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The kinds of activities volunteers can do have changed, from long-term activities to more short-term, episodic volunteering. AAP/Dan Peled

Why don’t more people volunteer? Misconceptions don’t help

Kirsten Holmes, Curtin University; Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Macquarie Graduate School of Management; Leonie Lockstone-Binney, William Angliss Institute; Lucas Meijs, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Melanie Oppenheimer, Flinders University

Volunteers in Australia are essential to the provision of a range of services. Yet Western countries – including Australia – have recently reported a decline in volunteer rates.
Volunteering is a way to get involved in your community as this man, who has a refugee background, is doing in his work with older vision-impaired people. Volunteering Western Australia (VWA)

Where have all the volunteers gone?

Melanie Oppenheimer, Flinders University; Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Macquarie Graduate School of Management; Kirsten Holmes, Curtin University; Leonie Lockstone-Binney, William Angliss Institute, and Lucas Meijs, Erasmus University Rotterdam

The rate of volunteering among Australians and the hours individuals contribute appear to be falling. So how do people see volunteering and what can be done to restore this vital community activity?
Without the contributions of its army of volunteers – six million of them in all – Australia would be a profoundly different place. AAP/David Crosling

Ten things you should know about volunteering’s immeasurable value

Melanie Oppenheimer, Flinders University

It’s National Volunteer Week, which celebrates the contributions of one in four Australians. Vounteering has 10 core features that should be considered to understand this integral part of our society.

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