Advocacy Mid-Year Review: Highlights & Key Wins  

As we reach the halfway point of 2025, the Anglicare WA Advocacy Team would like to share our advocacy highlights and key wins from the first half of 2025 as well as a brief look to the months ahead.  But first, an introduction about our ways of working that have made our highlights and wins possible.  

Driving systemic change for a fair life, a better WA  

Anglicare WA’s advocacy aims to change the systems and structures that create disadvantage for individuals, families, and communities, and calls for a fair life and a better WA for all.  We address community needs through collaboration, research, and creating innovative solutions to structural issues in people's lives. We integrate these ideas and share our insights with policy makers and decision makers to influence social policy, institutions, and shift the narrative.  

Our activities include but are not limited to:   

The first half of 2025 was a significant period for our advocacy.  We delivered over 200 activities to achieve the aims of our advocacy priorities, which resulted in access to government and influence in shaping social policy and public discourse.  Below are a few highlights and key wins.    

Half 1 2025: Highlights and Key Wins  

Our targeted State and Federal election advocacy campaigns focused on cost-of-living, liveable income, and housing.  Through our strategic use of print media, social media, TV, and radio, we engaged community members, policy makers, and decision makers with our research, innovative solutions, and election asks.  Our voices contributed toward commitments being made from State and Federal governments such as a boost to the supply of social and affordable housing, universal access to high quality early child hood education and care, more healthcare bulk billing, and free access to mental health support.  

The successful launch of our 2025 Rental Affordability Snapshot (RAS) and awareness raising on housing affordability issues.  The report measures the likelihood of people on low incomes finding a suitable home to rent in the private market and received significant media coverage and attention from the State Government.  On the same day the RAS was released, the State Government announced significant social housing development, including 14 build-to-rent developments.  

Our Federal and State Budget advocacy campaigns focused on cost of living relief and social infrastructure development respectively.  We were pleased to see subsequent commitments made to expand the Hardship Utility Grants Scheme to social housing tenants' water bills, the extension of the WA Rent Relief Program to December 2025, free public transport for school students, school breakfast programs, and access to full-time kindergarten.  

Ministerial visits to Anglicare WA services.  As a result of our invitation to decision makers to visit Anglicare WA and learn about our services and the communities we support, we hosted a range of Ministerial visits to Anglicare WA locations. Deputy Premier and Treasurer Rita Saffioti MLA visited our Child and Parent Centre in Abor Grove, Minister Jessica Stojovski MLA visited our Joondalup offices, and Shadow Minister Adam Hort MLA visited Foyer Oxford.  

Collaboration and events.  We collaborated with the Anglicare WA Philanthropy Team to host two pre-election events for donors and corporate partners showcasing our impact and inviting their ideas and solutions, as well as a Rental Affordability Snapshot Corporate Partners Breakfast.  We also hosted a delegation of Vietnamese women leaders who visited Australia as part of the Women in Leadership Journey 7 (WILJ7) program delivered by Curtin University to share our unique ways of approaching advocacy and innovation.  

Half 2 2025: On the Horizon  

The Advocacy Team will continue its work of driving systemic change across our advocacy priorities in the months ahead.  This includes showcasing Anglicare WA with policy makers and decision makers at both State and Federal levels, community engagement and events, submissions and research, and collaborating on/supporting campaigns addressing housing and homelessness, poverty, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander recognition and justice.  

If you would like to read more about what we achieved so far in 2025 and stay up to date, please click here.  

To learn more about our advocacy priorities, please click here.