The Oromo place great emphasis on relationships, mutual care and responsibility towards others.
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With a surge in people seeking help amid a cost-of-living crisis, volunteer groups urgently need to rebuild their numbers to meet the demand for their services.
Targeted income support could help tackle big social and ecological challenges.
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.
Admissions officers alone cannot change the way achievement is currently defined. Parents, employers and those who work in education need to lead by example.
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?
Imprisonment rates in Tasmania have steadily declined over the past decade – the only state or territory where this has happened. That is a result of progressive and effective corrections policies.
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Professor, School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University
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Professor, Griffith University
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Professor in Management, Macquarie University
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Chair of History, Flinders University
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Professor of Volunteering, Civil Society and Businesses and Professor of Strategic Philanthropy, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Lecturer in Peace and Security Studies & Senior Researcher, Wolkite University
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Professor of Higher Education; Executive Director, Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice, University of Southern California
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Professor of Criminology, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Helsinki
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Professor and Head of School of Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia