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volunteers offer vital service to community, how do we curb decline?

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The number of volunteers has been in decline since 2011. That’s according to peak body, Volunteering Australia. Back then, 1 in 3 Australians volunteered, yet seven years later 7 percent less were involved. Things drastically decreased during the Covid years, with almost two million people no longer volunteering Volunteers are vital to communities and social …

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CALD communities utilise storytelling to persevere in disasters

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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities or CALD Communities for short are left out of disaster and crisis management due to a language and cultural divide. Researchers at QUT have undertaken a project to use storytelling techniques, often familiar within CALD groups, to more effectively transfer information and protocols before, during and after a disaster or …

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