Community Organisations

The St Vincent de Paul Society's Street to Home program seeks to find appropriate social housing for long-term rough sleepers.

After over a decade without stable accommodation, Damian Tarrant has a place to call his own with the assistance of the St Vincent de Paul Society's Street to Home outreach program.

Animal rescue volunteers say the shock closure of the only RSPCA shelter on the Lower Eyre Peninsula will worsen Port Lincoln's abandoned cat problem.

Chris Perry has a tough recovery ahead after suffering a spinal injury during a campsite accident. He didn't realise one of his biggest challenges would be finding a rehab bed.

Dwindling congregations and ageing churches being sold off is a familiar story across Australia but this town in regional Victoria is bucking the trend. 

Almost 400 refugees, such as Rabi, from the war-ravaged Central African Republic now call this tropical Queensland town home. They're now inspiring artists with their stories.

A group of minimum-security inmates in far west NSW is hopeful their involvement in a community project will be their final accomplishment from behind bars.

Pippa Blackwell will represent South Australia at a national Australian rules competition, and wants to one day play for the Geelong Cats, but soon she will be too old to play with her local football club.

For Jenny Scott, the decision to become an organ donor was about giving precious years to her daughter with end-stage kidney disease.

Australia has one of the highest re-incarceration rates in the world, but a program at an outback prison strives to improve rehabilitation prospects by allowing inmates to work on environmental projects.

How do you make sense of natural disasters and trauma? This remote community uses art and creative expression as a form of therapy to support their healing and recovery.

In the last three weeks, one woman has emerged as the key driver of efforts to push the Democratic Party towards a historic decision. Here's how Nancy Pelosi helped put Kamala Harris on the ticket.

Carefully crafted from the Wheatbelt's sturdiest tinnies, the SS Wyalkatchem is set to fly the flag for WA in the annual Darwin beer can regatta.

The goalposts have shifted on Australia's sporting landscape. Is your favourite game at the Olympics?

Cost-of-living pressures, rising material costs, emerging AI, and increasingly fickle social media algorithms are putting extra pressure on creative types. So how are these artists making things work? 

"Misinformation" and community "division" — it sounds like the latest report about the upcoming American presidential election. In fact it's a sleepy suburb in Adelaide's inner-south where a proposal to build a fence has ignited online fury.

Jacqui Cooper is grateful to be in remission from the rare cancer that stole her ability to walk or look after her son, but advocates for patients say sarcoma still does not receive enough research funding.

Amid the increasing demand on outreach services, some communities are banding together to try and bridge the gap for those struggling to make ends meet.

A dedicated team of volunteers has helped restore an historic machine used to play music across the Brisbane airwaves in the 1920s to its former glory.

The Oldyroos count former Socceroo Ernie Campbell among their ranks, and they're taking on the world of older men — without help from major sporting bodies.

Findings in a Human Rights Commission report show governments across all sectors are failing to identify and deal with racism across the country. The country's Race Discrimination Commissioner says there are "systemic failures" in dealing with racism that need to change. 

Animal foster carer Hayley Draper says she is making the most of every day with a dog that was given six months to live. 

Canberra boxing gym Cuz Boxing prides itself on being run by the community, for the community.

This fibreglass cow has done the rounds of WA over the past three years, but now Clarabelle is lending a hoof to farmers in a campaign against a ban on live sheep exports.

Aadhi Hariharan was 10 years old when he first picked up cards to play bridge. Just three years later, he's competing in the Australian National Bridge Championships.