Advocacy
BSL conducts campaigns on issues crucial for disadvantaged Australians and their communities.
Our campaigns draw on evidence from our research, the services we run and valuable insights from people experiencing disadvantage.
Our campaigns
To further our work for an Australia free of poverty, we make submissions to government and independent inquiries on policy issues which affect disadvantaged Australians.
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BSL supports Australia’s First Nations peoples in seeking a First Nations Voice in the Australian Constitution and a ‘Makarrata Commission’ to supervise a process of agreement-making and truth telling.
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Climate change will affect every Australian and many of its impacts are likely to hit low-income households hardest.
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Australia is a prosperous nation, but now has one of the lowest unemployment payments in the developed world.
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