The majority of Australia’s homeless are not sleeping in doorways or tents in parks, but in less conspicuous settings, such as cars, couch-surfing or low-cost boarding houses or motels.

This year PAS celebrates 35 years of service to people with intellectual disability, so each person was provided with their own individual birthday cupcake labelled with the PAS logo.

Caritas Australia CEO Kirsty Robertson said Caritas means love and compassion in Latin. Photo: Supplied. Caritas Australia is celebrating its 60th year, with The Catholic Overseas Relief Committee that later became Caritas Australia, having been founded in 1964. That same year, Catholic parishes in Adelaide conducted the first Lenten appeal, raising money for a fishing boat to support th...