Abbott Government Cuts Local Community Groups
- jimchalmers
- Mar 13, 2015
- 1 min read
First published in the Logan Reporter on 13 March, 2015. Last month, twenty community groups from our area held a crisis meeting to discuss the government’s massive cuts to emergency relief and homelessness funding.
The groups received letters—on Christmas Eve of all days—telling them their funding would be cut, meaning programs would be shut down and jobs would be lost.
Across Australia, the Abbott Government has cut $270 million in grants to community organisations.
These cuts will spell disaster for some of our hard-working local organisations and the most vulnerable people in our community who depend on them.
The Logan East Community Neighbourhood Association is one of many groups that have taken a massive funding hit to their basic service programs that help people in short and long term crisis.
Their emergency relief program helps families at the point of despair to make ends meet and their KNIT program helps individuals and families dealing with anger issues, addiction, grief and anxiety to put their lives back together again.
Local people will miss out on the help they need because of the Liberal Government and their cuts. In parliament, I called on the Minister to restore funding to LECNA and to the other vital services being cut in our community.
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