About Anti-Poverty Week

Australian Capital Territory
Peter Sandeman Chief Executive Officer, Anglicare Canberra and Goulburn
New South Wales
Graham West Chief Executive Officer, St. Vincent de Paul (NSW)	Maree O'Halloran Director, Welfare Rights Centre
Northern Territory
Luke Gosling Consultant, St. Vincent de Paul NT	Wendy Morton Executive Director, NT Council of Social Service.
Queensland
Tracy Adams Director, Chief Executive Officer, Boystown	Michael Tizard State Manager, Benevolent Society
South Australia
Hamilton Calder State Director, Committee for the Economic Development of Australia	Graham Jaeschke General Manager for SA, The Smith Family
Victoria
Paul McDonald Chief Executive Officer, Anglicare Victoria	Michael Perusco Chief Executive Officer, Sacred Heart Mission
Tasmania
Noel Mundy State Director, Mission Australia Tasmania	Therese Taylor Chief Executive Officer, Colony 47
Western Australia
Francis Lynch Chief Executive, RUAH Community Services	Lucy Morris Chief Executive Officer, Baptistcare

A Summary of Anti-Poverty Week 2010

Activities During the Week

More than 450 activities were organised for Anti-Poverty Week 2010. This total was 12% higher than the previous year and continued an unbroken sequence of growth in each year since the Week began in 2002 with just four activities. Undoubtedly there were many other activities during the Week in 2010 of which we are unaware.

More than 600 organisations convened or sponsored an activity during Anti-Poverty Week 2010. They included welfare agencies, community centres, overseas aid organisations, religious groups, schools, libraries, TAFEs, universities, businesses, unions, hospitals, disability organisations, youth groups, housing organisations, media outlets, sporting groups, local councils and government departments. People from hundreds of other organisations attended at least one event.

Activities during the Week in 2010 included one or more of the following:

• speech, lecture, oration, sermon, presentation, interview
• meeting, forum, debate, resolution, seminar, webinar, conference, discussion
• training session, cooking demonstration, information stall, display, expo
• workshop, readings, school project, teaching materials
• report, survey, information pack, petition, poster, campaign
• religious service, festival, film night, art exhibition, concert
• walk, bicycle ride, bus tour, parachute jump, football match
• award, competition, community day, children's entertainment
• barbecue, breakfast, tea, lunch, dinner, trivia night, sleep-out
• meal service, toy drive, food collection, book donation, fundraiser.

A number of Commonwealth and State Ministers, as well as many prominent community leaders, participated in activities during the Week. Launches included a resource kit, research reports, an action campaign, a booklet, a policy statement and a financial assistance program.

Further details of activities are available at the activities pages

Participants and Venues

The number of activities during the Week has become too large to make reliable estimates of the total number of participants. However, several hundreds of people spoke at activities and many more than ten thousand people participated in them.

Participants included people from a very wide range of fields, including social welfare, religion, politics, health, education, housing, business, sport, the arts, law and the media.

Activities were held in each State and Territory. About 45% took place in or near the centre of a capital city, 23% in an outer suburb and 32% in a regional city or country town. Venues for activities included:

• Parliament House, town hall, government office, council office
• welfare agency, community centre, youth centre, hospital, health centre
• cathedral, church, church hall, university, TAFE, school, library
• cinema, auditorium, gallery, football club, racecourse
• café, hotel, restaurant, shopping centre, business office
• street, mall, market, park, botanical garden, beach, skate park

Media References

We know of more than 600 media references to activities undertaken as part of the Week. About three-quarters of them were in radio or television outlets (of which about 65% were in commercial outlets, about 12% were on television and more than 10% were greater than five minutes in duration). The other one-quarter of recorded references were in newspaper articles, of which about 25% were more than 500 words in length. About 55% of print references and about 40% of radio and TV references were in media outlets based outside capital cities.

Coordination

The Week was loosely coordinated through a National Facilitating Group, with the two honorary National Co-Chairs being based in Adelaide and Sydney and the two part-time staff being based in Adelaide and Sydney. Key organisational roles were played by Co-Chairs and Facilitating Groups in each State and Territory. These Co-Chairs were the heads or senior managers of the following organisations:

• Benevolent Society (Qld)
• Boystown (Qld)
• CatholicCare (NSW)
• Colony 47 (Tas)
• Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (SA)
• Jesuit Social Services (Vic)
• Marymead Child and Family Centre (ACT)
• Nulsen Haven Association (WA)
• Red Cross (ACT)
• Red Cross (NT)
• Smith Family (SA)
• Tasmanian Association of Community Housing
• WA Council of Social Service
• Welfare Rights Centre Sydney

Resources

This year the effectiveness of the Week was greatly strengthened by the generous support of our Four Principal National Sponsors:

• JOBS AUSTRALIA
• RED CROSS
• VIRGIN BLUE

Valuable assistance was also provided by our Key National Sponsors:

• Anglicare Australia
• Australian Education Union
• Australian Nursing Federation
• Care Australia
• Foundation for Young Australians
• Liquor, Hospitality, Miscellaneous Workers Union
• Mission Australia
• Salvation Army
• St Vincent de Paul

Crucial in-kind support for the Week was provided by UnitingCare Wesley Adelaide, which continued to handle the Week's finances at the national level.

A number of the State Co-Chairs obtained assistance from donors for activities within their States as well as providing in-kind support from their own organisations. Most individual activities during the Week were funded by the respective organisers or by donations obtained directly by them.

Some cities, towns and suburbs in which activities were held during the Week:

Adelaide Hobart

Brisbane Melbourne

Canberra Perth

Darwin Sydney

Aberfoyle Park Airds Aldgate Alice Springs Annandale Bankstown Basket Range Beenleigh Bendigo Berriedale Booran Park Bowen Bowral Brassall Brimbank Browns Plains Bundeena Busselton Cairns Campbelltown Cannington Carlton Casuarina Ceduna Chambers Flat Cheltenham Coffs Harbour Collingwood Corinella Coromandel Valley Corrimal Crestmead Croydon Currong Flats Dandenong Deception Bay Dingley Eagleby Eastwood

Elizabeth Elizabeth Downs Elizabeth Grove Fairfield Fitzroy Flemington Footscray Frankston Fremantle Fulham Galilee Gawler Geelong Glen Iris Gilles Plains Gladstone Glebe Gold Coast Gosnells Greenbank Greenvale Greenway Heidelberg Hornsby Illawarra Inala Ipswich North Jimboomba Kalgoorlie Katherine Kempsey Kensington Kilburn Kilkenny Kingaroy Kingston Kyneton Labrador Lakemba

Largs Bay Launceston Logan Loganholme Loganlea Loxton Mackay Marion Maroochydore Marrickville Marsden Martin Milton Mitchell Park Moonah Moonee Ponds Mt Gambier Mt Morgan Mt Waverley Mulgrave Murray Bridge Nairne Narrabundah Noarlunga North Ryde Nowra Nuriootpa Narrabundah Osborne Ottoway Palmerston Penola Peterborough Petersham Port Augusta Port Lincoln Port Pirie Preston Queanbeyan

Rapid Bay Redlands Renmark Reynella Richmond Rockhampton Rokeby Rosebud Safety Bay Salisbury Samford Village Slacks Creek Smithton Springvale Springwood St Albans St Kilda Stanwell Strathpine Sunshine Surry Hills Tamarind Park Tennant Creek Tudor Park Underwood Wagga Wagga Wangaratta Warrnambool Warwick Farm Werribee West End Wodonga Wollongong Woodhill Woodridge Woonona Wyndham Vale Yankalilla Yeppoon

About Our Sponsors

Principal National Sponsors

Jobs Australia: Working for a fair and equitable Australia

Jobs Australia is a national network of non-profit organisations assisting unemployed people to get and keep jobs. The network helps members to make the most effective use of their resources and promotes the needs of unemployed people for the services and support that will help them to participate fully in society.

Jobs Australia is the largest network of employment and related service providers in Australia and is funded and owned by its members.

Australian Red Cross

We help tens of millions of people around the world each year and care for local communities in Australia and Asia Pacific. With more than 100 million volunteers worldwide and 60,000 members and volunteers in Australia we can reach people and places like nobody else. Relief in times of crisis, care when it's needed most and commitment when others turn away. Red Cross is there for people in need, no matter who you are, no matter where you live. Here are some examples of our work.

The University of New South Wales

Anti-Poverty Week was founded by the Social Justice Project in the Law Faculty of the University of New South Wales and the National Coordinator has been based there since 2004. The Law Faculty generously provides the National Coordinator with a work space and use of office equipment.

Key National Sponsors

• Mission Australia
• Australian Nursing Federation
• World Vision
• St Vincent de Paul Society
• Care Australia
• The Salvation Army

Other National Sponsors

• Anglicare Australia
• Catholic Social Services
• Liquor, Hospitality & Miscellaneous Union
• Australian Education Union