Spring 2018
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Editor’s note
Welcome to the spring issue of The Record. I’m new around here, and I have had the privilege of guiding…
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Mission and values: State President WA
Name: Gladys Demissie Position in the Society: State President Western Australia Hometown: Perth, Western Australia How did you first get…
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Increase in Newstart Long Overdue
Just as starfish are not fish, strawberries are not berries, and Chinese Checkers are neither Chinese nor checkers, the Newstart…
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The cost of living
A single mother of three explains how anyone is at risk of suddenly needing welfare and how hard it can…
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Year of youth: young member spotlight
Name: Rebecca Hughes Where do you volunteer with Vinnies and for which programs? I currently volunteer with Vinnies Youth. Youth…
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Time for a lift
A man recently shared his story with us about living on Newstart. He received the payment for three months, and…
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Going hungry in the lucky country
Despite its reputation as the ‘lucky country’, Australia has a hunger problem. In fact, not just a problem but a…
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Campaigning from below
Since forming in late 2014, the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union (AUWU) has dedicated itself to protecting the rights and dignity…
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Spring – The season of starting over
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring, writes Bern Williams. The woe of…
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Budget standards research on the adequacy of Newstart Allowance
It has long been accepted that the level of Newstart Allowance (NSA) is too low. The number of organisations that…
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Capturing poverty:
Translating complex data about poverty and income into easily understood visuals has always been a challenge, for researchers and advocates…
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Income, inequality and health
Having the freedom to lead a life we have reason to value with dignity and respect is very unequally distributed…
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A fair day’s pay
Here in Australia, the notion of a fair day’s pay was championed for a good part of last century through…
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Vinnies 2020
A time of preparation is underway. Australia’s bishops, with the approval of Pope Francis, are holding a Plenary Council in 2020.…
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Stories about life on the Breadline
In recent times, the St Vincent de Paul Society has thrown its support behind the #RaiseTheRate campaign to raise the…
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Our own ways of giving back
Name: Dennis Innes Position in the Society: State President, St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland Day job: Retired Hometown: Cairns How…
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Newstart: Stories from the conferences
The clients who come to Vinnies in need of food are commonly on Newstart, Disability and Family Payments. These incomes…
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Image; sleeping in the sun
A fetal figure on a footpath sleeps in grey on grey with fingers and one thumb cast over eyes as…
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Leaders
Though so different, you would have understood one another: he, smoothly spoken, and you with your coffee-grinder voice. After looking…
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Three transfigurations
1. Vincent de Paul’s On a Sunday in 1622, on a royal barge on the Seine, Vincent is chaplain to…
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After purgatory
It was Saint Vincent de Paul who tells us that when St Jeanne de Chantal died, he saw her soul…
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Unconditional love
Walking the curve of the beach, hearing the sea and cicadas in concert, watching galahs wheeling red in the morning…
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