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New published research demonstrates that Neighbour Day’s whole-of-community approach leads to reductions in loneliness
By Claire Fisher, Research and projects officer, National Office 22 April 2021 Throughout the pandemic, the importance of social...
Our neighbours
By Helen, Relationships Australia QLD - Tell Us Your Story 2016, Staff Winner I’d like to share what being a neighbour means for us...
We’re All In This Together – Neighbour Day
By Nick Tebbey, National Executive Officer, Relationships Australia 24 March 2020 The concept of what it means to be a neighbour is...
Creating a village through play
By Playgroup Australia* 11 March 2020 They say raising a child takes a village, but our villages have become smaller, more complicated and...
Children need friendly communities
By Helen Fogarty National Communications Manager NAPCAN* 27 Feb 2020 The bus driver… There’s a story that often comes up in discussion at...
From neighbours, to volunteering together, to best friends
By Georgie Cardillo, Deputy Controller at the VICSES* Euroa Unit 13 February 2020. Keith Barns and James (Jim) Cerini have been neighbours...
Nextdoor Australia
We’d love to welcome aboard our newest ‘Very Neighbourly Organisation’, Nextdoor Australia! Jennie Sager, Australia’s Country Manager for...
Love, heroism, generosity and community
By Alison Brook | Chief Executive Officer | Relationships Australia Canberra and Region Writing from the ACT at a time when we’ve had...
Measuring Neighbourhood Liveability – by people, for people!
By Ainsley Milton, Account Manager Place Score There are lots of ways government and business measure neighbourhood liveability, but only...
Problem + Problem = Solution
We interviewed CEO Anthony Chesler about the amazing work of Thread Together and this is what he had to say. What can you tell us about...
Neighbour Day
Relationships Australia is home of the year round community campaign Neighbour Day. For 2019, the theme for Neighbour Day was ‘loneliness...
And that was Neighbour Day 2019
By Sam Robinson, Neighbour Day Campaign Manager It was a huge year for Neighbour Day in 2019, with communities from all corners of...
What Neighbours Can Do to Create Connections
By Nick Tebbey, National Executive Officer Relationships Australia Neighbour Day is finally upon us, and I am excited to see how it has...
The importance of neighbours in emergencies
By Jamie Devenish, Manager of Emergency Management Planning at the Victorian SES In 2018, members of three emergency management agencies:...
A different kind of happy hour
By Gina Olivieri I recently got interested in positive psychology. What’s that? Think of it as the study of the stuff you can do to be...
How to host a Neighbour Day event
By Sam Robinson, Neighbour Day Campaign Manager Every year, hundreds of communities throughout Australia host Neighbour Day events – from...
Challenging Loneliness
By Nick Tebbey, National Executive Officer Relationships Australia Today Neighbour Day is issuing a Loneliness Challenge to all...
Connecting neighbours, one hobby at a time
By Gina Olivieri What do meditation, gardening, picking up rubbish, craft, reducing food waste, dancing, reading, writing, and happiness...
Finding companionship in volunteering
By Sonia Oke, Conservation Volunteers Australia and New Zealand Every year, tens of thousands of people volunteer across Australia to help...
Pedaling our way to a more connected neighbourhood
By Gina Olivieri Organising a Neighbour Day event is as easy as riding a bike! Or at least, it would have been, had the weather forecast...
Neighbour Day 2019 – Tell Us Your Story
By Sam Robinson, Neighbour Day Campaign Manager One of the things we look forward to most in the Neighbour Day office each year is when we...
Sharing our dinner tables this Christmas
By Penny Elsley12 December, 2018My strongest childhood memories of Christmas time are of steaming hot weather, pavlovas and pelican itch...