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New website dedicated to supporting dads Men, particularly fathers, often don’t use existing support services or have access to...
How to host a Neighbour Day event
By Sam Robinson, Neighbour Day Campaign Manager Every year, hundreds of communities throughout Australia host Neighbour Day events – from...
Challenging Loneliness
By Nick Tebbey, National Executive Officer Relationships Australia Today Neighbour Day is issuing a Loneliness Challenge to all...
Connecting neighbours, one hobby at a time
By Gina Olivieri What do meditation, gardening, picking up rubbish, craft, reducing food waste, dancing, reading, writing, and happiness...
Relationships Australia calls for increased resourcing for family services
By Nick Tebbey20 February 2019For this year’s Budget, Relationships Australia has called for increased funding of services currently...
Finding companionship in volunteering
By Sonia Oke, Conservation Volunteers Australia and New Zealand15 February, 2019Every year, tens of thousands of people volunteer across...
Finding companionship in volunteering
By Sonia Oke, Conservation Volunteers Australia and New Zealand Every year, tens of thousands of people volunteer across Australia to help...
Pedaling our way to a more connected neighbourhood
By Gina Olivieri Organising a Neighbour Day event is as easy as riding a bike! Or at least, it would have been, had the weather forecast...
Neighbour Day 2019 – Tell Us Your Story
By Sam Robinson, Neighbour Day Campaign Manager One of the things we look forward to most in the Neighbour Day office each year is when we...
Neighbour Day 2019 – Loneliness – what neighbours can do to create connections
By Sam Robinson, Neighbour Day Campaign Manager30 January, 2019 The Beatles asked many years ago, “All the lonely people where do they all...
Sharing our dinner tables this Christmas
By Penny Elsley12 December, 2018My strongest childhood memories of Christmas time are of steaming hot weather, pavlovas and pelican itch...
Good Choices
by (Rev) Karen Paull5 December 2018‘And the winner of most items in their handbag is…Karen!’ My embarrassing ‘win’ was many years ago now,...
Loneliness is a health issue – how do we ensure programs to tackle it are successful?
By Dr Michelle H Lim 28 November, 2018 The Australian Government has announced in its budget $46 million towards the community visitors...
Loneliness and the transformative power of relationships – our 2017-18 Annual Report
Andrew Bickerdike20 November 2018Helping give people the skills to build and sustain the meaningful relationships they need is at the...
Why do lonely people visit the GP more often?
By Dr Tegan Cruwys and Associate Professor Genevieve Dingle14 November 2018Most GPs struggle with the so-called “frequent attenders”: the...
Compassion, engagement and connection – how we end loneliness
Hugh Mackay7 November, 2018The deepest truth about human beings also happens to be the sweetest and noblest truth about us: we are social...
Relationships Australia Loneliness Podcast
Alison Brook31 October 2018Australia is in the midst of a loneliness crisis, with many in our population experiencing a deficit of social...
The Australian experience of loneliness
Alison Brook 25 October 2018 In September this year, Relationships Australia released new research based on the findings from 16 waves of...
Welcome to our Blog
Alison Brook24 October 2018This is where we want you to turn each week to read an engaging, challenging, thoughtful and informative piece...
Funding Boost for Children’s Contact Services
Relationships Australia would like to acknowledge the work of the retiring Attorney-General, Ms Nicola Roxon MP, who last week announced a...
Media Releases
Media Release - Celebrating Connected Communities throughout Australia - 4 May 2021 Media Release - Families Un-Locked International...