Brenton Eccles

A Week Experiencing Changing the World

Reflections on setting out across the nation with the world’s cream of the crop (in terms of personality, and more) to bring about change in the world, for those who have no voice.

It’s now over a week since the road trip ended [and as of publication, over a month], and having been meaning to collect my thoughts on the whole experience I feel that the time is now well due.

I’ve sat down a couple of times in attempt to do this and, for whatever reason, each time I have found myself not quite able to find the right place to begin. I know that even as I sit at this kitchen table in the light of this beautifully overcast day that I’m going to get distracted and write this in blasts of inspiration.

I suppose it might be worthwhile to attempt to articulate this in the form of  an after the fact diary, a narrative of sorts to describe the week that was – it was my original intent to do it in this way on the road, but I didn’t find enough time to write much between the campaigning and sleeping. I’m going to begin with where it began, on the Saturday morning in Melbourne. (more…)

We have HALVED extreme poverty.

That’s right – for all the naysaying about the relevance and effectiveness of aid, the reality is that it’s actually been successful to quite an extent.

We are freeing countless people continuously from the abject conditions of extreme poverty, but we still need to live up to our obligation to help end those dehumanising conditions for all.

Sign the Act to End Poverty, a public call from Australian’s who want to end extreme poverty and who demand our government stand by it’s commitments to be part of the solution.