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Get Involved

The Unit believes that community action does make a difference, it does influence governments and corporations to modify their behaviours. A handful of examples of the positive things that have happened in areas where the Unit has been involved in campaigning, usually as part of a larger campaign, include:

• In September 2005 the Australian Government agreed to increase overseas aid by $1.5 billion to a total of $4 billion by 2010.
• The Australian Government has allowed asylum seeker families to be release into the community while their claims for asylum are sorted out.
• The Australian Government eased its regime of cutting payments to unemployed people that do not meet a range of 'activity tests'. The cuts push many unemployed people further into poverty.
• The Victorian Government banned pokies advertising and has banned smoking in pokie venues by 2007.
• The Unit has seen Christian prisoners of conscience it has campaigned for released from imprisonment in Pakistan, Vietnam and Indonesia.

To find ways for you to get involved, see the submenu on the left.