Opinion

Helping the helpers: the last thing we need is for charities to go under

By Andrew Leigh
Updated March 24 2020 - 4:12pm, first published March 23 2020 - 6:00pm
Andrew Leigh (centre) with Labor MP Linda Burney and Ruth Zanker at the Communities@Work Gungahlin community pantry in 2019. Picture: Elesa Kurtz
Andrew Leigh (centre) with Labor MP Linda Burney and Ruth Zanker at the Communities@Work Gungahlin community pantry in 2019. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

On the NSW South Coast, charities are hard at work supporting victims of this summer's unprecedented fires. There are homes to be rebuilt and debris to be removed. Teachers are seeing signs of mental distress among children who were evacuated from their homes three or four times. When local MP Fiona Phillips and I held a roundtable with charities in Nowra earlier this month, they told us how their budgets and staff were overstretched.

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