Community Events

Gendered Poverty In the Shadows is an exhibition on how poverty affects women with or without children, younger, middle aged and older women, and how it hides in the shadows of our community, unseen and unknown to many.

What causes poverty, some real life stories and alarming statistics unveil the truth behind the growing issue of women in poverty.

On show throughout Newcastle libraries, including: Newcastle, Wallsend, and Hamilton.

Join us as we Rally to wrap up Anti-Poverty Week highlighting many of the issues affecting our communities.

MC – Daniel Wallace, Hunter Workers Secretary.

Speakers include:

Sharon Claydon MP: Federal MP for Newcastle.
Pas Forgione – Australian Council of Social Service “Raise the Rate” Campaign.
Fred Krausert – Fair Go For Pensioners.
Kelly Hansen – Nova for Women and Children: Homelessness and Domestic Violence Service
Grant Courtney – AMIEU Newcastle & Northern
Unemployed Worker.
Young Apprentice.

Very few people or groups are absent from the affects of poverty or the near poverty experience.
Workers, Women, disabled, students, unemployed, pensioners, injured workers, families, single parents… We all someone worse off.

The Trade Union Movement has always been at the forefront of the struggles for a better and fairer society for all in our communities. An ongoing campaign from big business and their backers to weaken the capacity of working people to ensure ‘no one is left behind’ is not a new one. From multiple royal commissions, stripping back of workers rights to a new raft of proposed laws like the ‘ensuring integrity’ bill that is less about working people and our communities and more about taking away the only fighting force that stands in opposition to the struggles facing working people and in our communities.

The working poor, the need to ‘raise the rate’, cost of living pressures, the consequences of privatisation of our services, medicare co-payments and the stripping of public education funding including TAFE and University.

By focusing on our similarities and not our differences will we be able to tackle the inequities in our system that assures poverty continues.

Unity across our communities is essential in identifying and highlighting our common experience, and Unity in our efforts to combat the root cause’s and providing the solutions so that all in our communities can plan for a dignified and prosperous future.

Together, We are Stronger!

Newcastle Poverty Action Alliance in conjunction Wallsend Library presents this free film: The Public.

An unusually bitter Arctic blast makes its way to downtown Cincinnati and the front doors of the public library. Many of the library patrons are homeless, mentally ill and marginalized, and the exhausted and overwhelmed staff of librarians often act as “de-facto social workers” and care for those regular patrons.

At odds with library officials over how to handle the extreme weather event, the patrons turn the building into a homeless shelter for the night by staging an “Occupy” sit in. What begins as an act of civil disobedience becomes a stand-off with police and a rush-to-judgment media constantly speculating about what’s really happening inside the building.

KO&TF starts with Kids Fishing Comp starting at 8:30am until 11am, held at the Karuah Motor Yacht Club, Market Stalls start at 9am, as does the variety of Food Stalls, Wood Chop starts at 10am, Oyster Eating entries into draw by 11:30am & starts approx 12:30pm, The Great Karuah Duck Race at 2pm, we also have a very impressive Car Show, Something for the whole family.

Spring Markets hosted by Finding Yellow. Free Community Event – All Welcome.
Saturday, 19 October 9am – 2pm on site 92 Station Street, Weston NSW 2292.
Monster raffle with awesome prizes, tickets can be purchased from our office or on the day.
Market stalls, food, fun and lots of entertainment. Super Hubert 9am – 11am.
Help us continue our vital support in the community and raise funds to refurbish our social hall.
#teamyellow #findingyellow #fundraising #community #createyouryellowmoment #yellowmoments

The next meeting of the Lake Macquarie Family History Group will take place on Saturday 19 October 2019 from 10am to 4pm. Discussions on the day include genealogy resources in South Africa and “blogging” to use as a personal online journal to record your family history stories and photographs. The community is invited to attend this FREE event at the Marmong Point Community Hall 31B George Street Marmong Point. Research assistance available from 10am. Telephone Warren Oliver on 49 595403 for further information. Website http://www.lmfhg.org.au Follow us on Facebook. The hall at Marmong Point is also open on the 1st Wednesday of each month from 2-5pm for one-on-one research assistance.

Come and relive the sound, the voice & all the magical hits of music legend Roy Orbison in an international tribute production starring the world’s No 1 Roy Orbison tribute star ‘DEAN BOURNE’.

In 2019, Dean Bourne enters his 22nd year of performing and paying the ultimate tribute to ‘The Big O’ showcasing all his massive hits together with a special celebration of ‘The Traveling Wilburys’.

With a brand new show after a sold out national Irish tour ‘Roy Orbison Reborn’ will transport Australian audiences to the great Rock n Roll era with hit after massive hit as he performs Roy Orbison’s iconic hits such as ‘Pretty Woman’, ‘Crying’, ‘Penny Arcade’, ‘Only The Lonely’, ‘You Got It’, ‘Handle With Care’ and many more.

‘Roy Orbison Reborn is a must see show for anyone who wants to relive the sound, the voice and all of the magical hits of ‘Roy Orbison in an exciting two hour concert experience that is much like the legend himself – unforgettable’.

Reviews – Dean sounds so like Roy Orbison it feels like the real thing! Fantastic show, such a wonderful performance’ – Isabella Harte (Limerick, Ireland).