; Australian Childhood Foundation
Bella Burgemeister Youth Advocate; Author; Presenter; Valuing Children Initiative Ambassador
Adjunct Professor Tony Pietropiccolo AM Director Centrecare Inc; Founder Valuing Children Initiative
The symposium will be open to all and those who attend will come away with:
 a fuller understanding of child poverty
 a clearer view of the reasons for the high level of child poverty in Australia;
 a realization that child poverty is not intractable;
 the practical ways it can be addressed; and
 how individually and collectively we can halve it by 2030.
On behalf of the WA Committee for Anti-Poverty Week 2022, I invite you and your colleagues to register to attend this event. By working together to raise awareness and take action on the issue of child poverty, we can make sure all Australian children and families can meet their basic needs.
The WA Committee for Anti-Poverty Week 2022 is made up of the following organisations: Anglicare WA; Centrecare Inc and Valuing Children Initiative; Commissioner for Children and Young People; Communicare; Foodbank WA; Good Sammy; Mission Australia; People Kind Group; Salvation Army; St Vincent de Paul; Uniting WA; WACOSS; Wungening

NCOSS Conference: Vision, Voice and Value
2022-10-17 08:00 - 2022-10-18 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Queensland
Vision, Voice, Value: charting a new course for the NSW social services sector
17-18 October 2022, Monday and Tuesday
Rebel Theatre (at Australian Theatre for Young People)
Eora Country, Pier 2/3, 13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point NSW

After a tumultuous few years, NCOSS is excited to bring you this two-day face-to-face and online event.
The event will recognise the vital role that the social services sector has played in ‘getting us through’ – particularly in the aftermath of fire, floods and COVID-19.
It will be an invaluable opportunity to reflect on our successes; and to consider how we can capitalise on our growing visibility as essential service providers, and our position as the largest growth industry in New South Wales.
Find out more – NCOSS V3 2022 CONFERENCE

Release of Foodbank Hunger Report 2022
2022-10-17 01:00 - 01:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Queensland
Each year Foodbank releases its annual Hunger Report in Anti-Poverty Week. It’s an important update on the state of food insecurity in Australia.

Telstra Tower Lit Up Blue
2022-10-17 - 2022-10-21 | Telstra Tower, 100 Black Mountain Drive, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
Telstra Tower will be lit in blue alongside other monuments across Australia during the week to raise awareness and communicate a brighter future of hope particularly for children in poverty.

Light up Tasmania
2022-10-16 19:00 - 2022-10-23 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Queensland
To show support and help raise awareness for Anti-Poverty Week, University of Tasmania will be illuminating two of their primary buildings
• Centenary Building, Sandy Bay campus
• Stone Building, Inveresk campus

Community BBQ
2022-10-16 13:00 - 15:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Hope on Boundary, 170 Boundary Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4101, Australia
Free community BBQ and launch of Anti-Poverty Week Queensland

Billboard promotion
2022-10-16 - 2022-10-22 | SA Power Networks, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick, South Australia, 5035, Australia
Billboard promotion on a major intersection. Over 70,000 vehicles pass this on a daily basis.

Schools Engagement with APW!
2022-10-16 - 2022-10-22 | Queensland
There are many great ways for schools to get involved with Anti-Poverty Week in 2022. Host or join an event to help raise awareness about why we should end poverty, particular for children and families.
Contact the Salvos Schools Tas team for more information and how to get involved: salvosschoolstas@salvationarmy.org.au

CCYP Quotes About Poverty from Young People in SA
2022-10-16 - 2022-10-22 | online
A series of social media tiles on issues identified by children on the impact of poverty on their lives. One tile will be posted each day throughout APW featuring a quote from a young person aged 8 – 12 years who told their Commissioner what matter to them most was an issue related to poverty. The quotes are drawn from the Commissioner’s annual Student Voice Postcard initiative in which South Australian children in years 2 – 6 are invited to write to their Commissioner Helen Connolly and tell them what matters to them most. Last year the Commissioner received more than 13,680 responses which were analysed and summarised in a report titled “The Things That Matter 3” which can be downloaded from the following website: https://commissionerspostcards.com.au/

Anti-Poverty Week
2022-10-16 - 2022-10-22 | Queensland
2022 is our 20th anniversary of acting on poverty. A range of major reports will be released as well as State, Territory and Federal events during Anti-Poverty Week 16-22 October.
This Anti-Poverty Week we are calling on all our Parliamentarians to commit to halve child poverty by 2030.
Help us urge all Parliamentarians to legislate to halve child poverty by 2030 with measurable targets and actions to achieve this goal.
Download the Halve Child Poverty Pledge on our website, take a photo of you holding it and post it on social media. Send us a copy via apw@antipovertyweek.org.au
Join us by submitting your own event or support us throughout the week on social media on Facebook- Anti-Poverty Week, Instagram- @anti_poverty_week , and Twitter-@AntiPovertyWeek.

Child poverty and wellbeing videos
2022-10-14 15:00 - 15:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Queensland
The Children’s Policy Centre at ANU in collaboration with Family Care Shepparton and Uniting Vic. Tas have produced two short videos for APW 2022. They’ll be available on Friday 14 October for sharing on the ANU’s Children’s Policy Centre YouTube channel and APW YouTube channel and progressively shared through the Week. Key images and messages will also come out in social media tiles and we would wlecome sharing

Poverty in Australia 2022 research report launch
2022-10-14 07:00 - 07:10 (Australia/Sydney) | Online Media and Report Release
The Poverty in Australia 2022 Snapshot is the latest in their Poverty in Australia series, part of the Poverty and Inequality Partnership (PIP) between ACOSS and UNSW (Sydney). Released on the eve of Anti-Poverty Week 2022, it is the 18th report published by the Partnership and the 1st report from Phase 2 of the Partnership.
This report provides a brief overview of levels of poverty – overall and among adults and children – following the recent release of ABS data on household incomes in 2019-20. It examines trends in poverty since 1999, and through each quarter of 2019-20. Report now available here https://bit.ly/PovertySnapshot

Salvos APW Billboard
2022-10-14 - 2022-10-23 | The Salvation Army Tasmania
To help draw attention to Anti-Poverty Week in Tasmania, The Salvation Army supported by TasCOSS and Uniting, are displaying Anti-Poverty Week billboards on the Brooker Highway.
These billboards aim to get people thinking about Anti-Poverty Week and encourages them to take action.

Billboard Promotion
2022-10-14 - 2022-10-22 | Adelaide Showgrounds, Goodwood Road, Wayville, SA, 5034, Australia
2 x Electronic billboards on Goodwood Road.
There is over 60,000 vehicles and pedestrians passing these on a daily basis.

Light up for Anti-Poverty Weeks
2022-10-14 - 2022-10-22 | Adelaide CBD
If you see the lights of the Adelaide Footbridge (18 – 22nd Oct) and Adelaide Oval (22nd Oct) shining next week, it’s because they’re lighting up to raise awareness of poverty for this year’s Anti-Poverty Week. SA Power Networks on the corner of Anzac Parade and Glen Osmond Road will use their prominent community announcement board to run an anti-poverty week messaging throughouth Anti-Poverty Week too, as will Goodwood Road who will be doing their bit to raise awareness across their three electronic billboards displaying Anti-Poverty Week messages from 14 – 22nd October.

Anti-Poverty Week Event: Childsafe Environment Training Workshop
2022-10-14 | NAMRC, 28 MARY STREET, SALISBURY, SA, 5108, Australia
A Child Safe Environment Training workshop for community leaders and women from new arrival community groups will be conducted on Friday 14 October 2022 at Australian Migrant Resource Centre (AMRC) in Salisbury office.
This will empower and upskill the leaders and members in the communities.
This workshop will be conducted by accredited DHS facilitators and registrations will be by invitations only.

ACT APW Youth Art Competition
2022-10-07 - 2022-10-21 | Online (see website for details)
Entries must be submitted by 5pm on Sunday 16th October!!
Art submissions should fit the theme of the APW Art Competition: “Including Everyone”
Art must be uploaded as a pdf, jpg or png file (eg. a scan of a painting/drawing, a photograph, digital art)
Judges will be looking for artistic, creative and original art!
Entrants must be 18 years and under and live in the ACT
We welcome submission from all age groups up to age 18 and people with all diagnoses
Voting will open on Sunday 16th October and close on Friday 20th October! Winners will be announced on Friday 20th October.

Poverty and Gender, new research by NATSEM commissioned by UnitingCare Australia.
2021-10-25 00:00 - 00:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Media Release, Australia
New research report , release date to be confirmed.

CAP Sunday
2021-10-24 | Queensland
A Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Sunday is an opportunity to join a powerful movement of churches across Australia. Anti-Poverty Week is about raising awareness of poverty in Australia and CAP can help you bring a biblical framework and perspective to your church for Anti-Poverty Week. Churches will learn about the complexities of money and poverty in Australia and feel empowered, equipped and encouraged to act.
Join a powerful movement of churches hosting CAP Sunday on the 24th of October.
How does it work?
– CAP provides a FREE resource pack (see bottom of page)
– Host a CAP Sunday church service on 24th October, 2021.
– Help raise awareness of poverty and financial harship in Australia
– Empower your church to act
– Help CAP Australia raise vital funds

CAP Virtual Fundraising Dinner
2021-10-23 19:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Queensland
The CAP Annual Fundraising Dinner is going online!
Saturday, 23 October 2021, 7:30-8:30pm (AEDT)
Replacing the annual dinners in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney & Newcastle, this is an opportunity for supporters across the nation to (virtually) come together live from Newcastle — the birthplace of Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Australia!
This year you’ll have the joy of sharing the evening with MasterChef 2021 winner Justin Narayan! You will receive a menu prepared by Justin in advance so you can cook along at home, and he will be tuning in on the night to share some cooking tips, and more on his journey to becoming the MasterChef 2021 winner.

MoneyWise Community Day
2021-10-23 10:00 - 15:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Logan City Gardens, 12 Civic Parade, Logan Central, 12 Civic Parade, Logan, Qld, 4114, Australia
Financial literacy is a skill like reading or writing. You can learn to take control and reduce your stress.
Come down and let the kids play for free while you talk to experts who can help you put the pieces of your money puzzle together.
Free workshops and information stalls all day alongside a jumping castle, giant Jenga, face-painting, live entertainment and more… It’s coming to you at Logan Gardens next to the waterpark.

Lighting Up Telstra Tower ACT
2021-10-21 18:30 - 23:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Queensland
The Telstra Tower will be lit up in blue on the evening of Thursday 21st October. Telstra Tower will be lit in blue alongside other monuments across Australia during the week to raise awareness and communicate a brighter future of hope, particularly for children in poverty.

Kids in the Kitchen Launch Afternoon
2021-10-21 15:15 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | 99 Wilson Street, Burnie, 99 Wilson Street, BURNIE, TASMANIA, 7320, Australia
Kids in the Kitchen supports families learn how to cook budget friendly and nutritional meals. The cooking of the meals is led by the children during the first four weeks of the programs, with adult supervision. During the final four weeks of the program, children invite a significant adult in their life (parent, grandparent, uncle etc) to come along to the sessions and teach the adults what they have learnt, participate in a community meal together showcasing the children’s cooking skills, and providing additional recipes for families to take home that can be replicated for families living on a budget. This will run through weekly until January 2022.

Drop In Lunch
2021-10-21 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Kingborough Salvation Army Church, 3 Opal Drive, Blackmans Bay, TAS, 7052, Australia
Introduce the Doorways program and what we can provide. Discuss the benefit of seeking help before situations become critical. Information packs on how we can assist people in the community to manage the financial struggles they may be facing in life.

Release of Anglicare Australia 2021 Jobs Availability Snapshot
2021-10-21 01:00 - 01:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Queensland

Anti Poverty Week awareness display and interaction with locals
2021-10-21 | Westlands Shopping Centre Whyalla, 199 Nocolson Avenue, Whyalla Norrie, South Australia, 5608, Australia
Helen Dix and April Hughes who are financial counselors at Centacare Catholic Country SA along with Janete Genahal who is a part of our financial well being and capabilities team are hosting an information and awareness display at our local shopping center. We will be manning this stall and having interactions with members of the public to create awareness as well as talk about options that are available.

Life Course Centre Webinar: ‘Never Let a Crisis go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19’
2021-10-20 13:00 - 14:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Queensland
The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course is proud to be a sponsor of Anti-Poverty Week
Please join Life Course Centre Chief Investigators this Anti-Poverty Week for a panel discussion about Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19
In the midst of a global crisis that has upended almost all aspects of how we live and work, a life course approach turns attention to the long-term impacts of the pandemic. While it is too early to outline these impacts with any confidence, what we can do at this stage is reflect on the opportunities that COVID-19 presents for examining some of the long-standing, taken-for-granted rules and regulations about living and working.
In the paper, ‘Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Opportunities to Reduce Social Disadvantage from COVID-19’, Life Course Centre researchers present ideas on potential opportunities for rethinking, redesigning and reworking social policies to address disadvantage. This provides an optimistic, forward-looking counterpoint to what has undoubtedly been a catastrophic global social, health and economic event.
In this special webinar to coincide with Anti-Poverty Week, Life Course Centre Chief Investigators will discuss opportunities arising from COVID-19 to address long-standing inequalities in Australia in areas such as health, the tax and transfer system, labour markets and gender. There will be other pandemics and other global shocks. What we learn, and do, today will have significant bearing on future preparations and responses. This webinar will discuss some of the ways we might leverage the COVID-19 crisis to build back a better and fairer society for all.

Exploring Social & Economic Barriers to Housing in SA: How do we bridge the gap?
2021-10-20 12:00 - 14:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Bradley Forum, UniSA City West Campus, 50-55 North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Forum hosted by St Vincent de Paul SA, exploring the current policy and socio-economic barriers impacting secure, adequate and permanent housing. Speakers/panellists include Helen Connolly (SA Children’s and Young People’s Commissioner, Ross Womersley (SACOSS Executive Director), Josh Peak (SDA) and representatives from SVDPSA. 12-2pm Adelaide time. Includes release of results of survey of SA young people by SA Children’s Commissioner.

Poverty, the Indue Card and Women's Rights
2021-10-20 10:30 - 11:30 (Australia/Sydney) | https://events.humanitix.com/indue, Australia
In the 60s, we burned our bras for women’s liberation. Now we have to ask permission to buy them. Find out how the Indue Card penalises the poor and erodes human rights, including the rights of women to safety and shelter. Katheryn and Amanda from NCDCA – No Cashless Debit Card Australia will be in conversation with Professor Shirley Randell.

What Informal Kinship Carers Need, What They Really Really Need: Kinship Care Forum IV
2021-10-20 09:30 - 15:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Online (see website for details)
Around 50,000 children and young people in Queensland live in informal kinship care with grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins, and other relatives to keep them out of the child protection system.
Informal Kinship Carers make significant sacrifices including postponing retirement, withdrawing their superannuation, changing careers, disrupting relationships and being forced into poverty.
These carers fall between the cracks of Federal and State Governments and receive little or no financial or other support to for children in their care.
On Wednesday 20 October, PeakCare hosts the fourth Kinship Care Forum and asks the question – What Informal Kinship Carers need, what they really, really need?
It happens during Anti-Poverty Week with local, national, and international speakers including from the UK and NZ to shine a light on the needs of carers and children.
