Declining rate of volunteering heralds ‘collapse in community life’: minister | katinacurtis
Community and charity groups are dealing with plummeting rates of volunteering, and Charities Minister Andrew Leigh is on a mission not only to stem the drop-off but halt the crisis in community participation.
Lifeline had experienced a small peak of people looking to help out in the early days of the pandemic when they suddenly weren’t working or going out, but that had dropped away again. But Leigh says the problem is broader than volunteerism. Australians are now less likely to be a member of a community organisation, go to religious services, be a union member, play a team sport, give blood, and don’t have as many friends or know as many neighbours as they used to.“I’m trying to use the charities portfolio as a community-building portfolio to deal with what I think is one of the biggest challenges that Australia faces, which is the collapse of community life,” he said.
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