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

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Learn more about the work BSL and others are doing to develop and implement a better way of measuring poverty in Australia. Includes a range of resources already being used by other countries that have developed their own national poverty measurement tools.

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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 acknowledges the sorrow and grief many First Nations Peoples and allies are experiencing after the Voice Referendum.

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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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