Community

Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) Victoria

The OPA advocates for disabled people and their carers. We are honoured to have been chosen to produce the OPA website and their online volunteer resources area. If you are interested in protecting and promoting the rights of people with a disability in our community, become an OPA volunteer.

Native Title Services Victoria (NTSV)

Native Title Services Victoria exists to deliver sustainable Native Title outcomes to Aboriginal people in Victoria that will respect, protect and transmit Aboriginal culture and identity for present and future generations. We built the NTSV website over 5 years ago - it still does the job.

Australian Business and Community Network

The ABCN does a wonderful job designing mentoring programs and then persuading corporate high-flyers to mentor disadvantaged young people. The ABCN website tells their story; behind the log in, it also provides tools to resource and coordinate the mentors.

Our work in the Community is based on the belief that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. And yes, we are quoting Martin Luther King Jr.

Australian society seems to be at a crossroads of fear. People of many different political persuasions are concerned, but seem hesitant to act:

• the plight of many of Australia's indigenous citizens
• how we treat refugees
• whether we can act decisively to curtail dangerous climate change.

Every time you compromise your values out of fear, you diminish your self-respect and dilute your ability to make good judgements.

We started Boojum in order to have done with fear, and to find firm ground once again beneath our feet. And we hope that we are helping our customers to change the world.