Anglicare Australia has said that last night’s Budget is a lost opportunity to tackle the problems facing Australians: “this Budget has failed to take on these challenges or plan for the future. Instead, it offers short-term fixes and one-off payments”
Students, staff and families at Matthew Flinders Anglican College raised more than $12,000 in a single day for Gympie Region people impacted by the recent floods, while donning fluoro to acknowledge emergency crews and volunteers
“I should have been on campus at The Southport School boarding, but I was on the family property in Alstonville, NSW, when the unprecedented flood event hit our region of the Northern Rivers. I had been sent home after testing positive to COVID-19, with no idea what was about to unfold,” says Year 12 TSS student Jack Thornton
“We moved stuff upstairs. The lights went out. We headed for higher ground, and there we stayed for five days. We were lucky because we had just a couple of inches of water in the rooms we had emptied. Our neighbours, a few metres down the hill, were not so lucky,” says Jon Eastgate from St Andrew’s, South Brisbane