2012 Autumn issue of the Record is available for download The Record Autumn2012 .

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National Families Week 2012 Statement

May 15, 2012 Media Releases

The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council extends warm wishes to all families during National Families Week 2012 (May 15 to 21) as well as paying tribute to the [...]

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Vinnies volunteers- everyone counts!

May 14, 2012 Media Releases

The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council has whole-heartedly thanked its 50,000 volunteers and members and has urged them to take a bow this National Volunteers Week (May 14 [...]

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The Intrusion of the Excluded

May 11, 2012 Social Justice

By Dr John Falzon Keynote Address WACOSS Conference Perth, 10 May 2012 We are discussing social justice on Aboriginal land, land that was unjustly taken from a People who were, [...]

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Vinnies: Surplus on the back of sole parents and the unemployed

May 8, 2012 Media Releases

St Vincent de Paul Society Chief Executive, Dr John Falzon, has sharply criticised the failure of the 2012 Budget to deliver relief for people who are outside the labour market. [...]

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St Vincent de Paul Society respectfully supports Yolngu Elders

May 3, 2012 Aboriginal Justice

St Vincent de Paul Society National Council CEO, Dr John Falzon, issued the following statement in response to the Statement released on May 2, 2012 by Elders of the Yolngu Nations [...]

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Another World

May 2, 2012 Poverty & Inequality
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Media Launch, 2012 CEO Sleepout Sydney 1 May 2012 Dr John Falzon Chief Executive Officer St Vincent de Paul Society National Council of Australia The French poet, Paul Eluard, famously [...]

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Love is the heart of everything

April 30, 2012 Poverty & Inequality

by Dr John Falzon Social Justice Day Launceston, 21 April 2012 I acknowledge the elders and traditional owners of the land on which we are meeting. Long, long before there [...]

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Easter manifesto

April 18, 2012 General

This article by the Chief Executive of the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council, Dr John Falzon, was first published on the Eureka Street news website on April 5, 2012. [...]

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The cost of poverty is way more expensive than the dole

April 17, 2012 General

This article by St Vincent de Paul Society National Council Chief Executive, Dr John Falzon was first published on The Punch news website on April 17.   It’s easy to blame [...]

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Easter Message: Time limits on detention make sense

April 5, 2012 General

The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council has welcomed the release of a report by the Joint Select Committee into Detention last Friday, March 30, citing it as a [...]

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Increased demand from Australians living on ‘Struggle Street’

March 29, 2012 Media Releases

The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council says new figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this week reflect the rising cost of living pressures and increased financial [...]

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End Child Detention Now

March 22, 2012 Asylum Seekers

The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council says that cruelty is the unequivocal consequence of keeping children in detention and calls on the Government to honour its 2010 promise [...]

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Eminent Australians call on Govt to abandon ‘Stronger Futures’

March 13, 2012 General

The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council Chief Executive, Dr John Falzon, is a signatory to this recently released statement regarding the Northern Territory intervention. The Government’s Stronger Futures Legislation. In [...]

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Jubilee Australia urges action to stop debt vultures operating in Australia

March 13, 2012 General

By Phil Jones Debt vulture funds are private companies that gain massive profits by buying debts owed by heavily indebted poor countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), [...]

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