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Subscribe Past Issues Translate RSS Good a ernoon all, Happy New Year! We hope you enjoyed time with friends and family. This CRR Broadcast includes a selection of articles and updates we hope you will find relevant and interesting. WACOSS Work Community Service Excellence Awards The Community Services Excellence Awards – a partnership between the Department of Communities and WACOSS, and supported by Lotterywest – continue to be an indispensable opportunity for the sector to reflect on its achievements, and to commemorate both these and the significant di erences made within our communities as a result. Award finalists and winners will be honoured at a presentation ceremony held in conjunction with the rescheduled WACOSS Conference on the 23rd February 2021. Read more here. WACOSS Conference: Finding Ground Speakers Finding Ground: Building a better way back together will be one of the first major opportunities for the community service sector to take stock - exchange and support, review and reflect, and envision - since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us in Walyalup (Fremantle) Monday 22 - Wednesday 24 February 2021. You can see the full list of speakers here and register for the conference here. Network Updates February CRR Forum update The first CRR Forum will host a presentation on the recently released WACOSS Cost of Living Report 2020. The forum will also provide an opportunity to discuss the
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Sector News
McGowan Government launches $13 million
energy scheme
Energy Minister Bill Johnston announced the $13 million Household Energy
E iciency Scheme which will assist vulnerable households in reducing their energy
costs.The four-year scheme will replace low-e iciency appliances, such as
refrigerators, for households in relevant circumstances. Read more here.
Half-price TAFE courses in WA for 2020 and 2021
In order to meet the demand for high-growth industries, the WA State Government
has halved course fees for 34 vocational qualifications. It’s all part of the Lower Fees
Local Skills initiative, which runs from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2021. Further
discounts apply for concession cardholders. Including the diploma Financial
Counselling. Read more here.
McGowan Government to help thousands more in
2021 through Keystart
Thousands more Western Australians will be able to achieve the dream of home
ownership next year with the McGowan Labor Government approving a $243.5
million increase in Keystart's borrowing limit for 2021-22. This increase brings
Keystart's total gross borrowing limit to $5.7 billion, and will enable Keystart to take
on an estimated 2,100 new loans in 2021-2022. The temporary increase to Keystart's
income limits for borrowers, increased by $15,000 for singles and couples, and by
$20,000 for families, will be reviewed in June 2021. Read more here.
Industry PHD Scholarship opportunity
ECU is seeking a PhD candidate to undertake research in the School of Education in
conjunction with our industry partner, Foodbank WA. The successful PhD candidate
will receive a 3-year scholarship for a stipend of $28,420 per year (full-time), with
possible 6-month extension. Learn more here.
Strengthening Rural Communities
The Strengthening Rural Communities (SRC) program aims to give the thousands ofsmall rural, regional
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access funding to support broad community needs. Given the events of summer
2019/20, it has also been expanded to o er funding to support recovery in bushfire-
a ected communities. Grants are available for a broad range of grassroots,
community-led initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities. Read
more here.
Indigenous Voice
The proposals for an Indigenous Voice would provide a way for Indigenous
Australians to provide advice and input on matters that are important to improve
their lives. It could be made up of two parts – Local and Regional Voices and a
National Voice. Find out more about the proposals and have your say now. Read
more here.
Prevent Support Heal Campaign
One of the most important things that you can do for the Prevent Support Heal
campaign is to get in touch with your local MP. It is their job to listen to you, and
telling them how urgently WA’s mental health system needs to be re-balanced with
more funding being allocated towards mental health community support and
mental health prevention services. You can use the online tool on this page to easily
contact your local MP and voice your concerns. You can edit the template letter to
add your own points or send as-is! Learn more here.
National News
Australia's freedom of information regime
heading for a 'train smash', senator says
Rex Patrick says the government is undermining the entire FOI system, with an
underfunded commissioner overloaded with challenges. Read more here.
At home, marks from my father's wheelchair
were everywhere. We must improve accessible
housing
My childhood was spent navigating my father’s disability. Then I was told I was facing
the possibility of life in a wheelchair myself. Read more here.
Social sector withstands a year like no other,
with a few wins along the way – 2020 in reviewAs a turbulent-filled
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year comes to a close, Luke Michael reflects on the sector-
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defining moments of 2020. What a year 2020 has been. No one could have predicted
how much the year would be shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has
fundamentally shi ed almost every aspect of society and caused a myriad of health,
economic and social challenges. Read more here.
Unhappy new year for more than 1 million
Aussies on JobSeeker as COVID assistance winds
back.
Relief teacher Jesse James Frances is facing a financial squeeze from January 1.
More than 1 million Australians will have their welfare payments shaved from
tomorrow as the Government continues to wind back coronavirus assistance. Read
more here.
The truth about much ‘casual’ work: it’s really
about permanent insecurity
The federal government’s industrial relations “reform” bill o ers a new definition of
“casual” employment that creates more problems than it solves. Read more here.
6 things to watch for as Australia crawls out of
recession
Our economy has grown in the September quarter (the three months to September)
a er two quarters of going backwards. Using the literal meaning of recession, we are
no longer in one – economic output (the things we produce and consume) is no
longer be going backwards. Read more here.
We are One Nation?
Last night the Morrison government announced that they were changing the
national anthem, to be more inclusive of Indigenous peoples and of migrants (the
not white ones anyways), by changing a single word, ‘young’. It’s now ‘one’. Read
more here.
Solidarity and asking the right questions
2020 has been an incredibly tough year for many but especially, I’d argue, for those
of us living in Melbourne and Victoria. It’s December and the warm weather is rolling
in. We’re finally able to enjoy it — going outside to feel the rays on the skin while
having a beer feels medicinal a er such a year. Read more here.Higher education SubscribePast Issues should be for everyone Translate RSS This year has been a ‘unique’ year to study, to say the least. The impacts of COVID-19 on the sector have been not just trying, but simply devastating. I have not set foot in a classroom all year which, I have to admit, is one of the things I have always loved most about studying — the immersion within a learning environment. Read more here. Copyright © 2020 Western Australian Council of Social Service Inc., All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because your address is on the Community Relief and Resilience Sector Broadcast list. Our mailing address is: Western Australian Council of Social Service Inc. Level 2, 3 Loftus Street West Leederville, WA 6007 Australia Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list
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