Manaini with some of the produce she is able to sell from her roadside stall. Photo: Caritas Australia. In rural northern Fiji, 44‑year‑old mother Manaini has spent years struggling to support her children on an income that barely covered daily essentials. But with support from Project Compassion and Caritas Australia’s local partner, FRIEND (Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises and ...

In the coastal southwest of Bangladesh, where rising seas and frequent storms threaten homes, crops and livelihoods, farmer Monoranjon is building a safer and more secure future for his family with support from Project Compassion. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, and in the region where Monoranjon lives with his wife Anita and their two children, poverty...

Caritas Australia has announced the launch of Project Compassion 2026, its Lenten fundraising and awareness appeal that attracts participation from 1700 schools and 1200 parishes across Australia annually. This year, Caritas Australia is calling on the community to Unite Against Poverty. For six weeks, schools, students, parishes and individuals are encouraged to donate, participate in T...

Unite Against Poverty. That is the theme for Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion 2026 appeal that will be officially launched on Sunday 15 February at a Mass held at St Mary’s Cathedral, celebrated by Bishop Don Sproxton, Auxiliary Bishop of Perth. This year’s appeal focusses on four stories from around the world - Tanzania, Bangladesh, Fiji, and a special emergency appeal in Gaza. ...

Australian Catholics have been encouraged to study the first Apostolic Exhortation released by Pope Leo XIV at the end of 2025 that sets poverty as a priority for the Church. Described as a powerful reflection on love for the poor and a call to bring compassion back to public life, the document is entitled Dilexi te (‘I have loved you’ - Revelations 3:9). Pope Francis had begun writing t...

The Australia Institute’s report found people were overwhelmingly supportive of government measures to reduce child poverty, with four-in-five (81 per cent) agreeing that household income support payments should be set at a rate that did not cause any child in Australia to live in poverty.

More than 2.6 million Australians have been granted a pay rise though this week’s decision by the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to raise the nation’s minimum wage. The approved increase of 3.75 per cent takes effect at the beginning of July. The minimum hourly rate will rise from $23.23 an hour to $24.10, or by $33 per week for a full-time worker.

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s latest document on human dignity highlights Pope Francis’ decade-long insistence that every human being – independent of their circumstances, stage of development or state of sin – possesses infinite and inalienable dignity that must be respected and protected.

This year’s Anti-Poverty Week, which took place from 15 to 27 October, shone a light on the children of families who receive inadequate social security payments and depend on emergency support from charities such as St Vincent de Paul Society.

The Poverty In Australia 2022 report by the Australian Council of Social Service and UNSW Sydney, shows that 16.6 per cent of Australian children (or 761,000 kids) lived in poverty in the 2019/2020 financial year.

This was just one of the facts surrounding Child Poverty presented by Centrecare Inc Director and Valuing Children Initiative Co-Founder, Adj. Prof. Tony Pietropiccolo AM who was recently a keynote speaker at the Anti-Poverty Week 2022 Symposium.