As part of our work, Volunteering Australia is involved in advocacy and campaigns. Our work is representative of the views of the volunteer movement, by ensuring we advocate for volunteer rights, and support innovative, meaningful and best practice volunteering.
Take a look at some of the work we have been involved with:
- Emergency Volunteering (2026)
- Productivity Commission inquiry into Philanthropy (2024)
- Environmental and climate change volunteering (2024)
- Federal Budget 2024-25 (2024)
- Recognising Volunteering in the Wellbeing Budget (2022-2023)
- Advocating for volunteers in the care and support sectors (2022)
- Election Platform 2022 (2022)
- Federal Budget 2022-23 (2021)
- Advocating for the role of volunteering in mental health (2021)
- Recognising the role volunteering plays for Australians living with disability (2021)
- Volunteering by Indigenous people (2021)
- Federal Budget 2021-22 (2021)
- Reinvigorating Volunteering (2021)
- Aged care volunteer workforce (2020-21)
- Bushfire response and recovery (2020-21)
- Federal Budget 2020-21 (2020)
- Addressing the pandemic insurance gap for volunteers (2020)
- Impact of COVID-19 and volunteering (2020)
- Administration of DSS Volunteer Grants (2020)
- Review of the Volunteer Management Activity (2020)
- Data Exchange (DEX) Briefing Paper (2019)
- 2019 Federal Election (2019)
- It Takes a Village – Education is everyone’s business (2019)
- Welfare Reform (2018)
- #HandsOffOurCharities (2017)
- Strengthen the Social Safety Net. Stop Tearing it Apart. (2017)
- Civil Society Support for the ACNC (2017)
- Volunteering – A Tower of Strength in Our Communities (2017)
