The Budget created a pot over four years – $140m each year – for community services to apply to for relief where there are wage pressures and inflationary pressures. We’ve seen low or no indexation for those agreements. It won’t surprise you to know many of the funding agreements that make these services possible in the community were agreed in a very low inflation environment. The reality is there will also be much greater pressure on the human services system. But we can’t escape the fact that their lives will be much tougher over the coming months. The Treasurer was clear about the reasons for that this morning. Now we know there wasn’t much in the Budget to address the pressures facing those households right now. It found energy stress is much higher for people with a chronic health issue or disability, renters, low-income workers and people on Jobseeker. Our August report, Power Pain, revealed nearly 1 in 4 households were experiencing energy stress in 2020, well before these price spikes hit.Staff in our early years playgroups are being asked very discretely by parents attending if they can take the leftover cut fruit home for their other children.We’ve heard from a single parent in our SaverPlus program – which focusses on financial wellbeing – about how she is using the savings from the program to pay for her child to go on a school excursion.The hike in energy prices and inflation has hit people experiencing poverty and disadvantage hardest, when their budgets have no more room to give. It’s a Captain Obvious point, but the people and communities BSL serves are doing it very tough. We try to change the system and create lasting change so more Australians are free of poverty. BSL is unique because we don’t exist simply to serve the system. Much of our workforce focusses on key transition points, transitions that build capability and confidence or deepen disadvantage. Now BSL is over 90 years old and has 2500 staff & volunteers working in services across the life course, from the early years, youth, employment and settlement, to services for people with disability and for older people in Australia. The third are some questions we can’t duck if we’re serious about wellbeing.The second is the opportunity to reform our employment services system.The first is what we’re seeing and hearing in our services.I’m going to add three observations to those made by Catherine and Mark. I’d also like to congratulate the Melbourne Institute on 60 terrific years and wish the organisers of this Outlook Conference a happy 20th anniversary. The Brotherhood of St Laurence has accepted the generous offer in the Uluru Statement to walk together towards a better future for Australia and we’re proud to add our support to a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament. I want to start by acknowledging the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation and paying my respects to elders past and present, along with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People here today or watching online. It is this launch spot which viewers on All 4, Channel 4’s online platform, can choose to ‘skip’ – with surprising, never seen before consequences.Thank you, Tom, and good afternoon everyone. The first spot sees Captain Obvious demonstrate his linguistic prowess, bantering with Japanese and Russian tourists, only to be unwittingly stumped by a couple of Geordie lasses – “I love the Danish”. With the TV campaign, Captain Obvious can be seen in series of scenarios, specially created for the UK market, where he unknowingly falls foul of British ways, having taken people literally at their word (asking Sherlock Holmes to physically get off his (suit)case, telling a waiter he doesn’t want 'soldiers' with his boiled egg as “I think I can tackle it myself….”). A loveable eccentric, Captain Obvious revels in pointing out the self-evident. “Thanks, Captain Obvious” has for decades been a pop culture reference in the US, brought to life by in 2014 in the US market as a super fan in order to show why is the obvious choice for booking hotels. has introduced Captain Obvious, the US cult character, to the UK in the brand's summer advertising campaign from CP+B London – helping travellers make the obvious choice.
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